| Show NEW WESTERN PLAY PRESENTED IN NEW YORK BY FRANKLIN FYLES New York Nov Nor 30 Richard Walton Tully wrote The Rose ROBe of the th Rancho and when it was presented by b a Los Angeles stock company plainly lY and cheaply all that made the audiences think it amounted to much was its lo Jo local local cal cat theme Its story was that when heo th the states took California from Mexico I families who had lived on oh on the Ike land la l for generations but failed to acquire legal l titles were ousted by invaders that hat the daughter of such sucha a family betrothed to a Spaniard but iut loving an American was caught and ground between her resentment r and her passion that the American al although although although though seemingly inimical to her fam lam ilys flys iI s rights really was devoted to pro protecting protecting them and that in the end all turned out well icell for the sweethearts and the land owners One year ear later The Rose of the Ran Rancho Rancho Rancho cho is produced here in New York as asa asa asa a play flay David and Richard Walton Valton Tully and that is no lie for in inthe Inthe Inthe the meantime Belasco has handled it over and over oer and I dont doubt that Is rf f there Is as much of him as there Tully in the text I am as sure that their combined writing made a play which If dependent on its mat matter matter matter ter and und deprived of its manner would be very ery effectual But as it i is with everything Bela can that can be done to render it sentimental ami Illusory it makes ma es an appeal which few will try to resist Belasco Is more than an adept at stage tricks he is a dramatic impressionist I r know his processes pr cs and md can be sure that in hi making play sensuous v with ith a lull of ot Spanish opposed by an American bustle of dis disturbance disturbance and he has been originative creative Moreover he felt while at work as though the place was actual the people in it were alive and he was among them This David Dald Belasco B Sar dou Irving Barnum is an odd composite a commercialist and a money wasting visionary as a manager mana r wide awake and scheming and as a II dramatist fast asleep and dreaming at and once the most practical of showmen the most idealistic of artists An increase of passenger traffic on the railways to o southern California may ma be bea a byproduct b product of The Rose Roe of the Rancho Ran Rancho Rancho the cho Tourists may ma after lter seeing mission garden in the play go 60 to seek eek it where the program says it is They I will find the th adobe adoba walls crumbled with I Ino no tropical flowers foWN brightening their dun and no su such h gaily clothed clothe people eople Belasco assembles it at t a within them thorn as 5 fete And it Is of or a century since any Mexican family spent a night nighton on the roof of a California ranch house besieged by Yankee invaders bent on getting possession while hope hop becomes in waiting from lintern light to daybreak for defenders to come Rancho Roses Boses Ro es vigil is th as as a Belasco made mafie ChoCho Sans Pans watch for her faithless husband In Madam Butterfly and has hits tome some of o Kite Kte Ben terror of ot suspense In the stock stockade stockade stockade ade tragedy of The rhe Girl I teft Be Behind BehInd Behind hind Me Ie The overhead hut but invisible enemies arc not Indians in quest of the girls self but merely me ly rapacious land lamI grabbers and her lover bring cavalry 3 valry to rescue her h r from ferocious savages ravages but only a document to save her land from frem yet et like the th other otner hero his night ride serves to tu refute a charge of perfidy and to make mke him mighty popular with the girl I and the audience Belasco has never Illustrated trat than story with dreamier loveliness ed Pd f d a this one of lethargy awaked by passion If U It were a n book you might probably skip or skim portions of the narrative to give more attention to the Ute pictures 3 hut but as it is a drama with people who move in the painted scene recite the tale you ou cant helo h lv admiring Be lascos Iscos newest theatrical show alto altogether altogether altogether gether Seldom does fact provide materia for fiction so effectually as I S in Josephine killing of her uncle LInde hi in ac actual actual actual life Ufe and the imitation of it by Eleanor Robson In A Tenement Trag Tra Tragedy edy dy I dont know if U Clotilda Clotilde Graves the English novelist got the idea of dramatizing it from reading ading r a newspaper newspaper per report or if Miss Robson desiring to venture as a tragedienne offered the job joh to Miss Graves Josephine was I reared by her Italian uncle and aunt In a part of New York as foreign as though it were in Rome The uncle was bestial the aunt pandered to him and tId the girl was too Ignorant to know that the uncles relations with her were At 17 she married a young Ital lint Italian ItalIan ian The uncle mad with Jealousy jealoUS at nt losing her told the truth to the hus hue husband husband band on the bridal day da so that he might send her back to her Infamy The hus bus husband husband band did as the uncle expected him him to o but the spurned e return to the monster she wandered miser miserably miserably r ably In the streets several flays Itys and then lying In wait for fol him shot