Show H n l The jh Play pt a y Not Always I Reflected ted By the Title TitIe BY B FRANKLIN FYLES New ew York Aug 28 The Call Can of ot the North is not a drama of ot our war tear with a hero called to fight for tor the north against the south the appeal to him comes from further to the north northward northward northward ward in the wilderness of oC Canada and his fight is 18 individual All For a Girl does docs n t set forth a man who does doeR desperate or 01 dangerous deeds for fora forn sweetheart a n It Is la the girl who sac sacrifices sacrIfices herself bravely for tor the fellow fellowS So S the names names are are not accurately de descriptive descriptive descriptive labels lab ls for Cor the two plays plas that this week get into the new dramatic season in Broadway Just ahead ahe d of oC next weeks outbreak of oC half halt a dozen i k The best original minute in All For a Girl is that in which a French prince princen 4 and n d a German count hunting heiresses in America quarrel over a girl of many millions they speak English h with the theu accent u cent of o their native tongues tongue it and their volubility became unintelligible ble Jargon Whether the idea came to Hughes as al ashe ashe he wrote or In the rehearsing that of or having the exclamations of ot the wrung wranglers wranglers lers resemble the yelping growling and j barking of ot a dog fight anyway It Is funnier than any nn one other otter thing in the entertainment The first audIence of ot theatrical gourmets hungry after the summers Bummers abstinence from stage fareI fare I grabbed at that morsel and gulped it with gusto The management mana ement must mustI li I have thought it would be an appetizer for the whole meal as although those two hucksters of ot titles for or cash are immediately turned down and ami b by bythe the heiress and stay In the play hardly hard hardly hardI ly I half an hour clever actors are hired to make them comical In the layout of the story stor they serve serge only to emphasize em emphasize emphasize this exceptional American girls disdain of o foreign aristocracy They and other huntsmen who set traps of oC bogus love and fire guns of or counterfeit passion at such rare game to bag weary her of oC sordid sor sordid sordId did wooers wooer and she r thinks so that she were not rich If It she could but be rid of o her millions and as a poor girl find a true lover Why not go 10 Into the country for the summer conceal her Identity and amI at least get geta a respite from selfish suitors H Ie Yes It it so though Hughes is a u practiced fictionist He has had the audacity to turn a plays plot on a wealthy girls false Calse pretense of poverty He freshens the staleness however with humor and an abundance of wit The scene shifts shUts from a town man mansion mansion mansion sion to a country countr farm house where the girl Irl boards cheaply as a typewriter on ona onn ona a n vacation and loves a n worthy sort of oC an impecunious city chap He dotes on her but hut on learning that she he is isa IsIt Isa a It tremendous heiress wont marry her because he is as proud as he is poor this is In a play pIa until she offers to t o live with him on his salary salar of or 2 a oa week and not use a cent of at her own Thereupon the action comes back to t New York Tork and Is laughable with the th e failure of ot their fond but foolish under undertaking undertaking taking tal ing until It is 11 and th the e play pia is stopped with the husbands sud sudden sudden sudden den affluence through a railway wa deal Meanwhile it has been good light di dl diversion version i c The Toe assertion ass is made in the other play pIa The he Call of the North that the bosses of the Hudson Bay fur Cur trading posts inflict capital punish punishment punishment punishment ment who hunt independent independently ly in their thel districts George Broad hurts bursts acting version of Stewart Ed Edward Edward Edward ward Whites novel Conjurers House in which It is set forth that although upper Canada Is no longer ex exclusive exclusive by British franchise to the once corporation its local tyrants on catching a trapper a third time drive dri him into In o the tIle woods without a U weapon an and lei let to death and It 1 rare re chance his woodcraft yoo is whom New York audiences are quick quickly ly h fond of and that is the untutored young girl of natural Impulse She Is a soubrette turned serious se serious rious us and the her although we dont yet et know kno her breakage of English so as to know always what she Is If talking about Is apt to beat the he heroine heroine heroine roine In the competition for our heart She Is In this latest melo melodrama melodrama melodrama drama and I guess reckon and everything but fawney doncher know that if it Canadian annexation comes she will have been a potent fac fae factor tor or Douglas Fairbanks Is made a star actor in All AU For a Girl and retired from rom the stage a while ago as a con condition condition It was said of his marriage with witha a multimillionaires daughter yet here he ic Is as us the tho mock hero of a romance based on a poor fellows Cell refusal to use us any ny of or his rich brides money Fair Fairbanks banks bank Is clever In the pcr per of everyday boyish young fellows The opening audience gave him much or of f