The evening world. Newspaper, October 30, 1912, Page 19

‘the kvening World. CENT LETS “Trial Marriage” Lends Itself to Ridicule, ‘BY CHARLES DARNTON. A NEW idea ie, of course, just what we're ail lacking for over the foot- faey bar aegan ty bitok) the loud pedal of the typesetting machine used to effect—the idea apie Guat be @ true and « big one to ‘These few remarks tend, as you may guess, to “Triel ied @ulded play by Elmer Herris that ran its strange course at the Fivonen Trea bred, bast night There were long breathing spells between the three acts that gave the audience plenty of time to put on its thinking-cap. The firet thought to pop tuto the mind was that a man who made hie Uving by lecturing to women on (tai marriage could be considered, at best, as nothing more than an efterncon- tea eort of hero, As for the heroine, who went in for hospital work end so ve promise of becoming @ useful mem. der of society, she crumpled into a weak sister when she allowed herself to be carried off to the Meine woods by the tailor-made prophet of love without the wedding ring. An author who writes a play, or « who produces it, should first & General appeal founded upon the facts of life. While the title may suggest something intensely modern, with formal announcement of the period of trial, it the old matrimonial game, And after all {s eaid and done, a man who proposes trial marriage to the woman he pretends to love stamps him. self as a coward. Moreover, by failing to work out the theory of genutne trial marriage the author in this purely the- atric Instance misses his chance to out- run the so-called advanced thought on the subject. v “Trial Marriage” proved @ trial in Helen Ware as Marie Luise Ridgway. ™oro than one respect. The newspaper clippings of unhappy marriages that Blair Thomas kept served only to emphasize his filmsy argument that Marie Ridgway should run off with him to a cabin in the Maine woods and remain there until he had decided whether she would “do” for life. To make an audi- ence accept a man ike Blair both the author and the ector must endow him wih @ certain unconscious magnetism and mad idealism, This neither Mr. Harris nor Harrison Hunter, who acted the part of the lover, eucceeded in } doing. The author did his worst at the outset by making his hero a self-con- eciovs lecturer to Iht-headed women, while the actor made him aeem a fool | when he didn’t seem a cad. \ The murmur that went up last night when Blair put his Jealousy into words ‘opon his return to tine cabin after an \ absence of a few days p! ly expressed the general opinion of the audience. The alimony-paying actor who had deen Marie's innocent companion during this ¢ime was simply “Uncle Alec” to her. But Blair had misread certain signs of @vunoular affection unt!l he didn't ate to say to Marte. “You've been de- ediving your family and friends; why Hdn't you have decelved me?” The jest that swept over the footlights the audleince was like an {li wind. ould put on her coat and announce she Was going to pass t night at her “uncle's” followed E matter of course, It would not have Yoeen surprising to see her throw a lamp , at Blair. It was @ physical, rather than ‘ @ dramatic, shock, however, to see Blair seize her by the throat and choko her { {nto insensibility. When she revived, much to his relief, sho gathered all her strength together and melodramatically “showed him the door.” But he fol towed her back to New York, of course, and the moment he produced a ring she | fet] into his arms with a promptness judged all the the wot these ‘BROK I8es.” From beginnii ising promise to the “O Promise divorce court, and 80 on, the of existence finds its found, that wi Jmost disappointing. Harrieon Hunter as Blair Thomas. Yet, mark you, {t 1s not Gropped into an old-fashioned discussion of the double standard of morals for | him. men and women. And when Blair arrived with a ring that he ellpped on Marle's| gaid a prominent busine to be expected. Authors are seldom as daring as they esem, in the line of promotion: ‘But "Trial Marriage’ when he betrayed his Jealousy, The audience couldn't help laughing at him, No | er: Charles A. Stevenson saved more than one situation by the ease and’ DEPEND upon the latter. FOR THE Love 1 ask himself whether the play has OP MAKE WONT, something and not FULFILLING ihat altar, with its consequent answer In the root of an unkept agreement. It is the easiest thing in the world to make a promise, But to break one car- ties with it its wail of woe, lent itself to ridicule in the farcical behavior of Blair| ‘He had been In our concern for sev- years and the NEXT step was one| doubt circumstances compelled Harrison Hunter to shake his fist at “Uncle | of responsiblity. But we gave the posi- house and to do other absurd things, But at best Mr. Hunter was, tion to the man below him, for we could|fier?)