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XT AT B. F. KEITH’Sin Mr. Broadhnrst’s trenchant style, and from a dramatic standpoint will be probably the finest presentation at Keith’s to date.The scene is laid in a small town in Pennsylvania and the story deals with the discovery of a man living: under an assumed name. Mr. Haines is to be supported by Robert E. Keene. Norman Roberta, Augustin Wilkes and Esther Van Ettinge.popularity; Crawford and Copman, an eccentric singing and dancing team; Bai'hey First, .a most amusing Hebrew comedian; Marjorie Halstein, with illus-j trated songs, and AUor and Barrington, j in the clever one-act comedy, The Lady I and the Doctor.” A special children's matinee will be given next Saturday. New features—and souvenirs to attract the little ones—will be plentifully sup-; plied.i • -Music Hail Rink’s Opening.The New Music Hall rink will be open Friday night. A great throng is expected to help lnaugui ate the roller skating season. Hundreds of new skates of allsizes have been installed to meet the big demand anticipated. Workmen are now resurfacing the floor, which, when finished, will be as smooth as gl^s.Roller skating: has enjoyed a big revival and the fascinating pastime has now taken rank with all standard arid representative amusements. A lavish expenditure of money will make the new rink a thing of beauty this year.This will be the eighth season for the Music Hall Hnk. and judging: from the throngs that dally attended last season is due to attract the merry crowds for another.“Fortune Hunter” Next Week.Cincinnati theater goers will welcome the return of The Fortune Hunter/' Winchell Smith’s comedy, which will be acted at the Grand next week.The Fortune Hunter” is a whoio-some American play that catches the fancy and holds the attention of an audience from first to the flnai fall of the curtain, and while its atmosphere and characters are rural it presents types that attract the average man and woman by reason of tho directness of their appeal.Altogether, it may be said that those who like plays that excite the emotion, from laughter to eye mistiness, will find just what they want in “The Fortune Hunter,” a clean, sweet and thoroughly delightful comedy.j *-B. F. Keith’s Programme.Mysterious BVa Fay comes to B. F Keith's tnis afternoon for a week of Questioning. Thaunjaturgy is her forte. In 3ome unknown manner the solutions of the vdjteys question's fired at her find laimeA|.ta rer^lv. explainsher odd gm not J* gift Sfct as the re^ suit of patient plowing in the lessons of the India Yogis, a?mori$ whom It is claimed she passell her childhood. Their lessons of concentration gained an apt pupil in the girl, and after years of study . she found herself a master of the—what shall it be called—second sight .or foresight or simply mysticism?It makes no difference what the question, seated on the stage in Oriental fashion, this high ptriestess of the unusual solves it instanter—or nearly so. Eva Fay has been known to make a miss, but it is seldom when her gaze into the past or future mistakes its object. The thing desired need only to be written upon a slip of paper or the theater programme and it is on its way to being solved.Those who have no curiosity about the past or the future, but simply w^nt a good laugh will not be disappointed in “Honor Among Thieves.” This rippling playlet Is a take-off on the old adage, and shows it, like many another, to le more honored in the breach than in the observance. Four thieves gather in the room of one and each tries to steal from the rest in a most unassuming—and most laughable—manner.The awkwardness Of a girl of “sweet sixteen was never so cleverly made sport of as laat year, when Charlotte Greenwood aXd Eunice Burnham came toTHE GREAT H.
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Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sun, Oct 29, 1911
Page 19
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