Show 1 t D Maude Adams and W Lackaye Score core In InThe r What Every Woman Knows K i N ew p Hi ts The Battle attle a Story of Social Socialism II j Ht by James M Barrie r LL o f ism Versus Capital rl f rf I y Y i 11 i From Our New York Dramatic Corre Correspondent Correi i t friends who patronize tho rho horse races have halve a n man manner many OUR y nor ncr of referring to horses hOrBes that ought to win as best bets bots To apply this form of or speech 1 to the iho latest developments In tho metropolitan drama would result In InV V pronouncing Maude Adams In What Every Woman Knows and Wilton i in hi The BatUe Battle to be the best bets of or tho latest entries in the dra dramatic matic stakes F What hat Every Woman Knows Is by James M BarrIe and it represents the best bost class of ot tho the talented Scotchmans Scotch Scotchmans Scotchmans I mans dramatic writing It is imaginative I native and lightsome lI yet et serious and andl l I portentous Miss Adams Is given a role Tole that sov sovi crul critics have endeavored end to show i that of J will prove as popular as Peter Pan or of o Lady Lacy Babble Babbie In The Tho Little Minister While such state statements statements I ments are arc overdrawn yet et Miss Adams I will gain considerable vogue in her herI new play pIny In fact she has already alread won It ft Tho play pia Is a n success It I won favor on tour and has captured a large larse following In New York V What Every Woman oman Knows Is 1 according to Mr Barrie that all nil men are arc children and as such arc are so to be J treated by women that Is by women who arc are wise in the tho ways wn s of o man But Butr whether Mr Ir Barrio really believes this j r l a is open to question If ho believes b it for tho moro mere purposes of his play pia that thatis is another matter matterI I Miss jUss Adams plays plas the tho role of or Mag l glo Wylie W ile who for the purposes of or contrast by b the tho author luthor Is equipped with three brothers of varying charN char characters I N I actors Then there is Shand who wants two things Ho He wants education education education tion and he lie wants want J to marry Maggie Massie He forgets that with education ho homay homa homay may ma cheerfully dispense with mar marriage or else elgo he never llever know knew it IL At Atan any an rate Shand never neer reaches this point of advancement in ht his education education education tion Ho IIo finally finall marries Maggio Wylie P after teter getting setting educated Oh marvel marel of or a n man But he docs does balk balle a abit at t bit Ho takes take account of stock of ot the charms of another woman while en route to the domestic haven of Mag Mas 1 gies Ilos s love Shands threatened lapse into for forgetfulness of or Maggie happens and anden andL L ends en s thus I When hem in his blind blundering stupid f f t way n he is dazzled by b the thee sight of or a n ni i J JJ woman whose chose social position Is I above aboe a J II his own and an when ho thinks that in n that quarter his inspiration lies Mag Maggie Maggie gie the tho wise the farseeing little Mag Maggie Magi MagIe i gie Ie who knows Imos the futility of or preach preaching preaching ing ins and the utility of experience r sends him on the way wa but she knows t 1 I t I he will come back For John needs I her and though he realized it yet she has been the making of or him himI I 1 r and his Shand those bright lit little i 1 f tie tIc touches in r his speeches which ho hoi hor I I C r t j TT V Sl 4 c r f 2 HJ i J w l 1 y 44 lIt r r f 4 1 i 4 AL c sr l a f Pr I r fi j e J I r r ril I il I I I F I MAUDE ADAMS STAR IN WHAT EVERY WOMAN KNOWS NEW BARRIE PLAY I It t thinks are all his own but which the new affinity somehow does not In inspire spire spiro or suggest So they settled down own at last ready read to forgive and be forgiven and a great grent light has come to John It Is a n graceful a buoyant sparkling play pia so much in fact fuel of or all nil of or these with so large larse a share sharo of or tenderness that only a few f fes W of oC the critics would care to detail etall Its occasional departures from Crom strict form or 01 probability These rhese things matter little In ii tho general effect ef er effect feet