The evening world. Newspaper, December 23, 1911, Page 9

7 SRR rem AR eT ENE ET OR RE IN OMB Tem cae THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, Good Play the Thing, Says Ethel Barrymore, SCENIC SPLENDOR Wouldn’t Care If Writer Were Fiji Islander} \N KISMET, Will OTIS SKINNER 1911. "| tar to theatrogoors, “A new featite wit | maam,” fitrison Rte ROMS [a @ dance by Mile, Novodna and M. | Police Inspector” and others, Aveline. Among others at_the Colontal see George Lasiwood, English sing ng © with De Welt toppe: rT MacFarlane, Aldridge and t, will t ats. dian; Amelia Stone and Armand Kal #7 in Mon Amour, te Nichols, Avery and Hart, the Ahearn troupe of cyellite d Neff and Starr. Alhambra will have Titian innit Amato in “The Apple of Rice and Cohen in "The Bach- clor's Wife,” Lyons and Yosco, Gracte Emmett in| “Mts, Murphy's Second Husband,” Dale and Boyle and others On the bill at the Bronx Theatre wit! be Master Gabriel in “Little Tomeny at the New Ainste: ning to-night, the cuftatn will rise at & _o | Tucker,” Homer Lind in “The Opese | 7 Mere will he matings performances | ginver,” Kalmer and Brewn, Ashigy “4 | )De Koven’s Comic Opera “The et “ought and Paid For’ on Mondays | aia Lee, tae Temple Quartet, the Rob : | - P Wednesday, ‘Thuraday and Saturday. bre De Mont Trio and the Rexos, wet: % H ” week 0! fo th co! f . gh or Gow?’ ogtalied” will head the Dill at the Pitt: y New Feature of Coming tothe, Hix Hanner Show’ te announced) Venue Theatre, Other features will be The Murray Till Theater will have| Jack Wilson and company in “An Up- Week—German - American epne Merry: Whirl heaval in Darktown,” May Tully {t f3 “The Columbla Burlesquers move to| The Battlecry of Freedom.” Bower: Hurtig & Seaman's, Walters .and Crooker and Nonette le Opera Company to Give “The Waltz Dream” at At Miner's Eighth Avenue Theatre the | EYRsY violinia 5 siiraction will” be "The Daring “ot ‘The bili at the American Music Ha Para’ "Minera ‘Nowere, Theatre wit | Will include Valentine's dogs, Payne ait have “The Cosy Corner diria: Miner's | 140, Don Karlos, Godfrey and Hende: Theatre in the Rronx announces “The |#0%, Cameron and Gaylord, Grace Bi Weber's. Queene of the Follies Bergere.” mond, “The Stolen Diamond” and Jon “The Golden Crook” will be seen at|T: Murray. the Olympic. ec caeeieen Seulibe VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS. Fa eet At Hammerstein's will be Belle Baker, | MEKICO cite, Dee ‘entire treat TAntan Graham and Bthel Conrad, Hert | Pees manifesto calling On wertingmen Leslie in “Hogan the Painter," @am! io join in an anti-American demonetea- ~ Chip and Mary Marble tn “In Old tion Sunday. x GPRCTACULAR event of the . A coming week will be Manager Harrioon Grey Fiske's produc- tion of Edward Knoblauch’s play, “Kie- met,” in which Otis Skinner is to de presented by Kiaw & Erlanger at the Kalokerbocker Theatre on Christmas night. This play, described as “an Arabian night,” comes with a long ems] | London run to its oredit.’ Ite three acts are laid in Bagdad 1,001 years ago. ‘The chief scenes are the Street of the quem j | Baraare, the Diwan of the Caliph, the Hamman of the Harem, and a wedding procession. Mr. Skinner plays Hajj, a beggar, who rises in @ day to @ position of wealth and power only to sink tack to his jowly refuge a banished outcast, seeking ealvation by @ pilgrimage to Mecca. All the ection takes piece from one sunrise to another. Hajj begins the Gay by meeting his enemy, Jawan, the ‘man who etole his wife and slew his on. He blesses him before he finds out his Mentity, end for his blessing re cetven a purse of gold. Hajj then eteats big bundles of merchandise, presents for his daughter and fine raiment for himself, and ‘s brought before the wicked | Wasir Mansur by the merchants, who track him down to his poor house The wicked Wazir tricks him into an osth to slay the Caliph, and at Hajj's de- scription of his daughter, Mareinah, swears he must make her that evening his wife of wives, Hajj te overjoyed, not knowing that Marsinah foves and {sn loved by @ stranger, who te none other than the Caliph himecif, disguised ae & gardener’s eon. He attempts to stad the Caliph, and is chained in @ vault where his enemy, Jawan, is al- ready lying, He throttles Jawan, and escapes in the dead man’s cloak to the wicked Wasir's harem in time to res- gives too great an opportunity to Eng- at a oak eee Prhibtgaed a 4 jlish authors?” 