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Show 1RBE5-ROBERTSON .PRAISFD jinnee of Denmark" Is His Masterpiece! IT tork atoicesTlarqe mous English- Actor Arouses Enthusiasm of ,mtropol-itan Playgoers by His Interpretation ,M of Shakespearean Roles. f M By Vanderheyderi Fyles J H? Jfew Vortc. N'ov. 13, 5513. ' iflflRCHNT OF VENICE" la flvo ftcta. by -iF5hi1cMrexre. (Slrubert theater.) 4 VmIc 1 Roboruon IflfjMorocco Grcmlon Dcailcy Kfi " l'orhw-Itobortjioa iW: Prcy Rhodes 1LW,.... S. A. Cookaon "J .'. Charlet Graham . , Aloxander Scott-Galty Iaj ,v Walter IUnchatn GeorEfioHaye". (L ?.,. Montiteu Ruthcrfonl i ' UOoWo Ray Atliol rorilci "Sgi os S. T. Tcnrco 'ft E- A. hok nobort AHtliu Eric Adeney T-fi lbs Court Richard Andean I Gertrudo Elliott ij. Mnud JJuchartan jAJ' .lean Turketl '.' .c, ' AND TllE BARGE" A farco la thrco A w. W Jacobs nnd Loulo .s. Parker. J J r theator.) . im4 Barley 'Jjrll Maudo 7-15 t jion Boyne, R. N ; Edward ComberniCTu tfct UnriM T. Hunter Nrablt t" dHy Montagu Love a , Lennox Pawlo &l if' Ikr ' Arthur Curtlis M f John Hfifwood I. brttr David llallim y ;j; : James Dale 0,1 Stanley II. Grootno r,fj f4 , Joseph Slmms If, r, 1 R. P. Young V" f. JacU Hobbs 7 Uy flXrna Halllday . S; u Mary Morrtll i4 f ,Ruby Halllor Ifjii Emma Chamber Iot Margory Maude ? " ' Ue I03T OF JERRY BD.VDL,ER" A drama '3 tt, by W. W Jacob. nnd Clinrlw Rock. !tiV ' theater.) H $ James Dalo ha Montagu Love (Jy , Edward Combermcro J: tic T. Hunter Neoblt i Davlil Hallaui in 'Xi Arthur Curtis " Cyril Maudo , ! . . -its HftAKGE WOMAN" A comedy In threo ,7 (Wllllani HurlbuL tLycoum thcwitor.) EaKeniJiyriy - Alphour. Ethler IvT?nInKwi, Cliarlea D. "Wnlrlron "lAbbJ . Hugh Dlllman fiarWaslcre Otto V. Hoffman fSaBeMasleni .... Sflrah MeVlchera ,. Annlo Buckley 't Bllncway ......I. . Lois Kranoes Clark I Itman . )- Frances Whltuhouto " Blnitway . Sara von Leer krone Georclo Diow Mcndum p" j Mrs. Follx Morrlf. l&'i tferrefond EIslo I'crsuson hs , , 1 3 prcat performance of a classic "ole Ir rarely ncen. Indeed. 0110 i'i: Imes wonders wliotlior It is not , r 1 in'tlie paiit' Ko matter liow , . at" the new Dealrice. her luster a2 is one remembers Ellen Terry's: ,W iter liow allminc nnd nompcl- '' ij poetic charm of a new Viola. aJfl ever quite possesses one as aa ehnn's did. .'Twns cVer thus. 0 t us arouse ourselves and up-. up-. t, e; Forbes-Robertson In the V. Thul, Indeed, is just 'what 'Fj- ork Is dolhir. his aucllonces are "7 e as those of any musical farce ztft lite slave" play; on "Mantlet" - a: tori6ldefable crowds are turned "ha l"HIs Prince of Denmark Is his , ij,; piece, just na It Is the great -iJi iniPlc r acting visible S itfic general memory. As such. !3' fer overshadows all his other wnccs. The other night he 'sjMmVJock for the llrst time hi ;j2f6rK. S'J'hroo or four 'years ago tfon '"Khe Merchant of Venice" "i iilmea while on a tour of Amcr-J&i Amcr-J&i cities: Und last spring he ap-. ap-. Is clin It for the llrst time in Tin-'7 Tin-'7 duriiis the course of his "furo-jtv "furo-jtv lit Dniry Lane, on which hls-ulase hls-ulase Henry Ir. Ing said good-. good-. J the same- role. pi nspccL and in" movements, vi jylock of Forbes-Robertson Is aly wolfish. The face Is tallow, C' 1, of a. MverlHh hue; the hair )fA ard are thin and gr.