The evening world. Newspaper, October 13, 1908, Page 15

—< } The Evening World Daily “Pierre of the Plains” Has No Point of Interest. BY CHARLES DARNTON. @aly extradition papers could be served on young American dramatists wo erose the Canadian border, the government represented by a framed picture of His Majesty and Hers Also would be doing neighborly audiences of «) If this can’t be done, why not send these poachers of rvice. ‘U. & A. a great ‘the pen across the border for good and al! and let the Canadian punishment fit the erime? Théy know, {f you don't, that Canadian royalties aren't worth one cent on the dollar. ‘We have seen “The Right of W owl of “The Wolf; we have followe: we have heard ‘The Call of the North and now we have as our latest stage visitor “Plerre of the Plains.” ‘Theatrically we are stt!] from Missourl, Edgar Selwyn. fe a vivid recollection that he doubtless shares with those of us who @ood? Not at all! But there is some excwi “Arizona for Mr. Edgar Selwyn as Pierre (of the Plains.) his earlier work as the unregenerate Tony. ment that he shone far Maybe ho Gramat! own glory. Perha with the glamou was the “accent” so dear to th the unselfish devotion Ir Gilbert hand-to-hand fight between the Ing, we can’t. Parker's novel, 8 he saw “possibilities of the gambler about him—he played his cards and lost; lawless hero and his enemy of the we have listened to the melodramatic “The Royal Mounted” to a frosty end; without sending back an answering ery; Well and Hin half-breed Tony tn are thanktul for small favors, and his Success in the Augustus Thomas play that raised the alkall dust of the stage and the gold dust af the box-office Is probably responsible for his venture into “Plerre of the Plains.’ can hear the tinkle of Tony’s guitar | and his declaration to the divinity of the kitchen, ‘I love you lke hell!” Would we could say as much for “Pierre of the Plains!” But, with all due respect to Mr. Selwyn's good act- Although the wicked seem to have ceased from troubling in the poor, old, overwritten West, they can’t kick up enough interest on the Canadian plains to make {t worth while. The same old habitant, the same old accent, the same old girl whom two men love, the same old mounted police who seem to be kept busier than the local contingent, and the same old runaway and fight all go to make up the same old story. Canada hever was an alluring region for stage purposes, and now that it has become the stamping ground of two-dollar melo- rama It is a weariness to the splrit. This weariness was felt last n: the Hudson Theatre, where the latest— and let us hope the Jast—play of Cana- dian border life was offered, with Mr Selwyn as author by virtue of Sir Gil- bert Parker and chief actor b# virtue of Let him cheerfully accept the state- in the tale. And above all, there was the mounted police to send a thrill through your evening clothen But tiere was one fatal mistake. luterest. Th conclusion. Pierre didn’t even win the girl whose brother he had saved, When the smoke of melodrama cleared she went straight to the arms of the un- Interesting sergeant of police who had arrived with orders for the arrest of her brother only to be knocked out by the laudanum furnished by the good priest to ease her father’s toothache. The road-house owner's toothache turned out to be @ very serious matter. It was so serfous, in fact, that you felt Uke laughing the plot out of counte- nance. When the patient left his rem- edy in & cup the sergeant took the cup and filled it with coffee, and then he drank {t down without noticing the laudanum at all, Canadian coffee must be very bad! At any rate, the coffee did ite work and gaye the heroine a chance to carry the papers to the post, and thus unwittingly bring about her brother's arrest. The devious ways of melodrama brought Pierre to the front as hero ex- traordinary, He went away with the girl and sent her brother on