Show THE THE FIGHT IS CLASSED AS DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO BURN RED FIRE FERE I THEATRICALLY Now York le Ie a I Wl wide open open e-open town It needed only x The fhe Fight put ut on at tho the Hudson theatre tra last night to establish this fact Going GoinS to some soma theatres these nights Is like going going- slumming The sort of ot places laces tho police have ve orders to close is not Interfered l with on tho time stage and the uplift movement Is to be observed In the heroine who plays her strong scene with a beer heer bottle at one ono house while at another she comes to rescue and and to to talk And the thc way Wa to get th there ro This Is evidently the chief concern concern concern con con- I cern of ot the authors of th these se melodramas It looked very much as though Bayard Bayard Bay Bay- ard Venter had hone gone ona out of oC his way ay to reach the hl highly colored scene that hit us In tho the eye cye in tho the second round of ot Tho Fight This ma may be one ono of ot tho the changes said ald to have boon been made In the pIa play since It was originally written Busy as Jane Thomas was running a trust company and running for tor mayor maor wo were hardly prepared to see sea her run over to Pearl Haskells Haskell's notorious house and search It for tor an Innocent young oung girl who had been called In from the street and locked In a room Strangely enough an Inmate who had served as Exhibit A In a moral lecture delivered I by tho the Independent candidate to unregenerate generate politicians reported tho the kidnapping kid kid- kidnapping napping to Jane Jane arid and there was Jane with another Job on her han hands s This was decidedly strong stron meat with an absolutely raw line U tIe tive v of the haired gray sena senator benator tOl who was Informed of ot tho the capture and given ghen the key to the tho room upon his prompt arrival Is It too much for tor you ou to behove bellove be- be hove e that when he unlocked the door he discovered tho the prisoner to be his own daughter You ma may recall sentimental sentimental sentimental senti senti- mental rot of a similar kind klud In Any Night at the time Princess theatre last sea sea- son Most remarkable of or all was the noble senators senator's attitude In the unpleasant unpleasant unpleasant un un- pleasant r for Cor Instead of or be belog be- be log ing cowed he held up his hilt head hend and threatened to slander Jane and In this i wa way accomplish her political defeat Meanwhile the Informer had chan changed cd her mind again and again to toC suit the I purposes of the author This whole thole act proved pro too trick tricky to tobe tobe be true The Fight In this respect was nothing more than a desperate attempt at attempt attempt at- at tempt to be sensational Only Onh one note of ot real sincerity was struck and this was when therm time the poor little factory child who ha had worked so O long she sho didn't know how ho hoto to pIn play was brought out as asan asan asan an object lesson to the hardened poli poli- Here Ilore too Miss Margaret sympathetic acting went straight to the heart At Atall all times Miss worked hard and for tor tho the I most part though she might have given on her performance more variety by laying laying- down the thc political law of the town with less emphasis at tho the end of ot otI nearly every overy act net Each time It was wa like a political speech I As AR a whole The Tho Fight IB Is an obviously obviously obviously ob ob- manufactured melodrama stuffed with uplift platitudes chief of ot which Is the thc safeguarding of the youth of or the land How about safeguarding tho the theatre Theres There's evidently need of I It though It-though though heaven save us tr from m a professional professional pro pro- censor |