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Show "TRIAL MARRIAGTIn i Helen Ware Again Picks PoorMeSMt CINDERELLA OPERATm "The Point of View" and "The Blindness M& tue" Are Problem Plays Dealing WitSkjS Different Phases of Same Theme. f,u By Vanderheyden Fyles 2c Nw York. Nov. A. IMS. "TRtAt. A BRIAR IT'-A pl7 In hrci "-'U. D? Elmer Iltrrl! (Ilmlron theater.) Robert J'jyo? Stcr-irl Koberl II. ltii'ljoo Tooin. iT. liiltuliarj tllrlur.l llunllrmon ', F.nicsl ElalUr-I Mr. KMckjv Kvim Krn-xyn Ion:, rnyix-ijtoiv.irl Marpurrt Gonloa HUlr Tliomi tlarrlton Hunter Aloxntnler I'rlnc- Cliarlei A. Stevcnfoa Marie Louise RldfiTay Helen Wnie 7My , r.lnjnor Stiurl lillota- tlarrj Lllltom 'TIIK LADY OK THE SLIPPER" A !llUfr:.t rKliy In llirre acta. Pr Anno Calrtotl anrt I.m-ronro McCarthy. J.yrlci br Jurnw O'Dea. Mutlc li? VIelor Itrrbcrt. (Rloho thettcr.) The Crown Prince MiixmltlJti..DauslKH Stcveiuoti Princ" Ulrich IIiiRcnn Rvpm Ci-puln -liHIf lav Jatncr. tt. ReMirjr Baron -von Nix. I'lmrlf Mn'.ou Xlit Vernon CkcII-? Moiiirr lUvl'l Ahraliaini AHreclit Samu-I nurlmtik )sit HxroM Uiiu."!! Joseph EtlKr I.. IUy Matlblas Kil. lUndill I punks' Davlil C. Montsonirrr Sroolis T'r-1 A. Stone CiMrtprrlla E!le Janlf DollahhU Lillian Ie rreaKell" Queate ti.ir Roininey.' Allrnr Critor The futry noilrnotber Vivian lliiBliniore Vatcr)o ' 1 P"Sgr Wool Soplil.i Florence Wlltlanii lrin ndn-i Uates Clam , Ueli'u Knleoner Lu.lnrlci Rlal!i Sell Malrta Lillian R.l"e firolclien Ani?J Wclmnrx Prrinlcr ilanseunn L.y(Ua IOpoiikufa "THE rOINT OP VIEW Ry Jules CcVcrt t'.oodman. (FortT-eiRhih Strcot llipater.) I"rnn:c5 ITxtnn 'Luclio W.ilrnn MIjk Prrntlce Gdm fin-oM Poll? fluflforil Mndce Kennedy Mr Plmiley Kmllt St-Ten.: Katie Mat Malloy Robert l.vrlon Howard Ktlibrfol.- HoTvurd Tinnnery Wlllleni Morrli Stephen Wright Robert Kelt? "THE BLINDNESS OP VIRTUE'" A play (n four sels. tly Cosmo Itamltloii. (Thlrly-iilntli Street tlirator.) Tlia Ro,v. H.irrr frinherton A. lloline.'-ttorr Helen IVniberlon I.na illll)J.r Effio -. r)orI Lyllnn TooVIn l'ollle Emrry ym. L-innilii Lo;ilc V'niery TVH fnlllns A. ll.iniilton-Oltibn Mary Ann ta(lj:r Miirrdj- The Hon. Archibild f;rham Basil Hnlliim "THE WOMAN INTERVENE?" Ily J. HnUey Mannet--. (Union Sausre Ihcaler. Paul Wlnllimp CJi?.rlr! Wynatc Outnn ' Tom Masulre Tot. Brent Halbert Brovn Tho Toman Florence RolerU "THE ROBBER BARON"' A .ittrlr?I romedy. By LudTvlp; lllro. Itrvlns raJace thp.it rr.) Count. I'rutts Holtirb.-ll Mnrlov Count Lsdlllaus Kci-dlnand MKrlltil l ounteis- Emma Martr BuhrVr Vi-tnr Cteots: Pabst Count Mlrhaet rjiistav Oinur Criuntew; Marjjlt Constnnci von 7.-cl:e:idorf Count . .Stefan Enisl Robert Anna 'Onlaeihoi Annie Var.i Kuorl Otto Storrkcl A jervnnl Mula Prctorlus ELMER HATiRIS evidently ponder? ninth on the subject of matrimony and regards tho stage as the proper platform plat-form for the deliverance of his con- elusions. A year ago dfiicd himself in a plavjftl'T "Thy Neighbors Wifp'ijSfti two young husband?, ot'i'iinKi? t joiuing houses in a siiburuHf fr ntnnity, exchanged wives ftiiMt period. Hin latt .Irama rectly to the point in its VeMSl "Trial Marriage." InSt Neighbor's ViTl'e" tho clarM," of t raged v was sonndcil Triu. band '8 heartrending rrv.Bu o'clock nnd tho bed not faKft In the Inter play tho diM chord of anguish" is struckl!, despairing wail of a womjaH1 f cook leaves her iuiniodiatcWH learning that ?he and her fiSo husband tiro not legally nV-It nV-It i a harroAvitig lnoiDonffcilE has been disagrcoablo tbfofl dinner tho soup could notbB11 lowed; the chops wore burWiBa-cji: ter, healing 110 sound fTpM,' kttchcu no gentle splnsfi o.VtO wntor, no crash of crockcSfl trial marriage ladv invs4 When she reappear? at HijH?,! door, her face is ashon. hcrLi trcmblo, her voice Ts hnilJLfl snpprcss.cil eniotTons. She Wjiifi able lo ga.'p: "t ook lias IofWd without washing the dishcjJflHf Q MA It IK LOU1SK HIDdBfrS yon must knov:, is afj,1J iatcd orphan who has MMHt nursing ,v a moans of netnB11"1 pendent of lnr snobbish, E'-j stepmother. One of iho rBTIti she has restored to health it. 