The evening world. Newspaper, August 19, 1908, Page 13

a f soppy The E HE NEW PL Mr. George Arliss “The Devil,” but a Gentleman Still, By Charles Darnton. \ B all the town knuws, there was ‘The Devil” to pay at two theatres last A night. To help along the good work, Manager Henry WW. Savage marked down "The Devil" to almost fire-sale prices at the Garden ‘Theatre, while @t the Belasco Theatre Manager Harrison Grey Fiske retatled drawing-room fire and brimstone at the regular Forty-second street rates. One company pad rehearsed in @ barn, the other in a hurry. And then the town, divided against itself, sat in judgment on ‘The Devil" of Ferenc Molnar, Hungarian lucky dog that he is to corner the free advertising market! Bolasco’s Thea\re seethed with interest over “The Devil,” translated and adopted by Alexander Konta and William Trowbridge. Here the sulphurous role fell to Mr. George Arliss, an actor who in the past has frequently beaten the devil at his own game. In the audience were many actors who watched Mr. Arliss with burning eyes, for the role 1s one for which almost any actor would sell his soul, It {9 what the “profession” rapturously terms ‘'a great pari.” His Satanic Travesty didn’t rush matters. He gave his victims time to warm up to his Interesting !ttle programme, Young Madame Voross, who sounded more romantic as Jolan, came to Sandor Tatray’s studio to have her portrait painted, And they talked—how they did talk!—of the love that was not dead but sleeping. It had been having a nice, comfortable six years’ snooze, but now they were winding up the alarm clock, and Jolan was going to bare her shoulders for the art test just to please her doting rich husband. She was only a millionaire's wife, poor dear! but her shoulders were all her own. The artist ture himself away, and Jolan, possessed of the robust charms of Miss Grace Elliston, began to unbutton herself down the front. It was @ slow process that suggested the need of an undress rehearsal. But finally the Dlouse was off and then—the Devil! Mr. Arliss, chuckling his admiration, popped out from behind a high-backed chair that apparently masked a “trap.” He was a Devil In afternoon dress, with a red necktie as his only trade-mark. But his face, with flaring eye- | brows and a yellow brimstone complexion, looked like the Devil. He did not carry his own red light, but borrowed enough from the fireplace to satisfy the audience that he was the real article, plus Arliss. Miss Elliston grew as red as the Devil, and grabbed a shawl. In the heat of her indignation she seemed on the point of telling the Devil to go home and behave himself. And when the artist was called in, he, too, was a trifle) warm. But the Devil cooled him off by reminding him that they had met | at Monte Carlo, Anybody but an artist | would have kicked the Devil out of the | place for his impertinence, but Dr. | Nicholas, as he cutely called himself, was there for business. With snow) outside, he proceeded to show) the half-awakened lovers that it was a) very cold day indeed when he got left. | He warmed up their early love in| short order, and they ware about to fall into each other's arms when a ring at the door was followed by the hus- band. The kiss had to be postponed. Mr. Arliss was the Devil, but a gen- tleman still. He went about his work | adroitly and without any of the old| Mephisto tricks that make "Faust" a sure-fire Saturday night bill at the opera. It was only when he waved his hand that he exercised any hocus-po- cus, This power saved him from being shot by the artist when he announced his intention of going in for Jolan him- if and helped him jn other emer- ncies. Except for this trick he might have been the villain in @ society play. The worst of the Devil wae that he ee ee, Ja pat: talked too much, especially about him- George Arliss as the Devil, self, He never tired of telling what @ devil ui & ivilow he Was, Luu mere morals also tained Uy ie yard. AN this bored the audience at times, but the house waited patiently in the hope that | the Devil would raise something besides talk. He did. He took the artist and his sweetheart, along with the mililonaire's wife, and played one against the otier, At firet Jolan was willing that Sandor should marry Vilma, but when the girl exerted a new ciarm: under the evil spell, Jolan began to get jealous. ‘Puen, to make the artist jealous, the Devil per-| @ueded Jolan to como to hins in an opera cloak with only her syoulders showing. While she was rigging herself out for tais “test” the Devil made the artist be. | Neve that under the cloak was what Miss Maxine Elliott once coyly described as ‘only me.” Before this little affair had gone very far the Devil was as much in doubt aa the artist himself, @nd