The evening world. Newspaper, October 31, 1912, Page 23

MA, Ive JusT BEEN IMPRE SSING THE RO Wet THE Vite oF PTecling THe TRoTd \CoNnce RNING HIS Quo GHTs, AT Abt TIMES ‘To OH PSHAW! THOSE VAN PESTS ARE COMING OVER AND I WANTED The Evening World Daily Magazine, Thursday. Octob WELL, WELLS AND You DiD MAKE UP YouR MIND TO MAKE THAT LONG PROMISeY GET To T3ED “The Blindness of Virtue” Naively British. BY CHARLES DARNTON. HOUGHTLESS young persons should be warned against taking their inno- I cent parents to “The Blindness of Virtue," the play by Cosmo Hamilton that has been brought from London to the Thirty-ninth Street Theatre. In this play the awakening of sex ts mildly treated; the tgnorance of youth ‘on this subject is pointed out with a gentle finger. It Jacks the strength of Franz “Wedekind’s treatment of the same theme in “Fruhlings Erwachen,” to the grim reality of which is added the fantastic horror of the sulcide who comes from the grave with his head under Mie arm. It is more than likely that this German Play may have influenced Mr. Hamitton to write “The Blindness of Virtue,” and he may at the same time have realized that what is Germany's meat would be England's poison. However that may be, wide-awake Americans will Probably seo in “The Blindness of Vir- tue" merely another attempt to drama- tize a theory, of which there has been & superabundance of late. The trouble is that the discussion at the Thirty-ninth Street Theatre doesn’t lead to a play. Two scenes, and only two, are dramatically effective—one in which the vicar’s innocent seventeen- year-old daughter EMe appears in young Graham's bedroom and, after artlessly confessing her love, is discovered by her dumbfounded father; the other where the parents learn from the girl's frank outburst that she has absolutely no comprehension of their fears nor the cause of them. Aside from these dramatic episodes There are scenes of quict charm in which the peaceful atmosphere of Eng- lish village ife ts reflected, and occa- sional bits of humor and character con- tributed by “Cookie,” the faithful and amusingly officious servant whose good nature and industry are equally tire- Jess, At first she seems too ready with herytongue. Then one begins to under- stand her. There's just enough said. A bit more and “Cookie” would become Uresome, But like all good cooks she knows when things are “done.” Ae this Queer Mttle servant Miss Pollie Emery gives a capital performance. She makes “Cookie” not only a real joy but a thofoughly original character, The other members of the Englieh company all do good work. Both A. Holmes-Gore, as the Vicar, and Miss Lena Holliday as the devoted and studi- ously optimistic wife of the good man, may be forgiven for being monotonously Dleasant. Only EMe, in this unduly virtuous family, has a trace of uncurbed Pollie Emery as Cookie. | | ; Lae OM yi eM rm — 3 —— SE V) ae “y ny atoms <i uf mus fle Ve “hF' B)) ‘i vil 31" see co a HERE was a very pretty pair of shoes displayed in a store window, and Bessie wanted very much to have them. But they cost much more than her mamma could afford to spend. So Bessie did not get the shoes, and she felt very badly on that account. But the Dream Man soon quieted her. individuality, and the ilttle gleam of the devil in her is brought out like a finsh by Miss Doris Lytton, who at other times tp girlishly charming. The scene {n which Effie confronts her parents ‘end demands to know what she has doue 4a turned to euch good account by this igh-spirited young actress that it ? the finest one of the pla Hallam, as the boyish lover, seems an awful pill at firet, but in spite of his unpleasant voice and unattradtive pei gonality he effective. Miss Madge Murray, who in addition to her beauty hag the distinction of being a niece of J. M. Barrie, plays the smell part of Mary Ann with a true sense of charac- ter. Mary Ann {e apparently dragged in as © Pathetic example of the ignorant gir! who is ‘in trouble." Her “ma: he explains, lays it @i to the fact that she hag never been told certain things she should have known. The author doesn't low his theory that young girls should ‘be enlightened by their parents to grow cold, In the case of Effie, her father insists it is the duty of the mother to speak to her. But before Mrs, Pem- derton can bring herself to do this EMme Graham. {s discovered in Graham's bedroom. Doris Lytton as Effie, This situation, it strikes me, is taken too seriously. ‘The Blindness of Virtue” seems naively British. It 1s a sincere