his way to liberty. Then, of course, the mounted police came along, and after they had been told by the girl that Plerre wasn’t camping with her they trailed off, leav- ing him to his fortune in the cards, But his old enemy, Jap Durkin, hung “Pierre of the Plains” play stretched far and ‘wide without arriving at any satisfactory | Elsle Ferguson as Jen Galbraith, und on suspicion, and finally took a shot at him. The duel with knives and Darkin's beadiong fall down a declivity furnished the only exciting Incident of | the play. Mr, Paul Dickey, as Durkin, took such a realistic tumble that you | @ould almost feel the bumps. Mr. Selwyn made Plerre keen, alert and picturesque, for him to make @ hero of the character, and the heroine more than settiad | matters by throwing him over at the last. simply and naturally, and Mr. Harrison Armstrong got something more than | Miss Elsie Ferguson played the giil toothache out of the part of the road-house owner, but It was impossible | i | | Even now we | ight at | | more in the capactty of actor than in that of author. | “Plerre and His People,” to ais | There was the half-breed | thers | @ actor tongue; there was the reckless loyalty, | the unappreciative herolne whose brother had to be faved from the consequences of killing an Indlan had no point of | ile LOVEY, SEE MA po IF YOU RE GOING OVER TO \ Masaz Ihe Newly weds-:- Their Baby-: * Geor JONES THIS EVENING | NXou'D BETTER UARY Wig Put BABY To BED FIRST) You KNow How HE misses ne! TOK OOOO variety of styles. : ‘How to Live on $3 a Week wt By Joseph A. Flynn | ioe 9 OQODQOODOGE OODOODES HIIOOOSOOSSOSOGOS COOTISSOOOSOOG. acto enn ore How married cou- ple ive in this city on $3 a A. That's easy } Q. What about the necessaries of} itfe? ‘A. Stand tn the| bread line every night Q. Suppose some of my friends see me? A.Well, then you are a novelist and are in search of local color Q. How about gas? A. Dispense with that luxury and burn | How about coal? Burn wood. Where ehall we get {t? From the people next door Q. How about amusements? A. Get your wife to run a euchre party | every week and charge 50 cents a ticket. Q. Where shall we get the prizes? | A. In the five and ten cent store, No! will know the difference, | Q. But euchre no charms for me A. We are coming to that. Have a poker game every Saturday night and keep a kitty for the gus. If you play | long enough the kitty will get every- | thing, | Q. But how can we have a kitty zor| the gas when we burn oil? | A. Your gas meter ts supposed to be} out of order. Q. Our fat pere is situated twelve miles} can a! from my place of business two parts which will ref How about | Put This Chick Back in His Shell. | Can you put this spry Cut him out, minus the 1 To-morrow's Evening Wor: Tuesday, by ine, The Winter Suit = pit = of the Business Girl } \ any UTaLe TORORORRe yore Oe apancasaaearets now girls by the hundreds tm Empire WO RAST By Margaret H. Ayer. dresses, which, to do them justice, are fEP | T ts a plain but usually short in the skirt, but they are War ! I melanc h oly | alrendy getting longer. They are ove fact that fash-| trimmed and the short sleeves are fona each year are | 4 bec ed In with cheap lace, more) ‘This ts all wrong. Such dresses maka re impos-/a bad impression “before ever their sible for the work-| wearer has a chance to show what sie Ing girl And {f/ can do in the way of good work. They another Empire are unsuitable and consequently itot xown dal wave pretty sweens the cou ‘The proper clothes for a business girt ry.she will simply are not by any means tl siest ones Ave to resort tO to get, but she should bend her eneriios 1 and toward acquiring @ well-made, piain settle the thing In ¢ sult, If she has to sacrifice botly her own business | her picture hat and her Empire gowr In selecting her winter sult this fall will be a great temptation for the gitl who loves pretty things at Uke way, Certain tt