The evening world. Newspaper, September 20, 1912, Page 19

The Evenin “S’Matter, Pop OR INSTANCE, 1 HANDLES ONE Th alld 5 WHEN. rm. dumPs /MB= “The Attack” . a Splendid Victory for John Mason. BY CHARLES DARNTON. F EVERY LOVER of good acting doesn’t find his way back to the Garrick I it will not be the fault of John Mason, who dit ta flnest work of career last night in Henry Bernstein's latest play, “The Attack.” This # not at all a play of thrills, but one of conspicuous skill and unfailing interes! and {ts second act alone established tt as @ brilliant achievement. A third ele- ment in the success of a notable night was the American debut of Martina Hedman, a Swedish actress of rare simplicity and distinctive personal charm. While admiration for the author grew with the progress of the play, the most etriking result of Attack" Wag a splendid victory for John Mason. There another actor in this country who could do as much for Bernstein's play Mason gid last night.” The absolute command, the perfect authority, he exerted could bé felt throughout the performance. His grasp upon the character | of the political leader Alexandre Merital was always sure and firm. There wa only one moment in wh the man seemed a bit unsteady and puzzling, and} this was when he contradicted his cariler statement by telling the unblushingly | frank Renee that he loved her, Renee 1 astonished him quite a» much as she} had the audience by asking him point blank, “Don't you want me to be your wite? Her frankne Ined that she could not marry son Daniel, nate took him by sury but the audience was equally surprised] when, after telling the his ally ise, girl he did not lo her, Merital's afte tions underwent a sud+ den cvange. Mr, Ma- | gon did everything in! his power to make this | situation seem possible if not probable, but the impression it left] Was that the tears of) a pretty woman of| twenty-five will move a widower of {1 free to do anything, matter of fact, Mason looked younger and handsomer than | he has for years.| t really had some for throwing at his head. | And as Mr. Mason was in the hands of| the author, he hac to end the first oct as best he could, The meaning of the! use herself p was not rev ed until Merital’s sup. posed friend Frepeau) SAA ene NCLE catmly announced that Baby must be named JIMMIE or Baby! simply cannot be called that dreadful name! Papa said it was aiipe= 4 an attack upon his could’ not have his share of uncle's two million perfectly good sition to ask it! But uncle was determined. So “BYRON CROMWELL" deh Mason as Alexandre Merital, character, Tt charged U doliars, Mamma wept her little heart out and said, Martha Hedman as Renee de Rould. uth, To tell whe whole story would be an unkind. ko (0 see the play. It Is enough to say that ‘The At contrived that one surprise follows anoth e scene | in which Merital, having discovered that the attack upon him was Inspired by | none other than his putative friend, confronts Frepeau with proofs of his own poktical dishonesty and so forces hin to muzzle the important witness at the! him with having coms mitted a theft in his y ness to readers wh impending trial fe a masterly piece of work, ‘he audience Is kept in doubt as| The Real Estate Agent. a don't know how he ever got a ln “Well, it didn't take me long to a we t station to drive be to Morital's quilt or Innocence tip to the Iaat act, by Which time he has been | rrp , ‘ on me. Some enemy uy imine must ‘a’ him wise that 1 wasn't ripe fer kold}over war a In unexpected places acquitted, Then Renee's unfaltering faith in the man she loves moves him so| 66 OUR, FORTS A) DIORE eked him on me by givin’ him some] mines or gold bricks elthor, Then he me uy cheap sweaters you deeply that he her the true story of his s®uth, | el What do you think of/ bull ‘bout my havin’ money to Invest.