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Show feershams Othello" Pleases W Newspaper Man's Play Scores a Big Hit Rormance Is a M p Wanted" Is Expected to Take Its Place If Among' Money-makers of Metropolitan m Theatrical Season. H By Vanderhsyden Fyles New York, Kfhninry 21. lB!fl"-A r4y In llo net. by Slinkc-WyDTic Slinkc-WyDTic theater.) ?..!,,. Kincgl It u san VVMI( . Arllmr Klllott tUfi',"' llurbcil Oe ilucrre Mftw Henley KdwnnU ft n. n. -Mi-iK'.in 4"' T'cilio Cordoba ffl'V Wlllffim Kavor-fcliiim "H'v '.'."-." ficonee C. SomilO r;"'" "" , Herbert do Uuitio Sf.Sm.n l'ntnlt Howon "?"!";, " IIulpli Kcmmelt Hitlcsiu Cecilia Lofliiji V. t;on.itfcncc (jollier '.'' ,'0,1',e wakcico EHioti HfciVTFn" A pir 1" l,,rec nclt-""B'(il'ilno nclt-""B'(il'ilno Kllloit'8 (healer.) Charles A. Abbe! B' Clinrlca RukkIcs Hrllii' . . ..... Cli'irlos Wchman I "H"?" John Mlllern "Br Jl. S. GoMnlno "b'liy lxIs Jtercdllh "Ky "" Rosamond O'Kano H&iXnl"" Drsniond Kolly KnKni ".. Krtna Ma5 K!I11,CM Vlvlnn RushmorQ Jf ' Jessie Rnlph HS WcrntL" Knthcrluo Kmniot Kott ... .. V. Lorraine llullns KjT fifteen months ago Wil-Kol Wil-Kol Kovorsbam revived Wll-BakcFPcaro's Wll-BakcFPcaro's "Julius Caesar Ener tliat satisfied high hopes Kl d liveliest expectations for Knd venture with the poet. Kures were alive, correct and Kthc cast after one serious ? had been recti fied was as B'can be gathered In this un-Karean un-Karean era: and Mr. Fnycr-Vntrn Fnycr-Vntrn performance of .Marc iWancod him in discerning 'by no less llian SO per cent, "'second adventure- In the "holms chosen "Othello. lTn-Bonlh lTn-Bonlh or two ago, that tragedy KcllcUy unknown as an acted o the present generation. We Kj, on stories of Salvlni and ""Knell ns the Moor and ot Ld-Ktli, Ld-Ktli, Uwreiice Barret t, Henry Bfini other doniliKint actors al-" al-" that character with logo: Bnad opportunities to sec only ""'Of a fecondary snide or less, ""ty at outlying "one-week """"E, Then 41 r Johnston Forbes-Bon Forbes-Bon revived our Interest in Ka with a masterly pcrform-"""""""tlfc pcrform-"""""""tlfc title role, set In very un-"""""pory un-"""""pory surroundings. pavcrKham production of the "BkIiis with an enchanting pic-""""Pvenlce pic-""""Pvenlce In the moonlight, while "K& orchestra "discourses sweet Bf Then the tragedy begins with Herfullv vivid, "lived In'- street i"Elcc. Most of vis remember the ""Epesrfan davs when the prime "Kof the scenic artist seemed to "Rcrcatc drops and wings that Wksy suggested nothing In lite; fH suppote, Is the great Shakc-an Shakc-an tradition. But Josepli Ihir-fti Ihir-fti dresscil till? revival with plc-Bhat plc-Bhat at once commingle actnali-Hp actnali-Hp romance; we arc In a drcam-litaut'. drcam-litaut'. yet not so far rc-from rc-from what we have cxperl-Vto cxperl-Vto doubt the credibility of what Kon thai point of credibility. Bur leader, may be of an ago Htemher Kdwln Booth. I urn not Wt as a black, ton-lfyltig figure Kcm my nurse s knoe. But hav-Kii hav-Kii no actor of extraordinary Kas laco I am still puzzled Kltut rank absurdily could bo Bii a convincing role. The oth-Kln? oth-Kln? I asked a well-known ftho is considerably older (I will li blushes by not mentioning m!) how the character could kftd In, and ho said: "It has mi conspiracy of make-believe; Bpe things in the Bible, we all . we believe In Tago." Wll-fcversham Wll-fcversham embodies the villain nood entirely new to inc. at ft Un la go Is not so imu-h 1Bh(icnd as he is a gay. uncon-We uncon-We dog vlio puts on gaiety as Mtr daes his mask and doinl-Bto doinl-Bto Is working out no ancient K.but having a