The evening world. Newspaper, November 26, 1904, Page 9

9 Like Paris In Is Approval Of i Time forthe Whitewash OrA Bath? CAgnged, He Doncin Dow Maxd: Indications that “The Healthy American Mind” Is Becoming Affected by the, Absinthe Drama— Tolerant Attitude Toward Questionable Plays in Marked) Contrast to Uther Days—Man Who Used to Sneak Off to “Shady” Shows Now Goes and Takes His Family, ON'T some one please call a doctor to examine “the healthy American mind?” It may still be doing business at the old Puritanical stand, yet there are etriking indications that it is suffering from overindulgencs in the absinthe drama. The way New York has been sitting up and taking notice of vari- ous stage ladies of dubious principles and worse morals during the past few! ‘weeks suggests the question, Are theatre-goers becoming unmoral? Sounds “preachy,” I know, but te assured this {s no attompt to score a “beat” on| , that first aid to the press ugent, the Sunday sermon, The text commends ” Suselt as interesting to the laity, which, having outlived the spirit of the Rime. that baled Sapho into the police court, is now viewing Rejane’s un- Diushing repertoire with perfect equanimity, and seems quite prepared for} the dancing doll which will soon come across the water with “The Wife| ‘Without a Smile.” Rejane and her plays have surely broken the ice of one of the hardest ‘winters New York theatre-goers have ever faced, s Pl * * * s * ERHAPS the French actress was right when she sald “Americans are not innocent enough,” But she !s certainly not helping us keep in the fairly straight and reasonably narrow theatrical path, She has tntroducea us to sonie of the friskiest types of the spicy female ever seen thts side of Paris, and in the weok to come will trot out still others of the came speedy clase. She has gone a step further than any of our disrobing bters in revealing the intricacies of woman's dishabille, and braved colds had criticiam in giving the fuishing touch to our education along anatomi-| | and physiological lines. Her frankly French Zaza of the present week | ) influertted us to accept two Heddas and a Magda as models of propri-| ety if for no other reason than that there more old-fashioned females of the| footlights wear @ respectable amount of clothing, 7 dy calm reception of Rejone’s bare-faced and barg-backed Zaza ae how we looked on the Americanized Zaza when Mrs. Carter Léthed her in tears. ¥ is » Dauntless man, of course, went at once to make the acquaintance of interesting lady, but there was a dea! of reconnoltring on his part before | Wes deamed safe for his wite, or his sweetheart, or little sister to see her, And when they did go they generally told of it under the rose, Ard yet this wes the Belasecad “Zaza,” changed from tae original into B-pentimental melodrama, with a moral us pointed as piety could ask—e pune “ennobled by suffering,” 0 “purified by the scorching fire of @ great ° " that you wondeted at the end how the sanctified music-hall singer EME Api (he Wack 0 har passionate pant in tise for the next’ per- Then there was poor, posing, poetry-reciting Bapho, who was brought iia. by Daudet as instructor in ethics to tne precocious youth of Do you ~emember his solemn dedication “To my sons when they SY9 arrived at the age of twenty?” And how she horrified those of us who were BP and 1" that age? Gallic and “gally” Zaza, to whom the American was as a halo-wearlog| merrily at quips which @ few years ago would have been received in silence, | saint to an unregenerate sinner, and between the acts discuss the eth ies of the play with open candor, No But the audfences at the Lyric Theatre this week—made up as far as one) tears are shed at the spectacle of long-suffering Virtue getting a kfiockout | can judge of as many Americans as French—are not at ali disturbed. There| blow. The only genuine concern to be observed is that which betrays iteel? in the faces of the women when Rejane, in the unlovely thoroughness of the there isn’t the least sign of embarrassment over lines that hesitete