The evening world. Newspaper, March 14, 1911, Page 17

_— , P - SS / Sew ——— + ——s a Serge Ree ee bey The Evening World Daily Magazine. Tuesday New Pl Pv **As a Man Thinks” Proves Labored and “Preachy,” hantom Of the Opera 3 By Gaston Leroux 3 The Most Daring “Sensation Novel’’ of the Oh ’ You O ph elia! ~~~ By Clare Victor Dwiggins Copgright, 1011, by The Preas Publishing Co, (Phe Now York World), BY CHARLES DARNTON. | PRLALSOOOISE DEOSOSOODSOSISTDITSOONOE - : Ve . 3 (Copyright, 1911, by the BobbeMerrill Company.) from the storm phantom, who, as every- AVE you anything on your mind? Then think {t of. This simple doctrine | ~ — runs, [BOY knows, Is cated Adamastor, MM * i] 4 ws tardily advanced in the fourth act of @ play by Augustus Thomas at Z i HNO ¢ ig bog a |Moncharmin and Richard were the ship- 4 th tirty-ninth Street Theatre last night. ee 1 who eta | Wrecked mortners amid this motioniers 4 Some time ago Mr. Thomas got tho idea into his head that thinking Is a ALL Ret the left noses, proug'tag thete way. Ue ' fearful and wonderful thing. With “The Witching Hour" came the thought that ——_ Ltt |dallore ‘woo eave thelr Seay aia Sop ae j Naven ino, Pot the | © The elght great } €0 Nee stood up In the dust : wry THinde = Ont bitn de Ohneny and hls epoe lox supporting the j husband—lf we may turn a melodramatic plirase to good account—and then DO Ten Mme iF ieomtg Baodl de Chagny, Iban <-bellied lifts : < ron fulovah, “ie bas talen wan | thinks better of the idea when a Jewish ph: n assures him that hatred is a AT txps Harmed Christine Daae, a 9 Sie faints on the stage. |W epresented by the ' poison that cannot be recommended for famliy use. So you sce there's a great hn san eld Hurering armad to ber dresing.room, Racal lwars | clreulas " waving lines of te deat of thinking avout some very simple facts, a hae ‘fhe last act {8 #0 full of preaching that one can't help wondering whether this fashion of writing Lenten plays instead of straight sermons is going to spread, Up to this point you are left to guess whether it is the eternal woman question or the Incklental Jewish question that tho author ts driving at, By Way of showing her husband that thepe is sauce for the goose as well as for the pander in the domestic scheme of things, Mrs, Clayton visits the rooms of @n old lover after the opera, probably because she did not find “Aida a new balconies of tlere of t At th Nina {19 M. Lenepve: celling, figures wise Poy regan. thie as | wenen & thet Gite the borkeeer |etinned and erimaced, laughed 1 Maa Eat ee home [Jered at MM. Richard and Moncharmig’s tea maport Migs At a hint | distress, And yet these figures were Taoul tottowa her th 1 usually very serious, ‘Their namem were she and he were Isis, Amphitrite, Hebe, Pandora, Payeke, erand, first and second » top of the cliff, loat 0 } otis, Por pone, Clytte, Galatea ' experience, and olthough she is as innocent as the Ibretto that gets her into ne altar storm, 4 and vAret ruse ve “Arathi a herselt trouble, she finds herself judged and condemned by her husband. Her craze Tie. tails the euthasttien the | ‘Sng Pandora, whom we all knew by Mer j for music is offered as an explanation of her conduct with Lenjamin De Lota box, looked down upon thé two new He Is a Jewish musician who has served a year in prison in Paris, But Dr. rT managers of th who ended by served 0 i aT ERP Y. agers of the opera, wh ; Seely is a high-minded man and true friend, who “catterizes" the wound in CHAPTER V. Jelitching at some piece of wreckage and « Playton's soul by drawing a satisfactory conclusion concerning the birth of Mrs. (Continued) tr "i t i, silently at Box Five i Clayton's child, a conclusion that 18 reached by a rather Indelicate reference The E og on the grand tle 4 : E ferenc he Enchanted Violin T have aatd that they were distressed. to the particular year De Lota spent in prison, _ AS there no one in the| At least, I presume xo, M. Monchar- ' Some of the humor, too, is In such doubt- ful taste that the Woman question goes | in any » admits that he waa eased. To quote his own words, in memotrs “This moonshine about the Opera ehurehyard R. "L did not see any one; and, if there had if you only think hard enough you can “fix” a jury without ex « p " y pense, In “The Harvest Moon a girl was “thought” on the stage and then “thought” off again. ATCHES ( And now, in “As a Man Thinks,” a rather foollsh man thinks himself a wronged so ; | rae ae i been, I must have seen him. |@host In which, since we first took bert Gaile ‘The moon was shining on the snow and [over tho duties of MM. Poligny and De- é that desperate aswers | made the night quite light.” bienne, we had been ao nicely 1 tlor, “That woman, any one to|~Moncharmin's style la not alwaya ir- dramatist was right: es?” | Teproachable—"had no doubt ended by itis ‘A Man's World, monsieur. They were quite; blinding my imaginative and al ah f Miss Rachel Crothers final, poor tambstones, partly hidden ton, It may 0 that the ¢x may take this compli: under the snow, with thelr crosses just | ceptional murroundings ln, whieh we | ‘ bove evel of the ground do . ment for what It Is aye ndowe wore thoes af the crosses | Credible atlence, impressed us to an un- ; worth, but Mr, Thomas d ourselves. ‘The church stood out | usual extent. It may be that we were ; b. certainly pays it rather quite brightly. 