The evening world. Newspaper, March 30, 1912, Page 4

i WOVE” NOAA INERSEY WILDS arted Out With Two Chums, Pie and Pickels Drove * Them Back. Which, He Avers, Has to Do With the Failure of So Many English Plays Here, and Suggests That Our Actors May Get a Good Lesson in Acting Down in Bowery. NOOK TEACHER'S CASH. BY CHARLES DARNTON, T™ talk started at midnight. It was that hour before David Belasco got ‘back from the Jewish theatre on the Bowery. As he explained, with a smile far from weary, the people down there like to get their money's worth. His own actors had gone long ago. Only the lage doorman remained, hia pipe keeping him awake and he himself doing much for his pipe. He would probably say it was after mid- Bight. I'm merely guessing at the time. There were so many interest- ing things to look at that I never thought of looking at my watch. One Glance at Mr. Belasco satisfied me that the night was etill young. He eeomed ready for anything—even the imported English play that has been | woria simply because hi going to bed rather early this sea-| improve himself. ped in a Vacant Flat, Deciding Against Empty Freight Cars. in the wilds of New Jer- teoking for Indians, is little Anne of No. 168 Minford place, Breaz. Two repentant companions come home and are ready to £0 te Public School No. 6 in West Prodigal daughters are Veronica and Irene Wanser. Bach Who told them what tm moving picture ohe sald, it wasn't f @ man told her that the pictures Rb SAW were taken in New Jersey. too lazy to To go further, ‘few son, 1 might have mentioned “Lydia | American actors know how to dance, o © and I don't suppose half @ dosen of Gilmore,” “Preserving Mr. | Pan-| them know how to use @ rapier.” mure,” “Just to Get Married,” “Lady |OUR PLAYWRIGHTS ADVANCIN: Patricia,” ‘The Witness for the De- ACTORS RUINED. fence"—but I didn’t. All that Mr.} This might have been the final thrust, Belasco needed was a cue. but it wasn't—the steel went deeper “I don't believe in the English play for |*ii1 in thie lung ‘ " ‘While the American playwright 1s America,” he began “In my Ban Fren-| savancing, our actor ts ruined. He has cleco Gaya we had the yellow-backed| evidently made up his mind that the books, of course, and I was brought up|ector’s life is one of pleawure, when by doing standard plays, Shakespeare was |@vety law that governs his profession, always in my mind, and often on my|™ore than any other perhaps, It should stage. But English playa merely as|>* ne Of tireless energy. The actor such didn't appeal to me, and since then |®Uld have a genius for work. But in T have paid very little attention to the | ‘he ast fifteen yours I have seen no modern English play. Aa stage director |{!sDomtion ‘on the purt of the Amortcan of the Madison Square Theatre 1 pro- | tis work, tT sloen aye a a, himself In ork, 1 aloes or six hours ced only American plays, I've always | work the rest'et the. time, I do. this advocated the American drama, and/nocause I love the theatre. If I try I've practiced what I preached. Since|to rest I et a teadache. Sometimes Te had @ theatre of my own I've never|my doctors tell mo that I will break tried to get an English play. I belleve| down if 1 don't take a rest. But si T've produced more American plays than|cess is) my stimulant. Only failure could break me down. For me life is @ avenue, listened to Mke this: were all dirty. So we remained York another night. CLOCKs DieTUR of the English play upon the| ‘To get back to the English T American stage?” This would be anjam sure it's not so good a haustive question to ask a manager | few years ago. There must be a better at any time, but something told me Ij quality of English drama than that wasn't keeping Mr. Belasco up. He did, | we're getting row to win success on the There are no new of note, and the either so rich or hair before replying: old w WNGLIGH STAGE GENTLEMEN) they have set so high « standard for MORE POLIGHED THAN OURS. | themselves that they can't get over the “A good play, of course, is universal | footlights. I hate to see what ts called nd therefore it may be| ‘the new-thought drama.’ The men who real in ite effect. I will |have formed a little group in England ‘of the English play-|to advance the idea that this is to be knack of writ-|the drama of the future have, I firmly ing more fnishéd gentlemen than the| believe, made u great mistake. The American author. His treatment of men | theatre ia, first, Iast and all the time, « in better, Hie men are distinguished for |theatre, and when you treat it other- thelr manner—the easy, natural way in| wise you destroy the theatre, You which they conduct themselves, His so-| might as well turn it into a lectufe Clety characters—and now we must tn- |" clude his women—have more polish than those of the American playwright. But an English play should be played by Mngiish actors. With American actord and American furniture it has no a! mosphere, That's why eo many English Blays fall here. An actor with a nasal twang can only be ridiculous in the part of « lord, while an actress who has neglected to remove the burr trom her speech 1s equally impossible as a @uchess. In short, American actors can- Diay English characters any more than English actors. can impersonate American types.” Mr. Belasco leaned forward and put his hands on his knees. Then straightened up with the declaration: “The fact is, we over here don't know how to produce English wt should import an English play I'd port English actors to play it. And I'd take my time about it. The great trouble with our stage is that we do things in too great a hurry. Too much conalderation NAVAL WOO SHOOTS HERSELF AND BEGS TO DIE Mrs. Hughes, Victim of Melan- choly, Sends Two Bullets Into Her Breast. bghiic LY COST LOSS OF EYE Pole,” Run Down by Mra, Rone Cardwell Hughes, widow of nnot be given to thelcapt. Walter Scott Hughes, U, 8, N., selection of a T went down t : olice: Slashes Curry | the Yiddish Theatre to-night to see a ""> attempted sulcldo last night, was Siri that I may be able to use ina play |Feeting easily this morning in the ‘af Across the Face, next year. I didn't go to see the play, J. Hood WV tht Hospital, She shot "The Strange Children,’ but the whole| herself in the home of her sister, Mra, performance was well worth seeing, I'd | Laura B. Fitch, tn the Knickerbocker Mike to see our American actors Ko down |APartments, No, 259 West Ninety- to the Bowery and get @ leason in act- [seventh street. ing from those Yiddish actors, If young| The woman, who has been suffering men would remain away from theatrical [from melancholia, wounded herself twic clubs when they have a night off they |in the left breast. When Dr. Oler ar- might manage to improve themselves." Hives tree: the hospital she pleaded that e let her dic, This Mot, 1 felt sure, would £0) "irs, Hughes has been living with her straight through the windows of the! sister, also a widow, for six montha, neighboring Lambs’ Club. There was! past evening, after dinner with Mrs. even @ possibility of ita being heard as] Fitch, whose daughter and her husband, far down the firing line as The Players’, THE THEATRICAL CLUS AN IN. JURIOUS INFLUENC “I think,” pursued Mr. Belasco, ‘that Curry summoned Licut. Rogan | the theatrical club 1s doing more to in- Policeman Michael Kelly and, American actor than any other op them around to the Pavonia It is a loafing place where be houte, he started to go through | young actors boast of thelr triumph ba, inthe direction of the man in| and brag about thelr salaries, It is a Ing. The police leutenant encoun- | piace where the sainc talk is heard and ames shim in the ruine and they|the same faces are seen day after day iastantly. nd night after night. These actors Pp BO Re tg flere Blancd bring the atmosphere of the club into face the latter Was blinded by the plays in which they appear, The forced to drop his hold. The in the shadows of ‘walls. in the few @ battle in the dark with a lunatic Police Léeutenant Curry of the Seventh street sta- Wereey City, was nearly blinded this morming when the crazed man with elashed him across the with a long biaded kni 2.90 o'clock Curry was passing the of the United States Express at Henderson and Eighth which was destroyed by fire last » when he saw a shadowy fig- the yard house at the rear ruins and facing Pavonia av Hughes complained of fatigue and re- tired to her room, Barely fifteen min- utes later shots were heard by those in the dining room. Mrs. Fitch rushed to the room of her sister and found her lying on the bed with blood flowing from two wounds under the left breast. A revolver was found beside Mra, Hughes. She was conactous, and while Dr, Muir rendered temporary aid Mrs, Fitch tele- phoned to