play excellently acted, but taken all in alt It's @ bit too namby-pamby for this country. It is made almost childish when Graham ‘hangs his head and hands over a pistol. In voluntarily telling the youth that she loves him, EMe recalls the simple heroine of “The Attack” who inquires of the Senator, “Don't you ‘want me to be your wife?” And there's the outspoken girl in “Trial Marriage” ho says, “Why don't you ask me to marry you?" If this sort of thing keeps @ man won't dare to cali his #ingle dite his own, Basil Hallam as the ‘Hon. Archibald »Betty Vincent’s |Advice to Lovers He Cannot Call. “I have taken a young suggestion, but she shouldn't ask her flance to spend a great deal of money when perhaps he hasn't too much, theatre on an average —_ e months. | N. 7." writes: “I have knowh a igs let ate "pa a [Young lady for more than a year, some- Do you think this tg|t™mes she igaores me, and then I per- b ® te her to grant me another appoint- nt. But she does not seem to re- m P that If the young lady | spond to my great love. What shall 1 » ou: with you she should | gy 9" ve willing to recelye in her home.| 5 you rseverance has accomplished won He made her dream that she had the pretty shoes, and that when she put them on they looked ever so much prettier than her dress and hat. And when she went out every one looked at her shocs, until she felt as if her feet were the biggest part of her, and she almost fclt sorry she had the shoes. When she wanted to turn about and go home the shoes would not obcy her, but kept on going one way all the time, until Bessie found herself in a strect with many beautiful mansions, beautiful lawns and rich children. The shoes persisted in going into the grounds of one of these mansions and taking Bessic’s Visits to Slumberland SAY MISTER, YA'D BETTER GO HOME Now,Cos MY PoP [8 TIRED AN HAS To GET UP EARLY TOMORTOW,AN- { THE PRETTY phe y \ By Eleanor Schorer 7 with them The garden was 80 wonderful that Bessie feared to watk in it, but the shoes went right on. Inside all was s0 splendid that Bessie was awed. But not the shoes—this was the sort of place where they belonged, and the Be children who played about were the kind of children to wear the pretty) shoes, The children were pleasant and invited Bessie to ride upon their pony. But Bessie did not know how to ride, Then they offered her some toya to play with; but she was afraid of breaking them, they were so beautiful Poor Bessie was very uncomfortable and entreated the shoes to take her home. But they refused and Bessie began to cry. Just a second after that she awoke in her own little bed and was glad a a er 31, FOR TH Love oF a SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHARTERS. A batile je mpendivg in October, ommeasion Of the Shenandowh Valley, pequet, & eee hh ye me wheat Uy chanes, Auohe are West of ‘the Union Army ender mn, inern girl, Gen. Havertit on dirlsion stations Prank haa Dear iedl to atone it wife, fa Fs and me who is trying 10 fetorm hae. ate it oR aly wit le wite’s ef. eh Fawerd Thornton, 0 rs, avert is: ayy, whee re puniglied by W Pleture of the 30 im man The “picture fala into the havde IPM, Viator "ent tortide. Rerchival ot Dat in, the ainar hing, bate Sit ulacm “hin Linder "arrent ane erteate became en, ‘ot "Gea ars tancea tall Wack Went wounded an forces under. arrest, breaka away to regiment. Whertaan hear ite ten fers from Winehest id victory, Weat : him in rain, he ‘orate Colonel, and i CHAPTER XXI. (Continued.) The Valley of Desolation. = OB shook his head, and paced the floor in troubled allence. “Where is ‘Thornton, now asked Gertrude anxiously, “To my certain knowledge, he is keeping in touch with Vinton a. ae “4 nd "turin the ogee jos vanlobed aaa Rerruae rruires far newn ot West, inquires Mosby, at Leesburg or Upperville, It ts not a It likely he even knows that Kerehtv ptured at Cedar Creek. But he ti e devil that I suppose looking out for the satisfaction of his priv venga before the interests of the Ser- vic In the Federal camps at Kernstown and Winchester the of confident activity and @ general alr of hope! expectation were as casket 6 * sae trie rim, dogged determination hind the acenes at Confederate head- q 8, nibehyy oof the two divisions of the Nineteenth Corps, under Gen, Buck- thorn, wan rent to Petersburg, reduc- | ‘Army of ing the effective force of the the Shenandoah to one division of in- fantry and three of cavalry, Gen, Haver- i's among the lat G Haveril's mood of sombre re- was a matter of Inquietude tayhis