The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1911, Page 17

The B-ven {ng The New Play’ “ Sire’’ Beyond the Help of Otis Skinner. wY CHARLES DARNTON. T'S discouraging to sit through four acts waiting for a play and then find | yourself out in the cold. Your enthusiasm for the theatre is chilled by the experience. You bring away @ programme, but no play. You have something TELL MI9g ELBE | WANT TO KNOW WER ANSWER = YOu kKNow 1 ASKED HER To MARRY ME! 1 Your pocket, but nothing in your mind. The theatre has played you « strange triek. There has long been a rumor to the effect that the King can do no wrong. But this doesn't tet “Sire” out. “sire was perpetrated jn France by Henri Lavedan and produced in New York last night by Charles Frohman. Its four acts passed uneventfully at the Criterion Theatre for the simple re son that they coulin’t pass any other Way. It was quite evident that Louis N. Parker had not made the “adapta- tion” in wild excitement, for there was absolutely nothing to get excited about, In the course of the evening it w: learned that the son of Louls XVI. wi still missing, and this historical fact Was duly accepted and stowed away by the audience for future use. The Dauphin was supposed to be dead—as you may have heard—but a dear old | y, the Countess Saint Salbi, wouldn't believe it. She had known him as a child, and now, after many years, she waiting for him to come back. ‘There was nothing to do about it but to humor her, for she had brooded over the matter ao long that she seemed a bit ‘“‘touched"—queer in the head, you know. ‘The doctor said as much, and Noo er, SIR ~ SHE'S UPSTAIRS! HELLO, GRORGE= WHAT ARE YOU Doing azine, Wednesday, Ve Let George Do It! of ee aad ‘ weery 25. 191% By George McManus « Copright, 1911, by The Press Publishing Oo, (The New York Wosd), CAME To GéT my ANSWER FoR ELstes HAND’ . SHE yout we TO the good Abbe Remus agreed with him. To save her life, or at any .ate her reason, they would have to scare up something that looked ike a Dauphin. it so happened that Denis Roulette, who was doing odd jobs around the | house, looked as the Dauphin might look if he were alive and well, and so he| was given a job that really appealed to him. Having been an actor, he was ather pleased with the idea of playing the King. It seemed a shame to fool \we dear old lady, but her health demanded it. The sad story might easily ave been a shorter one. Otis Skinner acted the actor Roulette. He acted to his heart's content, (browing gestures right and left, bringing his eyebrows into play, and leaving Ro actor-trick unturned. Once the “Red Hand" almost got him, but the terrors | Of this bloodthirsty band were as nothing to the shock he experienced when the horrified Countess, who loved him “as @ lilly loves,” caught him kissing saucy Leonie. Meanwhile the play languished. +‘ \ Qe. NO! YOU GO | RIGHT AHEAD. LT'S YOUR, buTy. —— | HAT! E (00, “Sire was beyond the help of Mr. Skinner, who worked in vain to give it life. Miss Mabel Bert was gentle and tender as the Countess, and Miss Izetta Jewel rather nice as Leonle. A. G. Andrews was the doctor, but even he could do nothing for the play. “Sire” passed away quietly. It was as dead as a door nail. Betty Vincent’s ‘Advice to Lovers When He Tires of You, { b4K girls, 1f a young man ehows you quite plainly by his manner that D he is tired of you, do not try to hold his attention. Let him go. Many girls- write me letters something Ike the one I am about to| quote to you and I am always emazed et thelr foolish- | ness. Take, for example, this: | A young man has been calling on me at intervals dur- | ing the past year, He seemed to like me and I fell in love with him, But now he has become interested in an- | other girl and does not pay so much attention to me. This is breaking my heart and I would like to know how to win | him bac Now, my dear girls, if a man has become tired of your | friendship there ts absolutely no way to “win him back.” If your character and manner did not attract him suM™- ciently in the first place to hold him, they certainly will | not be strong enough to draw