The evening world. Newspaper, January 2, 1908, Page 27

| - ++ e- be sand The Evening World Dai ly “The Comet’’ Made From the Ashes of Ibsen. predicting the awful things that would happen in 1908, the calamity = missed a fine opportunity by overlooking “The Comet,” now mMatble at the Bijou Theatre. When Madame Nazimova dragged ‘her smoke-gray length into view yester- ay afternoon she seemed fess like a comet than a tired bat with a broken wing, * BT Comet had a long tall—yards and yarde of !t!—but there was nothing daz-) Sting nor fiery about her. Although the first-time author, Mr, Owen Johnson, | took pains to describe a comet as something that lives by giving of {ts strength | and fire to the dull, cold stars, somehow neither his idea nor Macume Nazimova’s fnterpretation secmed partiowlarly iuminating. To teM the truth, “The Comet’ 1s made from the dead ashes of Ibsen, with BS ” @ few Sudermann cinders mixed in just ¢o make ft a Ittle harder to swallow— and parts of it almost choke you. It was not surprisng that the cold, ray embers refused to glow with life yesterday afternoon, “The Comet” sounded warm, but i almost froze @ happy New Year's audience, Only the spark of ves normal human soul saved the audience, More than hed at the play. Even Nazimova's personality a4 not exert {ts spell—for the almple reason that morbid exaggeration becomes re- pellent in act as in other arts. Surely, her most enthusiastic admirers must mistrust experiments of this sort Even {ft she should succeed in impos- ing this perversion of acting on a hyp- Rotized public, her success would spell muin in the end. With blood-red ips, dead-white face, and eyes as black as they could be painted, Madame Nazimova, in her emoking-gown and a collar as tall as a tn aver chimney, looked more itke a stage car! cature than the brilliant a she was supposed to be, Ble was even more artificial than the y and when she stalked across the s' with her chin in the air It would not have been ng to hear her ask: ny do they call me an Ibsen gt it no, she Was the Wronged Woman. with a vengeance. She had come back to her old home to destroy the only happy memory of her life, eo that she might be rid of t In of it. er coming caused great excltement, Dut the Joyous acclaim subsided the moment the good people caught sight of Lon They gave her plenty of room, us she dragcel herself about at great ic and looked at her pictures wit! Nazim Jer ‘that n't took tice of an: she saw atte that he was trying to put on 5 the bad doctor, who had sent her out ened eince—among other things Fernand. Yes Lona took @ breath as jong as her train That had happened ¢ ad hapy asked te sympathette boy—and the unsympa vered that whe wan suffertr hand and mnootled her to sleep, from ch Nazimoy onte insomnia Fer- WONT BABY LET PAPA COME NEAR HIM & UCHTE COUCHIE, PAPA’S SNOOKUMS ! Magazine, Thursday, January 2, = The Newlyweds wx Their Baby wit Doo OODOOOOenOU The Mighty Land-Ship Fortuna Ploughs a Deadly Path of Hostile Savages While a Hail of Arrows Answers the Gatling Volleys. V CAN'T IMAGINE WHATS THE MATTER HE WONT EVEN PLAY LOOK, THE BUTCHER GAVE o 1908. ’ enh oir : Thgtretrite etreoedrednt dredretordoed eB ehebeeemebeoebbedrebede etretedrem efretedreroetesfo-foeteetonh ribrshetneh etree etre eherereemdnh--merbbher rho hhoOoo hoe By George McManus SOA SOOCLOOTDO SOO O00 THERE'S THE DOOR BELL! IT MUST BE THE BUTCHER 1 H het PAPA'> PRECIOUS, WONT You TELL PAPA? with His TOYS! NOW WHAT 00 You THINK LS A NEW OF THAT ? EAR CALENDER ! | YEAR aa HE REALLN THINK THAT 1S WHAT ee ee: HE WANTED ? Through Throngs DODOOWDOODOS arp es 80 CODADOOSTGSTCOBOOOCOSE OD AQEOOEOOOAOOOE OO BEOTHOTOO © ro 3 . sleepy, ‘ me too. The audience noted his symptoms 3 jfor another jolting. But the wind was “You are in no state to stand all this, animals, Tt was a thin, faint