The evening world. Newspaper, May 23, 1903, Page 9

wt THE w EVENING .# WORLD'S » HOME »# MAGAZINE w No Virtuous Py Tson Wiars Dit*y ke sh "Focinat nee . Despite Its Prehistoric Soliloquies ‘‘ Facing the Music’’ Is One of the Season’s Funniest Farces—Third Avenue Has Just as Funny a Play, Which, However, Extracts Tears Instead of Laughter. HE) stage soliloquy is nearly as obsolete as the slapstick, but not quite. In “Facing the Music” all the characters are addicted to, “talking to themselves”—not forgetting the audience. Enter Wife, for instance, and as ghe flops on the sofa and takes off her gloves she pours these confidences into the united ear of the gallery, bal- cony, orchestra and boxes: “Well, here I am, home again! Won't Jack be surprised! He didn't expect me for another week! How good it seems to be back again in my wn flat! I wonder has Jack been lonely without me?” And so on. Doesn't it sound familiar? “Facing the Music” is full of it. The interesting part of it is that all necessary explanations could with @ little more skill be made in a perfectly natural, real-life way. The up- to-date dramatist shuns soliloquy like a plague and has triumphantly dem- orstrated that it !s not even a necessary evil. a Cod e Pad ad ad UT apart from its soliloquies and a slight gappiness in the action be- tween Acte I. and IL. “acing the Music {s easily one of the two live- liest, funniest and. best-acted fatce-comedies we havé had thia season. It hasn’t the originality and subtlety of “The Bar} of Pawtucket.” Indeed, it is nefther very original nor very subtle, But in a brisk ,boister- pus, hearty way it shakes out a quicker and more explosive succession of laughs. And though the mixture of identities be an old theme, it is handled with freshness, \wd theeuthor hes shown great ingenuity in the invention of ludicrous {)‘'dents, As playsd Ly Henry BE. Dixey, supported by a capital company, ‘Facing the Music”’'akes the lead of tho dot weather attractions, Dixey Jy admirable at that sort of thing. His byplay is a etudy and his personal charm has not evaporated since the years when a former generation of matinee girls doted on his nether extremities. The always artistic Katherime Grey handsomely deserves a welcome back to Broadway after her excursion in locomotive-melodrama, aid shares ‘with Joon Mason and ohers thé secondary honors of a show thet might easily have held {ts own from early in the season. a a as a a es a wa a N Third avenue they take pleasures seriously, “A Working Girl's Wrongs” ig every bit as funny as “Facing the Music,” bug the audi- ences weep over it. Ab, me! What bitter tears Third Avenue sheds over Mamie Malloy, the heroine of the cigarette factory, and her blind mother, and her ladifren, Annie Lawrence, “whose life was ruined,” and Little Bess, Annie's cheild, whe is always asking embarrassing questions about popper! And how Third Avenue loathes and execrates Ansieigh Wharton, the “;ristocratic” cigarette manufacturer, who wears a dress suit and is steeped The Captain of of the ‘the Pole Star. A Story of tal irr Ee onaiA and Adventure in the my Frozen Seas, By Sir A. Conan Doyle, will begin in Tie Evening ‘World “‘ome Magazine on Monday, and will end on, the ihm Saturday. BERLUD! - | WANT BERLUD! radish codeine aaa al OW Mr re Eat-em-Aliwe— First Oxputy Sub Mi\\ain- - to the eyebrows in double-distilled diabolical villainy! And how Third Avenue rears up and hussas for Jack Fallon, the work- man hero, who when the villain hisses “What do you mean, base fellow, by interfering?” swells out his chest and proclaims, “Because me sainted mother taught me at her knees always to buts in and help a female lady in distress!"* It 1s beautiful, it is touching, to study Thira Avenue under the stimulus of “A Working Girl's Wrongs.” The simple faith with which it is em- braced leaves no doubt in your mind that this to Third Avenue fs the real thing—this 1s life! Mamie says to her employer (whose dress suft would proclatm him the villain, 1f other evidence were lacking): “There is more true virtue in the middle clagses than you will find in all the aristocracies of the world!” The “aristocrat,” hoping to win hands with those of Jack Vallon. “Yes,” she cries, “your hand has a diamond ring on It! her, asks her to compare his white Jack has no diamonds, except on a warm day, when