him to your side once more. is just one way, my dears, to treat the man who forgets you—for- | Fromised to Wed. aN you ter * | Loves him. man who signs his let-/ V. Po" writes | ® German and have) in th country about a year.) \vhile I was home I asked a girl to} larry me, and she said she would, af- GIRL who signs her letter “M. H” writ Tam in love with a young man | who comes up to our house about on @ week to visit my brother. He does not know I Jove him and I wish to let Babbling Bess ( HERE'S A MEETING pace Re 70 G0. YOO WONT MINS & wt By Harry Palmer SAYS Have TO HER TIME ANSWER! IM GOING HOME WHEN \ IM FiFTy! “Cheer Up, Cuthbert! Copyright, 1011, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). (HELLO, THAT. \You GEORGE ? \WEbL, THE OLD JWOMAN'S GOING OUT TONIGHT, CALL UP. THE 1 WELL ROE sie What's the Use of Being Blue? a So BA PUT BESS To- BED EARLY, AND WE'LL. HAVE A There Is a Lot of Luck Left. By Clarence L, Cullen Copyright, WAL, by The Wreus Publishing Oo, (The New York World), Goon ‘rime + || | HLEN you find out, as you will,|leseness, but Timidity doesn't even please yourself and let the rest) sain of "em copper YOu"! The fellow who boasts ‘hat he ean bet! Run ft s Around You in your Spectal- ty may belleve it, but If it were om the Our tdea of\yy ; el he wouldn't be saying Itt nothing to Get He: Piss ‘pote! Up Abcut ts the) Ag to that “Start something” adjuree > receipt of an ANn-l tion, we mention, out of tho clutter of onymous Letter lexperience, several things that are « for the writer of heap easier (o Starc than they are ty one of thone things | grop, never is anything | put @ Nearly! Modesty does tts brightest man we ever bimaelf to be no giv ning Bug at the By own shining. The Knew figured van 4 haga tom of a Well Maybo you've no- ticed that the chap 1 had come to America and earned} yim know. How can I best do this ruflicient money for us to live upon, I am very much shocked to think) Sow, 1 have not as yet earned the) that any girl would ask me how e! weney, and yet the girl keeps writing may let a man (who has apparently ie and reminding me of my promise. | shown no preference for her company) | What shall 1 do? know that she loves him. My dear Write tho young lady and tell her! foolish girl, let the young man do the truth plainly about your financial | courting. condition, She cannot sensibly expect | A Photograph. you to win ® fortune in a few short (Copyright, 1910, by Maurice Leblanc.) weeks, 7 SHARTE | GIRL who signs hor letter “B, | 8¥NOMSIS OW PRECEDING 1 Likes Dances, AA vi writen: seh Lut Mae YOUNG man who signs bis let-| ‘Several months ago I gave a Hrsultele. a /smyeuteen yea feng ter “K. F.C." writes young man my photograph. After | naps” Meautsciet's. father, “1 am engaged to a young girl| awhile 1 regretted that I had done go | Miinunde (tue, beutiful nitce of be temic: who likes to attend dances, I have|and asked him to return it, ‘This he | ty young, Lous Valera, seas ile ‘ino ‘bri asked her not to, but she insists, Do| refused to do, When I met him on the et ae a tiaoe ‘Raymondi ven in Iaidore honor “a newspaper article handed” tothe who cle purporte to téll the hi place, known ay he oliien Rings of Frans goes in pearch of the pau tells of the: place's whereatou . fo learn the seret he is baffled by 1 trelet continues hia search for the "Hollow hiding. place, ‘The quest carries him At @ dinner ¥: you think it proper for her to go or| street he told me he could not find tt, nett fren eet ie aeiiaciaen call whlch 5 feel sure is an untruth, What i +) sha 0? FOUDE Di e like w little gayety |", | pnd All. snun8 p aie RS Ngee peticay There is nothing you can do but let | do is to go to the dances with your) tls teach you @ lesson not to give| fiancee and be more devoted to her and) Your photographs to young men in the agreeable than any other man there, | futur wen coust. There he finds on. a prom: ie <r Donnan “Stile esatle. of odd architecture, ex Side it, the finds «huge mubterranean hiding an itaclt ace that etrates the cave eto welcome hin, ‘stricture as & police, led by Your Hair and the Lapin has used de ar whole, secre stolen goods, an, th ‘brewk de in a 6u aa Dollar Mark. Here the thie plaus to setue Avene’ reluges. HE market in human itself for use like horsehair tr haireloth | jum to « lie of respectabillty, subject that has rece en | weavin) is possible t makers of | I ese e eg the attention of textile| interlining fabrics and of oll press . 