nd a puzzle to those of the cho knew him only in his sol- dlerly capacity, He went about hia mil- itary duties in the silent, dispirited man- ner of @ fatalist, Not a man in the army dared to formulate the question n. of it. She put on her own little shocs and was satisfied. ELEANOR SCHORER. ry Good Stories \Memo No. 9—Stars Had Studied. of Niblo’s URING the cotton-picking season in Texas Garden. D & colored brother who had gone into the country to work, retumed very much dis usted, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Didn' yo' get no offatis ter pick no cotton!” asked a friend, Streets on the east side of IB “Mech ex dey Waite man done offered Broadway, and adoining tho! me one-thint o' wat Ab could pick, Ah done tuk once famous Metropolitan | © look at do field an’ saw dat when it wan all | LES) Try Mood tor” h picked 4t wouldn't amount ter one-third, Bo Ah eS neh earn nen half @ century that superb playhouse, Niblo's Garden, And on ita historic boards trod all of the great figures of historle renown of the Nineteenth done lit out fer home!" “Yo'all was in luck not ter git fooled none,”* “Yassuh, Ab done went ter echool an’ studiet rifentick when Ab was young.” Cen- ——.$.\.— tury. It Went But it was as the home of grand id spectacles that Niblo'’s achieved its YOUNG woman went to a groo 1 faked the polite clerk if he hal ome goat cheese, “Yer, {ndeed,"" he replied cheete."* “It is not correct to call cheese ‘lovely,’ she id. greatest fame—for here was presented ‘The Black Crook," which had a run of over ax hundred nights and had many | revivals, In faot, this production did not cease to be a sight draft on the! public purse until Niblo's—the last of he downtown playhouses to auccumb to mercantile invasion—way torn down, to the great regret of New York's play-| going public, “1 have some lovely How is that?’ be inquired, “Because ‘lovely’ should be used to qualify only something that 4s alive, Well," retorted the clerk, Dundee Advertiser, ‘Ul stick to ‘love. yy. Had to Work Their Way. tion of British Blondes, ‘headed DRUMMER and a friend climbed aboard a L¥GIa Thompson, This ors A ramshackle train in an isolated Missouri {took old New York by storm, Suc town, The train was a feeble, asthmatic! army of handsome women had never plece of mechanism and the Humane Society should Sa ergs have ed ita owners for allowing it to ea a mun at a It finally came to a deat stop just on the edge » principals, such as Eliza Weath- of town, and after a long interval of trying tolersby (who became the first of Nat C make tt co the engineor stuck bis head in the] Goodwin's wives), Pauline Markham, door amd vawled Liazie Kelvey, Ada Harland Willie you two genta’ll base to git out ull angas City Star, Not That Family, Anyhow. if Dubitn, a car driver was caught b say, , Edoutn and Harry it tt started!” kett aft r notable career sta in sight ha to a close Lond previ a zealous n having aly ‘Abie. eman in the act of driving furious! en tendered a testimonial benefit) mm; t.” * What is the mean- A policeman stopped Dim and sai "Ye! w h ylelded her nearly $4,000, 5. W. ", whe ims Gite Rae yor Danie Ly and her Blondes presented suc! ing of the letters ‘8. W. A. K.', when bag Mg. t ith = ua _written’on the flap of an envelope?" jOne Love. ? + et 1 won't give ye my mame,” sald the! ostravaganzas as “txton,” “The Forty e. pposed to stand for th writes: “A young man has! driver. f ‘ Thieves,” “Blue Beard” and ‘The Field ’ sey cnoaled with a Kise | been paying me attention, but he ad-| “Yell get yerulf tnto trouble," said the po] Tlevens | Bie urls and ihe Wiel { paraep «see! no ' mits that he loved some one else first, | Heman, “if ye don't give me er name ne | L A fe ‘ ” an and he says there can only be one| ‘i won't give ye me mame," said the driver ha ilieg Hd i Har fone such love in a@ lifetime. Naturally, 1] “Phat i# yer name, now!” asked the angry had been Fubbed off, @ith to-eay to her flancee ee! have rather turned against hit since | policeman, i ‘Atia!" sald the police “mow yolk get yer: going to the theatre to-night’? Or! this conversation. Do you think he| ‘“‘Ye'd better find out,’ said the driver Mein, “aime dieaeh pr Reh h gayi | rust she wait for the young man'to|can care for me?" said the policeman. He} sonears to be oblitherated { ak her Probably not at py t, since he still ind to the side of the car where the! ‘eine wrong!” roared the driver, ‘Te Bhe occasionally make such #| remembers the oth it Wo have been painted, but the et O-mrign'—The