Show r r Ii 1 i II V III IIII iii I 1 i 1 11 I p THIS WEEK AT THE THEATRES 4 A r o n Inn n n i a I Tonight Three Threet 2 J t Week remainder of f week The TheA Thet A t Master at Arms Arm V 0 Bengal The Mas Sias Mast v vV A t 0 Ir t r at trots V AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEST ON THE STAGE BY FRANKLIN FYLES S w York Tork June 11 A match at act Jr g 14 is i being played by Sir Sic Charles Chart es V and Joseph Jo eph Coyne Coyn Sir St r Buries who jIho ho had been the OM principal l median in The Mollusc In London LondonI arted I for New York Tork with no Intention act here her Joseph who had taken the thet theme th e t me character in New York has gone goneI I Ark ack d k to I London When Sir Charles wa was wasat a at lit Charles Frohman tele tale telegraphed graphed an Invitation to t o send ia a fortnight on an one of ot the Froh flan 31 ian taKes here in The Mollusc It Its I Ihas t has 1 is s l The affair was one ORe cf c ulua courtesy and neither of the har thought of Joseph Jo eph yet it is isi I e i international contest content between the th e liah Jj h comedian and the American th ones inning played last autumn n j J i the others this summer Which wins Oh Wyndham o orse of ot f rw r and easily puh although the r e toyne ne provoked more laughter than thane e famous actor altor does Have you for forten forten forten ten what hat bat I told you about The Th e that In it Hubert Henry Henri r lie w nos broached the tile original humor of ot o v ing a lazy indolent selfish English Englishman h man t a mollusc clinging inert an and t to tn one snot that she was jolted jolt 1 t 1 of her hH supine Inactivity by her he r her iVr who I ho came home from America J ul M with the hustling spirit of our ou ouia kp ki ia Con more than 36 Eli and andre a aI 1 I recently re was wa known only as an ani a acome i come lie i arl of ot the s of English h dandy but he came cam k to tr show how hr w versatility of humor in InI 1 n I lu It was forty years a at ago agot go t W Wyndham then hen about 99 to awl and with wit wite h r e expert nee nce as RS a delineator of Lon Ion beaux for went across the thein th than e an in i t grow skillful celebrated and a I athy th in itt London King Edward Edwall i h m instead of m I after att r Squire Bancroft and Henry Hen 8 Wyndham ll first t New York Tork audience M The Mollusc was wu stunningly m rao mo o It II have been possible pos 1 In n jr un prior r to t the vogue of automo r is s r Ri Rich h summer dwellers in the th e t tr try a as far as thirty miles away a and ande r 1 re e by using their motor cars can may ma Y r into town see a play have hav e r and get home bome to hear bear their thel r r f k ka strike or 3 The line of big bt g ing ng rare ar on nu first night nigh t hid hed w fn m Broadway around three eo lea IlS at 11 th lose dose of the performance i during rin tho th hour bour thereafter the roe rea rants wr Wre w re thronged as brilliantly y j n i an pra P ra night in midwinter So partisans Here y wre outshone and over met mt t y t they made themselves ea erd f L ir in th r Contention here and there t as M rh Th h Mollusc c was wag meant fo for y their thur t pet beat beet his opponent t I iUs ause 11 he w ass oS laughed at more I In n n of f t fa t the two are aft no way com coin I MW ble i r v t serious moment momento tic tic o one no particular however the lesser lesee r Median dia dla had ha an advantage The T e man mar 11 t Ar ln An ii r A t who his rouses rou es his sister n A n 1 fUn n an lethargy also mak makes es wn s pretty governess admire adman nth tl th r t dyne there Utere was no dis t ty in 11 a s to render the math 1 1 mating un n nh l I hart Ut ul WIth Wyndham the audi has hal h 1 to tn hrc hn t h re reconciled to a marriage v Ir re s to a score and a ab er Hever the b buoyancy and a I nl that enables U this s M old a actor tor Il 11 iks U rue mare laC as the beet st t of oC Davy DAV Y I rare d ITY him through trough the new ne w aIry ease ass t P The s governs I by a handsome hand ome young yearn g a who ho h g had named herself ber elf for tor th the s Liias u IM Writers of h i f r nfl h actors have been driven driver PIT e n f ts t end nd to fledge devise Hi e new rea a Id arguments why youngster i 1 sire re tn to t your marry many oldsters terns fa Is not no t smooth says soya the th e tn t hr her old I adorer but ever every 1 J tiro it ns character nh hn r achievement t I tr u but bui have nothing B to offe r J mu yuth uth and ROOd good looks Is that tha t h it too I me meS meI S he y t 1 in requital of your Our love t sk him or th the audience ce f that she sh hd hied far any a romantic c r hi him m a yet et their engagement B B t to tonly and go gar to live In Colorado r seems sea ms i rS all round The h r M only dl a di nr hEard hea rd liner lc A It t P n he rash a saran t hUSE household hold DOll no n t uw u r e a and tt t a attn tt on n t jq is all 1 in n I lanCed room Two other titer plays play s this season have had but a quartet of ot actors each with no change of ot scene I dont think such paucity is wise Four characters may ma carry the story absorbIngly absorb absorbingly absorbingly but to my mind they be oe subjected to the surmise that they are under their neighbors taboo or live as banned hermits The Mollusc has chil children chilI children dren but