2k XL engaging the atte clothe, or perhaps of carpets, might CHAPTER XI. journais in Great Britain. find employ! @ substance, but | (Continued. The supply of this ar | inde oe te * professedly | 1 mastered himself and, wit! edly much larger than is ge lume Of It polely, ite uae caine core b mastered himselt, ang, with posed; indeed, one textile fined to a blend with other material: forget!” he declare: in Bradford stated t ig iRargtdie, EP Ictheedt te ave that forget!" he declared, BAaty eek le pred tord=-pasalhly made every sacrifice for ned. It th ly one aa yet in tole country—is | Um tke, I have sastfced the in: ce he w waving a cloth made entirely | \oiaple sanctui Farhad ile gabecestt ys eat to ascertain the p and wort) of somun fair, tne | Houabie, panctuary Of ie, Halley Consular repert, oh y of a staple length power, my pride—I will sacrifice SERRE COREE 0 ches, afer be I don't Want to be anything Wigmakers and ladic f ' i nt tobe anything ST alk aaa att the required thickness honest 1 ive she can only love pecially at the present time, waen the oer an Fileienens | honest ute she can only, love prevailing fashion is for ladies to wear |or thirty inches wide and In lengths ub |t'not be honest? It tw no more degrad- enaive colffures, The bulk of the hu- |to ninety yards Agape Page tiga ne for this purpos No dyeing is performed, the fabric be- '™S,\)"taeautrelet, you see, of all the ie he Continent, Bohemia be- |i of the naturat color of the blended | ynyridied Joys which I have tasted in capecially productive ‘a fabric im taterged for inter y adventurous life, there ts not one Be eA are ala 1 that equals the Joy with which her Tge quantities are also re n i ie Joy, with which her ‘The Chinese hair is usually i jaok Alle me when oe Wt plesaed wlth k, and as ita color detracts f fey foal Guile. from alue, it is bleached wita ae | tlon at 1 of; Was he crying? Beautrelet had an in- roxen peroxide. ‘The hair ix then | uetures) 18 somew - | tuition that his eyes were wet with Feat cocéra Mv ignath aca erage ental different weisshts | tears. ‘Tears tu Lupin's eyes! ‘Tears of | a4 dycd and finished in any shade | Or thicknes: an be made to suit the re! tag 4 domard. ‘This fabric may therefore| ‘They were nearing an olf gate that Nabe |supersede the coat canvas made of| served as an entrance to the farm, ‘A British textile journal recently |linen formerly used for inte.tinings, or air was not Of! the more modern hair canvas made of wth as to lend cotton warp and hair weft, Lupin stopped for a moment and stam- mered: Why am I afraia? stated that as human o rank and stout a gr I feel a sort of 4 ? “And he went awa Beautrelet “The Hollow Needle” Another LUPIN Story made up of dark colored plushes, cordu-|can expect that !t will soon be popular ‘who advises you to “be diplomatic” the world knew ti usually te @ sycophant himself! he Was a Bia The Under Dog never geta Boots when the Onlookers start the Prying Loose Proceedings. Keep an Eye on the New Ones in your Bunoh; as often a not it's the Unbrand- ed Maverick that, joining the Merd, Stampedes it! It takes some of us a parlous long time to find out that the kind of “Fun” that leaves a Mauve Taste in the Mouth and a Dented Feeling in the Dome isn't! When we were at the Bob-Veal Stage of Life we hated to be called a Rube~ but {f they hauded us that now we'd take it aa @ Compliment to the Tenacity of our Illustona! Another one of those Compensations is the number of Mistakes we're permitted | to make before we're pronounced @ Mis- mu I DIDN'T. DO NOTHIN Bur, 1 WONT DO AGAIN! ‘The chap who wears the Stamp of Concelt always goes through the mess- ing-up Cancelling Machine sooner or later! Somehow the man who ts ealé by tte buddies to be the possessor of « (und of Savotr-Faire always