The evening world. Newspaper, December 7, 1910, Page 19

he pvening Woria warty magazine, weanesaay, wecember 7, 1910. ‘he New Plays\\ Let George Do itl ne ee ee Od Copyright, 1910, by The Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). “Daddy Dufard” oN eer OW ves Merely a Monologue Aw COMP PER YOURE JUST for Chevalier w By George McManus [Tove Songs of a & & —— Bachelor Gir] By Helen Rowland Coprright, 1910, uy The Press Pubeshing Os. (The New Kerk Wend, Her Rubatyat. + AyOMP, fill your purse, and im the madding oresh 4 C Of Christmas shoppers now prepare to push, y The Bird of Time has but a little way a To flutter—and the Bird is on the rush! 4 4 bY CHARLES DARNTON. ; ¢ TAGE folk, especially the vaudeville variety, will dote on “Daddy Dufard, Behold, the list which first you jotted down * S which that fine character artist, Albert Chevalier, “acted” at the Hackett H Grows bigger every moment and anon, 4 Theatre last night until he was good enough to be just himeelf and warm For every name that you scratch off, alas, our hearts with “The Workhouse Man” and other old friends that had nothing You add at least a dozen others ont ‘ to-do with the play. Chevalier, the antist, probably wrote “Daddy Dufard" with Lechmore Worrall Into the rushing crowd, and why, not knowing, f to become Chevalier, the actor, And yet we have so many actors and #0 few Nor whence, like water willy-nilly flowing, artists! One Chevalier is worth a dozen Daddies, But we could only console our- And out of it a crumpled, rumpled rag, With dragging feet at even homeward going. Whether at Forty-second etreet or on Fifth avenue, your shopping must be done; The cash keeps oozing from your pocketbook, The dollara dropping from you, one by onet Ah, friend, could you and I, in self defense, With all this Christmas fol-de-rol qrepense, Would we not shatter it to bits, and then “Rejoice” with something more like COMMON SENSE? selves last night with the thought that the best was yet to come as we patiently Watched the actor “act.” Daddy was an old French actor—and he didn't forget it.,;Daddy had a daughter who wanted to act. Daddy also had a birthday. In fact, Daddy had pretty nearly everything that was going, including gout. In the first act a variety of music hall people came to pay their respects to Daddy, and and,in the second act they did tt all over again, Daddy couldn't lore ‘er when he moved out of Soho into Mayfair, There wasahayghty headliner who was determined that Daddy's daughter shouldn't play her part. But Daddy “rehearsed” Rosie —and she did. She aid, “Oh, Claude, what «@ mighty thing is love!" and made the hit of her sweet young life. And Daddy was very, very happy even though he had gout. The plot was a simple Mttle thins, Digger than a coupon, Dad- y occasionally ALBERT, CHEVALIER ef t took it out and DADDY DUPFARD ‘ee toyed with it, and then put it back | a. “Daddy Dufard” seemed | NEED & WATCHMAN AT NIGHT INA GRAVE YARD: MY FATHER SENT ME TO TELL You THE ANSWER 19"LET GEORGE DO IT! Le] tut GIVE youMyY ANSWER Ringing the Changes. NEVER had a hotel clerk who came my every wish to know But what he found some “lighter work” and somewhere else ee sure to go! I never had a bdelthop gay to greet me with his gladsome laughter But took my tip on Christmas Day—and went away the nest dey oftert T nev ~but when I'd learned to know “her way” And love her, blithely said, “Good-by! To-morrow is my wedding day!” I never had upon the string a man who set my heart a-whirt But what I did some foolish thing and lost him—to another gilt Alas, that all my “dear gagelles” should leave for other dette, or belles! Yet ring their knetts, or wAding bells, The world ta full of new “gaseliee!