1 asked | . TOO MUCH ENGLISH ACTOR, NOT] pcs canEnter and pe, Tat AUTHOR, HERE. has been of adventure and how “I think the American stage gives 00! on the morrow he wii etart on a pil- reat an opportunity to English actors,” | grimage to Mecca. ‘Answered Miss Barrymore. “An Ens-| Among others in the cast of 180 will Ish actor practically unknown in Lon-|5. pita Lallvet, Violet Romer, @ @an- don comes to New York and gets a good | —___~_" = part without any trouble. And becaui 4 " 4 he has an accent people say, ‘Oh, h Kelederanditadt hedmregy Syertes Tt 18 a gentleman!’ He may be uterly lack-| very largely the individual that most $30,000 for Charity YOUR Favorite Benevolent Institution May Have ~ Its Proportion. , Vote for It" Full particulars at Charity fy Nea boar Fourth Floor, Center, and at Information Bureau, Main Floor, MAIN rere Also at Information Bureau in our GREENHUT Building, Main Floor. Greenhut-Siegel Cooper Co. J. B. GREENHUT, Pres. Sixth Avenue, 18th and 19th Streets American Stage Doesn't! Give Too Much Oppor- tunity to the English Author, in Her Opinion, But It Does to the Eng- lish Actor. balance and tumbling over backwards. “I've been so busy trimming that 2 Christmas tree,’ sald Miss Barrymore, Public Here Attracted) wins sacisted glance over her shoul. ‘More by Name of |éer “that I haven't had time to dre: < t's @ common belief that an actress “Star” Than Play, and} hasn't anytitng to do but act for a few hours every evening and play the Tt Prefers Musical) weiat matinces, but people don't realize hhow completely her time is taken up, Comedy, and Even She especially if she happens to have a May—Who Can Tell ? | nome ana child to look after. When I'm in New York I haven't @ moment I can call. my own. , BY CHARLES DARNTON. |DESERTS THE CHRISTMAS TREE ; Precise s himself couldn't have « FOR A “8HOP” TALK. The Williamshurgh Savings Bank Broadway and Driggs Ave., Brooklyn «~ Notice is hereby given that on and after the Twenticth day of January, 1912, » Semi-Aantzal Interest at the rate of FOUR PER CENT. per annum will be paid to all depositors in this bank who on-the First day of January, 1012, may be entitled thereto. Money deposited on or before January 10th, 1918, will<draw interest, from January Ist. ACCOUNTS CAN BE OPENED BY MAIL. Bead for booklet and full instructions, E. B, TUTTLE. President, WILLIAM F. GURMS, Gone better. Now," she addéd, seating hereelf tn | Success was the only word ay tog bralbatny a big chair, “what sh cer; Hamilton Revelle, Sheridan Black, That question al : y . Fred Eric, Mary Harlan, George Relph ing In distinction, but that doesn’t mat- | people go to see. La) for it. It suggests a “subj and Ernest Leema' - pes rr tk * o} n. mie ariag mtal cuarty aire chad late ievevinny caraWvaicstnines cis) ter in the least. ‘And they are not Iikely to be satis. da a “He gets a good part and @ 00d | fied unless the star ts ‘performing” all iS ah ‘salary, whereupon he starts in to damn |the time, They expect something from| Reginald de Koven's new comic opera, |the country. It's ridicutous! He thinks |her in every act without stopping to "The Wedding Trip,” will be offered at jwe dop't Khow, but I've played on the | consifer the play, without realizing that|%he Broadway Theatre on Christmas other side and 1 know how much he has |it would be wrong for her to project |night. The book, by Marry B. Smith and to be thankful for. herself constantly. I've never distorted | Fred de Gressac, concerns ttself chiefly “We have a great many fine Amert-|a play to make opportunities for my-{with Fritzi, the belle of a country can actors among our young men, and|self, and I've never taken @ Mne or @|town, and Felix, her awain, They have ail this fs rather hard on them. As for| laugh’ from another member of the] just been married and are on the point the American author, J don’t think his of warting on their honeymoon, Th opportunities are Mmited. There ts no t hear! you “stars” who have| celebration