Show i NEW NEV ON VAUDEVILLE ST STAGE AfiE i I I by Israel Zangwill WilBe Will Wil WillBe WillBe Be Produced Here This Week Ono One of ot tho most Important offerings of or tho the Orpheum this season Is tho the ro- ro psychological melodramatic work vork of ot Israel called Tho The Never Nover Never Land which will bo be at tho time Orpheum next wee week Ie beginning Sunday night This pla let Is tho tire first Intimation that tho the eminent Hebrew- Hebrew Englishman hman has ever written for tor tho tire vaudeville audo stage An a n. literary critic ho lie has hns few equals In the world His Hla novels are aro read throughout hout the civilIzed civilized civil civil- world his books of essays on tho the question aro accorded tho the highest place while his iris dramatic offerings of ot- have received hl highest hest honors on the stage To most people It will bo boa a surprise to learn that the Orpheum circuit has been fortunate enough to secure some seine of or his work The Tho piece will bo presented b by Hel Helen n Grantley an and 1 a capable company Miss l is herself one ono of ot tho best actresses es In vaudeville Her personalIty personal personal- Ity ty Is so pronounced that sho siro makes a wonderful play startlingly real ical and to rv i d. d The Never Nover Never r Land Is a weird conception In three scenes based on tho the theory that at the moment of final In their dissolution tho the dying re-enact re minds tho tire most vital Ital experiences of ot their heir lives So It happens in in tho time first scene cone that the elderly Duchess ot of Maiden Maldon after aCter discussing tho the orthodox theory of ot atonement for tor sins and a happy future with My Lord LortI Bishop In front of ot her mansion London London London Lon Lon- don Is seized with a fatal attack and murmuring vague things concerning the law becomes unconscious leaving lea tho the churchman In a quandary as is to her meaning The scene shows a hut In northern northern north north- em ern Queensland 40 years ears prior to tho the preceding events A young wife has haa been taken to this tins desert and desolation desolation desola- desola tion Llon as Tho The Never Nevor Never Land by her elderly husband husband a prospector A Ayoung Ayoung young oung English refugee discredited hell heir to tho the title of Maiden Maldon Mal on comes upon tho the and makes love to tho the lonely young yount wife who Is finally induced to elope clope with him The Tho husband returns to find rind them In each others' others arms and tho the Ufo Life x of tho the f lovers The They finally decide that they r will shoot It out tho tire husband hitting upon upon upon up up- on the tho plan to have the tho faithless wife toss a coin to decide which shall kill 1111 tho the other The lover wins the tho toss and antI fires tires Into tho the air upon which the tho hus husband band bantI prepares ares to exact his rivals rival's life The wife wire being sent Into the hut for tor fora a n. Bible DIble through which the condemned man Is to receive consolation secrets a revolver about her person and as her husband raises his weapon fires from behind and kills him Then arguing ar to her lover lo that her hands hand are dyed with blood she Bhe declares tInt she sho cannot go with him that no can man marry with such a sin upon hor her soul A native retainer comes upon the tho stage and Is promptly shot and killed kihle by the lover when then overwhelms tho the woman with his argument arlU- arlU ment went that certainly a murderer may marry maJr a n murderess and tho they flee lee tho the country together Tho The presumption Is that he comes cornea Into his titles and that ho he and tho the Duchess become famed tamed for tor their charity and other Christian vir vir- tues Tho The third and last scene returns to the present day with tho the dying Duchess Duch Duch- ess In the arms of ot the Bishop In Belgravia Bel Bel- when sho she In part tells her se secret so- so cret eret and then expires It Isn't a 11 cheerful cheer- cheer cheerful ful rul affair but Is ef effective of- of and Is distinctly new to vaude I ville |