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Show jfe TALES ARE STAGED Perhnutter Are Dramatized fTfloiSTEEOUS IMwhifp Slave Idea Is Worked Out in the BC, TheFamily Cupboard." uy Ymderheyden Fyles. ijBf"""""".." .'.Tn Hp& .jutes I.lnaan'l iHy., Irtao Koroalae jR'"",."i!!oL'al! Michel .IBt ' "LZm i riiT lr. tires IJMF JUratf Baroari! K I.m Kohlnur kK-- ' oiepb Kilsour '....AlUrt rr!jor !Bf-' ,,.jxo noanellr mmr-.JUnMr J!up SjR--" ".Dore Robert B ' . .jron Cherry aB ...jwiii e5ht -efB"- '" II. Dunn l- '." WlllUm Caw "BKr ' .wnnl Mortimer taulie Drer tiBp" F.llu Pm-lor Otis MMW ' "atrlmio MUllnstoD ,MifpJltf Anderson -aEJ"'"' Dorlf Kuten T".',".'."."'.... Dorothy Landers u-Btruitio ncin.-iLjHc the-riJBf the-riJBf W Mb' . K. ' . ..Tkonm Aiken TH? ""!!!!!'-.. .Otto Shrtfier ''dBSr"" "" Edward Gsrvlo Bf ..J(?h Stsnlley K" " .cirdt nu7iovoii mm rir Coulter 'mW ""..DoMld MacDontld fPT-""' ',, .. Ssranoff JtBjl .Ana Moonr .'P'". Jt,rIe 1,'l5-nl1 B2T"""....ABell Sunmtrvlils SBBr"" .... .Asa Wheaton rj;" Mr VoV lBtivriFFr'-A comrdy In lour jplul-tTliittyr.lnlli Street ' IKj, ,.., John Birrymor ftL. . .Monro l'rlco . Henry .Hull -MCI. TheMore "Roberts 77 r.mk Campcau Albert Robert JKT.. M. Tollo Webb KH, Alpha Beyer SpE!... Kilh'rlno Harris (fK Mrr Young !Hiitk competition grovr-IB grovr-IB it the over-supply of B"'n York, many mana-Kurt mana-Kurt to dramas that mW& ia fran'k treatment (-tt pcncrally nineuBsed jBii I mentioned Inst -imW describing "The 'jKitainaiing subject of .BiapecteJ (o 00 whito jBlot about that "The ;Bwird" Tins to he Kittno ou that themo; M'ilht(ly can bo called Htint least a first cons-k cons-k blush easilv, do not Vl havo to'toll. The tolucej us to higli life flfrbody and ho ro-HKr( ro-HKr( ni wc are iu the IBKwtJ". An oxlrnvugjuit Harper Thome) WM even her own W Hcres in the prep-Wfw prep-Wfw narnagc of her 1 Brady, to the poii Jho'factbniiM1, full stop in her so- sHai Tt?h5es m' for jKS no part in Kr,( has been dor- aI'Ologics :ind , 0ln,p,flC0 in BgtV'Ms florae Vu ft Wnlilnj; ho.it. jK i f l,1h-yo",ni! bA." da8ltor. UaM chfttlic'' Rfo tn2.th him Hjlt d?pannr6 ily Cupboard, '-' the author starts a trrcut (leal that he never finishes. TfllO next act and tlio last pass in another hotel, also much 1 : frequented. This place is of tho ! tenderloin variety. Tho part of it we see is the red-vrallod livine room of the apartment occupied by tho dissipated son. The girl, with her father and a friend, a former partner in vandevillo, occupies- an adjoining apartment, at tho young man's expense. TTis uninformed un-informed mother is supplying him with tho money. Tho borrinning of the net reveals the "boy 111 bed, in a room beyond an archway, sleop-inc sleop-inc off his last night's drunk. All the details of his awakening, at noon, of tho wrotched way ho feels and of his cold shower, in tho bathroom bath-room partially visible beyond, aro faithfully enacted for the unsophisticated. un-sophisticated. Then, after the usual stream of characters who clog up tho play have come and gone, tho point of the act comes with tho boy's proposal of marriago to tho blonde. She is so takon aback by this and by his belief in her virtue, that she refiisos him. At least, that plausible and t human touch sccrns to bo tho author's idea, until, un-til, tho next moment, he has the girl plot to gain her revenge with morn determination than over. This inakes her refusal rather absurd. She tells a long story about having been deceived by a respected man of middle ago, 'when sho "was an underpaid shop girl of sixteen. At this point, pop conveniently drops in and tho little liar says he wns tho man. though, actually, he came along ten years later in hor lifo of infamj'. ' ITowovor, the untruth servos to bring the curtain down on the "punch" so dear to the managerial heart. The incensed boy, belioving implicitly in tho fascinating fas-cinating girl, strides over to his fnthor and strikes him across tho face. Instantly, ho falls- to his knees, buryine 's fao h'p hands. The father says thoy will understand each other hotter in the future, now that each has something some-thing to forgive; and tho curtain falls, to rise again and again on a semi-circle of bowing actors, a man-nqor man-nqor thanking th audience for their reception of a "groat play,'' an author falling over chairs and 