The evening world. Newspaper, December 13, 1902, Page 9

THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 13, 1902, HOME =SWOURTYS You ARE MY WIFE} a) MISS MARLOWE ) and MR, WORTHING = are the Criterion. ” 2 HERES ws mee , Knicker- ‘ 2 Bey ocker. Richard Harding Davis Modest Concerning Future of the Drama- tized Novel — Does Cable Hate His Own Villain?—Plays That Are Too kong. THE STAGE AND THE NEXT WORLD. ALK about gathering grapes from thorns and figs from thistles— couldn't artisticaly be anything else. What was to be done? iT Belasco has made a tragedy end happily! “We'll lay the last scene in Heaven,” said Belasco. How's that for magic, messieurs? Observe the beautiful simplicity of the idea. All things are righted in Talk about squaring the circle! the next world—that's what we all like to think, and if we only had a And yet, in the popular flabbergastitude stirred up by “The Daring of | glimpse of Desdemona lolling on a nice, dry cloud, in a becoming crown, the Gods” as a spectacle, and as a safety valve for Blanche Bates’s boiling | her fingers wandering over the strings of a golden harp, we wouldn't feel vitality, Belasco's most uncanny feat seems to have been overlooked. half so bad over Othello's behavior. He has put a paradox into practise, turned logic topsy-turvy, and fooled Thanks to Belasco, we don't have to fee] bad about Yo San for more the dictionary, than a minute or two, The sword thrust in that wonderful bamboo grove, A real tragedy with a happy-ever-after ending—who but the Simon | with the great crimson sun blazing behind it, wrings our hearts at the Magus of Forty-second street would have dared to dream such a contrari- | time, to be sure; but soft! There is a happy land, far, far away, and the ness? But contrarinesses are Belasco’s meat and drink. wailing Blanche is near the end of her thousand-year trip through the Talk about changing the leopard’s spots! ghastly river of souls, Soft, again! She climbs through the rolling clouds, Harding Davis and ask him if he thought the day of the dramatized novel was deepening into night you'd expect him to lean gracefully against a hitching post and reel off at least a column opinion, wouldn't you? Here was a beautiful chance. A writer who has had his storles worked -over into plays and made money out of both was now to make a running; Jemp over the publisher and land| plump on the stage! Who was more likely to have an opinion on the subject than the man who Js soon to set fellow story writers an example at the Bijou Theatre? But Mr. Davis was a surprise and a I you should drive up to Richard soo 20DPE Lane eo ooo must bow beneath the tyranny of the “happy ending.” “The Darling of the Gods” was tragedy of the gruesomest kind, and it! husband simmering gently in—in the Other Place! @isappointment. He wouldn't talk. iol ; That {s, he wouldn't talk much. He|Mevel. Mr. Cablo is spending thesp ‘American audiences don't like tragedy. It may be ead, but it's a fact. |@2d lo! Heaven, and her lover’s arms! shted at the question as if it was a/@voninl Mente Vpn yal jealousy 0 Temey be fying in the face of ninetenths of real lite, but the box-otice| N° £0 Dad fore tragedy, eh! Marion whitecap. watching, with the careful jealousy of y be fying in the) tace of nine-tentha of re But I do wish Belasco would reverse the process some day with a Madi- | Hall Caine, every detail of the perform- ances. Curlously enough he appears to live In the atmosphere of the play. He is said to take such a humorously seri-) “No doubt,” said he, ‘something In- teresting might be said in that relation, but I wouldn't think of saying it. It son Square Theatre French farce. What joy to contemplate the gay young i KATE