-ly and grlz-:vt grlz-:vt thr: bony hands twitch as they Itched to tear, the Chris: iH flesh, in repose, the gaunt jtpj till seems ready to spring at jflli otcd enemies; In movement, It t fus-estive of the untamed Plavcd in dumb show. Sir rig n's Hhylocl; would sketch the fl cr unmistakably nnd tell his ill little room for doutit. Whnt. fv there left tosay when 'sucll ,3P mlc eloquence Is given u voice 1 c, guided by a line intelll-'ju intelll-'ju that brings out the exact I : to euoh word? His Shylock I vol along the lines of Henry .v which. Indued. Is that of 1 Aif loir&rii actors, except those t tal.srjr.vho selc upon tho Jew ivfi" Ppofunity to rant- and gen- nJci! tat basslons to tatters- Sir v l makes him an old mun of id .turned demon through op-'. op-'. jd. and ill-usuge. the avenger v '-, "ce and religion. -J,1 oxt naR ,,een transposed and '. al no evident good reason. Tho .Wrij nsldcrable omission Is the tl V, ' the choosing of the casket lft3' Prince of Arragon, which Is .iiiil? opped and relieves tho Bel-(jj! Bel-(jj! mes of monotony The shlft- rt t of the text, which can havo 'S et nc onl' 10 EaVc changes, of W-Z f almost wholly detrimental, jjir? Bes the fable by tampering with Its natural flenurtice and hv lwadC,ac2?,di?ntf" i1." SiiihV tlmoi two a oHnj iV f,urU,0r Pattites the io stories of the corned v thnt dn anct ?J,2r?viKset,I0P nl lo four?? m KnIr(:tchts' Instead of keeping 1st u.mUf' :l? thf! skllJful drama-i drama-i t flav ,Jt to do: and It doK not SSstir'1 ,nl lb &y uStnV?i almost half over, rne first and ec- stnreet 01 la,v,tn1LPlaCrl1 . ,n hm?M J",. Ycnlc; Main street. I Social .n?7n ov"ythlngiinanclal, reS.iK wl!",?- domcBtlc, frivolous tfiSt hite""0' "ollUcal-happens wo hVv. K.ar ,AV,(I n11 hB time refronoo .nnly ad Bassanlo'8 brief ?. PCe 10 u wealthy iav resident a"lv2e,n,T,l t0K knof that'Por?raC 8 auve, ii)e second- of these -tots comes to an end with Jessica's night w th Lorenzo. But the curta . fniu without tho retm-n of kylock ThS to fiJ? 1,0 Ir,vlnK's bowed return to nnd his daughter and his ducats S.or Adlor's fcPcndid frenzy It the treatSt f3mc oL,lcr on f vl J1S1 ,V-of a ',r-'n:i"t moment. Just as wo were wondering or mut-ove&ft mut-ove&ft rbcs-p-ober-Tion'8 Strange Shviocl ,..cu,rta,n roseuaealn and nrliL.611, e(1 somowhat unlm-pressholy; unlm-pressholy; tho second ending of the Jmp'tV.hoK " thc door of th0 i Ji!hnt .was Forbes-Robertson's least . impressive moment In the n in v To cuM VlVr W,u,d b more 'dlM? tain Prl&,.a I1,lanc ,1,d 1C lain. i'roba'oly he was mnai f S"Vneo,,n. l"a traI scene, mboca.?8f; t Kr SK onnrtnItIe8 kre thero the best; but to the observer 7A- ffla role thh,tl,c bCSt Pormares'of n tn ef', hls STcat?8t achievement was In the scene with Tubal, when he learns at once of Jessica's -S"MSTI nnd of Antonio's mls- lonir ,JIcnry In;,ne- whos shy- oniv f incomparable and was'tiie only one In twenty years to rise to "n8der0rlClg,,,tS tl'an IW" one now 1 that scene with Tubal, bo-causo bo-causo thc wild and whirling words PTlo ,n!,ch, ror, llIm. many phrases l,S5. t absoIutcly unintelligible. Forbefl-Rohertson suffered no suoh d faculty, with the result that, while i 66"0"11 Performance was always ffi. Cl.f0M,to thc -Ing mastcr-taiiccd mastcr-taiiccd it Pawasea It outdls- JECBNTLT. E. II. Sothcrn said: .wlS,iaJkcsPearc'8 P'ays really are written for two leading performers." and ho went on to cite instances. But no did not point out that of all tho Plays, "The Merchant of Venice" is most in need of two aclora of exceptional excep-tional attractions and abilities. For. the fact Is It la two wholly Kcpara-to stories, which como tgoothcr only when thc end is near. It is as essential es-sential to have a Portia who will hold, tlie Interest and dominate one set of scones and characters, as to nave a master Shylock for the othor. Gertrude Elliott can hardly be said to be a star In more than name. Concealing Con-cealing her black hair beneath a red wig. sho looks unlike .herself, but still a prolty picture: and she acts tho part about so far a pretty picture. pic-ture. Thc poetry and passion of the speech beginning, "You seo mo, Lord Wassanlo, where I stand," do not ruffle her