1hc perioral uproar of a metropolitan metropoli-tan first-night. AATTT5R this, the author, man-ngor man-ngor and actors pulled thrm-sclvos thrm-sclvos together for another - '""punch; ' out for some reason this did not quite land. Tho young man's monoy has run out; and with it goes tho girl back to vaudeville. Learning tho proiniscuousuess of her past, tho boy is moro than ovor ashamed of his treatment of his father, fa-ther, and ho decides to kill himsolf. At this point, mother, in a slit; skirt, follows tho fashion of tho play and drops in. . She takos in lier son's desporato determination and telephones for pop. Then she emotes a lot and struggles Tvith the boy. somewhat a la AIb. Alving. He is gaining ground, howovor, and is on tho vcr' vnrge of ' ' ending .it all" when pop dashes in, mommer topples over in a fat faint, and the play ends with tho prodigal woop-ing woop-ing in liis equally prodigal father'n arms. THAT this play will bo popular, popu-lar, thero is small doubt. In addition to its several melodramatic melodra-matic climaxes of undeniable, if crude, power, it, is studded with bits of delightfully fresh comedy, with city types that have been - studied at first hand and been transcribed directly. And though. T have seen about 13000 plaj's of ouo size or another in tho last twelve years. I can remember uono that was bettor actod. Which Is not to say that thoro is a single Mrs. Fisko or JM'argarot Angllu or George Arliss iu tho company, but Jhat M10 group of compotont "actors have been selected with such nice t discernment of their suitability to their roles, that a cast of geniuses could have served the author no better. That writer, by tho wav, is Owen Davis, who, uftor many ill-starred ill-starred offorts, has at Inst risen definitely above tho lovol of his earlier successes, 6uch as "Nellio, the Beautiful Cloak Model." His sketch of a gonial, asHort.ivo, "nobby," "nob-by," small-time vaudeville dancor is a sheer delight and is Splayed with much lifo-liko faithfulness by i,ranklyn( Ardoll, whoever he may , be, that it becomes all but impossible impos-sible to believe tho impersonation is acting, Louise Aichol and Bar-noy Bar-noy Johnson, as a switchboard girl and a negro elevator boy, mnko other veracious, though much slighter, sketches stand out by their closeness to reality. Frank Hatch, as a chauffeur who is actually ac-tually the blondo's old father, docs as much for a similar part which, howovor, Buffers from vorbositv and exaggeration. William Morris and Olive Harper Thorne, as tho couple most concorued, play with a Rincenty and authority that got the author over niorb than ono rough spot: and Forrest "Winnanf. as the dissipated son, nnd Treno I'ouwick, as his temptress, are hardly less than perfect. It has been n long time sinco any figuro nioro outlcing than Mi'mb Fonwick, " m porson and manner, has graced our stage: I found myself repeatedly repeat-edly comparing her to Ethel Bar-roti Bar-roti fcor early youth. Aud Alice Brad-, as the daughter of 1110 family whose cupboard wns oared a role conspicuously unworthy un-worthy of hor ability had scorned about as charming as any girl could be, until Mibb Fonwick camo on. "VT O better timo than tho proscnt could possibly havo boon seized upon for the presentation in isow York of tho thrce-ftr, thrce-ftr, 1cn,ony derived from tho iolash aud Perlmuttor" stories, o long popular throughout this country. Tho motropolin is full of ! 'iiiyqra who could bo counted on to Co ni crowds to enjov the ex periences and philosophv of tho Jewish cloak and suit dealers, even did tho play not abound in the sort of rough, alert American 'humor" that has, as well, an appeal ap-peal much yider. There has been j some nryalcry as to who is the author of the piece which was re ccived with such a din of acclamation accla-mation at tho Georgo M. Cohan theater; and the programme docs not holp us out. Wo know that the original sketchos were by Montague Glass, but. for tho rest, tho announcement an-nouncement simply calls the pla' "an up-to-date garment in three piecos, made by our special designer," de-signer," Charles ICloln and other native dramatists have denied that thoy -wroto it, but. no ono has admitted ad-mitted it: tho fact of all of which "is that tho play has been several years in tho making, and probably nobody