'A Inror and m.')gn7.luc vritrr;iBftji find them in ;i state of hlKL'. love for each other. ThcyllK-gooil ThcyllK-gooil den about it: aiiilaSiii Helen Ware, and Harrieon JI aro hialtliy looking ctaraplBjC s-ettlcil. rather corpulent maB1 tho recital i' not altr.ictivtSgjra it is ei-ential to ttnprwtifl Die deptii and ardor of thcijHhTa Indeed, the lecturing aiitblTrVtii Marie Louise su ptissionatclfl. ho cannot think of such a taMffi marriage Wltrn he looks f. and observes the rcai )i"nBi" unhappy ntarriages he is diijMTta that pe'o)le should 0 ou cifliix into life contracts without rffi narv periods of trial wc-HocltJ' in fact, is the dortnne whK urges on the platform and in neazi nes. Marie Louise sjBjltr little Jukewarin about the fWld but she does, howevei,,C0 (m? Adirondacks with hi'n for aWji months' trial. A rstner cMcmI tor (Charles A. Stceuon) BlOF onlv friend and liciehborj'ij -presently, Mr. TrinI M8rrt. comes ioalous of bis intimaj Mario 'l.ouisc. Of eonrse, (Continued on Following "TRIAL MARRIAGE" INSIPID; ' CINDERELLA OPERA LIKED (Continued from Preceding Page.) picions are unjust, though dear, innocent in-nocent Mrs. Trial Marriage has a way of doing such injudicious things as( dropping in on the actor ono evening and not going borne until tli c next day. Then comes all thc trouble about Cook." That fhrows Mr. T. M. into a vilo temper. tem-per. And it is coming on to rain, too. Marie Louiso tries to coax him into a good humor. Howovcr, he won't be coaxed; and wben she coos a coo too many, be blandly takos her by tbe throat aud throttles throt-tles bcr. Thou, aghast at, tho spectacle spec-tacle of her lying motionless on tbo conch, be thinks bo lias killed bcr and becomes greatly agitated. Hut, presently, she look's up and says she isn't dead. However, Mr. T. M. is a Dead One at least, to boiC She tells him to got out. It is now storming fiercely, the thunder thun-der rumbliug and the light uing flashing; and, uot unreasonably, the man demurs. But Mario Louise's dander "13 up; and. pu nun cling his chest, she drives bim from tbo cabin. cab-in. And then, alone and trembling with no trial-husband and no cook Mario Louiso sinks sobbing to the floor. IN" THE last act, back in town, cv-eo'body cv-eo'body is dressed up in terribly terri-bly refmed. One feels confident tbe dishes have boon washed. Marie Louise is once moro with her stop-mother, stop-mother, who desires to marry bcr ' off in a young man of considerable worldly experience. 1 need hardly hard-ly sav that Ibo opportunity is not lost for a long discussion about the unreasonable demand that; a bride should come to the altar pure, though the man she marries is not. After Marie Louise has had her full say on the subject, her trial-hueband trial-hueband turns up and asks her to enter info an ordinary, old-fashioned marriage. And this, after a little hesitation, she consents to do. IT IS unfortunate that an actress of such exceptional ability as Miss Helen Ware cannot get a drama worthy of her. No play in which sho has appeared since attaining thn rank of a star has been worth doing at all; yet sho has carried off her share in oarh bo well a? to almost make up for thc authorial shortcomings. TWO now sociological, seriously argumentative dramas, one Antcric.m and thc other English, and a musical farce made notable by a scoro by Victor Herbert and the assignment of tho chief roles to Montgomery and Stono and Elsie Janis. Those arc tho principal novelties of a busy week in theatcr-dom. theatcr-dom. In "Thc Lady of thc Slipper," Slip-per," wo have onco more tho heartless heart-less baron, and the wicked sisters, and tho Fairy Godmother and Prince Charming and tho gcutlo lit-tlo lit-tlo Cinderella. Ts it possiblo the fairy-lnlo will ever loso its charm? Surely not, when rocountcd with such blithe freshness as in this case by Ann Caldwell, Lawrence McCarthy and James O'Dca, and embellished with such sumptuous-ncss sumptuous-ncss and taste. And above all, whou selr to music by tho fluent and accomplished Victor Herbert. Yet perhaps tho most alluring incident inci-dent of all is almost purely pictorial. pic-torial. Tt comes at tho oud. Tn the first act wo seo Cinderella in her kitchen, terribly "put upon" bi" hor father and her sisiors, though we, T must admit, arc loth to see them drive