with long, flowing Ines, and skirt tn that a one-piece dress that | and trail on the ground, petticontles: 3 her sister to indulge in one of meagre in shape, ts not the thing for & (the ultra fashtons, but let her pauso girl who must push her way through ang what a figure she will subway crowds and sit all day at a) out she goes trailing down town typewriting machine, no matter how | q i tonramenialee" Dore by Were much {t may become her slender. shape non of Haddon Hall or “The Lady of 1 ly figure. Nothing could bo more un-, Quaitty." on, Mm NOT sultable or more inconventent than) “No, no, Let your office clothes GOING, DEAR ! such a dress in an oMce. Therefore If ge y consideration, hard as !t short skirts go out of fashion and nd if anything trailing and coats become absurd short-walsted af. ITS GETTING be wor it on in the put fairs, elaborately trimmed with brafd evening when the tawdriness will be COUT CONEN and buttons, the business girl must go niaden in the shadows and the trallieg on just the same, wearing ! tty skirt will not seem incongruous. Uttle sult without regard to modes or peer es fashions: 2 | say she must and should, tut will Don’t Complain! | ahe? 46 ON'T complain,” said Unel® | che trend of the times for tawdry tm D Eben, “ig you find dat some= {tations of the latest fashions et- body has an axe to’ grind ting almoat as bad in New York as it is | You's luck © days if, when you gits tn Paris, and alas! the good old days of through tur de grindstone, he doesn’ neat shirt waist dresses are on the jan’ you de axe an’ speck you to do his wane, One sees In the bustness world choppin’ for 'im."—Washington Star. EMI-PRINCESS S sree are among the | aretttest of the sea- fon for young girl and are shown in a and panel, which ts Q. Won't that exercise wear out) Q. How? arranged over’ the shoes? A. Take back your old ones sm@ con-| Dinin gress. In the . Of co t get another pair. [vince the proprietor th D UA ourse, but get an p mre ne ae pes r that the uppers) inustration cash - In a wee mere 1s trimmed Suppose he refuses to be oon-| with un effective visesit banding, but all the A. Write a letter to the Bust-Bm-| materials that are @ | Quick Shoe Company. telling them that | seq for girlie’ you and your wife have worn thelr | Grosses are contest shoes every day for four years and | for ints one, and ity 1 : ere ines “pinlias: wend as Dey trimming; ts always 2. But we haven't a matter of taste. A. Oh, that's all right. Your name/ tng panel, which es, appear in all the papers and you tends from the skirt be ted w shoes for th Bee eunhlee IEDErreelalioes fOratel iS. -ac hemploaeite Q. Where shall we obtain furniture? Aa pala iecd A. Give your wife a surprise party i p | Astle princess lnes, every six months and have all the] gna con be aniened guests bring do! 0 buy hi pres- staat gue ing a dollar to buy her a pres- J with banding or | with embroidery, ¢ 1o about m t? | 1 2. How at mea wi a scalloped A. Become a vegetarian, | edge, or in almost Q. Where shall we get the vegetables? | fis way that tency A. Grow them In your backyard. Ieee eee Q. We haven't got a backyard | as if ne . A. Try the roof. @ quantity of Q. That belongs to the janitor. matertal required A. You sti. have the window ails. i fon the medium plee Q. We are expressly forbidden to put| “2 years) 1s 8 7-8 anything them. yards 27, 63-4 yards Sas tliaaivetcucae or 65-8 yards 4 : bral Ore: auras ry ei Att Girl's Semi-Princess Dress.—Pat- Q The same rule appiles there. ROAR Ue e AR) Ra eat eee : | 12 8-4 yards of band- tern No, 610% iy rim as filustrated, Q. No, wife would never stand |!"6 to tr RAL RINN GEOR mien etme ie Pattern No, 6101 is cut tn sizes for girls of elght, ten, twelve and fourteem up all the room there. yepre of age. A. Use the bathtub. Q tonutuakcanal Mates aed Call or send by mail to THE EVENING WORLD MAY MAN- Uttle chick back in his shell? the end of the month when the land- TON FABHION BUREAU, No. 18 Gast Twenty-third street, New s, then see {f you can divide the figure into Jord puts in an appearance for the onan York end 10 cents in coin or stamps for each pattern erdered. nto/thelstapa of/an exe, rent, and there Jan’t a cent in the IMPORTANT—Write your name and addres plaisly, snd al 1d will show you how to do {t j eiAot ad, Home Ata re WCopyright, 1907, by Robert W. Chambers.) 