The evening world. Newspaper, April 21, 1903, Page 13

wt EVENING # WORLDS by The Evening World Sketch Artist. : 7—-GEORGE ADE. ” CONSPICUOUS FOR FEET AND FREGKLES { (UheSultan-of Sulu’s* Librettist Tells the’Story of His‘Eife and]. Explains Why He Writes Fables Instead of Novels, was kind of him, but then he was once e Poor Boy, and has} who, after throwing fits about the hero's mad marriage, ‘I tell you, magnate, dictating to his oksticebloed “Tables papers the special rates he gets for them. ‘wes not some way in which the intervfew) , couM mvotd the tople, but tt would be best Sole te Hix aoe conaaien | : “Who are yout’ “Dexter Digit Dan, the Deaf Mute Detectivett “You are?’ "Yes," ” Hal’ "Have you-e clew? “Yeu! “ ‘And you suspect?" “Dexter Digit Dan leaned over and whispered in the danker’s oun, “(To Be Continued In Our Next.)" ROY L, MOARDEUL. NEW YORK PLAYS IN A NUTSHELL, II.—“‘A FOOL AND HIS MONEY.’ Many people have not time to attend all the plays ‘that come to New York, Dut, at the same time, like to know what such plays are about. Yor the benefit of such readers The Evening World wilt publish the salient olerts of a ifew of these plays ‘in e nutwhell.”” Name—'A Fool ani His Money.” Btyle af play—Fance comedy. Playwnight—George H. Broadhurst. ‘Theatre—Madison Square. 2 Plot—A rich young mian, counted dy fis friends for his-money, ts re- don’t wrtte the interview in slang, AN the other interviewers! I +04 by his father. He.asks ¢0 be Gisinhertted €or @ yeer. In that time 14 fhat, and I hate alang. he works owt an invention which he sells to his father for @ milion dollare; “T want to write comances of high life, Mke Hertha M. Mudd does, cs bal incidentally learntng just who his réad friends are. Gertrude, the Governess, who was woded and. won by Lionel, Lon, Bi Toa Wool, ob Peace Meellindumdann toe Firaw. because she wore a simple white frock and was/not Hike the othor' gii#-te ne Stost Grematio soene-3ind of fret act when she Cather Dirty end “How it thrills you, a story of that: Kind, when you read ‘At this tostant) I rig pociety friends gambling, ‘The denunctation of Percy, which resuite ta khey were aware, Of the dork face of Luke, the Gamekeoper, peering suritly| I 116 goienmination to be disinherlted, through the shrubbery.’ I tylod to use that line onoé, writing it; ‘At @his’ tn- Flattest beene-Act 3}, op the weit Jaks. Imeacor Ashtoc; e Gallt Ginnce they were aware of the dark face of Cal, the Case-keepér, peering pen-|9 heiress (Anita Bridger), under the chaperonage of her Petr rae is sively as Osrick Overton “siowbalied the board with white chips in Honest/f iove with Percy, Mrs, Curzon, the aunt, is delighted. Bleanor mests Perey | Zohn Oheatemgood's gilded Palace of Chance": But, somehow, It @dn't deem) I on iho Unks, when ho voluntears to teach her golf. The frwt Incident ls to at. turning up her shirt waist sleeves, As she gives alm her cuff to unfasten, “You eee, 1 lalt!out the wort ‘shrubberyi* maybe that's tHe reason, But her aunt calls to her and ‘tells her she must drop Percy's abquaintance at you can't use the wésy! ‘shtubbery’ in an American story. If you write about! once ay he has been disinherited. Eleanor refuses to sacrifice bts ¢riend- peering suclily through the shrubbary in the Sunday papers, your readerw righ ‘away imagine you are,talking about whiskers; that you are alluding to a human @ountenance half hidden In hirsute Wdliage, “Another thing to shaw you how the writers of romances of English high Iife have us beaten to a pulp: They always hdve thelr scene? iata at Molling fora Towers, where & noble roadway sweeps up to the old manor house through & wide avenue arched with times. In America, (f you talk about arching any thing with mes hey think you are talking about e gin rickey. “And in an American story you can’t have an oN family solicitor or out your hero of with a whilling, In an Engltsh romance the old family @olicito comes down to the Towers at midnight to inform the hero he is next in suc eeesion, In this country, the 4awyer valis'you up by telephone to tell you you Tt e rightful hetr, but that ho doesn't think there are any assets except rigaged house in Fggokiyn. and “he other's an Bytallan, He's invented lots of things, The last was “in, Wnglish romangos, of ‘high life the fast men-abous-town sft in the club] f an excuse why hp could not pay his Soard. That's one on you this windows Gnd chaff wome jackass who !s too honorable to work for a living) # ain't tt, Mame?” ane, bout ‘Dolly Vasovour; the ittle dancer. at the opera,’ and asik him if it ts) Bright lines in the play: true that ho is ‘rather gove in that ditegtion?’ And he answers tat; ‘Only a “Monoy Is the root of all evil. Yes, and every one is digging for the root,"’ oad mages boast of & Indy'd # tavore! “Tell the baron I am too husy to tail jie {nsurance.”” nti . rer “egec “Lean explain anything to.@ German,” ‘THOROUGHLY a.) wees ;d may we bed Any way, thoy are suspicious, The grocer téld “ the to ome wi om. Urgaedaan—On Wie wsna. Of vou “Ia H true what tho evening papers say about yout" “If U's in tig head! pe x ‘eek Preyer mays ae id ike to have the rent when {ts convenient.'* 4 er "8 Just wi 1 get it ik oh ole tn aha iH ne Rind of vou vo bby that old losty axroge de prt.” a ttn nt | ist Btn jap. Why bern done 8 maven top toy wht" of amning (it was Pardue College, Indians) @ devilish secret} ose of Yalo ami Harvard. T played end:man in the college cxinstrela, and was = champion’ By when talking to a Yale man, I gan significantly cemark Goull and Bones, See? ryt about college affairs ecause the college boys have always great deal over ary books and my operas. , “When ‘Peggy from Paris’ played in Dwight, Hl, the sophomores from the | @elebrated institute in that town serenaded me et my hotel by getting out in <<inied and gtving their college yell: “‘Crack! Crack! Another bottle! Creek! i Dipso! Dipso! Dipsomaniact' | “They were trom the Keeley Institute. “That wes ® proud moment for! me; but not as prowt as-this one, when 1, who was énce & poor boy, am being interviewed Hire Chuck Connors, Russell Bage, John L,: Sullivan, Hobart-Chatfeld-Chatfleld-One-Again-For-the-Hyphens.-| Chatfield-Tay! rf ship. ‘The almost pantomimic action of the play, when the girl returns to story. ‘The best scene—At the end of the third aot,/when Percy caste off his father, in the presence of his friends. Mr, Merrill destres his son to return to him, “Last night you disnhertted me," says Percy, “You turned me off, homeless and penniless, I cannot ad that to you, but I will do my beet," Sotto voce: "I'm bluffing, don't call me." Aloud; "I cast you off.’ Most comic acene—Third act; when Bemeralda, the “Slavey,” tmperson- ated by May Vokes, carries on her conversation through the medium of the dumbwatter with her friend Mamie above and Kitty below, “Hello, Mamie. We ting new roomers, Ye-ts. One's an tnventor AE ‘w# HOME .w MAGAZINE @ MEN OF TO-DAY WHO MAKE THE WORLD LAUGH. Matervinus with Famous Humorists WwW vitten by Roy L. McCardell and Illustrated \xnn pan ssavm.a ano ma, spanks. of (terature I ‘ache’ to perpetuate.ts the classy English novel, full of falthful| secre eveionerty. (1 89 Ama eS Teaee “Geicge Ane-grecioosy ly re-| ola Horicks, the butler, and Kitty, the housemald, end agietocratic old uncles) Pisgos! he, Peréy's side and holds out the other cuff for him to unfuasten, tells tte whole STORIES FROM SOME ODD ees OF FAMOUS BOOKS. ——— | THE BREAD-wRNE mE” a ‘ThousnT PoR THE opted eal FROM * PEKPOLKET po F GYMNASIUM, ‘Children's Court long since became a local institu-) erratic ax to hours and in danger of becoming a tlon. The public, however, ees nothing but the bare | through his associations, A situation in a Park Row news detafls of the case as it comes up for trial. paper offlce was secured for him, where he ts now Julius M. Mayer cited to an Evening World re-| well, - dorter ‘the following instances of sorie of the court's “inside| There is much pathos in the Mttle iif storie told tm ‘Children’s Court. One boy was brought to count for @vening I arrived at Bedgel- 4 Qing without a Meares, 3s) mother came with tim. (ie the breadgrinner for the family, amking $4 or % a “Turee weeks did { loiter about that When he left the court some one gaye him e dollar, he promptly turned over to his mother. (He now bas | license and @ stand for the sale of his wares. 