The evening world. Newspaper, October 2, 1912, Page 21

ey HENRY TYRRELL POUNCED ON BRONSON HoWwARO'S GREAT PLAY. tons of the South as well as of North- ern States, planned tho Eliingham ball, for the second week in April. Col, Haveriil, of the regular army of the United States, had been @ Mexican war comrade of the tate Col. Ellingham Warti Wooi artime ooin g e (Copreight, 1912, by @, P, Putnam's Som.) CHAPTER 1. C foumy Colonial mansion fronting on the East Battery. Tt was early spring of the year 1861. Sky and water im that Govthern seatoari lime were blue, but {t waa the soft, dreamy blue of Medi- QCharestun still wore unconsctousty an Old Wortd aspect, a sort of logendary Glamour of feudaliem, the real or imagined heritage of aristocratic Huguenot arreestore. Die, of various ages and conditions, and inoheding besides Chariestoniuns a num- ber of respresentatives of other sec- of Virginia When Eilingham died A Stirring Story of Haughty Old Charleston. JHARLESTON always looks to me as if It had drifted bodily serose terrancan shores. Nights of velvety dusk were lit with strangely large, low- Bung Mars. The magnolias were not yet in bloom, but amid the moss-velled live Buch were the enviable condittons— heightened rather thaw restrained by “The Case ws Military Adventure the Atlantic from old France or Spain,” said Col, Haveriil, ae he cake airendy vhe mcking-birds sang—ur rather rhapsodized in tanguage of golden the peiiiival curmot! of the time—under of Becky” and of a Strange | @tood waxing out harborward from the pillered veranda of the fone, as if confiding thrilling secreta that buret from stifled hearts, whieh an oddiy orted grodp of peo- Is Fascinating. two children, Robert and Gertrude. Robert was duly graduated from West Potnt, and with his olasemate, Kerchi- val West of Massachusetts, went with the rank of Meutenant to see active ser- BY CHARLES DARNTON. NCP again Dayid Belasco hypnotizes his public! We heant o at deal O about the powers of Prof. Balzamo last night, but the real nvereuat who cL a ied ee in the regiment of Made so much of “The Case of Becky" was nune other than that well-| Gor Haverilt me ery vi srenaobewe known wizard, Vrof, Belasco. I sertously doubt whether there 1s another man| Gevetiny tates be bys bebrdenturaded tn the whole theatrical world wio cou'd have given Edward Locke's wetrd play'| ton eunieg yee Tree oreo A the dnterest it excited at the Belasco Theatre. Wert. Gertrude Bitogham hed com After all, uere was nothing more than the old Jeky‘I-and-Hyde story in a new! on from the femtig ween ime ey “ers. When the heroine of this revised tale was "good" she was Dorothy:| ghenondoan Vater af vee tthe t When she was “bad” she was Becky. As Dorothy ehe loved flowers and tha|ner brother Bob. Lik ne gph deh B latest novel; a Becky she liked carameie, but hated everybody, most of alll weet had come to fon’ tor ty po To the simple tind she seemed simply neane, therefore » ereature to] erchival, and incidentally be enjoy her ely a subject to be observed. But as she was under treatment @t the Sanitarium of Dr less profess Just as a first acquaintance with the fascinating Southern city, Nothing less than a ball—one of the EMnerson, the audtence was forced to take a more or nal view of the case. Up to this point the play was fascinating, inte may be fascinating. mee, the acting of Miss Frances Starr gave the play val : apparent the moment play 2 stake value that was) The younger set, including the two re came sliding down the banister as the wild, outlandish Becky, with lier hair and dress caught up tn much the same fashion. Although Mies: Btarr had already appeared as the gentle Dorothy, thiy really counted as! her “star” entrance, sine 80 effective as to make the audience sit up and stare. The plastic pert nality of this young woman that merged itself 80 readily Into such a characterless creature as Laura Murdock in ‘The Easiest Way” save itself casily to the dual personality that called for much greater skill last night, and Miss Starr won new laurels as an averess of weak or perverted characters. Artistically, her’ performance was a real achievement, for she not only kept the two characters | quite distinct, but in one scene shei changed from Dorothy to Becky with no other ald than her own