* connsaabiealall r had a matd—not I again. He did most of the ta merely a monologue for Chevalier, The programme called tt a “character comedy.” | For characters we had The Great Jolly, a comic singer, whom Harry Brett made amusing; the haughty a wlonde with a temper successfully | pf Aisplayed by M ond; a music hall manager who was bald but a gentleman still; a y amatist who Lived only to eee Daddy's daughter in his rmueny th Editor obble The Hedgeville By John L. | love-laden “sket 3 Rosi ite a ss and Daddy's delight, and numer- | - Ope ciiers who made a fuss over Daddy. : | ‘$0 Youre ’ O' ef Mammy Johnaon says the blackleg is not catchin'; dt'e hereditary, Miss Violet Heming was h pretty Roste t we did not wonder at! : A IGOING@ To —— Daddy's loving her dearly, But Mr. Chevalier’s attempts at human touches were overshadowed by his broad acter drawing. He stood out Uke a poster on a white fence. It never occurred to him to stand back. His sense of character was so. strong that it became almost overpowering, with the result that It suggested | the music hall more than the theatre, And there was so much of Daddy that he became tiresom ‘The little play was given a queer twist in the last act so that Chevallier might | behimself again. Roste, you seo, made her devut at a music hall where Chevaller | was appearing, so all that he needed as a background for his “turn” was a velvet curtain, behind which a pianist “accompanied” him in his songs and recitations, These made up the best part of the evening's entertainment. In a minute the real Chevalier made us forget two hours of Daddy. It was @ triumph of the true artist over the ambitious actor. OHIN GINTS, who Jately took out a $10,000 insurance policy, has received an aeroplane from his wife In\Now York. Oecd RANKS, who 1s threatened with a loss of hearing, has sent bie wife to the country for @ rest. EORGE HENS, who has been arrested twice-as a public nuisance, is now aelling phonographs on the instalment ptan, jE hg WILLS would have got a reward for saving Deacon Bunn from drowning, but he @id not have change for a five-doller bill. —_———_ ++-_—_. One Idea About the Census. “T HIS ts census year. Everywhere I go T hear people bragging about the Condensed Facts of Real Interest. Browth of thelr home cities,” says a writer in the American Magazine. “On many faces and in many newspapers I see the signs of pride r population. A middle Western State capital is thrilled over the fact that site 1900 the number of Its Inhabitan| s jumped from 125,000 to 181,000, or 44 per cent. It will be found before this time next year 1s over that many of our cities have grown 2, 40, or ® per cent. in tho same perlod of time. And for S’ gallantly disposed f# the Austrian wfirst unfold!” gives the Portuguese Government toward ttn fairer sub-| spelling of the name to-day. Jecta that the postal authorities — have decided to devote special parcel de-| There was a time in Engiand whee SU GO TEL YOUR x livery vans to tho transportation of the | government officials viewed the press ae thils plece of news many will be glad. OTWER 1 WORT < y 7 large hats which are the mode in Aus-|@ hostile power, to be destroyed if pos- “But I am not glad, And for the simple reason that I live tn the pooh-bah | Row; 2 WouLDAt . 1 DION int || | tia Just now. Many complaints were | sible—to be curbed at any coat. In 1088 of all our b ns—New York. By a simple process of the mind I dread to| LIVE IN “THE DO NOTH received from thetr customers by the| Roger L'Eetrange, “overseer of the see other communities marching rapidly on the way to become great centres Weeune Ko ~ BUT I leading millinery firme of Vienna that | press,” brought out his “Considerations of suffering and misery like New York. me, News of the growth of a city LIKE. cae ' > WON'T 0O bear pobre BP sec their ed nee in Kye? to the be i is 4 of 125,000 In 190 to a of 181,000 In 1910 ngs the thought that more people Iv ie an unrecog- ol ¢ Press.” le advocat fy in ‘that city are with good air and comfortable quarters than ever before. | AGAIN! poetend ay edna Lah yt Nghe abe alti pre aioe and. & amu ather hear that 50,000 ple had left such city and taken to} e ie nM 7 rf letter- ey Reaper eae ee Us “a op a such @ ya a office, with the result that special “hat | founders and the smiths and jotnere -° “It may be that these cities are the pride of civilization, But where in| collecting vans’ are to be used. that work upon the premises,” and “the lation, diseas: civbization can one fir © 4 than dn these same great cities to-day than the news of these gr population that is coming from the LBetty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers . and downright unhappiness » 18 no more solemn news ‘in the world 4 disproportionate increases in our city sus Bureau in Washington.” stitchers, binders, stationers, hawkers, © LAsbon, the capital of Portugal, some-| peddlers, ballad singers, posts, carriers, times claims to have n founded by | hackney coachmen, boatmen