neither dared to remove the cloak. This delicate task was left to the husband—and there was Jolan in her b evening gown! But she wasn't happy until she had written a letter, inspired by the Devil, | telling the artist what she thought of him. And then she was miserable, for the Devil walked off with the letter. It was a long and tiresome letter, but it ea Mr. Arliss a chance to look fiendishly wicked as he hung over Jolan's shoulder with his coat-tail curved in true Satanic sty! And when Jolan Mnally threw herself down into a flood of tears the Devil walked outside and threw his shadow on the garden wall, It was @ wWell-pleased shadow that smoked @ cigar and wore @ top-coat and high hat, and through the window came chuckles. Of course the Devil got the best of every one but the artist's model, who had already sacrificed everything to “temperament.” The only really human scene in the play was one in which the model told her simple story to the artist's sweetheart. Here Mrs, George Arliss won the sympathy and applause of the audience. Miss Emily Stevens acted the aristocratic girl nervously but well. Miss Elliston was never anything more than a tool in the Devil's hands, but Mr, Hamilton Revelle managed at times to give the role ef the artist tone distinction. Mr. Herbert Budd, as the husband, looked as though he would enjoy a good night's rest after the artist had run off with Jolan. As the Devil saw them go he murmured "Good work!" The same may be said for Mr, Arliss. He does his very best for a Devil who is Ingenious, thought not as bright and entertaining as we have always been led to believe. deep impression, But curiésity will probably enable "The Devil” to lead us into temptation, “Savage Devil” at the Garden Theatre, aoe By Albert Payson Terhune. Qt HPHISTOPHELES in frock coat and monocle; Faustus in flowing tle and painter's jacket; Marguerite traditionally blonde and Irresolute, but a wife instead of @ maid. Net result: “Faust up to date.” | Otherwise, "The Devil.” | Henry W. Savage's. Adapted by Oliver Herford. Mie ‘Vheatre last night. + sve 0Ut house attested the sweet uses of advertisement. The audience was as {riendly as a poor relation, Tne play moved on none of the squeaky joints usually incident on too-brief rehearsal, A talky but compelling first act. | talkier, less compelling second act, and a brief, rather unusual third act. Total; | Much talk (some of it sparkling), few happenings, and practically nothing to warrant the programnie’s use of the term “sensational.” 1 Mahier, artist, doesn't know whether or not he is in love with oj, friend's wife. He hopes not. Olga 1s equally hopeful and discreet. She comes to his studio to be painted. tie wants to begin the portratt with her shoulders, | So he withdraws while she chastely takes off her waist. (Shades of Salomel| One sees it everywhere.) \ Just as the waist Is off and replaced by drapery ‘Olga raises the echoes! with a shriek, Why shouldn't she, poor thing! There's a man (he's the Devil,| but she can't be expected to know thal) playing the reprehensible role of Peep. ing Tom from behind the tall baci of a chalr, He hasn't seen much, There! wasn't mach to see, But the principle was just the same, | The Devil introduces himself as Dr. Miller, and at once begins to sermonize At the Garden .on the evils of goodness and the goodness of evil. He is a Twentieth Century Mephisto, whose present mission on earth Is to bring about an elopement between Kari and Mrs. Olga. So hard does jie talk and 80 cleverly does he toll that at! the end of the last act he wins his campaign. | Some of his lines are briiliant and show the Oliver Herford hallmark. Other! fpeeches would warrant his speedy eviction from any real-life house. But he! talks cheerfully on, varies by singing "Oh Sole Mio,” drinks tea, smokes num. | nerlens cigarettes, and vanishes or enters at will through wall panels or closed| doors, in approved Hanlon Brothers fashion—a very devil of a fellow. Inci- dentally, he draws and flourishes a revolver six times In two acts, In studlo and | ballroom, and, after all, never fires it, A rather prosy devil, on the whole, and} one who plays a good many neediess and not very bright tricks. Fdwin Stevens played The Devil; and played it fairly well. There was not a! hint of the supernatural, nothing spiritual or very subtle in his impersonation, he brought to the part an accent that sounded foreign, and may be indie to Satan's own cozy home, The point cannot readily be settled. — afr Stevens's Devil, (hough too material, js largely praiseworthy; notably so in his firet“act “sermon.” Dorothy Dorr was a comely, attractive Olga, and Paul Mc- Allister a conscientious Karl. Marion Lorne's Mimi furnished one of the very best bits of work in