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Co Olhe. the Cage ’”’ Protests Worm is turning! Arnold Daly declares by all that 4s Fitoh, Frohman or Seven Sireish ‘Bhat, after this season, he will abso- ‘Petely refuse to do the dirty work ot} @he dratich drama, ‘A look suggesting the wounded stag Day mantled the half-finished make-{ of Mr. Daly in his dressing-room at | Bijou when he was asked how, in| @ame season, he enjoyed being cast @ part which necessitated his strik- woman in tho face and then bi ‘i witchea to a vicious cub who tries | decoy @ trusting thrush out of her @age into a snare. *T don't lke it,” sithed Daly, rubbing Bis brow and then his knee, as though the remembrance of how he is hurled Wto a corner in “The Bird in the Cage” gz . Ferree #eve him both mental and physical pain. * "Bs bad enough to do these things, but ft's worse to hear people say, ‘He's | aimply playing himsel(!'” And to hide his feelings, the bad man ‘ef the parlor play hid his face in a bandtul of creas: nt. “You know,” he sputtered, as he Fubbed in his footlights complexion, people are sure to say after awhile What I'm really the cad 1 pretend to be. If this thing keeps up much longer my frionts may berin to shun me.” The sore-spirite, actor conveyed the fmpression be was afraid he might oon become the village outcast—that, @f the Helping Hand Society should give a Lobster Festival in one of the Broedway chepels, every mother in town would say to her darling daugh- Ber: “Now, don't have a single thing Ro do with that Arnold Daly; he isn't Bice!" m not a bad sort, but I'm full } of oats—wild ozts—and if | don't sow them I'll spoil.” iY —"The Bird in the Cage a }tumble Fimend. J against the grain to wtrike in ‘Hearts adam, went mightily that woman ’ gaid Daly, Sand I hated to @o tt, In fact, I was afraid at frat. On "RNS opening night of the play, I ap- that scene with a great 4 e dread. I feared that the audience @aight resent what might be looked as cowardly brutality and jake into its own hands. I realized it & pretty risky thing to strike a even in a play. I found my- wondering what would probably to me if 1 did a thing of that in the one-night stands put West. f wasn't eure, even, that New Zork dnt climb over the footiights and to get at me, ly, 1 went ¢o Mrs, Haines and her if she couldn't do something Soften the scene, She asked what I suggest. I told her it might help @ little in the eyes of the audience efter I med struck the wife, 1 knelt feet and kissed the hem of her Mrs. Haines didn't uke the idea, wald @uch @ thing would spoil the nal effect, and argued that a y Who would strike @ woman wasn't @ort who would afterward humble ‘by Kisving the hom of her gar- I persisted, towever, ERE be «given some opport: to the curso off the ecene, with the ‘Gaet at ‘Mra. Haines consent- a contrite piece we The Bad Young Man of “The Bird in for Wicked Roles—Duse’s Health Cost the Managers Dollars—Other Gossip. eect Against Being Cast juare| the woman in such a way that it didn't eocre hurt her—but it did hurt me!” Mr. Daly covered his emotion with a layer of pinkish powder. The lines of a woman's face tell her own love story. It is you men who write on women's fac and lucky the woman If the story is a happy one. —The Unforeseen.” I ters act as sane people would in real 1 tyred silence of slandered innocence, In a learned work, & Brotherly Sacrifice. While Mr. Daly confesses he isn't all he should be in “The Bird in the Cage," he takes solace to his soul in the! thought that the after-hours scare Ber- tie Loring throws into senaitive little Rosalie really saves his brother Philip from an Ill-advised marriage, wiich would have brought unhappiness to Brother “Fhil,"' when the Inevitable awakening from his love-dream came. “Such a marriige woult be sure to bring misery to two such I{ll-mated per- sons,” he argued, da I think Mr, Fitch deserves a great deal of credit ple and beautiful idea. for the ingenious manner in which he works out the story. But I can't say that I particularly relish belng the soape ce of the scheme. And what's more, I think it's pretty nearly Ume I began maki a@ stand inst acting such