Show t THE NEW PLA PLAYS YS I from Preceding Page rage her her head arid and leaves the tho house oad ad sho takes mn may lead load to the thc ther r IP something worse y mind tho the author goes to o exIn ox- ox In preparing the stage tugo for tor the thc ene enc Leaving Janet out of or theon the theon I on It la h not reasonable to sup- sup L that young oung Rutherford even evon h b he has rifled rUled his fathers father's cash liter tor ter ho has been boen robbed of ot his tion would leavo leave without n. n last ast b t h his his s baby Only the young wife wito is S 8 to drive a hard bargain with Sho makes him prom- prom I Iso lee that the tho name narno of ot Rutherford an anSon and andSon andSon Son will bo be perpetuated by her bo boy bor The scandal nl of ot th the daughter la In laI I brought vividly to light b by Miss Mian Marie Ault as a a. garrulous and vindictive old woman Miss Agnes Thomas Thomas' gives Ives anI another another an an- I other touch of ot reality to th the play playas as asH H Rutherford's grim practical sister But first frat and last lasi It Is IB s Mr who gives the play Its gripping relentless power BI Big brutal and hard sn saying more in a R. glance than most actors caT can cansay say In words he makes Rutherford a 0 to tower er of or strength And as a play of ot character Rutherford and Son Is b by far tar the stron strongest est of ot the season aeSon iETT TTE TIE TAYLOR WINS ALL HEARTS IN PEG 0 MY HEART GOOD GOOD luck lucic will wilt have o It It Pegs Peg's Laughter 1 la ie not dead in n louse ouse aro are true truo of tho new Corte Cort I e C a L really beautiful house In Ira t o o N My Heart and anti Miss tto Ho Taylor are arc likely to dw dwell n tor or ora a month laughter that makes this play go So ou ou ott have havo the tho whole secret of the tho success scored b by J J. J Hartley iss ee comedy of ot youth The might have havo described his play accurately by calling Is a n. comedy tho By tho simple expedient of ot the truth and confounding her English relatives tho girl from America keeps the tho 1111 roars of ot laughter That's the theand theand and Its It's turned so BO cleverly lc ly that you ou seo see through It It you ore firo entertained Tho The story ston might Sen nu n written by the Duchess or orui ur ui own Laura Lura Jean To accept must believe that the tho untutored pent ent t tb th England to bo be polished of off pr r aristocratic aunt nn and cousins e es them off oft In short order and andalla falls alla Into a n fortune an and tho the arms Incidentally adoring guardian I alts ot off to tea a 0 dano o and gets hots back i n to save her haughty cousin cr from 1 running n off f nas a no wite anu Jeg's eg's eg lIn lines s are aro so EO bright that the they you OU to the faults aults of ot the pla play s I no keeping Pe Peg In her room lero's leros no keeping he her ho still still still-In in fact Iks all over the place and nearly time For Peg you see Is a art jart and must bo be treated accord- accord Taylor Talor wins all h hearts in Peg P Hearl Uearl because she Is as ns direct hild in er e everything sho sh says a. a B Hers lIers sort of ot acting acIng that delights sim- sim nils the Eha ha dO does B Is d d but sho she I 1 clever enough to Ingenuous for r she has a c certain syed charm that Is Ja folt oven even while u H tier Her r smile is another In her favor She Kho undoubtedly L In n her power to tiring bring Lack to age the t typo pe f f that has AI 1 adly sadly mi missing for y years ars I mean menn mennS is S S a n compliment nt Meanwhile 1 she sile great reat deal to learn along this he truth she so loves loes to tell in 1 resent rolo role 1 Is that nhe alie makes l Ish Topsy Sho draws tho the character dt Is s chi child hI of ot th the without lt lout te to shavings whereas with n It care she sho he t easily make ivo Va 0 the tenderness sho she Is la supposed ed edI I for fOl- the tho father sho she has loft lott bo- bo or In tho samo breath it may that only Imly pr practice can 1 her Irish accent perfect t for the picture of Peg Peer that Miss MissI I r paints it is ts too teo highly colored really artistic tic A lesson lezon Ight teach this ambitious young r L. TAYLOR AS PEG actress that nothing f Is to l be c gained by lips as ns red as a third-alarm third fire tire and hair that shames the noonday sun rho Tho dog log sho she carries couldn't bo ho e Improved upon This rIlls poor little mutt mutt mutt-Is Is cne o of the tho best bost thIngs In tho the performance Long Long- may it wag its modest tall tail While It re remains remains re- re mains true to Its breeding Peg changes so suddenly from a n. greenhorn to an attractive young oung woman that you ou can hardly your e eyes os In the first place a n girl who has lived In New ew York couldn't b be bd so green and stupid as Miss Taylor would have havo us believe bello and In Inthe tho the last t act when she pho ho announces her departure from home and father fine Jno clothes if It not experience would have taught her not to mako maleo herself look 1001 like an n emigrant This Is Ia done of ot cour course c. c to emphasize what Is known knon ns on ona a character part but It Is as obvious as the thunderstorm that r repeats peats itself in the last act It would be bo difficult to believe e In IO lovda lovas M