Show I D C CI L d I CV i Q i BY FRANKLYN FILES New ew York YOlk May lay Three good goodmoney moneys money worth of actors In new dramas dramas are tie on sale ale thus this week Summer Summet r theat theet theatrical h bargain so ao to say 17 James Jamas K Hackett and Edward M Holland tans Mine ns both of celebrated dramatic artists to together together together gether In The Bishops Bishop Candlesticks make newly out of Victor Hugos Les l Half a dollar for tor a best beat afternoon seat at Cecil 11 Spooner she of an emotional sister Edna May a humor nun nil mother and herself herselt the closed o ed wits wife of Charles Charle E Blaney Blane in to toMy My fy Partners s Girl the latest writing of Charles T Dasey Daley author of In Old Kentucky r Half Hatt a dollar for that too ton at a matins matinee Jack Bin Binns UK debut as a ah ah ahrn h rn ro both real and mimic in Saved hy by I fireless Dont D nt tell me youve youe for forg g Jack He was wall the th boy who nho when wen ih th the steamship Republic was sinking turk tuCk to his bin duty although the col linton had torn tom out one side aide of the room and left the remnant t in darkness and sent out ou nit electric of C Q QT D 0 T Only Onh half halt a dollar P for that too and andin in the t evening A dollar fifty for the three Ih because ht none tone Is ls In a Broadway theatre where one show how costs two dol dot dollars dollar lars lara Less Lev than an n hour long tong though is i Saved by Wireless It is in the first of the th summer J new at t Coney Iel Island I I and and very vety ety Rh salt water M lot in from the ocean a moon and stars shining from natures own on sky all alt the theme me of wireless telegraphy t in to r and the sure enough Jack RillS Films dol over again what lIht he did in inthe inthe the almost but not quite disaster of the Republic As A much of the steamship ax as 8 the section tIon of ot sea will hold steams Into view Its passengers sing and dance Several St veral are sweethearts with love off a Irs to tell about A tine fine illusion Illusion sion inn of a dense fog tog settles down on the water The deep bass base signal horn of an approaching vessel Is heard The answers The Tbt tremendous i i rash trash of a collision comes A wild panic pank ensues among the passengers The of ot officers control the people however and the lowering of lifeboats the plunging of f swimmers lath the sea ea and the transfer r of all ajl in safety to the uninsured lured ship that has made the other a wr ok rk if is I accomplished And Jack Binns oh where is he Why down in the telegraphers room nf f the thO vessel whence all but him have fled ft barring the captain and his mate The 1111 ship careens ca s and Ills flits But Jack stays on the spot and sticks to his Job and go Ida his C Q T n A calls alls Of Ot course fact tact hampers the fiction for the Republics passengers were saved and by the vessel e lel that sunk her hours before the wireless messages fought brought ht responding ships but Jacks bravery was a reality ty and I suppose sup h hI he ought not to be he bia bJ ned for tor selling his hl heroic deed ded in make believe Anyway it is Ia an impressive impre eive spectacle oney island bland tont t open 0 wide Its many mane little thin things tor for diversion are an but new big hie odd ones onea are an j that wireless play However two of the t e areas area of amuse amUge m Jn mn n down there Dreamland and Luna Pa n began blan with a showy and very ver verr a y r boom You pay vY a dime to get into so e each tah h and that qualifies you to pay pa ther f dimes diml also nickels quarters quarter and hall aives for all manner of o catch oln en fn 11 cements As heretofore h devices that Mt i t and an bump you yoi on toboggans take Ur ur brath and give AIe you vertigo shoot n he It the chutes and looping the loops hat send you ou stumbling through sub passages and Jump devils out V i y a from the Ingenuity of 1 th h sh wm i Is III exhausted in th the mak I I ng ig and ana selling filling of discomforts and tor tort I mg pleasantries In week weak t a or so O I go gc to tn hell ne for r you in dreadful im I 7 if what t they put pat inside The rak 1 ra k n o Toom i I the oom keeps the promise of hug ru p demons at t the th portals The tame tion first I hater hOlen for tor or this thU nta 1 or fit If f the worlds nd end end and ensuing r J was t The Wrath ot of GOO God r n free fr show how Is III kept going at Luna en U k 1111 h and 1 Dr D amland and a good gooda c 1 ugh a i cirrus U a at the th center of f the plaza Oer 1 a lake At the v 2 Cof f t k on the th op opening da dat day dayaO daya Py was aO 3 b a am 1 hp more mor and suddenly d 1 OJ un mUll f musicians cianI from the t parks bands Dd t to the big little sideshow hornblow an oh began a an to make noises A pin t this t top who ho had shInned d his way wa to tow tod tout toof of the tallest e td d t POle of s Dream v 1 er beat a huge brass gong and two to Japanese wire r w above ut Luna Park whacked Dark the then with al aI theIr might Each i ii ir started r c a procession and was wa for the hI summer lne P hours I later a t pr a as the minute of j s P i the carried time into a Sunday Sunda t vei lPt as Se a it peed quite as post i i ner l 1 OUT Our ur police Polle Pollen com oom I had a keen hn n I t told by bv o our PT Pr force