The evening world. Newspaper, September 14, 1904, Page 9

\ for one in the books of his . ” "lk a ; WALLS FLAT BLE besa Governess” a Mis- "" for:{Cecilia Loftus, Who SooresqOnly in Her Imita-) tions. 4 ’ MAKES FEEBLE ATTEMPT LIVELY CHARACTERS IN Gene eee WILL’S NEW PLAY, “ THE i Sood bromwvnic be dibedbihn ninth GOVERNESS.” , AT ZAZA HYSTERIA. Eva Vincent, as a Doughty Dow- ager with Statue of Libert Gestures, the One Real Hit of, the Performance, ‘There's a music-hall manager in "The @erio-Comic Governess" who tells a rich eld patty with glossy evening clothes that, should ho ever take a notion to write a play, he might find ideas Had some friend of play-g: | manity given Mr. Israel Zangwill sim- Mar advice, and had he taken It to suffering public might ed fresh pain and the @rquestionel talents of Miss Ceolita | Loftus might have been saved from wanton waste. /The venture which fed Miss Loftus to take her first stellar step at Daniel @ Frobman's Lyceum Theatre last night ‘ @annot but prove stale, flat and un- Profitable to all concerned, The programme doesn't classify Mr} , Zangwill's misdirected work. The pro gramme is the most sensible part o | the production, for the piece defes de | scription. It 1s the most purposeless | hopeless jumble imaginable, and it | leaves you, at the end, wholly incapab'e. of guessing what |t may have been in- tended for. It commends itself for solu- ton to the psychopathic ward at Belle. vue, It is a case—a very sad case—for the allentst. Threw Emotional Fits. “The Serio-Comic Governes: ous when it is comic, and comle when ¢ ft {8 serious, Incidentally it is subject to hysteria, Every once in a while Miss; Loftus was called upon, or felt called ¢ upon, to throw an emotional fit, Bhe @tarted out blithely enough as a nice, lively, white-frocked and blue-sashed convent girl with a genius for turning rollicking “Michael McGinnity" into a Miserere and her intending soldier lover * gnto a “vision” the moment the Mother Buperior put in appearance, She wae 1 . convent cut-up—and she was des tined to pay dearly for her sins, To help her poor but honest parents, , Bileen O'Keefe shakes the Incense of | ‘the cloister from her clothes and an ‘trisome dialect for good, and after @overnessing it all day puts on at night @ red wig and a rig to match, and appears as Nellie O'Nelll, a “serio- ' comic,” in a London music hall, Her disguise’ is complete. Even the audience hardly recognized Lady Loftus in her awful Zaza get-up, end it shrank further Into its seat at her-weird Mrs.-Carter-like emotional + stunts, when Eileen finds the returned “hero of Afghanistan’ making boozy love to the serlo-comic instead of being: “true to Poll.” Tho sensitive creature of “the ‘alls’ fa a0 shocked at discovering the “anl- mal in man" that she flops on a sofa and nearly breaks up the show—and an ewlully bad show it must have been, dudging by the halt~ of performers who ra the Frivolity’s dressing-room! The “hero of; Afghanistan” Is quite as badly cut up bimselt a* finding that! Bileen and Nellie are one, and kindly takes himself off. Poor Old Poster, He shudders at a poster of Nellie, mich looks as if ft might have been 4 @pirited away from the dear‘old Dewey Gown in Rourteenth street. The poor old poster is dragged out again and again, only to prove ay base deception, for ‘Nellie’ fails to live up to its promises, She sticks valiantly to her red wig, however, wearing it next day even, and finally gets her reward in a nice, rich young man,above music-hall suspicion, whom she accepts with a amile atter a maudlin resolve to hie terself back to the nunnery» Loftus became quitedlost in the i mabe, finding her only firm footing ed specimens In and out of | hen she fell back upon her clever and| por familiar imitations of welldknown ac- tresses. H. Reeves mith played thequnherotc * goldier-hero until one waited /for both the heavens and Port Arthur’ to fall. ‘The real hit of the performance was) acored by Miss Eva Vincent ms a rich and rampant dowager, with a home- made vocabulary and Statue of Lib- erty gestures. Miss Julia Dein played) the role of a French girl with refresn- ing charm and considerable icleverness, and Herbert Standing baamed and as “Fossy,” of the rrusic hall, hs jo-Comic Govern? ss" wasn't the effort, however. /iiss Loftus might do well to let her So with- Bien the customary month's, noti et b ee * NEGRO WOMAN A /LAWYER. Admitted to Kentuck); Dar by the Cireult Cov rt, LEXINGTON, Ky., 8 pt. 4.