CAREW. ‘Carrol, Ke rN wouldn't do for me to talk about that. to; you can run over it all you Ike;|the production of “The Eternal City,”| to the fourth week of the grand opera Amusements. *S ous views of things that he shuns Frank s ; ‘ 1 mustn't. but you can't fry 1t"— and a new and lighter celling substi-|}scason by the appearance of Mme. Nor- r 8 yeber ee oh ie. } Worthing, tho villain of the plece, never 7"; ean Hal en HANA : 5 ae And Mr Davia switched nimsett witn| Worthing, the villain of the Discs. Mook, |, “But that last don’t go." added Bea-| tuted. In onder to make the pergorm-| dics, an old favorite, and Mme Kirby- | Feeley, “A Soony cu eal § - HUBER’S MUSEUM. (Great f light bamboo stick, as though to make | Gvening 0 give Dim © wird Gruternize brooke, looking up at the Boer visltors|ance of “Audrey” ten minutes shorter, Lunn, the English contralto, who hus|Wallack's. LALOO Uncle Tome Cable Tom's Oust himself behave. Although ready to chat and frateeniz® ang speaking #0 that only they could| four stage hands have been added to the |been heard in this country in orato 1012N BROOKLYN. Te TaMICUeEY Deiton oan SL ia ‘Lee Willard, “AIL > “Why, not?" he was asked. \hear. force at the Madison Square Theatro,| and concert, but never before in grand| The Montauk will have Weedon NDE Ite E ihe nig Stock, Vaudeville The audience was quite as ridiculous! absurd Thursday night when it hissed | Alvin Joslin, Adelaide Ketm, Howant opera. They will furnish a double at- raction Friday evening, when “I would be thought presumptuous." Whereupon Gen. Viljoen made a sign, | Joseph Humphreys, general stage man- Grodemith ‘and. Company in “The Night of, the Party." Valls Mr. Davis said this with a bitter which, Interpreted means, “You've got|ager for Charles Frohman, angered by next _ ets Worthing with all the scorn and bitter- i , angel a A. @ ie gmile, like that of a man trying to live] Worur Samira avenue, ‘The queerest |® ‘tink coming. the lone walte betwen the acts of “The| ‘Tristan and Isolde” will be. alven. | orering by the Golumbin Theatre Beek Ae COMPANIES eerie i down un undeserved reputation. An] thing about it was that the hostile Seabrooke knows all those signs. Cavalier? Monday night, vowed he|Herr Anthes Is to appear as Tristan. | Company. Carer an eye tter =e attempt to dissuade him from this view] ,ounas came, for most part, from the would ‘fire’ the entire working statf}On Monday evening the deferfed per: | ——_——————————————— Poliseman, “Del. Kanos, beverage that formance of Puccini's “La Boheme’ Wizards, Winaner, musinal wonder SKATING RINK Was unsuccessful. and get a new one, with the result that lower floor of the house. Yes, I would,” he persisted, cutting! “put Worthing shouldn't take this to|f goes with scandal thingy are now going more expeditiously. | will be given, with Mme, Sembrich as Amusements THEATRE, fr Rares uss Gieut a i t e Hots re Naf ‘ “ ” P nift-| Mimi, Mme. Frite! Sohoff as Musetta sme Whitely & Bell, Mechan & Me- tote . himself about the legs again. “It}meart. Even the “hissers" admit he's The Altar of Friendship.’ By persletent drilling of the evene sl Mien edroes Mestel: Bonnet ae ese corny ieee aeons Raa vere OPENS "TO-DAY" AT 20 J oe ers at the Herald Square Theatre the wouldn't do at all,”" MADISON SQ. GARDEN. Adm, 250, GRAND OPENING MONDAY is? Wednes: Journet in the male role: Nozze dl day Mozart's delightful the best actor in the piece. 0 CENTS. fs) Le PERFORMANCES SHORTENED, Mansfleld performance has been short- Mr, Davis gazed intently at the floor. . 