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Show P.RET ANGUN THE STAR asco Relates Interesting Reminiscences gild's Famous Dramatist and Widely Read Playwright. By Vanderheyden Fyles York. April 11, 1SU. WIEBETB FAN" Br Orcsr Wild. . ... rertro de Cordoba ' ' Arthur Byron nen Sidney Grccnstreoi a Norman Tharp m Wallace Wldccombo "", ., Donnld Cameron Hurry llsrtoot Marscry Maudo Derrick Mn.. LeMoyno rUIo Marjory Card 1 Ruth Holt Douclcnult ; Lillian Thurj-aUi Floronco Wollorsou r Sallto Williams riorenca Wollcrson Margaret Anfrlln j Monekton Holfo. (Dooth the- aWlort George Nash Milton Sills ' Frank Hatch ,ruaunt Klwyn Haton lt Frederick Anncrley H Frederick I'owell James 6. Ryan ".' ' ohn J. Steward Htshlre Llonol nirvana J. R. O'Brloa F. J. Rico .... J. J. Schuster ' Ola Petrova t OUvo Tcmplo ! Caroline HihtIr ilch! Loulrc Contl Mary Dalo " Viola Roaoh Floronco Tliomiwon Ktnlly Monto Dixie O'NUl , Anna Snyoo Constanco Wolf ,' Mary Wolfo Alma. Conrtcnuy imedy. by Catherine Chi&holm wra theater.) Shelley Hull Allan Pollock Lumsdoa Haro , Thomas Reynold ,,. Bernard Tliornton , , Gladys Hnnson ; Alice John .... Blltlo Burke cr brljlf.int success with than classics, aiargarot :d lfcr repertolro with a :lasslc Oddly enough, ar Wilde 1b tho most-Ist most-Ist except Bernard Shaw care, his plays have been iv the manapers. Only lance of Beins in Earn-in Earn-in revived in a Urst-class ugh "Lady Windermere':? rs from time to time in ock" nouses. Therefore most of up as a uov-playgoers uov-playgoers tell us of the malices In Ixradon and In February of 1S92 and Jvely, but all I can re-tlmo re-tlmo is the confused, but prcsslon tho story made listened, as a wide-eyed vld Belasco's mlnuto re-t re-t to my parents. I did .nd It and L was consid-iif- to sea such a wicked was vividly Impressed Belasco's description of j first night. At the end ), in response to the call " the curtains at the jarted in the middle, re-lo, re-lo, a green carnation in ole and a gold-tipped iween his fingers. I Us languid and so was the s spoech. in which he did 0 spectators for their a"p- congra tula ted them on cli intelligence to appte-it. appte-it. In New York, the the "sensation" of its was, according to anted an-ted brilliantly bv A. M. upany, of which all the ibers are now dead, ex-Tthur, ex-Tthur, the Ladv Wlnder-otlred Wlnder-otlred from the stage a ago. Maurice Barrvmorc urllnston; JSrtwurd Bell, rmero. E. M. Holland, us Lorton; "Wnldon Ram-rahuin: Ram-rahuin: 'Mrf. P. Bowers, of Berwick; and .May rr. Erlvnne. which rolo ncilng whon sho killed hor- iiia licr dressing room, in a San KiCo theater JWret Anslln oould not have f a character more in keeping i.m best abilities than Mrs. j- The refinement, dignity, WT wisdom, quick and keen ln-pacennd. ln-pacennd. beneath it all. the "ft of the outcast from society viihm. She has never looked ndfinc as in the wonderfully Wim evenly ROwn in which she appears. Before that, however. had not dragped. as It 5J, nve done with less aocom-actors. aocom-actors. It is rather perilous 's for a drama tint to wait un-ffe un-ffe middle of tho second act to Wce his chief character. Miss !0had borne that In mind, and -ouulde of her company for ac-.-"" he Duchess of Berwick rJy Windermere. Sarah -Cowell ne. looking the groat lady to I flier tlpn, fired off the epigrams ducheES with a sure aim Pit the bullseyp. overj' time; and Maude was an ideal, cold, wratic little Puritan. Between 6ePt our mlnils off the ab-"oi ab-"oi iriBs AnKljn. The men aro lLWPV The actors who no BlBlihcd themselves in ShaJce-it ShaJce-it ! were fomewhat out of their pni in fashionable comedy. Only .wlQ"ecombe. as the rather iwl Mr. Dumby. seemed at all R ?Jner born. Tho monstrous-" monstrous-" eldnej- Greenstrcet and the d Pedro de Cordoba looked LHKe, Tambo and Bonea In a chow than nnglish noble-nothing noble-nothing could convince, me 'Jr Byron's ord Darllng-'jiJ3. Darllng-'jiJ3. Tiot. a barber on tho sldo. uni.e Justify his engagement by saon of sinister, metallic na-man- Mr. do Cortloba. on irJLha!ld- "Plavcd Lord Windcr-P"m Windcr-P"m rablv, if