—For the first time in the history of Kentucky, @& negro woman been admitted as @ member of the bar and licensed to tise law In this jcounty. She was ee faa the /Circult Court and ia Mrs, 8, J. 3, Wite, of — -— BROKE BROADWAY WINDOW. show wintiow of Donschian é BISHOP BURGESS. AFTER bLRGLAKS Long Island Prelate, Robbed of Prized Silver, Quickly Gets Sheriff and District-Attorney at Work on the Case. GARDEN CITY, L. B, Sopt. I~ "The See House, opposite the Cathedral ‘of the Incarnation at this place and occupied by Bishop Burgess, was en- tered by burglars early to-day, Bish- jop Burgess and the other inmates, who slept in the upper rooms, were not disturbed by the thieves, who gained an entrance by forcing one ot the parlor windows, They searched through all the rooms in the lower part of the house, entered one of tke bedrooms upstairs and carried away @ lquantiy of solid silverware, including fa handsome cup and a pitcher, a quan- tity of clothing and $20 in cash. They also stole the Bishop's overcoat and gold-mounted umbrella, The robbery waz not discovered until the servants came downstairs this morning end found everything in dis- order. Bishop Burgess was notified, and he promptly telephoned to Sheriff John- gon, at Mineola, and tu yale Attor- ney Niemann, at Lynbroo! The District-Attorney Getalled anum- to run down the description of the as sent to the police The highly of detect! burglars, while stolen ry of Menpattan and Brookiyn. stolen silver articles were prized by the Blahon’s family, and a search will made through fart awash in "Seanhattan and | Brooklyn with a hope of recovering them, ‘ The residence of George L. Hubbell, tf the Garden City Company, was also entered by the same thieves 2 considerable amount of property ho} Burgess is a widower and his sa ilves with him. Six members of the family and (the servants com} the aay 222d EEE WORKING GAL GETS $0100 FORTUNE Miss Michener, Who Is a Res- taurant Manager, Receives Word that She Has Inherited) a Large Estate. COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Bept. 1. =-Miss Ida E. Michener, manager of the Midland restaurant at Cascade, has recelved word that she has inherited Brothers, No, Broadway, was © omashes to-day /by a Belgian block al rugs /valued at $00 wero oy thievey, of whom no trace Patrol nis Lynch, while on | ighteenth ve o'clock t br bout $7,000,00 from the estate of her dmother in England. Hue tate left by her grandmother, estate ars ly informed FRSTRED BABY IN WIFE'S MAME Hoboken Wenan | Stood for Beatings, but Balked When Asked to Shoulder Responsi- bility for Sister’s Offspring. | | i | : FAMILY COMPLICATIONS TO PUZZLE A SOLOMON. Husband and Sister-in-Law He'd) by Recorder To-Day to Give Grand Jury a Whack at the Knotty Problem. A diagram of the domestic compl!- cations Raesselo Zoppl, a dapper little OED SEAR TO TAY HS VOLE Tenth avenue whiskey aroused in Patrick Nevins a wild desire to sing, so he climbed Into the parlor of the sirl's seminary, adjoining Holy Cross Church, on West Forty-second street, mado himaelf comfortable on a couch and lifted up his mournful soul in song. | Then he was arrested, When taken to the station-house | Nevins was asked his occupation. “When I work I'm a@ laborer, but when I'm not working I work for Tam- many,” he sald. He explained that he had found a jbarrel of whiskey on Tenth avenue and had gathered and filled about a dozen bottles, These he emptied into himself, When passing the seminary he saw an open window and climbed through It. A nelghbor saw him and reported to a policeman that a burglar was going through the seminary. The policeman followed him through the window with drawn revolver, but was surprised on reaching the parlor by @ burst of song coming from the | darkness, Nevina finished his solo in| 1. He lives at No. $4 West Twenty: | street. § $| Hoboken tallor, of No, #4 Second jetreet, hae Involved himself in would try the genius of @ skilful draughts- Health records a Zoppi baby that was not @ Zoppl baby. | Mr. and Mra, Zoppl were married in Staten Irland seven years ago, Zoppl | was then prosperous, and he and his wife lived happily for a year, But about more proticient, and finaily re chastised her with a small stove and she was very happy with him for two years. Then one day, as ane was fondling « 5 taken to the huspital in @ serious con- dition, Zoppi Vanishes from Scene. When Mrs, Zoppl recovered and re- turned to her home with a warrant for her husbaud he had vanished. She mado careful inquiries concerning his whure- abouts, but could learn notning. A passed, and she met a friend, Joseph Naagslo, the proprietor of a fruit store in Belmar, N. J., who told her that be had seen ‘her husband buried with all due solemnity in a Western chy. He gave such @ graphic account of the }funeral, said Mrs, Zoppl, that she was moved to tears, She was absolutely vonvinced of Mr, Zoppl's decease, ant a tew months later married Nassiv. Nazalo was Well-to.do and she was man, To the beat of his, his wife and hia sisters w's ability the tortuous nes were drawn for Recorder Stanton, that time the marital web began to snarl, ard Zopoh #0 it Is alleged, began to beat his wie, Her early beatings, |Naazio baby, Zoppi turned up. He de- died that he was dead and intormed his wife that unless she immediately aoan- Special in Stlks and Dress Goods. 