Show O a so oa oc f fe I e Stage Morality on oil the Outline of The Vampire j H I I I 0 I Paul M 1 B Potter Dotter Sinks to Writing The Queen of the Moulin Rouge Rouget j LIf I Mantell Undertakes Foreign Tour of Record Length I U V i I From Our New Now York Dramatic Corro Corre Correspondent I spon I HEN a D playwright of oC the tho ability t and n standing of or I W W Paul M Motter Potter otter entangles his pen In the of or mediocrity and vulgarity as seen In InThe InThe inThe The Queen of ot the Moulin Rouge at nt atthe atthe the Circle theater It Is 15 time to won wonder wonder der dor whether or not the profession has not fallen tallen among amons evil days daj When hen tho of ot Trilby Tr II b took to dabbling largely largel In the music musical al Held field composing comp lyrics I etc ho mot met with fair success but his latest dia dra matte effort Is nothing less than a D cloud on his reputation Whatever possessed him to allow his name namo to appear on the program IB Js impossible to understand I Queen of or tho Moulin Rouge Is another attempt to transplant tho the atmosphere of the Parisian music halls In toto to this country countr and like less pretentious efforts In tho the same di dl direction direction r cllon It must fall tall when put on In inthe tho the guise gulso of oC a legitimate production Produced In somewhat different vein as a variety show for tor summer It would possibly gain a better reception This lewd and noxious drama has but little novelty and Its originators veit Nero BO so hard put for material to fill tho varIous scenes and acts that they th y actually resuscitated tho the old artist model stunt and in spite of or all aU the thc former model stenos scenes from which to adapt this one they the evolved a very In Inferior Interior inferior Imitation This model m wore a union suit Gult of oC pink that bagged ba a d at tho the knees Moral vIciousness Is often orton popular unfortunately when It Is Js clever but moral viciousness that Is stupid has hM never yd yet ct been provided with an excuse for existence oven even by b bour our most versatile thinkers and who whoever whoever whoever ever and whatever they the may be That the morals of oC the New York stage stase are arc growing more lax seems Seems evi evident evident evident dent to many observers Some of the vaudeville acts and songs of tho ho last twelve months month wore better beller unseen and unheard One Ono or two of or tho the recent Salomo dancers represented so nearly the historical h figures In the orgies of oC bar barbarian barian barlan Rome of oC old that wo we of tho the present have now really very little to learn from Crom the entertainers of oC the past Some one recently asked cd In a prominent prominent prominent nent publication What would Nero think If J he came to America today toda To the present writer tho the obvious answer would be Nero Acro think He would need all his time lime to togo toso togo go so around to see the sights and learn 1 a Y 1 l nl j r L a i 1 f fA ft A t i Y YI 1 I Sir 1 l WILLIAM GILLETTE APPEARING AS STAR IN SAMSON I CiU o rc i uv r v wH V Ji 4 4 j k r fir S J ll i k 1 l c cc c i iw w t ty y r i h Vt t v n Mr Ss m j s sl A 1 1 l f y 1 r s y lIS i H Hl l S A P PL L s L 7 s sI I V n l Fi I J l J y MARIE DORO DORa STARRING ON TOUR IN THE RICHEST GIRL what hat a second rato rate he lie was And Ancl his parting word would be he Think what 1 have missed by b be being beInS being ing InS born bom a few hundred years jears too soon Roon O a ancient Rome nome ground of or my nativity how Innocent you jou ou were Robert has just closed a series of oC contracts that call for one of oC the thc longest tours If Ir not the longest long st one ever undertaken by hy tin un American actor The plans include going r to Australia a short season In Honolulu a Jump over ovet to Ito South Africa l and u a final engagement en engagement In lit London n Mr lr Mantell will tako take a strictly American com pany piny and will present pre ent only classic roles Just why he contemplates appearing In London It is Iii very vcr to tell Mr Ir lantell Mantell is In just the kind ot of American actor that the Englishmen corn cornand liko to harpoon and und lampoon They w will ill hire him a stuffy little theater at atan atan atan an advanced rate and stand from Crom un 0 c oo ot der dr to avoid the fall tall Mr Mantell Is too loo florid Horl In style to succeed In London Lon London London don He has not what s hat the claim to recognize as ns polish and such a lack Is not a crime to English theater UI goers It borders on degon degen d degeneracy n crac erac In their way wa of or thinking Even If Mr Mantell had a II new play of strength that wits was within his limi limitations limitations limitations his Iris chances would be none nono too bright hl But to carry rr the old standard stan ard roles before the tho Londoners Shylock Richard III Ill etc Is like placing a achurch achurch achurch church fair chromo on the walls of the Louvre Mr lr Mantell Is an actor but hut buthe buthe he Is 18 not an artist The liThe Vampire In Europe Mr lr Edgar Edar Allan Woolf and Mr i George Sylvester VIereck have con concluded eluded arrangements ts whereby Tho The Vampire will bo he produced In Vienna Budapest and find In Italy almost simul simultaneously simultaneously with the American production production tion which the now havo have In InI I rehearsal for Cor American presentation Signor Ermete Novell w will III play piny tho the thoI I leading lauding role rolo In the Italian Hallan version The Vampire deals eals with a n man who Is able to absorb Ideas from Cram his I associates through h some superior power of oC the mind The exorcise exercise of or orthis this weird power leaves their brains as barren as sponges os One young man f apparently becomes tho the victim of or paresis while the vampire lives ilves and 1 thrives thrive on tho the appropriated brain mat mal matter matter 1 ter 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