Police Headquarters for a policeman and an ambulance, ‘When Dr. Oler. after examination eaid he thought she would survive, Mra, Hughes cried: “No; no, it ts fatal. Let me walk to your ambulance.” Bnt the doctor had her placed in the ambulance stretcher. As she was being placed tn the ambulance she bade her sister mingle with people in other walks of Ife, They study life and reflect that Mfe in their speech and manners, Our American actor, on the other band, is Rot studious, He doesn't work. I¢ ¢! play in which he has a part is @ suc- cess he gives himself up to rest, He loses the ambition that won him (he position he in Alling to his perfect aatie- faction, He devotes all his time to ha’ goodby. Mrs. Hughes is forty-five years old. At the time of the death of her hus- band et Santa Cruz, Cal, three years 0, whe lived at No, 308 West Ninety. seventh treet, Kentucky O11 Down Again, Standard Ol! of Kentucky stock, which advanced more than 600 points tn the last week, abruptly declined ye q 1 terday to 575, owing, It 1s wald, to the ing ‘@ good time’ It doesn't seem to} aimination of the short interest, which occur to him that he should give cer-| hag pettled its accou: v ook, tain hours to study, The American! however, is still 250 points above the actor's diction is the very worst im the gelling price of ten days ago, Nt |Belasco Says Club Life Kills Ambition in the American Actor Dr, Muir, were also at the table, Mrs. |" (Jaa Zayar ISHAW'S COMEDY “DRESS CUTTINGS” T0 AD SUFFRAGE ERNARD SHAW'S comedy “Press Cuttings” will be played for the first time in this country at a Performance for the benefit of the Woman Suffrage Party to be given at the Broadway Theatro on Tuesday af- ternoon. Two one-act plays, “Kiddie” and “Lib,” will also be given. Shaw's ene ‘The characters in- cTude a general, a conscript, a prime minister, two anti-saffragetios, and a charwoman who is the mouthpiece of grievances. Among those ap- pearing in the three plays will be Mary Shaw, Suzanne Sheldon, Harriet Otis Dellenbaugh, Julie’ Herne, Ida Water- man, Ethel Browning, Mary Willard. Julian L'Eatrange, Oswald Yorke, Frank Wiliamson, Alexander Calvert, John Doyle and Robert Harrison, Kitty Gordon in “The Enchantress" will be the attraction at the Grand Opera House, The West End Theatre wilt have F.mma Trenttol in ‘Naughty Marietta.” Kinemacolor pictures of “The Dur- bar” and “The Burial of the Maine” will be shown at the Manhattan Opera House and the Garden Theatre. ‘Leah Kleschna” will be the offering of the stock company at the Academy of Music, Ben Welch and his burlesquers will be seen at the Columbia Theatre. At the Murray Hin Th win be “The Star and Garter Show. “The Belles of the Boulevard” wil) be seen at Hurtig & Seamon's, “The Girls From Missouri" come to Miner's Eighth Avenue Theatre, ‘The High School Girls" will be at Miner's Theatre in the Bronx. Al. Reeves rings Show" to the Olympic. Lew Fields has arranged a big bill for the performance in ald of the San!- tarium for Poor Chfidren at Rockaway Park to be given at the Broadway The- atre to-morrow night. Among the en: etre will be Weber and Fieks, ian Russel, Tempki vill- lam “Collier, George Mr Conan Noes, Goodwin and Raymond Hitchcock. VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS, At Hammerstein's will be Ritchie, “The Léter,” a new Graamatte sketch; Clarice Van the Southern “Anger; Louis Simon Kathryn Os- terman in “A Persian Garden," Ashley and Lee, May West and her Boys, the Victoria Foui nd others, ‘The bill at Fifth Avenue Theat will include Ned Wayburn's specta: farce “The Producer,” ‘Mt his = “Beauty ‘2 Petrova, al ds eine Russian R. A. Roberts, the English protean actor, will appear in "Dick Turpin" at the Colonial Theatre, where other fea- tures will be “An Opening Night,” a new sketch by George V, Hobart; Blos- Macart and Bradford, W. . Fields, the funny juggler, and the Old Boldier Fiddlers, At the Alhambra will be Gus Ed- wants in nz Revue of 1912," with Gus Weinberg and others; Wish Wynn in English character songs, 8. Miller Kent In “The Real 1," "The Top o' th’ Worl® dancers, James H. Cullen and others, The Bronx Ti "The Handcuff King’; John C. Rice and Sally Cohen in “The Path of the Primrose,” Beatie and Babs, Ed Wynn, Marshall Montgomery, Martinette and Sylvester, and Mayme Remington and her Pickaninnies, On the bill at the American Theatre