the applause but was uncertain where to place the remainder of ot the commendation The circumstances were peculiar and puzzling Rupert Hughes had lad written the comedy originally for Grace George who tried it obscurely several everal years ears ago under the title of or orThe The Richest RI hest Girl in the World orld but buthe he time girl was overmatched for tor possible popularity by her lover which do and worse still stilt she was of less account with the audience than a city salesgirl whose vacation spooning was sufficient to feed teed him on a tramp of or miles to civilization fleet Indians are sent on his trail to murder him Ned Trents real call to too the far tar north northIs norths Is s to find and slay whoever put his fa father father fathey ther they to death He conceals his purpose under the pretense that he Is a pelf hunter lunter He Is caught the third time by a factor who chances to be the very man whom he is seeking vengefully How can The Call of oC o the North be else than a melodrama It is romantic roman ic though hough with the mutual love loe of oC Ned and the factors daughter Virginia and beautifully picturesque with its H prime primeval primeval val al forest Writers of oC American dramas beyond civilizations edge if It they time the ac action action action tion In the present must place It outside out outside outsIde side of the United States Slates No longer have we a wild enough west Several went to Mexico but a later hegIra isto Is Isto Isto to Canada and The Call of the North Northis is s the fourth play of ot that country In Broadway theatres within a twelve twelvemonth twelvemonth month In It we still have the stoical and laconic Indian but none of oC the Buffalo Bill scouts and cowboys or Bret Harte miners and gamblers In Instead Instead stead of oC those tiresomely familiar types of ot rough humanity we get dian and Scotch pioneers with dialects that our audiences are not educated up UD to as yet et and the heroes are apt to be English lords younger sons for the most daring of play playwrights pla playwrights wrights dont ask us to believe that Uncle Sams adventurers ever cross into John Bulls dominion unless they are on their way to our own Alaska 4 There Is a character in this new out output output output put of stage fiction though one that takes the place of oC the formerly recur recurrent recurrent recurrent rent Mliss of or Bret Hartes origination altogether atto ether comic In the delayed New NewYork NewYork NewYork York production all aU went well for Fair Fairbanks Fairbanks Fairbanks banks but It was nip and tuck be between between between tween Adelaide Manola and Jane Cor Corcoran Corcoran coran cotan As a daughter of oC Jack Mason and Marian Manola resembling he her r frisky frIsk mother in face and her dignified d father in stature the tool took loo k kan t an interest In first import important ant essay on the stage sta e She was nice nic e and sweet but not yet proficient June Jane was vaguely vaguel known for having made mad starring tours in Grace George roles and for tor having distinguished herself he elf a aan as asan asan an actress of ot Ibsen yet she took the tho assignment to play the sassy sass slangy sIan salesgirl gave to it the tho th e manner of or the typical chorus girl and an d made ma e it go well weli for laughter So yo you U see while the audience made merry over oer Jane it know how it ought ough t to divide applause between her and and l tl Adelaide s Robert Edeson suffers buffers a setback in inThe inThe ii The Call CaU of oC the North He him himself himself himself self chose the book and made a dra dire dramatization I 1 which was acted In a corner COln r ron on the sly with an unfavorable result but some of ot the th material still was t this to o his actors liking and Broadhurst was brought into the time work After Ute seeing the failure of or this second play I know what misled his judgment Ned Ne Trent the hunter who is sentenced to starve star starIn e in the forest orest could save himself per haps if It he had a rifle rille The agents agent s fair fall daughter has one and to get it he h e makes love to her but when she of offers fern fers ers it to him his manliness revolts anal anil he confesses his duplicity to her It I t seems as though his going wrong like lik e that and then turning right at th the e crucial l point ought to be captivating g bravery yet not buncome for or an actor cf of hearty heart personality It 11 I t proves Ineffectual however because e the Hie growth of his genuine love JOe of th the e girl and his change of or purpose from deceit of her to devotion are not graph shown In the play playas as they the were e in the book boole With that element in ineffectual ineffectual effectual the whole play goes to tl t o naught ot otA I A curious theatrical l fact was illus illustrated illustrated illustrated when at a matinee a u play tira vas as a acted by three separate companies Two Tw o ao casts were ready read to go on tours a third was to continue It In town and ando an anso d so o this composite performance was wa s given Probably there was an expectation expectation tion that hat with the changes of ot actors actor s from act to act ct there would be In Incongruous Incon incongruous congruous con if It not ridiculous alterations s n