The evening world. Newspaper, March 12, 1912, Page 17

The Evenin World ‘Daily Magazine March 12, 1912 By C. M. P | Tuesda Find “‘Patches’’ ond Follow the Stringl Schooldays # The Little Theatre And “The Pigeon” Of the Same Size. BY CHARLES DARNTON, N*= that Winthrop Ames has a roof over his head, it may truthfully be (Copyright, 1911, ty Outing Publishing Oo.) bess of rank, saw- erase. San ings meant water! He turned Thin rach eon fie sna, 0 |S, tere, beneath a high . 4 0 the Reoteh Dloscer) fiy indian] Smith knew that it was alkali; that it meant certein eald. that something individual and distinctive has been added to the fapiily-growing theatrical world in The Little Theatre, which entered upon its fashionable career a¢ the very letest hour of 8.4 last night. ‘There was no rush in getting to the red-brick house with the green shutters continued to gulp it down. At eay in Weat Forty-fourth street, the Georgian style of which seemed a bit over- tang homes Mearhue other time it would. have namseoted whadowed by the rear elevation of the Hotel Astor. But this fleeting impression ; ‘ cA Hue # Jesaen and him, but now he drank to his , was left at the door, just as you may be ff you are not numbered among the 299 : \ A the hiding bi When he could drink no more be ea that the house seats when you go on a till hunt for “The Pigeon.” It w q af | be up, realising what he hed dene. interesting to look around and see brown oak wainscoting and tapestries in- , faith swallowed liquid | nothi result was stead of boxes and’ balcony and gallery. Only the slanting floor and the cur- : LA ae suffers hoeetbly from ‘thirst, Te was geine to be ills tained stage suggested a theatre. On the level—the floor level, of course—it was terribly ill, alone like a room. The Little Theatre proved to be that rare thing, a genuine novelty. CHAPTER XV. (Contioued.) But I failed ¢0 see the necessity for serving coffee with “The Pigeon” in an Where a Man Gets a Thirst. = spurred his horee, but there afternoon tea-room downstairs. This ‘‘a0- clety touch" was entirely out of touch response érom with John Galsworthy’s play, for “The was dead on ite fet between the hard travel of the previ- ous day and night and en- 1s certainly not a “socloty other duy without water. He cursed It 1s, in fact, a rather poor} Play dealing with the poor. But it! the horses ahead as they lagged and Receasitated extra steps. should not, perhaps, be judged upon Ho rode for awhile longer, until he broad dramatic Iines. It te only fair to} realized that at the snail's pace they the house to consider it as chamber-! drama. No doubt it ts the purpose of were moving he. was making Ifttie headway. A rest would pay better in Mr. Ames to present plays that would find no welcome awaiting them in the, larger theatres, where “popuiar guc- the long run, although there wae eome | two hours of daylignt left, cesses’ are cherished for all they are comedy 1s not a play at all, but merely an exposition of the futility of coddling the waste of humanity foredoomed to failure. There is no particular rcsson, to be sure, why we should be asked ‘o sympathise with the human wrecks Mies Pamela Gaythorne that drift along the Tondo: Embank- as Guinevere Megan. ment, especialy after we have gone worth to’ the box-office, g Ls The dull-eyed horses stood with droop- ‘The Little Theatre-and ‘The Pigeon” | \ " \ ing heads, too thiraty and too tired to @re of the same size. ‘According to ' ‘hunt for the straggling spears of grass the common, everyday Broadway \ and salt cope which grew apareny & standards Mr. Galsworthy's fantastic \ eg Pree he After Smith had unsaddled, he opened the graineack which contained his pro- visions. Spreading them out, he atoud and eyed them with contenrpt. “And I calls mywedf a prairie man,” he vald aloud, Jn selfdisguet. ‘"“Swine-bus- zom—when I'm perishin’ of thirst! If only I'd put in a couple of airtights, Pears 1s better nor anything; they ain't #0 bhuned sweet, they're kind of cool, and they has juice you can drink, And tomaters—tt only I had tomatera! ‘Thee ereweeeeereeeeeeeerrnns, here dude food, thie atrawberry jam, ts Oo Cc a e T Ss goin’ to make me thiratier than ever, No water to mix the flour with, nothing to e @ e cook In but sult grease, Smith, you're in SCAICLME § erie hatte se Ho bullt & itde sege-brush Are, over ; h he cooked his bacon, and with It By J. A. Husik, M. D. a dry bisoult, but. down into our pockets so iiberally to help along “Passera-By.” Still, charity can scarcely begin at home until our own playwrights eee the possibilities of Fourth avenue on a cold night. As in “Strife’—which, like “Passers-By," ts a better play than “The Pigeon” ~—Galsworthy sees both sides of the question he presents, and he makes you see them, too, With a sincerity that scorns theatrical devices, he has written a play of character that commands both sympathy end respect, for he has at least written from the heart. Of plot, constructton, dramatic conflict, there is next to nothing. What he offers, to i Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers cive Barrie's phrase a serious turn, !5 The Exa i #0 Kreat that It ov 1 slice of life, with a dash of numor e Exacting Girl. Coprright, 1912, by The Prese Publishing Co, (The New York World), Kir Chewing kraing of eoffes stimulated |, suffering animal, beating and more than a dash of bitter irony. IRLS, don't make unreasonable exactions of the men! yy _ pp WARD JENNER, | {Und impression upon Edward Jenner,| cone jam increaned his thirst tenfold, i¢| With hie clenched Gata, His “Pigeon,” who delights in being Gren you have promised to marry. * | a young medical student, whose native ‘w thing were posable. Hia thoughts | PATOxYems of cutting, wrenching plucked, 1s merely an artist whose For instance, a girl often insists that her flance was In the county of Gloucester- | home was in the village of Berkeley, | of Dora and his dreams of the His suffering wae supreme. | AM heart is bigger than his purse. shall give up smoking. That ts both impolite and tmpolitic.| J shire in England in the year 17 | Gloucestershire; and Jonner carried the| which had helped him through the world ehrenk into The good man's daughter Ann {* It i tmpolite because smoking te no ain, but merely a|* that tho frst successful vaccination | toa away with him when, at the age] 00n, were no longer potent, He could) td It. No thoughts of a quite right in calling his needy friends Personal gratification, and to ask your lover to give up his | wax made upon @/ of twenty-one, he went to London to] 2W think only of hia thirst—ot hin] jim: mo meatier © os ~. “potters. The bedraggled tlower girl, cigar {a as rude as if he should ask you to give up your! g Mttle boy named! study medicine under the guidance of | OVerPowering desire for water, It Miled] 144" ever known. the young Brendh vagabond; end tho now hat. And the request is impolitle because it rarely James Phipym. the famous John Hunter, But it wan] it Whole mental horizon. | Water! | oie contred—alon Aion Sh es E . Water! Water! Waa there anything ‘old “cabby"” who has broken down makes any lasting change, and merely exasperates the man. The people of this! not until after years of study and wpon| in th workd to be compared with it! | @n4@ suffering and under drink are good for nothing. Or if your lover is engaged in a business which, though shire had for 4 nis return to hin native village that Jen-| iiim taco was deep-lned with. gterrens | fe. His But they are human—and Galsworthy honest, offends your dainty, sensibilities, don’t insist on his long time observed Iner performed the first vaccination, With|as he sat by ‘the campfire, trying in| ‘@ single sentence: never