at all; sIio accepts a husband hus-band with admlraole poise; the wordn might be an ode of welcome to somo visiting celebrity, written In correct, restrained stylo by "William Winter, and delivered in tho same mood. With thc "Quality of Arercy" sho does a little better, though It is the only tlmo 1 havo heard that speech concluded without so much an a ripple rip-ple of applause. For Forbes-Robertson .himself, however, there was no lack of demonstrative approbation, which rose, at limes, to 'cheers. Thc company is competent: the scejiery adenuaie, though badlv lighted, light-ed, rather "flat" and greatly hurt bv having to bo cut down to lit the cramped stage of thc handsome Sam' . S. "Shubert theater: and the high tone of thc cutertalnment would not ' suffer If tho programme did not say "There will be an interval of .ten minutes hetwen each act" -This. - however, may be just a subtle tribute to thc 'play In hand, in which Shakespeare Shake-speare has Antoplo say, "All debts are cleared botwecn you nnd I." 'T'HE second and third roles brought forth by Cyril Maude from his London repertoire for hla first stellar stel-lar season in Now Tori: were both taken from talcs by W. W. Jacobs. 'One play was new to us, and. though the other was Introduced about nlno years ago by N. C. Goodwin, It was not popular and lasted for a very brief time. That pleco is "Boauty and thc Hargo.'' and It exists solely for thc character of Captain James Barley, about whom Mr. Jacobs has spun so many jolly yarns. Tho bargeman barge-man who has novor sailed beyond the Thames, but reels off story 'after story of the sea. who Is over ready with startling tales of his adventures and his heroism and. especially? his Irresistible fascination for the "fair sex," is known to thousands of readers read-ers nnd beloved by them. With all his boastful lies and chlld-llkc. vanity vani-ty tho old dog Is so hearty and so human! Louis "W. Parker has hung his play together on tho story of tho Inexperienced, romantic English country girl who ream sho Ik going to bo bullied into a distasteful mar-rlago mar-rlago and runs away from home, embarking em-barking on Captain Barley's barge, which gets her only a few miles nearer London after a night of wild ndvejiture, when she Is ovortakon by her family, thc undcslrcd suitor betrothed be-trothed to her cousin, a right man found for her ami all ends happily. But all this would be nothing but for thc smiling, ruddy face of Captain Cap-tain Barley, his j'ams about experiences experi-ences ho never came within a thousand thou-sand miles of having, his- courtship of poor old Mrs. Porter, his s!' flirtation flir-tation with the antiquated barmaid at .the Old Ship "pub," his complacent compla-cent belief that the fresh young English girl Is secretly In love with him, nnd all his little vanities and schemes and lies. As realised with unflagging humor and vitality by Cyril 'Maude tho character Is no living liv-ing and engaging and delightful as It Is In tho Jacobs pages, und more than that one would hardly wish for, The other Jacobs story Is "Tho Ghost of Jerry Duudler," and, though Charles Rock has pot shown much skill Jn transferrins it to thc Btage. the rolo It supplies for Mr. Maudo Is verv commonplace and tne production produc-tion generally Is flat and colorless, it still serves well enough as a our-laln-ralser to the longer play. It Is a dark .night. Half a dozen traveling men are Hitting around a fire In a small, old-fashioned hotel In an English Eng-lish country town, They arc sniok- lng, drinking something warm and swapping stories to pass tho time. One laic Ii about the ghost of a highwayman high-wayman named Jerry rumdler, who hung himself on a four-post bed bout a Vmdred years before, to cheat tho offhws of tho law. Tho apparition Is raid to haunt the inn. One of tlw listeners, having some- . 