Show I x t l I I I I t ti t i i t st ST G l r i I IN G GOTHAN OTH AM r 1 i if II O out of the I Empire theater 1 i f t r CO the tho other after oCter n a per pcr 13 J T or of floury V I a 11 whimsical romance romante In ht tour nets My Ladys Lord t I heard a 11 lady Inquire of her mate male escort nil as to how he had been Impressed by the thc play The gentleman 11 1 replied substantially as follows Well 1 S its rather clover Jm In fact Its J interesting dont ont you OU think nut But It If ItI I I nI that o bo be close at hand In case she should peed him him Goska arrives and when whon Dourn Doura leArns his purpose she proceeds to rIng the boll bell but tho tha wire has hns been cut by bytho b Y the tho jealous woman already la is call Jar far help and arrives upon ullOn thu scene where whereIn In n a duel between and Goska or of the tho beaUtiful writing which It abounds There Thoro Is h in par In hr which Martin alve D Doura ura his Idea ot of what A woman should be bel that lit Is rosily werthY to go 0 Into any orthe or of the books ot of famous quotations To fo Tosum sum aum it Il all up It would be a pleasing ro re lIet Ilef It if Mr Charles I or some lomo of the other prominent managers would give gho us a few tew more plays ot of the same sarno standard or of excellence as y Ladys Lord y I Manager Edwin Knowles or of the tho Filth Fifth Avenue theater la Is Just now offer offerIng offering Ing his hili patrons his own production ot of It Itt A Barnets Three Little Lambs whIch Is described d on the pro grammo as u a musical comedy In two acts but Is In reality n a farce with musical interruptions Mr Ir Barnet Ja h the who used to write the book for tor the annual entertainment nt given b by the thc Boston Cadets One thing for which ho and the tho cadets nr are Jointly responsible is 18 1492 butt he has long lona 1 I I r rr jl I t I r rr 1 1 II I i t i i 11 after acter money and warns warn her friend bit ho he is II deaf to any suggestion reflecting upon lIpon Tooke honesty She Sho then thon learns that Is about to get lIet the money money from the tho estate and will willal at al once hand It over oer to Tooka to be used In some mythical railroad scheme In order t to this she Induces induce t td loin join her and some lomo ballet girls In Il a dance which Is once more distinctly Of OC course the guardian appears appears lust just ot at this juncture and the tat fat Is III In the tire fire The Thc bank of necessity goes to smash Later on nil all meet In lorto Th moo ee and It Is learned that is III the girl to whom the tho little sum ot of Is to revert In Incase incase case should tall fall to live up to the tho standard ot of rectitude prescribed b by bythe the last will and testament What then could Ilos possibly follow tollow In n a Barnet skit other than the tho marriage ot of Barwicke and Beatrice And Aud that Is what does happen ot of course and the play ends Mr Jr Nat C Goodwin and Miss Maxine Elliott are aro drawing large audiences at atthe the tho theater In play The Cowboy Cowley and the Lady which has been seen Been In various of at tills country liS as well London Lon don England It is II generally thought that while the tho play Is antis factory for tor temporary uses ulles It would not the eo sufficiently well Veil for Cor a run in this city without the aid ot of otome some ome other vehicle For that reason It ItIs itis Is announced that H Y V comedy When I Was Wal Tw Twin n tOOl lyone for Cor whIch by the way flurry Woodruff has been specially engaged will vIII be produced before the tho end ot of their term nt at the tho Knickerbocker At the close ot of Mr Ir Richard Mans Mansfields fields run In New York city he will 11 make It a hurried tour over the south whore he has not been seen In years After Atter n a week In Brooklyn and anda Ii a week In Newark the celebrated play players ers Itinerary calls for U H ap appearances In Philadelphia 7 In Baltimore 7 In fn Wc Washington E 2 In the state ot of VIrginIa I t t Lx t I cTt k fl W We 4 a ai 0 i e tol V T f ROM o JESsi LITTLE LAMBS y d V 0 HI COWBOY THe LADY r r you you want to know what its nil all about I give glo up lie was not the only man who had to o give ghe up In this case As AR II a delicate work or of art be It understood lit My Ladys Lord richly deserves to flue suc I cecIl It If It should not do liD so however It will bo be simply because the average theater go goer