lets you forget that! The fow- taking up some different work. To stand between a man that persons em-' his success the Kood work of wiping out n to molsten his tips with his dry] “l'm alok! I'm sick! Oh, I'm eteist er girl, abandoned by her card-playing and his Job is something no woman should attempt, If you ployed in dairies) the smatipox scourge was begun; #o| tongue, One picture after another arose | He repeated it in every key with every husband, kisses the vagabond who has can't love your lover's work, at least love HIM enough who had contract-| that to-day epldemica of thix disease| Pefore tin: streams of cryetal water only, the world for his comrade—but to let it alone ed cowpox (a mld} are unknown and cases of smallpox are| “ch he had forded; try mountain why not? The worst of it Is that, | A Broken A int £, |#lly bad condition, ‘Then the gentleman form of emallpox| rare, Rie i Weue pod eg = was at its height, he still beteyed im knowing nothing of the joy of life, roRen Appointment. | oners his arm to the lady. in cows) never de-| Edward Jenner, the Father of Vacein-| thrown waole buckotfula away after he| himself. In @ kind of eubcomectous ar she throws herself into tho river after “J. B." writes: “I made an appoint- Gwmepee) veloped the dread-| ation, as he may be called, way born | hud quenvhed what he then called thirst, | Fogance, he believed that he was strong- trying to lead a life of joy and is ment with a gril and she disappointed] “Y, Z%" writes: “Hfow should a young o4 disease itself.) at Berkeley in 174, Hoe even spoke of| Thirst! He never bed known thirst.|¢er than Fate, more powerful @an hauled out only to be dragged to the me. Have I the right to ask her for|Indy express her thougiits in proposing Even during severe | his idea of vaccination to John Hunter,| What ihe had catied thirt wae laugh-| Death. He would not die; he would ive police court and charged with the ‘en explanation?” to @ gentleman during leap year?” epidernics of small-| who embodied this thought tn hts lec-| @ble in comparison with this @wiul] because he wanteg to live. Death was ridiculous crime of failure. To tbe Certainly, She shouldn't express them at all, {Pox which In those days oiten swert |tures to the students. But nothing |!onKing, this madness, this desire be-| not for him—dmnith. For others, but got ‘poozed" and a philosopher may seem — The leap-year proposal is nothing but|over Hurope and carried off thousands | practical was done until young Jenner me wiileh all else pated, for him, one and the same thing to the old “L. W." writes: “A young tady to] silly joke, and no self-respecting girl | these persons escaped 1° warmed! returned home to practise hie. profes: | qi" iar other a At last the paroxysns became lese fre cabman, but the vagabond, touched Mr, Russ Whyte whom I am paying attention objects to} would make it. This popular observation made & PPO-| sion, He began to make personal ob- r the same length /quent and lost thelr Wolence. ‘When by imagination, recognizes Death as as Christopher Wellwyn, my smoking, and threatens to give ay servations of the similarity existing be- r t, but the parching, dey- {hep apened aitowethons:| ° ey lump ant the great friend of those to whom life is hopeless. Up unless I atop it What sbail { do tween the smallpox of human beings and | fi t of the deadly white dust en- ) motionless until the files and ta In fringing out this idea Frank Reicher undoubtedly bore off the first honors} You must decide which you prefer— cowpox afficting animals, and the tm-|talled untold suffering upon the travel: | sects of the sand roused him to the @mct ‘of the performance, He gave Ferrand a sensitive charm and jronic quality that] te young lady’ or your elgar. munity that cowpox gave to people | er caught unprepared as was Smith. | that another day had com seomed ws