darned good, jPftl time. He smirks, he nar-iBP'hls nar-iBP'hls eyes, lie says plainly to jPlence "What fun It 1b to har-2BP har-2BP fo nnirdor this Innocent, jrbrute!" It is needless to say IKr. Faversliani is a figure of IPt&ulluc beauty. jlBtio physique, his mobile fca-iPDd fca-iPDd his expressive eyes make f' for him to convey precisely Ktlj- his idea of la go. But he ulc about a lot: and pages of r tlwt readily might be spared iBtlored bo that we shall miss JKOf his performance. Indeed, lpma lnateil from 8 p. m. until IK'l A gooily sitting, without In the pit? And this long fe yna lntcrrupiiul only after IBnt of Othello'a Jealous fury, Vtbello would choke lago, when Jvenhani, very gracefully too jHty 'or absolute belief! bowed iiom view In deference to the f Othello, At such times the supplo Favershain suggested Quite so much as an agile, lw performer bowing to ap- Blhello ho had engaged R. D. BfLean, an actor who ban Ktcnowii in smaller cities, but HEits to New York. Mr. Mac-an Mac-an admirable actor. His beautiful and his diction jKTc of his finest thought. He wturc for tho Moor. In orl-mani1 orl-mani1 6ady plumngc h lK9- Jlkc tragedy than a mlts-JMeWron mlts-JMeWron turned out In the Hj fashion for a the dansaut Jioiisa Xcvcrtlieless, he Is, ,vrbtJ1-Robertson. tho best K.l"ls generation liau foen. Ehi? r?a!i "ot entirely cvi-(':iiia cvi-(':iiia Loftus litis been chosen Bv?.nt1' Xow, f must admit JjMt inal Miss Loftus throws n jMLSciv mo that entirely tiis-MKnient, tiis-MKnient, .ust to look at her -Wr KatlHfactlon than all that gi Eleanora Duse. Kllcn Terry VHan can give me. But a worse KfeoC OcEdcmoua I could Jncelvc He held her hands r"Q in opliihterlsh Bnugnc3s rove her abdomen, as jiie were perpetually knit-resembled knit-resembled nothing tiulto-Him tiulto-Him fnlUiful. frightened. JS,, schoolmann from MftJi:1'lVen so' what cliarm! .ietiliS about CIssle Lof-MSntlrely Lof-MSntlrely iliearniK crltlclHin, , K?: Performance of the play. t,i lp opportunities. Is K;.r7ro do Cordoba, as Cas-Bninnii Cas-Bninnii "nderbtiintJlng, grace BnTlo diction. Constance IK,1! . Sown iimt miglit be de-K'r de-K'r orst a !L serviceable KihH at. l,B bcst 8 a poem Sh? color l" effeotivo M'Vni?.lIrH o'ueb acting Into Btan I to, serve for ICathorlno H&h Jty Macboth-isho Blli?UoM,alcs. "ho "mugs" HlrfLVor.X. "0arB, hut slic HPii Tllc Hodcrlgo Kccms B? ti,!.. snatched froni C'u-HBtht C'u-HBtht S? ,Kli, hy 110 n)(-nns bad: RsKil'0 0WH tln-ough white Htatav?i Uiut deceive nobody, .traIItlonaI uiaunor: TTort.of Venice could not Wre.,111 fHCW lie 1s tho v have ever mot nnd I r . .NS?Md'. Illc fivers ham "Othello." f not ikcly to drive you to tearing " LQl?l!r!i J" Hd'1'--.tl6n. is sure n, m?..,JOi" nlL,a-s"re. To aiifh puiniliir ' ..l,c Lau 11 is 513 lllc Peacock Pea-cock to the sparrow. THIC handsome (heater that bears the handsome Ma.Inc Elliott's mine began the season with the Urst ;i.V0 xy l,lc S've" Pl".vs. and It ooK.5 as though It would end with the (dare wc hope?) last of them, j-ist August, when "The Lure" was making impressionable New Yorkers asp. a drama culled "Help Wanted Want-ed was doing the same thing in Los Angeles. Humor had it that lie latter lat-ter piece, by .lack Lalt. a Chicago newspaper man. would b hastened to iSew lork; but Instead, It came cast leisurely, not reaching here till ji night or two ago. it stopped In Chicago whore such large-sized audiences audi-ences 'looked to it, and continue to Hock without sign of let up, that the company has been left there and a new one organized for tho metropolis. This is headed by Lois Meredith, a