The evening world. Newspaper, January 18, 1911, Page 17

ARE You <OIN TO TOWN TODAY: ARS BROWN? WANTED To BUY SOME MEAT AND GROCERIES BUT I HAVEN'T TIME TO <0 Not Made No! WHY ? of Dramatic Straw. BY CHARLES DARNTON. MOKE UP! Only by pulling away at a well-filled pipe did “The Scarecrow” Manage to keep going at the Garrick last night. ‘The occasion was not a revival of red B. Stone, the greatest scarecrow of them ali, but rather a survival of Nathaniel Hawthorne, who never saw “The ‘ Wizard of Oz." If Hawthorne were alive to-day he might stop at the Garrick fo renew acquaintance with “Feathertop,” and then saunter along to Daly's, where he would no doubt be reminded of ‘The Marble Faun.” It's a weird week! Although due credit was given by Percy MacKaye to Tawthorne for the idea the play, “The Scarecrow’ appeared as a fantastic creation whose sponsor supposed to be the devil himself. Now, the devil, of course, ts all right in But he was in the hands of @ “sta t night, and as a “star” is apt t vil of a fellow, strange may happen. The strange he Scarecrow" was th ues were curlously mixed, evidently with the ken idea of star his due. ‘This was all very well in the beg variety in Edmund Breese’s con- ception of this par the first act he became such an ob- trusive g you felt like telling him to go to his own fireside and sit down for the rest of the When the devil gave up his self-cofling tat! to become Dickon, the tutor, he changed for the worse. That fir ¥ ng the hammer of Blacksmith Bess, started things to the clang of the hammer on the anvil. There was nothing throughout the rest of the per- formance to equal the rudo energy and gro- tes ue humor of Miss Fischer, She was really big and eplendid, al- striking the right together with x 8 Alice ith a bang not wholly du the) ——- The Evening World Daily Magazine. Wednesday January 18 Copyright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), | DONT RNOW OF ANYONE GOIN IN TODAY: BITHER! OONT SAY IT! War DO You WANT 00 YoU THInk ANY ONE woULD BOIT ASA oo GEORGE ¥ ; OID! CRS |” tudes might have Insp! an artist to “nisin «te | The Shell Game (pace utten si. Mr. Breese also spirit of smith shop, appearing In the devil's nt and acain | SENATOR LEMON,WE WANT = wELL, LEAVE fr, out of a Bible You TO INTRODUCE MISS EGG, I'M Merton— THIS BILL FOR US GOING IN, NOW, TO TALK ON THAT 8) TRAITOR! LEMON! =f, FELLOW LEMONS, REPRESENTING THE INTEREST, HERE oF THE DEPARTMENT STORES, AM OPPOSED TO WOMEN DIVERTING THEIR ACTIVITIES TO POLITICS OR ANY OTHER FIELO THAN THAT OF My CLIENTS pees morning bracer | And of course the) night children were Interested in seeing the lively Prince of Dark- ness and good old Bess rig up the Scarecrow as an instrument of vengeande, It was as good as a Frankenstein thrill to behold the pumpkin-headed man of straw pull himself together with a pipe and “start out on his career as Lord Ravens- bane. His first at- tempts to make himself understood were leas in- telligible and much less funny than the squeaks and squeals to which Fred Stone use to give vent, | But then the play wasn't supposed to be womew Could NEVER 1 Guess AFTER THAT NOTE Any MEASURE SPEACH I'LL Nor BE ft een THROUGH BCCAUSE . COTNERED ANY MORE BY unny. Its aim was to ‘ be a “tragedy of the YOU COULDNT Ger ANY Surreagetre €66S To under- TWO “TO THINK ALIKE : a | stand what this mei ON ONE SUBJECT ave only to ‘yrano de Ber- werac.” If it's going to be really tragic a thing of this sort must ve a sense of EDMUND BRAESEANE humor. Unfortunately ALL ba by pow" didn't wave one, Th et figure tn t t automaton ike an and then de: ane was thia And thoug ug achine. Lord or himself, you were almost too tired to list Play stood still. | The “mirror of truth” which Rachel, the niece of the Justice, bought at the Dlacksmith shop; the visit of the Justice himself to Bess and his threat to have | her hanged for witchcraft; and her plan to make htm pay for his early delin- | quencies. b: row take the place of her dead {lleg!timate son, all paved t! g developments, but the play plodded along in on that the result was disappointing. r, however, did not aow his capital characterization of the