the mayor sh h e laws law a I s 9 om and aI ail hl oi Two l hundred oil tl compelled lIed every place of diversion THIS WEEK WEEK AT THE THEATRES I I Salt Friday 0 v b Saturday and Saturday matinee y Ethel Barrymore in Lady Frede Frederick Frederick J Cb rick rickI I 1 Orpheum All week beginning t tonight matine 8 s daily vaudeville F 0 Colonial All week weak beginning 4 tonight maMne m Thursday T uray and aad aadS 8 d S Saturday At the Rainbows I Ib b 9 End C J v to turnoff turn off its lights and look lock lo 1 its doors doore I Such a thing had never happened h on I Coney Island b before ore Saturday nights I down there have lasted tilt till daylight Sunday Sunda morning One gambler gave gate ga an illustration of ot the general consternation A section of ot thoroughfare and byways so 80 it seems is private prIvat property Why should J the police patrol It The commissioner withdrew his uniformed men The gambler immediately placed a ulette layout in the vestibule of ot a shut saloon sa saloon 1 loon rolled the ball and arid was selling the j I I first stack of pt chips when three detectives detec I lives tives in plain Dl ln clothe seized Iel his para pars paraphernalia and took it to t the station for destruction Verily the show business busine a aIs is risky a e Does a prominent actor tarnish his reputation by appearing a in l vaudeville or does he not Such distinguished careers as the late J H II d the 1 late Fanny Flinn and Tind the alive i iRose Rose have not been above a i dip into the theatres of variety Yet i Helen rejected reject r magnificent I offers with the Ute injured majesty of ot a i queen q although she ahe consented to a huge hup charity c While hUe yet in il health I I and a nd ather death last month left IFft a small fortune to her titled husband hU Such uch S actors now W on the top tap wave as all Henry Miller and Arnold Daly Dah went Int into vaudeville when fluctuating for tr I I I I J j I I I r i i j I r I cy r rt t f eta etan I t n d fi fiM M a 1 ii v s f e y w 1 k Violetta the famous French rench F star at the Orpheum announced his intention to appear in n vaudeville as David Garrick in a one art version y of nf the tho Robertson with which his fume fame ume is chiefly asso associated ns o dated All this Is I made pertinent by b the de I I i s elf I i f fr t I r t 7 s tI r ti a i i 4 v I a I I I d i a u y at ata I a n I I II i iI iI iI ii iI I r 5 b o Isar I I r r xa xao I o L Lc S i S c i tt I s 2 wr a aa I I i I I i iI iEthel ij iI I I i j i s a ox a n I I iI I I I I i x A AEthel I Ethel Barrymore In the new comedy Lady Frederick by W Somerset Maugham I tune demanded but Ellen Terry then f hue hilt ur i tf f J Jame nir mf nirA K 1 Hackett in vaudeville worth at a moderate estimate r I A 1 few fete day ria y ago Ig the th matinee idol filed fileda 2500 a week in vaudeville acquiesced a to petition p in bankruptcy among the theto theto j II to a charity c arll performance with a shilling items of which was as due to Mary subscription s fund attached On the theother I Mannering his hi recently divorced wife other hand Sir Charles Wyndham t I Hackett comps comes of o n an all old Nov New ew York I probably the richest actor now living family many of whom were prominent Jin in the Judiciary while his bis father tather James Jame JamesH s H Hackett lives in histrionic history y as a the mst most famous Falstaff of the last His son was very pry young when n the father died dl and though he left to t o him considerable property it was wasti so tied ti ed d up ui until he should come of ot age ago that tha t his mother kept lodges In property y ty which if sold would kayo have provided comfortably for or herself and little hoy boy Young Hackett an amateur ur actor ator from fro m boyhood rose ro e rapidly rapi when he turned I to the th stage as all a profession and early oar y stumbled on nn n the leading kading role in The Th e Prisoner of which assisted him hi hito to quick qu ick celebrity Now ow hit his hl career aSas as come corne to a turning point p int Hackett has fias been conspicuously conspicuous y successful and he be b Is one n of ot the three eP actors artor whoso whose name designates New NewYork NEwYork Ne ePa a York irk theatres theatre Yet he hI says he be is bank bankrupt bankrupt rupt rapt Instead of taking a benefit sugar sugarcoated noted coated with the sweet name of testimonial vial nial i he hI buckles down to the most pay ng form of stage work And as all his hi hief hiet assistant he takes E M Holland with ith him one of the actors whose at attempt attempt tempt to star was a costly comly Hackett Hacket failure The Th play pay in which they ther make th the i vaudeville debut is lit quite quits new at lea in is this country It has been i t L England where it was written by prominent London actor Norman M Kinnell intimately associated wit Lena Ashwell Ash well in inn her brave and sir sut adventures with new nev drama dramatists The Bishops Candlesticks Candle ticks Is I i iI r fact I a dramatization of Les be bt But it takes take u up UI only an It Iii 1 the Ihl massive mas e Hugo novel noel and is con com comp p pt te to in itself It does dols not matter tha the tn convict whom It concerns con j is I Jc Jt J Valjean The program gives him i name an aa and he h early arl says that ten rn I in prison