The evening world. Newspaper, November 14, 1911, Page 19

“Three Romeos’’ Can’t Be Charged to Shakespeare. BY CHARLES DARNTON. NY ONT who tmagines that “American musicaj comedy" is dead should go to A Theatre and become acquainted with “The Three Romeos.” In+ identaily, any one who isn't dead after the experience may consider him- ky. Was with @ real sense of gratitude that 1 felt myself alive after a mixed dove of R. H. Burnside and Raymond Hubbell at Mr, Dillingham'a theatre, where the sof pedal may usally be counted upon to soothe the Broadway brow. This time Mr, Dillingham was not there with the cool palm. He soothed us not. Instead there were brash sounds to disturb the ho ful first night. ‘To begin with, there was a book. That in itself was bad enough, but It grew worse as Burnside seared our sense of humor. To write things for the Hippotrome is one thing, but to confuse Broadway with several casos of mistaken Identity is » many things that hands must go up if only in wor- whip of the farctoal pant. The book proved #0 bad that It was almost possible to forgive the music. This polite teTm (music may be anything and everything) Is taken from the programme out of consideration for Raymond Hubbell, who, with the lostilty of youth, evidently still holds to the Chicago idea of musical comedy. An obviously “expensive cast added to the strain, First of ail there was Miss Rthel Ca . who Was 50 vocally rming in “The Arcadians” that it was al- most Impossible to take her as she sounded last night. ole H be @® Fashion Notes for the Winter Girl her" om "the orches nd coats, while for fatsts the navy blue skirt has a fichu of blue chif- out the present fashionable double-faced her HE double-faced cloths are mest- sults and coats, while for ffaists the vy blue as a M bail cotdhacnlold I ing: with the extreme | favor| cteat-cut lass buttons are etrongly fa-|fon trimmed with three rows eu eee etd, beled al Bon somplishing hellish anticipated. In remodelling a| vored, he thus carrying out the harmony of t flounce. sign. xt came Miss|coat @ plain cloth of contrasting color] yfaiine, which has had such a strong | Sult A Probably one of the most popular hat Georgia Caine, who may|is used for the co) revers, pocket] vogue in Paris, is now quarter coat can be easily | ies is the Plerrot, It has a medium have been worth her price] taps and cuffs, as ¥ as the Ining| many of the new hats in the fo! y wi high crown and a narrow upward rolly {n plumes, but not in the /thus giving the effect of a double-faced| enormous bows or an entire crow ing DIN, notes that a singing lady cashes at the box office. Vocaily, Misa Caine was "way! ototh, foops. Maline and fur form a novel « below par, and her acting had the same market value. She was as harsh as bination, but a number of ha hats have soft folds of the matine edged Buttons form no small part of this season's dress trimmt sienna ae A MATTER OF FRACTIONS. &5~—My half-brother is engaged to Broadway after midnight. flounce is of striped and many The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday, November jew York Wo Biren are getting scarcer.” We hope they become en tirely extinct. Then we won't have to explain to our bru netics when we are twenty minutes late for dinner . Coy ht, 1931, ‘The Preee Povilahing Co, mre, Oe Ne Wand.) | A cold wave swept over Massaohu- | setts last week, and Kentucky also | went Democratic, The migratory cooks are forming what they will call the Senator Bat- jley Club. Siaty-seven Assemblymen have been elected in New York to ful the vacancies that existed while Tam- many twas in control. A young girl says the only way to be happy is to marry an old man, | There is @ chance for argument. Is it really true that old men have fewer relatives than young ones? Luther Burbank has invented a ry David 1 late “Ned” Harrigan owned What was said to be the oldest New York play bill known to be in existence, It reads: For the Benefit of the At the New Theatre tn Naaaa t This, Kren! (Being the Last Comedy Galt orb Woh LOR. ‘Then follows the cast, embracing the names of Messrs, Malone, Rigby, Rell, Singleton, Hallam, Clarkson, Miller, Adcock, and Mesdames Hallam, Rigby, Adcock and Clarkson, Hetween the acts of the comedy there was singing by Mr, Adcock and Mrs. Love and a hornplpe by Mr. Hulett, and the entertainment concluded with At the same