The evening world. Newspaper, October 4, 1912, Page 27

Omen teen rreemnen eee em The Ev LAN' SHE HAS THE ROLLING-PIN “The Charity Girl” Needs Hope and Faith. BY CHARLES DARNTON.: 8 THE hours drag out their weary length ut the Giobe Theatre the convic- A tion grows that George Lederer’s clock stopped long ago, for in “The Charity Girl” the George W. Lederer Production Company has produced nophing that {s new and aimbst everything that is old. In this enterprise both faith and hope are sadly needed. The possible attempt of ‘The Charity Girl” to follow in the footsteps of Belle of New York" leads to nothing but a forelorn hope. ‘The the bee in the pretty bonnet of the girl who daintily picks her way through the side. Tne uplift movement is strong in ther. But at s « Inger in order that we may suffer for our sins, she herself 1s ali but lost in Atlantic City, where the plot takes a eudden turn tn the direction of a talkative clairvoyant and his pursuing wife. In writing the book, Edward Peple may have been made to see the necessity for turning over a new leaf in a hurry. At any rate, let us take @ charitable view of an author unused to the pecu- Nar ways of musical comedy. The music by Victor Hollaender has In it no suggestion of the compuser ui “suin- urn.” It might have been written by anybody who goes in for the sort of thing we hear night after night. In other words, it sounds as though it had been written to ordei This suspicion Is strengthened by one air that accompanies the “girl where- ever she goes. It repeats Itself only to seem a@ repetition of “Follow On,” the song that won Miss Edna May her following In ‘The Belle of New York.” Miss Marfe Flynn sings {t with @ coo in her volce that should receive the immediate attention of @ throat specta at. That cou ought to be removed at all costs, Miss Flynn t* pretty—and she knows it. What she doesn’t know, perhans that she will never be an- “The Be, cous. Her der her sweetness clogs song, “Rosemary,” esa paila and One really pretty fe well sung by C. Morton Horne, Relph Herz (specially engaged) talks as though he had been “specially engased” to talk us to death, There can be no doubt, however, that he tikes to hear himself tik. Miss Biossom Secley whangs away at ragtine, and Misa Annabelle Whitford reveals as many of her charms a her cosiumes will Ray Cox as Mrs. Hopping. permit. With her trusty airship that has served her so well In vaudeville, Miss Ray Cox talks to herselé more or leas amusingly as she cises above the general etupidity of ‘The Charity Gir." But I can't understand why she @hould ask tor @ lemon—when she 1s part of © : 2 66 ” Lewis Waller in “Henry V. HILE pageantry counts for comparative little tn Lewlsa Waller's faded W @nd worn production of Shakespea: Qtre, there is real beauty tn the Ensileh s speeches. Mr. Waller's performance fees farther to explain his standing at heme than anything he has hitherto country. Henry V." 1s, of course, atmos, wholly a matter of declama- then—dut good declamation is none too common in these conversational days Although Mr. Waller is a trifle dry in manner and @ bit monotonous in @elivery in the first two acts, he Brows surprisingly better once he gets into the thick of the pliy. Those re- Meetions on the lot of Kings, the prayer efore the battle of nocrt, and the stirring address to the “band of brothers” on St, Criepin's Day are a!l given with fine fceling. Nor is the opportunity to show himsclf as @ human being, and not as a mere King, missed by Mr. Waller. He never, how- suggests the rough soldier, “the man of iron.” Even in wooing the gentle French princess, he ts’ mildness ‘King Henry ’V." at Daly's The- ors reading of certain {twelf, But his humor in this acene carries him safely to the end of the slow-moving, epifodio play, By no standard of our own tlme can thts S1g chroniele-nistory be called Gramat, *!0 WallSh As King Menry V. iy Interesting, however thrilling 1. may be to the national pride of the Ensitch, In her charming diction as the Chorus and then in her air of exquisite breed- ing as the Princess, Miss Madge Titheradce gives two artistic performances. The other members of Mr. Waller's company fail to distinguish themeelves, with the result that the per ormance ts often wanting in spirit. Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers. The Jealous Swein. Briefly, an engaged young man ts sup- as Posed to confine his attentions to nis YOUNG man Ifancee, and she, in turn, should not be is exceeding- hink that @ po} seen in the soclety of other youn i ly foolish to BOIALE GP SERRE BREA AR ular girl should The Pretty Girl. “R. GC." writes: “Which de right? B. confine herself to}says a pretty girl can out other girls nis attentions be-jout with men. A, says that if man fore. she has promised to marry really loves a girl no other girl can w uun, no matter how pretty she may be.” him, Similarly, a| A, is right—if the man is the right girl has no right| sort. to be offendet if a young man not} “Q. 8." writes. "I have promised to her fiance divides] marry a young men, and I woar his en- hie time between «agement ring. But he continues to go herself and one or| cut witi another «trl. Is this right?* Certainty not, He is treating you mest inconsiderately nore of her frienda, But after the engagement has becomo a matter of history, the whole situation is changed. Tho promise to marry {m- plies that a young man and woman have ( Amtely preferred each other's society | ser than that of some other member he opposite sex, “L. C." writes: leaves a lady after ai ure, what should she She should thank him for the enjoy- able time be hes given her, ening other Edna May no matter how much | “World Daily Mag azi WELL ,WELL, oY LITTLE MAH, : rte LOAD! 1 Useo To HAVE ITTLE Nowne GOT Quite A ‘ Red WHEELGARROW WHEN Rataal CLIMB IN AND 1 was A BOY —— \ LL wHee. Tre BUNCH OF YOU. NOES Tie MONEY, ' av ECTIVE WRC27E?*) SHERIDAN A series of Articles Exposing the Every-Uay Deceptions of the Powers That Prey. ;: Camere ye Uthis 66 Fey DOU ws “ie Y, detectives that ever exrsted outarde of Action. Ihe foate @j memory which gave him hve nickname, whew he woe C7 Pry head of the Bureau of Identijicetion of the New Yors | Police Department, are proverbial, It has been eaid there ts no man in the United States with 20 thorough @ knowledge of creminale end their ways 6s Detective Shersaun. In thts serves h the public mony valuadio pointera eaiculates to save them loss by swindling) (Caneres 1919 ne W@W hotiekt NO, 19—THE MYTHICAL MINE. Good Stories Shutting Off. HE mont nerrows permoo at tho danquet war te had been Invited to ot enjoy the food. ted next to Jose G, Cannon, who knows all tere is to know about going to ban- queta aud Leivg bored by (ie qmeclea that come young mau, (ail of klea and ialie to tie feet as if he had been shot hen is (us ane, Lie looked lige bad beea bypoodsed aud thrown ‘state, * be bomen, “He te my hu fon (hat the generality of mankind iu Aisjomel 10 ake acvaataye of ibe ganerality “Sit down, 9on," cut In Uncle Joe "You gare one tate ihe came tele you» ied from,” OU can get the almost immediate attention of the iarge majority by the And that euted the imcch.—wupaler Magezine, y. tnere mention of a gold anine, for thefe ts @ certain magic in the phrase, rr Playing upon thts very generatly recognized condition, an increasinely One Hoos.er Is Happy. | pistiterous number of erafters aro daily at work exchanging rainbows for fool's gold. Most of the victims tive tn foretgn countries, The reason for the Luropean predilection ta that there 1s, naturally, much lees| chance of a dangerous “squeal” from a gutl many thousands of miles away than there w: be from the near-at-hand, The thieves who work the mythical mine racket send out lettera from New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Bloston and | ovner large American c'tles to addresses In England, France, Germany, Italy and other European countries. ie A Clipping agencies with tnternational connection supply obituary notices to all farmer sald, ‘Why shoud | worry and sundry on payment of the reasonable fee of five cents @ cutting, When the | egg ed he live-without-working man has aseembled these In piles of poralbilittes and prob- worse) why stud | worry abilities he writes to a score or more, addressing them at their Inte earthly! > residences, and seemingly in Sgnorance of their passing. He will end to the| . deceased {n cities as widely separated as posmble, Thi# to avotd the embarrans- he Only One. ment which misht flow in case letters should fan into the hands of persons Congress had bern mak u one of the towns of his ure Le was not well known mutually acquainted. The letter from the grafter purports to be from one Pil! Johnse: miner, a rough diamond, a trifle short on grammar, but with a heart as big as all out- chery Oren #04. doors, Honest Dill writes to his dear friend Herr Jagend.rf of Frankfort that on the Bo Peep mine.gwhich Bul has been working for five years, has at last given ‘sttermoont” be} up its golden yield, and that the take will run tnto millions, ‘This ultimete sue cess, says William, was made possible by the sum advanced him by Herr Jog- : fel the Daweites, k wae thane,” Wimet did you think ot it" endorf, and now Bill wants to play even with his xood friend, The writer in- “Pyiaw,"" raid the howest butoher, “I've made|closes a clipping careles#ly (7) torn from a newspaper (in reality carefolly & beter sueecl than tats bundvd times trying | inted for him by an accomplished accomplice) hailing the @iscovery of gold in to sell fifteen cents’ worth of goup bones,” t between thern, ep th 0 they will letter, felling the handa of the lamented Jacendorf's widow or mother or brother or other relative, frequently produces the desired remult—that 1s, the sult desired by Faithful Bill of the heart of oak. Sometimes it requires cone hh great presence of ud, shouted st ble Interchange of correspondence before the mark gives up his marks. pe al Pont drow the sone at the] \rier tho recelpt of the money the incident 1s closed, #o far as BI!) Johnson is } BH tll concerned, He develops writer's cramp, and the Jagendorf hetrs hear from him =) ” no more. “Rough Hew Them. Sometimes the victin is more demanding. If he wants to he shown, Honest Pee vrei, dainty IAMH avenve mat | \y aye y return of post to come at once to New York, and gtver H of as ey: a ru sto meet lace, When the rives, he ts met by the added the fi all drew + part, and thorow sed, A Visit ts at Minpid € ‘ jold.ie d or ‘Tonopih, or some other point where the teh @ connection and have the use of @ hole in the ground from indeed; Tam ce.ighted,”* which brass filings may be dug up in generous quantity, ‘he victim's trunk te jeupan ‘Le mon hie cent and his “virgin gold” and he ts eent on bis way rejoicins. When the “blow. ‘an atom and a molecule? The candidate concealed bus identity, Kansas | tite Bo Peep as the big find since BE) Dorado. Oy sta, Dill purposes incor/orating, or something or other that requires money. But, ——~ ge ees to tell ch. truth, he is shore o. immediate cash, and doesn't wish to borrow from Guiding Her Aright. any of his accuaintances, who would then require ao unreasonable Interest in MAN ie RA with a tenwea cn | (28 tit funny that a man owning a mine worth millions should be! x; ewem, recenuy f hbuseit in a bad | yy endort a half interest in the Bo Peep tn return tor predicament when, me the ¥ past favors ng the thousand or $1.60 for current eapenses and * ay Coperight, 1918, v7 G, FP, Puteem’s Sons, STNOPAIS OF PRECEINNG OMAPTERA, \ ©, Ore ot old Kmoep wo Cole CHAPTER V. (Ovatinesd.) Parting of the Ways. N an obscure tavera by the waterfront be found Frank Meverill—e sincere, young Geeperado, white bold, diesi- pated look had something strangely attrective about ft, and whose gentiemanty epeech and manner belied 6 certain affectation ef tanithood bravade. All this latter wae swept away by the eudden, violent wave of emotion that visibly rushed over his whole be ing when West delivered Mre, Haver- il'e message, and handed