is brought to a halt by the reason why young Mr. Sheldon and| helped yourselves:to all the good thi ft an uncle of Feltx, who an- others shouldn't write just as good|in the plays you've ruled. Why not that the oube: baeoaes treat mind you, but a big, fine production |!" the minds of most people, imme- drawing-room comedies ax those that] start the New Year by re go to the military post and represent rs if | diately takes the form of drawing room come from England, Surely our soct- | d his twin brother, Francois, who has ab- Ter ge ‘ ) with an even finer and bigger i2ea| comedy. Must a play have its scene in|“! don't think,” ehe said, “that am |ety ts Just as diverting and offers quite) she went om, |sented himself without leave and is 12 XG EL L SToOl back of {t. @ tenement to escape this description? |AMerican actress should have any ac- | as oany. problems as the English| “the Public has become so used to see- Mable, to be shot as a traitor. A sertes ~ “ ¢ : dicapped a West- y set. ventures follows, The cast will ~ / Pan © Old-fashioned it may have beon,| “And as for American actresses ap- [Cont If ee is handicapvedsby a West ft doesn't matter whether the play i tral tae omen? iy Bag A} yet"ihere was no mistaking the tact |Pesring in English plays, T can't wee ern ‘r’ and given to the use of provin alien whether, the: play |(ih oe eA Se Man ie acripaeaee 16 PRE rothy Jardon, Christine Niel- |i AV IN G RY BAN K sah He eee eee con [ta RORIIabs ven, Fritz! Von Busing, Dorothy Mor- that it did not lack for up-to-date {ttt it makes any difference provided Sialinthy, / ANS eL GOO. get over: then) | "inkas Goteane Temporarily, teat George Madison, Joseph Philitpa and 4 . K Ee a ded, “so long as it's a big play.| up & hame, For example, people would |ton, Gwyn Dubary, Grace the plays are interesting. I'd gladly ap-|'%&t's all. Some of the English accents | hut or course, big plays aren't written! 80 to seo Miss Adama if she appeared | s:award Martindel, John What they like most | Chart oe, 46 Ww. 24th St. fw musical comedy, And | CrsTe# BUMS | a! coma ita BE. sae othtlgine trimmings. It was such a triumph | pear in a play by a Fijt Islander if te |SoUted by American players are rather | wvery day. It 1s not always possthle| in the dictionary, so great 1s her pop ve, that 1t means nothing| 1 don't blame them, just etaged a new production that | t*ckle offhand, It’s much better to let defied criticis: ducti [the talk take its course and trust to criticism, @ production 80) juck, And if, as happened in this in- magnificent in color and perfect 1] stance, it should turn upon drawing- detail that no critic could see it| room comedy by English authors for without throwing up both hands| American actresses, why worry? 4 is s, . e term ‘a’ "or romedy and his pencil as well. No -wonder | givayy irritates me," Miss Barrysuore| her eyes still shone with the excite- quick to say. “If there happens to Ment of a.sort of dress rehearsal! | be a rug on the floor or some one pours This was no mere curtain-ralser, 4 CUP of tea in a play the whole affa:r, Emmen MeClosk Arthur Cunningham, Charies Angelo, of bright lines that {t could be ap-| Were a good one. There are so many |remarkable: UU admits but as a hotee leven to gat a aod Blay. ‘This te what] larly, Names count for more on the 2 ae" be | mal yo" ion ol \° eee erdie out the ligating: ote a Re enna cieee tee camer ©} affected than wrong. My grandmother, | cuit, Mme, Nazimova told you Inat| of all, thoug! that will make it still more brilliant | ¢. mn, erous Mrs, Drew, who was on the stage from | week, I bell m very fond of} The German-American 0} ; i an-Amerte pera Com. | MM The trusters ha 0 (OACHER Serer to mention—that it doesn't matter, i]¢he time she was a girl until she was|to her to be a atar. I foel exactly the| tt myself, In fact, 1° love to appear pany, with cirete Meyer, Vilma Contl, t ZoPERANAUM chia Bs H 8. seems to me, in what they appeat seventy-elght, never had any ular|#ame Way about it. I can be just a in musical comedy, Paul Verhexen, Poli! Murauer and other eatit $8 so4*upward jewed simply as a spect cle tt was| But Miss Barrymore couldn't keep|senooling, yet she didn't know ha