alivo could tell just who of all tho cooks has kept tho broth from spoiling. THE success of the play is due to tho faithful way in which AJawrns Perl mutter and Abe Potash and tho other characters char-acters havo been transferred from print to footlights, and tho way in which the comic sayings (I cannot bring myself to call it wit or humor) hu-mor) have boon woven into a conventional, hut Bcrviccablo. story. To bocin with, th"o firm of Potash & Perlmuttor has succeeded so far as to justify a removal from its dingy old placo of business to a spacious new ono; and, furthermore, further-more, to engage tho designer of the famous Arvcrnc sacque. When sho arrives, in tho blondo and buxom person of Louiso Dresser, sho turns more than one heart in tho cloak establishment. Also, there is a male favorite on tho payroll, n bookkeeper book-keeper from Russia (Albert Parker.) Par-ker.) Tho Itussian govornmont is after him. but when Perlmuttor and Potash (Alexander Carr and Barney Bernard) aro made to ronUzo tho horrors .of Siboria, to which the bookkeeper suroly would bo doportod for his socialistic principles, they aro so moved that they resort to every known expedient ex-pedient to save him from extradition. extradi-tion. It nearly costs thorn their establishment, but ultimately, of course, they savo tho business and tho man. Tho plajr is boisterous, impudent and violont: which is oouivalcnt to saying that it faithfully preserves pre-serves tho stylo and spirit of tho stories that it came from. The first audience greeted it in kind bellowing, bel-lowing, clapping, stamping, pouud-ing. pouud-ing. screeching its approval. And many, many moro audiences will bo as delighted. In short, "Potash & Porhnuttcr" is not so, much a triumph as a riot. MANY years ago, when all of us were young or younger still or not yet born, a popular operetta op-eretta wns '"Tho Islo of Oham-pugno," Oham-pugno," in which we woro introduced intro-duced to a pcoplo resident on an Island upon which and through the streams of which no wator foil or flowed. Only champagne. Every ouo from tho roigning monarch to tho lowliest knavo rtrank champagne, cham-pagne, bathed in champagno, washed wash-ed their clothes in champagno. Then ono day, a ship containing hogsheads of frosh water was wrecked, on tho shoro. Tasting tho -ure bevorago, the satiated inhabitants inhabi-tants were oxhilcratod; drinking freely of it. they all sobered up and their harpinoss and hilarity wcro unbounded. Tho success of "When Droams Come Truo" is much tho same as tho success of tho hogsheads hogs-heads of water. Broadway, satiatod with tho endless, sparkling flow of' glittering entertainments such as "Tho Ziegfold Follios" and "The Passing Snow of 1913," has boon refreshed by the simplicity and youthful verve of a romantic op-crotta op-crotta with Hb clothes on. JOSEPH SANTLEY, however, Is the real reason for tho success suc-cess of "When Dreauia Como Truo." Ho is, for ono thing, tho only "juvenile" of the period with twenty years' oxporionco bo-hind bo-hind him, having boon on tho stago continually since' his third yoar. Ho is as graceful as Donald Brian, but refinement that young man probably could not understand; ho has reasonably good looks; and his singing is agreeable, if by 110 means haunting. But above all, ho has, apparently, brains, and, unquestionably, un-questionably, a Icohniquo moro comparable with that of H. B. War-in"r War-in"r than o any ouo in musical comedy. Tho result is that, with competent assistance from May Vokos, .Rita Stauwood,. Mario Flynu, Amelia Sumincrvillo and others, ho carries off a hackneyed farco with 'haoknoyod music to success. . ..... , The tale which I'hihp Bartholo-mao Bartholo-mao tells with moro activity than taste, and which Silvio Hem sct3 to music which, at Joast, makes uo protonsions, has to do with au American young man who has boon goiniT a fow Btops of the paco in Paris. His father has cut off his allowance: and, pawning his possessions, pos-sessions, the youth has socurod pas-sao pas-sao for homo. However, it :s an t.ho steorngo of an ocean liner that wo find him an agrooable change from the customary dock sot of the stage. From this lowly placo ho ets a glimpse of a first-cabin girl who seems to him so lovely that sho must he a vision in a dream. But in the next net, at tho wharf