of the Fortuna, and in fancied security , tube busy, with muc , This was rather | | too good to lose, and the orders were and you know ft. A nice fix you'y spiral of blue at da great boldly gazed at the monster who “Raising them fast. n Tynan, who was | t jto Ret away p all into with t ss selfish-|stir on the Fortuna, Hitles and car- invaded thelr fastnesses. They | ey're separating into tw, lendiicharecores | e ven urer It was draw 1 were served out to the |mounted on scrubby t | &8 though to intercept us," od Neh) 1 the after 1 assembled h, don't be aded hoppers of the machine |two of t ithe “Ca ; stalespimiriifaniio ow assemble h. P DP f theen carried | n't say how many=b jos he u ne 8 ext when | St. Aubyn, “1 to be any | with ammunition, Each lever, they showed no { | ut there must with Ry en a pped his cap|troubly to 1 1 feel or re 1a revolver with Instrue- Faw thot hey were pe tii eneat Lloyd Osbourne. } 1 I better alrenay Doaadia) eareplatletniten ly anistelenel iris curatasting ens | hein ee BOO aD But thera was no rest for poor Fer- | {tCopyrignt, 1907, by B. Appleton & Co. stone way on board, sir! he sala.) tis wh strapped to his waist. Extreme gilstening bodies, the them plainly." Hh CA CED r hit Lona was awake and \¢ a | Brinning, his as unce Was cijolned, and at @ coun- hair, thelr bows and arrows, Even from the bridge a dim, 4 Ov 7 he c: y thy. bh wa , dar] 5 BetOnEST Reale SENOPsI8g OF PRECEDING cRArTERs.|, “Stowaway!” roared the capt | wha f war, weld subsequently in the !sulien mien—all were disqi wos becoming visible tm front mee ather sagt the son—that Lewse Kirkpatrick lea RUDE UCCR TOUR ORT Sate aa acon aan | matn cabin, a roigh scheme was drawn (Doctor declared they were a paitol|SP*cks tumultuously moving Uke @ hea etty plan—and she lured him liishereuuoen Pande He's just come out of the hold, str.""| t 1w 3 up fer dghting the ship, should the ne- |from a larger body, and urgei the ut-/0f Wild animals. Then SoA ttt fete) “Send him aft at once | csi eee unfortunately arise, Guns’ | horse, ‘ unmistakable ttle a Catelaabe® | texprise suet Gs dee catty |SMoke-Signals. jess unfortunately ar uns’ | most cincumspection. Indeed, if he had | ! * with naked riders walling the 1 time to take a nap. This | Westtros Theveawaa, acsltaCrwer end ee L right! 1 St. Aubyn, {orews were appointed, marksmen were ‘nad his way, lie would have ! a od effect, for tt guleted Miss Zedtwitz ehawiolerctemy aAyanced Nee lar iia auriroha? “1 : off to the fore and madntops, ev- | 5¢ me machine guns on the nine. The Fort . wio had been making escorting !n thelr midst the gost{ "Tl | HAA clare nc Mis man on board was to know exactly naga was coming up hand fincinet nie ecaile. Woeneroneld It “was! ny i yee mas cvan ict HOARE! WAST 1G Gat Ra La eER ORS | Savages! ae as though to drive right a < iialbey ane The barty 0 to 9, remote spot vn the Banks) St, Aubyn, dirty n ed, with | Throw me tad aud Keep One go [> Ko at the call to general quarters, | His conviction was Lomo out bv thelr| ‘there were oe gegtttay, before her, Smiantutawarie annin le Buchel Miowaeas “seucliade’ © Thee| his monocle forlor ne ea tee sent, Buch. pluck | A council of war was held in the eabin, | behavior. As the ship Kot P en neni ate Bundred n gO. But PT ly MO Gd sae Cbeebies Sets BOCUD himsel Weratt ne [At Sts conchision Von Zedtwitz whis-|they tralied after her persis ai jalidioasienturtlarcesoe et eee ine capable of malling “on. la: Kirk fatis ta| with bravado, and 4 amefacedly | °0! a : ny comee ial ey Re fis (or bovaliakonberue wilet FA on her port bow wits another mob: eB Ei jean. with yWartrok'a, tovels "antetteh | Ty the laughter that out at the} “AN Tight, xo forward, I'll send the| tered e (nists (COiv ev ehakenl ore Re bsrnos se Bactly massed) andl Hiencren ee 278 IND cia bat [EP mate econa Sortie’ Ne