Show S i i l r rc c 1 r I 1 F V l f r 1 J J 1 BY FRANKLIN FYLES V 1 n York April 16 Drama here this r rk k i is holding the mirror ml up p to mod modern ern rn nl merican life and especially to let ir r women see themselves as Aft play gl I ee tr them Take for first con cond d ration Clyde The Happy Happ Ilan laTna iI e Its pivotal personage Is a 8 aun 1111 un wife cafe of a New York Y rk man en enl eni l i ro v tl 1 I in m the making of o money He Hea aware a iI rp that t ha t she site is an exquisite crea I ui u cid uld he loves loes her now no that she bo lle boo beIl o Il 5 to t him as truly as he be did when whenn w n oed od 1 her and she kept him guessa guess 5 Mother a ther he would win her She is isn isI I n 01 i of him to the foolish limit and waIl giant to be coddled and cuddled by a urn 1111 11 hut hilt her endearments annoy anno him isle mi ill I his irritate her and 1 IT c r lack lak of ot a 8 husbands love she sheal al all into the em of the h tine inc That Is the matrimonial afir af air nr ir et forth in new play pia as ae it itt iti i t beer been by many another author al hough rot often so 80 entertainingly ck men met are not apt to 1 mount to much but as a delineator of women t exquisite to ec C and from fifth avenue debu debutantes antEs antos to Bowery Bower girls no one beats mi m It is his usage usa e to devise e a rep e New Xe York woman firstly to toi tox tois is i x mi n a fitting actress secondly and to tov v writ rii IT the role thirdly and most mOlt tanily in a way to let lt the player do all aU aUh h i capable of to utilize utilise all the tal talt tala rt a t that is in her herto to go o clear to her ut uttermost ermo t limit but not a Jot be he yond ond what she can do into what hat she cant The selection in the theIre present Ire ent instance has fallen tallen on Doris Keane You dont recall her name mh MJ m h le less ess s herself Let me tell you bout Doris Dons Now NOT for an example laude Adams is unique No other ac rt 1 like her in the least Neither Tt resemblance nor imitative tal tai taint nt nor lOT both combined have yet pro proud ud i anything liKe a duplicate Anah An Anth Anth th ah r actress in the Frohman list Ethel Ha tarry rr more has seemed to me equally d Yet In hi the case of Ethel Ethelh hi h in t ubiquitous enough to be in f fral ral places at once the places that ft old u t I yet pot pt her he may accept Doris Keane ii n mv my word cord ord that she is 18 a counterpart t r n nure Doris like Ethel Etbel Is the Mau Man MauI I type of th the London and andr V r York modish belle belie tall and slim I 1 n and r MC i 1 c they are a similar with drawl ro n and in demeanor with it ns 1 mannerisms in the Ute Frohman at I f The Happy Marriage she shei shet t 1 i l to t a appear a as aM an Ethel Riche Barrymore I x i nance on The Happy Mar j i such suh that Charles a 1 ai ad dk ready r ady to enact the cold coM hus has lt here nere assigned to Edwin ledwin Arden Ardenn 11 n neglects gluts his pretty wife until he that she is chilled by b him and v he h is at the point of elopement warm rearm arm seducer seduce An oddity in wit retelling of an old oW story is Iii isi i ti L re r is no adultery The roue 1 r o the wife that her husband is 1st isto t t 1 to t h hH her r and aDd dupe that tbt he 11 decides to retaliate She ac ae acM aca t M a moment of emotional r s offer to oust her Wh Rh he w and she mean by that is dif rt n t though tor he be has hA in view a ai at i t an on that wont jolt them in r courses coones of their lives ii h will mi do nothing surreptitious I on an open elopement to toa toJ J P a it separation from her first firsti i by divorce and Dd the legal ac act ii t of a second one by h regular i w t e That is to say guy the discon t d 1 wife ife has no DO thought of or r husband or 01 of turning from 1 tore foo fI she lawfully acquires his r r x It ce j written I Doris Kenes Klans own owns s 11 t i 11 ness and her resemblance re to toI I are Ie among the mak f sure ure ur success for The I s gr but I foresee lore ee that in Lon Lont n nW W t dham will win De be e acclaimed as the 1 9 who ho toasters masters ma the situation situations s his own fault forgives his frustrates her elopement Ent J i ings us her back beck to loe love u ria h h Fitch and Froh Frob j exploitation of DoriS Keane K a 8 as i who vho ho aches for her husbands and when be he wont give them to tor r iKe some from the lips 1115 of a will l elor will be all as d to be that that if a play was dor don 1 F city and abandoned before lied bed ht d New ew York the conclusion t 1 t it had failed irretrievably I It Itow Itow ow Going GoIn Some started l a year ear ago I do not know knowe e h of ot it has bas ba been amended but butto to tf Broadway now a lively farce dallet ci nce fur fir popularity Paul tir Tg r the a cal eal dramatist z x Reach Beach i are it its Both ai al ate c t d clil id r j to make ado ir it viral q raisin mAs They Ia a t no o end s It into Go Goa Goane ane a t H Ii t to s y stiffened fanity y and you 00 get the atmos th play p of or a western cams came WEEK AT I THE THEATRES i 1 Orpheum Or All week reek t eek beginning tonight matinees daily an nude vaude vaudeville ville Colonial All week ginning beginning b to tonight tonIght tonight Itt night matinees Thursday yand and Sat Saturday Saturday The Liars