0: 3 . = . ” 3 rs seers = we Figaro” will be presented \t cast Laxa ss Mim banrboo cane) consed) Its. Saggells. m nineteen, Charlie.” A quite general effort to “get a hustie| ened from 12.10 to shortly after 11 Ms Fanarocccwlll he pepaeated. | waa, Cane UIT ay ie pricen tee ie. tion and was poking at scraps of paper. on’ has ben made at local theatres this} Belasco has also changed the running|guief “and Miss Bauermeister and a “Are you sure, Mr. Smith, you tme of “The Darling of the Gods," 90 NOVELTY EXHIBITION Obviously he was turning over some- week. To save eight minutes—and in- Gis De Reszke, Cam: mae Gilioars, thing in-his mind. Presently the cane {J haven't got your second figure |) jiontally the heads of the stage people—| that Blanche Bates now gets to heaven | Helis and, Dutrictie. wil, be Mon. Fre eats HAM Ler resumed its chastésement, and whipped | upside down?” a $1,900 celling has been discarded from! much earller than she used to. Bea et je Bavturday matinee, and 1 R STMAS FAIR AND We van Dee ihe at AcapENY Or MUSIC LOEB at 7.45. -Tritan and Inolde ——WABER PIANOS USED—— EMPIRE THEA ATRE, TWO NEW PLAYSAND NEW COMIC OPERA Pure Melodrama with THE NINETY AND} N Prices—25,50,7,1.00, MATS. Wed.@ Bat, night performance. SUNDAY CONCERTS. For to-morrow evening's concert by ‘and opera stars at the Metropolitan pera-House Mme, Schumann-Heink, out the statement. “I will say this: The dramatized novel would not be in very great danger of de- cline if it always had Gus Thomas to —The Cavalier.” [STREET CARNIVAL. FUNNY STAGE SOLDIERS. cass Mat. To-Day, 28c. to $1. Aside from Worthing as Capt. Oliver WH. FAVERSHAN in "WWPRUDENCE, dramatize it.” TAiccat) in) ERE Cavalier! Menon Tea, Saying which, Mr. Davis gave himssit|the “soldiers” in “The Cavalier’ are 70 Jaya-one of which will, Bingham and her excellent compai ate. Rhea ina ee Grand CRITERION THEATRE, — dronavay o vane | SULT ALLAM ren. 8 a good licking and turned to continue, | ®0ut far removed from the real WoO new play! y “ Sous: a nts bs ty --VDan a y ssloesak Git saciines Rae, “ie with Henry Miner, the rehearsal of fone thing a the toy shop from the battle- serve for the launching of a Pigaen Wilh peewee Sk ron eee certs ‘at “the Mfetronotia “Theatre a3 NEXT JULIA MARLOWE MRS. FISKE i at chalrs and a table, oUF! fell, The average actor has a wonderful and ie omnitle OF Ta oe ee uses arenes of the original Sicleck Bunday afternoon, and at the | Wy Er Eb, } AMELIA BINGHAM I~ caval. TER, srbxtra Matinee, Christmas tee ee iS - theatrical programme Ie “a in @ evenin; - ood ‘Phe table was just an ordinary round, | conception of the soldier, and the aver-| the thea’ Pp For the Thursday matinee.at the Gar-| _ Crestore gna hie’ band AND ALL ‘THEATRE, (int we aad ear may. “A Modern Magdalen.” | & ge A TEER te THe ‘At the Princess Theatre on Monday BROADWAY Hy age stage manager a most unique ide Sten tenaadte art ane aed ves. 6 Sake. Wale @ STAR CAST IN bare deal table. The chairs were equal- under the/den Theatre, E. 8. Willard will repeat ha vee hey | night, Aubrey Boucicault, Theatre Sunday night, —— as HORNNESS SariNbeTO-D. ly piatn, But they evidently representea| of military ethics. Between them ¢ lead hi : f ¥ 0 : - ie ey Sam S. and Lee Shu ‘David Garriok."" The coming will be] V wile col rt will be iv at pear 6th A OF ORRALDINE, =)* Bite, fe acai ae pode Te tea a Stine Tee Oe ie le Sate l Gppesr in his own version|the Int week of ‘The Cardinal,” Mr.