his manly brow ts begemmed with diamonds more precious far than the tiaras of a hetrtless aristocracy— the diamonds of honest sweat!” (Terrific applause.) And Annie Lawrence, telling her sad story, remarks: “I drank to the dregs of the golden cup! Cast aside like a thing of evii—like a faded flower, @r-r-ruin! er-r-ruin! @ solled glove!” And what was the end? And yet there is nothing m “A Working Girl's Wrongs” much more remote from real life than Fitchland excursions earlier in the season. and not one of the speeches is quite as vulgar and infelicitous as the wronged husband's at the etd of ‘The Frisky Mrs. Johnson,” when he Krowls: “You go home and get it for desertion!” Third Avenue may have weird ideas of life, but it is not for Broadway to laugh. KATE CAREW. FOUR NEW PRODUCTIONS NEXT WEEK. Two Bhakespearian revivals, a new gomredy, and trial performances of an un- known comic opera will be new things under the sizzling sun next week. At the Knickerbocker Theatre, Lieb- ler & special company of prom- inent players will be seen in what promises to be an elaborate production of "Romeo and Juliet." ‘The company: comes to New York after a spring tour whidh opened at Albany on April 31. Miss Eleanor Robson will be seen as Juliet, Kyrie Bellew as Romeo, ben Plympton as Mercutio, W. H. Thompson as Friar Laurence, John B. Kellard as ‘Tybatt, Edwin Arden as Paris, W. J Ferguson as Peter, Mrs. W. G. Jones as the nurse, and Ada Dwyer as Lady Capulet, while others in the cast will be F. C. Bangs, Forrest Clark and Mabel Ayl- ement will be Limited Dan Daly fs to be brought forward as @ comedian without music at the Herald Square Theatre Monday night in “John Henry," a play made from Géorge V. Hobart's slangy sketches of the same name, by Mr, Hobart and Edward E. Rowe. In the company will be George Backus, J. G.. Marlowe, R. C, ‘Herz, John Keefe, Florence Rockwell, Julle A. Herne, Helen Wothersby and Eloutna Oldcastle, . * ‘ A novelty sn the form of @ Yiddlsh- speaking Shylock, supported by an Eng- Uab-speaking company, will bo offered at the American ‘Theatre Monday, when Jacob P. Adler,-a Hebrew tragedian, who has been appearing at a Jewish theatre in thé Bowery, will be the central and unique figure in “The Merchant of Venice.” Mr. Adler was born in the clty of Odessa, Russia, in 185. His parents were well-to-do and gave tim the benefit of @ good educa- tion. Upon graduating from the Gym- nase he entered the Russian civil service in the custom-house in Odessa. Later he served in the health depart- ment and in other government offices. He knew nothlug of the theatre, except a8 a spectator—and he was a spectator whenever opportunity offered at the regular Russian theatre of the town, When the first Jew theatre was, formed Jn Houmania, Adler read of it dn the newspapers, “and, becontining’ much ine terested, witnes@ed every performance, ‘Thecacting delighted tim to such an extent that he gave up his government position and associated himself with the Players in a minor capactty. In a com- paratively short time Adler was the leading man of the company. It was Moguelesko, the comedia, who discov- ered Adler in England and induced him to come to this country, bis first ap- pearance being at Poole's Theatre, New York, now known as the Germania. o 9 % Public rehearsals of a new romantic comic opera, ‘The Wood Witoh,” writ- ten by Messrs. Mildenberg and Hol- comb, will be held at the Carnegie Ly- coum Theatre Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings. A professional ‘cast and chorus will be employed. oo . Franols Wilson, in ‘The Toreador, will be the attraction at the Grand Opera-Houpe. The Amertcan ‘Theatre stock company will go to the Metropolis and play “Resurrection.” The Royal Liliputians, in “In Poster- be given at Proctor's Fifty-elghth atreet theatre, “Home, Sweet Home; or, Across the Rookies," will be aeen at scale Ave- nue Theatre, “A 'Wife'a Becret” will be dleclosed at the Btar, “The Private Georetary” will be the comedy offering et the Murray Hill, Henry V. Donnelly will have the role of Mr. Cattermole and George Henry ‘Trader will be the Rev. Robert Spald- ing. || The Bowery Burlesquers will de at the Dewey. “Tha Gniart Set," a colored show, will be given at Proctor’s Fifty-eighth Street ‘Theatre, Next Saturday night’ the summer sea- son at Terrace Garden