r Is possessed ot of about the tho same Ilme quantity ot of gray matter all as the tho gentleman just quoted It la to be there thero will be many persons who will stop stOll to ask the tho samo Caine ques question question tion and If that should prove proe to be bethe bethe the case there will bo be little chance for tor a 11 long run for tor lily My Ladys Lord Lard In Inthis this ibis city There Is nevertheless another side Ide to the que question All As sOon ns as It Is die covered COcrell that It requires 1 a certain amount ot of cleverness to apprecIate My Ladys Lord Lard It le Is more than likely that everybody will bo be tellinG everybody eJ else what whitt an exceptionally bright play It is II and amI hInting how he had gone Kone to the bottom of Its at the very first knife his friend Jones Jons or Smith or Brown hall had failed ute ut utterly terly to fathom It its II It If such II a contingency enc should arise the tho box office success of the piece willbe will willbe be assured for tor tads fads pay enormously In New York Yet of the artistic side ot of My Ladys Lord there can be no two It Is n a delightful piece of satire so thoroughly sugar coated a as to unlimited amusement while Its wit barbed shafts are flying about In every direction The stor story of 11 My Lads Ladys Lord rend reads I almost like the argument of oC n a condo opera libretto The Archduke ot of Va 1 has a charming channing but violent tempered daughter the tho Iad Lady Dourn This damsel on n a visit to London has been seen and admired b by a poor liar bar Aster Jack Martin who was WaN so IO InfAtuated tinted that he boa hns followed her all th the way 0 to the mythical land ot of There she meets him and there to es as cape cap u It marriaGe with the hated ruler ot of 1 a neighborIng country she takes ad advantage I vantage of a certain marriage making holy day peculiar to the country and I weeds weds Jack whom she then tells hlIs to go o about his business The young oun has no idea Idon of doln doing anything so 0 foolish h and at al once onte declares frare him pelf lieU The Lady Down Doum resents the au authority authority of oC Ir her new made husband and endeavors first rt to rId ridicule Iou Ie and then to fa browbeat him Into leaving her but without avail lIall When the former lover Goska learns that Doura is II already alread a Wife Ce he swears to carry her oft b by force toree In this plan he le II aided by bv t a jealous woman n a for alling In lo love With fry every man she I m meets Martin has to make I love oe to her and therefore Ahe would raIn get giH even with him Martin ot of course the plot and proceeds nt at t chamber to save her lr from the villain she Laughs It at his hili tears fears amid warnings and ot of otter offen fen ter or of assistance Finally she sho orders Urn to leave He toe goes but warns her I the latter Is severely woun wounded ed Martin MartinIs Is sentenced to be bc the next morn mornIng mornIng Ing nt at dawn In the tho presence pre of oC the tho Cardinal u a queer sort of crea creature creature ture who Is II forever running errands for tor others and lIB as n a melancholy result mIssing his meals Dourn meanwhile has come to her ber senses and nl at the same ume time tittle has hila or ar arrived rived at It or of the fact that the tho suave young Englishman had is ad his hili rights all as n a husband are involved She concludes also Inci Incidentally dentally that she has hall at last met the theono theone ono one man in III al all the world who Is able to rule her and so RO as women usually do In similar sh she surrenders sur surrenders renders But IIO now she sho finds that her husbands life lICe Is forfeit to the la law She devises n a plan to per permit mit him to escape The law prescribes that th the eXl execution ullon must take tako place In Inthe inthe the presence ot of the cardinal and she he and a 11 friend at once find tM the prelate asleep and proceed to look lock hIm In the plate pInto closet where ho ha continues to slumber until after the hour set for the execution lies hns passed W Then Martin and Lady Dourer start away and the play piny ends all that read like a crazy and hopelessly jumbled potpourri ot of farce corned comedy drama melodrama comIc op opera era ern extravaganza ganza and burlesque It ought to anyway for tor that Is precisely what hill My y Ladys Lord Is 18 In a sense of course Oure It Is Isn n