and mage Ulysses in the course of hig wanderings. | Iners. But, according to the London Chronicle, -_—_— there Is no doubt that Ulyssippo ts only], AN OLD SONG REGUNG, a fanciful version of Olisipo, the most Thenecee we doth blow, ancient name of what was probably at |4™ shall have anow, first « Phoenialan city. When the Ro-| “And what will the farmer do them ng absorbed and munictpalized Ojta- nat He'll sit in the barn {po It became Felicitas Julia, but in the | With hay, wheat and corn, hands of the Moslems it qlipped back | And count up the proft they'll bring to Lashbuna, Byron's line in “Childe poor thing. ai Harold," “What beauties does Lisboa —Indianapolis News, i 4 i © my dears, are a few more words about Christmas. H Do not value the friendship of people because of re the gifis'you believe they are going to give you. At year, t ny other, give your affec- to the © honest and deserve them, » question of money to spoil the holiday spirit, ne how sordid Christmas time is to the girl whose ou. She writes: By Mary Roberts Rinehart Author of “7 DAYS" laughter and the refrain of a popular some towels came out of the room, and] is willing, I suppo: song. The door opened just as I reached another one with dressings went in| I knew of no family but Edith, SYNOPSIS OF P A 7 And than the surgeon came out, in a| over the telephone she said, with # ’ y nung man who has quite a ttle mone me .| the top step, and I half-tumbled inside, al ov 5 3 given me something ome at Christmas dened ta Ya rook, oft le] Burton was there in the kitchen, with White coat with the aleeven rolled above | thing of her natural tone, to do what “J . | political elub. a ler, eery jac a nis elbows, amd said I might go in, urgeons consider Le é I also know another young man who has to support his| Kuor*s sumig lamer to solve the misters, For; tWo other men whom I did not recos 9 men laughed a little. y “She's got about an hour, T should | am. /O™ é ef ,: ba onse’ day before tas teen | nize, each one holding a stein of beer. alittle , ? r was drawn up to the in-| I hoped to get some sort of money to spend, Both | sm dye before, his, death Hlemlng. bad been | Tse, each one holding & stein et utt ‘he said Mghtly, “What sort'say,” sald one of the newspaper men, berm 1 woman's culn, where it was folded | before the injured woman was taken of @ story have you and your friend “See if Gray is around, will you, Jim?] jeatly bac Page rere A , n gf hed bern, feupd ‘alley aunt | Me as I stood trying to get my breath. | 077 F oy Burton? en i ny Reda acd lake Mt new ly back. Her face was bloodless | the operating-room, but she lay in & : mas Eve and i do not know which Invitation to accept, be- | of Sargers has aleo,raniahed: aod fa hat mom) “You win,” he said. “Although I'm a|"TRiea up Bartonh’ | | |Hel mostly here Saturday night.” | and ier fair Nair bed been gathered up | stupor, and 1 had to give up the Me emo, whereas I like the poor young man, I do not wish to offend the other Hm UTED oe Hands Mere, Mufaiey. | Hardworking journalist and need the! joa up's email nickel niarka eavolver | ? & shaggy Rnot, She was breathing | It was two days before I got her OF, my dear, choose the person you like the best regardless of waat he may | haw, to give you, At this time of the year more than at any other follow the mother and fn consequence } | mulssing ‘from “home, “On the pillow ot his these young men have asi to the theatre on Christ- | siy of paper had been found bearing the, figures Berry Vunicen'T. 1 pi il a, meal Cac aes ae doped. money, I won't lie. This {s Osborne of in @ strangely subdued volce. Lew iy, DU regularly, ané her expres, | tie and in that time I had learned jaing eine, Kaorsteis dow a dum. |the Star and McTighe of the Eagle, Mr. [from the floor, I held it out, on my “No, it ix Henry Butler's widow sim was relqxed—more restful than I| many things. Waiter ghaft. = When” be emerges, ihe t Knox. They heard the shat in there, |Palm and the others eyed it respect- returned, and the three men were hud ever seen it, As T stood at the foot} On M ruiry, woes, tor a fer fully. ft n Monday I took Mary to slgtates of your heart. | gone," larscra, gore, for 4 fow dare: and if I hadn't told the story, there 4 atten at, wan the euicmoct. | Porters sesin. at once, ttatety. | oF, bed and looked down at her I] wood, She had received ihe wows kom APES marry me, T am willing to overtook | latter's old schooliale, and vigorn 7 would have been a panic. What's Wital ae he tce ie ineee one woe and onire Linge mirage aay oe. surely os death was com-| Mrs. Butler more calmly than I Opp 5 this fault, but the young man thinks | Who had bee crusted Dy tie ne nme” A reporter | Matter with you? oie, ie thts an hatever surpr pay have felt at] ing it would be wal expected. GIRL who signs her letter “P.