Show 9 9 y i 9 G I I APPEARING IN NEW YORK THEATRE TIRES I Io o The central figure Is le Mme Simon starring In In- InThe The Thief at Dalys Dillys In Inthe Inthe the upp upper r right hand band corner comer Is Marguerite Mar Mar- 4 guerito Sylva playing In Gypsy GypS Ops Love at the Globe At the bottom on an the left t 4 Is Kitty Gordon starring In InThe I The EnI Enchantress En 4 3 Ic at the New ow York Yok and on tho the right is SS Wn IRce Eddinger r In The L Only Son at t the Galot 4 t z i t A-t 4 4 g i L 4 i v J rl 1 j jt t Th i 3 Pr f jr tf W c 4 V f 4 J 8 4 7 4 41 4 t c 4 t rl 1 j l M 4 play so play so much has been written of or orthe the familiar scenes between a jealous wife and the thc husband sho she sought to keep by securing money by theft that there Is no need to review the tho plot Plot Plot- but she failed ailed in all aU the scenes where the dramatist builds up the plot with tense tenso dialogue and human interest That she is an artist there can be no doubt but that her art leaves too much to Inference and lacks in Intensity Intensity Intensity sity is equally equay plain Sho leaves an impression of ot being being- a consummate actress but not a n. great grent emotional player The supporting cast is good but not excellent It does very ery well how however ver for Cor a n s BettIng to the somewhat colorless colorless color color- less art of or the great French actress The Tho Only Onh Son Wallace Eddinger plays the indolent youth In The Only Son at tho the Gaiety with a a. realism that is most graU gratifying Ing Claude is very very rich with a bad grace that is not convincIng convincing ing lug and tho the other members of or the family about which the plot Is Js built a a. wife and daughter perform heroics that echo of ot the melodrama The play moves quickly has situations and and sc ned of ot both strength and pathos but fills falls far tar short of ot Winchell Smiths Smith's other othor- production The Fortune Hun Hun- ter Whether it will UJ prove a a. success successor I or not depends upon the tho mood of ot the tho theatre-going theatre public The stor story opens In the tho home oC of Thomas Thomas is very rich got It all himself and accumulated accumulated accumulated considerable harshness s with his lucre Young Tom however er Is Ig of or tho the truo true purple He would rather fan himself than work any hot afternoon all of or which considerably rOes tho the old man map On top of or his trouble with young oung Tom ho he finds that his wife has been untrue to him and sends her from the house This crisis In the family famil brings s out the characteristics s of ot sterling merit In young Tom Toni He de decides do- do eWes chles to stick sUck to his mother leaves the house and goes west Or Of course he ho makes money they the they all aU do in a play and and the elder older Brainerd proud of his I bo boys boy's s 's metamorphosis welcomes him with open arms and through him b becomes becomes be be- comes reconciled to his wife wire It Is all most prosaic m most st shop shop- shopworn shopworn worn and most unconvincing yet such Is tho the art of ot Mr Smith that he actually actual actual- ly 1 makes the old plot shine like new and even adds an extra lick for tor luck luck It is a n most Interesting exposition of or Mr Ir Smiths Smith's art the art the art of ot making I old clothes Into new Tho The Duchess s. s I Broadway rumor has It that H H. 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B Smith and Joseph Herbert have so perfected the libretto habit that the they can run a typewriter with one hand and beat time with the other while Victor Herbert hammers out the score score Of Ot course this is only rumor but tho the fact that the two Herberts and Harry Smith havo have connived so 50 often unsuccessfully unsuccessfully of ot late seems ems to give a touch of ef truth The latest production of this trio Is The Duchess now no- playing at tho the Lyric with Fritzi Scheff In the stellar role The piece contains an Innovation tion tion-In tion in comic opera oper It has ha a plot that can actually be followed without diagrams diagrams diagrams dia dia- grams arid and prosT program m instructions It ItIs Itis is also more or less platitudinous and except for Victor Herberts Herbert's usual brillian brilliancy bril bril- linn lian y of ot score contains tho the same lines that Smith and Herbert have written and rewritten for tor many many years ye rs The songs songs are undoubtedly pretty the chorus Ji large rge and handsome and Mme Scheff both thin and agile quite quite a r remarkable thing In a n singIng singIng singIng sing Ing lady most mO of or whom horn quite lose sight of ot their boots boot after atter a few years years' progressive progressive pro pro- fe tee feeding There are several men m n in tho the cast though what they they- add to either the Joy or sorrow Borrow ow of at the could Just Justas as well be gone without They aro arc singularly uninteresting with perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps the exception of ot George Ander Ander- son Ion Even George Georgc however falls fails to set alight the flame of or enthusiasm The only comedy touch In the whole three acts Is afforded by Ma May Boley who is cast for a II broadly farcical and somewhat vulgar role Tho The merit of ot Tho Duchess