a bul bullet bullet bullet let through the place where he should have hae had a n heart A court did not eon con condemn on her to death nor yet et her under the t e unwritten law hut but sen sentenced her to a reformatory for f r an in indefinite definite time timeA timeA A literal transcription of that homicide makes a grisly yet fasci fascinating play for Miss Robson to use in inthe Inthe inthe the same bill with a 0 merry comedy The mak tragedy Is located J don d The Th uncle and aunt remain Ital Italian ItalIan Italian ian but the girl is an adopted English waif and the bridegroom grOom la ts a Ii Londoner lot of the coster type Miss Graves has bas created a valuable dramatic U character too a blind and pious Dious mother to the bridegroom This woman reads the I Bible with her fingers In lieu of or eyes eye by feeling the raised letters and when she is minded to drive the pitiably de defiled defiled e filed bride from the home of virtue to which tha unsuspecting son has brought her she says sa Open the good book boole an the varse 01 OI DUces me finger on shall be le me goide golde With a suggestion of divine provi providence dence denee the verse erse thus chosen Is Christs admonition to the accusers of the Mag lIng Magdalene Magdalene dalene He that is without sin let Jet l t thim him cast the first firt fi t stone The audience audi nce Is IR delighted and wipes away the tears which Miss plaintive Voicing of the woebegone girls plea pies pIe has hils set trickling 01 OI know I was wicked nobody told t ld me mean an wen 01 Oi tried to stop me m uncle e beat me But Hut Olve carried d this a a dagger In her bodice since your son BOH got a t ave me meto meto meto to It is a throbbing shudder shudderIng shudderIng shuddering Ing climax when the bridegroom mad maddened maddened maddened by a sudden knowledge of the truth flings from him in disgust the theIrl out to kill girl Irl he has loved and goes the thc Italian if It he has to hang for it Then the monster comes come In to get the th wretched creature and she stabs sta him to death Its Ils me not Bill Bm ang aug fer this an fow 0 ow it oughter be lye beAll beAU All AU this Is 15 I in a single sIngh act the audi audience ence goes g home to imagine a 0 second In which Miss Robson even commit committed too ted to a reformatory but set wholly free tree to be loved and cherished d by b her husband L Who has not been in a social gathering erin when someone som ona brought along alone a ong songs yet yel had haa to be coaxed coax d to sing them and who while singing was as listened to by the polite few and disregarded by the chat chattering chattering many It is In a wonder that au authors authOrs thors of comedies have left len it to Had Hadder Hadden Hadden den der Chambers at this late day to reproduce re reproduce reproduce produce that frequent thing on au the stage Chambers does it in a play which although he is an Englishman has had its Us first performance p in Sn NewYork New NewYork Xe York The amateur vocalist delivers Oh Promise Me directly to the girl of f his heart beart and very verj deeply d emotion emotionalizes alles the hope that some day you and andI I shall take our love together to some distal sky but she gave save no heed to his yc y c 1 I ning and talked fondly with his rival By B the way I have haye never noyer seen In print rint the story stor that Clement Scott of the ardent Oh Promise Me ie being a devil of a fellow among women at ut first publish the verses but gave au an autographic autographic copies to a half dozen London ladies ladles It told how many of them th m mIt if It any made the promise to go lovingly skyward with him but some Iome of ot them did get together compare poems and anal destroy the th value of his amatory com corn composition composition position for private use by sending s it toa to toa toa a magazine for fot publication p Subsequently SubseQuently our Reginald de Koven made malia madea malian a n tune for It it and it became Instantly the popular ballad which it still ia is The main oddity of Chambers Sir Anthony is that there IB Is no Sir Anthony An Anthony thony ever visible in it It The principal character Is I an Ananias who an hum humble humble humble ble London clerk has exchanged cas ens a few fc words with Sir Anthony on shipboard and on getting home brags that he has marie made the intimate acquaintance acquaintance tance of the aristocrat arl That lie leads lm s sto to others and the liar as in hundreds of plays plas knots and tangles his affairs Inextricably In ex trl cabb The Ananias this time is s sWilliam William Norris who is thereby put into the process of being made a star atar come comedian comedian comedian dian Success would be surer if Cham Chain Chambers Chambers bers hers exceedingly English piece with its types t pes of London middle rs had been subjected to thorough American Americanization Americanization for this country Yet Haddon Chambers Is not foggy in his humor He jollies joUles the audience lUdl nce into finally accepting his Ananias as a plucky lucky fellow fello after he has been noth nothing nothing nothing ing better than a cad and a snob His Rbi rival riyal is a husky boxer who has hectored him very much and fora for a climax to the play pl y he braces un u his courage and dares the bigger chap to