| Show I SOME NEW NE W SUCCESSES t BY FRANKLIN FYLES N x w York Dec Attorney it e goes out of office because bis his re ret t 1 to prosecute millionaire life Ufa i re e rendered him too un Opu u l tor I If His Hia assistant aa latant and andi 1 i I am wo Frank Lord writes writ a play on life rook ook k who tho go co free of punish J i nt I I TI ie is no i more I observed ob figure i the fie ne n it long cafes and restaurants i K I nado i t H e white hit light section than J nine ome ilk Hi ill companion is Lord r lat it is II Lurd L 1 s play De Be Dene DeIl ne Il Ten people I to I So o it quite as a eagerly as asi 1 n i i v do to tOJ I i t aided show allow of dry I i y I LI i that Lord Loul had 1 d 1 wl his ii thief chief t and sought revenge un on k him buzed through the toe theS i i S m tn r Tiu tension relaxed though as asi i 1 IL e play pla ltv w nt l along ng in a fash ji 1 ard Sin an I Eli was 50 a disappoint at I wh wi u i the inc lie amateur dramatists work a in t di d d elop Iop I i crudities to warrant ridi JIt Doors I s i i ian law offices bear other i mea i S tl Ui II i i those tise included in the firms S line L 1 ruler Onder tr the tile inscription Jones lit ron own wn smith may mav be seen seeni i mall i I J I tiers tile the names oi ot several i in rs r in ill the t I i concern Lord Loid calls his 1 ma 0 L Jim o Nite an ane on the Door because the t 1 the ih nanu of Frederick I i i nt ut is b h 1 ing Jg painted thi thus a on the tilt of ofu u 1 t door 01 ur J 1 Bradford Hunt legal ad adUM UM 1 5 i ant anU criminal pal of John Martin Martinu Martinr u ner r ot oJ t snide life insurance company a 1 r of lf t its it widows widow and orphans orphan Tilt The i u ial l I iii iI ii this field of robbery Has flee me lilt an CL ard l 1 ih In 1 he big law r and his big uig t I ft t r ir II They scheme I u h make i partner and of oung i 1 who has haa had no hand band in inn Inin inI I in n the and induce the tile district t i prosecute him as al the only i built I Jilt p Ir on ii Jerome 1 shown slon nor any explicit I in ide of his hill conduct aM he h Is j ai S U assumed to be un an officer v nom nose nomi I i J urance rogues t befool or cor tor dl Lord seems to have no other pur puri I i oae than thai tr tc utilize a pla play plot suggested his fl with the insurance se Sc He II H gives s It a love twist twilit by having laing t came to him with a aI liy olie Which h to yield to hey hei I nother hut hilt the thi will pay only C u BruIt Br ot has hal hi to decline liS as s counsel for forr tr 1 r as the t Mi snide de concern is the very verj err that his s firm represents rf and it is i who has advised that owing to a 8 ait mcK it in the llie policy only 10 per cent 01 ot UK III seeming promise need be 00 kept That implication and not an exculpation or exposure of Jerome Is what his assistant assistants J s S to make the play go He lie exhibits exhibit h nighttime activities of Martin up nn V IL as all 5 well ts s his life insurance opera opeia 5 l da je daytimes times Limes downtown downto n Chorus girk ire r among the thc luxuries that Martin buys uh ii his swag and a as Brents to tu t be Je the th show girl of his pres tu m I desire he gives to her the whole 3 morally fl if on the polity poky y that her lover loveri i w js is s endorsed Pay oly Not a Siren an estrangement between the cirl ul and her fiance out hut a i liaison with ith the I follow for tor she he is no si sl slI I en Cu Brent thinks he has lost her to tor r n vU yf however and himself to tol toi l i feloni infamy but rh Ih saves him b bI by I rapping the 1 ht big lawyer end and all big Jig diem client D stead I nd sa says s nothing about the th of ot Jerome and aid himself H peaks ot f an all RI immunity bath for nee ince scoundrels nd to that extent Je Jerome Jerome rome lome is hit playfully with the tag But Buti i hits all aiL Policemen from of roe are at hand to arrest Hunt and Mar Marin in instead of Brent it if the suddenly show girl gives the word I 1 never nee could bear to make beasts t fer she Mie with a 8 glance of at acorn om url at the criminals Let them go Does Doell urd rd 1111 mean to assign that motive to Vda Ada da Lewis L wis and nd Valeska are en tn enu u ding ting of the extreme Tender Tenderloin Tenderloin Tenderloin loin ip tp Ada da dates lack hack I to Edward E ward farces fans of low ly fe in III New NewYork NewS NewY S Y York and Ul she personated a tough girl for fur It was wall nothing like the smart I type of ss now notoriously num i rous but bit a girl tougher in her Bowery 1 manners rs than in real disrepute Ada has haa hask haak hal k l pt fit at her specialty with variations but buti i not among mong the offstage Tenderloin hibits of if that sort Of life In Old Dutch Duth the t he new musical farce for Lew Fields she he is a se soubrette who goes goel to the ASp Alps AI AItor tor tot an escapade with a confidence swin ewin Uler ller and there they take on the name of oft ofa a i t celebrated scientist under which alias allu they have han a Ii festive bout as all honored gu at a spectacular supper Ada gets get tipsy her antics become hilarious fer the manner ot lii three o clock in the morn moD tog Ing at Rectors or Jacks As All a climax of exuberance she trips the length of the thelong thelon i long lon table to the rich old chap