The evening world. Newspaper, February 1, 1911, Page 17

The Evenin “The Fiper” Should Lure Everybody to the New Theatre BY CHARLES DARNTON. Bird“1s to be found at the New Theatre in “The Piper,” a readly ; et &nd charmingly fantastic play by Josephine Preston Peabody. Beauty in he written line and in the painted scene is vivified by the touch of that rare jand radiant artist, Edith Wynne Matthison, until the production as a whole be- comes an exquisite delight. “The Piper" should lure everybody to the New Theatre to show them that there are better things in this world than gold. Among these, rarer and more Precious than rubies, is sood acting. Miss Peabody has undoubtedly written an imaginative ind appealing dramatic poem in this winner of the Stratford prize, but it ts, after all, Miss Matthison’s genius that turns the poem into drama, At times the play is es singularly lacking in dramatic movement as it ts full of spiritual progress, but Miss Matthison rever lets you find this out while she is om the stage. Her imaginative fervor, spiritual exaltation and intellectual domi- Rance combine to create a fanciful, shining figure that lives and rejoices and Suffers before your eyes. A new beloved vagabond, this musical mountebank who pipes the children out of Hamelin and teaches their parents @ lesson that is as true as Life! No Booth ould have found the poctry in this role as Miss Matthison finds it. An ester might play the vagabond delightfully, but it's rats to mice he would lose e grace of humor. ‘The highest mo- feat i reached, both by and actress in th@ Piper's plea for th@ @hildren to The Lotely Man—the wayside Christ— / though the moment at the well from / which the Piper 4fews the magic 4 rink that fills Barbara with love for \ Michaef ts one that counts largely in ) Migs Matthison’s superb triumph. Her weakest moment is the one tn which she banters Michael-the-Sword-Eater on his love and jealousy. At no other time {s the missing masculine note a thing to be regretted, for Miss Matthison always suggests the youth rather than betrays the woman. She is so buoy- antly, delightfully boyish that It seems the most natural thing tn the world tor the children to troop’ after this Piper. ‘And It does any 0M heart ood to see those bareterged youngsters ring off to the tune that plays them out of Hamelin, with the two little altar hoys literally tumbling down the steps of the chureh to catch up with the nrocession! All have good reason to rub thelr eyes when they come out of thelr sleep inside the “Hollow Hl" where the Piper has hidden them, for this 1s indeed a wonderful place. eye and the heart. The fower-grow: forest, is a poem in itself, The but serious ideas kno place and sets even the nuns dancing, “T don't know just how to take tha ‘night. And then her religious scruples gave way to unorthodox merriment. ing pilgrims remind one of ‘Tannhauser,” mother, Veronika, comes in search of her c wreeked stax." Miss Olive Oliver’ ‘the last note of tenderness and pathos here, but in the end, when the woman Dp John Tansey, who for once seems to have left his youthful tmagination part. Frank Gilmore's Mi Jessiyn is @ pretty and tender Barbara, houting children come trooping back home the be remembered for its natural, unrestrained joyousness. This should be for kiddies such as they've not had since “Peter Pan.” “The Piper” and poetry—one and the same if your heart's in the right place! And ‘Wynne Matthison is living poetry. etty Vincent’s L\dvice to Lovers and Ther Parents. parents give you. Your beet interests at heart. And more experienced in the ways of the world than you ae, not be done. Also, if a p ship formed by a@ chil dignity to explain the objection. ent disap; when they give It Expertence will teach you th usually superior to your own, thelr older judg maid, what #hall I do?" oM, HL" writes: +o give her a birthday present, Would 1 basket of fruit be pre ' It would be quite correct to give the voung lady fruit for her birthday. Vot Lobe, ; A GIRL who signs her tetter “G. A.