Duchess lies Has in Its score and tho the fact that It a plot Neither o of these however can hope to claim over much attention for lor thc they are so far far-b low the criterion r set by Herberts Herbert's earlier works tt thc they appear mediocre by comparison Bunty Pulls lus the Strings Hoot mon Dinna ye yo ken Sorry If It you dont don't for sinco since Colliers Collier's h has s been decorated with the Sign of the Thistle Scotch New Now York has been yelling Itself hoarse In iu ef efforts efforts er- er forts orts to voice its approval al of ot this Importation importation im mm- from the land Jand of ot porridge and bare legs These be bo great rc t da days s 's for Scotland with tho the inimitable ble blo Harry Lauder entertaining tho the clans at the Manhattan and an nn all all- Scotch cast st mutilating English at Colher's Colliers Collier's Col Col- hers lier's Bun y y c certainly docs does pull pun the strings She is the mo most t cheerful little busybody busybody busybody busy busy- body that ever evers ever's set l r foot ot on a stage and ana anaIs andis and Is no lossa person than Molli Pearson Pearson Pearson Pear Pear- son who distinguished herself herselt as the In The Tue Passing of ol the tho Third Floor Back When tho the play pia opens Bunty's sweetheart has been appointed an elder in lii tho the parish church chulch at a at the early arl arlage age age of or twentynine twentynine twenty twenty- nine and their marr is about tobe to tobe tobe be announced All goes well until Susie Simpson appears upon the scene scone It then that B nty's s father Tammas Biggar the village grocer has a past He has borrowed a hundred pounds from Susie Simpson and has failed to Day nav nav it all aU back Miss Simpson seeks t to square square matters by proposing to annex the recalcitrant grocer via the marriage route In the meantime Ellen Dunlap appears appears appears ap ap- ap- ap pears and turns out to be a former sweetheart of ot Tammas Tammas' whom h ho jilted on the eve of or wedding She is tile the antithesis of the spare and spidery spIder Susie and courted imich-courted affections arfe af at- fe U ns appear to lean her way in spite of the thc monetary hold of Susie This fact leads Susie to denounce T In the village church and arid demand demand de do- mand inand h his arrest Here Bunty Bunt stops steps in she sho has been busy pulling strings all an through the play and play and announces that the money is home awaiting t the e discharge discharge discharge dis dis- dis- dis charge of or the d debt bt It turns out that the tho money monCY is none other th than n that which Is 18 to be used for the tho marriage of or Bunty Bunt and Wee Wee- ee lum turn It requires no little string g pullIng pull pull- pulling In Ing on Bunty's Bunts part to In in over o her affianced but in the tho end he submits The Tho piece I Is brought to a happy conclusion con con- elusion b by a a. bit of ot supreme string puUing pulling pullIng pull pull- ing that shows sho Susie Simpson to have havo cheated m her nephew out of oC alm almost almos the exact amount Bunty was obliged to sacrifice for or he her fathers honor easily c carries away the honors a as ns Bunty BUnt but her supporters and and women all aU form torm a n cast whose weird dialect and good goodw w work rk will make the pIa play ono one of New York Yorks York's s sights for tor maIl many a n week TK The Sign SIe of or the the- Ro Rose ott Th he Garrick affords a a. fine tine example or of what a n. good actor can do with the he laws of ot and yet turn out a Jucs successful ful and Interesting story The Sign of ot the Rose nose takes untold M liberties with Chance Coincidence and ana company Compan- db displays plays a a dramatic as broad as na the Hudson yet holds Its audiences enthralled in the tho meshes of ot i humor und and that has hns been ro its lines JInes Pietro Italian labor labor- a poor Door of cr er brings bring a Christmas tree to tho homo home o of or the millionaire He HeIs HeIs Heis Is treated kindly and shows hows marked delight in the little daughter of or the house who vho subsequently disappears hidden by the black sheep of the famIly family fam tam ily Uy who demands for tor her re return return return re- re turn signing his letters lotters The Sign of tho the Rose In the second act Beban reaches the zenith of ot Interest and humor It consists con con- aLst of oC a dialogue with his little housekeeper housekeeper housekeeper house house- keeper Rosa during which her large ideas of at Santa Claus and Pietro's Pictro's manifest man man- manifest Itc t inability to fulfill them cause most of oC the laughter This act closes with a a. scene depicting depleting the Injury and death of ot Ro Rosa at the tho hands of Jt f tho the ida klo- girls girl's millionaire father It is well managed and redolent pathos pa pa- thos Pietro Is suspected o of tho Griswold girl His Interest in her hor and the fact that he attempts to buy a n red rose to grace graco the thc coffin of his little Rosa further matters The Tho pIa play is brought to a successful conclusion by the recovery of or tho kid kid- child chUd and Pictro's Pietro's exoneration Beban Boban the actor playwright Is star of or the play and Is supported by a a. long Jon list of actors among whose number I i are several very poor ones |