real ws his French accent and his eager hunger for a cigarette, In ; sarod against smallpox rolled and smoked innumerable incredibly weak, and it took the flower girl of Miss Pamela Gaythorne there was clearly something that ea Os me pS peccoed cae -of On May 14, 11%, he carried the ob- (anand eat telst e ae Souls foe, he made tne,” and with it an unfailing eense ot character, ‘Thiel B.Z°UUS not’ gigzeet an: evenina for A By-Product. ayn goer ma AeTatiogIn¥o, eaetlen ape 98d with ones fan bgp has made as true as Mfe, Sidney Valentine not only made the old “cabhy"| Me to call aguin. | Shall f write a letter T" a Serene el gutly 00 | hed, 600 60 fhe tiled Gop the a la dalesrenait. who haa cantexstad ota ; Ix doubtful if he | te had to rest before he could 1% Blas seem absolutely real but sympathetic, in spite of his physical ugliness, Russ Saking Wien ey Ee begcaieay pe fa ories oa he etrullet in iit, coll |, eed that you have decided not to make my] pox he vaccinated James Phipps. The a no was amoking, | f0t to tne sirup and pull himself gato Whytal, while giving @ good performance, was inclined to let his sympathies oat ir idan hecenion, Nupthes Gove Treen’, there, vas one Shad. | be, None have come to eeu» lugual vaccination sore developed with no ndered away from the fire pf he. jose jwiky"ke. oka run eway with the part of “The Pigeon.” Miss Louise Seymour, on the other] "'s i writes: “I have talked with a| me he wos pembteut, I refused lia farce seven bad effects. When, atx weeks later, Jen- "ile Geek aay te ok eh the houlay Te SoaeMaEe where hand, wae @ ‘bit too har! at times as the daughter, Her common sense was! joing lady over the telephono for some| timer amd be still kept turning up with ii, 16 ner incediated the same boy with true ioe Nea a take elt blankets baa, been admirable, but in her efforts to be very Bngitsh she occasionally wounded 8] weeks but she refuses to meet me,| "iis bere sad Were. The cigith time be come and Needed, | «mativox virus, no disease developed. me into a shallow} “Phat was a close squeak, Smith,” was ockney note. On the whole, however, ahe gave a remarkably good account of} Wat shall 1 do?” mitt ea'als Gh Gka whee bes bab & ae the popular heltef that cowpox| cut which appe: ve been made | all he said herself in the first important part of her promising career. Minh aoraa ThUMin Crienh: to’ aivA ¥ou ment to wpare, she bustled inte buok 4 one Immune to smallpox was| during bygone rainy seasons, but which | He had no desire for breakfast; te “The Pigeon" is not @ strong play, but its characters are appealingly human.| 4 proper introduction, The young lady San Franciwo Argonaut, | practically demonstrated: now bore no evidence of aving carrie’ | fact, he could not have eaten, fer wie oriy-four next was presented to the King and Queen | {10° tne ieee bow boots ave a 5 Aviation Records. “R. T." writes: “Tam engaged to a of England, who were greatly interested | “1%, hien-hesied. cowno into ier san | oe * ne eg 9 foo! be . OTHING shows the progress in fly-) miles, young man and he wants to give me a in the work, lent thelr ald and gave ¢, the alkali-coated sled Suddenly Smith was from hand. N ing which has been made in the| 1909. rman (biplane), 144.6 miles.| plano. Do you think I should aecept him encouragement, The English Par- he cried aloud with shrill, penetrat- | some that morning. last four years, saye the London| 1910, Tabuteau (biplane), 365 miles. | it? uo “{[Mament voted him a sum of ten thous) ins cry that was peculiar to him when | sis own recent sufferings had im Boe ‘Times, more impressively than the fol-} 1911. Gobe (monoplane), 462 miles, | It's a pretty expensive gift. Why not] 1 tog jm firmly ft was no use, “But, Mr Pro. | ater, Man a may for to vetwole tae, A mk) Sang pounds (80,00) for his service Poh ag De BRM AS made him more merciful; he lowing Mat of “records:” Duration of a Single Flight. ask him to walt until you are married | ducer,’ he sab, ‘is there no pomible way’ you could | '® 8 ' "| Aside from his medical work, Jenner| tently kicked uy a 1 vel | spurred his stiff and ifelees horse with: Height. 