pretty, very youthful actress, and Charles RIchman. who has been lucky enough to fall into so manv good roles during his twenty years on the stage that n tradition has ..frown tip that he can act. Jessie AKalph, Kalherlne Emmet. John M1I-tern. M1I-tern. Charles Rugglcs and Vivian Rushmorc are others in a rather long and capable cast. Mr. Lail, with a shrewd eye for the mentality and emotions of the masses, bus given us wide-eyed virtue, vir-tue, lost la tho wicked business world of men. This Little Red Ridinghood. straying blindly in the denso forest of "down-town," meets a wolf in the form of a financier who wears violets vio-lets and pearl-gray spats, and has a penchant for -pretty stenographers. She Is only 17, and is Just out of hnsl-nes.s hnsl-nes.s college. Among many other girls, she answers an advertisement lor a Job. "That old Romeo." as ono of the wise applicants terms the financier, sits at a desk and passes the girls in rovlc.w. (The author, rather than the actor, moro or loss makes us believe that .Terrold S. Scott, beneath his foppish vanity, is a man of force and character; though tvc cannot erase from memory mem-ory tho picture of him. going out to luncheon, buttoning only the lower button of his closely fitting cutaway, throwing out his chest, and flipping his bamboo enno with a debonnafr delight de-light in himself.) Ono of the girls who answers tho advertisement admits ad-mits that she left her last placei because be-cause the firm failed, the one before because the police arrested her employer, em-ployer, the one before because the building collapsed; and she is shoood off as a hoodoo. Among the other many girls two are engaged the one who characterized char-acterized Scott so aptly, an obviously obvious-ly efficient young woman who, how-over. how-over. Is placed In the oulor office; and the pretty, wide-eyed Incompetent, Incompe-tent, who Is Installcd-as his private secretary. True, in tho first letter sho "takes," she asks whether there are two "r's" In tariff, the meaning of which word she docs not know, bo-cause bo-cause she "doesn't know much about politics"; and returns the letter with "mv foster-son" appearing as "my faster son." "You write t lie Munsey system." says the Wise Guy Girl from the outer office. "I write IL" says Red Ridinghood, "but I can t read it." Anybody who knows anything about the business world naturally knows tho financier will Immediately set about the ruin of his stenographer. stenograph-er. Ho docs. But curses on it! he has a stepson. And Jack has only to see OLlttle Red Ridinghood to love hor. So Jack It Is, at the climax of the second act, who bursts Into Slp-Pop's office just In tlmo to save the virtue of the dear little thing, who had never known a mnn before who "doesn't hav to wait for his pav envelope on Saturday night. The last act, In two scenes, begins be-gins with the most convincing serious passage of tho play. Tho youns stenographer, frightened and dls-maved, dls-maved, has rushed from hor employer's employ-er's orfice. She has come directly home, trembling, to her mothers arm But that old woman does not welcome her cjulte as sho expected. She is a weary, bont toiler: romance, sentiment, all the finer feelings worn away bv years ot toll as a laundress laun-dress to secure the needed food and shelter, and a decent education for her daughter. Wasn't ,thc girl too tv asks. Didn't slio begiii to protect her virtue before It had bceS attacked? Mightn't she have fenced and parr cd for a little tlmo at least, whl c they rested for a. brief nerlod In the peace that .her wages brought? Finally, of