The evening world. Newspaper, September 7, 1907, Page 11

Sp ane a sere aoe The Evening World’ 8 Daily Magazine, Slats sey September a, — —— | DOOO DeoOU (ORO ORO) By Charles Darnton. Wepee ae : QQ OO SCHCHONCH MISS TURNBULL MARTHR MORTON THIS 15 THE [WAY (TOTARTEO te elias eee — NEW terror has been added to theatre-going by the deadly, {neritable curtain speech which has broken out with unusual violence and fn, several peculiar forms this season. Curtain speeches are no new infliction, heaven—not to inention the firstnighter—knows! We aye all sat through the embarrassdd, the facetious, the didactic, and above all the silly “efforts” of au thors and ‘‘stdrs,” and groaned in sheer. weariness of spirit at the painfulness of the situation; but the dis- ease has never raged with such virulencé as during OW, REALLY, seh the past few weeks. The young season has already mado us feel old with the curtain speeches that have been hurled at our poor, aching heads. Within the short space ot | eighteen nicht have made us-fee! I!ke human ‘thermometers, almost is many actors, authors and authorcena have hurried from the wings to tell ‘They have come'singly knd in pairs, they have walked, ned to the footlights-—Fhe matter has got beyond the as become & common nufsance. blic has borne {ts trials with herole endurance, suse of house employees, the reckless enthusiasm he wild erles of “Author!” “Speech!” have left us bling In our boots. We were {n for ft! All these have silent, politely tolerant men and women who came to see us how’they fel pranced ahd gallop {sa point where The plays and not to listen to orations or outpourings from the author-actor heart. Why. oh why, must these things be? ~~ be made that the public {is re-| sponsible, t s what {t wants, and that {t ts Interested in seeing the/ author or actor {n the raw. And he {s usually pretty raw! Every level- headed manager and every self-respecting author and actor ought to dis- courage this silly side-show. As for the author, he has not even the ac- tor's excuse for mt rare Indeed are the occasions when hej has any excuse for app Of course, 4x obvious teply Ww hifying,* aring ; | oe and “hopett This kind &e., &e. Of jyoung Miss Turnbull, They were holding har you like it, and we hop One Explanation of Why always say, “We hope the Author Faces the Music. course they do. Son "e kno told. So Ihave heard the ingenious explanation offered that many a considerate; What's the use? author who comes before the footlights does so merely because he wishes = to prevent his vociferous frieuds trom causing a riot. He does not want to The Domestic Touch and come—oh, no!—but his friends want him, and {f he coyly remains in hiding the Slap on the Back. | {t may seem that he ia merely coquetting with applause; or, in case of/ str Edmund Dav cocled his ear at the app! aoeeatt obdurate refusal to appear, the result would be such unrestrained frenzy to| q1aw & Erlanger for their splendid staging of * Ss see him that eal the pollee 9) quell ae disturbance, If this were the | remarked, “This sounds awful good to me!” He went on with a reference case, I fot one should be glad to see the heads of a few of his friends|tq “my wite,” whose feelings he wished to spare, he said, AANER A broken by the club of a senalble policeman I iecttat niaselt) eiteleave pou a doueslig: touchiand@« slap onttas backs As a matter of fact, authors have nothing whatever to gain and agreat/ 4, Francis Wilson. on the opening night of “When Knights Were deal to lose by appearing before the curtain in the ghastly lght that makes! yo14.” talked in his sleep. That {s, he remained “in the character” and their faces look as vacant as an abandoned flat. The man who writes a| consequently in a dream. He would have to go back and fall out of bed good play {8 not necessarily a good orator nor an {mpressive specimen of | he told us. in order to wake from his dream. Good night! : | physical manhood, while with women {t is sad, but true, that playwriting Then there 1s the speech explanatory made “ty consclent{ous authors doesn’t seem to conduce to beauty. Why, then, should an unattractive per-|who fear you won't understand. Mr. George Broadhurst fell a victim to sonality be obtruded? And_above all, why spoil the effect of a good play |this-mania when he trotted out “The Lady from Lane's.” He told how {t by a bad speech? happened, while Mr. Gustave Kerker stood by as the “musica! Interruption. | sats a The curtain speeches that have been made in the past few weeks run| Mr, Angustus Thomas also “explained” his