Show 4 5 Ti f and a manu man a Disappoint By FRANKLIN PYLES FYLES S 4 RE EY YORK Feb HYou are for br N I bidden b by lI to covet anything that is thY bors likelier than not his hla mon ey Is the particular thing you ou find the hardest harde t not to desire but of the properties specified In the prohIbition his Is the one you ou would prefer re er to take away from Any wa way how could the dramatists get 1 ong If no man Inan coveted his neigh bors wife And th sta e fictionists 1 would be still more disabled It If no wo nn her neighbors husband Henry Henr Y V Esmond have writ ten Love and the Man for Cor Forbes Robertson However neIther the au thor nor the actor would Im bavo lost lostan an anything thing by the omission The new play please Broadway We Ve ex cx expected tm dull from n au an thor lof ninny a bright comedy Pos Poe PossIbly sIbly the reason for Cor the failure is that Mr Wagoner end and Mrs rs they break the tenth command meat ment are scrupulously observant of the seventh He Is a gifted member of the British parliament with his in t uppermost and his bis carnality kept down and she although justifiably ably ubly her com commits ts o fault raut with the mutt mun sh she loves Is Lt true Or of us that in the theatre if not noC in the chu church ch we take more interest in sInners than in S Esmond has no ind the courage of or Jones Ton Or Ib Ibsen sen In handling the subject ot of forbid S den Jove Joe among f folks He has his hands from S soil 1 by byS keeping his man and woman clean S an and besides he bus hus led them with i iwhite white gloves Oes unsullied h the miseries rles 0 of to the i iness ness of a pure unIon The member ot of parliament goes a auy from the CO coy 1 wife and devotes himself to his duty but he gets her finally through the dEath Of her husband Instead of losing her bYI by a mortal heartbreak or ora Ora a Forbes Robertson is an actor of mentality not of sea l and he be plays the rebuke the 1 he has succeed succeeded dl ed cd positively with the meditatiVe Hamlet and not wIth the Im impulsive Romeo even In those younger days when he wits was wooer of Mary Andersons Juliet S In but one scene of the Esmond drama does love luve come corne near to over overcoming overcoming coming the man H has brought the woman away awny from her husband to the home pf hIs own ourn highly y respectable sl sister ter the plan plOn being to lodge her there In safety from scandal until a divorce sh shall u be o obtained She has less lessor lessof or of than he and she asks him to kiss her Ife He wants to but wont and when he denies her herI I think that most most of sent mental at the moment rather than tOOn sorry that she goes I am convInced that If he did kiss her the play mIght take a turn toward popular success instead of failure Robertson will substitute Hamlet for Love and the Man hero here in New York But he wIll try the new piece again in London In the nt at least leass the the portions relating to En Eng English I 1 Ush lish politics will ill be interestingly corn e there thereBy B By the way you OU have never heard Hamlets soliloquy on suicIde so badly spoken that the audience ap applaud I plaud it nor JacqueS disquisition on the seven seen ages of man nor description or of the Queen Mab Iab dream arid and the reason Is that you ou fear folks will doubt your familiarity with Shakespeare And I never dare refuse to laugh at Mrs blunders or of diction for like lilee to haV anyone distrust my keenness for Sheri S lans Ians verbal jokes Malapropism it Is the surest thing for laughter that the S playwrights know and therefore Au Augustus Augustus S gustus Thomas took rio no risk when in basing a comedy on Charles Dana Gib son pictures The Education or of Mr I he made Mrs a 8 new p but with French Instead of English words Thomas WItS well aware that we have lave the cour courage courage age to question tle fun of her isnor ignorance ance lest our own knowledge might be doubted To that extent he felt safe in hIs work and so this week there is no more or of forced laughter than or of spontaneous merriment whenever the uncultured woman from Pittsburg during her er trip to Paris pronounces Fren h phrases as if iC the they were English and not good EnglIsh at that Kate Denin was a ve very definite actress awa away back in her twenties when she played meP to her sIster Susans Juliet und and the years have increased her volume or of volee olee and flesh SO you OU may take It from me as tru that her Mrs Is an aggressive We e d tnt presume to diSappoint her when she expects us to la laugh gh There is no no coer however in the matte of Mr IPP there Is aplenty or of easy raCY American humor Thomas a strong pla plathe play playon on the foundation of Gibsons pictures but l none of the weakness is IR iii the cha rt of oC the henpecked lit littie tie meek under his big bigwife wife wie rule and miserable under her process or of his hh education He is poor Mr Caudle over oyer a again ain hut but he has ne new w ways