| No Longer Lovers, ance to kis have saved your heart for him, D." writes: YOUNG am not in love with any of them. Ho over, they have each sald several tim ng predic Should I feel insulted at this remark?” | tnough she etill love every man who calls upon # girl wishes | ys? An “Od Maid.’ ho girl some heartact A GIRL who signs her letter "8. D.” far better to tell he frienfe who called upon me, But when | Would prefer to release 4 man from h po (ilend I really would not permit | pr nise than have him marry her if b Me they ceased thelr atten- | did not love her, W orld Dail ednesda Let George Do It! Copyright, 1911, by The Prem Publishing Ca, (Fhe New York World), agazine . February 1, 19112 The New Plays By George McManus CAN You 00 UP A SHIRT QUICK? SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INWTALACENTS. rttnlay preacot for hie daughter, Senter tebe the Seufomor ta sett him the | that there was no doubt about the deak, © fuses. ‘The desk is stolen, In it 1s @ lottery tioket, | bound to end in favor of the financier. 1,000,000 frane prise, Not having the ticket | Se Over five tundred millions, Newer- i 4 NOTHER plea for happiness—a vivid, motley companion to “The Blue A PO Ts | while the other crumpled up the plece «> © — of a torn envelope. asus ‘ “Three hundred and five re CHAPTER II. peated the auctioneer. “Going—goiag— No further bid?” (entinnce.y “Once more—goIng—going™—— ont The Blue Diamond. Herschmann did not move A Mast man, Of course, can be the {deal vagabond. But no man since Edwin | GEORGE 00 IT! iad, Roartiy, had he not spoken sooner? for being in any particular place, marked M, Dudouls, “and, in this case, |40n't know. My thoughts wandered | his reasons xeom to me obscure. The} hor the pocketbook stol even gold left lying on about the famous | self never forget The Shell Game s Pamiiee wren € By Will B. Johnstone Copyright, 1911, by The Prewe Publishing Co, (The New York World), YES, AND Le PUT IT ALL OVER You LETS see, 0 FIRST =I BLACK Youve QOT OME Moke Move ANO THEM YOUR Gooses coorenl/ HERES WHERE 100 A NEAT LiTtTLz 3 POR) SHOT -AND GIMME ANOTHER KING = CRowy Him! =~ ae) $0 You WANT TO PLAY ME ONE GAme FoR_A DOLLAR HE STANOS To Cag sees Hey uP AGAINST (T~ BuT GETS (WEA, ON SEEING DOGS + But for sheer beauty the scene of “The Crossways” finds first place In the shrine, with its background of hills and ked silly when the Piper tunes up from his hiding WHY2. why THAD You BEAT By AMILE OW MY VERY NEXT MOVE ~ THATY Wht arked a woman, dublousty, Inst Just Mr Lwer ? But the Piper's gay, devil-may-care mood changes when the sorrowing 1 boy Jan—"the little ship- appealiniy realization of the mother touches seemingly rises from the dead to take her child 1) her arms again, Miss Oliver Witerty lost In her own inexpressive silence. She falls to give the slightest sug- feelin: The wistful appeal of the little boy Is entirely missed by je suggests nothing but a curled darling with cheeks altovether too ae] is both picturesque and human, and | niture and personal effects in the Ave- cene Is 01 9 ts one | ture was mod: (2 By Sophie Irene Loeb Just beginning to walk, REACH OUT than that of food, mey not have a FRIEND; but THIS | thelr tiny hands for the first dandelion |housekewper to love a pretty vase of that shows its yellow head They come to it honestly, too, mark |For i+ eprem Mother Nature ts responsible for | thiny and means TO HER more than ao hould they | o “The Religion of Beauty” Copyright, 1911, by The (The New York World.) ET the child feed on beauty, @s- | pecially the beauty of nature, | They cannot take nature away from im the beauty of flowers mal life, of the M’ dear young people, listen to the advice your ‘Try to remember that they love you and have mn if they do seem a@ lUttle too strict sometimes, remember they are Press Publishing Co, | may euffer for CREATURE comforts; I It 4e natural for the «rows for me as well |painted flowe and want to pos: ts the ploture of the real | I have repeatedly said that I do not approve of par- ents who forbid thetr grown sons and daughters to do certain things without giving them any reason for the| command, A child that is old enough to be told not to| do a thing !s old enough to be told why the thing should roves of some friend- | , it ts not beneath that parent's | It 19 mine, MID Hope entered his heart. | Te realized | | that if all else fatied Mother ng, ahd why + too, who spends his meagre for the picture of a be snot to be chastised ‘are