new play,’ Now and then we hear of an author sitting in the darkest corner of the (he gamut from the courteous acknowledgment of applause to the emotional | Wallack’s this week, and tried to “explain” Mr. Frohman Mr ‘Thomas 1s/ Faxrnvt3 J oe feat is chaked mith Hong a.:daha Drew, perhapa, dM best of/an able orator, Mr. Richard Y. Golden, at the ope The Other | NO MITCH COCK. gallery and trying to keep his heart from raising the roof. But we usually all when he was called out on the opening night of “My Wife.” Mr. Drew| House.” declared that an actor should never make a sp “ f i {lt ive the big bo 4 3 ¢ i . ctor § speech—and then} cock's speech: is ble for th tha see him in “full evening dress” ready and willing to receive the big bou- doesn't like speeches, one can see, and we should !ike him all the better for| proceeded to make one at great ienevi Seunl Veesw erase palaps todd rca mea Dark of the snow. Ané/quet full in the chest Oné author set a very |gooa example this week by sailing off tn his boat and waiting for his friends to bring him the news. By doing this he spared himeelf the agony of a first-night and spared an audience the agony The Young Author Rushes of « “spocch.” It mizht not be a bad idea for managers to supply authors it. He never makes one If he can possibly get some one else to do it, and B 3 ; | ut {t remained for a woman, Mrs. Martha Morton-Conheim, t | , Sine | © make | all, however, for the author. He's out of sight to begin with, and there is mae he has te sneak in obedience to the silly custom we are establishing, | the prize speech of the season & to the ark to tell aboitino earthly reason why he shouldn't stay there. e gets out of it with a almple and sensible “Thank you. “The Movers,” and she was at t ten minutes {n making the return trip, | he t bac The first night of “Olassinates” brought net one but two speeches. Mr,| Here was the historical speech, slowly brought up to date with wellre| pease: Robart Bice ie oe indulged tn the homely-emotional variety. This! hearsed phrases |Out to Meet Fame Half-Way. mtcn boata, | BY) Acie po ner Dene we iecsand bho ind, apparently, 1s characterized by slipshod enunciation to indicate friend-| Mr. Raymond Hitchcock has the right iden of a curtain speech. He|. qt ts the young. or the author who finds the greatest difficulty in| 2” 827 Pampa fate icaite i ceenc ara bee ior aot | iB. new, 0} in i Let us hope the day will come when our eyes are g:addened and our hearts ly feeling and a broken voice to show that the speaker ts “broken up.”|makes a joke of {t as well as of himself. He slowly unfolds } Mr, Edeson, poor chap! had a lump in his throat. He could hardly speak—! folds then tn serious contemplation of the great moment, ai but he did! He came out plucking dramatically at his throat and ex-|much reflection, looks up and smiles a wide, silly smile. Of cou plained “There's something here chokin’ m Tt was gratitude, of course,!something, but tt's never anything that could be used ay : HORE more. And then came the authors—young Mr, De Mille and not eee the peaeen bie where {t be long The Soldier of Fortune’s Life Battle in Mid-Ai, ait a Woman's Love to the Rescue — shat the other two stepped. quickly over the after thwart,| roused the sleeping captain and guards) He understeed all this im an Fed f0 Ket tho | taxink her oar with her, and « mement) of the tower from thelr drugged sleep | and without heattation he cast never she abricke x don perate: plow. with But! Zeno’s own situation was quite | everything above, and dropped the rope could not see him any more, and as bad. It was out of the question te} and the fishing line out ef the window, knew that if she had stru shout to Gorilas, on the mere chance| He knew Gorlias well enough to ba sane iaUat Daye Think inetas ti, But his belng still allve and on the pier, | gure that he weuld come back betore the oar sull uplifted in both her hands.| No communication wes possible, and/| daylight and land {f there were ne a treme of r the last-time,"' Zeno sald, look- | he is coming down, hand wu! jing toward Johannes, "will you come | The woman slipped down the Ini The skit bu t pler, and remove 3 n thi mped against the other the rope was out below, on the 5 i with me? There is still time.” | surface, almost fell, recovered her foot- kK sea Battle | boat alongside, and the woman pean) “15 He Safe?” ‘There waa no time to be lost, efther.