ys and haul inal comicality And the actor Digby Bell Is as creative creatie as Gibson or Thorn Thom us In the delineation The first audi audience audience ence was Jd hul to see Bell doing well He h nt boon been lucky in recent years riot not since the demand for his Kok oko In InThis Th This MIkado and his She was as the Laura Joyce of i comic opera times and is now dead He hn ha been for several seasons out ot of I New York sight in vaudeville arid add the management We name printIng bigger thaI others In t qi t bill bilI But theLam s rallied to for him and his pIs delighted to find theft boorn big needed The They would have felt happier still it if other things in the pl play titan than Mr Ir had been satisfactory tory Almost all the others were other otherwise wise Gibson In his cartoons of The Edu Education Education cation of Mr showed shoed ho how two comely daughters laughters and their uncouth parents traveled in Europe where the mother sought titled suitors for the I gIrls while training their f father ther in the J ways of the fashionable world The daughters were Gibson girls of the type which he Americanized from the Engli h Du Maurier girls in Punch Tobyn Howland Bowland able feet tall posed for Cor the first of Gibsons drawings at least she said so when she utilized the by going on the stage as Tames K Hacketts leading actress An Anyway wa she had served the artist as asa asa a model Ethel Barrymore Barrmore is a 8 vaunt vaunted ed example of the type which an unusual one in any an of our cities and Is abundant In New York Janet Beecher and Marion Marlon Draughn Daughn are the Gibson I lans ians In the Thomas play They The are hand handsome creatures of a height to rise I head nd shoulders above the ugly runt of a father and of a grace to contrast with the awkward hulk of a mother Cleverer impersonators were desirable desirableS and those ot of the rIght appearance were S not scarce but the roles are re or L no dra dramatic matic matia account whatever and it would have been har h except b by payIng cx salaries to get actresses of much reputation Into them Stage folks dont like to take backward steps after I IS they have hae gained a place an anywhere where S II near the front These Misses are not permitted to more than assume the GIbson attitudes standIng and sitting erectly loungIng or lopping limberly S I but with hard hardly more talking to do de I than had been ascribed to them in the S I bits or of dialogue under the I son n drawings Thomas ba hiss o an AmerIcan and aud an English suitor worthy to wi win Use girls love loe two Preach French adventurers to eon spire against them and a German Gennan pals uner oner to attempt the murder of daddy For two lets acts the pIa play Is co come ely dy that Is light and Pretty good and then for a final act It becomes meIe insl drama that Is heavy and vary ven badt In the vein oC Augustus Thomas and the In the vein Velu of Theodore Kremer 4 It Ie Who rho could be played backwards It might tar fare hettel bett than it can ean while It begins with the first a act t and finishes with the last The chane woul n disturb the scenery enery or of H a single room with sven seven doors and now you know b by the apIe means menns or of ingress and egress that this Is a far farce e of sud sudden en appearances and pre pee s Three lieuten ants in the United States army seek to marry r gi girls ls who rho are read ready and willing but there Is parental which the sextet undertake to defy det The corn Ic one ne of the military men In order to mislead the pursuIng fathers and moth ers declares himself the of all the runaway fter atter the other and front from that conies 41 quite enough or of fun to e make the first Act and whir with doors slamming shimming a and characters dashing out and in Mack ens lit In the second at act and comes to te II a standstill in iii the third and that Is why I suggest that the pIa play be turned lad for end No e uld ren in dee der it more incoherent than tt It is now w and the reversal ml might ht be a gain in lu he absurdity I remI seeing a series of moving mOltIng phot which after showIng a part party of dh Jag ing front from a spring board Into A Pool pool was run through thE machine the other wa way so that th the fr iTt in the pool back to the he board Ire I re commend that experiment for tor Who t Goes There It maee matters worse orse and who knows that It malta make them better batter 4 4 4 Then Thea years ago H A DoS bet then a telegrapher In the Tribune oC C flee brought out ol My Friend front In dia and we ne took it liS as a re revelation tt or of farcical genius WaIter Perkins as Its central comediAn shared In the sudden popularity Both kept SIt ga ing rather prosperously with The Mau from Mexico but SI since then have been n obscured until this weeks production of Who ho Goes There What hat short memories we have anti and how disloyaL we weare weare are DuSouchet Perkins work as hard bard this time na he hey did id the oUter other