The evening world. Newspaper, February 23, 1909, Page 15

“A Woman's Way” Is Tother Way Round “‘Divorcons.” a } ft sie BY CHARLES DARNTON. »). Vey IOULD old “Divorcons" be forgot? Not whtle Miss Grace George knows \y what Is good for her and Imitation remains the sincerest form of flattery. , Miss George won fair “notices and fog&y London in “Divorcons,” and dwith the shrewdness of her sex she probably concluded that thera could not be 4668 much of a good thing. Whereupon one Thompson Buchanan, unknown and (Hnabashed, selzed the ghostly coattails of Sardou and cleverly swung himself aieto the shining street of Theatreland known as Success. For “A Woman's Way,” patient reader, !s tother way round “Divoreons."" ; All this was as clear as Washington's Birthday at the Hackett Theatre yes- jtgrday afternoon, when Miss George, “assisted by Frank Worthing,” according to the circumspect programme, gave a new twist to an old play. Happily, it was a funny twist that gave no one pain. Tradition wasnt wrenched, {t was merely turned to good account and started In another direction. For two acts the play ran along the falrly straight road of comedy and tymbled Into the ditch of farce only for a moment or so in the last act. For this single mishap Miss George was partly to blame, but her performance as a whole was so well polsed that It was a treat to tired eyes, While "A Woman's ¥ may be contrary to what every woman knows about herself, It sets a merry example. the Hackett 1 said yesterday afternoon selves when atre the: things to Marion Stanton bring a popular into her ‘home after the husband and the widow had been mixed up in something more than an automobile ac- cident, Automobiles may be Innocent at tlmes, but widows—read the news- pa that almost bury the first act, The author, himself a newspaper re- porter, It4s sald, got out several editions {nu time to catch his first act, and news brought by Stanton’s man, faithfully played by Mr. Reginald Carrington, sat- 1 the Injured husband with the damaged reputation that the street was filled with reporters.and photographers, There were sidellghts—mostly yellow on newspapers, and one reporter, With ex- ‘traordinary enterprise for a “Clty News" man, finally got Into the house with .#m mouthful of questions. He went away after getting a “statement” from a law- yer who knew just what not to say, but he came back for his gloves—careless chap!—and found Stanton with his arm {na sling and Marion with her wits about her. The mere suggestion of a probable divorce amused her hugely. There sho was in her husband's house—wasa't that enough to settle the silly rumor? Tee-hee! What absunt creatures reporters are! ‘here was a capital situation In which the rival mothers-In-law were left to- gother, but Miss Evelyn Carrington and Miss Ruth Benson scarcely did sustice tol it, Miss George took matters {nto her own hands with the ability of an actress who has learned to be sure of herself. At times she appeared a bit too eure, and her humor seemed to have been subjected to the acid test, but she @cored an unmistakable success, She Ye@ould not have been more beautifully Ygowned If shie had been playing an en- agement in the divorce court, and she “was so pretty and altogether charming “@hat there was never the slightest doubt &s to the outcome of the struggle be- "“€ween Marion and the widow for the disabled husband. Miss Dorothy Tennant, who played gthe widow, seemed Middle Western, father than Southern, and Puss," as she ‘was called, was so ready to show her Claws at all times that she was enough ¥ to scare any man Into his domestic cor- , her. This, of course, only served to make * Grace George as Marion Stanton. M George all the more charming and robbed the risks that Marton took any possible danger. So she pherself tied her husband's tle 60 (Mat he might look his best when the widow arrived, She was most amlable jand obliging. i, Perhaps wives In “soctety” do these S@hings. Perhaps not. But {t doesn’t Matter when a play bri with “@ new {dea