fast | sight of him Baclon tS] F0N Wein ne eee ee He's a Coward! \deggeniy behind ler, a ponies as though ready to and wou |ivith a picked crew, tie Fortuna starts on Tie poor fellow saluted and Wh cata ts Ai Peso ek UG tease | ene A ene er flank, Cries, yells, and 1, he told her, He her inland v9) itwitz tells. the t way. reay Dit you notice Jackson's face when ani t direction to | ees Cries, yells, and the | crew he wae and enslay | The Stowaway [eee ee eri Gat x we were talking?” noon, when the wind « 48 of hoofs vied with the clatter id put her to be savages. in vy; and, while| “What's th & of this insub-| The winches were both set in action and bang of 0 H Vha f . y the enormous h They would go there, found a buried c ‘called Cassa lireliavintentt wun t labor Why, I"'- made no attempt to c | swept on with an earth veh pelt as she fart, ining § great [relieving the m i patrick, he's a coward.’ jounted and huddled toe ‘on the} 2VePh oF earthsha’ i together, 5 aanber “Rill oF egold) hare. returned St. Aubyn,| of hoisting the PeISKDAtTOk helsencomer as PCT ype rans aba dt un |The C ing eush famous Dodson Mitchell as Dr. Ravanel, tmarurs the is now ngratiating tmpudence ; lay was remarkable for thelr ground. As the broeze A sin) The Charge, mannutta Brandon nyranvaalremara Fangemer aa to th Dabitclahen iad e ing {under both sight of the savages Dr. Von Zedt- they resumed t | Kirk his hatr rising beneati reatened to bay | a 1 between some bar-| and the foresall, feared so profoundly. At dawn |v ne re ay te atte ony | cap emedlltolnavatesrentantes, vimet this!gu 7 De CORTHaiee (NH deere = s 1 eibeeeanie Teeenwat dagell sews iin tio Cavmenn (athO Ss lthe watch had been alarmed by the the prairie. Late tn the t : ptten how ovimiet tits feu y declaring that {f his father car. CHAPTER XIX. lrels and hada + nnsty Tcan} Late in afternoon there was a [tho watch had been alarmed Dy the | ee Ning had again falled and tv it was frightful to think of 1 “would shoot himself, Brought to bay, as it were, the tell you! ‘The filthy stuff ran out all/rugh to the side to watch a herd of |tramping © ses beneath the ship, |the Wind ee teed for the nix using through all that flesh ang t the law of wild animals tn a brutal, bald statement of the Lattle! Jover me and casea dropped on my| ante! Later still, the lovkont re-]and with a couple of pistol shots had |tin. her eeveral time blood disagree e, whereupon c < 5 apes Other southy Aredt hand of nine naked Indians, , °!T°!e¢ J au ase the horrified boy rushed out and shot ims . puoiece taramectathat head. ported to th athwest—a sig. jd a d of nine naked Indians, treat aus? fa rd,| The savages scattered pell-mell to ‘ ried away in a coach that soundod as thoy epaimuayealrt xt day. And so we are to besburdened with | nifican| vde they wore in ajwho had forthwith scampered out Of} 0011) gisappearcd over the jopen a Line for the Fortuna to pass. Bea cranny d ands ey eee ee nae as ike ee) Garp ca ain a sick man? exclaimed the captain, ' co of wiki men as well as of wild !range. But they halted within @, miley uur my words,” sa ° Tie ship i 2vo through a s2a of rearing : h to-morrow ther: naked, shrieking humanity— first talks alout ging out into the work to seek the Truth, lke a masculine GG ” b yt n uba Kat carebhe in avdianche of canvas and aa Sere CET LS a erate eree ee coal brent aberet of irueitove Is Another ‘‘Art Blank”? Which Will Develop Bouse San Neen a ia barnes Benen et dw and nally goes out and shoots himself ike a ini ere Oo “ a ‘showed the vast expanse as lonely as} fit of Mttle arrows. Kirk, with won- ine Hedda. Dut the ts sickly ing: for the flower of evil, shows you I : G iy 1 ol yj ; corntathoer rete G aw some sticking in the n a alithis Ba Oc Gtr ania act chee Wieton Altona ecu eon the Imagination and Give idea ot Draughtsmanship. eeeam