will be Howell, Byron and Howell, Dooley and Jones, the Bimbos, Dorothy Meuther, George Rolland and company, the Baldens, the Cowboy Minstrels, and Dare Austin and company. peels SS NEW NAVY YARD HEAD, Word was received yesterday at (> Brooklyn Navy Yard that Capt. Albert Gleaves, in command of the ./ewport Naval Station, would eucceed Rear-Ad- miral E. H. C, Leutse, as command ant of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, on June 15. During his thirty-nino years’ service in the 'y Capt, Gleaves com- mansed aii Ps of the, Asiatic exiess Ton—the ship Alabama Dreadnought North Dekota, ne The retiring Commandant, Rear-Ad- miral Leutse, has been in the forty-five years and served a year in the civil war as a volunteer, em the Monterey with Dewey at eg GUILTY BOY CROOKS ARE SENT TO PRISON Many Youthful Offenders Among Those Sentenced in the County Courts. More than twenty-five prisoners who had been convicted or had pleaded gullty to indictments in the Criminal courts of this county, were sentenced yosterday. The pen BY ities imposed were: SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SEABURY, Charles Rosa, thirty-two years old. Indicted for robbery in the first degree. No messenger for Wall street house and stole an envelope containing bonds and securities. One prior conviction, State prison for four years and nine months. Robert Dello, thirty-five years old. Convicted of receiving stolen property, part of the proveeds of the :axicab robbery, No prior conviction prison for not less than two years and aix months or more than four years and six months, Josep Lamb, twenty-elght years 01 Pleaded guilty of highway robb Was concerned in the taxicab holdup. Elmira Reformatory, BY JUDGE SWANN. Charles Martin, eighteen years old. Pleaded guilty of carrying a blackjack. No prior conviction. Elm! Reforma- tory. Edward Gegle, nineteen years old. Pleaded guilty of burglary In the third degree. No prior conviction, Elmira Reformatory. Eugene Thurnbleser, sixteen years old. Indicted for attempted robbery in the first degree. Pleaded guilty of as- sauit In the second degree. Held up woman in street and attempted to steal diamond ring. BPimira Reformatory. rel. old. old. John Collins, eighteen years old. Pleaded guilty of receiving stolen prop- | gree. erty. Indicted for burglary. No prior conviction, Etmira Reformatory, Fritz Koch, seventeen years 014, Pleaded guilty of burglary in the third ‘Max Kaufman, nineteen years Pleaded quilty of from employer. Penitentiary for one year. Joseph Heimerdinger, fifty-two years old, Pleacrd guilty of bribery of State factory inspector. Sentence suspended. Milton Berlina Pleaded guilty of grand Jarceny | Senteng> Thomas Ryan} Convicted of grand larceny in the sec- ond degree. tory. Michael Brennan, twenty-three years Pleaded gullty of grand farceny in the | old. first degree. One of gang that waylaid | Penitentiary for one year. Glovannt Nicolal, thirty-ix y Indicted for murder in the firat degree. Pleaded guilty of murder in the second degree. and killed companion tn gambling quar- John B. Quinlan, degree. Two prior convictions. prison fdr five years; habitual eriminal. Patrick Maroney, thirty-five years old, Convicted of agmault in the gree, demeanor. than two years and six months or more than three years and six months, Arthur Rosenberg, Stole $47 from employer. viction, Charles Pelletier, seventeen years old. Convicted of carrying @ revolver. prior conviction, Carmine Rullo, Convicted of assault. tion. years and six months or more than three years and six month David F. Clear, thirty-one years old. Convicted of burglary in the third de- than two yea than three years and six months in the State prison. John Collins, twenty-nine volver. No prior conviction. fentence suspended. BY JUDGE MULQUEEN. ‘0 prior conviction. thirty-five years oid. the ogree. Sold a bogus life insurance for $1,060. No prior conviction. ‘atence suspended. Mattison, fifty old ded guilty of grand farceny. Stole from employer. No prior conviction. apended, mon, thirty-two years old. nvicted of forgery in the third degree. Falsified books to conceal theft. prison for not less than three y and six months or more than four years and six months, State BY JUDGE O’SULLIVAN. nineteen years old. Stole a horse and wagon. prior convictione Elmira reforma: Pleaded guilty of grand larceny. BY JUDGE