Show things Doing 7 Tn Gotham New York Sept 30 The The usua usual dramatic crop confronts the thc Metropolitan Metropolitan Metro Metro- politan theatre patron this week eek N No Noless less Jess than five tive new productions made madi their bid for tor favor to sa say ay nothing o othe of ot the Initial appearance of or that much much- heralded throne wrecker Gab Gaby George M. M Cohan I Is to be seen In Geor George c M. M Cohan's new new play The Tho Littie Little Little Lit Lit- tle tie Millionaire at the George M. M I. I Cohan's theatre George Bro Broadhurst's Bought and Paid For occupies the Playhouse Rida Johnson Youngs Young's Next ext Is playing at Dalys Daly's Lew Lew- FIelds Fjeld's Never Homo Home Is at the BroadwaY Broadway Broad- Broad w way y Henry Bender Is starring In Der DerD DerD 1 D ppl at the Irving Place and Gab Gaby Deslys in the thc new Revue of ol Revues holds first place at the j Winter Garden i The Little tittle Millionaire George George I. M. M Cohan has come back backwith with a a. distinctly distinctly-Cohan Cohan play pIny In the Coban Cohan Cohan Co Co- Co- Co han ban theatre by the Cohan family Also the bring down most of or the applause applause applause ap ap- ap- ap and said d applause emanates the friends Quite a Coban Co- Co ban Tian ian affair The Little Millionaire George Georgef M. M Cohan is the millionaire Robert Spooner Jerry y Cohan is Is the thc big millionaire Roberts Robert's father Henry Spooner and Mrs Helen Cohan Is cast the for role of ot Mrs Prescott the aunt of or Goldie Gray of or the Zig Zag Foll Folly company with whom Robert Spooner Is 18 in love Jove The story of or the play pIa portrays Robbert Rob- Rob bert afflicted with the spring sickness love and his father rather Henry nee J Jerry rry a wealthy farmer opposed to the i match On this slender thread has I been strung the usual pearls of ot wit music and pretty women and novel situations with the result that the finished product equals if It not surpasses other ther pieces from the tho pen penot of ot the versatile Mr lr Cohan The first and third acts are musical corned comedy pure and simple with a score of or catchy songs and the second act carries tho the thread of or the story In a highly highl farcical manner The re result ull is ig pleasing for tor It breaks what might bo be of r son song with the usual slap- slap bang Cohan Cohan- comedy On the whole it looks as though Mr Ir George Georgc 31 1 Cohan et al had put over success o-success that would entertain erudite New York for some time to come The Tho Woman oman From a a- literary standpoint i probably no more n re daring play has been produced pro pro- du ed in Now New York than The Woman Wom Worn an now pla playing ing at the Republic un under un- un der the management of David Belasco Its situations and dr dramatic periods are well arranged wonderfully han han- died and staged with the skill of or a master yet were It not for the promInence prom prom- given a part that would loom small in the usual production The Woman would run well within the tho class of ot mediocrity William C C. Do De Mille Mule the author has staked all on a le The Ih wo r Woman Is the the success of th the tho season For the first twenty minutes after atter the curtain rises the play appears well wellon wellon wellon on the road to mediocrity then thon after the audience even e tho last latecomer Is comfortably seated the sex problem lem lern is brought to the front with startling effect Matthew Standish Is I running for tor office It is discovered that his early career was marked marled with sith Ith t hotel register autographs Fine campaIgn campaign cam cam- I material If Ie the name of or his woman companion can only be foun found His enemies move moye heaven and e earth rth to consummate disclosure and anti at last In despair confront Standish and rind seek seEl to wring from him the name of oC his amour Standish steps to the telephone telephone tele tele- phone and calls un iy Plaza to 10 warn his former love lo that disclosure is imminent im Im- im- im Wanda randa Kelly the swItchboard switchboard switch swItch- board operator destroys the record and refuses To be bribed Into furnishing furnish furnish- ing the clue At t last Jast the enemies of ot Standish give up their attempt and one of ot them calls up his wife The rhe numb number r Is 1009 1000 Plaza This Is the incident that De Mille Mule has chosen to gamble with for Cor the success suc sue cess of his pia play and the incident which starts the all absorbing vein of or human interest suspense and sexology sexology sex sex- on oh a career that ends with the usual cloak of ot heroics Mary Nash as the telephone girl Irl was easily the star of the evening Cu Cuyler ler Hastings as Standish gave an performance and the thc others In the cast divided the thc honors about evenly U f. f T W v u Vl ui IU LU A. 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Thomas has stepped into the breach with a solution new of or that anK ancient ancient an- an K problem How to be be happy happ i though married II it Is set forth or in n nt t Wh What t I t th the Doctor Ordered at the Astoor Astoor As- As Astoor toor by Fritz Williams and Virginia I Hammond 11 In the thc roles of or John and Daisy i Carr and ad leads to not a few tew amusing complications v Th The s first preemption is vacation Cation from the marital contiguity This from the however meets w Wi with UI h disapproval je Patient and their determination n tion hM to Ji live together and fight furnishes furnishes fur fur- most ot of the f fun un of or the piece Th The r A doctor nr J Is again Sot set In and the thea sought for advice ad How to stop a a wIre wife front from mutilating the thc I family crocker crockery ls is the question this time He UE that masculinity break dish iu for tor r ir dish and exchange a athe hr harsh i f word for V one nC or of Its kind Before BeCore the me rv evening c Is finished there Is Js real great carnage in the Wilh fn dinner set with the tho incompatibles In- In compatibles com finally arz at an amicable understanding What What the e ordered Doctors tl Is Isi i JET IJ ii ill I 1 S 4 A. A 3 rather talky but still Its It's good to take for foi an evenings evening's entertainment Tl Th The Arab Syrian life liCe and scenes have been transplanted to the stage of ot the Lyceum Ly Ly- Ly- Ly couin with an effect that is pleasing Had a theme been as carefully nurtured nurtured nurtured nur nur- Edgar Selwyn's play The Arab would have with larity I Mr Selwyn has not only written the play pia but pla plays s 's the tho tItle title role role and and plays it with considerable merit Thc trouble with the production is Its platitudinous conformity t to all the laws of ot melodrama It jt might be any of ot half halt a dozen plays produced in the tho last decade with decade with a tropical setting There is the girl the the thc hero lov love danger and a happy ending ending all all according to Hoyle Hoylo Mr Selwyn as the hero ero Jamil Tamil Abdullah Ab Ab- Ab- Ab dullah duliah Azam m la is in love ilove with Mary HUbert Edna Baket Bakeh the dau daughter of a white The go governor r of or the town In Investigates sU ates an uprising for Cor political purposes s. s The lives of ot the whites are arc In d danger nger Jamil Abdullah Ab Ab- Ab- Ab dullah Azam rescue rescues the object of his affection gets shot for or his pains and the final curtain t falls 18 on Marys Mary's conCession confession con con- Cession of ot love loc and promise to return to her Arabian wo wooer er after a visit to the old folks at h home me The piece was evidently designed to fill a fancied irant in Broadway theatrical circles circles rousing time old-time melodrama melodrama and and as s such it fulfills Its purpose admirably but butas as a A. popular popular pop pop- ular success it lacks the thc qualities of or no elt novelty and vital Ital Interest From the first curtain the ending Is obvious and nothing transpires during four tour acts to shake shako the forecast |