off to the ball, because their eccentricities aro so entertainingly realized by Charles Mason and the Misses Lillian Loo and Queen Vassar. Tho second act. at tho prince's ball, is a carnival of dancing, Miss Janis and Douglas Stevenson as Prince Charming, almost al-most making Romanco live, to tbe itisidnous accomplishment of the Herbert music; Mile. Lydia Lo-poukowa, Lo-poukowa, tho beautiful and dainty premiere daiiscuso from St. Petersburg, Peters-burg, leading a gorgeous ballot; and Vernon castle contributing eccentric ec-centric dancing fairly comparable with that of Fred A. Stone and David C Montgomery. But. after another act in the baron's kitchen, with David Abrahams as thc cat, I he novelist incident of the evening comes. By means of a treadmill and a moving panorama such as realir.es tho race- in "Ben-Ilur," Cinderella is seen driving her coach nnd six crenm white ponies through a wonderful won-derful fairyland, bathed in moonlight, moon-light, while music fills tho air. TpIIK dramatist who allows his JL play to be introduced lo thu metropolis at a "trial matinee," or a series of such matinees, handicaps han-dicaps it with the implied admission admis-sion that no managor believed in it. quite thoroughly enough to risk a regular production; but 011 tbo other hand, thc author is thereby able to assoniblo a better company than he might otherwise sccuro. This advantago was. notably evident evi-dent at tho nfternoon "first night" of "Tho Point of View," by .lulcs Eckort Goodman, in which the brilliant bril-liant acting of Miss Lucilo Watson and Miss J'Jmily Stovcn6, Recondcd by admirablo performances by Howard Jista brook, Miss Madgo Kennedy, Miss Graco Griswold and William Morris, and by no means hurt by the remaining members of tho cast of eight, brought out all tho author's good points and glossed over many of his lapses. The drama, which" is not felicitous-)y felicitous-)y named,' is moro admirable In matter than in form; ono f-ccls Mr. Goodman would boncfit by association associa-tion with a collaborator whuso lifo has buon cast in different surroundings surround-ings from his own. He thinks in 10112, but expresses himself iu tho currency of J 805. Ho conceives humanly; but, from time to time, appears to become terrified by bis own humanity and glazes it over with old and artificial expedients of tho theater. He knows life; but reveals scant knowledge of the lives of people of the class to which somo of his characters purport pur-port to belong, IT would bo interesting to discuss Mr, Goodman's drama critically; critical-ly; for it is serious in design and engrossing in effect and much moro stimulating tha.u the majority of contemporarj' dramas. But let us to a direct rchoarsal of the fable. Francos Lawtoo (Lucilo Watson") is n resolute, noble, porsevorin Now York woman in tbo eftrly tbjrtios, tbe fatherless daughter of a wealthy rake; hor brothers and sisters bo-ing bo-ing typical of tho richer fast society so-ciety "of the metropolis and its country haunts, it is not dillicnlt to identify the admirable' Mies Itwton with a spinster who has douo much to ennoble one of the best known names in America. Thc fictional philanthropist has cast her lifo among unattached juris who have come from smaller cities to the zrcat metropolis, here to struggle strug-gle for a footing in ouc or other of the Alts. She meets nnd learns to love a girl from tJyraeusc, whose voico more or less justifies her ambition am-bition for an operatic career; but when Frances Lawton first discovers discov-ers Myra Dinislcy (Emily Stevens) she is convalescing in a maternity hospital, her baby having died within an hour of its birth. The girl's musical ambition has been stronger thau thc lovo and home offered b3' a childhood friend, who still wauts her for bis wife: but, alone in Zscw York, she bad succumbed suc-cumbed to the fickle fascinations of a wealthy waster, who presently deserted her. All this occurred several sev-eral mouths beforo the begiuning of-the drama, at which point Francos Fran-cos has just induced Mj'ra to come and livo with bcr. But no sooner is thc vocal student installed in thc hospital apartment thau she encounters en-counters Frances's