just « plain Bunkologiet! “Kid” Adversity 19 one of those pugs that, with @ !mock-out in each mitt, can be made to miss @ lot of his slams by mile!" The reason why some of us our Ways ts that they didn't teach Sewing at our Night Bohool! Over-Confidence may deget Care ARSENE welght on my chest. Is the sdventure one of the folding leav motionless, “Bhears, for the third time, let that tas wuffere more than it is able -¢. of tho Hollow Needic not over? Has) Then Lupin strode forward and stood) After a second Lupin repeated woman be" — ar. Gestjuy not accepted the issue which I in front of him, | “Order your men to leave that woman! The Englishman sneered: You viliat he cried, suddenly, a selected?” The encounter appeared all the more | alone." "I have no right to touch her, I sup-|an access of hatred. Raymonde turned round, looking very | terrible inasmuch as it was silent, al-| "No." pose? Come, come, enough of this hum-| And, flinging Shears back with @ fer. anxious, | most solemn, ' “Listen, Shears" —= | bug! Your name tsn't Valmeras any |midable blow, he took htm the “Here comes Cesarine, she's running.” | Then Lupin spoke in @ voice of territy-| Reso! upon the worst, suddenly he! more than it's Lupti ‘ou stole the mame} throat and dug bie twitching ‘The exciseman'’s wife was hurrying | ing calmness puts his hand to his t pooket. | just as you of Charme. | into his flesh, from the farm as fast as ehe could.| “Tell your men to leave that woman|The Englishman anticipated his mo And the woman whom you pass| The Englishman gasped, without eves Lupin rushed up to her. alone. ment and, leaping upon his prisoner, | off as your mother is Victoire, your old | strugalin “What is it?) What has happened? “No, thrust the barre! of his revolver within | accomplice, the one who brought you “My boy—my boy”"——eaid Victetre, Speak!" It was as though both of them feared | two tnches of her temple up'— in & voice of entreaty. * “A man—I saw a man this morning! (to engage in the supremo struggic, as, “If you stir a limb, I fire!” | Shears made a mistake, Carried away Beautrelet ran up. But Lupin had “A man—I saw @ man in the sitting | thous both were collecting ail thelr) At the same tine his two satellites) yy nis longing for revenge, he glanced | siready let go and stood sobbing be strength, And there were no words |drew thelr weapons and almed them | eee Te onde, whom these revela-| side his enemy stretched upon the 3 nglishman of this morning?” | wasted this time, no insults, no banter: | at Lupin. tions filled with horror, Lupin took ad- | &round j but in a different disgulse.”* ing challenges, Silence, # deathlike si-| Lupin drew himself up, stifed the|\\'itage of his imprudence. With asud-| © pitiful aight! Beautrelet never he gye you?” lence. jrage within him and, coolly, With his) eee ee ne fired, forgot ite tragic horror, he knew all He saw your mother, Mme.| Mad with anguish, xaymonde awaited | hands in his pockets and hts bre yaimnation!” bellowed Shears, whose | Lupin’s love for Raymonde and all that Valmeras caught him as he was just/the issue of the duel. Beautrelet had | exposed to the enemy, began once), /,"Kitvved by a bullet, fell to his aide, | th «reat adventurer had sserificed of ] ad Ray.’ golng away.” caught her arms and was holding her | more: tye aeeaaing Sig ovBhoote you | Hi8 own being to bring a smile to the “4 eAWell?” peda Siliie ee eee oe Bhoot him down! face of his well-belove “He tol her that he was looking for Dut siready Lupin. wae, upon them;| ,. Night began to cover the meld of bai Louis Valmeras, that he was « Grlend of | s and not two seconds had elapsed before| fire, isngliehmen lay bound iu mh | Ju sta Glim pse Into the one on the right was sprawling on 4 in the tall grass, Distenc =” Ren | the ground, with bis chest smashed, broke the vast silence of the “The madame said that her son had! while the other, with his Jaw broken, It was the farm hands retura sone abroad-for years the New York OPS Fire he suk Me eat fe! from thelr work. ” Victoire, ‘T ig them down. he ian throug | ry UD, i , | Lupin drew himself up, He lstened 1 Noy be made