they are never In sight and I her companions on view are her hus husband husband husband band brother and governess She Is personated by Mary Moore for many years business partner I as well as 88 professional They Lave three theatres in London and act only when they care to Wyndham had an errand In coming to America aside from recreation to see The Blue Mouse performed here I He had bought the original German play for Great Britain and wishes to compare the English version v that he had made with Clyde expurgation expurgation tion Hon as used here The Blue Mouse you may recall is a young oung siren hired to impersonate a R wife and be mistreat mistreated ed by the wily husbands employer It ItIs ItIs Itis Is a clever and very popular farce but so frankly wicked as to be one of ot the several plays denounced last winter as unfit to be acted Mary Moore is to be bethe bethe bethe the human mouse in London Lond Wyndham has a R kuk k of giving gly s g Y t Paris Parts and Berlin plays without pain ing the English censor He began his prosperity over oer there with farces 8 like Pink Dominoes and Forbidden Fruit at the time when the Daly Dal and Palmer stock companies were using u them here Sam Sothern as the husband in The Mollusc c speaks to Wyndham about a hasty Journey to London but on the opening night at a nervous tension he made mode it a quick trip from England to New York There was nothing very funny in the blunder yet et the action was held up a full minute while the audience laughed This son of E A Sothern and brother of E H and Lyt ton christened Sam but took It from that brother broth r Sam whom his fathers Lord Dundrea used to ge letters from fromin In Our American Cousin Sam was watt in the touring company of t 3 Z H In this country until that present holder of ot the Sothern fame married marrit Virginia Harned Hamed and exploited her loy loyally 10 loyally ally since which lie he has hall stayed in Lon London London London don donI I I saw Sam Sem Sothern coming out of or tin the Academy of Music at the close clo of hi hh hie brothers Hamlet matinee on Wed Wednesday Wednesday Ve nesda Five 1 Ie theatres were emptying their people simultaneously into one East Bast Fourteenth street block De sword word never touched him cried crieda a shrill urchin t I der a liar was the loud reply rep de sword went nt Inter him clean up f t de dehilt dehilt dehilt hilt So thought Sam the street staat gamins gamin in New York are Shakespearean critics for of course Just from seeing segin In Neds Hamlet and ami are talking about abolt his slaying of or He Ile slowed sowed up behind the lads lade to listen Liar yer own self I had me gUms onto him an Im bettin he jest Hammed it Inside his collar and down under his shirt He stuck into Into his hla mout no en I 1 seen it go down his hili trot till it must o 0 dented the bottom of ot his hi Sam looked perplexed a moment Then his eyes ees fell on a big placard of Hubers dime museum directly across the street from the huge academy Al AI Althe vallI the worlds greatest sword swab swallower swallower flower lower tic Is It any wonder that prudery Is past pastin in stage dancing when the belles of or various sets seta in New Yorks good so society clety display their supple graces In public shows The money is for far chari charl charity ty to be sure tickets are sold to nice folks only and the theatre of ot the Wal Val loria is used The most recent recant example Pageant and Bacchanalia was a remarkable sideshow twice a day during a weeks fair for a trade school for girls Eight maids and young oung ma matrons matrons turns from families of wealth and the proudest social position were a Grecian ballet Their classical cla robes were sleeveless but so are most of the gowns these the e ladles wear at private functions f and the fire bodices bOOtees were higher than the conventional average but they may maywell maywell maywell well have been nervous when they thought of the lower borders of their raiment The artistic boss had disfavored dl fa favored hosiery as ae an He ask them to dance barefoot for sweet charity and correct arts sake they might properly wear sandals but they the please to take off their stockings and be bravely realistic twixt their sandals and the hems of their skirts That is to say shin shit high in repose e and knee high in action This charity charlt affair had no press agent yet the rumor grew to be a post positive positive tive assertion that one of the eight would be obediently Grecian while the others do more than match In textile fertile t the tint of their arms cuticle so exactly that no spectator could pick out the genuine among the counter counterfeits felts feits So there was much guessing gue but no betting for a decision pos possible sible although before the week end enda a bravely barelegged heroine c he the show was chosen by a prevailing ia a Tits This fair of ot amateurs amateur acquitted themselves them with a R professional l degree of facUlty facility Having HaIng no words to speak and only simple move movements movements movements ments to make their training tr in draw drawing drawIng ing ins room ease ballroom dancing field sports and general poles poise of demeanor proved peeved quite as sufficient for far their theft du duties dutle duties ties tle as ballet girls That points an easy MS way