The evening world. Newspaper, March 1, 1912, Page 19

ee TE REMOTE bven. i 2, Nah ing **The Greyhound’ Is Sea-Going Melodrama. eEY CHARLES DARN F tife on the ocean wave is half ag exciting as Paul Armstrong and W: I Misner make It out to be in “The Greyhound,” seen and marvelled at. leet mer AEE at the Astor Theatre, no one will think of going to Europe this sum jer without a bodyguard, heavy insurance st man-eatl fan fron-dound copy of “How to Win at P pdiahd mies The terrors of the deep, the dangers of o earnestly and generously get forth. This trip was so eventful that if the ship ews reporters ever get wind of it they'll be steaming tip Broadway in expense. @coount taxituge. Like you, impatient reader, they may be surprised, ev @tartied, to learn that it was on board the Mauretania that “Deep Sea Kitty," “The Pale Face Kid," “Whispering Alex" and “The Greyhound" got in thelr enterprising work. It. was not necessary to use marine glasses to make out the @eme of the ship. A glance at the programme settled the question, “The Grey- Goend” proved to be the name of the sea-gving villain. There was a stight delay in getting off, due to the fact that the villain couldn't leave San Francisco until his wige had taken @ dose of potson. Like @ good wife, ready to share anything with her husband, she asked him to Join her in @ farewell drink when he sald he was going to jump into the bay because he had killed a man in Los Angeles (liat!), but he tossed his head Off to one side and left her flat. After carefully observing Miss Loulse Woods in the role of the .nife I was not at all surprised to see her poison hi self, But a stomach pump mus been called in as @oon as the curtain went down, for she was not only on deck when the play put to sca, but she appeared to be in the bes: of health. The fact that ehe wasn't enw semtok established her as a herotin tn 4% stomach that could defy anything, Bow the villainous husband could possibly imagine her to be a ghost is more than I can understand. It was exceedingly thoughtful on the part of the authors not to allow this bas healthy apparition to interfere with the bitte Procter Otle smooth work that ‘The Greyhound” wenn Hilde. performed as soon as he introduced himself to Mrs. Foster Allen, “of many @rfftivens."" ‘This lady's possessions alo included two sons and a daughter. To Beep her daughter from marrying Bob Kirk, once a famous football player but Mow “a struggling architect,” she acted upon the villain's suggestion to buy an travel, have never been more Baroness Von @ash in Paris, You see the game, don't you? Meanwhile “Deep Sea Kitty” was playing another one, Assuming a foreign @ocent and a foving manner she proceeded t!) make young Percival Allen her @rey. But would the tigress be rovbed of her young? Never! Kitty, with her Meminize tn: t in 00d working order, guessed as much and planned to bring ~@uk again Oirs, Allen for allenating SwPercival's budding affections. So there ‘Were two little games going on at the @ome time. Now for the big one in the smoking room! This was up to the expert hero, ene Mi@herry, once a gambler but now am honest man and true—true to Mrs. Greyhound, whom he had lost five years before berruse his reputation wasn't werth a white chip. In those days he could cheat the sickest cheater in the Poker business. And he stil! knew the lek. 80 he allowed “The Pale Faco Kia" to lead him into the smoking room, end when the deal ¢ot around to him he handed that trusting crook @our aces and gave honest Bob Kirk & queen-high mraight flush. There was * something like $10,000 in the pot when the crash came. The whole “Grey- hound" gang was cleaned out, Thero fe Mele more to tell. When Mrs. Grey- heund eppeared on the hurricane deck fo the moonlight her terrified ‘husband took one look at her and leaped over- “board, All this amounted to nothing moro than sea-gotng melodrama. But clever lines thrown out by the authors and equally clever work by two members 0: Otis wes completely in her element as “Deep Sea Kitty." funny ¢¢ the gorgeously funny hats and gowns she wore. she made Kitty + real character. “ance an artiste delight. Jay Wileon helped the fun along immensely in rote ef ‘The Fale Fece Kid." the cast saved the play, Fhe proved as gor- Moreover, $e. G6 2 04, quiet work a2 McSherry; Henry Kolker took the title role very seri- easly, 623 Eimer Grandin was amusing, though a bit farcical, ae a proud citizen the first work f Messrs. Armstrong and Mizner. This time they are pleased tgound" {e in for @ run. —_—- —-— Beity Vincent's Advice to Lovers A Soldier Lover. ns Die writes: "I am in love with a| rit," ‘at West Point, but the parents ‘shall we elope?” ish to do #0, were stayin: giving the party, Was I unsociable?” other way, Gim off and gave the ingratiating crovk a check for $5,000 that he promised to, Jay Wilson as “The Pale Face Kid.” Elita Proctor Her accent was a delight, her whole perform- As this big, red-faced crook, who was always “In wrest," be came out second only to the fair and fat Elita, Robert MeWade @¢ Lawes, Ohio, Douglas J. Wood played “Whispering Alex" with no sense of “The "* can't match “The Deep Purple” for