| Show I THE PL PLAY IN NEW Y YORK G I I I Special Correspondence W yanK April 2 The rh ois oa H HIn HIn In weeks dramatic desert was WA to In mix metaphors Tho which swept in a a a at lit Keith Proctors Harlem The nt III Keith l Fifth Avenue theater was waR a wild and woolly more t o In fact than Dill wild est which made Its lis usual annual appeal to UIO boys hos who never grow up It Jl only ul playwrights would write TUO of or and they the realty really know knew al nl Hand 1 I Walter docs and that IB one big why Ills his play Tho Undertow produced ot at Keith Ii Proctors Harlem Opera Monday Is II real leal success S It pulses with life and ond Its Ill characters hiVo and red blood When hon Mr h Walter of newspaper men and and politicians their plots and counterplot ho tells of or his hlA friends and of his enemies nUll and of or Incidents In their lives that are actual And after Clor 1 oil all real life lICe Is a n Rood deal better than th Imitation Tho Undertow deals deal with similar types lend and conditions to thoc In Tho Man an of The Hour Tho Lion and the tho Mouse and dis 1111 discounting counting faults of oC a 0 more ot 01 unrehearsed stock company production It appears to be bo quite as Rood as III either of IC Its better bet hr known competitor Broadway should sec s this American Piny pin and most likely will The Is tho tory of a I reporter Id Wells who tho of nr thu Iho Independents against u tho machine In III a I typical city elt of tho middle west wesl If It one OlO said FId Clove It would probably bo a safo IaCo n parly wins the election and Its nominee Hoffman n Is elected mayor Wells llIs by h sheer brain null ana nerve and hustle has hn brought about abouL the tho of oC tho enemy particular particularly ly h rf or Horn o the tho capitalist who Is polities aa a 11 and KaCe best besl bet to grab mb some rl N Defeated temporarily then sets about to 10 accomplish the ruin of Well and uses Wells ell II s for fot tho highball when It ts s bubbling as M tho means to his hi end And ultimately ultimate he makes Wells break the thc promise never to drink which he has hus given Mary Iary The Tho girl ho lovei 1001 Is thus Influenced against him tho mayor ho hl has hns elected out nut to tho machine and lInd Wells IH Ir beaten from ev every e cry ery point of or view Ho lie Is caught c In the undertow which as R the author puts It makes every poor man sell noil out OUI or 11 in the end however he hill Is neither triumphant nor 1101 dominant tI be he goes away with Mary Ira 1 still possessed sd of oC his honesty and nud still un by h capital TIll tare outline of oC oCth the th theme of oC the play gives hc no Ic of the Ihn with which Its various Interwoven or nr of ot tho vivid characterization of or tho different tI S Sor or of oC the tI exceeding ability of ot tho dla It bo 10 the colloquialism of If tho on tho Street or Ot tho smooth plausibility of ot capital It II Is true the th play pIa has Us Hs laws I long speeches scenes retard the tho action and In hI general a Il certain crudity hut but after nil all what da 11 matter mIL when tho play in 10 Ha liB en ell entirety Int la If I so fresh Interesting and hon honest est When Wh n one considers that the stock company presents The Under Undertow tow to gives two IWo a day Ilo ond In tho mornings Is II tho for next week ono one fan only have kind words for or the he I actors who succeed ni well as itS they th do One can enn pay PCt I to Howell for fOI hb of the to 10 Neddy Hl ld the office boy 00 and ti t Teter TettI na nil a II political bois You ceo lIeo The Undertow which with a It company ef effective 1 and n II few Cow changes all 1111 kinds of lit a 1 future ahead of or It Including Broadway and a what porre 8 to 08 In III other othel cities Ont One Is III nt III name on th playbill of The Jungle JunI n nil with Upton of the and If It ones ntH IMI him tn In ho he 1 authoritatively that MU Mayo Ia n hlf to 10 todo do with this play and 1111 It p r d by Iw n who tb hl to ro 10 In ThU Is I to tl thoi I who to lIp thi f Ml MI Iv Iw nn 1111 tut for Tho bear a I relation tn to h Iter r skillful of ot Th of nr William A Hh h hand and h r of lit Dl 01 1111 The Ihl docs to If tin Ih of or One lOa mav bo 11 MI IR I nf of olar novel allAn nt This a II 1110 1 dent of r th nn nil Mr 11 und bin hIli but hul mil the UtI nd a n lot nf lit It for olav J to New York YOlk on 00 In hI her way Wn de deel el Tho Thu S oU jl of or Mr have 11 utterly the more Inore of ot th lion I and In fant onell In h fOnn In of or humor tn 10 take The l lally th Doh to about Tho Jun B is II lt It plot and that hiv h ile d U It Is III so the th hook bonk In