nay from society to the stage im impoverished daughters of the smart set R at With two to be placed hopefully within the next fortnight fort fortnight fortnight night for the summer there will wilt be ten ton scattered through a mile and a s half halt of o f Broadway All are affairs of much ex expense expense pense panne in mounting costuming and seta sala salaries ties ries Although the pay pa of most em em is le cut at this his season of the year ou the big ballet choruses count up in to numbers tend and nd singing comedians are costly at all aU times If It the tenth show equals equate the nine nl in attractiveness we w e shall have lave probably too much of a good thing to be profitable That is why the promoters are not letting well enough atone alone but are striving to make mak makit e it bettor better bet r Still that is no new thing There was wn wasa a a managers maxim In the halcyon day days s as of Weber fi Fields Felds burlesques that the t te when yeu you pull off a success the time e for working on it has but arrived Evi Evidently E deftly dently the same mme argument prevailed 1 with The Candy Cand Shop It sailed settee oil off o ff with a gust of ot prosperity but no one Oft on e ant sat back and folded his hands inertly What t is practically a new version has haH y firer put into running order without Uj e public being bt told Usually the second d edition of one of or these those frothy frivolities es is heralded but dont you OU think it Jt gl a 9 the idea that tint the first has failed to at r Asa Asar I r a I 1 i id I d a s fi w c z 1 I I I I Y i 9 T TP P k 1 c 1 i aK Na E Ralph Stuart In The Master at Arms at the Colonial all week tract The Candy Shop folk saw no serve sense in giving such an Impression Even a n young star chap like John Jahn Bar Barrymore Barrymore is slipped Blipped In without even a faint taint blare of trumpets Author Ho Hobart Hobart bart cut cul up and sewed over a role al already already ready in the play to fit John The young man about whom the plot revolves was formerly a tenor and quite as serious about his love affairs as all well regulated tenors should be beAs beAs beAs As thoroughly he is us as much in love with the Maude Fulton girl as everi ever but is sprightly gay and Jocose A tenor t t nor song left in by some oversight I guess is 18 almost as painful as ItS another tort ort of af hang over oer But Hut for tor the rest ret Barrymore adds brightly to the piece He lIe has hat a R new ditty of the Dinah type ty the kind of thing Pote Dalley Daley used to te do and und he kids through th ough with a humor and in conse consequence quence quem that is at the same time thoroughly thor thoroughly thoroughly If he be has the good looks that the girls fondly se see they dont seem m to worry him as he maKes himself as grotesque gro grotesque tesque as ao he lie well can That is 11 1 in the Ute Coney scenes however Earlier artier In the play when driven out by als wealthy father for proposing mar marriage marriage marriage to a shop hop girl he Is ie the usual comely contel Jack but reduced redu ed te to work as a 11 Darker barker in front of a sideshow he is the picture of a sickly forlorn human derelict dere derelict derelict Plays PIaS are not taken into the open air for the summer tr in New York any more The risk of bad weather is too great to warrant a good show without a roof to shelter it from showers and if the expense is cut down to skip wet or windy evenings evening then th n the quality is too poor to satisfy the people So the un uncovered uncovered covered roof root garden has lias passed away and instead ln tead we have elevated theatres with ceilings ceiling but with sides shIes remove removable removable able Also there is a theatre over on the populous east side that opens it ItS sides wide ide and clear to gardens spa spacious spacious cious dolts enough to hold the entire audience between acts of the play I imagine it tt itis is 18 like the boulevard vaudeville cafes cafets of Paris And by the way I am going to Paris in July to write about the summer amusements of that gay city for you and to visit Berlin and London for tor the same purpose e eThe The play In this summer theatre Is la from The play pla players ers are a touring burlesque company compan with several recruits for Its improvement Improve Improvement ment The scheme is to imitate the friskier of the Broadway zas with no more crudity than cheap cheapness cheapness cheapness ness necessitates For instance the Joy Joyriding jO joyriding riding girls ought to arrive In speedy motor cars thus making a spectacle of gaiety at the first sight instead or of toot ling the horns and the ma machinery machinery machinery chinery of imaginary mobiles off the stage stase with feminine laughter and ecstatic exclamations and then running with the familiar of ot a ballet chorus on foot Their personal con conductor conductor conductor ductor Is a young oung woman with such an occult power to fascinate men then that the party needs no other chaperone The plot is as 88 wicked as any to be found among the burlesques and aril so original that as the program names name no author I can but guess that it comes from abroad The of f an East Bast Indian prince gets I the fad tad of physical culture for fo his 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