8 OF PREVIOUS INSTALMENTS. Enilty Bein eaten of an, old 3 Secs York wit a ‘Alize, Ivory “Fo ake ie ae EL ate fara crear ple Ratha mae oes a rg infor tne sake of Gerald’a elater, ‘Bifees™ te the, wand ‘i, iwyns that Eileen fe falling in ley seumigie bin "one, evebiaa | Mahe ot Selwyn 4 footie and Fc at act tessa ett boat n f See Waliten’ partner," Negara, jonable, ea ate Seley ims te deal, gee ce, ae : aha tinsel sy (pean ca Alixe is developing the ct i Me that runs in her family He feeis that he is becoming more and more in- terested in Pileen, CHAPTER VII. (Continued) . Errands and Letters. Berens deeply, he drew in the once into * saclay fragrance of her memory, and the bitterness of things was dulled with every quiet respiration He smiled again, too; how utterly had ‘ie aster mistaken their frank com- Panionship! How stupidly superfluous ‘was it {o pretend to detect, in their comradeship, the commonplaces of wentiment—as though such a girl as Bileen Erroll were of the common, self- conscious mold—as ¢hough in their cor- dial understanding there was anything less simple than community of taste end the mutual attraction of inteili- @ance! ‘Dhen, the memory of what his sister ad said drove the smile from bis face @nd he straightened up impatiently, deve! Wheat unfortunate hallucination Bad obsessed Nina to divine what did A Revelation of New York Society could @ woman like his sister fall into auch obvious error; how could she mis- take such transparent innocence, such visible freedom from motive in this young girl's gure friendship for him- self? And, as for ‘him, he had never thought of Ejleen—he coulé not bring himself to think of her so materially or sen- tmentally. For, although he now un- derstood that he had never known what love might be—its coarser mask, In- fatuation, he had learned to see through, and, that is all he had ever known concerning love, the very hint of {t had astonished and repelled him, a# though the mere suggestion had been @ rudeness offered to this delicate and delicious friendship blos- soming Into his life—a Ife he had lately thought so barren and laid w No, his sister was mistaken, but her mistake must pot disturb the blossom- ing of this unstained flower. Sufficient that Eileen and he disdainfullytgnore the trite interpretation those outside might | offer them unasked; sufficient that their | Gerald, confidence in one another remain with-| next week. Nina has asised Boots, too out motive other than the happiness of | Couldn't you fix It to come along with unembarrassed people who find a pleas- ure in sharing an intelligent curiosity concerning world about them, Thinking of these matters, lying back there in bis desk chair, he suddenly ree membered that Gerald had come in, They had scarcely seen one another since that unhappy meeting in the Stuy- vesant Club, and now, remembering what he had written to Eileen, he emerged with a start from his con- tented dreaming, sobered by the pros- pect of seeking Gerald For & moment or two he hesitated; but he had said in his letter that he was BO) esleth~whet peed not exist? How @0ing to do hi and new he rose, looked P2000 8GEE-0-09 296-0 29848SEO0 00RD 4040000044 SPL LLDPLEPEAIPODED LOE HDD IEDI SIDED OLDIES ODODI699528-530090O40000O00000 9 -- THE YOUNGER SET By Robert W. Chambers, Author of ‘The Firing Line’ and “A — Ld Fighting Chance.” oi round for his pipe, found it, filled and = That something was very wrong withythat was the moment to speak: going to from me. Deal