a upon these thelie different forms ot of entertainment but instead ot of present lag InK us with a lot of senseless tures the Author Mr I Esmond has hns lien sen Ibl And boldly determined to give gle us instead a Ilia play made up entirely of the theold theold old friends whom we have hae been seeIng on the stage tage for tor the iho last ao 30 years I True ho he has hall transplanted come of DC the theof pillars of melodrama Into farce and he hehns has hns also alo taken liberties with many O oth othera era whose holle ago ogO would QuId seem to have en entitled titled them to more mure respectful treat treatment men ment but they are nil all there and nil all allare I are alf easily recognized In short hit Mr nd evidently de I to take e n a ring fling at the meth methods I OOS ot of the himself Included nod to expose to the gaze ga 1 the conventional methods followed tollow d dbr by br contemporary dramatists Ile He has hils done his work magnificently and It Is Isto isto to bo be hoped hOlled that 11 My Ladys Lord LordI will long remain the tho attraction nt at the Empire 1 It le IB really an artistic treat and the or of such lIuch a work would reflect more credit upon this sitty han the takinGs gener ener atly to some of the libidinous french fn farces with which we wc hl have been d during the past few ew years It I would be unjust to drop 11 My Ladys I Lord without attention to some Fame I N v vi vr i r rt I since been forgiven for tor that for tor tl It was amusing even een though It was absurd In fact It appears to bo be lilt Mr Barnets mission In life to amuse amus no matter how extreme his methods adopted for bringing about that com coin commendable result may be beIn beIn In n a stage vehicle like Three Little Lambs the tho opinIon or of a crItic Is 18 usual usually I ly ot of lIttle value alue and the ultimate test testis is I perhaps its reception by nn an audi aurl audience enee ence Judged by that standard Three Little Litho Lambs would appear to lo 1 be 0 nit unqualified success In fact Ir ft ap be n a safe InCe criterion the piece should hould long continUo continue th the attraction nt at atthe the tho Firth Fifth Avenue theater Another strong point In favor of Three Lambs Is that It ft was as to have hae been produced b by that tha king of managers Augustin Dilly Daly The fhe untimely demIse ot of that thal estimable and thoroughly at ar artistic manager however mn made e this imf possible The Tho stor story of f Three Little Lambs I is simplicity itself and It ft is as typical of Barnet as anything could coul possibly be Tooke Is the presIdent oC r the tho bank of oC k Tooke a board of women directors director A certain hungry Jim and n a certain Phyllis vho lire are mart marl marland and wife constitute with Tob e tM th Three Little Lambs The sole aim olm aimin In life Ilfe of this precious trIo appears to tobe bo be to get hold holl of the mODe money which bleh liar Is to receive under certain condl condi dons All as t a legacy The amount by tM th WilY way Is distinctly It le Is a 11 there mere will receive this trifle It If during a period Cried which ti IS stated he shall refraIn from all 1111 clan elan of If fast tut living To Tooke k naturally le It anxious to keep his hili women directors In Ignorance of his real purpose liar tnt meanwhile has fallen desperately In love with a lady named Beatrice a dancer whom he has made secretary or of the bank lIe ts is unaware ot of the Par Particular mr clause In the will which acts nl as asa n a sort lort of silent censor ot of hIs hla conduct Beatrice discovers that the Lambs Lambl ar aron are on I in Norfolk and Richmond Richmond l In the state of Georgia at Atlanta 3 In the state slate ot of Alabama 7 In the city of New Or Orleans leans lenns 6 0 inthe state of at Texas l In Ar Arkansas kansas 1 In Tennessee 3 In Kentucky 7 In the city ot of Cincinnati 1 In the state or of nUana 3 In the city of De Detroit troll troit 3 In the cIty ot of Buffalo Burrola and 1 op each ench In Ithaca Tro Troy and Al Albany Albany bany Mr Mansfield Is most careful of his health and physical resources lie Hc finds matinees too loo taxing and he pre prefers lets fers the loss Involved In cutting them to loss qt of energy enery and menace to hi health Mt After r leaving Now New York he will give Ive only five o matinees during the bal balance once ance or of the season ARTHUR CRISPIN CRIPPIN New York |