te e mign'|mulledvenataitvonMikeoa tn ravetierine paren r ay pathy, and a Heal by Madame Nazimova she seems like a MARION HITZEL, No. Shelton) Hun ire] Sixty-ninth street, cit New Y nothing but desolate i |wiuz of others past hfs ears, The man on escaped from a madhouse CHARLES DARNTON Haveninindeny Noy BLBEL MULLIGAN, No. 408 Bust | VAT UEHLHAUS, No. 218 y sky, By 10 the ' Pel an Uae ke eR An on = isms RANG Ee S cee el Y Dear Children of The Evening | nd Thirty-ninth. street, | Richmond Hill, b. 1 ng to the south w Ck | \ think uf hins 5 a M World Art Club—The last th No. West One Hun- | bree A : eee | the Ae e savages, in dune art outs given out to you ma Ladngndcdie d and Sixteenth street, city : pe eed NALA eae pee straining to keep pace with ‘her? vo seonied a Mttle Ameult at first ; PRAY, Ne . Hatnes, who was conning the ship from ‘ wy ha PB, PRAY, No. 8 Napler place, | tier, came the at put to the imaginative mind they are Rianne naaTiiie reat the foretop, reported: “Horsemen on | arrow fs. fener, Dut more ON: | me most charming designs yet offered. | JAMES KING, No, 8@ Pond atreet, |te port bow R | fd aiming with deliberation, “Till For those who Gr ie tmaginat vertee BROkIvnt Enemies in Sight. thy ‘Fon na’ Bhd made no” repiy, creative it would be well to prac MARGARET moc : i freer gail fe Bc but now Westbrook's gun opened with upon these cuts until they become so, [eae aren H, Hasbrouck} This elec ng Intelligence caused @/ an eareplitting crash. The others fol- hey will then find moi leasure | Hetghts, J. great commotion, The men ran to quar-| lowed, belching flame. The deck shook for they wi n COP ene WILLIAM A, VOSS, No, % Harman| ters; the covers were stripped off the| With Teverberations, and @n acrid smeil ; in everything about tham, For exam- , : powder filled the alr. Fore and aft, ( seh | street, city. |guns; rifles wore served out from tho} Once NEAl SH | thera : ‘ ple: How much pleasure we find while | aa) | 1 ti every ritle was cracking furiously. It itt before the blazing hearth to ROSIE FORNOTAN, Ne. 2% Hum-|chart-house. The captain sent aft for! seemed as though nothing human la She Wants to Win Him. city, It was understood that when r/Sirne oein ‘ Brooklyn. Westbreok, Mrs. Hitchcock, Dr. Von| tong withstand) such # “fusillade, and finished college we were to be married. | She latety sent me a letter saying that we must stop corresponding, as i bust- ness demanded her time, Iam to make 8 visit to her town and expected to mee: her at an appointed place. She writes saying she will be unable to see me. | She refuses to speak to me over the ‘phone. I think she loves some one else. What ts your idea? ‘Olc} I think the girl has lost her love for you. She has treated you badly and it | is best to forget her. Pay attention to Doar Bett: AM in love with a young man who. if used to keep company with another «irl, and he says he loves hor and| he loves me, too, What can I to to! win hin? He knows I love him, be- cause I told him right out. He is out of town at intervals. Should I write to him? HPARTBROKEN. You made a great mistake in telling the man you loved him without his asking your love, Treat him cordially but do not appear too eager for his some other girl who will probably value affection. If he peos he can have you|your affections moro Nighi: for the asking he Is apt to lose mter- = aie | ext tn you. Wait for him to ask you| After a Luncheon. to write him and then do not do 60| pear Betty: A sl HAVE been Invited out to luncheon | A Leap Year Question. [» @ lady friend. Wculd like to ees know how long I shoud stay after- : ward. D. #, AM twenty and a young gentleman I friend has proposed to me. Do you} think {t Improper for us to wed in leap year, or ts {t proper for mo to It 1s customary to spend a half hour or more in conversation after the