ROSALSKY. ‘n old, No prigr conviction. Shot State prison for not less than State) twenty years, BY JUDGE MALONE. twenty-two years Convicted of burglary in the third State also adjudged cond de- convietion for mt Prison for not | One prior State twenty-six years Pleaded guilty of grand larceny. No prior con- Elmira Reformatory. Ebmira Refor forty-five yea No prior convic- State Prison not less than two r conviction. Not less nd six months or more No pri ears old, ‘ - thet and John Tengzelins, twenty-four yea \egree. No prior conviction. Elmira} cig, Convicted of burglary. No pri bi tide nei convic State prison for not less Glovann! Depaola, thirty-three years | than two years and six months or more 1d. Pleaded guilty to carrying a re- than four years and six month TH the first signs of Spring comes Rheingold Bock beer. More palatable than ever, it is made of spe- cially selected barley, rice and hops. RHEINGOLD BOCK BEER is brewed by S. Liebmann’s Sons, Brooklyn. All dealers have it. $1. case, 24 bot- tles, in Greater New York. S. LIEBMANN’S SONS BREWING COMPANY 36 FOREST STREET [BROOKLYN) ~ old. 6 longer. He watched his OUTLAW STARVED NTO SURRENDER ‘There wae nothing loft of the aupuns \ tain bully In old Allen when he tarew ] his arms around Freel and he Freel, the 17-Year-OJd Son of “Jack,” Deserts Uncle and Cousin in Mountains. down, wept and embraced’ him. patting Jack shoulder, Before the detectives rode away wit! thelr prisoner they had dinner with , Jack Allen, ——— HOTEL ALBANY SOLD. 4 Griewold of Albany revi, $1,250,000 for Broadway House. ‘That famous hosteiry of stage beauties» and resort of sporting men, the Hotel Allen, a sixth member of the Allen out-! Albany, at Broadway and Forty-firat Jaw was captured late yesterday | street, has been sold to Irving Griswotd' by Detective T. 1. Felts and Deputy Albany. Its owners, Florence L. @ affectionately on ti HILIAVILLE, Va., March 20.—Freel E. C. Payne tn an outhouse within 290] Douglas Mabee, of Saratoga, accepted yards of the home of his father, Jack | $1,250,000 for it. Allen. He 1s now in jail here. Robert T. Murphy, the lessor, whew Young Allen, took over the house five years ago when looking youth of eeventeen, made no|!t was known at the Vendome, said last resistance. He was unarmed, and was|night that $20,000 was to pent on, Mscovered by detectives the hotel in alterations and re-equip- close search of Jack All ment, and that by Oct. 1 it would be He said he had no idea who was com-| brought up to the standard of the best ing in the @oor until he recognized the | modern hotels in the city. Last Decem- officers. ber the Albany went into the hands of Freel Allen's capture leaves but two | MacDougal Hawkes as recelver for Mr. of the outlaws at large. They are the | sturphy. . ringleaders, Sid Allen and Wesley Ed- wards, Freel Allen's cousin. According to the boy, they are now in a desolate section known as No Man's Land, about twenty-five miles distant. : who is a romantic: _—_——— To Ald Sick Benefit Fand. A floor committee of women and thie information Felts and a large posee hurried out of town Young Allen declares his uncle and sin have determined to ‘die with thelr boots on” rether than surrender. He aleo says they went into court pre- pared to kill, and costume ball which will be given to-night at Palm Garden by the attaches of the Hippodrome for their sick benefit fund, Mme. Frances Ziebarth and Rose “* ‘La Harte will have charge of the floor, by the Misses Sabery Dorsell eee rete fay Carlisle and twenty-four mem- Heasle, and Edwards, Prosecutor | vers of the Hippodrome company., . George M. Cohan will act as judge of Faber aye was haggard and ema-! tne fancy dancing, while a committee m pounds dur- _ ) ir made up of “the Friars and Lambs’ time he was a fugitive. Two! Cjubs will give the awards for the coe- ago he decided he could stand it’ tumes. AITKEN,SON &Co. % (FOUNDED 1835) FRENCH NECKWEAR AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES. FILET, IRISH, VAL. AND CLUNY LACE TRIMMED HAND EMBROIDERED JABOTS, $2.00 TO $8.00. vatus. $3.75 To $12.00 HAND EMBROIDERED DUTCH COLLAR AND CUFF SETS, $3.00 TO $10.00. va.ue. $4.75 10 $15.00 ELABORATE SAILOR AND DUTCH COLLARS, $1.75 TO $7.00. va.ue, $2.50 ro $10.00 COAT COLLARS AND SETS IN A LARGE VARIETY, --.” ! $3.75 TO $8.00. 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