fight It out They The retire to the dooryard The Tho spats of their blows are heard The girl of the contention watches it through a u window and her excited exclamations give an account n count of at it ns as happens so often otten horse races in turf dramas The reappears with his face bruised to be followed by his beat beaten beaten en foe In a n much more battered condi condition condition condition tion and thus Sir Anthony Anthon at least makes a hit hil lii at its finish A coherent and intrinsically interesting Interest Interesting InterestIng ing plot would indeed be astonishing in ina ina ina a musical comedy and I am not so 60 sue anc SU that it would be liked by b the thes majority of theatrical fun fur seekers No such risk r sl of originality is incurred by b Sallie However it plays a new ani and winning trick by placing a grotesquely ugly woman in Iii the lead of its half hun bun hundred hundred bundred dred singing arid and dancing girls This starred actress hess Is the little cockney cocknel Katie Barry and she makes a fresh de je mand for laughter by appearing in Inane one scene with her skirts off while white in their stead she he wears a tight pair of black trousers with a red and green checked seat It worth while to raise the question of propriety but the most stickling HIckling purist deny that Ka Katie Katie Katie tie is a n funny funn sight when she faces the footlights in Ie those trousers and ten times funnier when turning her back baek to them she stoops to tie tic her shoe Why scold her got to make folks laugh you ou know knon And then too she causes the fifty girls tc look prettier r by contrast There are arc n three sorts of the girls One sort t are arC pupils at a boarding school and they have been se selected selected for youngness and smallness In New ew York c slang they would be called broilers Another ort sort are classable technically as ns show girls that is to toray ray fay they are ire tall tail straight handsome young oung women in long gowns and con condescendingly ladylike demeanor A third sort numbering only Ix are a apony apony apony pony ballet of gymnastic dancers In n their most moat remarkable of stunts their bands hands serve as feet their legs are flung like arms and the halt half dozen dm en young oung athletes look like a full gross of circus Ah sighed sl hed an man at my myrig right rig t you Y u should have seen n Marie Marlc Bonfanti She Bhe have profaned the art of grace like that And Fanny Ellsler muttered an old older er rr man at mv my left never would have so outraged the poetry p eh of motion Just ruEt then the ponies fell on their backs danced a moment with their feet In air and ani went off the stage The two venerable critics looked grim and clapped no hands but I could not help suspecting that they mind it when the applause 3 laule compelled those girls to come com out and do some more circus feats Marie Bonfanti never did that said one nor Fanny Ellsler said ald the other o h r pd then too said I Marie and Fanny A Japanese war drama was a n novelty of the week It was wala wa a affair at a matinee and its authoress was its actress assisted only by two persons who spoke no ro more than a n hundred words each e ch But the woman was Fuji FujiKo FujiKo Ko a young matron of high social de degree degree degree gree in Japanese smart society in both Tokio and New York Y rk The same Yashio Markino who had been aid to t trap Sap rap accuracy lr ir ii Madam Butterfly and The Darling of the Gods bos bossed ed edthe the production of ot The Love Loe of a Geisha which therefore was to be accepted ac nc accepted as an sort of thin thing and when FujiKo toddled Into imo view with her b dy bent forward from the th hips and opened o ened her fan with a Jerky flip I 1 had to give up my lId aid ld notion that the three little maids from school in inThe InThe InThe The Mikado were exaggerations FujiKo began with a lull lullaby by to her baby probably a song in common use ise useIn usein In her native land and so pret pretty pretty pretty ty that our providers of tunes for mu musical muI musical I comedies are likely to grab at it She had a contralto melody of a little littlevoice littlevoice voice olce and she cuddled her baby as all till the mothers of or the world arid do There seems to be one Invariable and beautiful on earth and it enabled this Japanese woman to Introduce her herself self seif right off to the hearts of New eV York j women 1 Next we got cot the plot of this drama dram FujiKo was personating a girl who j had h tl married a Japanese nobleman Just before the war with Russia In which ne he was reported killed d and then the she 1 ho hobeing being impoverished became a geisha to feed her chUd child One day a wounded wound d officer came to the teahouse where she sang and danced and he was as her bus hus husband band hand alive aUve but her degradation made him desire to die and he tore the band age from his wound so for a second time she was told that he lie was Vas dead Now it is a belief of ot the Japanese that the spirits of their killed soldiers come conic home at the twilight bugle call Fuji Full FujiKo Ko lo saw her ber husband enter ener her abode but not as a a ghost for he was still In Inthe inthe n the flesh llesh and ready to forgive his gei bel geisha belsha ei sha |