The liTho Chaperone Tho story of or Tho Tim Chaperone a n comedy in three acts by Marion Fair Fairfax Fairfax Fairfax fax chosen by b Maxine Elliott to open tho the Elliott theater Is ono one of or down to date dato life in the Ule smart set The first act shows the interior of or Silver Birch Lodge the home of Rich Richard RI h hard ard Coombs the father of two daugh dauch daughters daughters who have two young girls visit visitIng leg Ins them Mr and Mrs Coombs are aro called to New York by b tho the illness of oC a relative and they telephone a neighbor neigh neighbor bor asking her to take in the girls while they th are aro away Tho Tim neighbor Mrs Hemingway wa cannot do this bu hu sends over oer the Countess Van to act as chaperone She Is an American girl Irl married to an Austrian count whose mode modo of oC living has been so to notorious no notorious notorious that the countess Miss El Elliott Elliott Elliott liott is suing for divorce Prior to her marriage to the tho count cho Ghe was engaged to a young oun American l named Jim Ogden who turns up that night nl ht at the Coombs homo home as does tho the count and his rho The countess runs away awny with Ogden rather lather than be he discovered The Tho second act shows the couple marooned on Hog Island in the middle of oC the lake Jake Thither comes the count looking for evidence to uso use In his counter divorce suit The Tho countess escapes from the Island In a mud mu and the last act shows tho the In Interior Interior Interior of tho the Lodge lo to which she re returns returns returns turns Here all the complications arc are straightened out the count Is bought off orr and the long separated lovers are reunited L In The Battle 8 Ule The Battle by h Cleveland Moffat a newspaper writer is nevertheless a success at the Savoy Savo theater Wilton magnificent picture of oC the lie central c figure Is 18 the best character ch study stud of the season In n this play Ilia this tills actor rises to a degree of or excellence that he has hos never before attained in New York Y rl city Mr ir supported by b an ex excellent e excellent nt company Including E M 1 Hol Holland land 1 IT H I B Warner Darner and Elsie Ferguson son Is seen In the rolo role of or u million millionaire millionaire aire nire business man man who goes Into tho the underworld of oC New York to lo win the thc love and respect of oC his son who Is a voluntary worker In the field of or char i r r rt 7 Ic t ti 1 t tv v 6 l n l yV ul yr wd t 4 J 4 s J r 1 s sJ t 46 J Jr 1 J K 5 t ts s MA MARY GARDEN DEN FAMOUS SOPRANO NOW AT MANHATTAN OPERA HOUSE NEW YORK Ity It This Tills son has been Ignorant of or his fathers Identity kept so by his mother now dead who separated from her husband because of his business methods Mr Lacka o points with unerring naturalness and effectiveness the tho fa fathers fathers thors craving his fight his love for Cor his son and for his sons affection Keeping his relationship secret ho he shows tho the son what manner of man he heIs heIs heis Is The son admires the forcefulness the keen intellect tho of the newcomer Into the life lire of or New Yorks poverty smitten east enst side And ho he finds It no difficult dl matter to love this man as a father when the re relationship laUon Is disclosed But there are alc stirring episodes and an gripping tr l dy Interspersed Int in the story tory The loves and the passions of women play their thell part The desire of oC I wronged men for vengeance is shown The softening touch of genuine com corn comedy comedy edy Is Js not lacking The underlying motif of the tho drama Is 15 to show Dhow tho battle between capital and labor tho the strife between social socialism socialism ism and the plutocracy Tho The piny play I docs does not could not attempt to answer the weighty weight questions Involved Its Is to place these questions be before before 1 fore Core tho the public and to score a profit profitable profitable able run for tho the managers The Tho a drama is succeeding In both bolh offices Mr Lackaye docs does the best work worl of ot Ills his career In The Battle No the theater theater to ater ator goer can afford to miss an opportunity opportunity to witness a performance ol of the play pin f J 1 1 n |