the entire evening, The moral of “The Devil’ seems to be that an up-to-date Satan pursues wives In preference to coy damsels; and that a doubting couple may be talked Into anything. through sheer fatigue, !f only the tempter's vocal powers are equal to Mr. Stevena's. If the play {s an allegory, as one long-haired man sug- Rested. ii would hang alealy om the epposite side C vase in Oe House,” of the wall trom "The Ser 1923.000000000000000000000000 000000 00000000000000000 0000000000000 00000 The play drags fearfully at times, and fails to make als The allegedly Only Original One,| Square, scattering women and children vening World Daily Magazine, Wedne LOOIE PROMISED TO TAKE BOATING WE'VE BEEN HERE AN \ HOUR , Now! MAYBE. FIX | YOUR CANOE 19 Lovely, Loole! AFTERNOON, MR. MONK! THE ENGINE. Has STOPPED! sday, Au By R. W. Taylor HUM! LL MEET You AT THE DOCK WITH A #19000 MOTOR Boat! "LL FOOL Looe THIS, TIME | Mme THIS OH, WHAT BEAUTIFUL 1 CAN Tt! yer! ¢ Gor IT WITH $0,000. TRADING STAMPS! x ; 9.0000000000090000000000000000 OO A New York Story By Seward W. Hopkins | Author of “ Nightstick and Nozzle.” QTNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. | Bessie Winthrop, a preity New York ait! whose father was murdered (after belax ruined in Wall street), 1s kidnapped by Kendrick Maple, a tman about town. Billy Brainard, a Columbia student, who loves Beesle, undertakes to find her, Timothy Wier, @ crook, Brainard that Maple | y er, thie! tinancier, te wooed Bess! impoverished and killed her fathel row the kidnapper hes carried Bessie to the Rouse of Dr. Bilnknachter, @ strange forelm” ‘Brainerd ent doctor's hous: Fonte tie goctor and sees the bodyle nknachter has vanish We Thorne, & friend of hoa ee, eal ye tells ‘patrol Hammerton, wh fa working on the mystery, that” WillowahD) horne ie her own farher. Marcia Le Gran chum, Is caught in @ burning ten Gaffney, fireman of "rescues her. Hammerton finds on the body of Blink | nachter (whom Wager killed) a ft confession implicating the murderer In many Hving a clue to Beasle's present | Brainard and Hammerton find gucapes in an automobile, In «| e CHAPTER XXI. A Mad Race. | RAINARD looked like a man suf- fering from fever as he turned on the power. Instead of gathering the racer leaped ahead like a leviathan full of life, rly throwing Hammerten frem his B headway smoothly, = seat The big red car ran Into West Farms gathered at the Intersecting trolley tracks where many transfers are sible, The policeman on duty at the square gasped, but before he could aot the big red car had swung across the ard’s brain was on fire, Main street, or the old Boston road, toward Bronx Park, And while the 4ame policeman stood watching the dust the big car kicked up, there was & Peculiar sound and something low and long and gray rushed past him. Baffled! On past the boat-house on the Bronx, on past the Buffalo Gate of the Zoo- logical Park, and across the bridge at Bronxdale, flew the red machine and the racer still gaining. At the corner of the old Boston road and Pelham road there is a sharp turn, There is also the Bronx Park Hotel. Around this sharp turn the red car went on two wheels, and the racer tried to do the same thing, But the driver of the red car was cool. Brain- The red car did the trick successfully. Something happened to the gray racer, “What now!” shouted Hammerton, as the gray slowed to @ standstill. Brain- ard looked perplexed. He turned glassy eyes toward Hammerton. We've stopped,’ he sald {dlotically. ‘I know we've stopped," sald Ham- merton. ‘Didn't notice the red car stopping, did you?” These accidents are common enough at this corner. The sharp turn Is on a hill, and the proprietor of the hotel on the corner is always on the alert and ready with all sorts of appliances to | help out automobiles in distress, a moment he was outside. “T'll Help You Out!” In ainard and Hammerton got out, and with the help of the proprietor soon gray maohine In moving order sald the hotel man. HELLO, HAZEL, WANT To GO ASHORE (N MY CANOE ? (LL SINK THIS OH, Looe! RESCUE Me ! We've BEEN ; HERE THREE HOURS, cases \F 1 EVER GET ASHORE In FIFTY THOUSAND FEET OF WATER! A Boat! ( Yer! COST ME 3\5000 JUST THis MORNING! & CAN'T START HIS ENGINE! ie Se TUB WODDOCOOQOOOOOOOADODOOE DHODOOOQOOHOGOOEDOOOOOSOODO The v Madison v Avenue » Mystery | fast as before. Her running gear was all right, but there was something | Wrong somewhere, Brainard was too crazy to know, and Hammerton did not pretend to know anyway. | He fumed and fretted as he Imagined the red car miles and miles ahead. But when they reached the bridze where Pelbam road crosses the Bronx River and intersects Bronx Park tween the botanical and zoological por- tlons, his delight eave itself evidence in a shout