time, the inexperienced producers of the plece, Messrs. Fellner and| novelties are being. a! Dreyfuss, ought to realize that they havo wasted a great deal of good material,| combination with colors not to mention a really handsome production, on a musical comedy that is at least! with the material, Wo years behind the tl Fred Wal- 4 material, then again it Is of a contrasting color, and {f the coat !s ned with the same material it carrtes with fur about the crown or a bow of maline ts edged with fur. A white lace waist to be worn with a wn, Pearl, in » harmonize is largely used for my wife's half-sister, Diggs—When will they be made oni ‘Boston Transcript. a “Ballad Fares called Flora, or Hob in the Well.” The cast of this included several of the same names, and also ~ on atood out as ced figuri raat, Hi as i + ~ MAGGIE PEPPER & 6 comedian was | “Go ‘Can’ That Laugh! Founded on Sper ov, eae wait, feta Check It Somewhere!” Alned fram emphasizing t fact. William Da slow are | “Oh, yest? she exclaimed, “I heard] her eyes widening. “Dead? Why, ten't at Pnishe tmp Vater lap oesl ld gd FAkS olen | she was no good.” my namo Darkln? ; ta at mir told ie the GOnOHTAAITy should| Mag Mty for the poor, decelved creature, © dear! Oh Poor litel be. Aatractions. w, however, there who had been so dreclous to Ger Hove ig Bis ih Pune aa tae ne or i | | sos from Maggte's breast, fans cee ae ee eee ee 1 ! and the lids dre » answered with a world of tenderness ly, and answered them. “Oh, well, I'll! They were seated in the lttle parlor ohne esate an tue ce 8 Poavered with & wan have to take a chance, of course, If/of the flat, opposite each ot A Oe omi ahead’ eds leved (anil ¢ Your name, dear, Js the same as dimmer than that’s the case." Her tone was Very| table on which a shaded lamp burne tor Otis oniy saver Away by stand! woman on the was ta ie: Margaret Pepper." rl The child 4 frown, curiously It. A new note In her volce caused the] young and pretty face, wasting dressed she s urtment into} ¢ fed violently. ns around the de- pd the ips that fully. down her brows in @ out of place on the pulse of her hope for advance a snug place, neatly an k # fl M1 to shrink a ittle when she asked| “Why,” she cried exeltedly, ‘f It's ley Kell: rasked her f - good old Thatch!" she whise nished, though not In the | x the a8 yours-you—you are my . Flous other shriti damsela fotl ° pered ous. It a ¥ possessed somethin Aunt avet! * * © But say, Auntie, awful example. Presently the detective went out of finitely than splendor » answer. |!f he ain't my father, what right hae VT Ore Pires Romete’ can't be charged the room and aunt and niece were left flected ¥ vut of me| he to beat me? fo Shas Even with Pit Pre aione together. e could Keep the ret Maggio shrank, as {f she herself had tor Otis to pisy Jullot-—but why rob the _—_—-_ ene soun i : struck, : Iha Somehow, | a ; gare 0k 1g CHAPTER VI. nt , an exter Maggie at tho we SUAS seo a eioere it . ] was closing time Holbrooke and , despite her fai! had been vile F H : , Con + Magule glanced over her Matrarid Qi Me she teal the| The child made a grimace, suggestive « f | picked up a letter ad mother. Does he!" she retorted, sarcasttoally. igor N the instany the last trace of which, she remembered dimly, 3 ‘ “If you knew him, you wouldn't need th fled. son had laid there e during the ant to ask. Muh! He beats us both—when- | din evil afternoon without any explanation, and we db woul r he feels ike it. © © © Gee, but I | aught to thrust {¢ into her muff, When she was ed, and i cog r naw: ith nate him! He's a cheap sport, anyhow. ‘ioe falling ready for the street, she turned to the S#ined by He UTE: MOE Oe the Rea Ton THI ne alan He" — ) the clutches of the Society for the child, who had gtood walitins apathet-| Was Just there, on the othe pani Bier wont es to him-—I won't! Oh, hush, please!’ Maggie begged, Prevention of Crueity to Children, Now te iepe soba uther go to the Soclety | The coarse manner or the child in this the litte, prisoner “prang toward the| "You are to go with me,” she sald, a parence TW art ane a a of primitive passion shocked > and cried out shrilly and led the way te levator. raed in Maggie's breast.