rense of the artistic. She performed this diMoult feat remarkably well. The abrupt| change from the good to the evil per-/ sonality was a revelation of Miss Starr's ability to meet the demands of an un- usually exacting role, The town may well take off its hat to this gifted young Meutenants, had practically no other jubject of ‘serious’ discussion, Seces- sion taik was rife, to be sure, and mill- tary activities going on were such as to lead to but one logical conclusion—that war, of something very like !t, was im- minent. But love outranked logic, in that particular camp, at least, At the very opening of the campaign the casualties took in Kerchival West and his demure, dark-eyed sister Made- 4S mutual offsetting to this gallant Bob Ellingham and his a spirited Une; @ pair, the sister Gertrude, the latter irl, with warm bronze hair befitting her amouonal temperament, and vivid com- xion to match, > first cloud that appeared in this rosea.e sky was Edward Thoruton, Thornton rather a handsome (e low, in his insolent way, and a few years older than the two Meutenants- that {8 to say, he was close upon thirt He than the assurance of ch advantage ever, she surpassed It in the last sicken- ing struggle against the extinction of Becky, when Dr. Emerson bent all his energies toward killing the evil per- sonality. Her half-choked cry, “I want lve!" struck « human note that made with Mrs, Haverill, the Colonel's wife. The young people frankly did not ithe Thornton, though none of them had said so, and probably any or all of them would have denied the charge had it been made, Meanwhile, Dr, Bingham and the Colonel, and Mrs, Haverill and the Pinckneys (South Carolina relatives of the Ellinghams) saw graver porten # than sentimental ones on the near hor- izon, Their conversation turned upon questions of State sovereignty, the “old flag,” and rights as to secession trom the Union, ’ “If the interests of your manufac- turing and shipping States of the North,” observed Dr. Elingham, “and of our asr! iral and cotton Mates of the South are not running in harmon that Is no excuse for a fanily quarrel.” “TL quite agree with you," sald Cc It isan awkward t for a 6 take sides in such a disput we don't have the play a tragedy for the moment. The awakening from the hypnotic sleep with Dorothy triumphant, but @ Dorothy aya one Frances Starr as oecny. nerve-wracked and whimpering with exhaustion, was realised by Miss Starr with absolute fidelity, It must be confessed, however, that interest in the girl faded before the dominant atiraction of the travelling hypnotist the moment that Prof. Balzamo arrived on the scene. Here was another ase of Svengal! and Tr.!by, only Balzamo claimed Dorothy as whter. je ad run off wich her mother, the wife of Dr, Emerson. Dorothy's strange onduct was explained by the fact that she was born while her mother was finder the hypnotist’s spell. ‘The news that the De toy wax Dorothy's fathe: me as a inat.er of course, The most Interesting thing about Dr, yas his laboratory with, its electr s, including a whirlin s mirror that ‘put Balzamo “out of business” and made ruth out of him, added greatly to the novelty of the play. jo way that the audience sat spellbound, Charles Dalton walked off with the play in the end by making the hypnatist Combination of brute, faker and dominant personality. He gaye a splendid rformance, In quite anaher way, Albert Bruning, as Dr, Emerson, was qually fine. An attempt to introdute a minor love interest in the episode ot @ Doctor's assistant and @ nurse provad,tittle less than ridiculous, through no fault, however, of Harry C. Browne and Miss Mary Lawton. In walting lor Dorothy to become normal, Eugene O'Brien acted With considerable patien Haver soldi f: ning t easy for ery thypno’ ne Ve This s It 1s no exaggeration| Theoretical! Government settles all that for us, and I fee! contident for the present wo almply obey o: they will find a rem break, as they have haps worse ones in the past. not for the slavery questlc Ah," sighed the Southern conserva t Bat yay \ f it were WELL 1S MAMA'S LITTLE Boy DOING SOME WHAT ISIT-A LION? IF IT 1S MAYRE I CAN +HeLP CATCH IT. THis 15 No LION! iF IT 1S “TURN BACK FELLOWS, GENERAL SHERIDAN Haverill became the guardian of his tive, “if I owned the four