and sparkling {n humor, A Woman's Way,” with Miss George “fo direct it, can afford to take Hberties With conventional domesticity, The widow, bidden to a feast, soon “folind herself obliged to eat crow, She was no match for a woman who knew sher own husband. And th ally was nd occasion for Marly 1) love- Frank Worthing as Howard Stanton. * making scene with the seasoned bachelor {n'the last act in order to arouse her husband's jealousy, Mr, Robert Warwick yas so crudely obvious in everything he did that you agreed with the gentleman who said, “I can't understand that man Whitney. s George should aid in toning down the scene that further weakens the weakest act of the play. °-\ Mr. Worthing almost repeated his capital performance of the husband tn etDivorcons."” His anguished humor made It a delight to see him suffer, But he Was unnecessarily explosive at times, If he doesn't break himself of the habit of lunching on emotional bombs we may find ourselves picking up the pieces of « ry good actor one of these days, Like Marion, we prefer to have him remind Ss of “a tall, hollow vase.” The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, Febru It is more than likely that the women at | they | we By George Mc as. ww @ Manus | P . ut anhandle Pete w > WAL, YOU LOOK HONEST. NOW ¢0 CHOP DOWN A TREE AND BRING BACK SOME wood ANDILLEIX YOU qINE US SOME TING TO EAT 9 MISTER? (A PIPE, | ANY TIME 1 CAN'T CHOP wood. Now SAY Tou MIGHT OF 40T AWAY WID DAT NESTER DAY RoT DAT WASHING TON JAG DONT 0} aa WELL (CANT TELL YOU CAUGHT ME WID DE “12 The Last Chance, They Meant Business, | ORANDO PIETRI, defending at an The Jingle of the Jest. CHICAGO ‘stage manager wa: D Italian banquet his canny course | ATHER (angrily)—If my son marries that actress I shall cut him off IN fad e@ cumclnrd beni al: in wearing a cigarette advertise- | F absolutely, and you can tell him so. Wiitdera(and vereaen cated! By ment tn the race with Hayes, told an| Legal adviser—I know a better plan than that—tell the girl—Boston} | stage fright. In a romantic play, re- opposite story of an Italian grave dig-| } Transcript. vent one of the minor charac “THOUGHT you were going to quit keeping house and live In a hote' “We did intend to.” jters, a dairy maid, comes forward at tho end of the recital of a love romance and comments as follows: “Hope filles their youth and whetted their love; they plighted thelr troth!” But at one of the performances thy girl who played the dairy maid was ab- sent without notice, At the last moment ‘| the manager gave the Ines to a shep- herdess, who had never had lines ti speak before, and who was excessively nervous when her cue came, This is what the astonished audience heard: “Hope filled thelr trough and blighted thelr love; they whetted thelr tooth!" | ger. | “I must accumulate all I can while I am here,” he said, “for over there tn | Italy money ts scarce, It 1s with me in “What made you change your mind?" | fact as it was with a grave digger. | ‘The cook wouldn't leave.""—Cleveland Leader. “This grave digger, after digging a| 0 © £ | lcertain grave, put in a bill that was! “LOVE 1s blind."* ‘exorbitant, When complaint of the over- “You don't mean to say that Miss Skads has accepted you!"—Houston | charge was made to him, he sald; (Texas) Post, “Well, the deceased and I had a row five years ago over a cart I sold him, and I could never make him pay me| what he owed. So, seelng this was my last chance, I thought I'd better take it.’ "Pittsburg Dispatch, Little Things to Laugh At 17” DOCTOR (to patient)—Your case ts a very serious one, sir, and I think a consultation had better be held. Patient (too sick to care for anything)—Very well, doctor, have as many accomplices as you Ilke.