2 Some of the boys, of course, do not twin out well, “Jim my,” for instance. He ts @ natural-born runaway. He brought to the court several times, and when the asked him if he did not intend to be good, he replied: just nacherly can't help runnin' away." He fs now in Cathollo Protectory. law-abiding ang enterprising boy. Judge Mayer says the Children's Court is one ‘of the There, siso, was ‘‘Joe," who insisted on loitering around | proofe of added enlightenment in New York. It teaches Hast Fourteenth street until 2 o'clock every morning trying | boy who has etarte} wrong to be a factor on the right to sell papers, ‘Joe was brought to gburt, where it de-| instead of on the wrong, und makes him realize that veloped that “Joe” was honest enough and enterprising, but | are responsibilities in life. ‘One day tn the woods, I chanced to every ‘law-abiding citizen. He was ten years old, and that a party of his friends were enjoy- mance cine = "|THE GREAT MISUNDERSTOOD. ing the party. She called the old gentle- Just defore he présented me to his friends, he gently touched my arm and, umsitand me aside, whispered in my abuse ve eurorieed ut envitiing yoR “ HAT 4p 0 Polftician you ask. has a youngster who has an appetite; they play brass bandg + ‘The vulgar, common people—who, alas, are in the | and lead armies through the streets. great majority—will probably answer, “You got| ‘ben the good, kind Polltician bends at the joining of me," but people of intellect (partjcularly Politicians) will| waistcoat and murmurs: undoubtedly say: “Ah, they mean well, biit they can't afford all this.” “He ts ono who enters the Usts of wordy warfare for the| And he pays all the bills. |-| betterment of his country and its peopie, forgetting ‘his own What a generous soul he must be to Litt mages Joys, is en interests'and-his own personality in the grand, | money, his all to thé, peopl ‘2 many -| unseifiel atruggte."’ But the unselfish Folitioian is more than all this. He is @ ‘The poorer brethren come to him and say: ™martyr—the scapegoat of the people in whose service he ' “Bir, 58 would like to nominate you as our representative.” | die as he lives. The Politician pyts his hand to pit of his waistcoat] For no sooner does he stand upon the pedestal of maurmu: celebrity than the missiles, jibes and reproaches of bis sworm| ‘Zam honored. I em called. I yield to the desires of | constituents fly past his honored head. The poorer the people.” er ra Ghawteatenen ne ae He és nominated, just because tt ts the will of the people, | smile of the triumphant martyr. and the poorer brethren begin a vigorous campaign. They The people accuse him—oh, the shame of it!—accuse bin serve free drinks to everyvody who has a vote; they invite | of working for his own interests. to the ball-room every mother who tas a daugbter who haa| Alas, this is the aad heritage of the’Politirlan—the martyr, fest to op; they bid to the chowder party every father who of the Great ‘Misunderstood! ~ Amusements. Why nat PROCTOR’ 87 FORAY. 8c, Boe leterved Bvory Aft. de bang uous hte PERFECT Mf $e oath 8 {ONDER SOUTHERN S| Mats, Mon., Wed., Thurs, SOUVENTE DAY | DAY rua Dal SL gen : Lillian Kemble, Ned J. Vier, it Stock Favorites, ae blackness, “You mhy laugh, madam, but first, before you ridicule the misfortunes of others, atk yourself are you, too, iree from infirmity? When did you see the ace of spadesT 1m, answer me that.’ err became suddenly pale as death, her very Ups blanched, and her “t yolce, almost inaudible, muttered: niet eee “+m I then decelved? 1s not this her’ ee ats ore, actin Bo saying she placéd her hand upon my ‘eure: b a Tuny ye 4 rset foal pits |. Thirty years” practical oxi “Phat the ace of spades!’ exclaimed all personally the old lady, with @ neor; ‘that tne ace) THERE I$ NO SUBSTITUTE. JOHN H. WOODBURY D. I, 9 ernest 22 W, 234 at., New York, ‘Are you, or axe you not, sir,” Teabdelia, fixing her Geop and ee eyes upon me; ‘answer, as re are honest, Amusements. on ie Pra rae 3 of py Rod IATRE, 2 0m his war Fs , cred, 88 tga y fee Fa 20. hg eo Weeder a gateraay Sefoas ‘my nose, and Se a JOHN ‘DREW | THe HUMMING BIRD. and, fiving’ at iS che luck a bandful| GARRICK THEATRE, 3st of hair out of my whiskers.” Last 11 By'ge, 8.15. Mats, WED “Want an extraordinary lub!" 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