with your- | have to see to 1s yourself. Good night, always within signalling distance of Mghted it, and, throwing on his dressing | him appeared plainly enough; but Sel w, let’e fx up this matter, rald, | self and your God tn silence.” my boy,” Boots and the =a body. ror) rant gown, went out into the corridor, tying | wyn, touched to the heart and miser- |Come on!” And in silence and heavy Glamay S91 |geinitn 1ere iis end Tate Tnniie Gate |necemsary, the two exnrcy mtn the tasselled cords around his waist as | ably apprehensive, dared not question| “Good heavens! H-how can ft bo|wyn confronted the sacrifice he must <o't'fy own rocme wh bre h ONY Waswed to each other aproamrete nee he walked, him, unasked, | t-nxed""— | make to save the honor of the house of | self at his desk, grave, absent-e) ed, MANGE. stg’ithe’ endlaan (extent ee His first knock remaining unanswered, | And so they sat there for a while, Sel-| "y"1) cel! you when you tell me. It's “Fr ‘n | unsiled pipe between ‘his sete BRR ta hie. endlane ‘ext and he knocked more sharply. Then he|wyn making what conversation he| money difficulty, I suppose, isn't it?’ It meant more than temporary incon- | clean through the amber mouthy pn Was @ perfect week-end; the sly heard from within the muffled creak of | could; and at length Gerald turned and| uyeg.s |¥entence to himself; it meaut that he|that the brier bow! fell clattering tO| pale as n's egg at morn end & bed, heavy steps across the floor, The | dragged himself across the bed, drop ope PET must go into the market and sell se |{he floor, By that time it was fu ; day | even, ¢ Conayel tlnerineee te door opened with @ Jerk; Gerald stood | ping his head buck on the disordered | sp narny. urition which were partly bie capital, |siept' inte Into the afternoon’ Gut that | noOn-day sun; and all the womens there, eyes swollen, hair in disorder, bis | pillows Iain rates Case of honor? Where 44 from which came the modest income | evening, | whe Selwyn and Island—seemed eirteant (a nf collar crushed, and the white evening | lds cis 1 OlUithatwoulaavatl that enab! to Hye as he did, jeame In to persuade him to go green boat stemming el Fe fee He ‘unknetied and dangling over his) i ‘n-| “It's worse than that. The-the note ere Wa other way, unless he) “They walted another day for hin, he| ple of the sea and Sound soiled shirtfront. consequential observations, and Gerald! 1314” Gooa God—I can't tell you'-—-| Went t© Austin, But he dared not do laid not appear. And that night they left "Ww ll, quivered in that "Hello!" said Selwyn, simply. “May 1/18 with closed eyes, quite motionless, '* Ait’ 208 Sn! CAN! fel’ voll | uuut—dared not think what Austin’s ac- | for Silverside without him deep, r Hence instinct with the PacAinen until, watching him, Selwyn saw his nen . "| tion in the matter might be. And he| perpetual monotone of tho sea; stiller The boy passed his hands across hip | Bane Frente ee eee tie | «Well, then, ImI drew a check—know- | ¥neW that if Gera a were ever ariven | CHAPTER VIII. for the aoventless call of some lone jeyes as though confused by the light; | 7’ ncied beside him, And presently the) |e tt had no funds. If St—if they | int? hopeless exile with Austin's knowl | Cifar moorland bird, or th latter bt | then he turned and walked back toward | turned his face to the wall, aH Spr HuPY ; edge of his disgrace rankling, the boy's | Silverside. a dragon fly in reedy aches, But the bed, still rubbing his eyes, and mi] Toward midnight Selwyn rose quiet! Rr aa rey ruin must result inevitably, URING that week-end at Bilverstde | wien the moon mse and the breeae | down on the edge. removed his unlighted pipe from bi The b ateiiciaean catia yet-how could he afford to do Boots behaved Mke @ schoo! Jad awakened, and the sedges stirred, and || Selwyn closed the door and seated | tween his teeth, knocked the ashes from), Yi poy Sammaed te unoccupied, earning nothing, be wild. With Drina’s hand in | the cut's-paws raced acrosa the moonlit |himself, apparently not noticing Gerald's | it and pocketed Then he walked to] “ines is pad," he ald. a t profession, with only the half a dosen wage, aa advance ponds, and the far surf of Wonmler dishevelment. the hed and seated himself on the edge.