—Spara Moments, . . e By J. K. Bryans ai | | Hi ) “Oh mamma, don't you wisht you was rich, an’ could afford to hire a “Lady, would youse mind givin’ er poor feller a bite?” i 189H9HIHOHIO? v DODHOGOHDODDODIODIODH DOOO000000000} that's been in my mind a good deal dur- ing the day, and sometimes pictures of things that I can't remember having een before.” “Why, I never heard of anything like G00000000000000000000000000000 7 heWitching Hour Hay B tha ins y “Well, It happens to me often,” The GAni Augustus Thomas. boy was silent for @ moment, as though searching his memory for an example; and then, as his eye caught the draped hangings of the room, he said, “Now, I —~—>—— errorsis OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. ic dack Brookfield, @ Loulgvile, Ky., aur: | designed this room for your uncle Jack, i bler. gives Dox party at the opera: Mig |Dut before I'd put @ brush in my color- eee ial ha former Swestheart, \Mrs:|box I saw this very Genoese velvet.” vbinple and, ner son, Clay (who loves Yield) | He waved his hand, indicating the walls uth, local lawyer, Hard- oi \ & See yiola and tt aiudbed. |‘And I saw tha picture frames In thelr to ‘ Nd becomes aware of @ sydtle power he can Influenca I've got places—that Corot right there, whereby the CPs ot others, He een and ia ttrangeiy In: |ieind of a superstition about that ple- omareated tn auatiet Sulavilie; “AC aupper at [ture.”” Again there crept Into his eyes ifield’a house Sonlone the opera aie that almost haunted look that had ar- Aeenning, & rich eoendthrift. comic ex. rested Viola's attention earller in Yheir 2 ins that women aie are prea and talk. kere cn oe ea ectliar, semichypnotic | “A superstition!" exclaimed the girl, & rer Bropktield formerly Jooking from His face to the picture In- fF frente Made tun my it. Ch fading him dicated, wamit alone, with Viola. Preven thelr future,| “Yes. I said to Jack, ‘Have anything ahh sise you want on the other walls, but erate right there I wish you'd put a Corot CHAPTER IV. that I've seen at a dealer's In New York’ bot? (Continued.) —and he did it.” “Unele Jack generally has his own way about pletures,"’ “I only mean,” said Clay, hastily dis- claiming any pretense of mastery—"I only mean that your uncle Jack ap- proved of my taste In the matter, But thy idea of this house really started with and grew around that canvas of Corot's.”” rThen it Isn't always me that you see “Always you when [ think about a A Proposal. HE pictures of you don't come just when I want them to come, especially In the dark." hy, how funny!" “In the dark sometimes they form pike the views from a magic lantern, e-Shey glow strong and vivid, and then ¥ fade Into the black, and then when I yale down at night that effect sometimes | pt Qpeats and repeats until I've had to » Mght the in order to go to sleep.” real house, you bet—a house for me, And “Pictures of me? you'll be there, won't you?" “Pictures of BY Sort or anything! “Will ft” Viola tempted him with the Augustus Thomas’s Great Play, “The Witching Hour,” servant to break your dishes?” | “Well, biting’s not in my line, but {f you walt a minute I'll call the dog!” LOOCOO0 00000000 00 0000000000000M000000000000000000000000000000p000 MIG OF.2 DOVIDOO ND DEOOOS oi Turned by the Playwright Into a Great Serial Story g DODDODOPIAGDOQODGODOGTHODOGOOSDHDOCHOOTODDOOONOOIG*, '00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000, feminine instinct which—howéver fre-|for his firm now,” Viola urged, in #, The boy and girl left their mothers to-|that {s, as much more as a sister de- quently {ts possessor may de half wooer | wish to ellminate what she apprehended | gether, | Pending on a brother for support could always js on guard against the record-|as the principal objection attaching to| “I supposed you had guessed {t,"/do."" Mrs, Campbell paused as she ed fact. his youth, j Helen said to Allce, who was still passed in reminiscence various inter- " Clay pleaded, “say 7 will” “That \s, dwellings,” Clay modestly | maintaining her Injured pose. The lat-| views with her brother; then resolutely “T will.” And once more the happy | amended, ter made one or two Ineffectual gasps | going back to the beginning of the trou- |at response, and, finding that her de-| ble, she continued, “You know, Jack lay wag adding to the uncertainty