as he saw the red car ahead That, too, by reason of the terrific and ‘unnatural speed, had met with a alight accident. While Brainard and the hotel keeper were repairing the gtay racer the chauffeur of the red car wag rapidly |repatring that. And now, even thourh the speed of jeach was reduced somewhat, they were |woing faster than anything else on the |road could eo, When the gray racer was on the bridge the red car was travelling terrifically toward Fordham. When the gray racer got near the Fordham railroad bridge over the Har lem branch of the New York Cent Hammerton saw the red car turn north on Kingsbridge road. | Up the hill went the eray, and when the red car was passing the Exiear Allan Poe cottage the gray was striving to gain time on the hill. It seemed almost an even race, In- deed, sometimes the red car would de- | velop a spurt of sneed that made Ham- |merton'’s heart sink. be- “Shoot him!" shouted Brainard. | No,” said Hammerton posittvely. No." I want him alive. There Js too much to be explained.” Still he had his hand on hts revolver in case of emergency. Rather than let the man in the red car escape this time he would shoot. “There was no question in Hammer- ——ThyIeoR — DOCOO0000 0000090 D @ % square and was careening along up| On went the gray again, but not a8 )ton's mind now that the man tn the red | COCOOOHODE car was Peter Wireer. would have tried so hard to escape. And Samuel Kleck. In hls statement, |had ald that Wi |beard, ' For Bessie!” On the two went along Kingsbridge road. A mounted policeman. started {after the racer. Hammerton took his }shield trom his suspender, where he usually wore it, and held it up. The jsleam of \t was recognized by the |mounted officer He knew {t was a police chase. He could not ald, so he calmly went back to duty. | The racer was working more smoothly jnow and was slowly though surely jsalning. The man in the red car knew |this, He knew that !f he continued on to- ward the north and got Into » straight stretch of country road he would surely be captured. The gray racer was not made for turning corners quickly, The man in the red car preferred the in+ |tricactes of the city | streets, with the advantage tho corners gave of gaining headway on the pursuers, Certainly, there was always the dan- ger of arrest. But he had speeded bo- fore, and It seemed as though nothing but a bullet could catch either of these flying engines of speed. At Aqueduct avenue he gave up the effort to get away to the country road and turned sharply to the left, going south. The racer here again lost some ground, but Brainard had learned a les- fon, even in his frenzy, and he turned |the corner In safety. | And as the gray car again resumed |Its speed and Hammerton saw Brain- ‘ard’s lips working convulsively he leaned over again, Again the san |words were coming from the mobile lip! | “For Bessie! For Bessie!” ' (To Be Continued.) Lant INCENSE HoloeR By Diane de Morgny. N the middle of the sixteenth century I ladies of fa used to carry about what ts equivalent to a smell ing grette nowadays, But this little ornament, which has come to be merely a trinket to-day, had a real reason In the middle ages was ve called a vinaigrette then, but a y ander, om ie literally “amber ap: ela” abd was Allied with @ concoction o1 sptcom and perfumes, Intended to drive away infections and dispel noxious odors. The first p anders were, In fac’ shaped lik e of ecented woods and nv decorated. Rut the form varied, and there were nul s different patterns, pear shapes, lanterns, incense holders and bottles. Chat fashion reneate herself Itke hie: sory, lo ae ue os ue and beck come uy ERNS ‘* The Quaint Old “Pomander” Is Again Coming Into Vogue EMIIOWN FOR BATCH Chaat Pomandere again tn all sorts and charming designs not only for ma dame’s cha ne ny b f J] monsieur's wateh chain or fob | These are no longer filled the spices of Araby with pe 1 n fordid-—but with aromat rtainiy clea alr without staggering one by their per 4 Quuns Mf Lae American monaleur will take to such an effeminate watch charm inless he ses one shaped like a flask or de but the American Jame always takes to everything new, and this winter will, no doubt find her sniffing fastidtously at the jxent perfume of @ carved sanda p ia swinging | per an exquisite filigree incense holder, tiny in size with sp as ance No other man isger now wore @ red | gust 19, _ OOO -- The Bossy Women Described by Lilian Bell 1908. OCHO IOGSS: the and thin and nerv- ous you will gener- ally find her mar- Hed to a big, good natured giant, who takes her nagging just as he takes the buza- ing of files. But when she ts strong and robust and commanding, if you look closely enough, you can sometimes see het Nite timid, frail husband with the