11 ng of a knack for acting, bets that c can frighten tho others by lm- personating tho glioat. Thl ho dov to well that'one of the number, having hav-ing been wrought up to a nervous pilch that ma k etf him think the shadowy shad-owy f(gur Hotunlly is Komothlnif pcrnntural. Ih thrown into a hyMerta of terror and elioots ind kills- tho "ghost." TXflLLIAM J. HL'RLBUT. who ' wrote "Thc Fighting Hope" for Blanoho Bates and "The Writing on tho Wall" for Olgn. Nethersole. hus supplied Elsie Forguion with an equally strong. Intelligent ifnd up-to-date -play In "A Sim'ng Woman." The character created for her I a very modern young woiimn, born In New Orleans, of liuKvlau und Creole parentage, but educated In Europe, There she would appear to have spent most of her time reading Nietzsche and Ellon Key's "Love and .Mar-flnge." .Mar-flnge." With those and tho experience experi-ence of an unhijppy marriage boiling In her blood, she returns to America. That would bo ail rlKhl If aho'luid stuck to the larger cities. "but she goes to an Iowa (own of about SOOO inhabitants. That Is no place for a Parisian wardrobe and Ellon Key's lf)U model morality. Inez goes thorn to meet the family of a man she met while he was studying architecture in Paris, and to whom sho has become engaged. Of course, there will be no marriage ceremony. Such obsolete foolishness has no part In Inez's "advanced" principles But Delphi, Iowa, docs not see things thnt way. A "love marriage" don't "go" in Iowa. The clash of the girl's "modern "mod-ern thought" and tho conventions of her fiance's family and townsfolk make tho drama, serious in it? central cen-tral theme and highly emotional at one climax, but generally humorous In lLs authentic, keen studios of character.- in 'the end. Inez gives in o her fiance's mother, and consents to a conventional marriage: though. sDmchow, one feels that thc author brought his play to that conclusion reluctantly, as something at a sop to a public he doos not feel has grown up to his morality. VIRGINIA BROOKS, .who Is Mrs. Washburn of Chicago when not prowling about slums or otherwise putting the world generally to rights. Is unquestionably' more widely known . as a social worker (ban Rachel Crothcrs. but she Is no dramatist, nbr has Arthur Jainen Pcglcr, her, collaborator col-laborator In writing "Little Lost Sister," shown much theatric skill, as her play Is not likely to carry her sorlous message half as far as "Ourselves." "Our-selves." Out Chicago way. Mrs. Washburn Is known as thc Joan of Arc of West Hammond. West Hammond Ham-mond Is a tllrtv little town on thc border between Illinois and Indiana. It was a hotbed of graft, and It' harbored har-bored many criminals who dodged thc law by Jumping from one stato to tho other. Then Miss Brooks, as the newspaper woman still was. took up her residence there. With militant methods, she began "exposing" right and left, and generally set out to set things straight. She did clean up West Hammond, and her fame spread widely in the middle west. , little later, having moved to Chicago and married a newspaper man of that, city, she wrote a serial Htory called "Little Lost Sister." telling some of . Ihc Incidental discoveries, along tho road of her investigations. Tlio installments in-stallments were what surcharged souls call "human 'documents." It is from these newspaper sketches that Mr. PcglcY has made something like a play. It is all about a. social worker named Carolina Rivers. Carolina Caro-lina Rlvers-Vlrglnla Brooke, Virginia Brooks-Carolina Rivers; get tho point? Well, Miss Rivers Is n very fascinating, piquant young