} he has vo gight to ma What do famed'“Hurion begins. work on the mytder-mye.| I shut the door into the grill-room and | Of the two core to the room, revealing seeing @ woman t and dying, he) | Edith had be re, but when! «1 do not think she was quite came, H. D." writes: | you think?" | tery. and a cktective emplored by the machine ’| faced the three men. and a Gwe oF neo ‘wh bs auis made no comme He sald she might]/she saw me si her self-control ” won she said with a a! i f you | goleinnly Warns Isnox tn depp the” whole, case. | "God's sake, Burton," I panted, of hooks. The other door jive six hours, but the end was certain. | She put her he my shoulder ana | 22° n “I am greatly ve with a ery much according to the Butler arrives at the Roos home, | ithall, . stuck tight. One of the mbn pointed : be bulance, and with | sani he he had had @ great deal of A handsome woman calls at} “let's get upstairs quie'ly. I didn’t fire We got a hospital ambu 5 | Sobbed out nd the horror of be young man and he loves me. We are the fault. If it is anything ott stnvkices hereell an Flemine's | gay ghot, There's « woman dead up|'2 t® floor; @ bit of black cloth had ye “ian ur ax It turned the! the th As f his imaginative | put how strange—a murder and sm Ge very anxious to marry, e parents of serious to jeopardize the ete Mat, ee. ta rnd [ome peotiy three ph Wedge tt: from the ae side, ous corner and hurried away the White Cat | temperament mad. particularly se edt murder—at that Uttle club in @ both of us are yery fond of us and future happiness of W sweet womanly dered ‘by Schwartz, "a rival In polities and! With characteristic poise, the three re- | Combined effo wot st open at last, ps out of thi story, so far as action | sitive to suffering in others. Ay he sat | "& our families are intimate. But they do| wife, I em afraid I agrée with the Ll ee amet, Beets UE | porters took the situasion quietly, We Ane fre sranged Jn ie doorway: lookin pncerne beside the bed I knew by his face Pea ee ent ort tye one te > are m i ero! y | . of 5 Three detectives and as many repor-| tha ‘as repeatini 4 repe! ° the Pup OF ‘eats What ao you wok AW Book over, We threw caution aside. T led the (OU feet was the body of the missing [0's Mere art get iis story, But, Bilen Butler ~|she had been plunged in thought fer ought to dc , A aan ; ‘ay up the stairs to (he room where I reat Heaven! Burton said he he remained In hiding. He had 0% we reall thar] Several minutes, Your parents should give you Kel] man who signs his letters| had found Fleming's body, and where!) “ott ie ie? ton sald hoarse. over an hour, from the asked for water, Don't you think,” she asked, “that 00d reasonable reason for thetr obs} rare CHAPIER XXII. 1 expected to find another. ' switched off th | eyes, and Fred | she had a ort of homteldal mania, ond jeotions. If they cannot do this, I do| at ue Continued.) On the landing at the top of the stairs the bullt-in r her white{that she tried to me with chlero- not think I would yield to their wis ould ppnow whether) + {Sant Schwarts to warn|1 came face to face with Davidson, ahe CHAPTER XXIII. ' 4 hate had carried in the night she looked up| form < were I in your place. Chr vledleas Bad Moe eee araaty vain | detective, and behind him Judge Me- her through the doorway after him, to| for an instant at m “T hardly think so," T returned aweme i t a Christmas present? J have| the revolver. As he atruck| Freely. Davidson was trying to open! A Box of Crown Derby, | cottsps on te stirs He- Tam inclined to think someqma Christmas Fresents. » two years, and sho Is an old he revolver. AS Re struck | tye "door of tie room, where, Fleming tant ti as the cab, with Fred | difficult’, actually got in over the porch Peaeet GIRL who signs | letter “A nd of the family,” 4, her h ng a de Seed ph lor had been shot, with a skeleton key, But ff B got her into the room