i,c had looked the Lfuth Holt Boucicault. Lillian Pl and Harry Barfoot filled i i.ci. excellently, but Margcry Pif t 4iy realized the 'posslbill-'K-idy Agatha. And Norman blMBcd with that octor-Cecil octor-Cecil Graliam. made nolh-EL;1' nolh-EL;1' Somebody apoko of lt as bit" 1 CAnalin's wisdom in bringing hidcrmerc'B Fan" down from liH?tiolf. a"d slvlng one of the t il rnt performances of lor CJOMrj-. ISrlynno liar, been lm-Syy lm-Syy ,recoBnl2'd. Tlio revival Ifil2?ua to 1,1 et only two weeks, rj.WhUBlastlc v.'a'B Its reception tha end of that tlmo. when IffS 0LtHB Hudson theater will bo .l'nn over to another pro-Er pro-Er " wlu transfer the play to EL 5?ec, Xo small part of the (I.Uo. to George Foster E SiJl of the most accomplished Smm.0101"8 of tho Period. Tho ! tut aro bcautifui and in "Panthca" is the latest WtoJiftr nlversion. The drama is fflSton Hoffe. an Englishman tlAkm toinpcstuou.'i turn that "-rider him Invaluable to Mrs. ita;. .' A,E0- being an actor 0 Till? '.s wel! slocked. Nothing ftHjay is new, so wo havo tho IrW-iS Jollng of being among ; "n,e. Ho Htartc off In the rnightiest mood of Ibsen works im in l'ie . murderous tetnpestuousnessP of Sardoodledum, and ends in tho !n- yentional county "family of & re is nl ,T?i,,Ph1' Thc ,adl' frO' Ihc "fa then ln8fn.nni,dia PolH,ul1 Prisoner. 1 -in 1 nV?! ? .c ' ,b(in(; tnkcn baclc for liial and the ncvitable Siberia. Of nnuiSetbi'Cll actR a,ro "ot forthcoming iiVnJ Gi actrcs "as had plenty of 1 1' ,. '"oavo her bosom much and stare blankly lni0 spaco," with largo eyes extended as far in 'every dircc- rin?,J,er palllcl faco as wok and red paint can cany them, and to gen- fyTye,al some n!dlJcn sorrow. Sho lmmcdiatoiy calls tho only good look-L,F look-L,F vcra5,cr.of 11,0 oa51 (MJlton Sills) ?rti 1 . lluL naimo' but 13 strangely iriid to tho others, even after two bowls of soup; and sho retires ominously. omi-nously. "When everybody else Is in bed, just to make sure no ono will think he is still up, Gerald of tho good Physiciuo slta 'at a piano and plays Schumann. This brings Panthca from her room; and she telln him the story , , neL IIfo '"sacs around him considerably, con-siderably, and says that thev must so out Into tho night together." Gerald, who is a composer with an ingrowing genius that can bo brought to a head only by a passlonato woman, wom-an, which his Kngllsh wife is not, docs not need much persuasion, although al-though he is British enough to get into a comfortable great-coat and count Ills available cash before going out Into the mystic night. Also ho takes a farewell swallow of brandv and soda, while Panthoa is being something symbolical L. TJ. B.. aJid turns over a tablo of glasses and bottles. bot-tles. This wakes pop and the second footman. They arrive from their beds .iust in tlmo to see two figures floating float-ing across the lawn. "Don't you see a man and woman?" says pop. "No, sir," says the footman; "only two freo tilings escaped from prison." And the curtain falls on those words, which I submit are entirely surprising from a second footman. Olga Petrova, a performer from vaudeville, plays the hystcriacl and passionate Panthea. In tho second act, in a skin-tight gown of gold wall paper, with a red poppy on tho highest point of her chest and hor eyes still painted all over her face, she is living in "a capital In Europe" with her Gorald. He has written an opera, but cannot get it produced; and ho Is pining away, Tho doctor can do nothing for him; a premiere might cure where a poultice would be useless. use-less. However, Gerald consents to spond a restful month In tho country away from panting" Panthea. At thlB point our old friend, Baron Chcvrial drops into the Plot, under another name, and In the person of Georgo Nash, a little taller than tho Mann-field Mann-field baron, but as sinister and sensual sen-sual as ever. Mr. Nash, with unlimited unlim-ited make-up, acts a great deal. The Baron dc Duisltorl, director of tho local Opera fComlquo, brings Panthca Pan-thca a pink canary in a silver cage, with streamers of black crepe hanging from