| the customary places, see 14 St. Theatre, wi Weis su MANNERING By Clyde Fiten THE SILVER SI ! rather sumptuous in the productt ting and saluting, ; Lis 5 y ene ——— eee = Riesauiglias play. (hel canie.was ie etl or what the occasion, Squads march infot the German comedy, rHelaenberg, Villard nevis doaided to devote the VA UDEVALES OPER RANGE, ce | EVENING AD ae LAST DAY. NEW 64 Vor mie, THEATRE, tis a Bea Tamt. 4. CO dantre of the stage, and the chairs set} and out of houses and officers give com-jor Whon All the wend acd eee | Se es engagement to|, At Kelth’e Lous Wesley Witt, mexe Les CHAUNCE) i in. fle ee ma, prHeL ht COUNTRY t WotsE, Tose against it on the four sides. mands oud and sharp enough for the|Bpectal endeavor Ww Ber tore rohman's company, including | Mit, Wynne-Winsiow, a St. ‘80- LCOTT Old Limerick Town BARRYMORE | Hert Week ORO. 3y) CEDRME clety man, rd HH make her New York Preceded by “CARROTS. the atudent atmosphere, to which end parade ground, From private to briga- EPDUER. There was considerable discussion as Jameson Lao Finney, Jessie Busi a] debat 1B g ree ese : ust be stiff| several of the young men figuring in ey, jusley an ut As 4 alt in Licoll asa ———— 7 ausic | Besaneeeons etd ot & on ees sed NI garapancan BOL aaa ene may the scenes are from Heldelberg, for ie Laas cate Harlemttes| The ofby Yamnily, twin, ile tan she KNICKERBOCKER THEA. o-way @ hi Weber & rs rue 23 a n ns . {in “Nhe Two ools,"" i y at 2. ie UBICA! tL fers, Amd ae for! proot yhich they point to scars re-|'" “The | ham, the sweet singer, figure In @ good | (aondapr an MR. N.C. -WHIR how the centre table got its} not belleve they are soldiers. And as for Lipa iho ane wee pint to sears Te | “Jane” will be ropeated at the Cirote| bill prepared for Pastor's itera MISS MAXINE: abt Ach the general of the stage army, he !s #0 i Ladelun with self-!mportance that ho GOODWIN ELLIOTT seems in ¢mminent danger of exploding. Proctor’s ‘Theatres: The Russell Brothers will be head-liners at the Twenty-third street house. ‘‘Hoodman Blind” will be revived the Fifth 6 woman, com- Theatre, where Bijou Fernandez 1s the THE) MATINEE TO-DAY, DEWEY World Beaters thread of the story is the hopeless love star, Mr, Miller trowned. Mr, Davis smiled affair of a young Prince for a winsome} "rh, Honnelly Stock Company, at the : . h will be 1 fronicaily, as much as to say he could | His style of specch reminds one of the} waltress, Kathle, a role whle Murray GUINCWAN traverse O1O6 Directs Kenda ne 3 0 4 Concert, be tink up a better Joke than that him-| pompous individual of vaudeville billed} Intrusted to Minnie Dupree. Gus Kerk: | of New York." Thieves’ will be the: piay ae the Fite ibe loa aat da alk seine wolf. as ‘The Great Something-or-Other,”|er has written incidental muste, includ-]" “4,” Remarkable Case," a play by }elehth street hous ‘AN the Comforts METROPOLIS. Bye. Sarre il E. S. WILLARD CARDIAL. Mila young ads looked hurt, who gives Impersonations and utterances] ing a number of student songs Lawrence Marston, dealing with typue | yeti wi jBe, aupDlied at Harter. | api stu 3d Ave ACK Thureday Matinee, Dec. 1$-DAVID GANHICK Erecnnene p arley Case will be the boss funmaker | Nav ‘week cE OF COON HOLLOW ———— 7 WY GUT OAS ates x Se RESERVED. ( ATS “What I want to know Is," said Mr. Davis, with great deliberation, ‘“did| It ts about time that a war of exter- the American Theatre. Mme. Eugenia Mantel, pra haan Nar Week dusbedy ever go Into a-place and see} mination was waged against the type|cess, Joe Welch will on Monday night.| George W. Lederer’s entertainment, the Maurice Grau company, will make ig Fr, ean Bury AUDREY, yf! * @ table and four chairs sot Itke this? hure, I did,” volunteered a stage- here?” he was asked. in @ saloon,” was the prompt an- as empty as these, that saloon must of famous personages. of stage soldier to be found in “The Cavalier." “Lov only a woman's device for wasting tlm AN “ASIDE" FOR BOER EARS. With the prestige of vaudeville suc- at the Fourteenth Street Theatre, make his bow as the star in a comedy-drama of New York life by Hal Retd, called “phe Peddler.” Mr, Welch