whom she has b picked out for fascination sits sit in his hl hi b lap la drinks from his gass gaes Iia and rounds up with an explosive I 1 described de Lew pa part palt it in Old Dutch lest st Sunday but it seems per pei pertinent to add that he Join oin in tD the 4 revelry of ot the supper Is Ia he be taking on dignity with his hia hi advance sis as 8 a comedian i However he h hires others to carry on the therun run ling a t of gypsy dancers who wind up uti the commotion in a Ii cyclone I ballet 4 An noo it rt f the th banquet t proves prof that an n old ft d 1 In 10 fared fac may mav ma tw b introduced 5 as a str r o i io if all II i gm d In 8 outi oi 1090 sv was made of ot 4 14 soda water foun toun 4 5 tain tam which became unmanageable blew its own lid off and behaved like a boiler With the apparatus on band hand why not use usa u it again A cockney young En Englishman Englishman gU hman is one of the guests When the time comes for coffee je begs bega l n to make it on the table no stuff dont you know but such as he gets at ome wot eh He brings in an urn like those that some housewives op crate erate daintily by lighting an alcohol lamp at the bottom putting in the ground coffee at the top and finally tapping it with a faucet at the middle to let out a delicious beverage This machine was portentously big bIB but lait an 11 at at il with it until the proud cockney turned the fau faucet faucet eeL Then there was an explosion n like a bomb steam hissed and Misled out in all directions the company was show bow showered bowered ered and firemen came in It to rescue re cue them and nd Paul Potter Valeska has haa been aided aI and abetted by Pu Fetter to cause a corn com commotion motion lD in the central cent 1 whirl of this town to II Potter is the author as you know of Trilby TrUby in play pia form forD The Conquer Conquerors ors ore and many other pieces pisces Ills His new one is III named The Belle of the Boule Boulevards yards ard Valeska as a you likely dont know Is ia more any other showgirl tit lit fur lor the title of Belle Belie of the Tenderloin I first fust saw her in a Broadway restaurant restaurant restaurants rant rants s after smart crowd a dark daik beauty uty in flowing robes quite eel ori in aspect a th oh sipped d her lui h wine and anI smoked a II cigarette Could it be bc b W Ws s 8 this Yak aleska that oriental orl creature Sure Sore S enough The picture that the dealer had assured me had been taken in 1 Turkey and for w which I paid a goodly price was this New Sew York showgirls showgirl s por per trait Moreover it had hd been b n enlarged from a negative made to advertise a brand of cigarettes That attests aleskas beauty The use uso that she makes maks of it in The Belle of the Boulevards is so BO bold that t te e po lice lIe regard it us an offense and si e has retired for amendments amendment to be made to the pla play The belle bellI is a profligate Parisian chum of a degenerate spendthrift who puts modish gowns and brilliant gems on her while whilo she in return induct him into the reckless life Ufe of Paris Valeska has figured as a Gibson girl and a Brink le ley girl now she is called Sa For Por an easement ea ement of her vicious vim she breaks out emotionally in a wild dance supposedly Incited by some drug in the cigan cigarette tte she is 18 smoking Her favorite excitant though is perfume a drink made of any alcoholic liquid handy bandy on her toilet table and under Its Ita influence she wildly sings Ings an Invitation to 1 Com Come Comand and sip cologne with me m Te ne scene ene is hi in her hi r boudoir and rival riv g get into action And nd decorated Why i nir r cover coer covering ing lag at times tim s may mav be too but butone butone one ont of her fingers finger is III warm with a pearl billed in the program at although the jewelers of the world have endEa endeavored endeavored I ored in vain to duplicate it at an any cost ost How Hov amazed aleska Valeska would be if It she found it to be wax ax Truly Trul though this in vaudeville is presented most lavishly as to costuming and scenery It Itis ItIs Itis is to 10 be he given gien again I 1 believe with the th badness of its morals abated J he American author might beat the thO y L L r it MC lIlI II n 15 11 e trieu to 10 in tn invention i If f oddities for farces but what s th thi use nile when whon a sufficiency sufficient v of If such things are au made ma e in Paris Pans for the whole worlds supply I cant Ian prove proe that he pint ilot of the extravaganza I used b by the Gay cioth frt th tham am um Girlies GIllies that like the compan lom vs s name but not pi jJr cis C lj it iO 10 has been brought across tin Ui ocean ol an It is too hi h tit though to have hae originated in iii th tb of this country and too good in its ita bad to he e thrown away to inappreciative e audiences in a show sho oth otherwise othI otherwise raw ra and rough I 1 stumbled on It w hen going to se seo see the negro pugilist Johnson posing ab as a an actor Having told i YOU YOl ou from time to time lime of acting a by the white champions from Sullivan to Jet Jef fries frios why draw a color lolor line in dramatic art to the neglect t ot of o Johnson Besides I II I was 8 told that following the lead of Fitzsimmons he would woul be accompanied I on the stage by bj his wife