truthfulness, tut it Is povel ané entertaining and full of the original, racy humor that characterized te state that “running « delicatessen store is hazardous compared to running a qembling house.” We don’t know about that, but it's @ safe bet that “The Grey- “When out walking I acquaintances who in- vited me to @ house party where they | I refused because I had not received an invitation from the girl No; you could not have acted in any “Say, mister, kin | sleep In your barn?” might object!” ress Publishing Co, ork World), The “Show Me” Man. O™ upon a time there Was a man. right, 1912, by 7! Comrie Phe’ New He said he was “from Missouri.” That is to say, he wanted to be shown, Ho be- lieved nothing that he did not see and eaw nothing that he belleved—with- out BEING SHOWN. He was the fel- low that always told how he “was respected In his own town.” Now, when a man TELLS you how much he fs re- spected in his own |town you really try to sum up a little bit of Missourian ancestry yourself, | He usually is the “perfectly proper” Person who has a mor on pos- terity with a rebate attachment Ii* things do not go right. Thus this man's favorite slogan was “L told you so, You've got to show me. He had no faith in anything or any- body and EVERYTHING had to be Fables for Everyday Folks opener: Schooldays e-cHuA! Ku 1 be excuses 2 LSwatemeo MY “Weill, you'll have tew ask the dog. He sleeps there himeelf and signed, eenled and delivered. Let @ friend pass a joke and he im- mediately would want to dtesect it and prove how it could NOT be. He had no faith, and therefo: hope amd charity were UNKNOWN to him. If @ friend of his told him of some splendid business opportunity, no matter ‘how much he believed in the integrity of ‘his friend, he created @ continual “show me" attitude that caused the friend to crawl in his shell, as it were, until the deal went through and the man from Missour! was far eway from the ground floor of it all, He only accepted everything on face value, and without defalcation he re- celved it accordingly. If even on pleas- ure bent he wanted to know the why and wherefore of it all, and go lost the SPIRIT of the pleasure itself. He did not reason that while the proof of the pudding 1s in the eating there are many g00d puddings that ere not eaten. So it comes to pass that there aro many good things happening without the everlasting proof of them. He went on the theory that everybody was gullty until proven innocent. One day the show-me man was eng!- neering an enterprise. He was busy jhowing people what a GOOD enter- WAT catyp OT Kichin” Whieg, ahs there is one continuous rule of “noth- ing venture nothing win.” And if every- and the actors would be exhausted in the continuous effort of developing without wafting for developments. AGINATION would be lost in the pro: ess and Its wonderful effects with it. enterprise with @ grain of faith and an ounce of hope, expecting to come out pr show that this wes the case. looked black. This time I vidual he might have been able to have him, Find «*Patches’’ end Follow the Stringl <a at “abd Ag > ¢ votrld Daily Magazine, Friday, Har ovedta ENCOURAGE ya! -) Be B y J. K. Bryans “Was this the cow that gave us the milk we had for breakfast?” “Naw. This is the cow that’s gotn’ I'm takin’ her to the buteherie. Now, it happens in the work! of work curtain on of lfe would never go down | in IM. So there were those who went into h! with a pound of PRODUCTION, But, as in the everyday acheme of things, {t came to pass that the enter- failed, though the show-me man Was Mot in error and quite innocent of the disaster. Yet he had nothing to For once ho was off his guard. Things B was call upon to do the #howing, and he had nothing to show. were turned. Had he not been such @ show-me ind!- | ¢a: had @ grain of TRUST retained for “REtar ) wf —— Ron in DRowing fir Toon. By Sophie Irene Loeb Prise it was and that investments spelt SUCCESS on this. Winkieby gazed at the new with fatherly pride, but not apprehension in his eye, neverth This time he was|\ sw nc ans aed guilty until proven innocent. The tables Maro pe bhi oieaahih al would be But having always presented the proot attribute to the world it was doubly bard. everything had been clear to him BE. FORE, KNOWN of the coming wreck, whioh It was natural to presume that @nd therefore he must hav reality wi Perhaps he | not the case, ined thereby that there's many a gold nugget in the rock that does not show itself AT ONCE. nature's way to expect a CATTLE faith It ts humans, and to those indeed she speaks a various language. Everything wort about with an ey out ‘hope and belief. Edison, has proved this, MORAL: FROM MISSOURI, BUT THRE ARE OTHER STATES. while does not come ‘lasting aeeing with- At least one man, IT'S “14. RIGHT TO BE ——_— HIS PREFERENCE. triplets ttle ra, Winklebdy, softly. “Nothing, dear, nothing,” he eald, Iteringly, “only don’t you think that it ser for us hereafter ¢o butld Mttle family on the instatment '—HHanper's Weekly. By Dwig we ip we teem 7 figsan 1, 88 Aro $m, MpiTeHER Ov YIM aL! To 2% Then TD with see Fae 000 March to give you the steak for dinner. i Sor tenet ne nares 1, 