Show I i 1 PERCY AMMONDS AMMOND'S I 1 L By PERCY PInCY PI RCY HAMMOND D NEW E YORK Aug 29 Mr Belasco must have blushed recent recent- recently ly when he learned from the tho cables that hat one of ot his pet dramas The Harem had been shut hut out from Great Cheat Britain by tho the Lord lyd L. L rd Chan Chao- The Tho Harem Sir Mr Avery most Innocent composition tion was given ghen the air by the Eng Ens- lish Ush censor on the grounds that It was nasty and unbecoming to the tho British view of respectability It was was sneered at and shoved into tho thu hoosegow hoo gow as an unwelcome ing i naught caught from r but foreign e disapproval a parts al deserving deserving el The Thel g I Lord Chancellors Chancellor's veto itself was lot ot so ao bad but his hl accompanying words were were- cruel and not con con- conducive conducive to friendly foreign relations Ko Yo called it salacious The Harem during many months refreshed the American lover drama with its Hs candid Illus lIlus- illustration Illustration of a a. ladys lady's lovo love for her husband She adored him so 10 enthusiastically en en- enthusiastically that h she adopted dO several it 1 bizarre rr schemes he s to t keep I him faithful to her and to their mutual fireplace Few Yew if It any an protests except from the tho pulpit were ere aroused by the Hie exhibition end and we attended It as a R. frank study In domestic domel lIc relation relations help help- f fa j J to those In n a a. similar predicament ment Now ow we and Mr lr Belasco learn a tragedy accepted by Broad- Broad Broadw w WilY v as Instructive e though enjoy enjoy- enjoyable able ahle l is 19 damned by b the British as wicked nicked and degrading I myself suspected Inspected It Jl to be a little raffish in Its Us detail but Mr Belasco thought otherwise else he ho would not have produced It I saw it twice and I think that It did mo me meas OB II much good as a. harm as all li is oc- oc r. tho the practice of ot the thc thea thea- theater theater ter In his hi misery Mr Belasco may console himself lib Ills theaters heaters no saloons where drama drama- lovers 10 can liquor up and his foy foy- foyers foyers foyers ers are not Infested by the loose ladles ladies who vho In London receive the approval of the tae British govern govern- government ment I should say eay ay that It Is fifty- fifty Wt ft t Births and d Deaths As Broad Broadways Broadway's Broadways ways way's merry merr bells belli tolled last lut week eek for the passing pacing of ot It AU All De Do- Depends Something to Brag About A out and A Lucky Break the mourners made mado haste hasto from the funerals to scenes of accouchement Tic Mud Turtle Gay Parse Parce Pare Oh Mama and The Enchanted April were born and so 80 far ter It Is said are arc doing well Symptoms however are arc present to Indicate that bat ono one or two of ot them will find It a a. short distance from the cradle to the tho church I rd Following Follo Is la some somo Informal end comment upon the new arrivals The Tho Mini Turtle A A picture of I Minnesota farm life containing a study In revenge Mien Mies Helen Macy M 1 c- c Kellar struck In the face by a a. brutal f law in schemes scheme A to gt get even with him She bribes an amorous harvester to wreck the threshing machine promising to give five herself to him as ns a his reward Miss Mias MacKellar as 41 a Minneapolis l x fx married to a a. cowardly young farmer Is fair and end furious but the play is Ie too hard to believe bellevo to be satisfactory It la le by Edward Letter Leter Oh Mama toles Mama Miss Alice Brady Impersonates a sophisticated French lady ledy who falls tolla In love lov with her stepson Knneth Kenneth MacKenna This frivolous situation la is nimbly managed ma by the adapters Wilton VII ton Lackaye and nd Harry Grlbble Gribble both tamed famed In urban circles for their wit wU It is le a cold little cancan Miss Bradys Brady's caprices while many manx and interesting s seem cm aimless On the o 11 n I nil night her foth father r. r William r took her hr In hi his hIli arms arm tI rm In front of he fhe he audience H Ite III should also have turned her across hi his knee Gay Oay A A wild night with th tei revue monger It Is a mad huddle of ot hundreds hundred of girlish knees shoulders shoulder songs lOong dances tableaus and marches marcher and a statue of Venus acted by l the barest lady outside of bathtub bathtubs Do Do you Know Chic Sale asks ask Miss Win Win- In nl nie Lightner why hy Peggy Hop Hop- HopKins Kins 11 Joyce didn't dl nt marr marry Santa clans LaIlS No Xo Miss re responds ro- ro spends and ani the fun un of It Is that Mr Ir Sale Sate answers Because there alt aint 1 no Santa Claus Stop top me It if you 01 have heard he rd it it The Tho I April Four Four I women omen of ot various stations In Lon Lon- London Lon Lon-I London don life lease a a. castle on the Rl- Rl nl-I nl viera Iera In for a II coring Dring month to ponder their ther enigmas Unac Unac- Unacquainted Unacquainted with one another anether they think the plan will give ghe them the th solitude necessary al' al to the solution of Cor human problems One of them ilia oil Merle l Mad Mad- being religious Is In dis- dis distress tress because her hH husband a 0 novelist no makes capital hiS I out of such lax lox females female as Cleopatra Mid lId Nell Gwynne Another Miss Bliss Elizabeth Inabeth Risdon wishes to study from a long distance her relations with her husband hu a I mean little member of the London bar Com Com- Completing Completing Completing the quartet are Lady Caro Caro- Caroline Caroline line 1 Miss Helen Gahagan and a selfish II Mrs Fisher h ha Miss I Alison 1 o I If f buth both ot or whom are j I w lIry ary of ot London the society society the one II because she Is young joung and gets too much attention the other I be-I cause caise she is old and docs does not get gel gettin I It ugh in t in n ugh As It wa was written in a II book by Elizabeth lh of ot Elizabeths Elizabeth Ger Ger- German German German man Garden the stony stor as I re re- recall recall recall call It It was graceful and humor- humor ous ou It Is less leas so upon the stage It Is reduced to a routine romance between a usual heroine and a usual hero But Dut Mss MIs Skip Skip- worth Is so funny In her large and Jou way that The Tho Enchant Enchant- Enchanted ed d April Is entitled to the dubi dubi- dubious dubious ous OilS honor of being the present seasons season's most amusing show sho a |