| the attempt. ® The Emperor looked prematurely old hold and neatly fell again as she sprang 2: to despair 0} Ung negrer a the tand ted call ef! He did not know the number of his as-| “We ara lost” moaned the tig wemmes. |) : lin the fein Ment, aed ies BOTY re date the boat and threw herself at fulj came down {rour hove, | eallants, and though he gave his «gual “My hour hae come,” said tha Em | bont as he rested with one hand on the | length upon the bottom boards. only mean that Zeng liad! a hanes jemn terror, the upped windaw te sEfey:| more ctance at being heant: he would | Tueroupon te Degen te Oey jheavy table. “His” votce wax weak, too, (ras hart way down, and before she cov- boat rocked violently two or j e . | i ¢ boat rocked viol wo oF | DING CHAPTERS. jas if he were very tired after some | ered herself with the cany she glanced d to and the Woman was threwn’ not have trusted the answer to it If it! prayers, and pald ne mere atteation Coteta avin | th \ei'th | great effort. up and distinctly saw his dark figure ae- the“cne who| down, sitting, In the stern sheets; she| baa game Any one could imitate such| the others. Zene took the women S lips, then ‘remaining in captivity. He is usually ready to meet fame more than halt | cups eae d Mnally, atter| way and Jerk'it to his swelling breast, {t posalble, Very often he comes as, cheer! D7 An announcement reading) something like ‘his: che says/a surprise. His name hasn't been shouted until the house ts hoarwe, the| NEW HOPE "Tene ng See him. He jaudience isn't weeping to see him, but suddenly, when no one fe expecting MACY. STAR ty AN : i 4. fr, ite ‘him, out he pops to stare you in the face In Three Acts and ‘4 (TAIM ®PEDCH. —on the dudienc —-——_— we Acethusa we A Princess in Slavery. ly to the woman at his elbow, as it by the twine.” as he was sure of what was happei He spoke to tae big woman, who was] “He ls coming down axa the wife of the keeper, himaelf a| “Alone? The an tain of veterans. She nodded | swered hig words in the s: ay of answer, | “Alone~yes! He Jp on t it down by the line, he sald. “and oon |becan climbing {t. The and the line aft PEAT r two fell, | must be Gortias, an he line rove | Were drowsed; and boat to the pler again; down the fncline scarcely Gorlias and water, With a hea working feet above the than one opp) By F. Marion Crawford moment the rej € then, while the and higher Copyright, 1900, av shine ®YNOPSIS OF Pp The scene js inia ov, reek’ priv sr F her infancy. athycerarey aa lave in order | ~~ ecending thr th thi from Wie Des, | 7 it lay sprawling on the) S&¥ that a man was getting in over save troin beauty the wite and children | 44 ” through the gloom ees I nd te lay sprawl) phat al gman was esting in oy'|e sound after hearing it once. If he| the wrist. For the Last Time, No! She had scarcely stretched herself out) yf! 8¢ Al nd both were now adritt ses rersiteorerticcepetiey eit Maone. ee pi eNconataartncnle nobieman who brow | ai Ber, tat: or, thusae tet fold ty | "For the last time, no," he answered. | When she waa startled by « loud cry, ul (an slave di to Carle | on y. s o. 8 pile veri Site: Yonane | “Tam eorry, I thank you with all my | close at hand. Itrestatibly” attract | “Phylake! | Aho—he—o! Watch, ho rian “calle oer Zeno did not walt for more, and hi» | Watch, ho! Api head disappeared below the window al- Gmobene, begs kr in | with “Zand io reatiet the latter in a dea most before the prisoner had spoken The Alarm. " the last words. Wive minutes had not| A boat had shot out of the darkness | its elapsed since he bad reacheg the cham-|to the edge of the pier. In an instant | “gti ye three men had sprung/ashore, and were Helow, Gorllas had been aurprised |Clambering up the sloping masonry to- ove te Arethiian and | when he’ felt the eecond rope slack in tak rors au omen Reon hun from. tay his hand, and when the basket and Solas enka ce L EGU Jone Corliss ana’ the ie eeby Most und pa when | the. lk oe yes plerced the Kloom to se: ‘ gover of nig! haa “bower Ya eaiott 48! | block, which had been half-way up the | Wet eyes pierced the gloom to ree wha Rennes te held captive. Arethusa, unseen, | w; was happening, ates “whale Laat, Zeno, by a TOPs Seal pena tes conie Cowarsene ane | Goritas threw _himeeit jer. 4 astrologer coud only suppose that! acainst the three men we jeposed sto ‘eecas. featthe Test tis | there waa an alarm within the tower, arma hoplne olan sen siream, The woman | If and tried to see, ed fast, and above aim| still farther. from R dain eiheroneosri shoved tainting with exhaustion, miles were on the pier instead ef Gor-| 2 nated shay: | nearer to the pier Me Guan nent Ce anxiety, * abe manana, to ek, 5 Maa, they would have wit enough te| ewalle sou wil eit bias hak poved quickly upward | cor upon his feat and alipped down to knot the rope where % had been out,| the tower, a: ou Ha | the water's edge again. the Window wrarsine but {rwae a nee and to send it up egain for him to|? 