act lI t QUO Gila anil ana itt party pari Connor tho catches one of the bridal roses ro rs to by b Ona to one 01 of her brides He HI kisses her Shu Sho shrinks Curtain Act ct two is IS months later and longer and Ona their family fn Including u II baby nr as ns In Lithuanian slung slang expresses s up UI against it At midnight th arc aio Connor Connol tho IhO appears All will be h well Ill If Ir you lako this key It lo 10 Lou foll apartment she runs ruu it II ond como there thelo ht pleadingly It lt IK 11 only anI ono one flight up liP No 10 no ays Ona with virtuous Indignation Connor tho leaves with a sardonic smile Jurgis enters All Is III lost Including his Job I r am going to o pet get n It drink If I r have hao to kill someone to get It II This Thill cau c qui to a restless stir In Inthe the audience Ho gius gill out Olla Ona to the fateful key kc She Sho sobs Cur Curtain tain The third day ny decorated In a n bright Chauncey Chaunce Olcott roell Is III located In tho apartment of or Lou Iou Henderson till the lady nh and ami on tho program U li politely known RM liS a R pl co Lou LOll LouIs Is h clad In u II princes dress to tl bo doing nicely as liS do the Ihl other ladles of ot tho Iho factory Two ladles In bright red and blue who wh actually champagne do not however match tho Iho There ThereN N II a I merry merr party with pie II y of oC stage laughter One enters h Connors latch key Pho Sho goes oell Into another room Connor tho to s waiting Ho Is 15 pleased she sho Is sheared undo and com coming ing back hides behind a f pink It curtain which very vcr nearly nearl her wig Connor disappeared tU discovers his hI wife Ah hu ha you hero here Hn Rf gently overturns o ort I 1119 n chair and violently smashes a II plaster cast on Oil tho mantle with n II of oC many words Curtain Act four Is laid at a farm In Avon III and u IL number ot oC In III the tho audience to It It t Is I IlOve lOve five years later und Onas baby hah Is and looks four years old tramping along olon pauses for a II drink of nr well water The Tho child says sho has her hel papa Ono enters Sho sees Jur lt ench culls calls the other othor by b name Curtain There Thre are several other characters with unpronounceable Lithuanian names namos who work bard hUIlI particularly one gentleman mode made up as liS Mansfield au Mr 11 Hyde who has hn an nn laugh hlll h Is known as liS Crazy CIa In III the act aCl As AN hn dO appear there thle thereafter utter after ha he may ann not bo bl us as craz as ho seems Mr Cecil plays In a II bovine bollIe way wu speaks with a l lino English 1 accent of or and ann Ona Is Impersonated by b Miss 11 s Henrietta who as sho tho Is good looking very cr healthy and rather plump cant possibly lOllS I III arouse 1 sym sympathy pathy as ns a n starved abused Packing town girl Mr rr Wilson lIson a atho tho th IH 11 quite n a In n II sort of or way HP HI Ilko a IL abow bow of ot 11 II killing It II 1111 I bed bd In though I have 1110 personally been heen In III J still tho gentleman next to tn mo me had been heon antI and ho Is III my m authority Four Foul men mm In tho Iho gallery applauded loudly loudl when Jurl said You cant bent tho union and ono woman In Inthe Inthe the third row on tho right ap applauded 01 everybody She an ac ao actress tress Otherwise c the tho hit of or tho play was made by two sisters who played ed banjos between the tho first and nets acts After Artor live hc years cnn absence with no moro morl worlds to 10 Buffalo Bills wild west eal returned to Madison It II dally inure 11 r gunpowder than tho I Twelve Years war It Is the same llama old wild west with two now new features I tho battle of or Summit Springs S und find n I holdup on nn Union Pacific which I however It may sound I has to do with K E H To tho bat i tie thero Is much smoke and theres ono I should leavo his eardrums nc II t homo There aro oro also many mall Indians who ride In picturesque 1 nakedness und and suffer surce many temporary casualties tit III tho hands of or tho gallant cowboys In tho train robbery the chief chIc foa Is an nn 1 apparently of which does docs not tho very Yer fact that thaL It la I u II modern snorting auT tomo Cut Dut after aner nil It Is tho cowboys Ih stapo coach and lud the Sixth cavalry und and the pony pon express ond tho Rough nough ot oC tho world und and tho well ell trained bucking bron broncos bronCO cos CO BUI that maIm mako the tho show tho samo dear car old wild west wesl Col Cody Cod though his waving mun Is a u little whiter and though hIs aim occasionally leaves a IL glass gla I ball unbroken Is still tho t Buffalo Ruffalo Kill Dill And Ami no ono can ask moro more |