young oun dream were It not for tho tim happy happ fact that the a middle aged e guardIan guardIan guard guard- Ian is charmingly act acted d b by H. H Reeves Reeves- Smith A neat bit of ot work woric Is done lone b by Hassard Short as Pegs Peg's Idle young cousin cou cou- sin and tho the other members of th the tho 0 compan company com corn pany pan are aro competent Miss liss Ta Taylor lor Is really the whole f show how and she sho succeeds succeeds suc sue c c s in making Pe Peg o of My y Heart a laughing laughing and and therefore a popular popular- success 4 rM THE ARGYLE CASE I i- i ER PER that real detective e William f. f Burns has bas us that The 1 Case CaseS Is a a. real detective cU in is s he ho did at the tho opening perform perform- II M It hat more is thero there to sa say In Inbert J. J I II w 14 I II Th I fi t bert Billiard a a. a A Asche ton I y ly y because it illustrates tho the finger finger- 4 process by which criminals with with- 5 loves 10 are handled and also for Its Ita tumble umble capacity I ma may add ada that it Is an nn Interesting detective pIn play demonstration of ot that little household necessity necessity-lu necessity necessity-In In New York at least least the the ph Innocent as JS we may b be bete e ewe we te cant can't know too much about the latest Invention For all wo we know we wo may bo ha living living- over or a and and even oven a n volcano couldn't be more mora Ills dis dis- dis While Mr tr Burns himself at tho the Criterion theatre Harriet Ford and Harvey Haney J. J O'Higgins remained out of oC sight thus proving themselves to be authors of ot extraordinary modesty modest Let thorn thom blush unseen while It Is duly set down that they the havo have written the tho de detective detective de- de play of or tho the hour With great and considerable skill the they have brought The Tho Ar Je Case Caso up to date In Jr making the detective for all the orld world like a business man mm the they lot the light of truth shine through his office door hoor At tho same time they manage manao I H ti th squeeze In a stor story Old Argyle r yle like Ilk man many a a. rich man before beloro him has been beon murdered for the g 00 good 1 of tho plot But in hunting for the mur murderer no other sleuth of oC melodrama has discovered a aden aden aden den of counterfeiters to maleo him look hook like all aU the money in the last act As th the keen Jeen businesslike detective Robert Billiard deserves 1 a largo large reward for tor his cut cleats P performance Ho lIo Igan Isau is Ig isan an au actor whose diction has haM not only onh nothing to fear far from the raph but buts s a a. jO joy to hea hear Others In tho the cast arc are much too loud It Is evident that the play plas- has hns been rehearsed 1 b by a n. man lackIng lack lack- Ing log both hoth a n sensitive car and a sense or of humor As u l matter of ot fact tact tho pla play is I s1 sadly h. h lacking in humor huntor Miss s Stella Archer Is painful as the heroine and md Miss tUss Selene Solene Johnson as the wife of oC the counterfeiter who shoots himself gives given way to her emotions with l fashioned freedom It is Mr Ir lard who ho makes Tho Arg Argyle le Cas Caso Cas timely and Interesting I II ITHE I THE CO CONSPIRACY S I ICY CY WIL WILDLY Y IMPROBABLE RO L MELODRAMA E O A. A I T the crest ot or tao tho crime wave I weeping sweeping over ocr this palpitating 4 Island eland comes Tho The Conspiracy aJ a a. J y v improbable melodrama that la is l kable among other othel things for rOt ct cf that Charles Charlos p-c- p Mt It at the Garrick the theatre tle a tr barely possible that the success I t the tho 0 Law has 10 led lcd 1 Mr Ir Froh- Froh to believe o that the crook crool play is l J Just now If It ho Is clinging ls Is hopeful idea It is only fair to tod tod id d him that Within tho the Law Lav LavIs Is la i melodrama whereas The Concy Concy Coney Con- Con cy ey Tho The truth Is It 11 Is very melodrama In John Roberts nobert dins ding to report it haa has a a. two two-hoad- thor John Roberts Is said to combination of ot John Emerson and Baker It Is only reasonable to lose that Mr Emerson put in most nis Is time writing the part ho plays it t Is a er very long part and it gives the center of ot the stage during tho the toy tOl part of ot the strange pro- pro i lings Ings F. F Emerson delights In being cc ec lc fc 1 as its a talkative t old codger bd d Clavering who lives lI only to toe tofe fe e 0 murder stories before thc they arc r. r This character is Is' Is not only ll ridic- ridic lc- lc sly Bly ly unreal but it Is wholly out ot of onion to tho the other characters rot these is 19 a girl who has known P L It Is to bo 10 a a. t white slave alac list her ber will Sho She shudders at the III Ight and and so do you Fortunately incident in her lifo life Is Ie r enlarged upon b by the tho discreet auBut auBut auh au- au h But there thero are arc more moro shu shudders dera w tho the Scarlet Band sends her an tin j lope lopo opo containing a finger of her ii ivo vo brother who is no less than 4 district attorney If It you ou aol oi 01 Sho She ha ban haa already saved savell his hla ute M nUn a member of ot tho the band but d ight of ot his finger Inger naturally natural wor- wor hor ber It comes at a very bad timeo time h io o police are arc