appearance and demeanor It was wa s not so at all If f the original players player of a piece are able to depict the char characters characters Clearly as Written or create them as show folk are fond of oC putting It as though there were no authors that filet fixes the manner of oC portrayal for foras foras fo r as many years ears as the play shall live I 1 have been astonished to note in stock companies revivals of o plays which I r remember vividly in their original rep representations representations that not alone in scribed d business and general enera I manner manne r but hut so small that they the easily ea casil lly might have been lost the first Inter Int r ro o d dt t of ot the part Is imitated The actor may have seen some predecessor r rIn In the role or the fife stage director may maybe maybe maybe be familiar with ith it yet that hardly seems seem to explain the lasting gland 1 and un unalterable unalterable unalterable alterable similarity at atSo So much inclined to let well wen enough alone are managers that when they the require to the creators creator of ot characters they choose counterparts as nearly as possible That was why all expectations of absurd changes In per personality personality during the progress of Paid in Full Fun were disappointed The hero heroine heroIne heroine ine having been Lillian Albertson tall talland talland talland and willowy and gentl genii emotional motional e similarly endowed Sara Per Perry Perry Perry ry and Clara gowned and to match could hardly have been D distinguished from Crom her by a per person person peron son s on well back in the theatre The like likeness likeness likeness ness was not much less in the three heroes and three villains and as to th tU three little soubrettes they were w re of ot a type so plentiful that the manager may have ha e shaken them down from the first theatrical tree he le came to There is difficulty in making a new stage show i but none In duplicating It After a summer of oC compulsory writ writing writIng ing lug about wantonly stripped i my topics must include all stage odd oddities and nothing humdrum along alons comes a danseuse bared bar d decorously if It one is willing to look at her from froman an art point of oC view vie Isidora I Duncan took off her shoes and stockings to t dance ten years ago and never since has she worn them on the stage That Th t was before Trilby was a barefoot model in a play nothing like the present had been thought of ot a display dis display play pIa of girls with a bare sec section section tion lion around the waist had been much complained of oC live Ile tableaux undraped undra d had not been shown In reputable the theatres theatres theatres atres and so it was no wonder that Isidoras classical dances although given given given en afternoons only at the almost Lyceum before spectators chiefly interested J in the art of ot them were not greeted cordially by br circumspect circum circumspect people She sailed away from Crom her native land and an got along better abroad Dramatic art advanced along with other culture In this country dur during during ing her absence which makes snakes it fl easier for her to convince many man more folks folk I than she did ten years ago that it is s I good for art and not bad for morals to dance as women did when the ancient friezes pictured them themI v I Isidora Duncan is all there is of ot her show sho which lasts an hour and a half haU halfin halfin in the evening with Ith brief hr et breathing spells in a theatre except that one singer and twenty musicians accompany her exercises Her first program was entirely depictive of oC Greek girls and goddesses in Glucks opera Iphigenie e en Her costuming was classical strictly and changed for each dance She began in u ri filmy film robe that left her arms free and uncovered her bosom b som but otherwise draped her from shoulders ers to feet although letting every motion be visible A change was soon made to a tunic that covered her body thus distinguishing her from the th nearly naked but her legs were as bare from toes to hips as her arms from fingers to shoulders and a skirt of gauze was short and so that every ever whirl removed them full length from privacy None of oC this nak nakedness nakedness edness was ve e Yet the womans Omans long figure was as so statuesque her sweeping grace of movement so pictorial and her in individuality Individuality so aesthetic that It wasn t thard hard if you ou were favorably inclined I I to take the artistic view of oC the ex exhibition ex exhibition n that she ehe asked you ou to It was just as easy if you felt Celt the other way to perceive indecency The dances of themselves are beautiful They are elo eloquent eloquent eloquent quent with pantomimic meaning from the glee of a maiden to the fury of o oE a goddess they move mono to the music of oC great composers played a skilful or orchestra orchestra orchestra chestra and accompany gl g with the suggestion of a Greek tragedy chorus a womans voice chants words w and notes from the opera that is being illus illustrated illustrated lra ted The couplet in Whittlers Maud Mul Muller Muller ler mentioning the girls graceful ankles bare and brown and the verse In The Rope RopeWalk RopeWalk Walk Talk describing a woman with bare arms anns drawing water at a |