—It absorbs the foul gases, etc., ‘ot alr and water, Dail merit should he by the way/he didn he keeps his en-| about It. wagements,” said al "So we just kept him for what he was wise oul. ‘For! worth. As long miseries in| of trust, where every move means money, or loss, it was all right. He| FILLING tt. Perhaps just a little while before the time appointed he calls up on the telephone and pleads some bust- ness deal or something. rid gould be summed up in| gave a fair amount of efficiency. two words,| “But he was the very mal 6A Pocket Encyclopedia. Copyright, 1012, by The Pres Publishing Co, (The New York World), DID tt. But the other fellow, when he worked, was very, very good; and when here was nothing to do N PROM-| trifling needa that in the summing-up meant MUCH indeed. So he will likely A telephone is an en - LYSE CO Magazine, Wednesday. October 30,” 1913" Ee “S'Matter, Pop?” We Wa ec WY e Genie") e BETCHA 6He wite Ae Be SoRRyY Some Day, when 1 oat Bie Tue HAve A AUTO, AN SIX WHITE PONIES, AN A HUNDRED DOLrcars,an- 66 A M A N'8) “When he sald he would doa thing he, always remain in @ rut, SIBILITY. as he held no position | deed, LAX tn fulfilling the occupying Places that carry Iittle or no RESPON- Then there ts the ohap who makes an engagement with a lady. Many times he makes it lightly, VERY lightly in- Probably he has no intentions of PUIL- instrument by a eSBs 5 MEANTIME 2 eb. AND IM GONNA HAVE A MUSTACHE) Live MY PoP: the the hers Me" at the’ 441, Why are gold, silver and cop) 481. (Why are emoked glasses worn| 0"? unhappiness jation @t the| “cast?” surfaces? na dev gre Rosch aa a always the| transparent and translucent? Meanwhile Marie rejected a well- ut “old shoe” in the form of| aggrieved one who is the sufferer, but is an electro-magnet Richard Huntington, who had been treading the primrose path with such dill-| most often the breaker HIMSELF, tL Te id @ence that morally he was on his uppers, The new-fashioned play at this point| He gets the habit, then the habit made? te 1 88 man the| of an electro-magnet? finger the play ended in the familiar old-feshloned way. Perhapa this was only | otner day in speaking of a man who Was da: per coin stamped with a die, and no AVhy iso! blindness, 448. What is the difference detwoen| 488. (What 1s shale?)—@hale 1s @ form of elute that splits easy tmto thin, brittle iayers. HRSE questions will be anawered| the Scots dyed and patterned the cloth I Friday. Here are replies to Mom-|t0 represent, as had the tatooing, the| ¢r, color designe of the various clans. 40, (What are the three thermometers| 1 used?)—Centigrade, Reaumur and Fahr- harcoal ueed as a puri- enhett. t] When climbing snow coveded moun- tains?)—(very particle of enow or ice reflects the sun's rays I!ke @ mirror; and 442. Why do radiators have rough) rnis glare is table to cause temporary 499. (What fs the origin of the Goottish tartan, oT plaid?)—The ancient Picte and 445, What are the different parte) Scots tatooed their skine, each tribe or clan having Ks distinctive colors and pattern. When clothing came into use ing ries which one may break an engagement with BASE. But though the young woman may lose the engagement, the Man, in reality, je the loser in the END. For the ease with which he doa FENSF with him until one day he wakes up to wonder why he has no friends, The olf saying “you among the young women of his ac- quaintance, to give promise of a BETTER time| usually wishes (as experience shows) that she had kept the FIRST engage- ment; since many times the very break- with one's self, And reward accordingly in not lacking. History records that the man tn the foreground of activity Is he alone whose “word is And thie is one way of judging the BREAKING PROMISES FINDS THAT break!, People all of the tim as well, And h of 1t dampens her spirits to the point| ¢, of not ENJOYING the occasion. Bo that, all around, the very feeling of having FULFILLED a promise car- with It the certainty of being honest food as hin bond. ity or Grmness of the everyday hu- Kk WHO MAKE® A HABIT OF) a Shenandoah of Clotl War Romance of Sheridan’s Ride By Henry Tyrrell (Founded on Bronson Howard's Great Play.) CHAPTER XX. him Gen. Grant: , At the Eleventh Hour. ra Peaiak cb the Wissbcabeak Vil HILE Early’@ troops were running and Sheridan's ling, the customary ead was declared in order to (Contineed.) Kernstown, Newtowa, from the valley and Bome came for. love and eom for loot. field, then fell the inky pal} of and the lanterns of the ghostly min- fatrants twinkled in the gieom far be- Sunset reddened the yond the circling camps, Gertrude Ellingham, Madeline Weet ™OVing gouthward after the army, came Josephus, made up one of the most in- But Gen. Ramecur had been killed, + Gefatigable groups of rescuers, They the cavairy was for the most part @is- had ascertained that Kerchival West mounted, and Col. Eilingham'e prestee not among the living Federal Whereabouts could not be ascertained. tn the celebrating camps He had gone out on a raid with the Now at last troops, eit! or in the hospital ten they sought a pitiful, uncertain com- Gen Grant's ordere to cut fort in satisfying themselves that he road communications by which euggik wan not among the dead on the Meld. were brought from/the Gouth for Whe “Gen, Havertll told me," aati Ger- Confederate army at Petersburg. “that although our—I mean the “And what has Gen. Karly done featdd, they the prisoners he brought here?” trudi number of prisoi ‘Woeat in among them. 7 1 “T know Capt, Heartsease fs," mar- got. “You see, miss, it's hard ia “apotted” | ured Jenny, fortornly. ‘ “If nothing worse has