already on her lier trail sublime trust she sno tells her story to a a. newspaper reporter whose heart goes oes out to her Up to this moment ho lie has heen been tho the life lito of or the tho party at atthe atthe atthe the settlement house where she sho ho has taken talen refuge but now not ho cuts out the laugh every stuff and gets get the tho crime e expert pert to take talo her hor away with him as his stenographer Poor Margaret finds rinds she has ha a ha hard d Job on OIl her hands with tho tim champion story writer dictating the thrilling tale of her crime Ills power powers powers pow pow- er ers of ot deduction are aro wonderful On Ona a door under two pistols Is 1 a t. t list Hat of oC the murderers ho he has run to earth They I probably read rend his F stories and then didn't care what happened to tu them thorn An As a n. matter mattor of or course courso ho lie soon I gu guesses Margarets Margaret's secret charges chares her I with tho the crime and grabs tho the tele- tele to notify thu tho police Walt sho she cries springing forward with outstretched outstretched outstretched out out- stretched hand Then Thon theres there's a to our sort Bort of curtain When It go goes os up again the literary sleuth listens to reason and is convinced con there would be greater rater glory for COl him hint In capturing several members of or the Scarlet Baud Band than In giving giving- up Margaret Ho Instantly hits hilts upon a aplan aplan plan of ot luring tour four of ot the tho gang gan- ganto to his house and with with detectives on hand nand to todo todo todo do tho rough work wont tho the trick Is If turne turned At a a. signal nal the tho lights aro are turned off oft and tho the capture is Ia made mado After Artor a n e in the tho dark the tho It lights go so soup up revealing tho artful Clavering grinning with triumph from the top of ot ofa ofa a Q bookcase Tho Tue play 13 In funny tunny without being thrilling Miss Jano Jane Grey displays H ro- ro fortitude aa an Margaret Francis Francis Fran Fran- cis B Byrne rne breaks re l all stage records R ns as the Julia fresh reporter and Miss MisH a Blanc docs does a n. capital bit of or won work worl as asan asan an old colored servant Thanks to hor her The Conspiracy has one real character char char- acter and actor and only one I ARS OF OP DISCRETION BEST AMERICAN COMEDY IN YEARS YEA i p ISID SIDE from writing a n highly hh divert divert- ding Mog comedy of ot distinction Fre Frederic and Fanny Hatton have achieved impossible b by making ago lie romantic in Years of ot Dis- Dis klon Ion a play of or sliver silver threads among amon gold to which David Bolasco Belasco gave ao 4 finishing touch and a remarkably d cast nt at the theatre 10 io o best American comedy seen In ta s with tho the beet best cast that has been heen since the tho days of ot tho the old sum cum theatre may well bo ho a n. cause caus I general rejoicing rejoicing- Mr Belasco Bolasco again jus ids uIs out this time with a kindly I Fe e e. e as the most artistic director of ot To bring together such a aible a able ible ble group roup of ot artists as he lie has done doue done I 4 3 In this Instance Is In Itself genius Miss lIss Itle Shannon teemed scorned to como come out ol or orthe the tho haz hazy past and for her hor It was u a night o of glory Jory In which there thero was not oven even the shadow of or a clou cloud By transforming transforming transforming trans trans- forming forming- herself heroU from a little brown rown wl widow ow into a dazzling charmer who vho hat hall ono one man of ot tho the v orld after another ather ather at ather her dainty heels In quick double time she virtually played two rol roles s a and made mado each part palt a n distinct l and complete chara char char- a acter c t c r. r It was vas much easier to sa say Let the best man win than to pick the man nina who would capture tho prize for tor In th tho beginning those gallant knights ol ot room drawing-room training Lyn Harding Bruce and Herbert seemed to make it an open tournament I while Robert M W dD Jr Tr Jr os ns a a parlor I I socialist who lOst lot 52 no Urn time in I the tho lists as a was b toy by no noI I means lacking IncIting In cour courage gc 1 I In his hour of defeat It Was Was' Mr good I th thI the tho I fortune to share sharo with Miss Ues Shannon I funniest scene In when though play pIa I choking with anger Vo ho he succeeded In in the widows widow's wid wid- swallowing his full fUll share sharo of ot I o ow's s 's chocolate cake and also Joined her hor herIn horIn I In ina a n little drink of ot e sin I I Tho widow took to op co coc cocktails like a I duck to water as soon as ns sho got rot toI to I New York from that back baek garden of ot Boston Boston Boston-an and into the new flew clothes sho had brought with her The Tho slashed skirt or whatever cr It its it's 11 called that served as os her het coInIng coming out gown revealed something more than Miss Shannon's talents There Thero wore also two or three lines that caused causell the audience to sit Alt up the tho first night But for tor once onee there was no common slang to cheapen the pla play Tho authors had written a comedy for tor ladles and gentlemen and It was acted by ladles ladies and gentlemen Their speeches wore were not dragged in from tho the |