Show U r 1 1 THE NEW PLAYS By y Charles Chrles ar es I i 1 I I ll II CHAUNCEY CHAUNCE OLCOTT BRINGS DOWN A BIG HOUSE 11 r EW YORK TORE Fob S. S ho H H no sooner 1 3 N NEW lifts Jets his his' voice oke tics all he has poor lad than sh sins she turn with a grateful grateful grate grate- I J ful cla clasp P of the hands hanos and s 's says Bays Tour voice olee lifts m my f spirit out of or a a. bottom bottom- j ies 3 well Now a i r w voice nice that can cun doIs do doi dol l Is f I I i i 1 i r I r 1 F Ai 1 t 1 y r I A 4 f i if 1 t I I at t i fj t t. t J 0 OlCOTT t. t that could ouid Ret get et a rise ilsc ils o out t of of t. t a lamb dumb t p waiter 1 r But nut Cha t did dill move more th thin than n i r that at t the flit l' l G opera house at the premiere fl fI 1 s bloU brought ht down the t biggest big big- iK- iK t gest est house hOUfe housel Ive I've we seen In In many nan any a a night It When hen Irish E Eyes Smiling Smil Smil- by es Are Arc In ing inh not front from the top tOl of his lungs lunga but from tha th bottom of oC his hiI t hee IFe ITe ibY not only put nut a great d deal al of ot heart into the tho on hut lt he got lots of heart out I of it No Xo heart has ever ver been brok broken n I Into morn more syllables syllables and aJ and every cery sylla sylla- I u I ble a I. I throb mind you ou His voice olce was wa wasas wasas s as fresh Cresh ao an though It had Just come comeback comeback back from the tho cleaners cleaner's while he himself himself him self looked young youn enough to be his ow own n nephew Ho couldn't have ha cut more boyish capers If he ha had been coining comin homo home from lom school But the roal real test teat came cam with his first song and he stood It easily Go on on Chauncey shouted a strong lunged lun e admirer from row low T 1 the moment he hc had finished and I on he 1 went with the lovel lovely her heroine lne sitting h bj by wailing waiting to Interest t him In the plot of ot tho the pla play And true as youre you're sitting there re It t was wn an nn Irish pla play h by KIda Johnson Young called lIr d Time Islo of Dreams Thon Though h Mrs Young Youn doesn't doesn t grew r shamrocks In her brownstone ll tone garden she sho ho finds It n. n aa as cas easy to tc a fi new play pla IA J for her hel friend Chauncey once a year cai a as doing up her hair hall In Jn the morn- morn Ing All she has to do Is net get et him Into trouble double and then get et him hint out of or ll H. This time h hi managed manag-ed the escape of ofa ofa ofa a spy front from the thc French who turned outto out outto outto to be the heroines heroine's brother All An the thel l n soldiers Ima immediately c latch I gave R. C their attention to Chauncey Napoleon was wa supposed t tp ho he trying to n I land at the time time but 1799 hut 99 but the real purpose of theauthor the tho author was to have o Chauncey land If the wind that swept wept the south coast of Ireland in the frt first act sounded sound- sound pd erl like a giant snoring everybody knew there would be he music in the tha air ah as al soon as the singing hero could coull get around to it Even when the English were hunting f for r him In the tho s second act he stool l on n n. cliff and sang The Isle of oC Dreams because you ou 80 see sec that's wh whore where rc this particular bong ong belonged d The soldiers could wait walt but the song And n so it went until the brave singer Ringer was handcuffed and in n. n fair Calr wa way to have his voice choked with witha a n ro rope The Tho third act was so Rio slow that we began ber-an to despair but release and another song pong came at last so that not only Irish eyes alone were smiling when Chauncey CH Olcott en came mo into his own as ns the youngest son ton of on one of or the proudest houses in Galway And Il its it's jroud of oC him we wo were f THE NEW SECRETARY SILLY I As The Now New cw Secretary I Is too silly 11 t for r word words the tho loss said ald about the play rt Id th the Lyceum theatre the Ibo lh better it will vill he tot lot all nil concerned In Jn tak taking n this Inane Inan comedy from tho thin French Cosmo Gordon Lennox has handed US US' a dra dra- dramatic matte matic caramel ramel that wen oven sweet ers may pass pas on to their little sisters The IThe story of or the poor secretary who humbles the proud daughter of an Incompetent In- In competent millionaire after teaching I her father a l lesson In business can be commended ed only to tho the primer class that occasionally makes the theatre re- re tho the l kindergarten IV Its Itis Is rather amusing to see Charles Cherry square his shoulders rs an and tackle the iho part of oC the secretary as if It f It were I 1 a mans man's job lie c chas has poise a W uell- uell modulated mOdulate huH 1 voice Ic and an nn mans mana man- man ncr but he If Is tO too British to suggest lU for forI 1 a moment I the young oun French fortuner fortunen fortune fortune- r 1 I AS S IFS LIKU AI l UIE U. DORO nuno AS S hunter huntar whoso heart henrt nets gets tho the better of or him mm H He approaches th the French only in acting like a Napoleon of or finance His b boat st work Is s done In du dusting books bOOI Hiss Marie Mario Doro never rises above her Sh She still says OhI oh oh I In jn n n as many different tones to express injured pride and does oes' oes not yet ct act arty ariy- ono but h herself Not ot for tOl a moment does she RU suggest est an accomplished though spoiled French girl Even Mrs doesn't se seem m to know what to tomake tomake tomal mal make e of ot her part as the grandmother while Miss lIsl Annie Esmonde as the mother of or Helene succeeds sUcceed only in getting getting get get- ct- ct ting lIng on ones one's nerves It is impossible to h believe Frank Cooper either a t de designing suitor or 01 an unscrupulous I business man Claude Ide Is la supposed t to be he a great French sculptor bu but t ho hf Ls to just plain Yank The Tho only rea real characterization is that achieved b by Ferdinand Gottschalk as a clever ele old schemer tt with ith a a nervous ncr twitching of or ortho tho fact fat that gives elves 1 him tI the e appearance of or winking Mr Gottschalk's s 's wink might be taken as a silent criticism of oC the stupid little play tt |