1908, Wibur ‘Wright (biplane), 2| and have your home together? om the winger “Well aad. | was a student of nature, He wrote on xan to rin, with his mouth open, | Out Pity, but he spurred usetecaly,” Tt 1908, Wilbur Wright (biplane), 228 feet. | hours 20 minutes 23 seconds. i ari " vo A the hibernation of the hedge-hog, and oodshot eyes wide and. staring. | stumbled Wander him 2 he drove the WH Fovlean (biplane, LAG feet, 198, Farman (biplane), ¢ hours 11] Which One? fo saytniogt" ° “Then,” oald, 1, ‘we'll grind it up| | studied tho habity of tho cuckoo, He wan a dare chance that it migit bpiritines baud | eens eae 1910, Hoxsey (biplane), 14,474 feet. minutes 63 secon “J, BA : 1 ~ | Oaeeae ne 6 enone. ekes Ape Ties. alse wrote poctry, was a good musician come from ono of those desert springs 5 4ML. Garros (monoplane), 13,07 feet. | 190. Farmen (biplane), 8 hours 12 min- pet a uae Gra tatnl pate oe? Trax illit and © Ddriliiant and entertatning talker, whiclt appear and Alsapne N, | to piste this tovdade” he th Apeed. utes. me, and I like ‘both, Which siall I Liszt’s Tranquillity. An instance of his geniality and con: | Tire in what had once been mud, |The effect of speaking aloud. wes too 5 1908, Wilbur Wright (biplane), 99 miles} 1911, Fourny (biplane), 11 hours 1 min-| choose?" 1827, whose centenary we Bare been cel versational power {s told tn the follows | iy i ear beat higher with hope, |@reat to be made, “Unies Se i j an. hour. ute 2 seconds. If you teally have any doubts you 5. Sgeuaeiied snayeetir. ONG Ing ‘Vie had a thought in his half-crazed | fail off my horse, we ought to Mt 190. Delagrange (monoplane), & miles| Duration of a single fight with One| 4, not love either one well enough for . Mealy “So Interesting a talker was Jenner pratn that the water might disappear | sure . a hour. Passenger. marriage. "they inquired, “would most serbously that often somo member of the family before he could reach tt, and he ran aepane mad aie by era) #/ 1910, Leblanc (monoplane), 67.6 miles! 1900, Wilbur Wright (biplane), 1 hour atiae trouble him were be deprived of et” Come, 1 am in a hurry: can't you suguest some-| where he hed m a sick call would Ike one frenaied with fear, ‘The world | during the frst evening ai ‘ 7 ~ i Perhaps,” wae the auswer, @ermding to the thing suitable efier 1 have tald you mhat hind sim home, riding for miles Was swiaming around him, his heart | his ride, He had Gxed Bis ¢; . © aa hour. 35 minutes 47% seconds. F. J." writes: “When walking on) cri de Paris, “he would euffer most if deprived | ot « ushand he ia?” ompany ‘h destin d was pounding In bis breast, yet he | furthermost object within. hie» iG “WIL Nieuport (monoplane), 85 miles! 198. Cammerman (biplane), 4 hours 5| up street should the Jady or the gen-| of » well-made bed.” ‘Tho amistant lifted down @ emall volume from | with bim, even in the dead of night, in sumbjed on.at top ‘epeed,.. nd ridden 4 , "eam y Pah hour, minutes. , tleman offer an arm to the other? The two confederates with 9 toute bought! exer] one of ihe shelres, “Yes, ma'am,” he answered, |ordor to lrten to hiv conversation,” Ghaketh anew deesen Aaah Dore oa J aa. Ma : folataiiee'in & Single Fight, — | | Ut. Sivelacté (monoptaney/'« tours 33] "te is not customary for either 40° &o eee ee ee ee eens tie! Jenner dled in 183 honored the world of mofture increased. Me bhw th tog nyt 3 + 190% Wilbur Wright (biplane), 77.6 minutes, this, unleas the atrects are in uousue elie’ "* over. jot laree, sage rust, then 9 clump oF “5 a i NS ES TORN A RR ame sochemeree entnanlbtiaane x as ~ ee ama