in 2srew York, he spies her ouco moro, aud not only iu actuality but in trouble. An adventuress, on tho vorgo of bocoming caught with a stolen necklaco, has slipped it unobserved unob-served into tho girl's possession. So tho lattor becomes a subject for tho customs officers and the police, as ho is himself, inasmuch as ho lias tried to smuggle in some absinthe. ab-sinthe. Not. of course, for himself; him-self; our hero is exemplary. It is really to bo used to soften the heart of his angry fathor. Tn a scurry in tho dark, tho Sant ey youth smuggles off tho girl in his motor car, and in tho last act. occurring, I need hardly say, in tho family ballroom everything turns out as it should; songs arc sung at tho slightest provocation, or without with-out any oxcuso at all; and dreams generally como true. ANNUALLY, starting with the theatrical season of 1010-1911, 1010-1911, John Craig, director of the Castlo Squaro Stock company in Boston, offers and awards a pmo for the best original play wntton n by a student of Harvard or Bad-cliffo Bad-cliffo college. The first year, 1 think, and the second year, I am suro, tho honor went to a mouibcr of the fomalo institution; but. last season a son of Nebraska, studying hi ProfouHOr Baker's famous class in dramatic writing, carried oft' the . prize. His name is John Frodorick Ballard. Before going fto college ho served an apprenticeship as stago hand, and later, property, man, in a Chicago theater. At the Harvard commencement last spring ho was graduate of honor, and he is now busy on a now and more protonsions' play for David Bo-lasco. Bo-lasco. His maiden cftort, oddly named "Bcliovo Me. Xantippo! ran a hundred nights in Boston, at a theater whero most plays arc put on for only one week, and very ' few remain beyond a fortnight. iMarv Young (Mrs. John Craig), who' created the loading and most showy role thero, comes to New York in tho part. Unless T am much mistaken this is her first, appearance ap-pearance hero since childhood, in I he early '90s, when sho succeeded Bijou Fornandez in such juvenile juve-nile 'roles as came along at Daly's, and was, of course, to grow up into the Ada Uehnn of hor day. All the little girls , at Dalv's wcro. John Barrymoro plays the "opposite" role, as the lan'on of thoatcrdom has it, and others in tho cast aro Theodore 'Roberts, recently released from Ludlow street jail, where he preferred pre-ferred to pass six peaceful months rathor than pay alimony; Kath-orino Kath-orino Harris, who is Jack's attractive attrac-tive wife, and Henry Hull, youngest young-est of the family of handsome men into which Margaret. Anglin married mar-ried two years ago. THE unusual titlo of the Ballard Bal-lard farco is significant iu tho plot. It is a favorite- phrase of the Barrymoro young man, who makes a bet that ho can commit a crime and, with twenty-four hours' start, can evade the arrest for one yoar. The crime decided ou is 'forgerv of a friond's name to a check." Furthermore, as stipulated in tho bond, ho submits to measurements, measure-ments, to the photographer and to a description of his characteristics and peculiarities, all of which may , bo published broadcast, with a re- 1 ward of $5000 for his capture. Tho socond act finds the year nearly near-ly over, with tho daring young &ow Yorker still free. He turns up in the hunting shack of a Colorado Colo-rado sheriff. That bluff person (Theodore Roberts. I need hardlv ; sav) announces that his duties call j hini back to town, but his self- willed daughter (Mary Young, in : what actors call a "fat" part; oli i very, very fat!) replies that sho 1 will not stir until sho has shot a deer. So she is loft alone. Whou J the glib Barrymorc bobs in. searching search-ing for a squaro moal and not , averse to pleasant company, all 1 goes woll until ho lets slip liis fa- ( vorito term, "Bolievo me, Xan- t tippol" Thereupon Little Suro- 1 Shot, tho sheriff's daughter, cov ers him with her rlllo and keeps him prisonor for tho night. Nor Is that all. An actual rufliitn (Frank Campcau, playing tho part, as usual, without a shave), thinking tho girl alone, outers the shack, only to bo similarly treated, tho net ending, in short, with the t two prisonors backed into a bod J for tho night, whilo thoir captor c settles down on guard duty with hor gun across her knees. r |
