Show I p PERCY Cy P AMMo llOil'S 1 LEnIR ahR I. YORK VOllE Sept S pt 12 l Th 1 Tho Th censors seem to have washed l their thol hails lia-ds of the drama and anti given 1 It tip lip as a hopelessly sly dissolute Al At Although though I tho the new seasons season's plays s ur ar r than thun usual no effort ha has habe habe be bl n made mall by the th reformers to lo cor con root them Last year al the nil air wu wa full of calls for the patrol wag wagon on one At the behest of or the lute lames theatres trea were closed play cl cl of their Iniquities ann an annI I at nt least Ie one prominent man manCerI mana ei I was sent sont to Jail Following an in In- In InI meeting In the To Towa I HII a large and anti eminent grant grand jury Jill was ryas appointed with bens to mop up the stage until It i tl became a l suitable sanctuary foi for foith the the- lovers drama V But nut the theatre this autumn proceeds upon Its Us downward course cours with no admonitory gestures from fron press pulpit or police Blemished French and 1 American farces tell tellI telltales Ubald tales of loose morals moral In the I of terms term The he bold revue re- re revue vue girls are more mor than lIan ever men men- menacing menacing acing In ii their exfolIation One of them In Gay Paree is so thoroughly peeled that she stir sur- u all nil known records for or molt molt- molting molting ing ng In ill public In Outside Ou Look Look- Hi lag In the language M Is some- some strong enough to make mal the forbidden profanity of ot What Price Glory sounds soun ls Oh W w or Doggone ne it It It 11 may Lila be that the evangelists I in to their last year ear became be- be beca beI became I ca came Tie hardened by h contact with the drama and are not so o easily hocked Chocked as once they were Polluted Pol Pol- Polluted by b evil association they too loo may have gone astray they th have first censured then pitied pilled then embraced Or It Is possible that they the cue are concentrating ing In their antagonism on other dens of or misbehavior leaving the thea- thea tr temporarily a If It I I were ten not ro a persistent Sil pollyanna an I should say say- sa that tho ho Broadway Ora drama ma this year ts s s going to the dogs doirs It is comforting to know that even een if II It Is ts it cannot harm the dogs What shall be said of Cradle Rn Snatchers tellers the tho free care-free exhibition Ion tion of wrongdoing at the Music Box Nothing except that In It three elderly N Y S' matrons of or the lifted face type hire at a no large wise wage three small college boys bos to tomake tom tomake m make ke love to them They do so In order r to revenge themselves thel selves upon faithless husbands Thou Those si tile s lle N N. V. V daddies are fond ol or I the Iho tits at nt the tho flapper hour and of striving to renew W their theil y ith by flirtation with the tho hard hard- hardg I eg g s I 1 the fol fol- folI J I lowing news newa should b he ha j suppressed I I but bat you dont don't have to read It It I IThe The old give U a secret 8 o party to their boy bO In a 1 luxurious country place on I Luig LOI g Island In the course of the all of them grow flushed with wine The rho night Is beIng fe fee fee- j jI to ls ned with crImson de decorations I when the three husbands arrIve I unexpectedly with a retinue of I loud h find end bob v ves- ves s- s This may ma seem s Indecorous and an I it is but hut Its picture of the dis dis- dismayed dismayed husbands suffering doubly I for their delinquencies Is III a ser- ser sermon nun mon Not only are they caught ht themselves s but they ther catch their wives similarly en engaged en- en I gaII Susan Miss hiss Mary Boland Doland ha has her hair down and n her e shoes off f Ethel Miss 80 dna dna ni May I Oliver I ii lx likewise e vise l disheveled I and I Kitty li t i Miss Margaret ga Dale also shows s of romance c The boys ar arin are areto in to their shirt t sleeves stEe s the lights I aro are out and to tu make the scene more infamous one of the young- young is playing a II tune upon the 1 lascivious le n tn unusually brilliant b first first- nihl audience audience- found Cradle Snatchers rs Sr lewd and enjoyable YI It Itis M Js the work ot of Russell ell led i and Miss Norma Norna Mitchell 0 iii hell i Outside Looking In is an all ill In- in interesting memorial to American trump tramp life lire and ancl It does doLs for the US U U. U.S. S. S S R hobo obo what What hat Price Glory lid did for the U U. R marine marine- Drama Drama- Dramatic tic d by br Maxwell Anderson from Jim JIn Tully's autobiography it Is In humorous and energetic a keen Iteen memorandum and an nn exceptional play pIa For lh the th benefit of those who wo wo shrink from th the rough lough stuff It should bo be b said that it Is not a II patty drama diama Its I I. I characters 18 are wicked and untidy and they are addicted to profanity and other l ci erl nes They Th y Ire are lustful and murderous mur mur- murderous murderous derous and thy sleep like the heroines in the bedroom farces v. v with vath their socks on The most I can say for them the Is IsIh I II I hat Ih it I found them to be entertain I iua In ln at a distance and that they the Kave ve me the Iho best bent time tIe I have havo had hadIn hadIn I In a theatre th atro this season You ou see sec them first In a hoboes hoboes' bivouac on the outskirts ot or Williston Willis Willis- Williston 18 11 ton lon N N. D I Tho rhe Arkansas Arl 18 Snake Is 18 there pallid shuddering and AleD AI Iose a fugitive ne ro from a southern t prison I Ic c I A quiet nervy outcast mimed Red comes conies In with I fina who o has just ju t killed her lu-i R I for reasons ol too loo good d and sufficient s Other Interesting vaI va- I congregate but bat the party parly 11 is i Incomplete until the arrival of Oklahoma Ok Olt- OltI I lahoma Red Oklahoma Red is handsome and Irish Irl h a n smiling devil fond of or I women vv Wlm imen n adventure and conversa conversa- tion lion Ills Nis blue serge ergo suit has rents In ii t t but his Ills shirt shirl is rather clean llean and he wears a no necktie neel tle livery Every I th iii 10 to he talks ta he says something Often those these e remarks n may 1 be sus- sus I pet petted ted d to be e loo tuo clever f for a hobo but that makes mals them only a I Ihl H-H H enjoyable He lie the Arkansas Arkans I Snake and Little TIed Red engage In iii a contest for the tho possession of or Edna the hc beautiful patricIde Their wiles are ure violent t and from brutality to ranging I sox sex ap ap- peal pell In n the public dress dres rehearsal I Sunday night Edna I Miss lIss Blyth Blythe Da Day y announced she site had killed her I father In revenge for foran foran foran an unprintable crime crImp The charge molts wis I so BO shocking that it IL stunned I van V v i-v n those who are not easily Between tho the acts Mr 11 Tully fully himself regretted the con can confession conI I So Monday evening It f I wag as amended nd e-nd and r since e then l Edna accuses 1 uses her I father step not her father Thus Thul without the lash of or lit HIA censors the draina voluntarily r Itself The fhe lest best acting In New ew York Is done clone In to this tills narra narra- narrative narrative tive by h Charles CharlE's A BIckford as liS Oklahoma Red ned and by h James Cag- Cag Cagney ney ncy as Little Iced both both of them unknowns |