brother, discovering discov-ering him to be her f3itblc?s lover. He is about to marry a suitable friend of his sister; but when be learns of tho baby, he insists on fulfilling bis promise of a trip to Paris with Myra, but this time as her husband. However, as soon as she realizes that bis proposal is inspired in-spired onl' by a aenso of duty that he does not loyc her and never really did she rejects it scornfully. scornful-ly. Her oue remaining thought is to keep all knowledge qf tbe painful situation from bcr benefactress. benefac-tress. Sbo runs away and bides. Stephen Wright (Robert .Kelly), her faithful suitor from Syracuse, is touchingly attentive to her, and, prcscutly. Frances Lawton discovers discov-ers hor lair and comes to her. Sho insists on an explanation of her flight; Myra is as determined not to grieve Frances witb tho knowledge knowl-edge of Robert Lawton '5 perfidy. Finally Frances ferrets out tbe fact that Myra has seeu and talked with the father of her dead baby; and, when a caller is announced, Myra, expecting it to bo Stepbou "Wright, clutches at the coincidence as tpe bost way out to let Frances believe, him to be the man. Sho bap, in fact, concluded to marry him, beforo this climax, he knowing know-ing something of her experience aud loving her in spite of it. But when tho door opens, it is .Robert Lawton who appears. His sister sees the true situation at a glance. Robert (Howard JoHlabrook) is determined to "make amends." At this juncture junc-ture tbo other man arrives, identifying iden-tifying Robert as the scoundrel in tho case. Stephen makes for him to tbrottlo him. But that young man is as resolute as over to do his duty, as ho conceives it,' by marrying Myra. At which point that resourceful female, distracted by !a situation that you must allow is tr3'ing, puts them all to rout by crying; "But what makes you think Robert Lawton was the first? How about tbe others?" This as-w tounding expedient puts the Law-tons Law-tons to flight; but the solid citizen of Syracuse remains and, seeing in his honest eyes that ho did not swallow her Camille-like subterfuge. subter-fuge. Myra. sinks into his armss sobbing: "I thought you'd understand!" under-stand!" A RATHER difficult subject for exposition in thc theater is that selected bv Cosmo Hamilton, tbo English dramatist, for discussion, discus-sion, in "Tho Blindness of Virtue' which was acted last season at Miss Gertrude Kingston's little tboater, iu London, aud for which an English Eng-lish company has been imported. Tho matter -under question is, simply, sim-ply, tho paternal problem as to how mi'icb, or how little about lifo and the relation of sexes should be made clear io a growing girl. Mr. Hamilton poses his problem wttb tbo careful skill of an experienced dramatist. The roctor of a rural parish aud hiq good wil'o disagree about tho proper course to take iu regard to their daughter, now approaching ap-proaching womanhood. The clergyman clergy-man has been frighteued' by the misstep of ono of his young parishioners, parish-ioners, a girl brought up as guarded guard-ed ignoranco of "tho great, big, essential things of life," as his own daughter. Thus agitated, tbo roverend gentleman hurries to his wifo and insists that sho immediately immedi-ately enlighten their innocent Ef-fic. Ef-fic. This, Mrs. Pemborlon reluctantly reluctant-ly consents to do; but the fulfillment fulfill-ment of hor promise goes so against her prejudices that sho puts it off until the girl has seriously compromised com-promised herself. Thc rectory, you must know, nlso bouses a young studout, a headstrong, geucrous and engaging youth, who has been expelled ex-pelled from Eton and from Oxford ! and is now chafing under the tutelage tutel-age of the roctor. En passant, it is lnontiouablc that that narrow-minded cleric is really bent ou molding the young student according to his own" ideas., rather than merely "coaching" him, which is supposed to be the limit of his duty. The voung folk are much together, aud when Archie goes on a .jaunt to town, the innocent Miss H. misses him so dreadfully that, clothed only in her nightie and a dressing-gown, she sits up for him in his bodroom. It