at noth-| “make-up” scene, exposes variout ferbinine tricks of the trade. ing in making their meaning clear. The spectators watch the clothes-shed- ‘The social hypocrisy with which Bernard Shaw charges London and ding specialty with a serone you-can-go-as-far-as-you-like attitude and|from which Paris is eo frankly exempt has heen sloughed off like an old isn’t a gasp at a disrobing scene which take a speculative interest in just how far Rejane will go. They laugh | garment, and New York, judged by Rejane's large audiences, is quite ready comes perilously near the forbidden; Nat Goodwin to Be Seen In the Role of a Ranchman ‘AT C. GOODWIN will appear tn | N: ‘The Usurper,” a now play by’ IN. Morris, at the Knicker: | bocker tre, on Monday night, The Play {9 a comedy-drama of contem- Poraneous life, and has for its hero a rich American canchman seeking amid the nobility of England the sweet- heart of his youth, In Mr, Goodwin's support will be Norman Tharp, Bille Norwood, Fehx Ed@vardes, W. H. Post, Neil O'Brien, dum and Ethel Beale. | “2 «@ Mme. Rejane will be seen in six roles during her final week at the Lyric. The plays will be “Sapho," Monday and Tuesday evenings; la Marquise,” preceded by Nance O'Neill at Daly's will change her bill on Monday night to Bader. | rae “The vive of * John. . De Wolf Hopper in “wang will be the attraction at the Grand Opera House. William H. Crane in. “Business Is Business” will be at the Harlem Opera-House, Billy B. Van will take “The Errand Boy” to the West End Theatre. “The Vacant Chair,’ Theodore Kre- mer's latest, will be at the Metropolis. ‘The Star will have “The Child Wife,” “The Secret of the Gubway” will be) divulged at the Third Avenue Theatre, | “The Fatal Wedding” is announced | for the Windsor. The Cherry Blossoms company will be at the Dewey, ana the Bowery Bur-| lesquers at the Gotham, | Continuing at leading (heatres wi be Fritsi Scheff! In "The Two Roses, Ni York; “The Baroness Widdiestick: ed Pd ad * rd <sasitalah ditterence!—we have changed all that, We laugh at “La Passerelie (though “The Marriage of Kitty” did not quite pre- ically ‘aad we crowd to tho! Sis,’ i \ China Doll," Majestic; Sir | Chartes Wyndham and Mary Moore tn | of “David Garrick” at Ina Goldsmith, Ruth ¢ Mackay, May Sargent, Georgie Men-| y/, Gabler,” Manhattan; John Drew iu “The pate of Kiillcrankle,” Empire, iilan ae “Tne School Girl,” Herald Square; iter in "Ji jh Entan- re. Wiese be Cab- " _ Savoy; juenp' ty. ee Amsterdam; Georee ak Tin “Little geaney jon Amelia Bi — in “TI Princess; " Bho-G “The College. Wito David Warfeld In’ co's = Theutre; Academy le w Mack in “The Way to Kenmare.” eenth Street Theatre; David Higgins I. 'Hls Last. Dollar,” American. GRAND OPERA BILLS. ‘The long-promised production of Pon-| chielll's opera, “La Gloconda,” will open the second week of the season at the Metropolitan Opera-House on Monday night. Mme. Nordica is to be La Glo- conda, Mme. Loulse Homer will sing Laura and Miss Edyth Walker will be intrasted with the part of the blind mother. Caruso will be the hero, Plancon, Alvise, and Mr. Giraldoni, new baritone, will make his debut here in the rolé of the villian, Barnaba, Thi opera will be repented on Friday even- Phd the same cast. Vigna will The second event of the week w: [be the revival on Satu oftgre yen of we er'a “Die Meiat r, with h | Mme. Ackte as Eva and Heinrich Knots a German tenor, who will make his firs: | Ame @ppearance, as Walther von Silaing jomre di Figaro” will be the biil n Wednesda: wil aa in 5 the Count ry ‘. Hime, Membric a hi Sete ag ‘yore Webut sepran, will raital™ ‘will be repeated on thy fa ac day, Frematad ry for ‘the No fret time and Mr, Burgstller Paretfal, | Att 0° i, |ecrew alent ‘esol "will be ine Journet and Nulbo, & young’ Spanish tenor, VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTONS, Della Fox will head next week's bill at the Cirele,, which will also have Stuart, “the mate Pattl; Charles Burke, Grace La Rue and the Inkey Boys, | Staley and Birbeck, the Three Youoarye, | acrobats; Fred