girl so vividly, iw" ries of Players 7 Of Other Days by Robert Grau Copyright, 1012, by The Press Publishing Go, (The New York World), 3TWEPN Houston and Prince ight of the | outset. To Niblo's came that noted aggrega-| .. of The . Papers Say By Fohn L. Hobble by the Press Publish! Go, ew York Word) Covynant, 11 “ee AN run down by own car.” M That ie almost as bad as the doctor in Wisconsin taking some of his own medicine by mistake, “Johnnies” of the 7 species of humanity, dn fact, whose @ vent was created by the congeniality of the Blondes, who were wont to fla- ure in the restaurant life of the city In & modest way “"aAlf and ‘alf’ and English chee were the refreshments the "Johnnies often meted out to these dassling beauties in Crosby etreet cafes at the But {t was not long before quail on toast and champagne alone would satisfy the dear girls, And instead of the dingy alde-stroet coffee houses, Del- monioos became the scene of after- heatre gayety at which many of New ' York's ultra-swell men of wealth were By the time the gunmen get tbe boats A jarae percentage of the | through explaining how they were blondes remained permanently ‘nj - . America, and at least six were marrieg |convicted the politicians wilt degin telling us how they were defeated. WAI some one please pase the amell- ling salts? “Money Trust inquiry may be dropped.” There'e san't enough money outside of the Money Trust for an investigation to convince the offictal mind that there IS such @ trust. to American men of prominence. A sreat Production at Niblo's was which waa a marvel of @ thing as a failure at o's was unknown, Perhaps the most prolonged vogue of “TMef robs insurance company of spectacle at Niblo'’s was that enjoyed by $/,000." It was firat thought that the t ous Kiralfy fam money was taken by one of the off three brothers and as many glsters,| Aad iat tee Rae ie es ‘| cials of the company, but on investi- American play-goers th Hungarian | gation the cash could not be traced style of dancing, which set New York! to any political campaign fund, literally crazy. One of the Kiralfy pr eats etions at Niblo's was ‘!xcelslor,” da ron of ni If there is anything now that a rly @ Another mendous success was 1 the man doesn't know, it is his own fault, World in Elghty Daya on which the The candidates have erplggpes prac Kiralfys made a f tically ever The sistera K were adept n| ally everything. every phase of elicrevsraphie art. Yet| thelr careers were comparatively short.| “Legislature to protec us from bad |All married in America, | eggs." With” another fon Uke Of the brothers Kiralfy Imre atill Di i 7 aac al Ny Tore AY some in the past the Legislature may Bolosy is simila active In Brussels | And tt necessary to protect itself, and often Is called upon to evolve out: | that was in the minds of many. Did the General suspect that the heroic Ideut. Bedloe, who geting vt hii Mite, hree ‘Top Mountain, was his own a ‘non? ‘Thone who knew beat de clared that he did not—and the famous despa to Washington in praise of “Bedloo'n" deed was adduced as con- irming evidence, awe Gertrude Pllingham wrote for particulars as to Kerchival Weat's vio- Intion of the order of arreat to particle paT® in the battle of Cedar Creek, the General replied with formal brevity that he must disclaim responsibility as well as any special knowledge in the matter, When Jenny Buckthorn ques- tioned him personally in the hope of getting some clue that might ald tn finding Capt, Heartsease, wounded and captured in Lieut. Bedloe's raid upon the enemy's signal station, he was scarcely more communicative, except on one point—that*Capt. Heartsease, fol- lowing the practice of Major Young's scouts, had worn a Confederate uniform, which would put him In the category of & Becret-Service officer or spy, and therefore prejudice his status as @ pris- oner of war. Bvidently Gen. Haverill hag but lit- tle comfort to give was certain he kept none The chain of circumstance unexplained duel of Kerchival West and arleston, to the name was still coupled with that of Mra, Constance Haverill, culminating in the damning fact that the tell-tale min- lature portrait given In @ trying our to young Frank Haverilt had turned up three and @ half years later in the possession of Col. West, bound @ proud and senaitive nature like that of the General to disdainful sllence. Gen, Sheridan's work in the Bhenan- doah Valley was now practically com- ploted After Earlsys final defeat by Custer at Waynesborough, where he made his law and, he