for and love al ragement, for the love of the lower will tend to Inculeate a feeling So that the FIRST eautlful ching. inatinet ts fc the drawback later ts hidden, nothing else, when he came out he could commune with her him, the convict, of her best. was benefited, ortal poem that brings CHEER to the weary, the down-trodden, the dis- tn squelched | immediate ARTIFICIAL | very well and neces- 4 to the fundamental or BODILY existence 16 not lone wight ar food for the SPIR- | ifare iy the thing, o buys a bun 6 to @ lunch ts not she may truly be re necessary want Ethical ¢ Society, tn spe But, my dear young people, let me repeat—respect your parents’ opinton | nt is of the child before 9, thero is a t be SACKIFIC | business of food in the|and at the same the need for stm S love the beautiful idle DREAMER, 1em that must be n >t delve wo deeply tn th iste that he F A Birthday. tions, Now, as I dread being an old spring go down Into the tlons where a bit of grass ts allowed to | flowers 1 yngested sec-| ‘The shop etri \G ho signs his letter FOUNG man who signs Men do not marry young women who | ive thetr affections lightly, so you are | | scribed in large doses to the The continued BEAUTIFUL wear away the stone of unkindness, but ulld unbreasat oultivation of LOVE Ings the wee tots, amid sordid surroun: 80 imbedded “I have known a young lady ka | far more apt not to be an “old maid” about two years and I would like vl f if you do not premit the young men of u, The 1 come some day, my doar, | wil the more because you | oo usnoss in the Sending Convicts to the Circus. bold idea of allowing prisoners | day » go outside work without guards, upon their n successful operation to-day reates the at stamps out treach No person who loves the beaut! maltoe toward haracter of the ir ude of the go We purchased | Jat the Fra s eaually aoe w fact to #0 down At two hundred ale month Tossip, of gues: work and tnves ons, failed to pro: Why? Because the thing that spell beauty may be bought by the BEGGAR it @n escort. serve and tha « shed an excelle Fifteen minutes ‘an! however, the is fellow | brisk stomed|aand 0 jand darkness f 1 who sane his letter yhres men call on me and I A “A, B.C." writes: "1 find myself in @ heartbreak. ainent, I ath engwged to marry hat they aro confirmed bachelors. | put 1 And I no longer love the girl, al- me. Ia there any Certainly not. {t ie not assumed that) way out for me without hurting the f to wee the happy SS, but without price tc butes that may | Vashi iff of Washing Also the cultivation of this trait| ¥ Jone of them was back, Trust @ ma he repays the faith | ‘A great writer while in prisor erable, and in the veriest DEI DESPAIR, wondering what he w when he came out k Meving that there was nothing more In life for him, looked up tn the bly brooding and through the email wine dow of his cell he saw peert branch of a TRE with a few young green leaves of spring thereon “mb,"" by erled, “at least THIS ts tor They may strip me of my earthly they may PUNISH me; nls to combat many problema of the| 5 confide hey do ’ ir confidence, for they do For the individual has| joys a world-w! er to show our ferreting ut the least In Horsehre the forward a definite proof of known as the Gold thelr isation, My | wea Amertoan and Mime, to Paris for Croaon, wt of in tive capah unraveling the nonds and prectous stones en: | is of the skein, The police sent and by franknes RVBRY day | SITTIN] and tn time of need saya: “For two years no man has been re- | to marry her, ‘There 1s no way out without causing but it will be the truth now writes: rather than let her find it out after you “] have had several young men | @e married. Any womanly woman to make their imprisonment a are appreciated. somo of the causes which led to In many. Instances 1 e in discouraged | thin way ‘en we have helped them to turn over | vw Old Sol will am! work, Many who were serv “pwo hi a Wor four days the old Inspector ram- lee © two t 1 |maged and hunted abow, stroiied @ wand ee | the park, had’ long talks with the ar sald chau eners, the peopl inne ‘ | oes, and exam Tw dred and els hou rooms ocoupted by the Bleishem —— Gr eh | couple, the @’Andeie cousins and Mma,” One man who is serving jatl breaking and » 4 chusetts after a