course, the mother In tho woman dominates. Tt Is a line "cone, and superbly .acted by TesVo Ralph, as ' the mother, with competent assistance from Lois Mere- d,ThPro seenfJ'to bo no reason to douorthaf-Tieip znTir: rot though much of it is or. per mwlcSrH of a none too golden season. "Othello." Wth Faversham in town we should worry. "D ABIES and a polar oxpcdiUon are can't kcop '" wadH of 5D0.000 tains to. 0"Sers without making lo AU TheSforo It cornea to pass money. Tberewo ,n sir that Miss yu;5 .. wl,CU wa8 James's 1.laJ5n(.1 for her- A little originally Intended for ew a one-Frances Vlre'nla; 'Grdt:c lCS8!psot tjiat Plan. ( , George playof tj".. stead; Tho llt-Blanchc llt-Blanchc BlefllH5cLs,,ot In Barrio's V'stvlo Uto? Bimea, to a Seblll5 than W-.SS ?c!',f ..C with which MIM Barrymoro "a' nunc" There is nothing ,icfeptfi, maddo ifl the lowly born, calm that L does slie give way Only, when alone doca Bto t0 to tears. Tnnn sn u. ,o the man Who j1, in 'Ms with 'him. J'".' his tenderness and lodgings, 7ValB Ws tenaer quL solicitude for her, tnko them to tho Hocure a t'V" over. A passing station, and run 0I- but 1 to no physician at"dsdJyn,'The woman, avail. Jhe man dies. si staggered Wt a on y half an back to her horn. . t 10. hour nceV. to receive frfends swswafs bT sst ?0rrvuoTcotVhcron the point of elopement. But with Inborn self-control, self-control, she moots him casually, faces down his recognition of her, and goes in to dinner on his arm, laughing and chattering superficially. The. character charac-ter Is well within the abilities of an actress so accomplished as MIS3 Bates, though her formidable size and naturally stern features prevent her from creating quite the fragile feminine fem-inine appeal that made Grace George s embodiment of the role so moving. THE German empire and a certain "Wilholin are rather "getting It" from tho dramatists theso days. While one of New York's Gorman theaters is attracting considerable attention with a drama on the subject of the Zabern scandal, another comos forward with a farce about a reigning reign-ing monarch In the pottery business. In" Borlln. "Majollka by Leo "A'alter Stein and Ludwlg Ha 11 or, was strictly modified by police censorship; but over here wo '.iavo no reason to be so tender of the emperor's feelings. Besides, there is nothing really of-; of-; fcn'slve In the gay Jibes at a certain Duke Frlcdrich who Is continually In financial hot water through the ruinous ruin-ous pnee at which ho and his mother live. Tho young ruler is In despair; his privy purse, is empty and the government gov-ernment of his little duchy refuses lo refill It. Applying once more to the money-lenders nnd financiers who Imvc pulled him through before, he receives a tempting proposition from the richest of them all. This Jew hns discovered profitable clay on ono of the duke's estates, and suggests the organization of moJollka factories. Tho duko carries out the scheme, but. unfortunately, puts It in the hands of an officer who undortakns to arrange overvthlng In a martial manner. From this, most of tho fun arises tho satire Is obvious. Finally, the money-lender lakes the matter Into his own hands and makes the pottery a prosperous concern. The duko finds himself on "easy street," and ablo to marrv the princess ot his heart. And finally It turns out that tho whole Idea of regulating his affairs In this manner was conceived by this clever girl herself. One of the many interesting sconca in tho groat six-rool production of Du-xnas's Du-xnas's famous story, "Tlio Threo Musketeers," boglnning at tho Box theater tomorrow. |