Show PERCY HAMMONDS HAMMOND'S lETTER fliER J I lW EW yom TORK Oct It 30 20 It It WM we w i polite of o the Messieurs n as they are now called to put the tho gentle hand of ot caution on their unruly guests from the Grand You Tou must not Mr r Ed- Ed Edard igard Ed-igard ard and Archibald to ha hae aid ha e aid freese any ony veins solos or cause any screams of o horror to rend the skies sUes We New Ney Yorkers are are a 0 placid race raco and we ve do not care to be ruffled by unseemly actions upon the stage A little Is behaved well murdering or 0 a flesh flesh- fleshy fly flesh by y Innuendo or two are permissible But Dut upon the rougher stuff we we must cry embargo Having been thus quarantined the pilgrims from naughty Mont marto tont- tont ont ont- marto mario arrived at the Folic theatre the other night almost cleansed ot of their nath native nathe e Indiscretions The no- no no feroce va os 1 In bib bibI I rand d tucker and sd It a blue ribbon In Its Us It golden hair Absent were the protruding tongues of Russian generals strangled by vengeful French mon dew mon deml dames Gone weer the empty ee e e sockets streaming mIng with blood ot present 1 Here acre ere the tho horrid shrieks of crucifixion There Thero was aas 1 Co no 0 one to throw vitriol In tho the face fACO of oC another and missing were the Limore more forward capers of ot the tho comic The performance ot of ourse was not of o the tho Ridpath or type of o entertainment It had however Ita It lyceum as- as For Por examples example In At At th Dead Rat Room No 6 which Holbrook BUnn used to play piny the S Sadistic old despot Is choked to death IQ oy his new sweetheart whose brother he be had killed In While at supper In the Rat flat Mort ort ho atie he knots her long gloves cloves about his hia wrinkled throat and his respirations In Paris tho odious reprobate dies diee In many photographic e of ot agony passing Is accompanied as Augustus Thomas Thomaa might say Bay by bl 4 il 11 the hideous entourage ot of But flut fit at the Frolic he exits serenely with tow low of o the mortuary spasms death r-atut r rattles s and rollings prom prom- promised ged by the pictures picture In th tho souvenir program He Is exhaled a as grace race fully gracefully as If hi his vindictive lady 10 e bad him to his mat last sleep and his goIng provides us with few It was said above of ot tho Selwyn that they were polite In causing the Grand Players P to Ip ip theia heh boot boots upon the doormat and to o cross our In a seem seem- 1 y manner It aas polite but per per- tI pertI aps It was vas neither shrewd nor jua- jua Horrible things have been bee exhibited to us upon the stage and an we e wo are not averso avena In our amuse amuse- to cold sweats and nations From Zeno and ond The Th Cat and the Canary et at cetera cotera we ha e learned to enjoy the delights of the drama and 1 Mr fr Avery Hopwood s a frank and ond audacIous audacious ious bus farces tarces have taught u that lIfe even In the private places For many wo we have been boon pleased 1 at t the tA Metropolitan TA and n nd other opera houses by tho the torture scone In La La Towa Toca where e e cry ery note of the tho agonized Marlos Marlo's ells has been music to our ears ear Weare Wo Ve are Condo fond as Mr Ir Walkley BaY says Bays of the tho pre pictures of grilled and arrow arrow- riddled arrow riddled saints we adoro adore the and ond it Its lt-i embodiment of physical torture Is Isa isa Hi a familiar pleasure and ond Dempsey bleeding proboscis would provoke Ln in us an aesthetic thrill When the noble Mr Nehf Neb at ot the Polo Grounds on Monday knocked him him- him himself self colt out of the box and was re re- re reduced reduced tragically and ond In an on Instant from a hero to a bo bv many of ofus ofus ofus us were glad clad at hi his sufferings suffering as ashe asie he made mode his dolorous way WILY from the throne to the du dugout out Amusement seekers as Dr Johnson and other sages have havo estimated 1 them are Dro a 0 cruel lot even esen when per cent American They are happiest when the torments tormenta of others other are greatest So I think the Selwyn were too Innocent when they Instructed the Grand Grond Players to dilute their with a superstitious America Is full of Intrepid Neighborhood Community and Little theatre dramatic whoso whose advanced products make the present Grand bill seem In comparison like the melodies of ot Mother Goose GOOM The TheU U S drama lovers are inured d to Imprudent happenings upon the stage and wo we do not care to havo our wither withers run rung by beak eak cak and shackled hand hands Give Gire us at the Frolic theatre bloodshed and irn Lm- Lm moralIty and their accompanying discomforts and ond tun fun as os Illustrated to 10 the tourists hard by the Place In the tho argot of o the tho sise Ise Times Square chorus girls I should like Uke to say any to these afraid and andary sary ary visitant visitants from France Franco Be B Be Grand Be our our- self seln Minor minutes of the week Pauline Paulino Lord late the great genius of Anna ChristIe Ue ap- ap ap appeared In by Ferenc Molnar as os an Insane Hungarian In- In In genue genua who tried to commit suIcide o because the tho boy she ehe 10 lo cd was WILS In Richard with her mother Mrs Rich Rich- ard Miss Misa Lord ap- ap ap appeared peered la Ln the second act earing angels angel's wings sings and she ehe sh climbed later to and fro Cro upon a aRobert Robert Edmond Jones imagining that sh she was wae deceased She Sho lumped out of o on n-n Upper upP- stOry Window at the end The The Nine Nn o 0 Clock Review Re le Imported at nt great grent cost from London by Arthur Ham Ham- mertin pathetically failed tailed to please the crude cruda New Yorker After the tho first performance Cecil Loan Miss dee Clea Mayfield and Will were summoned to extend their hands band across the seal sea but the entertainment died a humilIating deAth on the Century Roof Root In In The Tho Nervous Wreck 1 Mr lr Owen ls DaI IB our erstwhile laure laure- laureate laureate ate ato goes Into a a frenzy frenay tren y and doe all the Bom r flops flip end and known to frontier force Aa As plad by Otto Kruger and Miss Misa Juno Walker It ItIs Iti tunny funn tunny but non non-intelligent |