| went ant got stuck on me! Moe pe An’ Mt asick «wing to it “And how John M d that story! Every word of it throdbed pith earnest- that girl who married out in| Tt Just shows yuh how much horse sense] suaded me to let him take me out doublet It wuz about ‘ord of It was latened to intently. It was a tremen- California the} them guys has got! How could I have] thelr property. ; [eight miles an’ a quarter frum where partenade Ie late 6f MARAION Iitere’ Wha Roatichae other day-tie) any change what wuzn't workin’ on} * It wuz a coll da So cold) yuh could even hear a train TOOT, the actor won ! heart and soul. | one who signed the | #x a week? oan some vaseline 1 had rubbed| much lexs SIH Itt CWithin easy walk. Miss Hedman gave a fine and sincere performance as Renee. Her slight | contract, you w Indeed?" T echood on my eyebrows to tratn ] 108. Slatance. # Statlon! they sald accent only added to her charm. Sidney Herbert played the hypocritical Frepeau know. Don't you! > ~ —— —_——— — {:8; Rae Oe a ha with admirabte discretion. The one false note tn the performance was the I thi’ more mar-, Raa aay td ta lish one struck by Frank Hollins, who was hopele: miscast as Merital's elder rlages would be lochs et wike ton, But this was soon forgotten in a night that gave John Mason the pice successes if all the} | ’ sail i he deserves to hold on the American stage. Foft sentiments! | * Hee ee na ae act sce wny| Where He Got Inspiration. Sas ia te aed Mave | Petunia. aver ? Ce ann An Aztec Romance. auashed tana ree] FROMMER ite -Atorny dt A, sais Haat ages snd 8 Tcuintham. Moulevards Aiw knew IGHTNING strikes a strong-lunged unbdellever in business-like fashion while : Sneder word’ n Maat care ago, He lad all of ' A egahesd : there ix stil hope at the Manhattan Opera House, but alas! the electrician | 84¥a*! she resented, "But anyw der fe ng De ga gr hey ater on | hers mnisves his fali opportunity, and other vociferous persons live to tell the |) ##¥ NIX uF get hooked Tm gisteced an the «es pees f i known as “An Aztes Romance.” This tale pided in utterip blank verse | SN’ to carve my Unitils in my Hits jor many of n Uae ; ; ; ten by a Western bard who rejoices in the lo name of 0, U, Bean. He) Rive backrae an) have Lim wired by @/ five a tie car : Ne ' a inspiratkn in Old Mexico, or tn Bhakeapeare, If Oscar | potea are ane laut tie t Sentence bie eiciitd ] t ‘ould see what is going on In his house he might say dt's Thats" | 1°) TeBi@adr RERONESS KASHACEUL nT EAR Pre dak gee ‘ j : es, At any rate, the son of @ high priest who leaves home and | | lfaomen as passin’ AneuRaca time, Wh 1 s0u have Py 0 naerind:l an 1 siren who is supposed to have “grace and beauty and cunning’ | Viet it Symes ty Bale iy Bloume Me Hence? ap w ‘ , : ' haw an experience similar hat of the footsore monk who once tagged (et anpealltee ckARny & alle GlkL’l? ae et 1 = 1 ha fail Mary Garden on the same stage. In part Robert Warwick displays great |‘°.\Want nie to feet the aume toward | any fighting the iat fon ras ES hud a 5 " paysteal endurance and an u looking wig. Edwin Arden ts neat but no'sy | your 1 asked, teasingly © tone an but sold ‘nis DID hala x ‘ né a wicked prince who completes Mls part of the evening's entertainment by | “fret your life I do!” she hurled back a ae Uae epee Ae ba) ae nee s ‘ai JAR Miling off two bers of the cat. R. D, MacLean seems quite ready to dle}; want him to be jealous an’ want to lite koonn yam wets igs iad’ atime ev ' 0 has Peta Ly the lightning he defies in the first act, While Miss Tittell-Brune doesn't look! smash every man that looks at me, an’ * ‘ ren * ! ‘| a : bit like a siren, she works hard and earnestly and has one effective moment! go junt his ' one says an area Re oe Now you're balainy, 1 A hen she turns on the prince, There tg a Jester who should be dragged to court | thing about me, an'an' everything!" - > tuoe ' aa ten her given at lenet sixty ys. A “celestiat choir’ that on the Job from time You d-fashioned!” I sald in mock ; ie $0 ! : lw ! Jown \ time might find its reward in Salt Lake City. The scenery, whioh is the | dis _An Explanation, | igh rewdrop st part of O, U. Dean's strange production, bears up brave ’ 1 she answered Guisiik 7 teamtoat : — “Oh, don't let's discus tt I gers knew ral " ] got enor I should worry ' \ “ . ” gat eneu dried a nasenger, . ' . “Honest Jim Blunt. [about the ms uy other dares!” sna" ing sedate eae ‘ ; ISHONEST JIM BLUNT" ought to be the title of the play at the Hude| 4. tony Ait today ee ROMS Is ike mater ft te ‘ ' it “ED ‘Theatre, since the only honest thing about Jim ts Me desire to kc Done sunt ae ee malin ' ° dela Jail, You can't help liking this optimistic scoundrel, because | won't tell you nothin’ more! she tried SOM dine lenge ° faa ese A . y , 4 it's imi not to tke Thn Murphy, who playa the part tn hia most eheer“ul | 45 ook threatening and ‘alled woefll aati ae as ' ; j stp vanner, But this very good chara, tor has a hard Job on his hands. All| “phe quince I'm goln' to tip yuh to tas in the Makin ; ; Pe ie oan do tor aim ts ta inake 1 m erratic, and even thi# charitable view | AL IR Rolin kB YB 18 ts Lords in the Maki) allowed on . 