Show r i 1 O SIN N EW I LEs I t t to r r rL r L By 6 Fran Frankli li F Fyles les 3 w I IA A t v I J Nato Naw Y York rk Sept O ON EYE EVER R ool Ol your audience That is isan isan N an an lira bid of th the sf stage se But B d Sh v are a to make their own r tile le and they u use e their this weep week It has been known tin land hat Bt elasco meant to turn DaWd DaW warne d Into a serious actor yet mate Dy of 0 the t the e introduction or of The Mug c Master expected to laugh And thc they did l laugh a when th they sh but not enough to the sug su egg ess Of the Venture Y Yda u hate hav seeh eh Wa Sa ds s Polish Jew I sup pose for the torso abject yet et aE assert rt Ive foolish shrewd has grinned d and shambled through bur burI I leque farce aJ comedy the e dozen I soars German ha the same dental m slow tongue and I haIling feet an w take his pathos nt h hE give it to us cleverly APPt Apps r ces are against himm for his fa fac in fe as ugly gI bare as It was Leith ICh t his figure Isas clothes athes that fit him himas as i was n that and In ever respect he s less interesting to 10 look k At as a r or of music than he hew w s Asa a peddler c f trInkets It I e nUL made e nv success hf he S Td er c th the eui it Is be because cause Sir r has bas worked ve very hard With me Portia lp some or of BoI c os with W Wt told was to convince him that he probably o m fake m more r preb fame am in modern a dialect role than l e for lie has I had haa hIs bIs Heart sot An n Belasco did n t write writ Te T c Music Mu lc Molder ta ter nt er err ly hie dictated ho how Charles h 1 In sutra d dO It and Klein sf seams mA to I 1 ve been and nd Grip pier by thE fetters tor Is Ia a poor E of bf his dra dramatically considered ul it con ns II a father In a l n lost sim simpie Im pl pie appealing old v without a h of f sub subtlety tl e and thus calculated to the risk rIk or of taking Warfield out or of fun ft in and putting him into lito pathos The patent pee ent finds the child in one of pupils for forbears forbears bears to reveal l lt lest he ma mamake may make her In r miserable and finall finally finds out that h her r lIe lies In tIer her dis discovery covel covery or of him The pIa play has bas no other merit than to serf ser the purpose of grading mote sUch good corn com comedians ot of hIs type Pf tT 1 T E Dl D son and the late Felts Felix quite lIp vp to the level of John Hare and within haL ing distance of tIt d ding Joseph Jefferson n Show Shaw f fooled led New ew York Tork plO neo pIE like a practical jok r on the first night of How Holt He Lied to liar Her H Hus band Dramatists In England nearly always kelp keep secret the or of plays s Pinero and carrying ar yi g reticence to an extreme but In accounts are usually published pub beforehand and so ro curios curiosity it was as piqued b by the withholding of an any In Information information formation about Shags as he dest Bates his new piece Aside from thE tItle ti a we knew nothing but that he had written It in London last sum mpr for Arnold baly aly whose use Ufe of Candida bore had carried the playwright nl Into a suc success ss he has haR not reached In ls own country A An n audience fun fully prepared to 10 be was surprised d db b by n a a I wonder if von vou kno know that In Candida Shaw madE a aler clergyman ler amt amI his wife listen indulgently gently to te JUt an erratic bo boy poet who Ie de mended that the woman oman chomi b bt be between t tween w cn her ber husband and and nd that the SCene seene or of the choice was naR a 3 dl prUn b fantastic incident In epi drama Literary owl s blinked at It with wIse evos os hoot hooted ed 01 their opinion that here was as present presente e ed a problem ot of some profound s sort rt or oro o r o other r Arnold Dal aly enters at the le be beginning ginning of How He Lied to Her Hus Husband Husband band he is not a bit like Uke the pale fa faced longhaired poe ot t that he wan wap In the arll r pl lIe Is s smarmy dressed carries Carriee s a bouquet or of orchids and his pink and an d white fits his description of a boy boj ot of is The woman oman h he is to take t ta to toa o a theatre t is in distress because b so amorOus amor lus versee of his have been b en ex explaIned explained to h her t husband The t would go o with her hand In hand to t ther o to her husband d and there have her choose b 1 W n the two lovers She s that her s tOU Is a practical business businessman s man al a good fighter AU this and ter ery too when the youth sizes siz up hJ pugilistic against 1 abilities he against again t a refer reCer reference ene ence Or o matter to her husband an nd d pt pre wree e to tb start for COl the he theatre You Yeu got ot Et tor sh e asks No nov be Al lIes not one left lh t the th w tie billy oth other play that could conk k to you and AM UI all was ryas Shaw was bur 1 Sits Daly was p Day Dab e t e ln Qt the prose prOBe poem was ng under the searchlight o of pr lilI hi curious joke vt as pl a for or an hour ludle J Is n a prolific father o or f plays jut but 1 family is not beca we ae the d death rate rat e 2 amen nl n lira n Is high Three Thre e died last 1 a on ion in early infancy and an three grew t sturdily This season s first botn cant survive ulIe Its Ibs g long lon wrote The Coronet Coronel of the th e Ducle Duche eg t fOr that same am Clara