1 never raw so clear a|the sport of a kind of hallucination bah Nae boat | night. It was very fine and very cold | brought about by the semni-darknese of ze) : The Jewish question | and one could see everything.” : the theatre and the partial gloom Js touched upon defl- {ar ee cnc ener a caren “At any Fate, Tanw and Richard ales nitely only tg the dis- 18 Wl ape ta aed ad dd tMsing | saw a shape in the box. Richard oaid cussion of the problem bod Lables r nothing, nor [ neither, But we, spon- a. * condition of mind were 5. } of ‘ntermarriage, in | pa ee sisted Cunt taneously seized each other's hand, We rano as nervou {Bure you, Mile, Dene a curs joni |same point: but the figure had disap- young artist and Miss wolng out at that hour had worried me | 5 Theo we went out end ia, aee Charlotte Ives as the | at frets but, as soon as T saw hor BO tO |i obby communicated our impressione } doctor's daughter play the churchyard, 1 thought that Shel each other and talked about. ‘the tg small parts. ‘This inci- | Fee ene ne eedcred tuis aa {2hape.’ The misfortune was that my j inna athens grave an dered ti iid , ; dont, Indeed, helps to} natural that [ recovered all my calinnoss, | shape was hot In the least like Rick } make the play ine] 9J T was only surprised that sh m4 not! sr had sean @ thing Ike a death's volved; the main {dea heard mo walking behind her, for MY | Hogg resting on th f g e on the ledge of the dex, ; (Hot oleasipe etatea B y Ferd G. Lon d footst were quite audible on the beak ind wo t | whereas Richard saw the 1 snow, But she must have been | 4) r intentions and T urb her, She knelt pe of an nan who looked like Mame Gity, | We soon discovered that we had realiy been the victims of an illusion, where- down by her father's grave, made the | hon, without further delay and laughs sien of the cross and began to Pray. | ing like madmen, we ran to Box Five At that moment, it struck midnight, ion the grand tier, went inside and “At the Inst stroke Tt aaw Mile. Daa@! found no shape of any kind.” Mf) her eyes to the sky and sirech out) Hox Five ts just like all the ocher grand her arms as though in ecs T was tler boxes. There ts nothing to distin- wondering what the reason could be, gulsh {t from any of the others, DM. when LT myself raised my head and Moncharmin and M. Richard, ostenrtbly everything me seemed drawn amused and Inughing at each | toward th which was playing moved the furniture of the box, the most perfect music! Christine and ited’ the cloths and the chairs an T know the music; we had heard ft as particularly examined the armchair | [ebitdren, Hut It had never been exe: which “the manta voice’ used to alt cuted with such divine art, even by M. But they saw that It was # respectable Powe, 1 remembored all that Christine armehair, with no magle about It. {had told me of the Angel of Muste, ther, the box was the most er- ] he alr was the Resurrection of Lag- dinary box in the world, with its red arus, which M. Daae used to play hangings, {t# chairs, Its carpet and its to us in rs of melancholy and ledge covered in red velvet. After Jof faith. If Christine's Angel had ox- feeling the carpet tn the most serious isted, he could not have played better, manner possible, and discovering noth- on the Iate musician's violin, ing more here or anywhere they % «ie stopped, T seemed to went down to the corresponding box from the skulls fn the on the pit tier below. it was as though they “Those people are all making fools of and I could not help us!” Firmin Richard ended by exclaim- Ing. “It will be Faust on Saturday; } t occur to you that the let us both see tho performance trom ] he hiding behind that) Box Five on the grand tler!’” unti! the last «et. And then the author's views on man's inhue manity to woman are labor iousty stated by his favorite ~haracter, the middle- ‘ged wise man, In “The Harvet Moon" the iso moh oF, Playwright poured oe te at forth his pearls wiedom; atm] now Yearaed Jewish phys rt ts the off herald of Mr. Th fas's mental st pronounces his di | ries of ancient wisdom with ail the solemnity of a prophet, Much of the tine ha \taken up with solved not to di Copsright, Wii, cy Loeb WILL You BE the author is both pedantic and verbose to such a degree that interest lacs, Once or twice the a Put there was ¥ eral appreciation « y human moment in the last act, when Clayton went to the telephone and talked with his little boy about a Christmas gift the child had sent him. Here John Flood, as the father, touched the heart of the audi- ence by the sincerity and tenderness of his actin Mr. Thomas, when called out, said so many and the other