1912 “ME--SMITH” Biggest Cowboy Story Since “The Vi . By Caroline Lockhart ? i £ é i | TT CHAPTER IX. of Grasshoppers. ‘T wee Saturday, and, there te- ef if ig gz i i Ei i i % } i | | Ing no school, both Susie and Dora were at home, Ralston was considering in which di- rection he should ride that day when Susie came to him, and after say ing to Smith with elaborate politeness, “Excuse me, Mr. Smith, for whispering, but I have something very private and confidential to aay to Mr. ” ahe shielded her mouth with der band and said: “Teacher and 1 are going Getting. we are going up on the side hill now to catch grasshoppers for bait, and I thought maybe you'd like to help and to fish with us this afternoon,” “And there's | She tttered in his ear, “Let Susie's action conveyed two things to Ralston's mind: First, that he had not | been so clever as he had @upposed in |dissembling his feelings; amd second, | that Susie, recognizing them, was dis- Posed to render him friendly aid, Smith noted Ralston’s brightening eye with suspicion, jumping to the very nat- ural conclusion that only some pleasing Information concerning (he achoolmarm would account for it. When, @ few min. | 4 later, he saw the three away together, each with a tin or paste- board box, he realized that his surmise 5 5 3 rs Hf i r Es £ H i E i E : - § t i ticed in a swift, eidelong glance that the pally ©f her eyes all but covered the concern, turning the small, fhe declag vephe} polaon some peoples a her Gngers, pink palm upward. “We must get it out,” firmly. He wondered if it was imagination, or did her hand tremble a iittle in Ris? Hie celtef wee not unmtned with disap- needles.” He eon- Uny puncture with y Gurt—thoss tinued to regard the unabated interest. Glowering, Gmith walked restiessty | brow ‘ cia @bout the house, ignoring the Indian; Ralston Dora's hand, and they inquiring, wistful eyes, curdiog Bote hed been doing picket duty ; wendered thro e A yy “Out Sor your fallin’ health, Mister Smith?” inquired Suste, with solicitude. . and hopin’ to pick cheap,” he repited BR nie ly eignéficance as he code by. wide cheek pieces and the hand-forged| Aad while the soft light faded frem Dit. It would have been « satisfaction | Raleton'’s eyes, the color leaped to his to destroy them all. He hated particu-/ face; uneoneciously his fists clenched larly the Uttle hrown mare which Raise |as he looked after Smith’s vanishing ton brushed with euch care each morn-| back. It was the latter's frst overt act ing, Smith's mood wee black indeed. | of hostiliey; Ralston knew, and perhaps But Ralston, aa he walked between | Smith intended it 90, that the clash Se. Dore and Susle to the side hil where| tween them must now come soon, tiways founds felt et peace with all she HA ways |, felt at peace ith al ie World-even Gmith—and i wee te Gis CHAPTER X. heart to hug the elfieh half-breed Mother Love. aa she ekipped beside him. Dora's fre- ei ‘ Pay bubbling laughter made him theist; tonged to shout aloud like a school: boy given an unexpected holiday. Each time that his eyes sought Dora's, shadowed by the wide brim of her hat, her eyolids drooped, slowly, reluctantty, | gin, as though they fell against her will, color came and went under her in a fashion which filled him nder, that there are few #0 absorbing as catching While Ralston previously this fact he never had ed that It contained any etem sure akin to the delights of Py “Mother,” al asked 40 you let that hold-up hang here for?* “Who you meant’ the woman asked quickly, Guste spat out the offensive. “That Smftht"* word ike something To chase grasshoppers by oneself ts one thing, to pursue them In the coi pany of a fascinating schoolmanm another; and when one has in mind ¢ t that ult marm may Her tone was etudbvorn, as though she hopper the expected and wae to resist an gods to envy jattack, ° . Whilo the firet| .,¥04 d0n’t—-you can't-mean. iti” @u- bv thin face Agshed soaglet with shame. ly spring has not t ah,” the woman nodded, it; and Susie, staring at her of terror, saw that she did. “Oh, mother! mother!" she eried pas- bis August de he ts suffelently alert to make ure no inean feat. It must be bort ind that the grasshopper is not “T mean @ kind fool and that he appears to we be from tig rear. Though he remains m senniely, Stepping 2 tn Bese ans Uoniess while the enemy ts allppi ? treaty eae tee, AUnIny 8 allbing convulsively about the Indlan woman Don't—<lon't say that! We've deen a little different from the We've always held our heads up. ike us and reapect us—both In- ois not AWare of sald 1 brownteh-black, fatherly hopper t juns and white, Wave never been er, Seen si) not #0 | talked about~you and me-rand now you steric’ fon Ba woing to spol tt all “T get ted up to him right,” defended the woman sullenly, ‘Oh, mother!" waited the chiki» “We need good white man to run de a variety that Dora and Ral themael ve whl Susie followed the smaller and more sprightly around the hill till she was out of aight Ralston became aware that no ma ter in which direction the gri he i marked for his own Pursuit of Dora's. As a matter of fac rashopper looked so much a # that he could not thas abandon th