and if he did that ml the sight he being j jt jet t black and she untainted white provoke interesting criticism by the spectators Well Vell Johnson morely went ent with some Rome training exercises s in a scene ne or the play and Mrs Johnson kept out of sight behind the drapery of a box boxA boxA A Photograph in a Farce VA hil in quest of Johnson oddity in lii vain aill I came across the plot pint in which a photograph made wore more ado in a farce than ever a mortgage did in a rural drama A rich old oli merchant finds it in i his hi junior office d hk ek It is a portrait of his h oli young wife wite costumed like a Salome dancer the Junior partner is an amateur photographer he and she are open to suspicion anyway iY and that makes a knotty problem for th then than m to get rid of The junior is ill on one of those ready liars I that are ever popular in pla plays s It Is simply an unfortunate case of mistaken Identity sa says sas 8 he h Joyanna a dancer damer who performs at clubs and other semiprivate places bears a striking trl re resemblance resemblance semblance nce to your wife If Observing the wonderful similarLy similarity I 1 took my camera along next time she was to do her stunt at a club smoker and made a negative of her in a Salome costume anI an pose poe I 1 thought it would amuse your wife and you vou ou sir bir It lt dof does K es the senior replies and ard must se sie Joyanna I must mm t please phase I 5 i 1 ii 11 i eil 11 me to n her herou rOll Vuu ou need ned but one guess gueS at what the junior and the Ue wife of the senior did next i i 2 7 i in their predicament predicament Of course this be being beIng ing an unreasonable farce the wife is made to Impersonate the mythical dancer I in her home where her ber husband is in introduced introduced Introduced to her at a supper given by the fraudulent Joyanna and paid paM for by the junior The wife being played by the principal soubrette Alice Al AI Alloway Alloway loway not only is able to do the requisite ite dancing but sings singe ballads that round out the enchantment enchantment of the vis visitor visItor visItor At first he suspects suspect the ruse but pretty soon he be finds that she has a vi vivacity vivacity 1 an audacity an amount of devil deviltry deviltry try never shown to him by his wife How can the author h making him m ex cx exclaim claim in the suing slang phrase t bf f the day a I Ilove Ilove Ilove love my wife but oh you Is there nothing erious It thoughtful worth while in the current output of at f drama in New York surely SUt ly yes Strife the second new play at the New Theatre is a problem M mUt l Me pres presentation in a strikes incident of the t e antagonism anta between capital and labor lab r There is no sentimental story in Strife nor any love affair but merely some il ii illustrations of a strike by a tin workmen mar nar Pittsburg The most ener energetic enerI getic getie picture is a meeting of the strikers strikers ers era who wish wi h to compromise but their leaders fiery eloquence fans fane the dying embers of their seal to a furious blase again and he obtains the authority to defy the employers The representation re re of a disorderly orderly dl meeting with the speakers fighting their way wa to the doorsteps that serve sene for a rostrum and the others fran frantic frantic frantic tic with dissension is such lIuch stagecraft lIta as used to be he rare and is expected now new Just as the leader triumphs triumph word worn comes that his wife is ill dead killed by b the strike That deter him The similarly irreconcilable president of the company dominates tie the t e directors al ci although although though he is the only member who Wh be glad to stop atop the concerns loss which has reached reach a quarter of a million and may bring insolvency if con continued continued continued any longer They invite the strike leader to a conference and he be comes with six committeemen desirous de of a compro compromise compromise mise that will bring the wretchedness of their families to an end but they stand in uneasy silence while he vehemently v defies the directors including several whose attitude is friendly Thus the stub stubborn stubborn born animosities of two men coming into bite collision like flints flint strike fire again a ln and threaten disaster A Solved Problem Does Author Gal worthy solve the problem problem lem Parti Partly He says Inferentially that obstinate leaders of both capital and la Ia labor labor bor prolong strikes when dispassionate Arbitration l would prevent or shorten borten them Another conference is held All Allbut Allbut but the two are ready read for compromise ml e The president would rather go to penury than yield to the dictation of labor That s the chip on his shoulder houlder The leader knocks the chip off with his hl vow that hell starve stane rather than live with the heel of capital on his hili neck The fight I looks like going on with new rancor But the directors and the strikers have had all alt bear bf ar of coercive mastery and the they v vote ote unanimously to make a set let settlement My Iy first t defeat ad at the hands of I I my mj directors director the president groans groan as he lets his daughter lead him away to bed bedin III in a collapsed ed condition I The cowards coward who ought to stand |