characters. I think I've had my share, I was the Imp in the London production of ‘When We Were Twenty- season of 190: amples are here c ed: if, “Playwriting Made Hasy,” now very rare—because {t doesn’t happen to have been writ- ten yet—occurs this ‘lluminating passage: “After persueding the public to accept him as a student and interpreter of society from the ‘inside’ the! hustling playwright will naturally desire to increase his output to the limit of production. plays @ month may easily be turned out by any induetri- ous young man who learns to typewrite with his feet as well as his hands, if he will construct every plot upon the hypothesis that a hero or heroine unjustly accused of villainy would rather die than disprove the charge. “Unlimited variations may be worked upon this s{m- Three or “Such plays were rampant In New York during the 3. Seven of the most conspicuous ex- ““The Stubbornness of Geraldine’ was based on the suffering /ellence of a Hungarian Count, who allowed himself to be mistaken for his scoundrelly brother, tere T is harrowing to consider the number of geniuses who would have to butt the bread-line at Fleiechmann's if playwrights were compelled to make their charac- —=WORLD'S = HOME Mille James fells 0 Ghost Story The anguished Anglin SILENCE IS GOLDEN—TO THE PROLIFIC PLAY WRIGHT. “The Girl With the Green Byes,’ on the suffering silence of a husband who allowed his wife to believe him a blackguard rather than let her learn that her brother was the gulity person. “The Altar of Friendship,’ on the suffering silence ot a decent chap who assumed his caddish brother-in-law’s Silence 1s the prolific playwright’s long sult—the mar- four guilt, and nearly lost the girl he loved. “The Unforeseen,’ on thé suffering silence of a wife who could easily have convinced her blind husband of her innocence. “‘Imprudence,’ on the suffering silence of a girl who allowed herself to be thought a bad lot rather than own up that years earlier she had written some schoolgirl love letters to her own cousin, “The Cavalier,’ on the euffering silence of a South- ern girl whose husband was a Northern spy. She loathed him, yet let him betray her own cause and murder her own friends rather than deliver him up to the justice he tichly deserved, “‘Gretna Green,’ Fulsed Harl, who could have saved his wife and every- body else no end of trouble by mentioring his real name. “Most of these plays earned large wads of money for thelr authors, from which {t will be seen that Suffering Silence, however rare it may be in real l!fe—outside asy- tums for the feeble-minded—is not a thing for any well- conducted box-office to sneeze at." on the suffering silence of a dis- KATE CAREW. One,’ the London rous in Amelia Bing- ham’s short-lved production of ‘Lady Margaret,’ Henry Neyille dn "Tho Way of the World,’ Jack Negley in ‘Barbara Frictehie,' Harry Harmony—what name, by the Away, for such a part!—in ‘Hearts Afiame,’ and now Bertle 1. + I'm affraid able to play to-night, Diatressing bul- leting of this tenor became more frequent and more disheartening, Mr. Leibler could put his ear to the ground and hear the man in the box-office In Boston, {n Philadelphia or some other clty with an enti-Itallan climate, giving people ing in "The Girl in the.Cage. Ktaliar i j if I keep on tn this Ine much longer |™onéy back.’ And after one or two ¢ managers will get an Idea I can't play|Perences of this kind. it ts sald, a} 1) many people who lMked to be anyt’ else, and as for the public, it will be sure to conclude that I'm © they were going quit speculating to apend ; atural char- ¥ vine appearing in my patura on Madame's health and pinnai thelr *clDe you Jong to be @ good, brave,| filth to some one ike the Rogers goed, "| Brothers, or if ero?” h self-sacrificing hero Such things set agers thinking. “Yes, I do," was the earnest response, It's so much easier to win the sym- pathy of an audience when you are the one who finds the outcast heroine in a snowstorm and you take off your coat and place it tenderly over her shivering shoulders. And American managers may think a Jong time before risking another ‘Duse tour, “It would be a very good day