woman, . which reformers on thc stage should be and generally "ire, though thc type does not abound In actuality. Indeed, when Carolina Invades tho office of wicked John Roland, with resolution In her heart but feminine fem-inine allurement In her glance, thc dishonorable capitalist is so far thrown off his guard as to say; "It Is a pleasure. Miss Rivers, to serve n. cause that.has ao charming a champion." cham-pion." John Boland lives to rue those words. For is not his office such repository of illegal and vile facts that a clerk gives up his job because he "found out so much there that he was afraid he would bo arrested for knowing It"? Carolina Rivers, you must know, is after John Boland because be rents houses to proprietors of disreputable restaurants and dance halls. Deforc he and a crafting Irish politician, another an-other "olly-tongucd rascal," know . quite what is happening to, them, the young reformer has pinned badges of purity on their coats and told them a lot of things about their personal and civic dutloiw "Bcgorrah." cries tho politician, "she's a better talker than Father Dornoy!" But wicked John Boland sneers: "It must be very fatiguing. this trying to reform everything and everybody." Thero is, I need hardly sav, a noble, upright mayor in the drama, n Broad-, Broad-, hurstian hero who Is as Incorruptible in tho face of bribery n's of threats. His miraculously appropriate name 13 Goodman Wicked John Boland. who has Just incited a whlte-slavcr to debauch de-bauch a girl his son has declared his Intention of marrying, endeavors to buy thc honest mayor But Goodman turns on him. and. Incldentallv brings down the curtain to a roar" of virtuous vir-tuous applause, with tho noble, ringing ring-ing words. "It win be a battle between be-tween principle and profit. You mav win; but. by God. you'll know vou've been in a fight!'' TN tho next act. In what the pro-A pro-A gramme calls "an actual reproduction repro-duction of a well-known Chicago cafo." Miss "Rivcm and thc mayor set out looking for something to reform. re-form. They might profitably begin on tho "spoclaltles" that respond to the remark of the proprietor: "Say. Jlmmle,. It's gutting a shado dull around here. It's about Umo wo started somothing.'' After tho ragged divertissement, sinister. Slim Simon drugs poor Utile- Patience Welcome, as per his agreement with wicked John Boland. Then somo of tho gang threaten to oxposo tho mayor for vs-. vs-. itlng a. joint. At that, Carolina rings for the police, aomo one dowses tho glims, there In a tussle in the dark and when the lights are switched on again, it Is d'scovorcd that tho cops have handcuffed the mayor by mistake. mis-take. In tho laBt act. after having set everything In tho world to rights. Miss Rivers flows into tho good man's arms. Thc programme gives the period as "Now and Always," which seems a llttlo pessimistic for a reform. If this thus thusnees is for always, why work? However, it Is the. fashion of tho day to bring home to us these "great moral lessons" by stamping them with a title that seems to Involve In-volve us personally. Miss Crothcrs calls her treatise on thu difficulties that all men throw in thc way f a girl's regeneration, "Ourselves." the Princess theater's bold reproduction of an especially low type of dlsorder-lv dlsorder-lv house was labeled "Any Night"; and when Mr. Rrondhurst felt Impelled Im-pelled to assure us that the most respected re-spected wives In tho community often pay their dressmaker's hills by moans of visits to a "call house." hn stamped It "Today." The only thing left appears to be to call tho next "crime play" "You" or "Me." with nn imaginary finger pointing straight at us. as In thc picture in thc druggists' windows. |