search goon to his work go a clrous exhibited a ‘There was no work the GET THE RELIGION OF BEAUTY, A New ARSENE. % % % LUPIN Story “The Blonde Lady” By Maurice LeBlanc (Copritemt, 1010, by Douttedar, Page & On) | ing, but with a palicr that betrayed her excitement, she stood leaning over the ge Pe dP ioe ou | NACH of the chair before her. ta reality, ng (obolows ame for it, Gerbota re | of the duel; it wae logically and bi iy Gerholn The ticket int 4] whose whime were served by « fortune | Gert gannot draw, the money, | rain, thie theless, she sald: " id now | ““Phree hundred and five thousand.” ‘There was a further pause. Bvery slanos was now turned on the Gold- iy mine King, in expectation of the tnevit A able advance. It waa sure to come, in all tts drutal and crushing strength, ° It 414 not come. Hersohmann remained " | uve oll | impasatve, with his eyes fixed on @ sheet outed | Of Paper which he held in nis right hand, ay bal and Lapin, restores en. the pollo rush th: Them and esa Soon afterw reo ia found murtersl 1 a * pause, The hammer fell. a HERR burat of |,."Four hundred thousan@™ gheuwted the detective service indulging | |"? pal hammer had roused him rem his_merrime pe Beagin rid “Lapin! Always Lupin! Lu-| 700 Inte. ‘The diamond was ool4. eearything ta evecywherel"” Herschmann's acquaintances crow@ed Just where he ts," said Gant-|®tound him, What had happened? Why ane te? “And then he must have his He gave @ laugh. revron’ | “What happened? Upon my wor £ ond." writin nas not been broken open | uu don’t mean thati" 5 Cea ake not been broken CON] Tes, some one SOUR AEE igttan” sage “And was that enough © © ¢ "Yea" erled Gantmard, “but what| “To put me offf Yes, for the a> amond? baer “What diamond? Ganinard w The blue diamond, The celebrated | the sale of t mond which formed part of the royal crown of France and which was pre- sented by the Duc d'Alais to Leonide on her death, was bought ‘on @'Hautrec In memory of the brilliant actress whom he had passion ately loved. ‘his ts one of those rec lections which an old Parisian lke my- te: {4 the exarhining Magistrate, * the blue diamond {8 not found, the thing explains Itself. | cantmard rushed to the door and bbe vag By tant oe piled Charles, ‘The blue diamond was TM after her. A a never off his left hand, jopped him at the entranes, When Be “ T have looked at that hand," dectared | “in? Cavuto, ho fad nest Slant Of ber nimard, golng up to the corpse, “and, | perechmann, introduced, bkneclf and is you can see for yoursely there 9 | asked him ‘about the letter. Hersch- y a plain gold ring.” * Look inside the palm," aald the eer-| piniveice’ wage tmurae, “smtained, the vant. | pencfl and 1 ting unknown Gantmard unfolded the clenched fin: | the Amanehert® sanery bs ers, The bezel was turned inward, and| phe bly Jamond beings (i-tuolr. 4, af contained within the bezel glittered the Rareebe waned ‘a’ Hautrec™ 5) tue diamond, © ©, 0 © eee. 6 “The devil! muttered Ganimard, ab-| ‘The tribulations of the blue a! solutely nonplussed, ‘This ts beyond | were not over, Already famous chroma : the murder of Baron d'Hautree and the ‘And T hope that you wil! now give up| incidents at the Hotel Drouot, it suspecting that unfortunate Arsene | the heicht of Its celebrity six monttie pin?” sald M. Dudouls, with a grin, |later, In the summer, the precious jewe . nimard took his time, reflected and | which the Comtesse de Crozon had been 94 — orted, In @ sententious tone at such pains to acquire was stolen, “It t# just when a thing Kets beyond | Let me sum up this curious case me that I suspect Arsene Lupin most.” | marked by so many stirring, dramath These were the first discoveries effect-| and exciting episodes, upon which I am if ed by the police on the day following |at last permitted to.throw some light, ~ that strange murder—vague, inconststent | On the evening of the tenth of August... discoveries to which the subsequent in-|M. and Madame de Crozon's guests were quiry Imparted neither consistency nor| gathered in the drawing room of the certainty. The movements of Antoinette | magnificent chateau overlooking the Bay Brehat remaine4 as absolutely inexplica-|of Somme, There was @ request foo” ble as thone of the blonde lady, nor was|some muste, The countess