naked eye, He 1s the man who has our sympathy, not because he may not suffer Just as much annoyance as the giant from having his whole life mapped out for him by a competent female, but because !t shows on him more, Each day his eves grow more apnre- | sensive, his movements more nervous, {hls manner more uncertain, hie face | more anxious, but his majestle wife, {who thinks she could have made this | world ‘better and in less time than !t |took her Creator, recks not of the signs Jot her reign which the neighbors see, She just goes on running her county to | suit herself. | ‘The bossy woman either children or rebellious ones, has timid and it is | His Eyes Grow Apprehensive. | upon the rebellious ones that the hones jot the nelehbors hang, For many a | bossy parent has been brought to a | state of meek submission In his or her |old age by the ohildren who have been bossed until they got sick of it all and everything in sight. and when she has made everything and everybody in her own domain adopt her dictum then she turns her attention to the neighbors. She 1s often kind hearted and well meaning—this woman who loves to bot —but she just naturally can't let yo ke the words you like unless they ara the words she likes. She can't let you we to heaven by any other than her THANKS POR THEM KINO WORDS — You Accept the Salt Pork. route. Her brand of religion {s THE brand; her medicines are the most effi- caclous: her recipes the surest, ber methods the quickest, her say the final word, If she comes and finds vou done we . {n arnica and quite comfortable she ie not happy until she has substituted strips of salt pork for the arnica. It Is quite useless to tel! har thet the arnica was doing the business, She talks so fast and so hard and her man- ner {3 so dominant that vou eive in oat of sheer fatigue and accept the sak pork. But do the mintstrations of the hoser woman end here? Oh, no! She fe / mistress not only of the material wortd ‘out she won't let up on vou until you admit that the arnica was no good and / that salt nork 1s evervthing, Then she departs with a beaming smile upon her face, Because she thinks she / has done vou a world of good. ‘Well, there are felly-spined persone tn this world who need a bossy wom in the ralationshin But I often think that the thin, dried wn little husband of the fine, bossy /) woman, even though he knows his spine 1s made of felly, would be more eom- fortable If he were sometimes allowed to wabble as nature meant him to when thereupon rose up and asserted them- | selves, | *Dhe bossy woman dearly loves to run she made him so and as he did wabble | until he met his boss, Betty Vince | | | ’ Business Acquaintances, Dear Hetty: | 8 It proper for a young lady to recelve | she has never been Introduced, but |has met through business? If she \speaks to him after such a meeting can it be called a firtation? ANXIOUS. I should say {t was decidedly bad form |young man whom she had met {n busi- |ness. | Decidedly Improper, | Dear Betty: INDLY advise me whether or not) rs hold a young lady under the arm walking? ANXIOUS. It 1s decidedly improper for a man to sold a Woman's arm walle walking |unless, perhaps, she is very old and | feeble. Where There Is a Cloud. | pear Batty: [sis {sg a young lady of whom I) think a great deal, Last Sunday I was invited to cajl on her. When I reached there she was out, and I was informed that she had gone out for a | few minutes, Towards evening she told me that we were invited to attend a party, given for her as she was going on Courtship «4 Marriage § Pod 0 d00,0000 00000 00000000000 000000000000 000000000 a card from a young man to whom} for a young lady to recelve socially a} nt’s Advice down to a gentleman's house and brought him along with us, While we were together she hardly noticed me, as all her attentions were given to him. This young lady has told me that she likes me. Do you think she cooly could—and act the way she did? Sho: r T atill call and correspond with. the )/ young lady? I love her dearly and don't want to give her up. B. If the young lady really cares for you | she has a pecullar way of showing Why don't you ask her if she really ) kes you? A Modest Girl, Dear Betty: AM a young German girl and came . two and a half years ago to Amer- ica, Soon after my arrival I was in- troduced to a gentleman who did not seem to care for me very much. But as time wore on we got to be pretty good “) friends. Now he assures me every q time we are together that he prefers my company to any girl of his acquaint- “ ance. This young man went to Europe to his parents and ie expected back a next week. I'll be very glad whea he comes back, but don't want to go to the boat to meet him. 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