Show PERC PERCY AMMONDS AMMOND'S D L TIER I NEW YORK May Once 3 1 Once Once up- up upon upon up upon I on a time the Broadway Broad s 's s sa 85 a 3 a New York woman oman fell reu In Inlove Inlove Inlove love with her lice husband s a best beat nd Her affection affections BO so She Ilie strange story goes a was not or of o tt tie t o e e able e cus- cus able type but that of or a carton carnal And licentious The man mall mana a handsome muscular and well meaning meaning- fellow felloe fell 0 had no 10 desire to betray his pal He much preferred to be bo true to hint him for they th y had been comrades at the sitar sitar- Inc log others other's sorrows sorrow sorro B S sharing each other others other's jO joy s a But although a I gymnast near Bear nearing Bearing ing many athletic Initials upon hi his college sweater this man was na a weak eak The red of or his had a habit of or 0 toe whit white of hIs soul He HeBBS was BBS easily eally tempted to the liaisons and the ou ou Wh When eo n therefore therdore the Ir alto or o t his hl s closest fraternity brother sU suggest suggest- suggested ed lest lest- ed an assignation In a questionable hot hotel 1 he succumbed reluctantly Soon after he had I loft left tt her alone and nd untarnished In this scarlet corlet tavern tavern ern It caught tire fire and burned do don doShe n She was among the unidentified victim of or the holocaust Where Where- Whereupon upon he ho was S confronted with I h a I problem of or conduct ShOUld he Jet Jethi hi his frantic partner remain In more or less leis es blissful Ignorance as to the ot of hi hIi nite Ite Wife or should hollid he be straightforward I und and nd cortess corf her guilt and his Upon the tho foregoing welt kno known n nand and talked much-talked-about Ilm In the thee see e tragedies Mr Ma Martin Maitin tin Bro Brown Bron Brohas n has built his play entitled Cobra The The venomous cobra cobro Is Mr r Browns Brown's synonym m for tor Passion It first fas- fas fascinates fas fascinates and then It strikes with fatal tangs fangs True to tra tradition Co Co bra pro proves es once more that It Is the erring woman roman who alto pap pair and pays PIlS while the man marries his hs blond and chaste stenographer The rhe story etory of or Cobra Is exciting exciting- and rounded founded upon fact It Is fa fairly well told by Mr Brown Bro and It Is perfectly by Mr r Lou Louis I as the White Bull Miss Judith And And- Anderson Anderson Andersen erson ersen as tho the fleshly snake Mr Ralph Morgan as the unseeing hus- hus husband hus hus- husband husband band and Miss Clara Moore Moores as the plou pious stenographer The best that can he said ad o 0 Garden of ot Weed Weeds I Ie Gordone neW stud study ot of o se sex life hC In Greater Gi Go eater N Y Is that hit It Is h a gingerbread obituary of or a fabulous lie devil II among artong om a omen n and Wall W 11 ill Strett Street Mr Ir Lee Baker representing a tor vo voluptuary 0 and ruins I a Ithe the sa easing Ing Is a nobl- nobl nobl Bt Broadway oa way show girl Miss Phoebe ri roster and I Is murdered lher aller b by hep he aristocratic he-aristocratic aristocratic husband Imper salubriously bv by Mr Warburton Gamble Very bad but tot ot sO bad a as Whitewashed the mot most terrible comedy that th-it I h hevel hate ever evel- seen vei-seen seen Of The The Oust Dust Heap It may he be reported that it is a fren- fren ried fren-ried tale of or the Yukon Yuon wild slid eyed Orl h and belonging be- be behind behind be behind hind the bars of or the dramatic dran boob booby hatch Mr Ir Samuel n Shipmans Shipman's criticism or of my in unfavorable ew of or his latest success Cheaper to Marrs Mar Mar- Mart Mar n t rs may serve sene to show that al- al although although al although though a playwright e e has some human Instincts Sir he writes in in sour review or of o Cheaper to Marry Sou ou point out aults raulte that are not In the play but In your 0 nn n Imagination which Is rich In dramatists shortcomings All you OU hase e to do Is to scratch your head to destroy oy not only a Shipman but butan butan butan an Ibsen Iben Y You ou say ay that Che Cheaper p r to Star Star- Starry Mar rv lr- lr r ry though sincere Is rambling Esen EHm a child could see sen the tho mean mean- meaning Inc ing or of he play It the play appeal appealed ed rambling to you ou It may hase hao been because you vou ou er acre searching your rich Imagination for flaws rather than listening to the tc text test t The purpose of the play Is to show that a man who marries the girl he loves ha has more chance or of being happy despite th the responsibilities responsibilities and hardship hardships of or married murl d life lite than the on one oho ho ho them by 11 ing Ing- with lh her In free love I hammer at It with alth th elY esery lizo Iko and situation There Is la not a single Ingle stray blow Where do I 1 ramble You say sav that people go oft off the stage stae without any reason ron I defy you ou to point out one instance I Imay Imay may not be as great a thinker er as you are but I am a better dramatist 1st Again Agun you Ton accuse me ot of o pre pre- preposterous pre preposterous situations Cite som some that could not happ happen n In life lire I dare you The gravest gravet charge in your crit crit- critIcal critical ical teal Indictment or of o Cheaper to Mar Mar- Marry Marry ry is that 1 am making pretty pt elt phrases springing too loo many epi epigrams grams To this charge chargo I 1 plead guilty Why haven't I as a much right to phrasing a as ha has Ber- Ber Bernard Bernard Ber Bernard nard Shaw or e even een en Ship mans mOon man s peacock phrases you by not showy phrases to o be natural and colloquial Anyone who loves loses 10 es style would prefer refer pea cock phrases and let naturalness Ines go hang haD I enjoy your epigrams W y Can cant L you ou enjoy mine True chara char a asters ct rs in a n play should alk ark as they the do o in la II lUa Ufa but think thank now dun 4 a play would be bo It If It attempted ted to play reproduce Uce the natural conversa con conversation SO tion or of o life I would ther be untrue un- un untrue un untrue I unI true to character than a bore bor I All Shaw Shaws s ar are arc as s brilliant as Himself e American playwrights ale EIO f not nOl al- al allowed al allowed 10 lowed ed to be bright lye V must musi be dull as life Itself As a flagrant Instance of r my sacrificing naturalness 0 01 et 1 common common- commonplaceness to style you ion ou quote s 's Sex Se Is Is the tho curse of or man and the cur cur- currency currency cur currency rency of or woman oman woman Indeed I could have e expressed pressed the same ame idea In s It smore amore more pedestrian way then you ml might hl have nc ne I dont don't think 1 I believe ou ore are arc sore that yoU lire are not the author of ot ne te ne Let me assure nure you vou ou however that I 1 you vou author co-author of any api- api gram gram I write rite because I 7 the habit from reading you vou ou I know that thaI you yon my I nork ork much moio mOlo titan than vou ou say In our re reviews reties les You just love lo to get gel my goat I dont don't mind our hating fun run at my expense but buta when a review or of ours l may ay keep a II lot Jot of or people out of olle and the public from Ing a ery good show like lIle Cheaper to Mar Mar- Marry t ry I 1 don t think It is nice o vou OU For the tho 10 lovely lonely ely things sic you ou 1111 hase e said Mid of or Cheaper to lIan Many I thank you vou ou Yours Your sincerely SAMUEL SHIPMAN Very well you Samuel Samuel you know better bettel than I do what hat our our friends yearn earn for And you vou OU are ara 1 1 when you vou OU permit me to u tit Lit t In the grandstand and hiss year 0 Jr bad pia plays s sI sand and applaud your good ones ones-If ones It I any |