Blood Bloodgood good whom hom his bib Girl with Green Eyes Ees hail bad brought from him o Int o star bl Both tell torl s of o f matrimony Starting Instead o of ending g at tt In New ew York wealthy Wealth so soc o odet c det Now Nett M Bloodgood Blood in h real lif P Hof of trade has been an Y wl wife ti twice e b felicitous In thc th tl In stage lage fiction sli i r bd that t tia t Mate 8 te of double blesse hel venturo v Ing re jealousy delays d d iu Ber second e I Isn In n miJI sn J t brings brim coroneted mis mise mi s e cry a d duke before sh e an I outlook of release In divorce e and t nt a better etter man It Itus seems us as sIte she might now DOW i rt t down Iown Mth and a ath ar they th y are lu actual and imaginary mat mar Hal Ital joys JOS slid sorrows plan a right good goo d J tr Oil oa the subject jeet Tilt a and n 1 action of The Core Coro het et Or Of U the era re mue the t e j as R tk or of Bronson ronson s yea r i old U 1 erS Daughter In sac h plaY pi an Amert n heiress withholds her he r hand hald from a worthy American suitor sui r and t to a foreign nobleman I in n 1 Pack abe he ds that t tJ tle infidelity of h hs her er i s nus husband and v sates value or of I acid d anin each She ee J Ja a tes froth ro him and mates anew tilt nh j her natle lover But BOt there is t shah Hal sl that Howards girl a In f n teU vv ith het hel French marquis bIni m self FeJt hUe Fitch girl was infatuated infatuate d with die English duk dukes g coronet anI y I lap 1 very ver well eU that tha t he was in i ilove n love tr lt tj nothing but her money She SI to swapped what 1 1 ie had for fOl what he hall had ith her er eG wIde open So this bEi become ill with the disfavor ot of ti th tie and therefore OIn cnn win In no n o sympathy thY when hen she sh suffers She gel s no th n she should have neon t its comb to ilCI her and she right w l d cl e serves sel tes it What j is the plait plain and ana le r uh T e Girl With at eke J Eg os and The R rte r ware re heg and The Coronet ot of hg t a failure o on Ons original and remarkable le scents scene Is expected ill In e f Pitch FItch Pla lla PlaIn y yla In this r case te tt it is aei re t Thc T la u n er r n l iJ JP 1 u W A tv is C Chall hall r ij arcil u f fhe cram e H He m es no but argues th at t J the rIght ot ls on d t I English dukes commonly do such and their no o fuss about it She sh asserts her higher right as a be re respected respected They Ther are arrayed in their ducal du ducai cal cai robes and coi coronets vain that Fitch has dressed them thus plc pic pictorially and he has written n the quarrel In vigorous language It ats Is q quite te futile in Mrs Irs Bloodgood BI to b beg g the man mail to strike her so that She mI may have bae ground for fora a and nd to throw herself on the floor iri hi an emotional emo emotional paroxysm to await the solicited blow S She e Most our s sympathy hy at the outset and cant win it hack e don care much whether she comes omes out oh o top in the encounter or underneath We Weare Were are a re ratler disappointed when the fello fel lo 0 unclenches his fist But crew een 11 if he d dill 1 her that stroke sate sae the tte pla play The heroine has gone wrong In i tray a that wont let her come corne rf Here Is a lesson for of pla play There are good jokes In George Ades Ade s The College to torun torun run a dally column in a r for fora or ora a a month or to keep a do dozen en monologue rosters festers going i to a whole sea season season son but neither theIr quantity nor quality quant would make s enter entertainment entertainment it if thy they were not by tI e right persons In the right um stances The widow Is the fascinating y oung er of many en but not of an any matrimony She consents to serve the football team by cajoling a mighty halfback to remain re remain main and wIn a match for them Mier Arter the victory victor he learns bf r t the e trick she has pta played ed and is 15 but slie convinces him that from starting as a flirt fUrt she has finished as a sweetheart T hat Is an all or of a story But It is an all alive aUe I athletic students stu students dents an and pretty girls at in opening of n a term a faculty 1 Q a foot bah game and a cel celebration su gunner er the sightly you ig folks there Isn a bunch of eccentrics A railway ralla millIonaire Is so glad of having h es escaped escaped a professional career b by expulsion expulsion sion long ago that gifts to the college A brawny tough Is brought from a foundry to take a specter special course In art so as to be employed em employed as A gawky yap ap develops into a knowing knotting sport spott before his freshman year car is two months old oldA A ei ed tutor tu tor lor passes asses from denunciation of rude to rapturous admiration A Apriz Arize p figl fighter ter traIns the team and in incidentally mates himself with thE lu ludicrous ludicrous daughter o or a college boardinghouse boarding house per A pro c Blon 1 chaper chaperone one lath her girls mL mix In with the thc students stu students dents and i is popular with villi therm on her 1101 own o wn account An athletic maiden JS is the t he wildest rooter at the motor game event with what comes be fore forc it and follows otter after are shown with w ith Incessant b i Burnaby Barnaby Do nt the name 1 m look fa familiar to you 01 H l G Ba