and! and bil ved at the door, Tdid| Di wt » “T am afra she sald, pressing her aT aeeite | Would be entirely proper, under the | a os At a chair. and faii | it Was bolted tnsi ‘There was only on the couch before I knew them mut; a half dozen words, | the story, as I kne ved hands tight together. “Wherever “A young man has be 1 umstances, to give the young lady 4 bavand my range of vision [one thing to do; I climbed on the her. Her fair hair had fallen | withou conn explanation, and and there was a new kind go something happens that T cannet = bas paxiilasey £o8 1 @ book for Christmas, eee a eee it aut und T wag | #h0ulders of one of the men, a tall fel- loose over her fu they were driving madly to the home| face a ked at hei deretand. T'noves wiltulte taal % eae ae aN : ! Maat ech wath) + WM" | low, whose face to this day I don't re- long, thin hand ¢ pital me i | She was still living e, and yet—these terrible things months, c con staring ot a black, bri uM. member, and by careful manoeuvring Hue [Katie let ine in, and T gave her some rallying @ little cette Thi df I want what ' A Shich Quarrel, I turned and ran frantically towara | member An’ 6 0! Davidson's long St. she bonsnn of her gown, money to ) and wateh the place ed to take J OF ite, wie aca Pg proprite to give him as a p t 8 . the sta! Luckily, I found them easily. | arms, 1 g rough the transom and Pilen Butler! ere awa Then, net find er place by t h Bon and you—in the city. PMR Noctheate (oat & YOUNG maf who signs iy letter | ie 3 than ran down to the floor | dropped {nto the room. ; She was living, but not much more, T took a car and rode to the me coffee about eight. and at nine |®%) Yim he a A te pega maditehom you have kno a T, He" writes: | below, Then 1 made a wrong turning| I hardly know what I expected, 1 We gathered around and stood looking : ee clock T was asked {0 leave the room, |. .chsea bitterly, “Cam Fou sion MERE hobt tength of tlme a Christmas prea T am tn love with a young lady | and lost some time. My last match set} was in total darkness. I know that down at her in helpless pity. A current 4s appallingly quiet, while four s held & consultation | relerted tance where T bees book is; she C "7 1 and T know she loves me, but we have| mo right and I got into the yard some-|when I had got the door open at leet, of cold night alr came up the stairesse ' Be dat te eee, CHAE, Te ROCislOn 10 OPOTALe WES IAGO Trt ve soul CAOTiee Gar ae : : had ® SHOAL Giaree.. Meliber'ons of ys) DAW BAG Ce 1h0 ETO a cee, ond (tamer herrea tient eam tne hall trom an open door below and set the ed floor echoed aad rec There, ta’ only ¢." a gray. |T allowed you to be chloroformed ; e Fault. willing to make the first advances ¢ It, was raining hander tha ond jatreamed in, and not felt hanging Heit to swaying, throwing our A he aaa ht sages urgeon told me tn brisk, short- | 4m {neh of eternity before I found Mati 4 the thunder was incessant, Iran around | Schwartz's heavy hand at my throat, I echoed a ' A night wateh- h surgeon ks, short ° MOVE who slate her letter “at | werd & recassliation. Now ag Z the corner of the #treet, and found the|drew a long breath of relief, Burton Shadows in @ sort of ghastly dance over| man, in fo es, admitted me and 1 words. “The bullet went down, | “But you did find me,” she \ MR." wrt niserable without her, what shall Tdo?"| cate to the White Cat without trouble. |found the electric ght switch and her quiet face, feet a upstairs an strated the abdomen, Some. | me, “And Just to know that you are ov “AY man who ty thors) Make the fret advances yourself, fo0ol-| ‘Phe inner gate was unlocked, as Burton |turned it on, And then—I could hardly 1 was'too much shocked to be sur-| ‘There was another long wait while t early enough, we can re- | Ing all you can’ bw ighly desivavio in every wey, with ish young man, Mave a little less vanity] had sald he would leave {t, and from] belleve my senses. The room was prised. Burton had picked up her hat|the surgeon finished his examination, pair the damage, to a certain extent, ‘My poor best,” I supplemented. the exception of ove fault, Wishes to and pride and a little more real love, the steps of (be club 2 could hear empty, and put /t beside her, and 4 Lusee with @ bagn of Water and and nature does the rest, The family eo Be Continued.) ad . j D 4 om a: an 7p were x * ~*