times but we dont think past and we dont pit pity the thern for their present failure I It 1 is so easy to tomake tomake make Jokes about the new plays title too I have herd heard this In on one fermi or another repeated over And ove over Who V go goes there the wag asks mentioning as the name or of the theater and then re replies ples plies Not I an Pret Pretty Grace George peat te tier lle Dolo Doro at one of our pt the aires an arId the change or of play i is from to each taking is its for it flu heroine M Miss Gee Orge of the stage Is Mr Mrs Brady of rel reid o life Her husband is the A Brady who aho brings out and wih nise as The uThe Pit with It its riot In a wheat exchange and Siberia wih with its ms mas or of the on fr first nights of such vIolet violent he leads the mobs in person on But But tr Brad Brady Is a a lt lit te worn and when Mr Brady choos choose e 05 and directs a play for he her he i is a totally sort of manager from he I ir The The character for forer her er murt b be flawless to start with ith an and there must be no rde rude hul hiel around nero her Therefore In Aba Abagail l gal gail Kellett Chaber Chambers wre wrote to order she is a deme demure wistful and only faint faintly derous desirous count country girl irl a at th the outset but se she is courageous and when her home and nd town be become cruet rl to bel her she packs her grip ad and com cons to New York When hen we first Ee see her hershe hershe she has just arIve arrived her here w with h 8 a plain pan frock on her back a schel in her e hand a wondering look on an her fc face and and generally the aspect o the Wind Louis Louise in The Two Orphas Orphans jU just about about to 10 be kidnap In Paris i What Abagail fals falls into however is 18 a alag J lag ing hou house for at artists writ writer er ore and others t t Among te them she develops front cl cool through h wan warm lve to o ot hot passion but ever circumspectly eve even een evenin in a carousal that Is held i Is a s studio From humble quarters Mie e ps posses up ap to luxuries b before fore Ier her sf C faire Cairs or of the heat heart end in happy mi many S The frt first performance u the p pea cen wu was giYen given 0 on a Thursday too late in the we week t to get getan an t to the Held Herald f Mr the nt neet Sunda Sunday it Is ded dead and go gone But its was s so interesting tt that I wi will tel tell you ou about ut it Is Its b best mr ner nerk j k was is its worm or ful fault That i is to say it wa was 5 so feih freakish tha that while st students dents of the sUge stage liked e it it the f far lre more nerous did 4 B sot Is a Horold a I In a arcus circus Te The ringmaster is e to o b iier and se She is lm Win The DYo mayor of a a provincial town tae takes her oU out of f t the show and she loe loves him hIm Bu BiM be wil wilt no more than befriend her and ee she M be po so m miserable emble in a n l that she retreats to the let tent il hi Ts This pitiful creature aal bunks banks is brn born of Pierre Bon o th the French dramatist wol whom we know rO for his Zuza and GyP th the Oui of French novelists amI t Is Ife like Zaza in a hopeless attachment to the ua J who ho removes her fr front hardship hardi to luu luxury but Is virtu virtuous where Zaza was viele vicious and ad br her w wee comes of ret ine ined instead of indulged When sw saw te Ilie D ua tf r br her hert heart end sul soul with a a wife e of bin s sown own Berton Wrote her so Moy nt not 8 5 Bla altered tishe rue returned to a life euy reckless but bat si still unsullied g goes frO from his carnet back to her A and andon on inS him with hi his wie wife in 9 audience kis kills herself by a al alfaU fall faU from t a trapeZe Th The drama was to k a p player er b bC poe a Parisian acrobat ulY uglY but od oddi t tal talented ente end and it sred vie The on d here to b be i inato o I a s star act actress i is isMarie Marie Dor Dote nt not long ao ace te tine s or of and dancing showgirls in Me Marfe s beauty and gentle ent In te the e cx un applied piquantly to o othe are ae apple the d child of the circus A luy lusty who undertakes to pl pull her er cars get gets his own cuffed hed instead Te Then she puts Up her hands bands In fists e R Rho a ho scrap is vule pulled of off I It bi t 8 a wrestling and scratching c hat hata a i oun of pU pugilism by y rule and sIlI The man Is n a na outs In t the e t girl rl with its IM inder arms bared b by a sl vlee evenIng n gown sand and hEr her sidestepping by I IL skirt skirt I have anti and Jet Je o COlb t tIes fries In d a b d prizefighting on nit the he since but none Mone Gf f them ga gave v a amore more se realistic dolg does this lit e Fencing is a pre pro exercise In lh ihu t for 3 a t but n not t box i 1 ad and Marie must ha have ve taken a a s ca course with 3 9 pugilIst to lear learn th the trIcks of f the ring And some of her punhe puncheS are ae tuat ato th r g but reach hr hd pard to make sma re spots before be is knocked do n nd cut cut S SS SI S I |