for this world when boys were born of age.” —"The Bird In t..e Cage.” “it's a hard world, and mighty few will go out of It alive.” —The Bird In the Cage.” Aubrey and “aitee. The horribj picton comes that pos- ably tt was a altee’’-diagulsod press agent who flirted with young Mr. Bouct- cault in the “Personal” oolumn of a morning newspaper the other day, It is grossly unromantic to think such things ,and ft is sincerely to be wished this may not fall under the eye of the #ad young Prince of “Heldelberg."” But Preas agents are often given to romanc- ing, and there fs reason to believe they mighe carry their enterprise even to the paid columns of the newspapers, The ‘Heidelberg’ press agent Duse, the Delicate. This may be Hleonora Duse's farewell visit to the Innd of the free. Not that the Itallan actress 18 sick of America, but because she has been alck in Amer- lca, They don't invite you when you mention the @r!se one's name in Lieb- ler & Ci office to elt down and have long chat about her. Even the office- boy seems to have lost the enthusiasm which was #o general at the time of tho Italian star's arrival. The truth is, Mme, Duse has been bes handsome yo: On the Gods" by paragrap! Ruspell, souls” gerial connection, ense of he which the comes the intelligence that Da-"! Bob—Don't you believe it. Girls don't marry for eyesight. most wives would be jolly glad if their husbands couldn't see, —"The Unforeseen.” Be Still, Lilliant the ine "rive And value of a matinee-girl rfot over a ung aber! “The Darling of is wafted the pale-blue ru- mor that Mr. Belasco ts quite ‘put out’ continue printed coupling his name, in a mana- with that of Lillian With a sigh ike that of the Spirits who drift down to be ot vid and Ylllan will never travel the path of fame together. This sete tled, it 1s atated, when a wealthy young Mtriend of Miss Russell haggled over an Item of $800 In the price of “Mme, Sans Gene” and JekoAlice Nellson'’s backer wet away with -the goods, Blnco then, it ds vehemently asserted, Mr, Belasco has had absolutely ncthing to do with Miss Russell's plan: a In view of tls, the gossips say, he ty beginning to suspect that Miss Russell or some one intereste? in her (# uelng his name for advertising purposes. Gen. Flelding—Money Is a great responsibility, and | think the only one that humanity never shirks. —"The Unforeseen.” new pr! N Russell w @ comedy, b: Unes of Burn middle-aged cldes to be. something gf a disappointment, Don't] been turning owt a lot of iMerature understand this to mean her art hasn't been up to snuff—for It hag, and.e couple of pinches over, for that matter. It's her health that haan't been all it was advertised, When the incomparable one landed her managers sang peans to her written with the matinee girl specially in mind. he could make giridom belleve "Majtoe’’ would sit in the second row Thursday Afternoon and assort prior and particu- health, ‘hey said if who felt any better| lar vloim to, thelr idol the other pe ed fie crite sland 3. But when ghe hag} Would fall Upon her wha Bish Hae. rerioi, oiese 2. shor) aia Aad av “ay atraon Meath pe td Soeeee Gal HH. EXT week marry and fee ‘oduction: being announced, Monday night, ns, bi helor, little wants hi miss at the Garriok, Annie be seen in “Mice and Men, Madelene Lucett ‘The title was suggested by tho familiar “The best I of mice and men gang aft agliey.” concluding wz there are no women in his social cirole suitable to bim, take a 14 achemes from & foundiing asylum and train her into the kind of a women h When #ho grows to young woman- hood he finds he has learned to love her. which reads as if t might have been! ghe, however, and the young nophew ot | the is wife t FIVE FIRST NIGHTS NEXT WEEK. will be crowded with no lesy than five Ryley. A to the bachelor have fallep in love with Perhaps Ge thought that Ifleach other, and the haplese bachelor stands aside in order that they may be happy. Mise Ri yssaly pany a ‘2 chief eu includes suppo! va, Orrin Johnaon continues to be rt. The com- Gilbert and For the New York production it has been materially changed and the cast thened by the addition of Olive May and Mal aferro. ‘The Con- sul” Is a cemedy with scenes laid in an imaginary printepailty of Carinthta. Mr Mann takes the ch an eocen tric American whose actions aa consul to an Austrian city lead to bis recall De Wolf Hopper unctuous guise of 1 up at the Herald Square Mc in ‘Mr, Pickwick,” a music based upon Dickens's "Pickwick Pap the dramatization, Manu the music and th lyrics are from the pen of Grant Stew art. Digby Bell, as Bam Wellor, heads list’ of @ support which Includes { Stewart, Henry Norman, Loulse Gunning, laure Joyoe Bell and Mar- guorite Clark. 