n y Dont you assocIate trim him with your memories or o the stage Henri Henn Clay Barnabee B Now you recall l him hr dont you in con connection with a company l wn as the e Bostonians and n comIc opera cane called Robin Hobin Hood Anyway ti a young t o of to 0 announcing u s st stClay ew ry Clay Barna ee has just made a debut In vaudeville audeville I wont to see hits him an angot and d got there too earlY by hour and a 1 h alf lost cost or at the timed their arriVal store more happily But I hays have a weakness for variety shows once in n a while arid acid was on hand band when this one on e began instead of finding out grit t heh Bar es turn would come and staying away a w tilt then than The Tle place Was a a spit coti cerii ert hall made put of L r skating ing rink the r girders of Wert tl barely feet above bov the level leve 1 e nse of floor Two of three hun bun hundred dred were scattered Y In this makeshift of a theatre tort en n the curtain Was ras raised ou be bored by a t or of what Vh t W was S done lonen in the half lf of th e evening tore a came caI c on 01 Un e stage Or Jr will j ou be interested as I Iw r w was to ot S J given En dway up there ther where Broadway y runs through the Circle In the t or of a n negro nebro anti white trash rash quarter quarte r called the Tougher Tenderloin 1 FIrst Firs t orn on th the bill were a suit Of contortion long sUm slim fellow whose self tortures wrung hiss his face tace into hito grimac or p ln and a short thick hick young wo 0 roan man whose hose visage was 51 sA ugly byna by ita tore ture that the throes th yes or of h her r distortions distortion s uh nt make it rs They were here SQ cl clety t g gymnast I 1 think the were gla glad I unanimously when they were here ed e eby d b by two farcical that is i s tt to sa say until the woman of thIs couple a a coarse in the guise ulso ota of a s servant nant d her hump humor r in iet a habit of sniffling wiping her nose nos noson e on her hand and spitting in the face of o oher f her mate They were comedy artists We e red next from a still more mor e repulsive all of us for tor many man y laughed and a I ta The bulky bulk y woman of f this combination n as 11 however and audit was ryas the man ma n wh was nauseous Ills als waxen nOM n pee was r red d and bulbOUs as with Uti some df dis dise s e ease e and his cloth clothes S d the filthy r rugs gs r a scratch headed so tramp The cUi cl Li max ax Of this th s vi as to fO fill his mouth moot With 9 full CuU tumbler from a whisky whisk bot bottle tie tle and being choked by the d eject It fun full into the face of the woman woma n The They were humorous acrobats T The h e prettiness or of the girl who carne came fourth fourt fourtin h In the bail blU was beauty bt resplendent all aCt aCte alle e the ugliness her 11 r tune tun tuneful e fur ful Singing ot of southern folk songs was tt as entrancing arter y Bj y that time the con convert ert hall was sea near r ly filled by people who had come from fro m beyond tits the slum to see s ee In vaudeville I Goo old Butta Barna ee Is t In h edia e bad company compan With hIm in The Ope Op e rn ra KIng are Ruth Rth Peebles and ana Camp Cam p 11 bell eIl Donald soubrette and U from the wreckage of the Bostonian S I with voices cultured beyond what is iscom com h the t TS of 00 th the varlet variety shot hows x Barn Bame e bee bce out of opera ODem costume and andIn an d h In eer da clothes and snowwhite o hair looks like n a venerable en rable clergy ma n As he cOI comes les forward yoU el elfeel y feel that It is a Sunday night that the he t that hat has been rented for religious Ious re r e vial vival s and that the dignified ed g ab i n O abOut 10 mate make an exhortation So Barnabee s appearance calculated to persuade persua de the audience that he Is as the farcical a declares kris him to be a vt 1 at i in n exchange e and a guy gay old d girls girts The fort forty minutes of et is filed with frith singing dancIng jOking r re e Citing and 11 the flit i ore at tine and limber r s lone Hone ly b y young oung companions for or he Is rather stiff d slow though sun still the he t princIpal In the piece He sIngs sale selections c from Robin Hood with unction n je jests ts about the defunct Bostonians ns with wit h seeming gusto da S weep the U o oun rs with some of I h his Is agility an and claiming the he t I ot of age ge to be gives siv es what he says sag was his favorite dic tr half a century ago The iron the t U classic o obvious hu h u floe In jeh a rid in llant nt of Rot Ro I had a mechanical limb that tin at walked him to I death he I e stop tit it There Is a pathetic moment at the ti to end of the sketch A quartette con com composed posed pas ed a b 1 u i ott digs Ilk e a 91 tt W r l p 1 P r ri ahi m Ri d df lh itt f i and vv 1 It na the r f is 1 laid lU for tor fin n oaf ore th the lei Ji a act tor or sits dozing o I f in an armchaIr Young oun fellow lies at his feet the girl stands caressingly ci rss b aUld e hits hi voice does not joIn With frith the others Ln in the refrain Hp H may be e really as ass v as s seemingly IY dreaming m Ingo of the i e time when he was as young oung The audience e enjoys Barnab s perform i ante very much Does he I I wish s so o T the jolly old soul FRA FRANKLIN KLIN 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