actors that there seoms nothing le Still, one may venture the humble opinion that 6 lau the wrong place A re e things about Mr. Mason suggestion of characterization in M ) ones?” ee sician, He wes simply utmeeif in his usuel Sit Bae ihe one tho thet ait CHAPTER VII. | ) with great determination. Walter Hale a row occur to me, monateur, 0 nso tha } path of a ag the lover, Miss Chry ke the wite)/| 1 low Mile paves when Faust and What Happened rd count dramatically, except for a moment in the secc a Amelia eg was #o much absorbed just - )N the Saturday morning, en Gardner did a cord deal of amiable standing arc Bee! Fass then that Lam not surprised that she reaching their office, the Joint ) “As a Man Thinks” takes an interesting turn at ¢ but as a whole tt Is| ich Aid not see me managers found a letter frem } labored Q. "Then what happened that you were found in tie morning lying half- I ie dead on the steps of the high altar? Segm ‘ | j | { Mirst a skull rolled to my feet|My Dear Managere: ™ | | | |] AS Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers then another * * * then an-| So it Is to be war between us? °° * It was as if I were the! If you still care for peace, here 19 my ‘sly game of bowls. ultimatum, ‘Qt consists of the four fol- a that @ false step must | lowing conditions: the balance of the 1. You must give me back my private d which our mustelan| box; and L wish tt to be at my posal from henceforward. art of Margarita shall be ng by Christine Dase. | yout Carlotta; she will be 1 urmise Be 1 n I saw a st « the sacriet dow had al or and entered a Never mind M. in public I 8 quicker than I absolutely Insist upon the good t and caught b of a ¢ and services of Mme, Giry, my box whom you will reinstate in that moment Just in| ner ns forthwith, the t alt t me know by a letter handed to strats Giry, who will #ee that It reaches j i e apee, A , that you accept, as your predeces- } sueen cee f e shadow va (4d, the conditions in my memo- W0Us manner in public with terrible | randum book r me to my monthly - ad, Ww rm you later how loes not behave that way!" of M Tw PN Be ou will give Faust . i 1 Take m ivice ané be warned In ac tl 0. a oes natt | "took here, I'm getting stck of bim, : ' ' outed Kichard, bringiag laugh ts sweet ei CHAPTER VI, J own on Ris often tans | Mercier, the acting-mana pred woman, A Visit to Pox Five, r ike? taanaceameee A Love Letter F me pate of gold curt links tor ay! r M. Firmin rR 84] a eee neta ha Pelk haga 3 owt 7 . . . » though, we had a n 1 atlinne hy business ur and e : . pout Should T retu cuff links? i 1 Into that Ww asked Richard. , net necessary tT e r of Box He's y stud-groom.” ‘ jthink you will feel ma bie ' 4 ata “Ny do you mean? My stu@- ’ he daak ma teen to t 8, slr,’ nined Mi r, “thére a to do, | Another dan. : / 4 ; r t aaked ar ral grooms at the Opera, and f | GIL. who signs her Leite " ‘ ut by subs M. Lachenel the head of the s/t t : A a tered the » through the} “And what does this groom do?’ 5 to show any body 4 I have ongnaed.to a ne n 5 He has the chief management of written snot ve for several year tely Ton ; ' ow her to do so. You were | os : \ rked at Hox Pive| "What stable ge vo te Heese o t Dee maa... Now T ¢ see| “Why, yours, sir, the stable of the beth wrong and should not repeat the | my fa rare ran t ace) |v offen fe What ahall ta ‘ there a stable at the Opera? v flance the truth, at once the y word, I didn't know, Whei To Call, 1 tod ‘ MT cho bien hor laltadoncaca ‘ a . “In the cellars, on the rotunda aide. ei mo. vig Der iaitar sy me se, |1es a very important department; we writes: ycou \ It nen {have twelve horses.” TL have met a young man several | ve horses! ry much, Would | Does Not Bow, And what for, tn ties and I lke him en's name ‘ OO ae laa for me to-aak in RL who signs her letter “G. i 1 hait| wo want trained horses for 9 cali?" | w * A Wan, & th jons he .' the A.” writes ; iy If you know something about the) DA SOUMETIRA Wlinl Gehora EL 1 ‘ ’ and #0 on; horses ‘used to the young man and your parents appreve nas PEA “ luminary, boards’ It ts the groom's business to him, will b @ proper to ask |. b i dag’ is ‘ t each them, M. Lachenel {s ver \ fi! re a I} be quite prop [eatis on equently, But w ne peu ; mene) is yeny Genes He used t ets me on the street he doe P ‘aise his hat, I can hardly re A Gift and a Quarrel, him of this, Shall 1?" MAN who signs his letter "G, B," | I think I would tactfully suggest to writes; the young man that it 1s customary for |" Lan’ gakeo,Henry, don't eat with your knife.” « “I found a burglar robbing my room.” “T have bean ealline freouent!y |» man to raise his hat when hoe meets a Mary, don’t get nervous. I've ate with my knife for fifty years “You don't sa Watcher do?" vfane] "Very well © © * but what docs be shape, wan In the orchestra stalls the useet| “L don't know; I never saw him tm ering them looked 1k: angry sea,] such @ state,” re jcous waves had been sudd “He can bome tn." rues (Ta Me Con then a a