4 ie of @ swindler who ts to fe dy from an office boy to an inve as aprunm up ao audden the ow A’ Wa Balen tise But a dog . ; leaves Jim in a bad author of this old-fashioned Wall street play, | years—the suburban real estate agent!” tort Li Us William Boden, aceoriing programme, shows no merey on poor Jim in| “On, J I condoled; “the worst. that so grant Hall haresta Ae ‘ ; t i i the end, when he has him driven out of the country, But at that Jém's the only | has come!" Hawa of eat : ; ; wf » of the play. ‘he other characters are nothing more than| “Yes, it she agree wes an exciting time," said Dawa sail Me. W o lt, om | ‘ in fe types, and all of them are acted in the most obvious inauuer, “hut it has It wont in the tet s! names wae under consideration meet A. Gy Halnnte ier and ring ‘gurance business the ) It & 4 pleasure to ece My, Murphy agaln~and there the Pleagure ends, middie uv its busy season, toot helt titles, "The first mau decided upon was bus 6 worioye is a tusect’ '—Washiugion Time, Out UV the hospital; OF pn ee —_ - ERT Sa aT ee ¥ * an ‘‘Our Baby g¢ World Daily Magazine, Friday, 99 No. 3—One Ideal Gone to Smash Oo 19 rete, 1952, The Conquests of Constance +; ‘The Vreee Putaishing Co, Nbe'¥eoe World ‘OUR baby| was changed to “JIMMLE" JON ce anton cascaneebanafbcnme nine bee nce ee at September 20. 191 2 THierty iM STOW THER, ‘He ITH) CHOM IN YER © By Eleanor Schorer 3) Switchboard Operator At the Hotel Rich WU FFI WUFF oe NAS Cownant, 1008, by the Frank A, Munsey Co, SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, | a et my OX As Re t View engine ture Vinuey er Ni, CHAPTER XI. The Night Watchman. URSE It! growled igi} If they did know tt Fdtdn's know that they did—t never told them.” "You forgot how | ‘twould be to trace you down her nney. “And you can do a deat In an two when you've once set the aph wires to work," Holling stood staring at his oid com: rade ax If he did not know what to aay easy next, He was now amazed at the raj alte nthe state of affairs, and his dull and stupid from the quantity Irink which he had taken, refused to act oroperly when enlled on, “Must be all a mistake, this finding ‘he out suddenty, “Row could they find hime’ let a man with lights down the hole int is by a nawered nney, es what it aa In the oventng papers. ‘To-day at noon that was, And of course (hey erled the news all Oho try © pretty diy wanted, Dill—there’s no doubt about 1" Holling felt that this old acquaintance Was speaking trot and he looked at him again in the gloom strove in a Vag dull fashion to realize the full significance situation “How did you to know me? he om at last “Ita ten years sines we and ['ve had my) mustact shaved oft? T didn't know vou at frst, Bul,” ree plied the othe I saw you on the mn ormanton CL came on by your train), and at fret I couldn't have told you from Adam. But Vd just been reading all about it a the struck me the down the plat. d you over newap walking om you, and and up and 1M avefully, and then I knew ya Watched you through the glass door when you went Into the refresh ment room to get a drink, and 1 recog. nized the way in which you tifted the “stu your mouth, ‘Chen J got into next carriage ure, and there 4 a plain clothes man at the station . but he didn’t tumble to you at all, Hut he's a new man; there are plenty in the town that will know you, mus- tache or not." “ 1 better make — myself source,” said Holling, returning towards the station, "It seems Mkely to be rather too hot for me here." “Phero'® no tore tralng to-night,” said Finney Then v lex 1 Hollins. Hew he ab sheer off the one-ley au stepped in front of him Hi" he satd theaningly, ‘Bin Weil, what bi 1t? inquired Holling. Youd beit Avised by me, BIL,” | wala it suadingly. "LE reckon ofa you're not the sort to run kw for nothing, Make it worth my while and UH put you in a safe plier nd 1 off sagely, tov ut ured at him with something Nik 1 \ art and in the Now do 1 kno won't give me t it worth my whtle, “au wl » you I's th Twa and 4 Vin going , ret linent avin I could Ket you iH ediat " is \ Holling pat hate « a ney's outstretched hand Get a couple of bottles of the best Scotch whiskey,” he sald, "And