member of company, even though cir-| “But of course you wouldn'tt™ nization that re: % Sto gorgeous, and it towered to such dizzy | beck a smile when mention was made pub ey eee peal hes cumstances have made me a atar, | “Yes, Bt £ a ‘t—" the Irving Pi He, Son, coy heights that a certain young spectator, | of the desperately Engiah accents that]ean be acquired by study, and one may| PUBLIC DEMANDS A STAR {EBs rat_ manager to Kinw a Keason at Joe Weber's iwi, in clad in a white jumper, couldn't “take | £0 many American actresses have ac-'study even on train RATHER THAN A PLAY. a h up and hang @ jingling, glittering |‘Theatre on Monday afternoon, The first petore, Jan. 108 W. Cor. I4th St. and 8th Avenue. a usical comedy on that beautiful | of Il be OT ntete "Bt ridend rte : 1 tn” without danger of losing his quired. “Do you think the American stage ‘But the worst of {ts that the publle, | Christmas tree? bill d Dy Oaentalieiaal tee tk tamil. ti yin ERT, Jen, 02, ye. Am ih ene Newnes tat se em |e a ed FOUR PERCENT. er antrum on all mime trom, § STORIES AS TOLD IN THE BEST NEW NOVELS OF THE DAY | eo Eee 4 WILLIAM FEISINGER, Precident, ALD MP Kidnapped Son Cheats His Father) Young Stephen pulls out $86,000 @ year) mannered and runa a bis department | Gerard rete out to discover Just what} and forty days away from colnkd silver tion. Arch who is the Major— a Laurus How tc Ente, by burglary and such things, He keeps|store by day; by night he le sort of a man is that Egbert Lothian, amey, | Baye he: suaded reluctantly. ‘The double game “AN ENEMY OF SOCIETY,” by|Dhitanthropint on the rer, And he loves | Marauisof ‘Dryatat Scotchman, who seete unaerountably | of then tay ha Broceads, versDody lobes everything A ; e loves| Marquis of Drys reed 4 {ne r M 7 r Sith batt Ps wg er P= soon will 1 igh 0, bu George Bronson Howard. Declma, who ts 8 good qitl and has halt| corded for twenty years as a eulcide, | Wermined to marry Tessie | ey ee te ener el A hae xp maa el S a preparation for coming into the| ® million of her ow Get all that? ee ene ee ee Blackened walls ‘ ‘ serious Raisacey farina ateehan 3 Naturally there has to come a change.| Well, in the end, Rawnsby-Maulevs| covery she has become hopelessly en- craft guilds, The two husbands have no se A E08 phen Janis | yr, Howard puts many {mposatbilities | erer-Dryadale raves the police a lot of | amored of Lothian and has married him. ‘een ry 8d is taught— To hate the rich; humor, 'T) an instant, T Mra wives lose thelrs for | re is talk of @ duel yA packs hurriedly, Mra. Dut: Into his book, but he can't make this; trouble. Ho killa off a ¢ of his would neve polsoned Bossle Mariitt women and sort of things last forever. When the| pals after one of them hax led atti] tO get him, “Says #o herself, Yet the But what crash comes, Stephen provides good| another of the gang. Then, quite con-| honeymoon ts not past when ahe quita| — tpping ery t a5 And then, just at the right | fim pleasure a: o for his wicked pale and dissolven| sideratcly, he falls A before the pis- bert for her own & and for ten iaeanariiae r wail he im ib f OF aera ee honopely: ‘Also. ho] fol of the oMicer’ whan, ut. the aamo| sears. Io reveals himseit as eo aelt-| Two Husbands Are Corrected by| "author tiamilton pushes thore cioude | Diewiat’ ‘on tatn eters ip datwit ented To dety the police on principle. tne, he Wounda mortally with his own | fighteous a pris that he makes even) Rigging Each the Other's Wife. : nee Ke boy. “Outfits These are not his father’s teachings. our 190-page ENCYCLOPEDIA), “Big Steve” {s a grasping monopolist t 1 No, 10 with 400 sieealne oO tato?, Miss Magruder's pages provoking. mn “ei “4 i Meus the salinnter in fevertheiess, wfier a decade ot selt-|“4 SENSE OF HUMOR,” by Cosmos too late to rose: repents — heraplf. ? tH} BP Me ceed him tn piling up milons—though | — Northwest early in November, | him. | ot WY" a Pika texte mee | ON €REDIT Aleconnt It vom bel h - or thawed uk when he um riend, ou ea % discount if vou beta o he has not been prepared to object to] gay one day, ‘an ol Inllan flayed ot 1 lehianda, Tardlts you caught my HES & DIAMOND JEWELRY 5 ore i Me ae Py an addition of culture such as he has