8,000 yards Imported Taffeta Silks in ivory and black; on sale at so. ayd, | very much under price. | Also a lot of 40-inch Black Crépe de Chine, | that sold as high as $2.00 a yd,, to close this lot at $1.25 a yd. of Hoboken, to-day, when Zoppi and his sister-in-law were arrainged on a charge of registering on the Board ¢¢ Mrs. Zoppi Informed tne Recorder, were mere lncieents, But aa her hus- band progressed he became more and doned ag and retugned to him sne | would di He als exhibited a stiletto, & ragor obeying (he in- revolver and, and a Zoppl stinct of self-preservation, Mrs, returned to Zoppi and resumed her do- mestic carea for bis household in Ho- boken, Pretiy Sieter-in-Law Appears. Zoppi was prospering, and as he beat her only once a week she became rec- onciled to ber condition, Everytuoing was #0 peaceful (hat she invited her alse ter, a pretty young woman with coal- plack hair, roay cheeks and big brown Ing occupied by artists and artists’ models, She had lived there nearly three years. Her groans and screams of pain after taking the polson brought a number }of the other tenants about her bed and they notified the police, When taken to the hospital a photograph of Phocian POON BALM AOR LOST LOVE Artist’s Model, Said to Be the ppt decided to visit questioned, He admitted tgat he had] year ago Mrs. Fone! Noch te and Daughter of Wealthy Parents,| cnown tne woman for twovyears and Her family 1m, Tutt ae Aten ample 9 to America from Italy. Daniels, J, of No. 2% West Ninety- hand tous very kind to bis sister-in- elghth street, was found in her waist, law and upon her request abandoned of hks wile, Daniels was summoned to the Wi be smoothly that & his periodical beatings | One Hundredth street police station ant All was running 99 ni he returned a few weeks ago, finde, 8 surprised to se@ an extra Zoppl inthe familly. She made in- quiries, and oteiaea be new: was registered as her son on the Hoard of Health records, She asked her husband about this apparent In- consistency, and he gave her one of the old-fashioned beatings, afte> which o ‘war taken to St, Mary's Hospi- the hospital the injured woman waa the police of the extra Zoppl In the household. Thereupon a warrant that he had quarrelled with her and | Tries Suicide After a Quarrel rt’ str. ie ‘aid ne hed. known her with a Man. | ever since she was a little girl, and thas ie she was the daughter of wealthy ents living in @ amall city not tar rom New York. He would not tell their name, He said he would notify them it the girl died. On erent the station Daniela visited the hospital, and on learn:ng the girl's condition said he would telegraph her parents at once. Mra, Inez Daniels, twenty-eight years old, an artist's model, iles in a serious condition at the J. Hood Wright Hos- pital as the result of an attempt at All On Sale at Special Silk Counter. DRESS GOODS. 125 pieces 44-inch Colored and Black All Wool Henrietta, in a good range of shades, at Soc. a yd., value 75¢, a yd, Lord & Taylor. Broadway and Twentleth Street, Fifth Avenue, Nineteenth Street. for the tallor and his sis- ueatee. and they were accordingly sulelde, She took corrosive sublimate. ee nats Despondency over the loss of the man SYRACUSE IRON WORKS BURN. f Recorder Stanton t she loved is sald tb have been the| SYRACUSE, N. Y., Bept. 14.—The | arralaned betare eee Mmetit be é& plant of the Central Iron Works, Sand | ciaring that, his wife should never have enuse of her attempt to dle, t and Belden avenue, was partial: to ea, and left her pretty sis- ot Ant . yy | gone Mrs. Daniels lived at No. 10 West|iiiroved by fire early to-day, Logs, |ter. as fr. Both posers sek: One Hundred and Firat street, a bulld-| g55 000, - were held ‘tor the Grand Jury, CAMMEYER 6th Ave., Cor. 20th St. OPENING FALL SALE In Our Basement. Men’s $3.50 Lace |Taken from Main Floor. Women’s $5.00, $4.00 and $3.50 hoes, Button and Lace Shoes, patent in box calf, patent | leather and black kid, assorted , Jes, with all shape heels; not leather and black kid, ii aaes in all styles, but all sizes in some styles, Women’s $2.50 and $3.00 Button and Lace Shoes, in patent leather and Kid, sd) Pai Child’s $1.25 Kid Button and Lace Shoes, sizes 8% to 10% Misses’ $1.50 Kid Button and Lace Shoes, sizes 11 to 2 Little Gents’ Satin Calf Lace Shoes, sizes 8% to 1344 eo vt damhonnt NRO adie Shsareaa ta ees. ” Pa WISSNER PIANOS Can be absolutely relied upon to give entire satis- |] faction. They are indorsed by leading musicians of the world for their superb Qualities of Tone and their phenomenal powers of durability. POPULAR PRICES. Money-saving oppe rtunities are offered this week at our New York Warerooms on some slight. ly used Pianos of our own ard ped eminent makes: tly used 7 $275 oe nina D 350 135 175 . 