million slaves stances, seeing little of his father I would gladly give them all up for the Preservation of the Union.” “Well, your friend, Major RuMn, cer- tainly more dectded opinions on the subject than both of us put together,” laughed Haverill, making the tomary effort to divert the conver into lighter chaonels. RufMin wasa striking character, typical of the time. They met btm afternoons at the Charleston Hotel, or on a sunny morning walking by the Battery sea wall, gazing out across the harbor to where the Sumter fortress reared tts forty-foot walls on an artificial island built on the shoals, This was one of the important fortifications of the ceding States whose status in relation Federal Government was in oml- ispute. Ruffin woutd say, impressively, the status of these Federal forts in the seceded States ts not yet deter- mined, it is high time it should be. If &n appeal to arms is necessary—and [ can see that it ia, sooner or later—let It come right here, and now.” Cc jan? Virginia has not seceded. “Not yet, but @he will—she must. I @m, as you say, ai But this hanging fire 1s fo little to my taste, sir, that I have sold my Virginia property and cast my allegiance with South Carolina for the present. I have enifeted with the State troeps here, and T await any minute Gen. Beauregard’s can to the batteries he is planting all ‘ound Sumter."* Major Ruffin was a white-hatred, el- derly man, sixty years old {fa day. In hia flery fanatical zeal thero was some- thing humorous—and something tragic. CHAPTER 1. April Weather. Ol, HAVERILL, fifty-five years of age, was distinctively an American sokiler typo. A veteran of the Mexican war, he was happily married to his sewond wife, a New York belle up to the time of her becoming the Colonel's bride, some six years before the period with which the present nar- rative {8 concerned. His only son, Frank, was at that time a boy of fourteen—bright and spirited, but, a8 the Colonet declared with real mortif- cation, estdently not cut out for @ soldier. That most lamentable do!- clency—in the father’s eyes—save color to the assertion, made not by Mrs. averill alone, that the Colonel thought vere of hls young Southern wards, Robert and Gertrude Ellingham, than he did of his own son. However this may havo been, the Colone ‘oung wife more than mado up to the lad the deprivation of ils father’s full measure of paternal con- fidence and affecdion, Having no chil- dren of her own, she gave to the hoy what In his infancy he had never known a mother’s loving care, As he grew up in New York amidst good family sociations and in eomfortable circ O+ No! “ris IS A REG'LAR NIMAL, MA, AM ELEPHANT] wl experiending the trkomeness without the compantonship of that parent's strict control, !t wae not to be won- dered at if Frank came perilously near to being spoiled, After graduation from Columbta—in- Stead of from West Point, as the Col+ onel would have desired, if such & choice could have been realized in the natural course of evente—Frank Haver- Ml entered the banking house of the Howards, relatives of his stepmother. This had seemed a promising connec- tion—It might have led, possibly, to an- other matrimonial alliance, through one of the pretty daughters of the family, on whom the young clerk was known to have made @ most favorable impres- sion—when suddenly he ran away with nd married Edith Maury, # nice enough girl, as it was said, but two or threo years his senior, and the daughter of an impoverished Southern family, whose home was in New Orleans, This was bad enough, love match ts not'm itself an unparden- able sin, Frank was forgiven, at least truce was patched up, andthe, prodi- wal son went ok repentant, it ed, to his Stool he ban! Still, a rash Alas! the “prodigal” climax was yet to come Its beginnings had dated back even to the college days. Edward Thornton had been much in New York, then, He had frat met the Haverills at Saratoga. Handsome, reckleus, & social favorite and sportsman of no mall pretensions, Thornton had tmm diately exercised Frank mountin: ination an worship, Those were flush cing, of gambling, of drin‘:ing, and uth of the Mason and Dixon line especially—ef quelling. Thornton took the eager, precocious boy in hand, and “made a man of him.” It was such @ “man” as the