It; tho deep symbolism of which you may study for yourself, if so Inclined. In-clined. He could give Gerald's opera an auspicious hearing. He is weary of life, having tasted all its Joys all but Panthca. who writhes seductively in her sheet of gold wall paper, a la Nazlmova. The baron produces a vial of poison. I-To will swallow tho contents of this at the end of one month If ranthea will spend tho intervening in-tervening lime with him. That is his price for producing Gerald's opera. Afte considerable more writhing, Panthea agrees lo this, though sho should havo recalled how poorly Ko-Ko Ko-Ko fared when he entered into a somewhat some-what similar compact with NankJ-Poo. NankJ-Poo. However, with all cordiality to Mr, Hoffe, it cannot be said that his play is nearly as funny as "The Mikado." Mi-kado." TIIK next scene, brilliant and rich In effect and uncommonly well lighted, is at a supper given by the Baron In honor of the success or Gerald's Ger-ald's opera. He sits on a throne-llko chair of gold at A largo table, surrounded sur-rounded bv tho musical and artistic celebrities "of hc "capital in Europe, though they look rather more like a meeting of the choruses of "The wln-r wln-r Garden" and "Thc Midnight Girl." Tho Baron is very sinister; few actors return so much acting for one alarv as Mr. Nash. Thero arc llow-'ers, llow-'ers, music, laughter and rhampagne; In short, everything lo make one nervous ner-vous lest the Baron miss a cuo and divert the whole act into tho supper scene of "A. Parisian Romance. However, Sardon is the author s goal. The Baron, after a month with Panthea. has found a. now Interest In life. Ho decides not to die. Ho contrives con-trives to let Gerald learn "tno .prlco she la d" for the production of his oncro: and, -when confronted, makes no denial. Gerald breaks some considerable con-siderable glass and topples oer a candelabrum. Then ho gracefully ro-tfres ro-tfres in favor of the lady .leaving much more for her to smash. Panthea says a good many things that Jcdora-Theodora-Tosca and Gismonda may have said; tho supposedly Polish actress assumes an accent for Panthca Pan-thca that is nothing like a Russian KnPkln" ICngllsli. or anything olse, !nd?ed?"taut the stereotyped "foreign Sent" of stage adventuresses. I can't toll you what she said, but ac-Mons ac-Mons speak louder than, words, and Panthea lakes a convenient carvlTig icniffi from tho festive board and buries it in the bosom of tho Baron's evTning shirt. Then, though it is ob-vlo ob-vlo fo Is delaying death only until ho can find sufficient space on . tho J." ' n,. - large actor safoly -Mtnin curtain line; sho begins beating Urn on tho back with a candelabrum. Tot In the next act the physician says aBvargedft.!:r?n. Madamo Petrova lo out a scries or Plefdng ShrlX such as I In a long experience of Leslie yuicT erolnesf Then, coming before Hie c.irlflln she was overcomo and had to But if Mien Baycs's hair was uw . r TT-ln Imr PVOB WCrO not tllO , I; IV r entirely different from tho art one M?. Hoffe wrote, which was first one air, j t autumn. SrhSe0 tho Soc?Bu"lved only a fort-Wnr fort-Wnr three wockB. Thero, Panthea nlS1 w Gerald selected h pleaimnt and ner1,Ye 'JLhich to dlo together, sylvan doll Vno Kst llnes, th couplo and one of..g08 th0mselvcs on , a having jtrc"art tieinp at tho point sVM?.Llon was: Panthea, arc of .nmfortabie-'" In the latest vor-you vor-you comforiaDie 1 Panthea ?,on' HPutl n murdoresa by takh.g from "clhorla for her political of-licr of-licr off to Slboria ior v niarry fSrTndaS With hen yTho last words ' "Clothes," at the Rex Monday "The bouI is greater than all tlio clothes that cover it." Scones from tho Famous Players proiluctiou of the drama in which Grace ucorgc starred mid which startled metropolitan society. Daniel Frohman ob-tniucd ob-tniucd a splendid cast for his film version of the play, including Charlotte Ives and House Peters. "Clothes" will be at tbo Jtcx tomorrow Tuosdav and Wednesday. of the play aro his: "Panthea. you have said where you and I are, thero Is home. Como, wo aro going home!" npIIROUGII