Show PERCY PERGY AMMONDS AMMOND'S LETTER ITER J f I T NEW YORK YORE fus Mr 4 4 Mr Mr Cohan I Is his j jaunty self again In hating h re- re reI ro-co ro COt covered ered from the apparently an an- an anguish cuish an-cuish I which beset him hum when hen th the Actors Ator Equity frore him with ith ben ben- I While n hile Mr Cohan was wasI sulking among the chill chili horrors of I Ingratitude and announcing his ex- ex ex t p Broadway seemed even evenI I more colorless than it really usel use to be The influence of Mr tr Co- Co Cohan's Coban's hans han's hans bans an angry detection defection was an dea- dea dead to that aesthetic avenue as the absence of alcohol and his broken heart cast shadows shadow not dispelled bj b many b many vivacious Chicago rum gum On such buch few occasions as JS I saw W Mr Ir Cohin n he was gaunt hollow hollow- hollow eyed eyed and lowering the dismal specter of an king kins I d div dis discovered covered him once at luncheon in a remote corner of a a remote cafe nibbling it teemed seemed to me at his n own ow-n vitals bather than those hose of an- an another an another other lie He reminded d me roo then of one of Stephen Crane s a lack Riders IU- IU ders deIs Discarding a few of Mr Cranes Crane's as inapplicable In to Mr II Coban's road roadway ay dress and character the picture described his bleak bleal not In the desert d ert I t saw a creature Who Vho squatting upon the sand Held his heart in his handa and find ate It it I said ald Is It ft good rood my friend 1 And ho he answered d Te Ye it is good Because It is bitter and because It is my heart Now however hoover Mr Cohan In- In invigorated orated Mt by the that are said to render men noble stronger and happier bappler breezily IIo Ho slaps the Equity on the back and calls callb it a good old pal even If it he lie doesn't like it lie renounces London whither he h had threatened to emigrate with hi dramas mas and he pooh the dramatic critics as 1 less le-in 8 than the dust upon his motor wheels Again he sn sneers ers at the audiences who go to goto his shows as the honest eon con conman man smiles n at t the county fair fall I I whore ire are pleased please when ahen hen they do not find the pea under the shell which they e hate selected elected He returns to take taka his place again agam agamas as the th bountiful monarch of Dum- Dum Dum-bellia Dum bellia He loves his subjects but buthe buthe buthe he is on to them m The less they get et he thinks the better they like Inte lit it Mr Cohan strives to do his worst and he Is the most pros pro prosperous pros prosperous perou and therefore the most mo t qa- qa a of the theater cynics Ire He takes lakes one of the melodies of Mother Goose and with the ap- ap ap of a little Cohan gravy raYy I turns It Into a sens Broad d Broadway way Broad way pet The Tho more his hi contempt for his audiences the greater grater their I Suspect Mr 11 Cohan was miffed Yo when ahen hen after aner producing Seven Se Keys From Baldpate be discovered that it was as good though popular I recall Mr Sir Cohan's perplexity concerning the success of that I ad-I ad- ad ad admirable mirable comedy years ago In Chi Clil- Chicago Chi Chicago cago sago We Vo W were ero talking together between the acts of ot the first nights night's I performance at the Grand House Housend and nd Mr JIll Cohan was int In t contemplative mood As he looked up at the tho stars tars which shorn shone abo above Clark Clarl street and over tho the City hail HaU I he Bald eald ald Do you ou 1111 know OW Ham Ham- Hammond Hammond Ham mond mond that all an those worlds are just as W wo ar are 99 arc 99 99 per cent Perth Amboy A cosmic cynic I Deprived because of a crippled cripple knee cap from attending the Initial T performance of Two Fellow and t ti I Girl Mr Cohan s most recent combination of all all- allda I toy balloon toy toy-b- and sucker all da sucker day sucker by Vincent Lawrence I II must ask you to depend upon the thead ad advises vices of my shrewd and pene- pene penetrating penetrating I correspondent correspondent Mr MorrIs GIlbert of the th New York Tork He writes writer Dear Chief Chief- George Georee M SI I Cohane Cohan return from England was heralded by a piece called Two Fellows an and anda anda 11 a Girl Its lIB subtitle was wa Tho The Amer Amer- AmerI American I ican can Sweetheart Comedy It was wasI I written by Vincent Lawrence rence but the tho jokes in Its was quite possibly George Some of the jokes joltes were I pretty bad I The play Mr Hammond con con- concerns con concerns cerns the choice of a husband which Is I settled In th the first act con I by bythe bythe bythe the toss of a coin The Tho choke comes come out all nil right ht as far as the tho can tell and the tir thre rather dull but ebullient principals l talk the sItuation to death by the tho final curtain At least ea t they did the first night Probably bv by this time halt half an hour hn has been ben lopped oft off the comedy I hope you wont won't care The Tho Cohan comedy Mr Ham Iram- Hammond IT mond m-mond mond Is iq spread pread thick in Two Id I'd- lows 10 leis sand and n a Girl Everybody stays y In the humor under all allI nees This has ha an n agreeable agree agree- I able ablo blo ef effort t on the audience but It Isn isa t conducive to what I have been I told is tho the verisimilitude of ot the drama An Interval of ot five year Intervenes enes the tho gladsome first act and the equally gladsome second act But Dut the five years Isn't as long lone as the time It takes for the unsuccessful lover to get getto getto et etto to the house of his married pal and former sweetheart after ho be tele- tele telephones telephones tele telephones phones from the th station In it It Mr Hammond This is the only time the Cohan trick falls Two Follows and a Girl Is a comedy don done In Cohan Cohall tempo It looks loohs like liko a hit If It not a good play |