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Show .tigpiro Visor 7orks ' f?iwi!fatd 1144;. QPlqlfomu- j ; By GEone.E jean nathan. Ilk." melodi ot etr:day Tw as based on tin t heoi y Ca t (luipl kiiMS in in,in n'.uM Uu' i table occur in I ho Mv'iiv.ty of p Ve r IS lit the N.-th nuT, or on the VhHkl n budge muhusht, or In a canyon, or on : o t:.-uks of the Northern pacific j r.tilrvvt.1. or t:i the li-'k t ivm of .1 j , i .i:'.u;; s 1. ous.o. or on the deck of i t t I" r :tet m.-i n-o' - w ar. San ji.'imo, or on the lop t;oor of a :r;vo buildir.;; a::: w hteh s.em-o s.em-o d ! - A J l : i ee : - d a r y designs. X he n io led '.a jiu o f t o J a v . on the other h.:u1 is h.tsed on the theorv I "a i rothm?; eer t-ppe:is to a man out - o: '-doors, HTui t '.mi l r.e re.t lest c;:;s in 1 1 : o nnari.-il'iy comes '.O a f:t';u! l:i h's own home. Two meto-uritr.is meto-uritr.is Lite.y d .closi-d upon local jdaes once- li.un demon?-irate elo- e.ueiHly this ipparenllv in e corcil able ir'.i:o in t:.e blood .m.1 t ,uH:d,er b v w - i icii ar.d now. The iirr-t of :hihi'.?. is "Sewn ?' y e." be Walter Howard, on iew r m : e Pat'-; tbtater; the t-econd, "The (1 i c"i'.ii;e.'' by Eugene- Walter, on v.ew in the Flay::oue. The former in every detail tv ;ucal ntelodiam of i0; the l-i tier m like del ml a typu-.il melodrama of ' the current time. Tr.e presentation of ail antioae like 'Ste:i UVv" Leave' at this late day :? d v:btles j nur.a serial c mceit of t.-.e k;d:ie w..ich brought about the vor. u.ticus m recert ears of similar am. ones hke "Trie Whip." "The Sins of iec:ety," "Life." ' Jim. the Den-ma;': Den-ma;': ' a:i.,i "The Light?, of Loudon": a Nhf that there eists a remime: tie public iov roies.p.io relics and curies in t. e way of i.:!:uiuve, Span-h Span-h io:r, Swt tish rostase stavs'.ps acd f.nt editions of G. A. Homy. Imported From London. I:r.rxrtei :"roni Loiu'.on, wh.ere it has enioyed a measure cf prosperity, and celled up for Amerioan i-or.u nipt ion oy a Fp-Adway har.y-Aroy, the play is juje stive in its every maneuver of ti.e me .ocrar.as .f ih.e t ; ooli of 'The iL.ii.in." "Across ih.e Kaoilio" ar.d "The 5 pan of Life." About the only thir.fr that has been done by w o.y of giving t'.:e a::"a:r a n.odern i'or.-;er.a:'-ce is to rer.air.e the ol-i-wr.'e heroic Haroid Trema:r.e "Ma;or Terr- K:elJi: of the L'rvted States :-.rt:;:er" an i the o!d-t:-r.e iIa tn-o-is Jeprhro pa las " Kervl nand Ia-mor.i. Ia-mor.i. al;as H'-b'o Fu.verku.'hei:. a Ger-nan Ger-nan Fry." and to oor. ert the old-f.rr.e ncrtsae on the farm into a blueprint blue-print o; an invention designed to e.-ler-r.ir.ate tlie t'-boa is. Otherwise. "Seven Days' Leave" is our ancient friend. and reaiily recognisable for all the pa trio: io spee :hes. si rising of "Over There" nr.d khaki ur.iforuis with which it has beer, masked. The ta.e is the us-jal randy ore. Mav-eiiinir. a gallant American with the British forces, de-"viclses de-"viclses a machine to er.d the s-jbnr.a-r:ne menace and. bein? betrothed to he crau:-w Lady Mary Heather. .el-6 ..er all the details at once in f-rict confidence and in a voice that I -!e heard eight blocks away. GreeiV his chasrin, therefore, when tr.e ir.rorrr.s t'on "in some mysterious jnd unaccountable manner" ialls into the har.is of a couple Qf German ries who. while the rr.a;r has been veiling his precious secret at Lady Mary, have bven star din jj just outside out-side the window. In order to prevent the spies from conveying' the secret to Berlin, the major pretends now to get very drank on a small pony o! bran.iy and thus completely foehnp the spies it under the guise of hospitality led cf f by Them that he may rest in their house n&ar the sea-wad and recover flora ; his iirr.ohle revel. Comes Out of It." Once in the spies' house the major abandons his thick talk and elaborate elabor-ate staggering, tells the spies he knows all and demands that they rive him the signal that wil! cause the German submarine hovering in the near-by waters to rise to tr.e surface, sur-face, betray its Jobation a:.d so make itself a target for the grur.s of the home team. After a considerable ame-unt of excited badinage, the ma-j"r ma-j"r pounces upon the male sry and Is shot by t.ie latter in the arm. This done, the coor is battered In and a squad o: British soldiers enter. "Take him. stand him airair.st a wall, etc!" snouus the major. i he male spy bez-lns to ?awl. If the major will let him off. he will betray the sign&J. This signal, he quavers, is tw-o dot? and a dash and to be sent from a wireless plant situated atop a bell buoy a mile out to sea. The fe male s-pv, hc-julni; her collefl$te's ti cjt'ivr , rusho then n-mmko. i'u'. o:( lu-r pev-: iutr aiul takes u header fit iij ihf. window to (iwl.n to (he belt bi: ami sa e t lie I boat. What do'. As.im, wtiat to do! luly Mary to th,o it M'tif! "I am soinelhlim of a fth me?elf." sas the la.t and tippo, off with ti;o obenu.