will begin with | Mt the Terrace Ganien Opera Company in “The Brigands.”” ‘The Frank ©. Bostook entmal show will open at Coney Island to-night. Beginning Monday, an opén-alr clrous will be given in Olympia Field, One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street and Lenox avenue, VAUDEVILLE BILLS. York and Adams, the Yiddish comedians, and O'Brien and Havel in “The Newsboy and the Maid," -will be the popular features of the til at the Cirele. Marshall P. Wilder will give his familiar monologue at Ketth's, Milton)’ Aning Clothes. This 1s the Say! Docs dis boul go Villain on ba ot Av'nyer ?.. Wot? and Dolly Nobles will be seen in “A "Blue Gress Widow,” and the Kaufmano Family will give their fine exhibition of bicycle riding. Frank Ganiner and Lottie Vincent in “An Idyi of the Links,” and Mr. and Boy,” wiN be prinotpal features of the bill at Pastor's, Proctor’s theatres: Wiliam Young's comedy drama, “The Rajah," will oe presented at the Fifth Avenue, with Florence Reed and Wallace Erskine thi) street theatre, Edwerd “Lang, Teddy Simmonds, Fred R Charles Whyte will appear in opera travesty calls ah." “On the Wabas! in Harlem, Willard Blackmore in the’ principal will be played with Adelaide Kelm and will be poar in = D Strenuous Dalisy." Other acter and singing comedian, De Forrests in whirlwind dances, New pictures of torel be shown at the Eden Mrs. Jimmie Barry in ‘Mrs. Wiliins‘a In the leading roles. At the Twenty- cot, the talking horse, will con- What Befell Roy L. McCardell at the JoKebuilders’ Convention. name Pech were thrown out on first reading, and we decided on ‘American Press Humorists.’ A Chronlc Mirth-Maker’s Sad Experience at the eRe Chesapeake Bay go by.” Baltimore Spielfest of the Amalgamated Chestnut Venders. -¥ subdued was the mirth-making MoCardel) when we met on his return from the convention of newspaper humorists and poets at Baltimore, “Ie this the Roy L. McCardell I have known erstwhile 4s full of quip and prank?" I tnquired. “Why do you enter eo solemnly upon the scene of your noon-hour tapping belted typewriter? Have you no joyous greeting or genial " “An!” he sald, and mopped a perspiring brow. The droop of his shoulders suggested a return of malaria; the length and hoarseness of his ‘‘Ah!” indicated bronchitis and general ejection. “Back to the Old Jokes’ Home once again," he Caan straining hard to fix his features in the attitude of « e. “They must have made him meudlin on that Baltimore dlow," eajd the artist who draws pictures that will print: in @ newspaper. “Now, gentlemen,” said the erst merry MoCardell, the purple hue of wrath stealing o'er his generally contented countenance. “Now, gentlemen, I want to correct that im- Pression here and now. That was not en undertakers’ con- vention which gathered tn Baltimore, but the best and brightest minds employed on the American newspapers. ‘The city was free to us, liquor of all degrees of proof was to be had without asking for it; but @ convention of news- Paper humorists and poets ts not @ bout with Demon Rum. ‘We took our wives along.’ Aided us what meas you so a4," I sald, pretending not to no but no wiser man, at parting. wite: ‘What @ jolly lot o! Quips and jokes an ‘What a lovely lot ne chanted. “I'm all out.” “The strain of keeping up with Gillian, Ade, Kiser at als. was too great,” I suggested, hoping to arouss, even to irritate, ‘There's another thing you've got wrong,” he replied. “We went there for business, to organize a national associa- tion, We told a few stories, but we who are funny for a lving keep our bright thoughts for the readera of our Papers and do not cast pearls of wit before a convention. I told a few stories," and he named forgotten chapters in the book of his youth. “Of course, they were chestnuts, but they were new there. A few filppant minds grow gay in the discussion of a name for our organization. One sug- * but out of fifty-one suggestions all but Lively anecdotes Preaps that's wh: To this sober-m! Special Notices, Amusements. ‘What « handsome lot of Ind What @ bunch of human bellows! | Although it's as hot as hades. ‘What « dunch of jolly fokera! What @ lot of ugiy faceat What « dunchyot fun-provokers ‘What tnsatiote wicked luebers, Which the eame are priceless pearie! MoCardell smiled! "It sounds like a union,” Mr, MoCardell's response spoke volumes, but I did not know the language. He remained morose and uncommunicative, turned to his typewriter and significantly tapped the keys. Despairing of drawing from him a ray of sunlight, I withdrew, « sadder A hint of what was really wetgbing on his mind came just He handed me a clipping containing the fol- lowing verses written during the convention by the members of the band at the suggestion of a Chicago News man's f fellows! Mra. D, M. @mith.) ‘B. Warner.) (ainies.) (Gack Appleton.) (A. U, Mayfield.) (Bixby. ‘@ullivas.) H. Robbins.) (Kiser) . M. Smith.) 