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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1907
Page
12
Head of the dramatic column this week profiles Leo Ditrichstein, renowned American farce writer. His latest hit “Before and After” will be staged locally next week. In ten years, nearly twenty of his plays have debuted in New York, most achieving success. His first play was “Gossip” written for Mrs. Langtry.
Clyde Fitch collaborations followed by solo works include A Southern Romance and The Last Appeal. Before and After debuts with Ditrichstein as lead, after two New York runs totaling over three hundred nights. Wagenhals Kemper bring same Astor Theatre production with Hazel Chapple Kenyon Bishop Nellie Butler and Edouard Durand in a full company.
Leo Ditrichstein’s Before and After sails to La Crosse with 300 New York nights and 500 Berlin nights behind it. The farce follows Dr Page and a mood drug Sunny Jim as mistaken affections collide with a Frenchman’s demands and a staged wife. Cast includes Ditrichstein, Aubrey Beattie, Eduard Durand, Kenyon Bishop, Nellie Butler and others. Also on bill is A Thoroughbred Tramp with thrills and comic relief, plus The Merry Widow climaxes and Under Southern Skies with 23 cast members and seven executives.
A provocative editorial laments concentrated influence and idle corruption in politics. It critiques leaders wielding absolute authority while graft and complacency fester behind the scenes, calling for accountability and reform.
Henry Arthur Jones's The Hypocrites attracts attention with a strong cast led by Alwyn Bennett and Dallas Wainwright. The plot centers on Bennett's elite family, Dallas’s romance, and Gibbs’s scheming in a tale of love, graft, and social hypocrisy amid early 20th century theater.
A long review describes The Hypocrites with a plot of political corruption in Weybury and a secretive deal between Wainwright and Horrigan. It highlights characters Cynthia Garrison and Alwyn Bennett, plus a strong cast led by Richard Bennett and Jessie Millward.
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