luncheon, propose? anxious, | / St. Loula, Mo. He Must Watt. ‘There 1s no reagon why you shoula| Dear Betty: | not marry in leap yoar, Few gitls|T LOVE 8 sirl very much and know that] my love ts returned, I am not able| as yet to support a wife, but hope| some day to marry this girl, But our| parents object. What would you advise | us to do? Dit | AM twenty-two and have been in| Wait until you are able to support a love for the past year and @ half wife, and probably by that time the with & gitl who lives in e@ distant parents will conseny, M serlously regard the leap year custom of woman proposing, Her Love Grew Cold, Dear Betty: | subject can gaze upon tho tmaginary pictures form- ing in Ite glowing embers! The best- tful creations sent to me by members of The Evening World Art Club show me that to the artistic mind the dullest be made bright. Here ts a list of Evening World's Art Club members who receive honorable mention for their excetlent work upon the art outs: MEARIE BARRY, One Hundred and Seventy-fourth street and Westchester avenue, Bronx. IRENE SI ro, Hastings Count ‘ MAY LE COUNT, No. 47 Elinor place, Yonkers, ALBERT SMITH, No. East Sev- enty-third street, York City ETHEL MAY HOUSMAN, No, Kalb avenue, Brooklyn. MARY M’GINN, No, 71 avenue, New Brighton, &. 1. MARGARET ROEDER, No. 42 De Lafayette 233 Winl- n street, Long Istand City QUEEN SEMPLE, New York Cty. GENEVA VAN COTT, Glenwood Landing, L. I. HARRY BUSSLER, No. 10 Wulett street, New York City. (CHARLIN L. BIRNEY, No. 236 West HIS art blank has been given out to the ay Art Club in consequence of the be Directions for making picture Fill in all the white space to sult yeur own fancy for a picture. give your subject an appropriate title, cut it two des “Children's Fdltor, P. Sixteenth street, New York City. FRANK CARTEN, No. 4619 Fifth ave- nue, Brooklyn. DUDLEY M. MOORH, Islip, L L about, the remarks grouping in your pictures, This will help you greatly to compos forget the little lessons whioh have been given you 1 pon proportion, relative location of objec ‘ att membe work When finished of the paper andi mail it to the O, Box 134, New York City.” I beg all you members of this club to observe objects and scenes as you £O|eharmond streat Do not h as subjects and to draw well n former letters, perspective and artist doldt street, back, saw their ‘wake es and men lying 1 receding grount no sign of the pur: The torn ranks f edtwitz and Kirk, and a hurried con-| Kink, loling ation was held on the bridge. The} {ng bloody ont question was eagerly debated as to what| vet was Toned. 3 DONGAN, No. 72 Barrow HEINNICK, — Nordton} Heights, Conn, theymoughtytondoalu awa aaeldeda toi t horde clung on DORA BECK, No, 307 East One Hun-| old on and ascertain the number of) Wolves to elther flank, and volleyed ar~ savages before going about. 1 the} rowa and b with ferocity. dred and Thirty ROBERT RUC ETHEL MATL rth street, city. LES R, No. 867 Lexingto: meanwhile Haines kept the speak! ontinued.) avenue, ef LIDA Oa LP Tlundret and Thirteenth street, city. JAMES BARRY, One Hundred and (REX PYRAMIDS DALANCED esl Seventy-fourth street, near Westches- Pp AWITH EIGHT CUDRS ON THESE OE 4 ter avenue, ° DISHONEST SCALES “Ty ELIZABETH A, HANDSCHEN, No. 18 East Forty-third street, city. | RAMONA CONVERT, No. 104 East ) | ARLINE H. MAY, No. 478 Bast Sev- | Jenth street, Brooklyn | JAMES WILKINSON, No, 515 West {One Hundred and Twenty-fitth street, | HYMAN GOLDSTE No, 411 Grand Mu ME MADE ANOTHER BALANCE LIXE THIS THEN HOW MANY PYRAMIDS LOUIS HISRCIE 667 East One WOULD BALANCE WITH ET Hundred and Forty-tifth street, city, LIZABRTH MACKAY, No, 51 North | Washington place, Astoria, L, I. } JENNIN FREHDMAN, No. 10 South New Brunswick, N. J. \ EMMA WHILED, No. 206 Bloomfield | | street, Hoboken, N. J MILDRED JANET Merris Plains, N. J, DAVENPORT,