signa through the win- And now, Mr, nglishman, 4’ 04) tthe monotonous voices, Then he souk Piece ae pia ee Ae Oe ILERE is now @ general reduction |frished off with a sliver brim into which | god 1." anced at the anew ROMaeennn ana “Lu od to hesitate, A loud | in the prices of sults, coats and) fts a gilt screen, This beautiful vase| Hoe ducked with an oath: Neuvtllette, where he had hoped to Ih UP : ronda taal ny Sky ‘This 1s, therefore, an excel-| sella at $10 and would make an ideal} “Ah, you scoundrel | peacefully with Raymonde, Then he tore the air, Raymonde moaned fure, This ts, H oI " It's your mother—I recognize"-—— rtunity to invest In these gar-| wedding gift. | Shears had ploked op, nis revolver looked at her, the poor, loving victim He flung himself upon her and, drag- ‘There are still several months} The quaint German aprons that are | W!th K a ete hand aad was tal aa | whore 44 a 4 tiled On wate all z ging her away, in @ burst of flerce pas. naining which to wear them, and] popular as tea aprons are o€ natural ee * JO Sy Aaseah omiokah wal » ping st, eternal j met tacaat nay they will, ) a little care, bo in good Unen. Some hove. sug woidered ruffles 104 Hung herself between the two men,| The men were coming nearer, how oe aed 4 x condition to start the season with next] others have the bib and shoulder band®) facing the enna Mie ataawared | over > But suddenly he ) distraught, ene, embroidered, ‘Tho bright blue, green pack, brought her hand to her neck,| Then Luptn bent down, took the ‘ CVPR, eae re The pres displays of wash goods!and red embroidery make an attractive drow herself up, spun round on her| woman tn hie powerful arms, lifted a (No. 1 oan t do itis too awful, F cone ering some exquisite effects, Al apron, Prices range trom $1.40 heels and fell at Lupin's feet. | corpse with a single effort and, bent ay down there, Stay here, Bedutrelet ‘ne 4 white satin striped batiste has a two-| A pretty cluster of opera bags Raymonde!—Rayt onde : in two, stretaned it across his back, i leave her.” ; inch edge in lavender, above which # @| fancy taffetas with gilt frame and chain; 11 re Imaself on her, took her Lat ws #0, 4 enot Raymon whom Beautrelet iat deijeate border In a wide, floral pattern, |at % the serviceable suede with a dray- in his acine and pressed ber to him. “Guod-byr Beautwelet,” he eal” n-unadle to hold back, arrived ul- qr jw extremely dainty and only © cents | string at $2.60 of her in atl ie was a moment of stupefaction.| And, bearing his precious and awful ost as soon as he did, and Beaut a yard nredominating *had $ Beauties crears ecomed eOnfounded by his own | burden, followed by his old servant, oh 1 the trees, saw, in tue” {waite French tulte has the fashion: to light fancy silks y and vel hears vetaire stammared phone aed’ Bande he’ inane as lonely walk that led from the farm ty! Ji woench plain border in blue, |and tinsel combinations with gold fringe | * poor boy--my poor boy" sea and plunged into the darkness of the Fs) arp were old Lane witnk, delicate pink roses, This is $2| ‘The Bolero ts @ feature of the Iatest and stooped to exainine her | (THE END) sd who tried to resist and who uttered| yard. \tinported gowns In atyle iw meeting : ey moans of pain. Sofa pillows that are really useful are with strong favor in Paris, and so we = ‘ | 7m ‘The daylight was beginning to fade, | He said it in a reflective tone, as| , Nevertheless, Holmiock Shears. of @ certain axe. were set in a frame of white hatr, ‘They all four came ‘They reached the gate, recog woman seer 1 zel Her livid features t roys or brocad and sell at $2.60. A/| here, serviceable tapestry top pillow can be| ‘The had aa low as 69 centa, vance A unique cut glass vase ts about 9| braid. “shears opened inches high. It is of pretty shape and formed of very wide rancy braid, though he did not y understand, ‘But his face became hol | , suddenly trani And then he with @ sort of madness, eless tures, wrung bis | mped bis feet, lke @ ohid garments now imported as ad-| models show a liberal use of Some sults have the entire jacket formes, ravaged by grief, was 6 de 0d