him the locket containing the portrait minta- ture With an oath on his lipe and tears eried out hoarsely: ungrateful dog, and I" Jail and worse. nd 1 wet, end not blame any either, But, by God, I'm glad now th you settled with that Thornton before I got to him. And I came down here to Charleagon to ie him as @ friend! Now, listen, Lieut. West —and I want you to tell this to my father, and to to my dearest mother, for she is that--here Re kissed the miniature fervently" tell them that I deserve the worst that can happen to me, but that I didn’t desert my wife @ deserv tan story to go out In ord the track, and Encyclopedia 2 fe Pe ae ming CO, Ere Wow ‘Yort Woe lthat’ the Colonel 886, What is the difference between know the truth, end that fort her more than the money th are sending har, God bless them! And (Pounded on Bronson Bi running down hie hardened face he he now concentrated all ‘ve been @ —— ——— fool, an On a email stream cated Bu! Conted: with activity, wee exercising afl his @agacity, skill and experience ia tour de force of sending an army to Johnston and the field, at the threatened pointe, one of these threatened points, great valley of Virginia lying jonth since the breaking of the war had developed qualities calculated to attract the tention of the authorities at Licut. Ellingham, promoted to fain, naturally gravitated wrigade of Jackson, who was now “vated to the rank of brigadier ef of volunteers, The regiments of us brigade were composed of the vary | lower and not only of the Dut of the whole commonwealth of ginfa; and even before Jackson's took the feld they had already begun 3 recelve the impress of the iron hand their leader, Their frst destination wae Mai Junction, the point of unton of the road coming into Virginia from ington with a branch road leading the Shenandoah Valley. Gen. Lee bag potnted out that this stratesic pot would in all probability be the fre: Mefield in the move to check the eral advance towards Ric! are abrupt ani aely wand fe fordabdle tn numerous rte that time was crossed on the Ville and Warrenton turnpike road, "Sa | low Budiey Church, by a atone It was on @ bright, sultry #1 i morning of mid-July that the armies of brothers—disrupted <f 5 famiy~repettio thet had held: ~ or three genera’ emerged in gerried battle thoes ei Sa long from the mysterious either 4! Bu nwa rward to breast for victory, i “a $87, Why does a vessel draw more \t would comfort me, too, If anything 104) could-—but nothing water in a river than in the ocean? tning--and that fe feht, 888. How much more would 6 man j,, weigh on the sun then on the earth? “rlf-respect, to honor. and show those atuck by me that I'm worth 899. How 6id the word “thimbie” | Wha have muck, Oy fatter what No originate? henpene thank God, I've sui! get free 848, What covsne mete? “Te ynu mean that you'll enttst ket Went, HTDSE questions will be anawored | :vay—yes, Lioutenant. T can Monday. Here are replies to/ 1, washington quick enough.” Wednestay’s! “tn the Federal army, of course?” $1. (How many vforations of eound| “sirely—in the Ment for the Ueton, can the human ear eppreciate?)—About 24,0 In one second, 2%. (How many vibrations of @ musl- cal chord are needed to produce @ defi- nite sound?)—Not lees ‘36 per nec- ond, “Bully for you, Fran! ofcer, impulsively grasping the boy's “Tha aid news Colonel, pread Frank He rose to his Tl Haverill'a fac feet and anid earnestl o, Lieutenant Wert. TI charge you, upon honor, not to tell my father not to tell any one—but to keep this a secret between ourselves. It will be time enongh for them to know when I Pave proven myrelf a man again. Tioutenant, I am going to Washington to enlist. But that 1} that will bout me for the Frosent, arhaps forever, Even if you hear of pe inthe dave to come, it won't be under the name of rank Haverill. “Tam going to start all over @ nider & new name which [ a spot of diehonor on ft, and Uncle fam and Father Abraham Lincoln will have a brand new recruit, born Do you understand, Lieuten- ‘That sweet