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Show Just One Girl in Cast of "Taps." "Taps." tho current military play at tho Lyric, In from tho German of Boy-er?Jnbut Boy-er?Jnbut that l!i neither hero nor thero. Tho queerest thing about it la that thero ih only ono woman in tho cast against aomo thirty men. This is tho exact ro-vorae ro-vorae of tho uaual order of things at this and older metropolitan theaters addicted ad-dicted to musical melanges, where the more familiar announcement J3 "Onn Hundred Hun-dred People-Mostly Girla." or "Scvontv Stunning Squabs." or something of that sort. But "Taps" la serious, and, as the cynic In the pleco. remarks. "Ono woman la enough to make trouble." irT,vl 80l,ltary ,maldon n "Tapa" la Clara Volkhardt-rcal namo Efflo Shannon Such being tho case, you would natu flly auppose that thoso twenty-five or thirty mon. Including Clara's own father Sorgt-Maj. Herbert Kclscy Volkhardu would one and all o-t chivalrous knights' guard, cherish and protect her snis Neln! Nothing of the sort.' On the contrary, thoy all seem rathor anxious to havo her out of tho way. From Uioverv beginning of tho first act thore are dark hints of a fractious horso, of violence an 1 sudden death in various snapesuntll Burc. cnougn. In tho last act, old Volkhardt frantically drawa Ws rovouSr and Hhoots her dead. rooier Thla of course, Is dramatically effective and MIks Shannon doesn't mind it at Vn on Forty-second street. Manhattan When It comes to tho queallon of going on tl.o a.sho?oath0 ';0ntl 1 do. traveling tho circuit of the tnl-towns tnl-towns nil alone with thla atag nartv "My dear Miss Shannon." renllod qnm suavely, "your case of belncr m Rirl' in tho cast Is by no means Jimi.OI,e dented in tho history of pthoTncHh EE00" 1 Ask Channing Pollock-It" his . n.0' be posted on such matters I cn? wV with details. But. If mv'mi" other me. aren't such old sUnb'L rT K Devl,a' and Homo's 'Dou?l both one-horso-pardon mo. I mcwoM- womon-playa? Tn "Never mind ancient hls. . bcrt," Interrupted the ral- ' .tCw tlontly. "The point I F'll ia that tho idea of hmIi to 'ttt&W night atanda na Painted f pjK "ttffSw Owl Hoot. Wla., with a hn' haps thirsty mob of Eent& ml on my nerves." -tu"enien. e-CrtMy"' "What did Mrs, aranr , lE toured England ao the lnn 0 ba AWt -r Patron,' written by1 Sa3rtffcjIni temporary of Gorrick, 1 b&fSlJ "I don't care what Mr, n , nor what Mr .Pollock CMled"! eX. H Encyclopedia Brltannlca; I-j?nt s "To come down to our , TaV time." pursued tho little nW?, fcMt "I havo talked with peopU 4!!l to' rio Proacott play Vera ?h. x? 't3B 1 , Russian play wrlttei by Oec'sK produced My A M pJlntWtWLgs But Mlsu Shannon had (WrA dainty foot and taken her sM wont to tho Actora' Church rj i,? SKnfiS quarters In the Manhattan Vv SBfr i ing. there to seelXrfcafcl? ommcndatlonn. sxBL,ttt 1' When she roturriod to tho L. u - 1 plred that Miss Shannon hid ltt?!,n lady companion to travel K ,) "Tapr," goea on tho ro v r iKJt ' " World. ro--.t7 t3K$ JIf. |