Bungalow All week beginning i tonight matinees Wednesday Wednes y and andI I Saturday The Telephone Girl I Grand GrandAll All week beginning to tonight tonight tonight night matinees m Wednesday and andI I Saturday An Orphans Prayer w j Lyric All week matinees daily dail illustrated songs and pictures I 1 t v 1 I Take a young oung man who dresses like a aI I fashion plate anti and acts like Uke a fictional college hero and you get the central character r It is alt all like nothing that ever happened anywhere oft off the stage Presumably bl the authors did not write to be realistic but td be funny and that they the are areA areA 01 A group of ranchmen ranch men have h ve lost a phonograph to the men of a neighbor neighboring ing place in a wager on a n foot race and their one object Is to get it back again A collegian covered red with med mod medals medals modals als comes along They back b ek him with everything they own against the phonograph phonograph graph What they dont know is that his running like his other ot et stunts is only wind hot air to catch the girls So our laughter comes omes from seeing a aman aman aman man In training for a race he get away with I If he was In his very vet best condition con 1 U n Walter Waiter Jones is his hie trainer who carries a prayer rug about with h him to kneel on when things get getto getto getto to going some The boy Laurence Wheat wears enough medals to weigh down the best sprinter of the day He starts training before the girls who ad admire admire admire mire his hig physique and when he really does make a dash they start after him But on the spot sp t the trainer says Oh the use hes a tt mile off already The third act starts in total darkness It is Just before dawn An alarm clock rings up the sleeping cowboys the pseudo athlete and the trainer are snoring snoring snoring ing in the bunk house The drowsy men curse curso the noisy bell each in his own vocabulary the Me Mexican e cican in ili Latin garlic oaths the others in western American diction With it JUI 11 they the themay may sleep a bit longer tle runner who is to carry their tapes hues must up The trainer drops him from his bunk and pummels him into life and lashes him into an early earl morning sprint on the desert When hen he comes cornea back he finds his Ms bath has been iced to better his Ills con condition condition condition and the cowboys ys insist on his eating raw rH ra meat m t He Is not net allowed to talk to girls on the day d y of the race that would have a 8 bad effect But through it all he keeps up hope because a classmate the real runner Is on the way All along he has been telegraph telegraphIng Ing to his racer to hurry hurt and when hedes he hed hed d des es arrive he ht has been hurt and is on c crutches rut cites That is a sufficient example of the fun in Going Some In the thelast thelast thelast last minute of the farce by b which a real interest l In the fake race and the fraud racer has been aroused he wins by b buying un opponent and the swin swindle swindle swindle dle is applauded merrily What next in metaphysical drama A play about a mans abnormal control of a girls voice is The Climax Sven gait and Trilby over again Oh no The girl girt in this case is a singer read ready for operatic fame She is brought to New York by an old music musk master to tobe tobe tobe be cultured A young physician comes Omes from her bel native village to rescue r ue her from a stage tage career e reer and take her back to quiet domesticity as his wife Read carefully for the plot piot is peculiar A Haw flaw in the girls throat can be re removed removed moved moOed by b an operation which a n famous surgeon says saS fail tall once in a thousand d times She submits to it A week weIk of utter silence for her ensues The surgeon goes to Europe and leaves her he r in charge of or 1 her er doctoring suitor The time for her to resume the use of her voice arrives It is a tense scene The lover has told her hec to be prepared pre pared for th the worst as she may loa be the fail failure failure ure uree after aft att 91 He cautions her hernot hernot not Rot to unduly hopeful k It is possible he says that at the surgery wont improve imp ve her voice it may ma destroy her operatic value She is wrought up to a nervous tension What If she cant sing sins any anymore anymore anymore more The bare possibility p is horrible But it is true She cant run a scale Her Ber plight is pitiful indeed 4 A L Leona ona Watson has as been chosen n for forthe forthe forthe the part of or the sadly sad I silenced singer She is a proficient vocalist and a fairly adept actress She sings well enough during durin the first half of the play pIa to sus sustain sustain tain tala the assertion of the author Bd Hd Hdward ward ani Locke that she really is fit for foran foran foran an operatic career and so when she would sing better than before but cant sing at all her anguish is acute It squeezed tears from my eyes and I am amnot amnot amnot not a ready read weeper at t the theatre theotre Poor fooled girl Yes fooled Her voice impaired at all aU By B hypnotic suggestion suggestion suggestion tion helped by a paralyzing spray of her vocal chords chord and by her frighten frightening ing In apprehension the fellow strikes the singer dumb and convinces her that her hers stage s e