Indy, heaver'e own rel mother to me, has stooped down Cia grabbed me out of hell, and she hall yet have reason to be giad that the @i@ 60, or my father will never set eyes on his son again! CHAPTER VI. The Virginians. (FN Col, Haverttl arrived tn Washtngton—which at that period had not yet outgrown {te aspect of a ehiftiess, ov grown Virginia town — he found tt transformed into @ vast, chu- otic military camp, Every incoming train from Baitlmore @r from the West brought fts regiment of raw recruits, who were driven Hke cattle to the bar- racka aad dri «round on the Potomac ficte, near the end of the Long Bridge, and within agit of the secples and of Alexandria, where on @ clear the rebel flag could be seen from of the Whito House, 983. (IIow do telescopes enable one to see to @ great Gistange?)—By gathering t her the rays of light, #o thet a ter quantity than usual are brought to the e 36. (Why 1s @ mixture of tin and cop- Der used for bell metal?}—Because tt is harder and more elastic than any pu! metal 385. (Why does mother-of-pearl show #0 many colore’}—It constwte of many transparent layers overlapping one an- other and thus forming grooves that run in all directions, The grooves act as priems, in which various colors are seen, bright When my Gream of life, from morn til! —— The Dream. HY, the daye are gone when beauty y bloom, And days may come, Of milder, caimer beam, nothing half #0 eweet tn life young dream; No, there's nothing half 6o aweet in life Aw love's young dream. Though the bard to purer fame may woar, When wild youth's past; Though he win the wise, who frowned before, To ante at iast; He'll never meet, | A Joy #0 aweet, i} In ail his noon of fame As when fret he sung to woman's ear His soul flam 1, atevery close, she blush’ to bear ing defiantly. lo Washington was getting ready to send the Army of the Potomac to in vale Virginia, Robert Ellingham re mT Rite kat. she pans av the xentry term the discovery of duplicity and the consequent Magazine. ee wataeg (DOW! Bill Johnson ts tar eway—wriling letters te mere'dead mag. one lov'd name. THOMAS MOORE. ported to Gen. Lee in Richmond, 15 @iles to the southward, and found the I want to fight my way back to 388 brigade was included, marched ahead. make the opentng demonstrations ef Stone Bridge, while two others at the Budiey and other fords, te centrate on the soathern bank’ stream and flank Beauregard’s ‘This seemed an admirably clear simp! jan, at 8 o'clock in the ing, Before noon {t was an memory. and the wide arid plates ik!" orled the Which the battle spread tke @ the brushwood swarmed with masses of Northern and ti , Treeline to and fro, alti taking and losing and re-tal same post! ha’ al! lines Indtetingy: lurtd clouds of smoke, through itlery guns and ca!ssone madly, while the thunder of cannon the sustained crash of musketry renee berated in Ataboticat concert low-lying hills around, and near far arose mingled with the human. netehing of horses, and the shouts, eh the wounded and dying, Before his h elf knocked of & shell Heart: ‘ thorn fall in the grand chai drove back the South Carolina Testone of Hampton and Bee. He also became aware of another brigade near enemy's contre that did not rive but stood its grou then turned aggressor, Hearteenae's mind at ¢ or two more commands would make Beaur Y the unique First Brigade of the Army of the andoah, under Jackson, Rob Ellingham, galloping along ti little wooded crest on the oth the Btone Fridge, knew all brizade. rally hi & stone Jackson's brigade on the artillery. Plateau of “fanassas was playing Dart of the Imperial Guard of At Austeriits, but without the pr er the inspiration of apparent At a late hour of the afternoon net @ knew whether it had lost or tn point of fact, one had about th right to he routed as the other, ward was tearing about the fleld, every portion of the Ines, hig Creole face burning with anti @ shouted encouragement to his avage-looking troops, who with the blood-curdiing “Rebel yell the @outhern swamp-rangers, (To Be Continued.)