will play the part of a Jewish peddler who sacri- tism, will have tts frst production at “The Wid Rose,’ will blossom tor Popular prices at the West End Thea- tre. A volcano scene will keep Alaska warm at the Third Avenue Theatre. “A Romance of Coon Hollow” will at the Newark house, vaudeville at Hurtig & Seamon's. New wax-work figures appropriate to the holiday season have been added to the group at the Eden Musee. ‘Moth Miller, the Speedway champion and the only horse with a gold tooth, will be on exbfbition at Huber’s. tam Faversham in Imprudence,’ st formerly of =A RO: 3 Regular Pri SOUSA RTEANTIC BAT. in THE MOC MADISON SQ.THEATRE, 244 5, AMERICAN ar, 420 ST. AND STHLAVE, | Eves. 8. SLAVES OF RUBIA, THR TWO SOHOOLS,’ swer. ’ » [| fices much to save his son from evil] fEliga will cross the ice at th Foe. Drawniney, Saar i “welt ed Davis, ra i —'The Professor's Love Story.’ companions and influences, Theatre, where Al W, Martin's apse PLAYS THAT REMAIN. Lillian Burt. A at | ano MANSFIELD 2 AN A ee Yaugh, “if the chairs and table were see te Claslint® : i q fy ug! Mavaleiawat operate what lial poor: Tom's Cabin" will be the attraction. Attractions which continue gre, Will- BIJOU. | MABELLE GILMAN ARS. SSROLIr M a. f Julia Marlow in| “The PRINCESS, "22 he 8.45 abarp. 2.90, Rave done a pretty poor business.” || Tom feadrooke-an Irishman, and| ised Tueday eye Ye i be noun |iMtFeUCS & tFowe of colored dancers fnn:* Criterion: Mary. Sanne sen rats tr tat Hy Weedon Groaralth Con The rd a the is nd aingers at the Metropolis. # e Stubbornness of Geraldine y " Nest “A woman's face Is your true || the Bocrs—put an extra ine into “Aland heard at the New York Theatre be 3 WALLACK'S n'way @ 30th. Bre. 6.39. Mate 2.1 “HEIDELBERG. * a Watson’: rio hel Barrymore in “A Country 5} Monaay woman's only looking-gla ee T\Shineso Honeymoon” on ‘Thursday|'The piece is by Stanislaus Stange and |y. at the Nenad Burlesguers will | \fouse" and “Carmts,”" Bavdy: Nat C. aan 1 Weeks “Mate Today "a W re —"The Cavalier.” | {nsht, when a sage box contained, | Jullan Bawards, who wrote “Dolly |"on smureda TU taruibodvatlthelwaccine aioe vote Pricnaenin’ ee ta nee, HACKETT rik CRISIS CASING 3: oS A ESE HONEYMOON among others, Gen. en, Command-| Varden." Aside’ from tuneful and F $ Robson in Audrey." M ; Neat Suna oily THEATRE, ant Malan and Field Cornet Snyman,|spirited music, the story {8 sald to Paget asia rag wp pesirbaa aie Rishard Mansfield. in EDEN |" "Sine MAtoohArH.” fp case, SOUSA, *erireennne GIRL Stock o CABLE SNUBS THE VILLAIN. George W. Cable, who wrote “The Cavalier,” in which Julla Marlowe ts running the gamut from hobo to hero- ine at the Criterion, naturally believes and hopes that the sun is not petting on she dag; of the dramatised | gull the British Moon's all al you want of the former Boer army, and Gen. J./nave a strong dramatic Inter Y. F. Blake, who led the Irish brigade. “You a announced the Chinese dignttary poor Pineapple. “Well,” was the answer, “you can sentenced to be fried alive,"1G, stewart, Albert McGuokin, Homer to} Lind, Maude Lambert, Luollle Saund- ‘The principal roles will be taken by William ers and Zettl Meanedy.. coy Ak the Grand Opera-House az one-act plays by Edjth Wharton, John Oliver Hobbod, Arthur Horndlow, Florence Wilkinson and Loulea detest Folly Hered 8 Square; "A oon, ey of the Be t= Gods, jasc: - © aternal City.» Victoria; Mrs. | 3 Bee Ninety and Nine/’ Academy MUSEE ' be STAR. Ao-pight at & Tex. Ave., 107th et. MAT. TO-DAY ———A’ RAGORD HERO.— Next week—UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, DALY’ Sai 'To-Morroow TA ONTANA OUTLAW. ight avian Morris ‘Big Concast. KEITH B wer (omg cea IN TOWN, ‘te PRICE PRICES, 2h