sat down t any Mght thrown upon the Identity of the plano, took off her rings, which in- that mysterious creature with the golden | cluded Baron d’Hautree’s, and lata them hair who had killed Raron 4'Hautrec|on a Little table that stood beside he without taking from his finger the fabu- | plano, lous diamond from the royal crown of| An hour later the count went to ded, France. |as did his two cousins, the 4'Andelles. Moreover and espectally, the curlosity|and Mme. de Real, an intimate friend of which it inspired raised the murder tesse de above the level of*n sordid crime to) beliind with Herr Blelchen, the Austrian that of a mighty, If heincis trespass, | Consul, and his wife. It t# obvious,” the mystery of which érritated the pub-| They sat and talked, and then : Me mind. lcountess turned down the big lamp a j “° © © » @ ® stood on the drawing room table, xethe Vie Baron 4'Hautrec’s heirs were obliged to benefit by this great advertisement ‘They arranged an exntbition of the fu moment Herr Bletchen put out the » lamps on the plano. There was # id's darkness and groping; them the nsul Mt a candle and they all three nue Henrl-Martin, in the house !tself, went to thelr rooms, But the instant on the scene of the crime, prior to the|the countess reached hers she remem- sale at the Salle Drouot. The furnl-|bered her Jewels and told her maid tu n and in Indifferent| go and fetch them. ‘The woman returned taste, the knickknacks had no artisticland placed them on the mantelplece: value, but in the middie of the| Mme. do Crozon did. not examine them, bedroam, on a stand covered with maby | but the next morning she noticed that velvet, the ring with the blue diamond) one of the rings was missing, the ring sparkled under a glass shade, closely | with the blue diamond, watched by two detectives. | » told her husband. Both tmmedt-v -. It won a@ magnificent diamond of | ately came to the same conclusion; @ mi normous size and incomparable purity above suspicion, the 4 of that undefined blue which clear one but Here Bleichen. er takes from the sky which It re-| “rhe count informed the central eoms ects, the blue which we can Just 8ua-|missary of police at Amiena who? ot in newly-waahed linen. People| opened an inquiry and arranged @ia- admired {t, went into raptures over! oreerty for the house to be constamtly it * © © and cast terriffed glances watched, 90 as to prevent the Austrian round the victim's room, at the spot) Con@ul om selling or sending away where the corpse had lain, at the floor tng rin chateau Was surrounded § stripped of Its blood-stained carpet | by detectives night and day. = and especially at the walla, those solld "4 fortnight elapsed without the least walls through which the criminal had| incident. Then Herr Blelehen @n- ounced his Intention of leaving, 1 felt to make sure that the mar- 1) same day a formal accusation was ble ciuimney-piece did not mwing on & jaid against him. ‘The comm: pivot, that there was no secret spring made an official visit and ordered thet tn the mouldings of the mirr They |\uggage to be examined. In @ egggil tured yawning cavities, tunnels com=| pag of which the congul iways ~ nicating with the sewers, with the| ried the they found _ Lk bee ee tainin powder, and Inside the Tr ue diamond was sold at the! ay ring! Hotel Drouot on Jan, 9. The auction) “Mrs. irichen fainted, Her husband was crammed and the bidding pro- | wa ted, coded madly My readers will remember the defense All Parts, the Parts of the first nights | « by the accused, He was unal ant great public functions, was there said, to explain the presence of tl TT the 1 ew 6 |r it was there as the reau : \ an act of revenge on the part of M, class s mer 1 int Wi-treats his wife,” hi @ Governme an I ter " 1 makes her a misery ex ad a ersation with her , * “ . " ed her sue for a nar J int ust have hear h f the lux ft n venged almeself by takin price toa hundred and nd slipping it into my dress \ hund Jesty was quite safe The Italian t 1 hundres nut to les ~ intess persisted {7 th « It was .n even choice thelr explanation and the Com Juce a single clement of certainty, A ed by all this werry and unable ! tread 4," muttered |je Heal ‘Theo one morning he disap- eat i taking leave of his (Be Continued oe