Show J THE TAE NEW PLAYS I r rS S THE BRUTE PROVES TO BE B VERY TERRIBLE UY CHARLES D ARNTON the author was a hit even I ANYWAY ANY if the th play When Frederic Arnold Kummer appeared after the second act of ot The Bruto Brute at t the thc Thirty-ninth Thirty Street theatre on the opening openIng opening open open- ing night the audience hailed him with delight that was cut short only by the he curtain At After r that ono fleeting glimpse I II Ij I I II I I I t h t j r j I i I I II I f fI I I I II I Frederic Arnold ArDol Kummer the I I Frederic Arnold Kummer disappeared like Uko a moving picture and though George Broadhurst and other othe fellow fellow- authors authora continued the cr cry that Is music to their ears cars Frederic Arnold Kummer was wat seen no more Even greater reater modesty modest was shown b by bythe bythe the producers of ot the play sh shy youngsters Comstock and Gest who spared no expense In keeping their names off of the thc program Before The Tine Bru Brute te they thoy stood mute They also stood near the door It is barely possible possible pos pos- OS- OS sible that The Brute filled them with misgiving not to say my fear At an any rate It proved to be a a. vcr very terrible play pIa lay a play to strike terror to the trusting hearts of ot young oung husbands to chill the greedy souls of young oung wives and to cause frightened children to cry cryn In n their sleep To begin with there was a Harlem flat there flat there always Is In a pla play that has hat very little rea ready y cash on han hand When hen people are hard up on the stage you OU may nay bet your our last dollar without look- look lag ng at your our program that they're In Ina Ina ina a Harlem flat Donald Rogers put up with It like A good little man but his unhappy wife Edith had made mado up her mind that she couldn't stand It an any longer Although Althou h Edith looked welled well- well red fed she declared she had had nothing but economy econom for breakfast t dinner and arid andt t supper upper for eight years By fixing the tIll exact time In these few tew remarks t she ho hoeft left eft us to conclude that Donald must have lave married her when he was wab about IG Inasmuch as tho the boy hu boy husband band was by that former husband boy In n Bab Baby Mine Ernest G t He Ho was very cry kind and thoughtful When I the flat was cold did ho he not offer to bring Edith Ice cream Ho Tie did But nothing that Donald could do appealed to Lo her She kept beer on Ice for mother but otherwise home meant nothing to 1 her he tier Are Ate you prepared for a shock something something some some- thing to shake a Harlem 1 flat to its very foundations Well Yell then hero goes g Edith was planning to lI light ht out with her boy bo and join Billy West who had halt more mone money than the tho minstrel man of that name ever spent She Sho en came me rl right ht out with It after her sister Alice had gurgled around the flat a bit However How How- However However ever the elopement could hard hardly be he considered a pressing matter as Billy was in Denver indulging In the luxury of ot an operation Edith was so worried I I C I I 1 J 1 1 I I r rt C I t d di i III an DK Donald Rogers Rogera Ruth ShepleY nit nn Edith Rogers about him that she had lend Alice telegraph to Emerson Hall In Denver asking him to wire particulars about Bill Billy News N S ws wJ unexpected In the tho form of or a 3 lawyer lawyer lawyor law law- came camo who brought the tho sad tidings s that yer Billy was dead dead appendicitis l Poor old Billy i said ald Donald for Cor ho had always thou thought ht o of Billy as his best friend you see sec Edith said nothing but she sho twisted hands until the knuckles showed her hel white Her lIer agony Increased when tho had loft lofther lofther Informed her that Billy Dilly lawyer law er her all tho the money mono ho lie had boon boen piling This interested her hopeful mother up who eagerly asked How now much 7 It was a mere matter o of half a million Yet Donald continued to murmur Poor Billy Things were much brighter In act Tho The Harlem flat was vas replaced by bya b II cottage e at New London Edith hadnot had hadnot hadnot a not only acquired a a. dazzling now new dress refs ref's but sh she had gained d eight pounds To 10 Muth Huth Shepley now radiant at ut Miss Iss look 1001 thought might have havo as Edith you would have worried her I eight pounds but the they didn't t. t She Sue rejoiced in thorn thom r E Everybody In fact was happy until Emerson Hall arrived cd from tho the west and over a highball with Donald chatted chatted chatted chat chat- ted pleasantly of oC tho the telegram ram concerning concernIng concern- concern Ing Billy DUly that he had received He II then remarked that Billy BUly had hall left left- hl his fortune fortune fortune for for- tune to a married woman with wIlh whom he lie had been In love lo There was every el reason to believe e that Donald would rise to the time title of the pIa play at nt this point but as luck would have it he ho wasn't rea ready y to bo ho a brute just yet Ho lle merely morely talked to Edith Edithm in n n. high voice with the windows all open and then started back to with their son Bobble Bobbie on his shoulder But when Edith arrayed Ina In Ina a a. traveling suit that would give a ticket-puncher ticket conductors conductor's cramp followed fol- fol followed followed fol fol- lowed him to Harlem and refuted refused ell to give up her tainted inheritance because she wanted to l keep It for dear little Bobble the husband boy-husband arose In his might criticised her dress tore toro the rope ropo of oC pearls from Crom her neck and slammed her down on the floor 1001 with IETI IES musical comedy Is unintentionally S SO SOMETIMES comic As o knows It loves 0 women from the fairest to the fattest Upon them It y k 5 I I 1 J 1 1 I I C I I I I I PI her OM nn None Wilton lavishes glad lad song and gladder rags rag's counting neither tho the high note nor the high cost It cant can't help loving loving- women since Its Hs very existence depends s upon them And yet ct at the tho Astor theatre there was a comic opera that dared to be known a as The Woman Yoman Haters Tho The humor of oC It Jt lay In In the idea not lIot In the book Thoro There was a club compos composed ell of oC meeting In