fa blanket costume, with trape, kuife and umband klesing your wife? 4AAGEST a3: furiog many EASY PAYPIENTS CALL WRITE TEE CORT 586? not. casiriiges tn hits belt and, to orown all, Wilson, who tolls her to| ‘Thus to Sir Wilfam Dutton, famtl- ele: Meena? “ey rue ae revo ————_— But Jentesary the elder proposes and @ straw hat with the Md off," useful to the gang leader, nie aina to furthéxt |tarly willy, speaks Mre. Major Haye, | Peet vet dae MERICAN W THs MONDCO Lost, FOUND AND REWARDS eee, teh young American Scotland, On the station platform ts a a < ne the disposes, St: he Thi r young is firat nume Viola, The joke of it tw that 6 MAIDE ‘enemy! jephen the Third i rival of the noblem |[Axuro almowt familiar. Kilts and a rin ; ree tw kidnapped at the age of two by a| Villains Kill Each Other OF and ye oe an tom chat ate, Jepaon|ahort teenrd arn arrange, Yat there | Stasor'a ite and’ wants to dott agatte grocer whom his father has “equeesed,” aaare Bilentene the Dube, ean think of for the time being. stande @ Lothian : ee: Sie see wane fe oo me DIAMONDS & warcuts oN cnet | ‘and who ts the easy tool of a ring of| “ HO 0; i 1 also ¢ myatery. ‘This Tnjoy yourself. = fest Valves in ihe City, tasios! Terms, sberp plotters, And with this kidnap- By Edgar Jepson, Lothian, who greta her with cold) ye gounds wicked, but it Ie not. Billy ROYAL DIAMOND & WATCH CO. Ping begins the fantastic story of New ey s bp Isa filrt and knows it, His wife, Pog, 7 Malden Lars, Phon Cort. | a i HEY are three bold raaca ny more than ten yearm, eee Meer RA Raat tittarts tat “arta : | ‘ort, emy of Society” (Double I right, who jump Lady Aldi pot ary hant t Ho winga. He pluye the cello,” Me tke8 | gaat anougs’ te be indulgent, tteee, RABWAW'® READY RELIEF | dase wie | WANTED, wow U3. ‘BUM, abie-bodied un Gay, Page & Co,), into which George automobile, bind the tady and her the Lont hay animals, Ho 14 a man companionable. | ayer, of the present #tuation a) Harlem Branch, aii W gitiaeus of ‘he United Beaten, ¢ Sones Howard ets newton we | asurtar vane he rah.) , ii aotr ig aoe sto Fee tate aa eta?’ NESURALGIA|sccn” miles from London, make off with the| sh, T put them down sorrow: . oP HOR), So Penee ri a hj Henge of Hurnor’ (Brentano's), wrt The stolen boy grows up ae Stephen! aidington Jewels, and leave thelr vier | ms defl tetcy Fy denrees ahe faila in tove with the iy” Cosmos Htamntiton. tem Radway’s Ready Relief ix the best fed jue anor is ie tima to be found next morning by ® Kindly take pattern! neaie dail bs Fath hin to tell the truth, made up) eor ant known, and therefore tit nd to make Major Haye Jedous best embrocation that ean bet ty too S fore | Newralgi Rub it on the part afe sto Nie (fected, and keep Mannels d with 1 for his soul's it on the seat of the pain until ease is|s nd div H | laborer, | gan floor a thug with a turn of the Ff eyes ch Fd Yife Who Leavi i toes Back! Melaron érom's cornice on ® tenath ‘This is the sensation with which Fa. Wile Who Leaves Lothian Goes Back of fine wire, knock out a police giant |S@% Jepson opens “The House on the to Face a Mystery. with a half-arm jolt, He {8 the prin-| Mal" (G. W, Dillingham Compamy), @) “HER HUSBAND,” by Jutia Gel behind @ long string of mysteri.|tale in which myatery and murder are| a ‘obs ; That “FUN" book Magruder, Ho catohes Hilly | obtained ic HT ous burglaries, And when he has prom-| multiplied by murder and mystery, Wagrud Bat. land ‘Viola in the act, ae intended. He | coment: Wola will anally be ip thet « ise aR et riven ever ve {ged Decima Duress $5,000 for her model | Scotland Yard belng busy all the time. | BRE are two parts and & myse seeks counsel from Peg, which does | Course Of ten or fifteen minutes, with te temement scheme he tricks his own| It turns out that the man who owns tery to Julla Magruder’s story “Her Hyaband” (Small, Maynard Wong Fat cards te the money, but hoi n the Mall ‘esponalb Cys fat most’ of the cole, "He le milde|@ Oo), in wich, for @ start Puree does not know jt ie bis father, |for most of the crime, He Je mil moe acer to marion auick axa wink) | Sold by all Druggists. counter airta. | RADWAY & CO., New York. |World Wants “Work Wonders, » Enid| Mra, Dutton suggests