-o and Into tin, water utlr ti e tUMmuvk hen Inn. The sene duintcM now to the dvk of battleship, with Kredectok IVrrv ol t he l.d!iih' olub peei mc over t lie rail and deseiibms iJ-o audit nee tn ho.-xi.se At:i,-VJto the piarer-n vf the iimiiir.K match. Then the fcima b--r:m to make an awiul racket, th .tafie and noptrds of the cri i ics out Mont n't full of Mnoke, everybody be-,i:uis be-,i:uis couhiiii:. and the seen itnunfs .iam and how.s the Mibmarme nink-h. nink-h. and Lady Maty inunijthantly m rare Sin if he I Joe he swunnu'i- ate-p of i: e b,-;i bi:o . Meanw hile. t he oivhest ra play a medley of na Clonal an a at brrak -neck peed and. when the curtain comes down, heightens the huy of ihe occasion by swnum: into "Mv vtuntry TIs of Thee." lu which t!m .nulieine Is recji. sled by i tie programme pro-gramme .vifei ousiy to join. Gets Much Applause. In the company divulging this epic appear Wllham J. Kelly, the Chaun-cey Chaun-cey Olcoit of Harlem; Percy Amos. M. Cooper ThaV and llie Misses Kllsa-t Kllsa-t th Kisdon and V e 1 n arden. In ti e dialogue di i.U"nr the opua appears ap-pears su.'li .-o. called hokum ils "We intish do not shoot women, even when they are nurses'" and t his i the spies i "When you ml back to our count i y you w ill see no more Gorman uniforms; all von will see is tie l'sht blue of Fiance and the khaki of Great Britain an. I the I'niled State of AmeiKal" And the n'K'-i I attended the proa t event. that part of the audience sucaied luck o; row M ivil.'.n t he cheered louder if u'hadteen paid doub. I'nhke this specimen of the days- of Harry Ctay Hlanev. Owen liis and Hal Ue:d. Mr. Walter' "The Heritage." Heri-tage." while at bottom a more or le?-s ir.ceuuous oon:positton. re-els e-teMialiy e-teMialiy an up-io-date Grand thnnol f-S-re and the usual Walter skill In the matter of melodramatic address. Kuili alter the formuia of the name ; writer's "KniiV," the piece reveals it-j it-j self to N; a i:rvous gun and rore exh:b,:tion ev.iN-rant m til0e purelv theaf ic uuah'.u s which hold the j a race aud:ence'a attemi"n and I work that attri tion up o a point of considerable suspeie. Plot of the Flay. j The fable here is rf a ?i-ilian who has inherited his pro:;, nitor's lust for murder, of Ids younc sister in whom the lust has not yet been detected, and of the conventional s'euth who pits his purroses acamst ihnse of the Sicilian. Tue sleuth compels the Sicilian to accept him in l is house-hold house-hold &s a guest, ttia t lie may from tins point of vantage watch the Sicilian and guard him a?a:nst giving" "way to his evil impulses. Try as lie will, however, the Krafft-Eblr.g Krafft-Eblr.g phase of his nature Rets the uprer hand of the Sicilian, and comes presently the nijeht when he lures the detective to Italy and st ills his abnormal ab-normal eraviim :tm blood bv klll'.r; him. The last act ehens the mur- . derer trying vainly to bar from his ' ears the tormentmc strains of "The Funeral March" played by the bcind l' a n r. g the bo-.i y of t h. e dead man to the cathedral. I'nabie. and driven to frenzy, he hurls a ch.Mr through the c 1 o se 3 w i i : J o w and shouts his guilt down into trie onwd-d street. This scene .mst described, in which the Sicilian en leavor m vain to drown out the playing of th band by playing loudly upon the piano in the room overlooking the thorouch-fre. thorouch-fre. is one of the two most effective In the manuscript. The other is a tcene in which the young sistf-r of the murderer, unaware of her heritage, eradualiy comes to choke to death her pt-t kitten and confesses then her own blood lust to the brother who has in constant f?ar watched over her. The acting of Miss Madeline Del-mar Del-mar in this s-ene Is exceptionallv skillful. .Cyril Keightley has the role of the Sicilian a:.d Lowell Sherman Is the detective. Don't mention lawyer to Fat Rooney. If you do. F.&oney Is likely to put vou in the exerrnred class. And as a second safeguard aaainst physical harm, x care-: care-: ii how- you speak of a ai ane to this Orpheum comedian. All his Irish is up, and all because of a garaee bill for some-i some-i thir like ?I'.0. Roonev says lie eave the rnnney in iiouidation of the bill to a iaw-r. iaw-r. and the earace people deeiare they have received only about of it. Rooney Roo-ney can't find the lawyer and a New York court decreed last week that Rooney will have to pay the balance aeain. |