befallen my Kerchival West was among these “added Madeline, “I Prisoners and eo wae Capt. Hearteea@s, +) brother than that, ‘Thus, times without number, he te! ios. 1 ought to be thankful, aa at #M4 both were seemingly in condition @, :+ that wicked wretch, Capt. Thornton, {8 hardships and anxieties’ through a to carry off @ considerable “tent ‘them on to Danville, maybe oF still to be at large.” They rode on Buckthorn had 1 believe Col. North Carolina, and the officers ie Paglia pati rare least he will now be out of the awful non TR naCReOLee ‘The moea . ‘engagement for another that ecene | febting. But it a a cruel injustioe 1 authority and it compensated for ‘ in gilence—for Gen. Irom Staunton ehe sent these reaseu * en to it that they were {nm tidings to Jenny Buckthorn, whe @- provided with mounts—until rude exclaimed: “1 can't rest, anyway—I'm going oD. Washington. al Josephus will follow me You de all right—won't you, dear “Where are you going?’ other two, aghast, “On to tl | HIM, or Strasburg, or wherever th Don't mind me—I'll bring you comforting nows, or I won't com® had to be thrown wnhesitatingty dato have gone. back at all, Good night.” And before they could persuade her— While she waited at Staunton for some | that was what she fled from now, as from Clie, some enlightenment to determine > unbearable torture—sho ultantly into the darkness of the moun- ‘Ford—and then to Fisher's Valley desolated and the cause agen °% rode cried the the courage to resolve that love ‘athalla, CHAPTER XXI. The Valley of Desolation. mp) ELLE BOSQUET was deserted. For miles around stretched the heart-sickening panorama of fenceless, trampled fields ruined farma and empty aranaries. Even the woodlands wore e 4 showed sinister burath, lined the turnpike road and teral crossings. t fim _ If the “crow carrying its ratione’; . - acrons this devastated tract had reached leaden Ught of one of he would night-time +! hopelesaly Grear an aspect pervaded that hollow and atleat land, he For Sheriian hed accomplished onty _ too iiteralty the fearsome task assigned’!? i: i 37 ") that nothing if left to invite the enemy to, | provisions, forage and’ he use of your com- vy q@annet be consumed, * i i i ‘ | that compelted i “ f | up with the corps that had been Gen.-1 ‘Ramseur’s, end which included Rer irreguiars who were harassing Sheri- dan's rear, to prevent hie carrying @ut iequired, with sinking heart. to Richmond,” was the vague reply scraping now to feed our own men.” ot the dauntiess Virginian girl had passed. mained with her father at Winchester, at Mam ind to Madeline West, whom Gem. "0 Haveril! had sent with an escort ¢o ria will Love alone must guide her tm tr search, Gertrude declared, but she ; win. Her home was broken up, all had been staked was narrew- ing down to @ deadly crisis where mere self-interest, fortune, even fe Stadt, the balance, off ex- What direction her plgrimage should take now that the winter was about set- ting In, a detachment of the wild mounted. sy Valkytle troops came up the valley from @ auc: vhich he played the part of a ke tg the grhy-haired actor-friend who had not become embittered by long years of alfmony, Here was the one sympathetic character of the play, Mr, Stevenson handled it admirably except when he trayed the fact that he was feeling his lines in the platitudinous pathetic, moments. Her lack of physical atlurement, however, counted against her in her lghter moots, and her trick of winking with nearly every word when her angry passions rose served te mar her performance. Ernest Stall |, as Teentington, toox fh medicine Sién A_Grecn, g00d-natured man of the we s| not at all likely tthe public will take | “Trlal Marriage" so cheerfully, | _ A WIRELESS “BELT.” The Russian duma has been asked to appropriate $515,000 for the erecr tion and equipment of wireless sta- son the Kara and White seas. The oject 18 intonled to insure tele-} Brephic communication via the Arctic between the northern parts of and &t. Petersburg, Russia. Mr. Hoodoo! #% pases, eches of the last act—which not even How To MAKE yi nius itself could have carried off, Some Comm! | KNOW = Where gony Py nee hed Miss Helen Ware, as the uncertain i eaang pL ed nies yy FP lad Be heroine, had her sincere, if not her sym- ‘he loup Guy MIGHT MILLIONS In MY BANK ALREADY! cep! NOW MAKE or Rontcx FORA MILLION | |) THE HABIT FINALLY BREAKS HIM. tain shadows, Itke another | #8 He Could Make Sure wee Good Every Time. BUT— ~ceasful rata on the Baltimore and Onto « Railroad in West Virginia, A bearded g@avage rushed with a gind cry at Ger- trude—and she was laughing and erying fn her brother's arms, vt "Oh, Rob," she faltered, “I was te- | [ginning to think T should nover see you gain, nor any one else I loved.” “Don't give up, Sis!" he enjoined, but , his tone was worrted and serious, “We are mot beaten yet. If we have to leave the valley, the enemy can’t stay hére, either, He ta trying to prevent ws from Joining Gen. Lee at Peteraburg—but the mean time we are keeping hin an army bigger than all our forces mm nd jthan MeClelian was two years end @ half ago.” | "Oh, never mind the armies now. | Where can T find those two poor prison= ) erst * \ (To Be Continued.) a | re Tee ke {The Coming Of the Law!