her ARSENE LUPIN Story “The Hollow Needle”), — By Maurice Leblanc BESIDES, LEGISLATORS 0 NOTHING Now @UT INVESTIGATE ACH OTHER ~ WHAT WOULO cr BE WiTH WOMEN HOLDING OFFICES 2 (Compright, 1910, hy Maurice Leblanc.) passage, This makes you suspect the existence of a fight of steps which cuts. through the cliff from top to bottom.” lan there are several of those |, wolves! Mahts of steps along the coast. For 1} instance, to the right of Etre! Oppo- jreorma) | Site Benouville, they showed me tlie * Isidore, aided | Devil's Statroease, which every bathér wee the two vis! knows, And I say nothing of the three Meee ee euer article by }OF four tunnels used by the fishermen.” handel to the lad, who reate it! “So you will guide me and one-half ticle purports I shall enter alone, or ac- * whery the ollien kin that to be This much is certain, that the att er atupetet | must be delivered that way. If*Lupin Stern tho] {8 not in the Needle, we shall fix up a relet ine | trap in which he will be caught sooner or Inter, If he is there"——= “It he is there, he will escape from ect Joring it rw Ni | Heautrolet, a. wer myniery of the the opening’ ot | “In that case he will at once be er. stifying the police by letter, bel rested by the other nalf af men," norway; and, ty night, scos’ mea “Yes, but !f, ag I presume, you choose A moment when the ea Is at low ebb, leaving the base of the Needle uncov- > ered, the chase will be public, because [it will take piace before al the men ) and women fishing for mussels, shrim; HI8 time he had not the) ing ahellsfish who swarm on the rocks strength to return to his | round about.” ? post, and he went bdck to) “That is why T just mean to select bed the time when the wea is full." When he woke and had| “In that case he will make off tn « finished dressing the ‘hotel waiter | bo: Prirp = e a am brought hi letter, “Ah, bul I ave @ dozen fish- ohtaltved: ae Fa epg Panes St ling smacks, each of which will be carrying parcels | CHAPTER 1X. (Continued.) It contained Ganimard'’s ‘At last!” cried. Beautrelet, who,!Commanded by one of my men, and [after so hard a campaign, was really | ¢, shall collar him''—~ feeling the need of a ¢ rade-in-arma, “If he doesn't slip through your He ra whstairs with outstretched | dozen smacks, lke a fish through the hand imard took them, look } meshes.” him f A Inoment and td | u're a fine fellow, jaar | ni he sald, “Lueck has served | Uns “Why, of course! There's a torpedo® such thing as luck with |Doat at the Havre at this moment. A” ed the inspector, who | telegram from me will bring her to the! Lupin In a sole: dle at the appointed hour.” 4 tone and without mentioning his name,| “How proud Lupin will bet A to He sat down: pedo boat! Well, M. Gantmard, 1 soo Tho. waive coe hist? that you have provided for everyth!)«.# "Just as we've had him twenty times| We have only to ‘When "said Beautrelet, laughing. 'Yos, but to-~day"—— “To-day, of course, the case is difter- then I'll sink hii vil you will! Shall you have Scarecrow to fs “Lord Ravens Rachel. In let. It . He carried it carefully and artistically to the bitter end, when . athor the plpe—and left his heart to he seemed like Faust turned to Ham- | Miss Fola La Follette enabled Rachel to | ite rider all circumstances, \ ‘ row" a world of good, The) Babbling Bess ough—the development | Copyright, 1911, by The ’ress Publishing Co, (The New York World) t Mr. MacKaye s sical ide: ti of soul t an i merely ving how @ BESS, YoU MUST WeITe PTO AUNT MATILDA,SHE HAS. LOTS OF MONEY AND SHE'S [, AN OLD MAID Sick ALL THE TIME) AND IF. iBeity Vincent’s Advice to Lovers © The Girl Who bliris put to quote to y ft e mean littl rl who has written which I refer in love with a young man and for w da, but so: mes I feel y te enough attention to me. t inakes me y and I wan Me cnt to |) LETTER. IN AN e ma ENVELOPE AND RETURN iy ~ro | Just remember true love does not intent eo f its af y's ; | BESS'S “ot oy) LETTER. = ee: RETURNED! feasion. Bad Habits, Another Girl, GIRL who signs her letters "M. P."" yo girl who signs her letters ; man who Hives tn the “Tam in love with @ man who s been paying me | used to be In love with another