|, 4 "are Dats Be Alt, slowly. io dn view that hie Chacaite and hea Wy hanks: by. the Hosd inioned the bymn of the four “Thought I'd drop in for a good-night| “What's the trouble, old man?’ he aauianutinwatsaen i catia’, z © enough to be Malton, he eoured the tg ands ng @ trinity, earth and sky and pipe,” he said quietly. “By the way, | asked coolly. “rd il “TTR Fe erro, |e mn 1 he dare so strip hime | # Burt Foint to the Hither Woods: | we ecume One (thunderous sym I'm going down to Silverside| There was no answer. He placed his Mt) myself first! said Gerald, | |. Vet ¢ was no other way; it 70m Wonder Head to Sky Pond ; " aonrenempen ony Nay Inaud' oven Gerainiar tie boy's tiand\ Jag | flercaly: erate om tre ‘ #, and done at oncethe| Ever hopeful of rabbit and fox, Billy | aiivered to @ monochrome by the moon | tear then qulvered and closed on Sel] "No, you wouldn't do be Bein u're Unig in the morning before it | UH a An a sheertul 9iag tng pack and ‘Then, through the Unted n atery toe ust’ wyn's conyvuls! le meep perseotiy te ne we ng ran, n SAO OFACK OF * we lucks, low flying rove like @ “I don't know," said the boy in 8 1OW! wpnaty right,” said the elder man; | C22! Gerald; because tt ts going to be O° n the bitter resentment |MMP and the treble nate of hia whis: * wlichas thrash the duakrand ce; “I'd ike to," “that's what I'm here f stand by | Aaed The method only remaing te be), 7), # impulse was to turn |e: Dring, lately Inoculated “eal herons called from. thelr "Good business! That will be AMO! | wien you hoist signals, Cv or decided upon , pie i rege vet {virus of mature study, carried «6 eee thelr gob hat you and I need is a good stiff A cetera eee PPB le ger money!" stams oy every pledge the boy could give, at [RUE butterfly not, while Boots’s pock salad anh la ib aural late cate tramp ecross the moors, or a gallop, If | 4 08 ON mered the t take a cont DY ever) | be Com eneatien gee [ete bulged. wit various Jethal ‘bottles ni wind-* hipped leayan you like. It's great for mental cobwebs, s Ar: POET POR from you~af Ve saad—the pipe: ne the clear con. [ANG Perforates tin boxes gor the recep ipuriand wasle be and my brain is disgracefully unswept Bad as tha commented BelwyP | veastiy things I've said tf tion of caterpillars. The other children, ation of anftly By the way, somebody said that you'd | auielly Well, what of it? I'm stands It Isn't hings you say te me, * ‘ - The boy hed ‘ike the puppies of Billy's pack, ran t in whos | Joined the Siowitha Club.” ing by, I tell you # ¢ # That's right” | qoraig, th matter, © 9 * Let me Shee tite wane HOt tO FC” haphazard, tireless and eager little op * in (he purple ou |" "¥en," said the boy iatlessly, aw Gerald broke down Wy GUIY" think @ bit—and ¢ wor / 4 ‘ ) portur eternal prisoners of hope aa eine. Abd “Well, you'll get some lively trout fis ed spas a 4 quietly 1 understar tt ¢ H 7 ppe at cep ratched & " stiado wy Fowds ere now. It's oi irty rie ha afety 108 | worr And while I ne t ed . 6 but ale , 1 and thrust fever in the motor very easily It took “ * and Selwyn S@t ways and means tt “ © pit truct the ® ens, expe uy i startled Mah On, fhe Gerald nodded, sitting silent, bis hand: | silent and ‘ whole 4PM hearings from this reef; and set & 1 sding wake of some turn some head supported in both hands, bis numb from its position Gerald's course onve more, Ger That is a ! orld, o wid Nina, E he ‘ e¢ « ee eyes ‘op the door, Grusbing gresp, And at last seeing’ the reproach, a1) the criticism you are UUs check is ot dishonored; ali you ASHE AGd loin. fear guard, Loupe "Wie Continued : ea