Inthe women won haters who held a n. tho the first act and md t as s was i only to bo he last In the expected pave gave up elm tho tio host ghost By il this time these thebe women haters had ha become such deadly bores horos that It was a aJO aJoy aJoy JO Joy even event a savage gava sava o dc delight to seo o that This ingenious no guilty man escaped Idea taken bodily from the tile German along stolidly to tho the bitter end plodded George V. V Hobarts Hobart's s 's attempt to make It sprightly b by means of ot hie his American book and lyrics l was not crowned with which finds expression In that success uncontrollable aughter au The Yom Woman an Haters proved pro d hopelessly stupid d though pleasantly tuneful turn tired a relief rollet to always a It ear car to was Edmund Edmun Eysler's mu music lc The Tho had real charm But all this no- no score called Viennese music Is so RO much alike have had so much of It that and we of Its popularity here afraid tho time day mere Im I'm dra drawing to a close ism Isn Isn't it t It about I Is something from an American time lime for composer nut not not a 1 song son tinker but a mu- mu workman just workman Just for a change honestly believe that a genuinely I musical musical musi- musi American operetta comic opera choose to whatever you comedy dY or cal ral com would be hailed as a n. novelty no call it It music i good goodenough goodenough Is 19 Mr Eysler's Eysler s While to be he its own excuse It becomes becomes be be- enough trifle monotonous Pretty as it itis Itis Itis comes a seemed to be nothing new In It is there the tho first act The rest of ot the It after drag dragged ed fearfully A performance polka and then another waltz walt waltz a an old fashioned dance ance pro- pro suggested difficulty with such music The gram find people who can dance It And Is IH to the poor chorus people try their when at nt this sort of oC thing It is Teall really foot painful to watch them thorn Tho rime first night ht were relegated to a narrow passage pas- pas they at nt the back of ot the stage stag that added ad- ad sage saffo the torture of ot their movements ded cled to privileged principals were Only allowed the the tho freedom of the floor and except for Joseph Santley their dancing dancIng dancing ing was not calculated to carr carry an audience au au- au- au off oft its Ita feet feel well that Walter Valler Lawrence sang so dancing didn't matter Within a n avery avery his short timo Mr Ir Lawrence has de developed 10 I very on remarkably good voice In ln Ct a M enough h force to make her knees black and blue Then It was that she looked up at him and announced that sho cared nothing for mone money that she loved only him and Bobble Bobbie Then theres there's a chance for you ou and me said ald Donald That's moro more than I can sa say for tho the pia play Young YOUIl Mr Glendinning struggled led against ag his years to make Donald a sized life husband and considering considering- the odds did fairly well But ho he had two Or three long speeches that almost floored him Miss acted ex extravagantly extravagantly ex- ex trav as the tho wife who had been obliged to practice economy econom for Cor eight years year Miss Jeffreys Lewis spluttered away awa as tho time mother and Miss s Ethel Cla Clayton ton made Alice Allee a cheerful nuisance Little Stephen Davis Duvis delighted dell motherly mother souls as us Bobble and shortly before 11 o'clock said Now I la lay me me- me It was comforting to think that some someone someone someone one could slee sleep sled 0 after atter a play pla like The I Brute Bruto THE WOMAN HATERS' HATERS PLEASANTLY TUNEFUL I singing It Was Vas Mario ho he won his audience completely by hy making makin this number the musical gem of the performance per por- performance To add to his vocal gifts girts ho he acts nets with the tho good nature that characterizes characterizes characterizes char char- his sister Miss lIss Georgia Lawrence Law Law- rence renee who o looks ut at department store law with a 0 practical eye e o while Within tho the Law takes Its exciting course She Shema ma may well bi bl proud of her liar bl big brother for tor he has now established himself as ns the time best round all-round hero on the comic opera stage sta c. c Miss 1115 Sallio Sallie Fisher followed followell her liar usual bent of giving giving- her voice olce too much rein I hold It In iii bit how If It sh she sho would on only a happy huppy she might be he In reading her pi press ess notices notices' Its It's a u pity that thal she sho doesn't take talc better care of of- her voice olce She can sing sing- like a lark but hut unfortunately unfortunately unfortunately she Rhe insists upon soaring SO HO high hl h that only the roo roof stops her In this charming Instance youth doesn't seem to realize Its own lung For Miss Fisher is not only charming but grace grace- ful By overacting o with her eyes however however however how how- ever she sho certainly does not enhance her charm Young Mr Santley danced with his hit customary lI lightness and sl skill Ul and set Miss Dolly Castles a fast Cast pace Miss Castles both danced and san sang indus indus- While her work hind had Its Us weak points It Jt was physically strong strong- Mrs Stuart Stuart Robson appeared as a co coy lit lit- thing of some pounds while c. c Edwards j. j as ns n time the smallest nu woman Ia l hater at r- r re e ever r placed i cc u-p- u upon o n-o x-hibl x tion 1 By Dy his sincerity Leslie LesUe Kenyon sa saved the usual En English lIsh silly ass from seeming as silly is IS usual But when will twill musical comedy cOlney rid Itself of or this tiresome worn an and witless t J type 0 I You can do useful work wort an and do It well well OF OF COURSE COUnSE And somebody Homebody needs to havo have It done just tho way you ou can do It Th Time puzzle Is How Howshall Howshall Howshall shall you ou find tho the employer r who wants wanta to find you As It Is la almost A n certainty certainty taint that he ho reads the Wanted ads why not say say your say sayto say sayto to him In one one of th them m. m oJ London lies has more moro than omnibuses and the number Is being being- Increased at ata a rato rate of about thirty a week noel According to recent expert estimates pro produced almost tons of coal a year |