broad French windows, :tt the back of a comfortable living room In a country house near Philadelphia, wc see a vista of rolling, roll-ing, well-kept lawns, such as art the charm of Radnor and other colonics colo-nics along thc "main line." It is twilight. Lights and shadows play across the green mounds. Thon, in the distance, the black body and gleaming headlights of a motor car appear. Tho nuto grows larger and larger; Its horn Is heard, and Blllle Burke bounds into view. "Jerry" may be declared a dramatic triumph In that it shows Miss Burko in the fluffy laco things that most enhance, her beauty, in riding breeches and n pink pajamas. Neither Sarah Bernhardt, Bern-hardt, Mrs. Fiskc nor Ellen Terry could fill tho role so well. Catherine Chisholm Cushlng, who wrote "Kitty MacKay," which tho public likes, and "Widow by Proxy," which thc comic genius of May Irwin Ir-win has carried to success, is author of this ".Torry" piece, though it is rumored that she did not design It for Miss Burke. Such a detail, however, how-ever, is nothing to thc young woman who had no hesitation in distorting Pinero to her purposes, as ho did a year ago with "Tlio Amazons." And whatever popularity "Jerry" attains will bo because it enables Miss Burke to look her prettiest, to be impudent to overyono In the cast, to use slang and say "devil," to wiggle and wiggle wig-gle and flirt, and generally to carry everything beforo her. It Is a typical typi-cal Blllle Burke role, the daughter or should I say granddaughter? of tho aoubretto of the days of Lotta, Maggio Mitchell and jMInnlo Palmer, who, as a critic old enough to re-momber re-momber the type, points out, "used to enter eating an apple and with a sunbonnet hanging from her invariably invaria-bly sun-kissed, peroxide locks." .Torry is a very young girl from Chicago, described by ono of tho characters as "up to the mlnutel Sho's an hour ahead of tlmo." With her youthful mother, sho comes to tho suburb-that-mlght-be-Radnor to visit her unmarried aunt, who has been engaged for twenty-six years to marry a man who also rather interested inter-ested Jerry's mother, at ono timo. Jn spite of all this, ho shows no sign of ago, partially because ho is reallv Shelley Hull, whose good looks are his chief asset, but largoly because be-cause he is thero to marry Bllllo Burke. For. of course, Jerry immediately imme-diately sets her cap for auntie's beau, evon inserting nn advertisement advertise-ment in the Philadelphia papers to the effect that tho long-standing engagement en-gagement has boen broken. Sho purposes pur-poses consoling auntie with a silly, constant Englishman. It is so cuto to see Blllle Burke havo her own way and sasa her elders! "Tn my day," says her mother, "young girls wero content to let the men do the proposing." pro-posing." ... , . "Yes," says Jerry, 'and aee what you got." How delightful! How adorable! (Pleaso fill in the superlatives yourself, your-self, as Miss Burke's charms entirely entire-ly escape mc, though 1 would be a poor, Inaccurate reporter did I fail to emphasize the fact that sho is one of tho most widely popular performers perform-ers in America.) In the last act. Jerry takes a new tack to have her way. Besides Mr. Hull, Gladys Hanson, Han-son, Alice John, Lumsecn Hare and Allan Pollock arc the chief actors who stand up to be knocked down by Blllle Burke's vivacity. To finally vanquish nil. sho takes to her bed and pretends to have swallowed poison This Introduces thc pink pajamas. Without favoritism. It may be said that Miss Burke extracts as muoh drama from pajamas as Polllc Chaso, rjlllle Courteuay, Jack Barry-moro Barry-moro or any of our other leading pajama players. IOvorybody is agitated agi-tated over tbo loss of Jerry. The much-loved Hull arrives, and thc family tactfully retire. Thon Jerri", consenting to olopo with him, retires re-tires behind a screen to got Into traveling trav-eling clothes. She throws tho precious pre-cious pajamas over the screen: her lover pounces on them with all tho ardor of Romeo over Juliet's rose, and tho curtain falls on "Jerry." |