girl, He # <b ywith rand t “all his nas 8 pine house with me h \ (tention for scene as I do, I have had ple nances ¢o observe him, and I b "These he w and is pay! er & By Harry Palmer ps a few 2 n Do you think If he loved to me t ‘ou 94 I fear the young man is not worth { certainly do think ff the young man | worrying over. It looks to me as though Med for you as he should, and {¢ you! he tad only been friends with you be- him to give up nis bad habits he cause the other girl was temporarily do 80. uninterested in him, | What li Ido” — — ent. We know his retreat, his strong- No, by dayleht, at the flood-tide, as hold, which means, when all is said,| the clock strikes 10 in the morning, that Lupin ts Lupin, He can escape,| “Captial. tat Needle cannot," Under his show of gatety, Beautrelet do you suppose that he will! concealed a real anguish of mind, He asked Ganimard, anxtously, | did not sleap until the morning, but lay do you suppose that he re-| pondering over the most impracticable Jauires to escape?” replied Beautrelet, | schemes, one after the other, 4 |"There Is nothing to prove that he ts) Ganimard had left him in order to in the Needle at present. Last night|go to Yport, six or seven miles from eleven of his men left it, He may be| Etretat, where, for prudence’s sake, he the eleven. {had told his men to meet him, and? Ganimard reflected: |where he chartered twelve nin You are right. The great thing Is} smacks, with the ostensible objec the Hollow Needle, For the rest, let | taking soundings along the coast. hope that chance Will favor us, And| At a quarter to 10, escorted bya now, let us talk, body of twelve stalwart men, he mec He resumed his serlous volce, his self-| Isidore at the foot of the road that (uportant alr, and sa | goes up the cliff, ; My dear £ elet, I have orders| At 10 o'clock exactly they reached recommend you to observe the most | the skirt of the’ wall, It was the de- absolute discretion in regard to this| cisive moment re i} At 10 o'clock exactly. au: Why, what's the matter with you, po- | Poautrelet?" Jeered Ganimard, “You'ra 1 e the fa : it's as well you can't see yourself, Ganimard," boy retorted, “Ona would think your last hour had come’ They both had to sit down and Gan!- mard swallowed a few mouthfuls of rum, “It's not funk," he sald, “but, by Jove! | this is an exciting business, ‘h time that I'm on the point of catching him t takes me like that in the pit of the mach, A dram of rum?" from whom?" estingly, ‘The 18 reasons for © of this citadel- at ey n particular. me @ Fevictualling centre, 0." bad for new explosives, for | nd if you drop behin utely Invented projectiles, fo “That will dead.” ig Of that sorth the seere? 1 see, And f Vrance, in fact." now, o danger of our But how can they hope to this? In the old day a| being "No. » ix not so high as man alone held it: the (King. ‘To: the cliff les, there's @ bend in aiready, there are @ good few of us, the ground where we are,” who know it, without counting Lupin's, Beautrelet went to the wall and . gang! pressed upon the brick, The bol “Still, 1f we gained only ten years’, | released and the underground pi five years’ silence! Those five years came in sight. othe saving of us. “ann of the danterns which t ure this citadel, | they lit t aw pat it was cut in the» have to be| shape of a yest and that both the ed. And ing ar <ne floor ttseif were en- done without noise.” covered with bricks, ple Will guess some- walked for a few seconds, ; won't know, Besides, ly a staircase appeared. we can but try.” counted forty-five brick steps, All right. What's your plant” which slow action of many footsteps “Here tt is, In two words, To be-| had wo: away in the middle, gin with, you are not Isidore Beautre-| “Blow!” said Gantmard, holding bie let, and there's no question of Arsene] head and stopping suddenly, as though | Lupin either, You are and you remain | he had knocked against something, a small boy of Mtretat, who, while| “What ts tt?” ’ | strolling about the place, caught eome| “A door.” fello oming out of an underground (To Be Continu But, in ordi this fut e arsenal, pin must be dlsi annot t th Ce ne all sien omer