The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1903, Page 9

%, had “4 peal Ne A FRISK IN FITCHLAND. HROUGHOUT this broad land there are countless deserving young men who would dearly love to draw royalties and buy bonds. For the benefit of these earnest souls—whether on thé farm, behind the counter, at the anvil or the ele- vator rope—the following “easy method” is presented: “THE GIRL WITH THE “THE FRISKY MRS, GREEN EYES.” JOHNSON.” ‘Husband lets his wife | Widow lets her “steady” think him a beast, to think her a beast, to shjeld her brother. shield her sister. Bd Rd a ot E% very simple, you see—a mere question of varia- When you consider the complexities of family re- lationship, you will be “next” to the golden possibilities of the. idea. &c,, butt in before’ Mr. Fitch has had time to exhaust all, the degrees of consanguinity. tt Is reported that in the forty-seven new plays that the “list as far as “aunt by a former marriage.” So hasten, yoting man! The point is that somebody takes the blame—and 7 o o Ro » T'S the Suffering Silence of Slandered Innocence again. On this page a few weeks ago was presented a list “Phe Prisky: Mrs. Johnson” is No. 8, and as two of the seven were Mr. Fitch’s, she is his No. 3. Moreover, she is complicated with, “I'm going away Some of these days I hope a noble band of prolific playwrights will subscribe to a conscience fund for the rearing of a monument to the Goddess of Suffering It might take the form of a female wearing a muzzle, shedding tears, and pouring royalties out of a cornu- copia, beneath which the playwrights themselves, sculp- pedestal bearing the inscription: “In Thee We Trust, “Without Thee, Bust!” 6s HE F| ee MRS. JOHNSON” fs another plunge into darkest Vitchland. Fitehland isn’t exactly like the land described whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders.” ‘The heads of the population of Fitchland grow in the right place—at least, they LOOK all right. betray their fabulousness. Desdemona swallowed the Anthropophagi, but Othet!o himself would hardly have asked her to believe in Mrs. “Ii Fitchland there's always the mischief to pay about letters. Gullty letters, you know. Fitchland folk always eign typewriter. So when you see a body writing a letter, or a mes- senger bringing one, you.know there's trouble brew- Fitebland {s in for a cyclone. ‘it’s a lord's letter that raises all the rumpus in “The Frisky Mre. Johnson.” penetrate:the masquerade, e's only a Pitchland lord, His behavior wouldn't be possible beyond the shadow-frontier of Fitchland. an American—I mean, a Fitchland—married woman, whose reputation, if she and he lived in any country on the map, he would be under special obligation to dressed envelope, to be taken ‘to the lady's husband's house, which he knows is full of guests, and delivered into her own hands. but a loony lord that an unaddressed letter floating through marble halls in the hands of e messenger boy who “easses” the lady's servants and her husband while as @ parlor match in a powder factory. And neither it does. cd a * a and a gentleman, but he is a true Mitchlander. He.opens Madame’s letter and reads it. Madame's sister, Mrs. Johnson, is supposed to be a aa her friskineds ts Fitchlend friskiness, Not content with claiming the shadow-lord's “pas- slonate” letter as being written to herself, she writes An woneccesary and unnatural self-humiliation that would oogur to a lady in @ country on the map, whether guitty or only ehiekiing«-guilty sister. Wirthatten’tall wbout letters, Sister's tetters must be recovered from the shadow lord of Fitohlamd, TWe qidaight, but eo much the better, Mra, mamat go t his rooms instanter, @lone, and get ‘em! If there were « town erier in Fitchland, shed take him along and make him ring hie bell every step of the tion. 2°" Let the young man on the farm, behind the counter, aminént’ dramatist is writing, he has already gone down there's your play, ‘‘alsy and sweet.” ef seven this season. from here!” Silence, tured in brass, kneel with outstretched hands upon a Rd a Rd by Othallo, where dwelt “The Anthropophagi, and men 4t's “the things they say and the things they do” that Johnson and her friends. ‘their real names to ’em, and never think of using a ing. It's the stormy petrel. The glass is falling, and ‘He: tries to pass for an English lord, but ‘it’s easy to ‘This shadow-lord writes @ comprom\sing letter to shield, and gives it to a messenger ‘boy, in an unad- In a country on the map it would occur to any searching for herself, mightn't turn out as pleasantly ‘ADAME’S husband ts supposed to be an American sensthle woman, but her sense is Witchland sense, just and insists on her brother-in-law reading it, s rd s s Jotnecn, vestal of the Goddess of Suffering ‘Silence, way. -. a ro s UT the real polnt is the lady's Suffering Silence. She loves e decent fellow, and he loves her, Brother-in-law tells decent fellow he mustn't marry her, because she’s no » nay, and relates shadow- | euiadhalinameni, - iealieahi eemsken inane MA fale Cv THE WORLD: SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1903, HOME do ESS FROM HERE? a ; Shades o ) eee Paani : a Fi NES i So “The Frisky Miss Bin gham. Decent fellow would believe her at once—indeed, he guesses it out for himself, Iater