The Saintly Mr. Billings
Carroll Johnson & Co.’s Louisiana
Artistic lighting effects help out in the general effect. Mr. Johnson works in his old style, first as an old negro “uncle” and afterward in the very much dressed up minstrel “coon” fashion.
Harrington and Lester
The Two Vivians
Netta Vesta
Nita Allen & Co.
The Golden Gate Quintet
Cheap dressing and wigs that looked home made did not help the effect noticeably.
At Ellis Island
Mr. Welch has drawn a living, breathing picture of the Italian. It faithfully depicts the joys and sorrows of the foreigner’s meeting with his wife. The great charm of Mr. Welch at this point is his naturalness. You leave the theatre with the vision of the low caste, ignorant, loving husband and father, whose existence is his family, and it is a memory not easily erased.