let's be ) ae | The Diamonds By J. S. Fletcher Romance of a Hoard of Missing Which Follo Get Our OF THE House! Iti Give You To. THE DoG-CATCHER TOMORROW? Jewels sharp about getting on to your Finney; I'm wanting a drink now, his way, Bul" said Ploney woma ata little distance.” He turned off in a direction different that which Hollins, who well-reme:n- 1 the situation of the glass works: expected ttm to take. His wooden I stumped cheerfully along the road anc into the gloom. Holling kept his old av- quaintance in view and at the same time preserved a sharp lookout for any- thing In the shape of the enemy. ‘inney displayed considerable acumen jn getting his man across the Metle town, He elimbed fences, crosned waste pleces of ground, scrambled up a ralt- way embankment, dodged over the rails ata dark part of the line, and dropped into more waste ground at the other side, wound about through back streets and narrow alleys, and finally brougut Hollins on the side of the river a point where a wide wharf ran along- side the looming roofs and chimn@s, strange and curlous in shape, of the Klass works. It was quiet enough there and Pinney paused under a black wal and let Hollins come up to him, “Stop here @ minute, Bill,” he si Fol- a ty a low whisper; “I'm going round the corner of the stkeet yonder for the whixkey, I get a good brand there.’ “Tw said Hollins, “bring thing to eat with you-I'm hungry.” “Don't be afraid, BUI" sald the night watchman. } nee that you're done to all right—l've my own supper in readiness and there's more than enough for two. He went off then, and Holling watted 1 the brick wall unt he exme with a parcel under his arm and stumped away on foot again with « whispered word to come on. Tt was nov very dark, and a light rain was falling wind came cold and damp from t\. river, and Hollins, catching a glump' of its blacknes# now and then in th- xleam of Nght which came from ar cccastonal cottage window, felt that hip surroundings were by no means pleas ne ant and that hie fe was wearing + dull and uninviting aspect. He thowght of the comfort ury of the fotel at Birmingham wheret» A found shelter the previous night warmth of the smoking-room, the ¢ the padded chairs, the flavor oF he had drunk. y realized, with a eurious vensation of fear and loneliness, that he would not dare to walk into that hotel or ny other public place to-night or for some nights to come, Despite all bis precautions, the murder wae gut, and justice was on his track, Kinney stopped near the great @ of the glass works, and after some bling with @ key unlocked a door dn ake aml motioned Hollins to step in+ Aw the door closed behind them, y laid his hand on his companton’ + guiding him along the wall unt!) came to what appeared in the they darkness to be 4 mall cottage whic’ bad the Igh wall for ite exterior ac the rear and faced into the yard that opened Into the darkness in front. Here Finney unlocked another door, bade Holling step within, and drew him along 4 dark passage into a room lght- ed only by 4 glow of a carefully banked fire, Ile struck a mateh and Ughted a was jet that hung from the foom. Hol- lins looked around him, and found blm- self stand ng in the midst of a comfort- ably furnished living-r He glanced nxlously at the curtained window “Don't be afraid, my tad," said Fine noy with a reassuring nod. “That wine doW is shuttered a# well as blinded and urtained, and there isn't an eye mado that could w push It, Just let mo fasten the other door, and then we'lt have our supper and be comfortable. T don't go my firat rounds for a good tour yet.” He stumped off and fastened tty loor, came back, pointed out an easy chair on the hearth to Hollins, any, stirred the fire into a bright and cheer: glow uncarked one of t bottles of whiskey and set {t with ghae 1 Jug of water at Hollins’ vw," sald Holl “Two glasses. we'll drink together W just a d then,” replied « your health, Who t my allowance un here's to you. nwelf out a Mberat rit. Finney noticed sharp glance om Irew his own ee a making 9¢ In the midat of th w out a newspaper y perhaps like to me the Post while 1 xet the supper ready, BIN? he sad, UT # a Wt tnvide and a good deal on the Jast page whiskey ferred: it 1 about his dis. 1 him in no way, its substance in the “good 1 him alek * » paper almost % tr h vor Teer thing ' gon wrong verything was ogatnet hin: (to Be gue ‘i Na 4