on. And suppose he © DID suspect that her sister was the culprit? The silly sister is nothing to him. But no! The Mrs. Johnson who frieks in Pitehland would rather let him think loathsome things about her- self. So she buys steamer tickets, and it’s “I’m going away from here!" The William Colliers deserve a medal for springing that phrase on the eurcharged playgoers of this town, where, as it happens, the (I’m-going-away-from-here drama has been extraordinarily rampant this year, oo a a a HE funniest moment of the play—and the fun is quite unconsclous—comes at the climax. The let- ter-opening husband has learned thet his wife is the culprit, and the decent fellow has been trying to dis- suade him from his rageful impulse to sue for a divorce, Gradually his better feelings awaken, he gulps a little, impressively approaches his faithless one and growls: with husky chivalry: “You go home and get it for deserti Whereupon he “goes away from here,” leaving you to rejoice over the chaste rhetoric of his farewell speech. a * a a HE FRISKY MRS, JOHNSON” contains some splendid studies of caddishness, male and fe- male, but they, too, appear to be unconscious, That {s, the persons who exhibit caddishness take rank in Fitdhland es ladies and gentlemen. ‘The “passionate” letter-writing shadow-lord 1s not only a cad from ihis toes up, but also so intentionally ridiculous—written by Fitch and played by Gottschalk in! such an obvious spirit of low comedy—that to figure him | METROPOLITAN 0 as the clandestine lover of a young American matron | THREE NEW SHOWS NEXT WEEK. wae! OUSE, | Grand Opera Seusen 1904-1903. whom the audience is expected to feel some sympathy is. a Br Seausios oes a8 egregious an offense to reason as it is to refinement. The t sical | wittation | aril! Lords have such excellent uses in plays—just ask Au-| take a lively turn next week. Ut gustus Thomas—that It’s a pity to drag one in when a] OF chief tmportance among three new <i a ARS. FISKE a Go| Wrens | NMAGDALA MAJESTIC quaxe guiptan Breen groecr would do better, productions will be the dramatinetion by Pres . Satinens Traty WIZARD OF OZ | i ‘Two things we have a right to expect from them when] Tolstot’s powerful and (pocdoneo story, ie: = a. *Six«| PASTOR'S =} T. AND they are young and gay—good manners and good clothes, oie fi Hon, to be seen for the first 5 time a e D " 1 Gottschalk’s lord bas nelther. day” evening.” Wagenhatn & “Kemper Birwadey. : The other English character, the Oxford youth, who| Pryrusn to. present the play on an elab CRANE GROB & Baas’ if ". Blanche Waleh 10 ph H AVE. LL with his terminal “What?” is the real success of the the tinkappy heroine Kattsha® Manlove ja “Babee i _ SAD EO DAY. TRA Jor rth ¢ char- . piece, 1s a gentleman as the actor plays him—and an ad-| acter of ‘Prince, ‘Nokhtudolt, ‘the cm | BROADWAY suze a rod mirably refined study of British youngsterhood he gives SPECIAL MAT. but becomes a monstrous cad when some Fitchland Ooo. afe's Wiityiomteat Ruccea, has been arranged { humor 4s distilled from the carrying of a ¢runk. Barr anta. the earns sande Bele ee SULTAN OF SULU, ESTER KONWEL CLUB, fib Annval eit DOG SHOW iis RMING DOGS AFTBRNOON & HVENLNG. Gal a PROGTOR'S $30, HUBER’S 14th ST eee aT in iat ii ‘ TO-NIGHT. Res. ct Consinvoas ‘yoseeali. NEXT W pata SONS. is Sek ee OW AY, 4 sarees Ee Dolls { CIR CL ot ate "ALE ris 4 Gramtord, Ned dowand Fowier. All WEBER Mae Bane Tyee eat stock be “a sites, Big Vaudeville COMP ANTES IN AMERICA. Stock Favorites. Bi Favorites. His PATHEBRE 1 rere wh ADELATIS WHIRLY MATINEE TO-DAY. Dainty Duchess ( Co, 14th St. Theatre, near Oth ay. Mate,’ ANDREW MACK “3, The Bold new play, HEAR MACK'S NEW ACADEMY OF MUSIC, Lach a. & “FLO RODOk THE DBWEY B.1Ath ot So again|run at the Criterion Theatre Monday night. Tt is George W. Le: duction, “The Jewel of Frederico Ranken and with muste by y Ludwig Englander, to ™ introduce Ja ‘oWers AS a star, ‘The piece is in two acts, the fir ing @ cafe and boulevard in | THE UNFORESEEN, Zp 35th at..nr. B'way y @ Wed, 2.15. weauty of the harem, ki dowel of Asia,” bein, rs the con-| $y NB yor. Evenings, $20. Matinee Ts bh time—Veb. 25th—Souvenirs. The Gi with the Groan Eyes 2¥'s2,sceki 0ODGOOD, CRITERION THEATRE, Broadway & 44th ot LAST MATINEE AT 215. Last wane, f 9 Julia Marlowe | C4 Vivier GARDEN THEATRES a. & 4th Xtra Hamlet Matinee Tuesd. Byectngs, §. Matinee To-day at 2 The youth is helping a lady’s maid with it and succeeds / ih room. at his eunt's Renee ates in slilfting the whole burden on to her frat] shoulders| gy", (ME,remiaence of the Prin as she staggers through the door, (Why don’t you © prigo) laugh?) Pd * * a priso in infirmary, and’ tne LL OF WHICH, and much more, ts as sad es sad musteal 0 THE ¥ MUSICAL PLAY, BILLIONAIRE HAKLEM oa | By i Mat 3's Arie, |De Woll Hopper * “Mt. Pickwick,” | = S lieve. [vv a {o's encampment in fiberta. sy ciobk sdaa aba Bante ve ll ot een \) Ati will But you shoultn't be hard on Miss Bingham and| Pook of whi ; please don't blame her for turning on the critics, the ade A Ap git Ite no joke to hire a splendid eompany of players, and] of Ballyhoo. where pay huge.fees to the most successful playwright of the) merase bro! ccompanted 3.15. Mate. 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