| her immeasurably, The baby whom Not tho Soctety! Anything was not minde: ter Into ex wrath agalnat the] she had loved was grown into thia pre- but that nations now. After th atrain of the nt_aver the child's de- | eoclous 6 oF at asanclations Hci: cher © ce of satis- she felt curiously numb, letharg! pb i 1 she, too,| that had c he pa Eee tek Rhie than tal eka Pore : re Der eet aua’ semaneeiiay Tc would be time enough for a talk with iw ein tha change from tho Innocence she had rapfire at bedtime, and after avlile ered by the unexpected outburst, the girl whon they were in the seclus f ieee a SAE Wary ownidnee hus hate and] d so fondly Wiel pl nosh hey i t of eside ockroon th! eyes that were Fri ary eference was soul until she oou re MBs mornin’ at daybrcak 1 "You see? Bho knows, s.hy, my Of the flat, Healdes, tho stockroom, with | eves that were Frank's very own —met reference was) seniitive soul, Uptake opuld have 1 wed it till hall a ose your i y P him could not a , Sens pe unlit: ge. Lie noes en h ulted to an ex hook her head. to: im sure, she put| But she calmed herself suMctently to RD OIGsIIAAE, 8 ft Cone has must be e declared 5 TUAKe Aap RANGE © | epeak gently Shia’s Hand, ce. ‘ lin that she spoke the trut oq eee he repeated, “To| “Don't think of that dreadful man any 7 ere’ b rood ther) ae diently, without| For that matter, there was no ‘Go SIU NN more, de r. You're at home with me ts { At that, Ma herae! salt #3 e gain by false den no phon ng erect, her | how--tn your own home, Margte.' ie | re ‘ Het forgotten her 1 i nation, her| A Wave of reviving love welled over romlse, | anid wravely (0 Sinians person, wh fat saddened Maxg stim edad Ing away Ner momentary dis- SENATOR GORE was praising the art of com » who halted to listen, “Ll he. 'henalf, who had expected nothing ¢! ciel Sa the child, who had been S prole. |must have this child. Let me tell you | rom the threatened hor just that the merhory hava| Fa ; p ched through no personal fault. She has forgotten me but I=L oy go she accompanted her protector | been thus blotted had] Dis Ee ne to ne; Marais,’ ahe cried tten her—because I loved willingly, thankful, indeed, that loved with all her he “pola Pata when the girl had obeyed, she het 03, {aera v@.\ hor so! She's my brother Frank's little she had escaped a worse fate, such as After a silght pause #he spoke a dea a any =A ainee van| ton in her arm Cereb! aatatie’ te | girl. Do you understand now? Let me) had befallen her mothe hesitatin J ' , ild, very | into the hcpcigcaen ghes fave he The volce sank to a mu 1 7 aan H beh PR ges tei oy Hepa Reto al eas | and mare mur of prayer, “OH, bt me have her!" | which Maggie prepared, had been eaten, Her tone was tenderly wistf m of the child's| “It ts as Tho detective wus dewply moved. All and the dishes washed and put away ‘This t'me the ehild showed greater | | ‘ of W compromised on? 1 a the maternal Instinct In her rose swift- with the assistance of the c animation, She twisted tn her ch | "Dead exclatme ssed the child again and agatn, Rh A ry he wi 1 ty to do battle in May half. Ifer an intimate conversation began. nodded violently. cos = ie ee Coprright, 1911, by The reas Publishing Co, (The New York World, Seatless Sam, the Subway Gink #@ &% ( IM AHEAD OF The CROWD TONIGHT Due Richt ~ BET | Get A SEAT: [Meet sear (om sve GREAT Scotr! \'h GOIN@ THe | MIRONG: WAN! =e ee a : Play of the Same Name the Rose Stahl “Margie! she whispered. “My little Margie!" Her heart leaped with joy, for felt soft lips return the pressure of her own. Presently the ohild etirred uneasily and sat upright on Maggte's knees. “Why do you call me that?’ she questioned with puagied frown. “Margie?” “Why, came the from the aunt, “beca name—from Margaret."* But the niece shook her head tn de- nial, “No, tt in't,"’ he declared, with oon- Hon. ‘My name's Zana.” “Zaza! Maggie repeated, aghast. “Why, that's a French name—a stage name.” “Well, it's what they call me," the girl persisted. ‘I've seen the Play too. Father—I mean, Mr, Darkin, you know suid the woman was @ fool and know her business, ‘Oh, oh!" Maggie too horrified for furthor speech at the moment. As soon as sho} had mastered her emotion ehe spoke with grave kindness. “Don't think of the things that» man has said, Margie. No one will ever cail! you by the name again, If I ci Your name ts really M. one will call you that or “It's too old for her," she mused aloud, unconsciously, “and too showy— {t's loud. And that picture hat of hers {sa scream—a chorus gitt could make @ hit with it on Broadway,” “Father—Mr, Darkin—sald tt \ would make ‘em ait up and take notice," Mar- | ste exclaimed, eagerly. Maggie made a startled movement. "You heard?" sho questioned. ‘Then, as the child nodded nt. "T didn't |mean you to hear; but It's Just as well, |perhaps. You must dress more quietly |now, dear, as @ Ilttle girl should, You mustn't wear flashy things, Your tross and hat make you look too old and too conspicuous.” “Why, I'm seventeen,” sued, petulantly. It was apparent that whe did not favor the {dea of giving up her gorgeous raiment. Margie ar- (To Be Continued.) ) Ri Se By Clare Victor Dwi Darnir! \ B Glass oF JELLY ber | ss MY PER} The Oldest Play Biil Copyright, 1011, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World), thornless blackberry. If he wishes to do some reat good he will invent a thorniess apecoh to be used by the husband when he gives his wife o dollar for her own use, The man who gave his wife a birth- day present last week is a heartless, cruel wretch for reminding her that she ts a year older, An aeroplane crossed the United . States in fifty days, and tt took @ man seventy-two days to walk aorose. But even with this advantage there © Oo are people who would not trade their: feet for an aeroplane, a? nao £ Most of the titled mon in New York — have been summoned to appear Be” fore the Court and explain whether or not they are the man who Com: mitted suicide at the Hotel Astor, A. Curtis, Master Hallam, Mr. Mille, ae!” Becceley and Mise Hallam, : The prices were: “Box, 6a) pit, e gallery, 26.” And spectal announcement — was made that “No persons whatever to be admitted behind the acenes.” The Mr. Hallam mentioned wae Lewis Hallam, who ts well known in dramatio history, as are also his wife and son. Even at the early date mentioned, the ‘New Nassau Theatre” was not ¢h first In New York, though {t may have been rebuilt from the “Nassau Street Theatre.” ‘This was unquestionably the fret building in this olty devoted te the drama. It seated no more th: About 900 persons and was situated on the east side of Nassau street near Fulton, close to the site of the Old Duteh Churoh, where the famous Ful- ton street prayer meetings were held 4 about the time of the close of the civil e } a ‘The theatre bullting belonged to thal? entate of Rip Van Dam, and was prob: ably an inferior sort of place, for ir November, 1760, an advertisement ap- eared in the Weekly Post Boy an- /; Nouncing that “the house being new. floored, {9 made warm and comfortabie. dealdes which gentlemen and ladies + may cause thetr stoves to be brought.” Between 1760 and 1788 tt was replaced by theatre on the site of the old one,” and © was built by the Hallame (Lewis and William.) It continued to be the prin: cipal, 1€ not the only: one in town till { the old John Street Theatre was built | in 1768, . Of this heuse there ts comparatively! Uttle known, but it {9 eald to have been,» in ite day the only theatre of any tension to respectability unt) the old, Park Theatre was erected in 1198, on a site belonging to John Jacob Astor ‘This wae where the Syndicate Bull@ing now stands, and the etage entraace was on Theatre alley. The history ef 1d this latter house is well-known, st ‘The Richmond Hill Garden, br to Valentine's Manuel, was the frat to Wi contain @ real theatre. It was near the corner of Vartok and Chariton streets, where was the famous country seat of Col. Aaron Burr. This “real theatre,” « however, was comparatively modern, for Edwin Forrest played in tt, and f° was burned down tn 1840, oe The Ranelagh and the Vauxhall were two earlier and similar resorts. Con- cerning the Ranelagh Uttle ts new known, but the Vauxhall had @ real theatre, in which the principal actors of the city appeared during the summer rey season, This was first situated (in 17) ». on the ground afterward bounded by Broome, Crosby and Bim It comprised the old Bayard mansion and the surrounding * Afterward, Delacrotx, the family gardens, proprietor, removed the Vauxhall Ger- den to @ #ite on the Bowery south of the Sandy Hill road, reaching through to Broadway. On this ground mow _ stands the old Astor Library building. Anterior to all this there is @ legend that the firet theatrioal performance in this olty' was given in a loft on the Bast River water front, some time prior to 1mm, by Tony Aston’s Company, in ty