4 squibe by scores (A K Taylor.) (CRoeee.) } @oree.) (ore. urgorae.) * Bhowing off thelr sorry paces. a ‘What « lot of easy-coere— Not the way they go on pay Gay! Oa this perspicuous May-day. ot gudherst ‘What a dovely line of girlst (Montague.y What « solemn bunch of epeakers! (Bagerton.) (Orit Alexander.) Olver.) (Graves,) (Comfort) (Shevitm.) (Hermanny they tell: And « very Cow wits cockers— 1 they get on well. © the tales of Roy MeCardolt inded lot, And @ome verses every dant ‘Il Take a pride in—not, not, NOT! ’ “And did you play pillow games, toot” I asked Amusements, ° TT Father John’s Medicine Gives Color. Makes flesh and strength for the thin and pale; no weakening stimulants, eee Y, Amusements, MADISON SQUARE Hy Sree D NEE IN NEW YORK" es MA SL Nordica Soloive Opening De Reszke EATS = Bale nae ilenears at Box 01 jad. a, Tyson's (Pringtpal Binry Kullman's, tis Bway, and McBride's, 71 Brera: Prioes (Opbulon NigNt Gea.Adm. $1. CARNEGIE 9)0°0- 33" > Pubite Dress Rehearsals of (By Milo aber THE WOOD WITCH.| , ay ateatt Peeedvey: roadway & Sid at. Eves. ats. Wed. & Sat.2.15 Lar Maun ar TIM TONIGHT. Oe DALY’S CBCIL Spo0nii in yu reer GOES TO TOWN, aca oe PAWTUCKET. MURRAY “4 wiEL THA, Lex. Ay 4g Sih Fen Bt, near B tinee Ever: 25 siaties ent <DITH. i Bivay KEITH'S 3k Tex. Ave. & 0ith st, Mations Ta'y. 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Ail Star acte at’ the Broadway & 60th etrest. 29 — Seo 14th St. Theatre, mites ea: ts 2 THE | it] Dew ey MAT, TO-DAY. ate parts, barte, Mr, and Mrs, Gene Hughes in “A | (4 = Matrimonal Substitute’ will head the oadway bi at the Newark house. ‘Princess, “The Four ans ‘The headliner at Hurtig & Geamon's|“itunning for Offices’ at the Fourt Burkhardt, who will ap- entertainers will be Julian Rose, char- and the gounteiee wit ‘Then we went out Why Not Proctor’s?70:PAy._. 34. 8. SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1908. FEMALE IN DISTRESS! Hero a *A Working Girls Wrongs? tinue the chief feature at Huber’s ite. seum. z i ESTABLISHED ATTRACTIONS, Remaining at leading theatres ‘are Henry E. Dixey tn Batra the Musle,"* arting 01 ie ant att heatre, last week; David Warfield “whe Auctioneer,’ Viotoria, Theatre, Street Theatre, Amusements. LAST WEBK OF AMERICAN _ ‘Si, "ERi or A MOTHER'S 5 LOVE, 0% MONDA! THE EMINENT pureere™ JACOB ADLER, Seeees MAUBSTIC BRAN SR: Wee? at ae Wed. Mat, IZARD O} | Byes, aa ‘with Montgomery & Stone! Matinee, fe BELASCO THEATRE it Syet DAVID aLAMCoTEn ent tine ie DAES OF THB Gops." eae 42 at. Bye dart Warfield — Presents(last2wks) [ig “THE AUCTI eee ee a8 ADC HATAY NATZY'S HUNGARIAN ORCHESTRAS Formerly Cafe Boulevard, now at” REISENWE =e eR ; Southwest Corner 58TH 8T. vi, Table 6’ Hote Dinner from 6 to pares a 0b Service « la Carte. Private Dintag Rooms ‘Ban ATLANTIC est Cant mower? e Rasta & Banks, Lenore a Bt nae teats, Olortimer ‘Basett, Rechert's Orshestra. Excursions 0 DECORATION. DAY 1° EXCURSIONS ERIE RAILROAD. - Shohola Glen. In the Blue Mountaina, one hundred and milee trom New York, om the beautiful ‘Delaware Express traine leave W. 234 St. 8.55 end Ghaesiers St. 2.00 and 8.98: Jersee Chey GREENWC WOOD Li LAKE GLENS ann ete ah rth arming, leave NIAGARA ROUND CALLS $9.00 TRIP hs ee May 100, 00 tollowe: Lamy Cw 4 m Meatnstes ‘cartier, Jere Retemaing, “are “AUCH CHUNK Switchback & Glen Onoko EXCURSION, DECORATION DAY, MAY 30, NEW JERSEY CEN CENTRAL ADULTS, rs, 61.50. . CHILDREN, Toe Switchback Tickets 50c. Additional, Special train trom Liberty St. Station, 8.30 Aye South Ferry, 6.25 4. STEAMER GRAND REPUBLIC POINT make NEWBURG, wastuxDaY, be al 1TH oT. i YX 24, “hn aM, Wor ‘TRIP, 500. GENERAL SLOCUM, special excursion te BRIDO! SDRIDOSPORT. CONNo ‘CONN, NORTH BEACH. BAST 00th ST. 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