hip bereft him of his hi W h he hesly sly only lly a number It is a very ery cold night Th kindly bishop resident near Pu Par P has with all of his hi possess tI in charity except a pair of ot candlesticks bequeathed to him by hi another r as she h lay dying An on escaped p distraught frantic c vict y ct breaks into his spare cottage fran frn frantically frd n threatening his hili life unless h 1 o oIn give In him food fond immediately The bi bish h no such intimidation His ni gnot nes awes the th man He asks the con convict co fol vict tet to stay tay for tor the night offers hin hina in a warm bed and leaves leavell him in it 1 N Hi Hithe the temptation of the candlestick tk is too strong The convict takes and sneaks out ut Immediately he is ar arrested arrested arrested rested but when the gendarme brings back bark the stolen goods the bishop sa says he h gave them th m to tn the emaciated home homeless homeless less forlorn man When they t ey are arc alone he actually does give the candlesticks to lo him to sell to start life afresh with But while he is II praying the convict re replaces replace replaces places place them and before going on his way to Paris and a new life kneels for tor fora tora a moment mo ent in silent unseen prayer with the bishop bisho I I j r X I I i i p s i tt i sr sri I R i i ic S I 2 I kC i ir ie t r s sf e f o ox sk S r x E t n nE nw nt nt w t t 3 t tj t r j t tJi Ji R Ralph Stuart II At the n Laid Ld at t nit inc nc Colonial tie e u i l nil ims I I l My lily Partners Girt Girl is Charles harles T Daz ys straining struggle to regain some of ot American Am melodramas lost ground I have written now and then of f the slump in plays dubbed sensa sensational sensational Jn In which knives Jab and bullets fly I have told you how thirteen NewYork New NewYork NewYork York theatres formerly devoted to gun pop plays pla s with their theft scenes stretched from Bowery dives across the wild west f t mines ranches and wigwams to the Chinatown town of ot San Francisco have been given over oer to stock companies vaude vaudeville ville llIe and motion pictures Very seldom do I mention managers or pay any heed hed to their business but here I need to say that Charles E Blaney was the most extensive operator of theatres the theatres atres with loud actors in dramas meant to t n agitate the common people A H Vi ds was second to him and not far ar behind Blaney put together the stuff that for tor awhile entertained d the masses It was only onto when Theodore Kremer or ora ora ora a of his type came along with uncommonly good work that tha t Blaney or Woods would pay an authors royalty ro alty These Th se points are arf noted to convince e you that when Bianey Biancy braced himself to pay a percentage of ot receipts to t o Dazey for My M Partner Partners II Girl spent all the money montoy requisite for tor a pictorial I mounting placed it in the most pros prosperous prosperous of Brooklyn boroughs e i houses and assigned hi his bride Cecil Spooner to enact Its heroine he felt fel t the necessity of a vic victory vl victory tory In presenting first in Brooklyn though with Cecil Spooner Blaney Blane ex exploited plotted as its It 8 heroine a part of he yen ven venture n ture tore is not a normal test teat but a fore foregone foregone foregone gone conclusion Brooklyn is la QUI our borough of a million millio n villagers It cherished chel the courtly Con ways stock tock company until Gotham Gotha m md proper neglected the Daly and an d Palmer organizations organisations It sustained a resident negro minstrel company long lost aa after atter all other cities dUet except Philadelphia a had thrown that form torm of diversion into int n nf limbo The Spooners took the place of n f the Con way s In Brooklyn though on a af lower level Cecil was the soubrette of n f the Spooners Spooner and I doubt if It any actress ac actress actress tress on earth tarth has hu more doting audi audiences audiences audiences than Brooklyn gives to Cecil Sh She Is so cute to tn them so 10 very cunnin that the her every wriggle brings screaming g laughter every caper cUper hilarity hi hl hilarity larity every stunt a Ii spell of paroxysmal paroxysmal mal delight So when Cecil deports deport deports S as my partners girl and 2001 Brook Brooklyn Brooklyn lyn villagers have an In ecstatic ec evening g with her it means nothing one way or ot o r other as to the plays own prosperity Maybe my mind was muddled the th P evening I spent with My illy y Partners Partner a Girl GIN for I keep close to the th plot and 8 nd the th purport seemed seeing to be that ilia t all an of masculine mas Pawhuska was mad ma d de with love of recil Spooner Her choice holce e is the son of her hr fathers hikers partner lib But t I she has no end of trouble saving him his from who think he h is a rob robber robber ber her and from the c of n a ma man n whose chum h ha nt murdered al although although although though he scents g A second ond and anda a third suitor are good fellows kli a F fourth and fifth are arf as had bal I ai a tiey t fey Y car can all be and with fh fC Ii e lovers ion rr in r a ad t e h I u ins you ou may guess goes 1 S font rn i i n u g deep dene all the th tim ain a an n II i t J about i Cecil However wa was T sr r 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