Niblo, Charies Hara and |the Messenger Boy Trio. At Hammerstein's the bill will consist ot the Four Mortons, Marcelie’s bas reliefs) Sig. Germanal, baritone; Me- Mahon’s Wetermelon Girls and Miu- strel Misses, Three Crano Brothers and others. Maggie Cline will return to the vaude- ville «tage on Monday night at the Yorkville Theatre, whero she will head ‘the bill Paul Spadoni, juggler; Ford and Gehrue, Midgely and Carllele, Colby and May apd Lolo Cotton will be others. Hurtig Seamon's chief attraction will be the Mansfield. Wilbur Company in “The Shadow,” Mal Godfrey and company in “The Liar.” The Marco Twins, (he Four Rotees, Archer's Yill- ——=HUMPTY DUMPTY| By Malcolm Douglas. A Story for Big and Little Folks, Rased on THE GREAT CURISTMAS SPECTACLE, Begins in NEXT THURSDAY'S EVENING WORLD, sie Cicte ane Lowlee Shary will elto | Fiery, ‘ppeal Keith's bill will nolude Harry Glifoll, Ryan and Richfield in “Mike Hagwerty’s Laughter,” Digby Bell in “Twenty Minutes at the information Bureau,” Cole and Johnson, Wilton Brothers, and "| the Smediey Sketch Club in “The Little Mother.”’ Proctor's theatres: Proctor's Fifty- ,;clehth Street Theatre will return to Vaudeville with @ bill headed by George Byvana, and ineluding the Toosoonin Arab acrobats, Adele Archer, Oriska Worden and others, At the Twenty-third street house “The Girt we the Auburn Hair" and May Fisk will share honors with je Evans. “An Enemy a bd i! will be presented *. Hundred and ae iat cee te g atre, where Bar Wilson ‘ I} head ed aia Di. wy the Fifth avenue offering le Teavet” ‘sabe! honey Haskell will’ be vaudeville Soa ero ‘Tony Pastor's Ton Brooke, the head: pan Bors, bert be | "Brannigan and the Leadi by Bs freake at Huber Ww as wel and the Masitons ‘wit continue IN BROOKLYN, “The Rogers Brothers in Paris” be at the Montauk. will In the office, the store, the fac- tory or the household—and more prrticularly to the one who 6 trying to fill the void left by departed one or one living ut incapacitated for further toll— DON'T LOSE HOPE. | Over 700 Calls for Women and Girls will be made in the next Sunday World Want Directory. } PASI, e ir a ite ty Mey nigan | Jionel, the lion-faced boy, Neo head Risque P to accept the world of things as they are. a a rd rd o a a CHANGE ao subtle, so intangible, as a change in point of view might ‘ be unebserved for years, but in this instance the 4 ee given Rejane and her plays has been an eye-opener, The “lid” may be | down, but the fact remains that while New York may not be be more wicked hor more cynical than in the good old “Sapho” days, she is more tolerant- cr less provinelal, if you choose the term—in her attitude toward pantorm- ances given in her theatres. ‘Where the head of the household was wont to go stealthty/ opilaya like “Sapho” and “Zaza,” he now not only goes boldly forth but tela Jong, the children, I confi having been amazed at finding a little girl sity ting just in front of me at “Zaza.” Times have indeed changed! ‘The process that brought chout thie chahge has heen made an eaev ane. Dumaa's hectic Camille blazed the way long ago; and then, among camo the galaxy of Teutonic fair but fritil ones—rather the emancipated than the morally—Sudermann’s, and Beata; Ibsen's Nora, Rebecca and Hedda, Pinero’s women, too, bad though they may be, hava some ethical import. But these women whom Rejane is parading, they make us ready for the frank, almost naive, acceptance of any situation, The Subway's undermining of New York is not a more achievement than the undermining of past social traditions that New York’a present attitude towaré the shameless Freuch play implies. pas fe result 1s even more startling to the imagination than the finished of John Ma:Donald, CHARLES DARNTON, AMJSEMENTS, PROGTOR’S ‘Big Four’ nthe 4 proghors si inven re. ing td mos” | HUDSON ‘i et (a ees wea a ea taki iiagee Egil Ph Ni re (ame ative T0-DAy. TO-pay. ™ Mie af? attache . 10. ois MRA" ply ae Ry ag pry ly Bans P, E fee oe sepia sy PASTOR'S fof 4 ictal © ng Te AMSTERDAM. 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