is vorv late when he returns; but Eflic will not bo shunted off lo bed until ho gives her a full account of his eventful day. In tbo midst of this recital the roctor enters. Unaware Un-aware his wife has not made the promised revelation, he is aghast aud angry. Bundling the girl oft" to her own room, he liberates a torrent of abuse on the innocent boy, who, finally, shocked at such suspicions, rushes from the contaminating tirade. ti-rade. Tn the last act, still righteously right-eously indignant, tho clergyman upbraids his wife ns "one of those women who aro uot fit to be mothers moth-ers of girls;" though when he discovers dis-covers that no harm has been done and that the girl and boy arc innocently inno-cently in lovo, ho cairns down to the worthy statement that "God's in hie heaven; and I woudor what's for breakfast." THAT an actress so highly e..v teemed iu tbo west as Miss Florence Robert? has never succeeded suc-ceeded in establishing horself in Now York should not bo miscpu-str'uod miscpu-str'uod as evidence of bad taste in tho metropolis or of any prejudice against a stranger. Either of two causes is sufficient to explnin,tho situation. Miss Roberts delayed In her introduction to thc cast until ID she was no lougcr young enough to WB back up her histrionic skill with lM) any considerable personal nttrae- W tiou; and ehc has suffered through I HI an unfoftiiaute selection of plavs. Ilffl "Tho Strength of the Weak. " in IB which she -made her New York de- but thc night after the San Fran- cisoo earthquake, was a very no'.r play and "The Struggle Everlast- ing" was not liked; whilo her sub- jH sequent appearances as Mrs. Ral- bton in (Mmi the Penman" and as Hfl the Countess Zicka in " Diplom- ac.v" wore' not made under prori- tious circumstances. Xow she is trying her luck in vaudeville. Her vehicle, "The Woman Intervenes. " is a "staficv" little play by J. Hartley Manners; . hut not at all BH a bad example of its type. A well- HH seasoned bachelor is 111 loyo with HB thc Trail wife nf a military man. HG But the woman intervenes. "She is. Di I need hardly say. Misp Roberts: and is revealed as' tho object of tho WM ardent bachelor's love, ten years or so before. Her anneal to him o discontinue his attentions to tbe. innocent wifo are futile uuti $be B tells him Mrs. Brent will soon be- B como a mother. That pulls thc man B up to an appreciation of the peril- B ous position in which he has almost B placed the colonel's ladv. But, at B this point, Colonel Brent himself B appears. He has heard of tho si'- fl nation and is iu a rage. But the B quick-witted woman announces her B own cng.'igonient to the suspected man, adding the nssuranco that H Mrs. Brent's apparent interest in Q him was really due to her effort 1 fl to bring them together. And after the cofonelBdcp.irts wc observe an B intimation that tbe sweethearts of old will actually and happily live fl up to their fictional betrothal. fl W'HEN Wit and Realism clash H the allegiance of Ludwig Biro, the Hungarian author of tho now satirical comedy of "The Rob-ber Rob-ber Baron " goes to the former. He 1 is desirous enough to keep within thc bounds of credibility, but he fl must be "brilliant' at all costs. fil And who qunrrcb with Bernard Shaw because he is not John Gals-worthy?" Gals-worthy?" An aged Hungarian "no- , bleman has become infatuated with thc youthful daughter of n peasant Hj couple on his vast estate. He has given her a castle and proposes lo marry her. But his relatives do not sec things "Ihot way; and so. tbev omploy a shrewd, resourceful pie- fll boian. who has always lived by hh H wits, to brcuk off the' match. Daunt-ed Daunt-ed at uothiugj tTns Hungarian John Tanner, who is epigramatieally dc-.scribed dc-.scribed as a "robber baron as well as .1 robhor of barons,' takes the B most direct course by marryinc the girl himself, thus securing a Bl very attractive nnd suitable bride and ah imposing castle, as well ;n IH thc promised i'oo. Bui. oh, bow tho H tight. listedmom'bors of the. noble HI family try to evade that expemli- HI ture!" For it is at tho" petty mean- HI ncsscs of tho aristocracy that Mr.' Bl Biro aims his most slinging shaft- Bl of satire. HI |