of the | really bullt this place for me and Vio- | things she had in mind to say, she made a,” a virtue of surrender to complete frank-| ‘I'd thought so—ye “I should advise waiting myself until Clay {s In the firm,” Helen said, consol- |Ingly addressing her speech more to the jboy than to the others; “and I did advise delay tn speaking to Viola.” "I'd ‘a’ walted, mother, only Frank | Hardmuth proposed to Viola to-night.” “To-night!"” exclaimed Mra. Campbell, for whom surprises were coming rap- |idly, sultor folded her In his arms. Perhaps for the progress of thelr un- derstanding {t as well that both the mothers, having finished thelr ex- amination of the dwelling, should have re-entered the room at that moment. Helen regatded the young couple with scarcely a flutter of astonishment; but Mrs. Campbell, doubly on the defensi both as the mother of the weaker ves ness. “Viola 1s the very core of Jack's | “LT had, but when the moment arrives, | heart. Well, we both left the house [after all, it's such a surprise that a | and went into our little apartment, and | mother can’t act naturally,” |are there now. A woman can't do much “Clay *{s really very trustworthy for| more than that and still take her lly- age,” sald Helen, Ing from a man, can she?" hh. sel and as the quasi-hostess, exclaimed, | “At the opera,” Viola answered, “There's only one thing to discuss. I) ‘'No." In commingling astonishment, warning, he opera?” her mother repeated, |haven't mentioned It because—well, be-| “And {t hurt him—hurt tim past cause I've seen so little of you since ft) any Idea." and rebuke: Jand then in panic helple: “Why, Viola!" | complained, ess to Helen “One Isn't safe any- began, my dedt Helen, and because the| “You did that because my Clay was— “Lye asked her,” Clay sald, address- | Where.” ere mete own family." | playing i Pp rae? old | «Clay, pursuing this seeming advantage, | “Feu Ji, Net eniiroly) Claysayarynody, An Ung ra mi ery Sa cont rece owe ed . ) yes, Jack's fault.” Mra, Campbell {then in justifleation of her treatment of Viola's hand. Mrs, Campbell turned accusingly to debatefl a moment the propriety of pro-|of the brother, between whom and | ceeding, and then, with an influx of reso-| self there was genuine affection, Mrs. “And you wouldn't want him, 80 you “Hel 4 oo do consent, don't you?” her guest. "Helen, you knew? | "I think your mother and 1 shoula| lution, she looked straight at Helen and | 1 explained: As Campbell. looked hack to’ tho | talk It overs” « announced, “Clay is playing.” | isn't @ better-hearted man Fae , | “Well, it’s @ thing a fellow doesn't} “Clay?” | elinttharstatarthan dank c ft xplanation, “ latelendall ; n young couple for Wasnee e Lp iq, {usually ask his mother to arrange, Here—with Jack's friend: | i had ny daughter t and in response to her gaze Clay sald: |), "Clay," Helen repeated, unwilling to |" Were two nights under “And I've asked Jack, too.” ernment “What—?" t which jou th “You mean privately?" Viola asked. realize that the blight which had fallen | {15 this Frank | “yes,” said her mother. upon hef own romance was possibly set- f the name “We're engaged If you say {t's all! one Young couple hesitated, doubting| tling upon the life of her boy, “gam- right.” emt |the policy of being unrepresented In the} bling?” “And you, Viola” conference; but as the mothers seemed| “I don't quite get used to the word'— | nes "Yes," the girl nodded. agreed upon this condition, and as the| Mrs. Campbell winced—"though we've | ence “Well, If Jack's been consulted, and |papit of filial obedience was still strong, | had a lifétime of it—gambling.” ais au you all know of it,’ said Alice, making | (ay said to his sweetheart “T shouldn't have thought Jack would 1 fu a blanket distribution of the blame. “I) “We can go to the billiard-room, 1, do that with my boy Now, that’s something Helen, that I should be a very hopeless minority.” suppose?” Jack hasn't our feminine point of | ¥° Hh t tell Biers i ie pAb Why any minority?" Clay asked. [| “Come on,’ Viola assented, moving | View- |, besides, k 18 calloused | cyine bet you and him years ago, “Only the necessary considerations" to the door. j to tt and 80 y ay know it-you may even then turning to the boy's mother—| ‘You know, mother, how I feel about| “You should have talked to Jack your. | Muys, sii Ulises MAN Ane “Clay's prospects, his youth.” Clay said. self.” J catly "Oh no (To Be Continued.) “Why, he designs most of the work! Helen nodded im reassuring sympathy. ries him? I did much more— ary 23, 1909, at | Give Gray Souls the Go-By! | Cotton to the Crimson Ones! By Lilian Bell. HAR is gray. Courage ts crimson. Fear is pallid, Courage and hope are rose-hued. Ee The man who approaches a fa- mous specialist with aWeadly fear clutching ‘at his heart that he may hear tis death warrant sounded by this doctor's diagnosis is the color of clay, Th doctor, who real- !zes the power of mind over matter, and who knows that courage and hopo have saved many a doomed lite, lays aside his knowledge that simi lar diseases have generally proved fatal and cheers his patient with what are al-| iost If not quite lies. But they are| rose-tinted Hes—lies of courage, hopeful-| ness, cheers and a belief tn life and health for every man, Even while he speaks the gray {s leav- ing the patient's face. Thoughts of his neglected business crowd his mind. His old pursuits return to grip him with the asclnation of life, His wife and family ire once more In his charge. Respon- sibillty rehabilitates hing and with these | wealthtul visions peopling his once de- | spalring mind the color returns to his cheek, the red to his heart and soul, and he erimson-souled physician has saved another Ife by imparting the color of health to a dying heart. In days of panies and hard times fear i {wu especially contagious, Many a man has falled unnecessarily, many @ man has dled causelessly from seeing the cowardice of a spinelesa nelghbor, whose soul was gray to begin with, whose emblem was the raven and whose volce was always @ oroak of coming fis. Keep away from gray-souled people, you whose soul color te weak and whose emblem {a the chameleon. Watch for the crimson-souled and bask in the ra- Glance they shed, The crimson-souled are always gener- ous enough to be willing to share their warmth and glory with souls which can boast but pastel shades at best, _— My Wants. By Cora M. W, Greenleaf, M wants are few and quickly told; Perhaps you think {t funny, But each could be fulfilled with gold, Or any kind of money, Friends, food and shelter, money buys; Amusement, fame and raiment; All that we prize beneath the skles Is ours for spot cash payment, My wants are few, my wishes mild, Enough fa all I'm pleading For, as I'm not greedy, no, nor wild, And I know how much I'm needing. Oh, several millions; aye, a score Or So (f am not greedy), ‘That all?’ Throw .* a couple more, I'd l!ke to helr the needy, By Fe H no fear. A Kadda, This famous teacher was once an offense, but I will not do tt. 1 will not complain. me, but I shall refrain from that also, you,”"—Perslan, O NOT think that your manhood Wisdom. RITICISE your deeds, and when ( Epictetus, HAT I tell you in darkness, that W KIM the body, but are not able to is able to destroy both soul and body,- C N I some one offends me {t Is his affair; tion, I have my own disposition “D .) GRIEF {s so great as the fear of © NOT corrode your heart,” say burfed past." Do that which Pascal. HE more you put your life into your fear will disappear. My “Cycle of Readings,” F who knows the highest law and fulyils it hath BU HANIPHAKH died tn the prison In Bagdad, Into which he had been thrown by the Kaliph Almangzor, because he had refused to recognize the teaching of rise above anger and forgive you the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops. Count Tolstoy. —— Translated by Herman Bernstein, —— (Copyrighted by the Press Publishing Company, the New York World, 1908.) (Copyrighted by Herman Bernstein.) 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