Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Monday 8 July 1912, page 3


NEW, AMERICAN ARTISTS.

By the arrival here on Saturday by the Makura ot Miss Josephine Cohan. Mr. Fred. Niblo, and Mr. James Manning, the American contingent for J. C. Williamson's forthcoming production of "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford" was completed, as two other important principals, Mr. Harry Corson Clarke and Miss Margaret Dale Owen, have already been here some time sight-seeing. The new farcical comedy will be staged at the Criterion Theatre about a month hence.

Mr. Fred. Niblo, who will play the starpart, has been on the stage 17 years, but is a buoyantly cheerful and very young-looking man for such a record. He describes Walling-ford as one of the longest parts over written for the stage, probably second only to Hamlet, but he has played it all over the United States with success, and believes that our playgoers will recognise it as a clever comedy. He also starred for two years in "The Fortune Hunter." the second new piece in the repertoire, has figured for a number of years in musical comedy, and during a visit to England he accepted a good engagement at the London Palace Theatre both in comedysketches, and in single turns as a humorist and story-teller. The newcomer is, indeed, a man of many talents. Some time ago he went to Capetown and Johannesburg with his wife under a nine-weeks' engagement, and then stayed on for another seven months with a kodak of his own and a blograph'operator, taking moving pictures in Uganda. Nigeria, and other parts of Darkest Africa. The out-come of this adventure was a long series of illustrated lectures on "Foreign Travel" in the United States, and as he and his wife extended their travels to Russia, France, and other countries, they ended by lecturing for two years. During his stay in Australia, Mr.

Niblo will use his kodak freely and the news that Mr Corson Clarke and Miss Dale Owen i are to be in the cast his put him in high spirits as ensuring the American atmosphere so essential to the successful reproduction of the new pieces

Miss Josephine Cohan who in small fair

haired and sprightly will play the character of the stenographer who eventually married Wallingford whilst Mr James Manning has a good character part as in Irish American hotelkeeper The new play was written by her brother a very remark able man and Incidentally a millionaire though Miss Cohen half tons to explain a kind-hearted and charitable example of the Species Miss Collin odds -"Most of my stage c career his been passed with this brother as chief comedian and my father and mother also in the saline company which became widely popular I suppose I may say without unduly boasting that my brother is regarded as somewhat of a marvel and although

the humorists have declared him quite a little Trust in himself America is proud of him He is in eccentric comedian, with a broader And more forcible style than IN till an Collier He is proprietor of George M Cohan s Theatre New York for which house (where it ran a year) he dramatises Wallingford from Chester's magazine story he also directs three other New York theatre the Gaiety the Astor and the 6 and Opera House and has just finished building the Grand Opera House Chicago As an author and also as a composer he has written composed and produced several successful musical comedies in which he his played the central character Little Johnnie Jones George 'Washington Junior Run

runs for Office The Little Millionaire 41" Minutes from Broadway and Popularity may be mentioned I have played many important ports In his pieces notably for two years in The Tink of Prince and was in the long tour of The 1 Fortune Hunter which IT by Winchell Smith author of Brewster s Millions

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