2 la band seca! j pag | come down by. and he would drop inte | }°"S gcisen-1 have nothing po f ; ca eae FR Woman's Peril. asiseg "pave: ething jo Suid hamtly breathe. Gortias a Te the okitt wea moy~| thetr very midat £2 tHe KTOUNG. | -.r101g out the end of the oar to me,” ho boats began! 19 said, “and I will pull the boat In.’ was ry Gorlias that ne ands tie woman’ aid. not obey CHAPTER XII. CEN iT % lithe tn clon: it v Cc the con, Ee inaructans Nofestu Taney. Seti] ¢afy Hour Has Come,” a That was well done. Leghebsten said| let down the remaining length of th “We are net yor ext the voice 9f Gorliagy muicly ni ing ine, and if his ene- | 's awaise,” he oer,“ rehed hig outline now. Zoe. sank back in” the ptern, at Wore er tie abi aa, Soe Gat | “ame captain's wife stared ise ror. micus, Ste, sound. Zeno On the wl ‘fag, Sonapiracy, and iy persundte ndronieus Aeeka ‘to injure Venice) succes, rawing him into uid Jump adoard. od. FINO found the two occupants of to anawer ome unseen . é a eae re helping her Te could not Z the room terror-struck, and stand. filled, almoat hel ing on one side of the window, | from which they had not dared to look after the cny of alarm had been gtven £7, ho le giao @' prisoner, m4 ments ‘death in Site Since’ mey P°land that Zeno was getting away 88] into me water from a pince where | ibatat fast as he could. The lsat written | had go little foothold. he eons - f 7 y * 4 T, inigey and ig) aprask, from below, Indeod they were in. ABOUT YOUR AFFINITY. CHAPTER XI. montane: Nerrered: boathaay Sin ie fared her breath. One of forward. struck Ne water wt dangerous pasa, unless all three of the © you bellewe in affinities? I don't. Of cour ming, nto say that the /active ax a monkey ced past ting his head under and w had attempted to atop Zeno ‘i ‘ i an men who temp Zeno | ring to think that scmen (Continued. Emperor wes ready, and that a Ted | astrologer, caught the knotted rope veal taarles#iy (Or o! were dead, or if the frat ory had thetwide 4 your “twin soul," the Meal he for you and sooner or later you will surety mec routine of every-day life a more substant appeals to me. Many a girl has wasted the be yeary of her life in seeking an atnable affinity when close at home Mevoted young man who would have made a satisfactory and sucosasful lite par Men, too, are given to 9 hetr axtistio helpmeets and, possibly, tor that the search ging chase of ¢ nreal. Bentime are bened n indulged in <wiwely, but when the minating tt Is then the trouble begins, Is ic to ae nary walls of life than lo pus years in wire in the 4 A Midnight Meeting, |" _would be shown when the can tain was asleep, under the influence of Sg aveae reg mes| ecu ten memnne «| Just Like a Woman!” : by Irene Cuuningham, he eat astride the window mmul-|oger thet Johannes would change his ‘Mom ready to begin the descent. mind at the very last moment, “Oaat off the rope when I whistle.” ‘Take care!" Gorllas whispered quick- HINTS FOR THE HOME €ulble Flower Pots. tanto wef Cotet in making It light and| AMEE @ email piate, cover with salt: Olt Qom hat an inch of te edge| Fried Fammtoes. Neallsin ORGIVE WER LUKE THE THX i temyl SHARTING, 12] 9 UL Nw ; to within one inch of the middle | (7 LICE tomatoes, salt and morn Sees a pepper; mar TAL Devi Trae is} Et a) eight or ten round, red rad- roll in flour and fry In hot bacon, bur? meetin | prepared thus: Cut long roots Put sugar on them when frying Mave TP Oe caine - Be pa ‘ ool Lover. of, eaves @ few of the tiny middle | and Jet er: lea 'Y until brown, Bot on plate of salt and'serve, "| TO Cook Beet Tops, Hops Make Bread Light. | J] Som may 12 se beat aves ang iT the potatoes entirely when 2 U NE @iaiing dread and dloscive the| Ao the leaves of the beets until ten- (Ue Mey. y in love with a you loved me. Recently quarrel with two girl enda of ede. and alnoe then has y-atraniely when he segs mo. & he loves met c Invitation to Call. Dear Betty | AM eighteen and know tie young man doesn't to cere ou particularly, Maybe yeu wary ne way connected with the quarrel he is angry with You : twenty-two. I have heard-tiet-ne deal of me, Te it my to call on me, and, {¢ bonus ithe beat way to aak bitsy’ oF ASS SENS ots cag Oe . i which a handful of hops has Zoom iret Dolled. The hove stra to. the, on them and eerve, The diferenee can-