ambition is futile The culmination culmination culmination tion is that the suggested conscience goes back on him he makes a clean breast of his infamy and the i audience d is left to guess whether she sheI will forgive him a d f 1 I Good stuff stu eh what Sure Yet maybe it wont realize Its worth in dol del Jared lared popularity Short casts and no scenic changes are a recent device In theatrical business versus dramatic art You T ou dont have to cipher much mu h to find out that a piny with a half dozen char characters characters characters amusing us in one scenic set Is s t I of trifling cost The Climax has but four characters the singing girl her tutor and two lovers The three men are personated finely and the girl girt Is lovely Jove but the audience gets gots lonesome with the quartette in one unchangeable room and dangerously dangerous close to bored So dont be stingy you managers in making up your shows The wife of a general is so vain of of I her beauty that she lets leta an artist per persuade suade her to nose DOSe for a painting of a woman at her bath batho Her husband is a furious old bluffer but rather a duffer too and so she thinks that when he shall shaH see the picture she can persuade I him that It resembles her by chance or else a n stolen stole n photograph of her in a I revelatory ball gown has been utilized The work work is to be shown on n a n social oc occasion 0 I casion easlon at a seashore resort Much cu curiosity curiosity has been aroused by its title of the Beauty Bf Spot and rumors of oC its I I audacity It is brought into the garden I of ot a hotel The cloth Is removed The generals wife has not seen geen it complete i In expectant elation tinged with apprehension apprehension hension she site is the first to look at It ItA itA itA A naked woman sits alts In a graceful atti attitude attitude attitude tude Jfe but b t what is Js that dark di k spot on one leg just above the knee A birthmark I commonly called a molt mole if on a man but a beauty spot If on a woman At j i sight of that she dizzily lets let I out a moan of horror fans falls half faint fainting I ing into the arms of the artist t and begs him hi to hide the picture which she has expected to be glad nf JJ the matter he asks it true to the original originals T Too dreadfully lie true she alie gasps you have produced the mole mote on my knee My Iy husband will know by that spot that I posed to you In heavens name take it away a a and ani paint out that proof positive The exhibition cant be postponed but the artist and four friends under undertake undertake take to save ve her from the husbands I frenzy frenz They hastily move moe the big framed canvas aside with Its back to the thronging guests on the pretense of varnishing it and go to work with their brushes A little later it is turned turn turnaround around to general view No Xo longer Is hi hithe the beautiful woman naked is so wrapped In a clinging white cloth as to tomake I make yet yel enchanting figure But why It The Beauty Spot some one asks The aptness s of the th title tide is in plain sight some one else remarks I The Th lady is now seen n to be feeding with a lump of sugar a mouse that sits sin on her knee One kind of a mouse is a more another kind of a mole is isI called a t spot and ajA nd the artist I has d a pun UR P he husband laughs with his wife of over oYer r his liis the I joke in its entirety is a secret between themselves That iru incident idi nt di Ii a more mor u m of If ted story stor in ill Tin Tim Beauty Spot than plays plas made in America commonly contain but dont conclude from that the show belongs to the class lately complained of for gross indecencies indecencies cies The woman weman of the picture is shown alive in n Viola Gillette in a long Jon cloak which she abe opens operas to display her herself herself herself self In a skintight surf costume but the excuse for tor that I dont say sa it is a good one is to lead up to the exact copy COP of the faultlessly Viola in inthe Inthe inthe the painting brought out later latel There is no other undraped actress although some are in no danger of tripping ripping on too long skirts but nothing to scold about very ery much is said or done That is true although the generals daughter is taken up by her lover while 1 they are singing together and held in I I I I I I i I 4 I kr 4 8 rF Y s 3 I IX Is N X i E s 7 J x 44 Y L tar kr IY Mary Hall as Lady Jessica in The Liars at Colonial this week n V his arms anns across his breast during each verses chorus in a ballad b ad of passion But the actress is Marguerite Clark still though a plenty old enough to have bae grown bigger and so naive that no audience would find her guilty of or so much as coquetry even if she were to make a sworn confess confession lon of wanton wickedness The man who handiest her like that is George Mac MacFarlane MacFarlane MacFarlane Farlane hi big and brawny and he takes taken care cart to do dolt it with no suggestion of O fondling her So SQ neat is the exploit that t on the opening night women led ledin ledin ledin in the in insistence on lit many repetitions rep I T F Fur For r another thing that small Mar far Marguerite did dirt in iu that first performance though th wise wi i men of the th front rows would 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