Show I 1 PERCY HAMMONDS HAMMOND'S LETTER LEUER Even the most ardent o of the South's cronies will scarcely feel mIffed at Mr amus amus- amusing amusing ing burlesque o of Southern life lit hIs now new play Magnolia Not on-I on on- on only on only ly Iy I is Magnolia a good rood deep deop- cheated show full fill o of romance romance ro- ro romance mance and copious letting blood-letting but ita its travesty is humorous and malice Furthermore its many characters Include three worthy persons I It if you count Rum Rum- Rumbo bo ho the aged butler and these three are aro so exemplary that they make amends for others other less mer men meritorious Sir Mn Leo Lea Carrillo for tor In- In instance In Instance stance stanco as os the hero Is o of a s pleas pleas- pleasIng pleasing ing nature fond of Wordsworth and entomology and though he be Is driven by circumstances to become a chill and murdering ji steamboat gambler he ho retains his lovable el- el elements elements el elements How do ou think does docs Mr Carrillo accomplish his first on entrance trance into play 1 With a grace grace- graceful fut ful ul skip bearing a 0 a butterfly not net a 0 copy o of his favorite bard and sur- sur surrounded surrounded sur surrounded rounded by merry stage children Mr a satire be- be beGins eins be-eins Gins at once to evince itself The hero ha having hating Ing spent his earlier youth among the tho cannibal savages Is un-I un un- un unused uzi used to the homicidal ways of o civIlized civilized I life on the lower While he has been out in the fields gathering butterflies and ond loving the birds and flowers liLa hia neIghbors the Patterson bos bo a s Joe and the Major have bave been down at the landing killing tho the last lasto o of the tho Jones Joneses Both o of these youths youth are aro enthusiastic and their favorite landscape Is one ono that Is decorated with the tho corpse I of a Jones Since there are re no Jon Joneses Sos left let to gratify their cada cada- cada cadaverous verous orous appetites they turn to Mr Carrillo Carnillo for tor satisfaction The Ma Ma- Ma Ma-lor Ma jor challenges him hint to a II duel QueI for forthe the hand and of the fair Elvira Where Where- Whereupon Whereupon upon the tho mystified Mr Carrillo do- do declining de declining clining dining to tight fight Is ordered by his hi father mother and sweetheart to live in Ini 1111 the tho woodshed a ai a 0 unworthy ot Or the traditions o of the family S C The rhe at the Liberty theatre the other evening might have havo borne that banishment bet bet- better bet better ter I think had not Mr Carrillo forgotten to take his volume of Wordsworth with him I s that I If this ultra Broadway a andi- andi once enco had been polled as to the ten tea bOOM books most suitable for company In an outhouse the tho works work o of Wordsworth would have ha been fay fay- favorite favorite fco bo O when he be left his Words Words- Wordsworth Wordsworth worth upon the tho plantation lawn lown as a atha the tha sad first act curtain fell the anguish ot of the Broadway nature nature- nature lovers vas as US the sailors Bailors say Bay sa mim- mim ply elm She ly Iy terrible It was Wl tactful o of Mr i to o later that 11 lr a as lie he abandoned the I gentle dreamy life for tor one ono of ot 10 vio violence lence lenee and gamIng gamin did not entirely desert He lie simply Imply aIm 11 shifted from the blended bird bind notes and buddIng twigs of cf Wordsworth's Nature to the red claws and teeth of that of Lord Byron v w v w wA 4 A week later Mr Carrillo drift drift- ing drifting Into a tiny Natchez gambling hell bell learns leorns from Its shrewd bred d pro pro- proprietor pro proprietor Mr Malcolm Williams the great advantages o of four flush In log ing In matters of courage As- As Assume Assume As Assume sume the false olse face of safety Mr Ir VII Williams willbo willbe IIams advises him and you will bo be brave Mr Williams a 0 moment before has shot t two io 0 men through the tho heart beart and as their bodies are dragged out o of the casino ho he sits himself down to a meal of ham hamand hamand and eggs Ho He wears a II high belled belied velvet elvet top hat the tho that go with It and eight guns and ho has hos o a patch 0 over oer er his bis right eye Who shot your eye out inquires Mr Ir Carrillo Carnillo That eyo eye t shot out Mr Mn Williams boasts My Iy wife wita hit me roe with a rolling roiling pin Under Mr Williams expert dl- dl dl I Mr CarrIllo becom s tho gambling tyrant o of the MississipPI steamboats Ho lIo Is the the Henry Ford the Woolworth the Wrigley the Will Hays o of faro bank and when hen his adversaries tall fail to pay ho he kills em cm A beau sa an breur sa-breur sa o of Fortune ho grows to be betho bethe the tho fine hero of the tha Sunny South Tho more ho murders the better they like him Ho Is no fiery fop who sleeps deeps on brambles brumbles till he ho kills his man but a II quiet mortuary ch chap p resembling In a 0 general way the actor who played Death In Ev Zy eryman Thus advertised h he re- re re turns returns spectacularly to pay the mortgage upon Magnolia tho the old home tead and to see Bee little Luc Lue one o of the to he ha used to rt information con con- concernIng corning con corning t tie the e birds and bees and ond to whom ho used to read the verses o of Wordsworth Lucy I J JA j jA A Iolet violet by a 0 mossy stone l Half Halt hidden front from the tho eyel eye FaIr as a 0 star when hen hen only one i I i Is shining ln tho sky ky Mr scares them thom all In hl his new now aspect and even the fire fire- fire eating InI I I eating Patterson boys tremble at his athis sinister smile One Ono o of his most satIsfactory as lIS I estimate revenge Is la that lii hI his brutal opponent ent ant Major i Is now bOW mar mar- marrIed married ned ried to hIs hl hi false falsa sweetheart El- El Elvira Elvine El Elvira vira vine and 1 Is the tha pecked hen-pecked parent o of an Infant named Ivanhoe There Thero Indeed i Is a 0 touch worthy of Mr Henry Leon Wilson 0 a sometime collaborator o of Mr In I 1909 there was oa a soil Wll SOil play ploy called Cameo Kirby acted unsuccessfully h hs- hs Im-a Im und Ilona there thereby thereby by N C Goodwin and Dustin Far Far- Far num nurn It was all as B to but not Identical with J and Mr lr ijohn John HarrIngton I who plays no so well I I tho the pallid villain in Magnolia was wasa wasa a like picturesque figure In Cam Cam- Cam Cameo eo Co I Kirby Not that It matters Mr Carrillo who Is very effective In Magnolia tails heir to the tho therole role through the defection detection o of Mr Sidney Blackman Blackmer and Mr LIonel more both o ot of whom were present on the tho first right to ap- ap applaud applaud ap applaud plaud vehemently his unequivocal success S 5 Red Light Annie containing Miss Mary Ryan and Edward Ellis Is a well acted melodrama o of Th The Deep typo type and It Is 16 the tho most dexterous since that pie pie- pic picturesque affair was produced Artists and Models a 0 daring re- re vuo re-vuo vuo at the tho Shubert 1 Is notable for Its now new adventures In nudity and ond for the tho sophistication of Its per per- performance per per In other ways Weve Veve Got to Have Money la Is I one on o ot of those thoDe dollar farces farce or Of the tho It s B to AdvertIse school and ond I though employing such auth uch pungent no- no acI actors ac actors tors tons as Robert Robort Anea me and Leo Loo Don Don- Donnelle Don nelley nelle Is a 0 little trite Ive I've had bail I mOl mole e fun tun at Magnolia than at atan on an other o of the seasons Reasons ea on circuses |