8 time wil day night med loom Klaw & Priang the Drury Lane spectacle, Beard,” will receive its premiere at the Knickerbooker Theatre Wednesday * | sontuaes Tt is claimed that in @ocnery, costume and the uumber of people em- ployed, “Mr, Blué Beard" will be greater Come into the garden, Sanail! Triumph of the Magic Fan.” pa Pex Mbretto and score have been by John J. MeoNally Pang.) rpederiok. Solomon, and a number of lively “spe~ clulties’” Introduced. McAvoy will be Blue Beard; Eddie Foy, Sister Anne; Bonnie Maginn, Imer Dasher from Chi- cago; Herbert’ Cawthorne, Irish pat- shaw; Flora Parker, Fatima; Adele Rafter, Gelim, and Norma Kopp, Ab- allah! Madamo Bleonora ray unable to sail on the 224 inst., because of the with- Grawal of the Deutschland from com- mission, has been persuaded to give another pert ORAD GS, at the Metropoll- Sore Hands tan Opera. yal; ernoon. A x mete vi eee. including | Red Rough Hands, Itching Palms ie third act o! 3 wh a t of da’? the thi Painfal Fing act act ot “La Femme do Cinta” LS and er Ends —_ “The Wizara” ot “on” will open the Majestic Tasers penny, evening. “Heidelberg,” “which closes its engage- ment at the Princess to-night, will move up to the Herald Square Theatre for matinee performances only on every day with the exception of Monday and Saturday, The play and its young star, Aubrey Bouctcault, have proven so pop- ular with matince audiences that Mana- er Sam §. Shubert feels this latest ginevation in theatricals will be just- ed, ONE NICHT CURE \L Soak the hands on retiring In a strong, hot creamy lather of CUTICURA Soap. Dry, and anoint freely with CurTICURA OINTMENT, the great skin cure and purest of emollients., Wear during the night, old loose gloves, or light bandages of soft old linen or cot- Ce) The extension of H. H. Sothern’s en- gagement at the Garden Theatre will enable his belng seen in “Hamlet” for other week, and then for a week in if I Were King.” 8 8 N. C. Goodwin and Maxine Billott will @ppear at the Harlem Opera-House all next week in The Altar of Friendship.” “The Liberty Belles,” with its fun, music and pajamas and Harry Giifoyle as Ats chief comedian, will be the atirao- on at the Grand Opera-House, Amelia Bingham and her epecin! com- pany wll appear in their greatest suo- he Climbers," at the Metropolis. earts Agiame” will be the offering by the Donnelly Btock Company at the Murrey Hill. William Gillette's war play, ‘Seoret Gervice” will be presented by the stock company at the American, Al IL, Wilson will be seen in “A Prince of Tatters” at the West Bnd Theatre. Jock Munroe, the conqueror of Jim Jeffries, will be @ special feature of “Zhe Koad to Ruin’ at the Star. Go-Won-Go Mohawi: the Indian act- ieee. will appear at the ‘Third Avenue Theture.in “The Flam! tro A The Moonlight Maids will aoe oonten 8 Will shed lustre GRAND OPERA BILL. “Blegtned" will be sung in German Monday night, with Mme. Nordica as Brunnhilde, Mme. Fritst Scheff as the Wood Bird and Mme. Schumann-Heink as Erda. Mr. Anthes will sing Slegtried to the Wanderer of Mr, Van Rooy, the Alberich of Mr, Jispham, the Mime of Mr. Reiss and the Fafner of Mr, ulm- blad. “Gotterdammerung," the conclud- ing portion of the “Ring” cycle, will be given Friday evening, when Mme. Not- dica will again be heard as Brunnhilde. sore hands, dry, fissured, itching, feverish palms, with shapeless nai and painful finger ends, this treatment is wonderful, Sold throughout the world. Amusements, METROPOLITAN OPERA-HOUSE. GRAND OPERA SBASON 1902-1903. ae a y on of Niel ORAL, Bun, Eve "18 1 a 88 ra WEBER PIANOS. USED. 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