Colonel, his father, ab- sent most of the time on Western duty, never dreamed, Matters were in such strained rela tone now, when the Colonel and his wife stopped at Cl ston on their way North, And it was at this fateful moment that tho last stroke fell. The day heforo the Ellingham ball Col, Haverill learned fron the New York newspapers, an! simultaneously by letter from his lawyers there, that his son was an absconder and a fugt- tive. Under suspicion on account of frregularities discovered at the Howard Dank, he had fled, no one knew wiithe: to escape a leaving his wife seried and mut resources. Col. Havernill's grief and rage were ful, 1 might have expected It," he sald, “And yet, hain't I encugh else on my mind just now without being brought to face a thing like this? Well, let Fate deal with him. He deserves the worst that can happen, { am througn w.ta him. I have always dene my bast by him; now I have other and more tm- portant duties to perform, [ am an Officer of the United States Army.” “Don't judge him too hastily, John. May it not have been that !t was only after another was dependent on him, tha: the debts of @ thoughtless fe M- spendthrift—for he Was nothing worse (s COMING 1.4 —drove him to desperation-to fraud, erhapa—I will not believe crime.” “Hie wife shall be provided for—my lawyers have their Instructions,” replied the Colonel, curtiy. Mra, Haverili sole eoftty out of the room, closing 6 door behind her, Dassed through the spacious galleries ad down the broad winding stairs to the drawing roo: Ewerywhere, Mre Haveriti de- acended after her troublous interview with the Colonel, the younger people were Dilssful:y lounging or circula.ing adout, still talking love and war. They had a new and breezy accesston to their ranks, tn the person of Jenny Buokthorn, "U. S. A." She was the daughter of bluff old Ge Franet Buckthorn of tho regular r than you civilians ee announced Jenny, to group of Iisteners under the front por- tioo. boys are already under "our marching orders tn Washington. Your es any one for the dancing, yet they Gen. Beauregard is riding his high horse, tt seems, Teil him for me that he'd bet- ter mind what he's dotng, or we'll have Heartsease down ul ‘And who is Hearteease, pray’ quired Gertrude Ellingham, who of late was developing an unwonted interest tn the Federal ailttery vies, aoa rta “Hearteense? Breves, Capiatn ease”? Why, be is—one. of mip favorite cavalry officers. Youll him." “Yeo—wherever Mise Buskthorn (s for five minutes or so,” whi Ingham to Madeline West. "I know it ase. Not a bad fellow, but the Diggest fop that was ever misdealt into the cavalry. You ought to hear what Gen. Buckthorn says about him. Weare «@ sing emiagn at guard mount, and carries a scented lace handkerchief at cross-country detll."” Gertrude Ellingham drew Jensy aside and asked her: "How is it to have @ eweetheart who te ater t* “It's all right,” easwered Jenny, Promptly. “Il weulda’t have a sweet- heart who waan't a scidier—e Northern soldier, of course.” A flush of pleasure stole over Ger- trude’s face, then died out as suddenly as It had come. Madeline West murmured to Robert: Eltingham: “It te only lately that T have realtzed there are Northern soldiers and South- ern soldiers. J thought there was but One flag, and that you all served ua- der it.” replied the but some unaccountable change has ¢ome about.” “But {t seems to me," Interponed Kerchival West, “that the people of Charleston are taking an extraordinary Interest In the preparations to bombard Fort Sumter. They look forward to auch event as if tt were to be @ It was at this juncture that Mra Havertll appeared. Before she had time to join the group Thornton haste forward to meet her, and said in a low, hurried tone ee “S’Matter, Pop?” # © Hi o He o Germs) eo Bo Bi eo Fy THEN MAYBE IT 16 AN ELEPHANT. I'M SURE] COULD CATCH IT FOR You EE-E-€-€ Bab Bl. the Southern A Yankee Soldier, a ki eroine, and a Drama in the Shadow “I must see you alone—I have |mpor- tant news for you." “Are ti re—any further tidings of rh} an they 1 and stairs. out together int used the foot of th “Frank te herein Charleston.’ CHAPTER lil. After the Ball. HE Nelle were Jecked and gar- landed, bat! dressee were laid out in readiness, aad the young people were practising minuets, oward twilight Kerchival Weet and Robert Mitngham strojied across the Ba n~ a ate the old sea wat! ther, “Bob, olf comrade," the former be- Gan, “I have something I. want to men- rather hysterical, exclamaions The acunds came from one of the princtpal jent-roome, as I suppieed, but whose I didn't know, ‘Then the door was opened baatily, and Mrs. Haverill ap- Peared, looking alarmingly iM or elso territty frightened, and trembling with excitement.” “And was any one with her?” “Not that I know of. I did have an impreseton——. Aayway, she r hereolf quickly after I had saturated my uandkerchief with ammonta and eau je cologne, and anything cise chanced to be at han, and given It to her, It would be a)! right, abe said, and T was not to such a foolish tittte inettent disturb me en emy seccount. au “Still, the ‘foolish Mttle incitent’ must have had @ serious cause behind it, oh?" “So I thought. But it may have been only @ mouse.” “Or it may havo been Thornton. wae right,” exclaimed Ellingham, strik- ing the clenched Fens ot ene hand into other, the nalm of thi “Then, by ven, Bob*—— te the Cajenel. Leave “It mustn’ Thornton to me. ““A pretext ts all that ts necessary, you don't find it I with,” They shook hands im eilenca, then burried in to dress. Robert and Kerchival were as eager je fora) Havertit shoule be find an excuse to avoid the ordeal Gayety) under the eyes of at least persona whe ksew of the shook she had euffered but & few hours No auch concern aeeme: ward Thornton back. He was and everywhere, overacting if the rete of “the life of the party, 4 never missing a danee. @uddenly the Colonel's beautifer [ie flanked by the twe vivacious stris, Rerself woking the pleture of health and radiance in s specially modieh bail- Gown of flowered satin, sailed into the aalon like the star of @ stage play. Tt was the official, formal opening the ball “De you knew whet Mrs. gaye? Gertrude Billingham adhed Lieut. can the human ear eppreciete? 332—How many vibrations of a mu- sical chord ere needed to produce a | definite sound? 383—How do telescopes enadle one to ace to @ great distonc: 834—Why 14 a miature of tin and copper used for bell metals? $85—Why does mother-of-pearl show 40 many colore? T HESE questions will be an: Friday. day's rad Here are replies to Mon- 476-—-(Why do smoke and steam curl sound is called an echo. <7 of Battle. Kerchival West. “Sho has invited « party of frienda to her house to witness tho firing on Sumter.” “How delightful!” ry Ker- ehtval, in rather a forcet tone of gay- ety. "I hope, however, that they won't wait for dreakfeat until the fortress is bombarded," “You think it will be a long wait? Weil, Lieut, West, [lt bet you an em- broidered cigar case against a box @f Gloves that the first gun is fired before “Done. You wili lose the bet Gertride, unless Major Rufhn, ‘nate to curd his patience any longer, shoult ery aut and touch overjoyed to offer you the gloves, pam Meularly if—weill, in the hi that hands ‘betonging them ane —s the shadow of the ele indera as he apasmodically seise@ ene of the aforesald Iittle hands. She with- drew it almost as promptty, my own tee ent until some one comes al 99 for clatmhing tt that Gen. : regard is going to open fire on Sumter T happen to thing ts in readiness, “It ta a heap easier to have everything in readiness to do thing than t¢ ip f have been to do tt. For instance, to-day to say to het—tRet I know that every- © Gowen times you, Mise Gertrude, 1 “Well, str?” ae ft) you kaow," ‘ery ‘ely General Beauregard has More nerve than you have,” ws “Ob, tt to easy enough Datteries around ‘Charleaten ae B that But when it comes to Gring the frst abet et a woman"— “At @ woman? Why, whet taliing bout?” et “I mean, at the Ameriean flag—a man amist be a—must have the nerves of’— “You Northern men are ap “Yes, I know I’ve been slow—but I oe you, Mise Gertrude, that my “Aren't you going North to jon in he threatened tnvasii Here Thornton and Jenny Buckthem 818—(How does wind dry damp Unen?)—Dry wind imbibes the vager from the lineo's surface as fast as such vapor Is formed, 879—(Why ome objects blak?) Because they absorb all the light's rays and reflect mone of them. jo—(What causes echocs?)—Whea- ever @ sound wave strikes against any ohstacle it ts reflected, This reflected a