100 Some Really Good Square Pianos $15, $20, $25. Tuning, repairing, ete., by experts at ) FOR CATALOGUES. HONE 24 GRAMERCY. Wissner Warerooms, 25 East 14th St. BROOKLYN WAREROOMS, $35-540 FULTON ST. | “Baka & Oot " BROADWAY, 33R TQ 34TH STRERT i WB ANNOUNCB For To-day and Thursday, The Formal Opening of Our Exhibit of Autumn Millinery which includes the exclusive models con- ceived by the foremost foreign masters and clever adaptations of their styles, together with the creative efforts of our own organization of designers. Fall Suits, Coats and Costumes fo: Women and Misses. ‘ Its all embracing scope earns for our collection garments the right to be termed “representative || Almost every authoritative style and effect, the simple street garment to an elaborate wrap @ costume for formal wear, has found a place us. It embraces a diversified series of suits, co dresses, costumes and furs designed for the season's service. Some are Imported models,6 ers are copies and adaptations of them, augment by the garments which our own designers hades conceived—all of that high character which fi favor with the discerning. : Tailormade In the new short, three-quarter and long fancy worsted, mannish mixtures and plain fabrics, with ~ the new model skirts, $25.00 to $65.00 SRECIAL FQR THURSRAY ANR ERIRAY. ad Tailormade Suits of cheviot or hardefinished mannish it. worsteds. Three new models. Full or plaited back, ™ belted coats in medium or three-quarter length. Value $25.00. Special at $18.50 Tailormade Suits of cheviot in black, blue or brown, or of covert cloth in olive; short or three-quarter coats, new modgl skirts, 4 Value $30.00. Special at $22.50 oa Tourists’ Suits. ‘ The “Brighton” model of mixed cloth in tan, gray, ox= ford, brown or blue; three-quarter plaited coat with belt, thirteen gore plaited skirt. Value $22.50. Special at $14,00 Coats and Wraps. he accepted styles of coats and wraps suitable for - atreet, evening and theatre wear are Presenso at 2 50 to $150 | Coats of covert cloth, 40 inches long, with en or fitted af back, with or without belt. Single or double breasted. & $28.50, $29.50 and $34.50 © Topcoats of covert cloth, 22 inches long; new models; satin lined, Ar $14.50 and $17.50 “ The — Peggy from Paris” Coat Which is an entirely new mcdel, will receive its initial presentation on Thursday, For driving and street wear it is especially adapted. $22.50 Rain Coats. On Thursday six new and impressive models will receive \= their initial presentation in our seperti from to Fall Waists for Women and Mi That the new Fall styles are with us means.mucl in itself, but what is of greater import is They are distinctive and impressive models, owe much to the imported garments. The: waists of chiffon, taffeta, messaline, louigj taffeta and chiffon for dress and evening wear, tailored waists of wool fabrics in plaids, si and plain colors fr general service. Waists of block taffeta in three new > endl, side or box plaited, yoke effect or with French knots, Special at $3.98 Waists of wool nun's veiling or flannel, in three models, . trimmed with silk piping, Persian trimming and ft silk scarf. Special at Sweaters for Women and Misses. Whichever you will—the new Norfolk coat and automobile jackets, as well as the “V” neck and high-collar sweaters in all colors and their combi- nations, you will find us in @ position to provide at very modest prices. Special for Thursday and Friday. Four hundred Wool Sweaters for women in gray, white, « blue red or black, with "V" or high neck and full sleeves, Value $2.50, At $1.45 Apparel for Children and Juniors, This department of ours has grown normally an steadily. We have been compelled to enlarge ip precincts, within which you will find a most co’ prehensive variety of the new coats, dresses, suifS, skirts and waists for fall and winter wear. Some are designed specifically for school service, othe’ for formal cccasions; all at modest prices. Special for Thursday and Separate Skirts of cheviot in blue or brown or fancy mixed fabrics in junior sizes, 30 to 35 inches long. A$ Waists of Wool Albatross in light blue, navy, b or black; misses and junior sizes, ‘