took to the woods, and from that time rendered no further practical fleld service to the Southern Confederacy. Sheridan withdrew his main force and marched eastward, occupying Charlottesville without resistance, destroying large sections of the railroad between that city and Lynchburg and doing as much damage as possible atong the James River Canal, He was now ready to plan a junction with Gen. Grant at oteraburg, convinced that @ decisive Federal victory there would open the gates of Richmond and close the war. Here in the beleaguered capital Bob received the first direct word from his sister Gertrude that had come to him for many anxious weeks, She had left Danville after @ long and harrowing search there which @isclosed the fact door spectacles and pageantry for exe) “gait fugitive caught white in arme positions in Ameriea, Arnold, the Se ae joungest and the best dancer of ail, (% sweetheart.” That's the way all led five years age. y men are caugne, ig | tetely kb on," presumably to Ric! . that Kerchival West was among @ con- voy of aick and wounded prisoners |Shenandoah A Civil War Romance of Sheridan’s Ride By Henry Tyrrell (Founded on Bronson Howard's re- after the battle ef Five Forks. from "At the boginning of the new 4 Great Piay.) mond. Thither Gertrude herself was now making her way as best she might, attended by the unshakable J>- sephua, CHAPiER XXII. The Surrender, T was a lovely Sabbath morn- ing of epringtime—the 24 0° April, 186. The church beils of Richmond had rung out the summons to divine ser- vice. A strange mirage of brightness and peace and calm hung over the seven-hilled olty, shut within a flery circle of war, like benediction before « dattle. At St. Paul's Episcopal Church the usual fe and aristocratic congrema re ton Hetened attentively to the earnest discourse of the Rev. Dr. Minnigerode. Jefferson Davis, the Chief Executive of the Southern Confederacy, occupied Dew in the middie of the central asi Nearly opposite the now vacant ene ‘belonging to Gen. Robert E. Lee. An orderly in uniform entered the church, somewhat precipitately y: without disturbance, and ivered @ telegram to Mr. Davis, who quietly rose and went out. The ocourrence was noticed, but attracted no special atten- tion among @ congregation who during four yoars past had grown accustome! to sudden elarme and untimely notice of threatened attacks. It was the day was Gen, Lee, an- ithdrawal from Peters- ‘burg and the consequent necessity for the immediate evacuation of Richmond. “Immediat out by 8 read as only suc! ‘ed, men wept i children wondered, negroes rather enjoyed the excitement, especially afte: the issue of @ proclamation to the ef- fect that all who wished might come to the commissary department and get free provisions, As for the soldiers, they had their er- dora trom Gen. Lee: Troops were to leave thelr ines everywhere at 8 o'clock that evening and take up the line of march for Amelia Court,House, a smal! Vir- winta village on the Richmond and Daa- ville Raliroad, some forty miles south- west of Richmond. horse in front of @ Rouse in Franklin atreet and eprang up the éront steps. Betore he reached the door It flew , and Gertrude, freshly dressed in white for. “Sister! Kerchival, old boy! Unole!” panted Bod, ¢ull of excitement. ‘Were you prepared for the news? What do you think you'll do?’ “Kerohived and I ere to be mar- ried right away,” Gertrude, mith the imperturbadility ef thing. “Married! gaeped Bob, tnetinetively clutching the air, as if for support. “Now—at euch a time? Don't you k that I am under marohing orders, ai thet Davis and the Cabinet are to leave for Danville by t evening train—and that the Federa| ermy will be ‘oeoupying Richmond »y this time to- morrow?" “Yea, Robert. We were in church this morning when the news came. Kerchi- val aud I have Agured it al) out, and the doctor agrees with us—that, as Rich. mond hae fatien, and Kerchival ‘Deen released trom Latiyy on parol: Unole is here from Charleston, the only way for us two to guard against separe- tion again is to get married now, so that | can be with—with my husband, what- ever happens. So we have sent for the Rev. Dr, Minnigerode, and, now tnar you are here, the ceremony can be per- formed and you can be off to join Gea. Lee in halt an hour's time—for I sup- pose he will need you now more than ever.” “Yes, So that ts the plan, ch? Is that the way you ee it, Kerchival?"’ Uniese you have some objections, ."" anawered Kerchival, with his wan smile, “it really seems the bes thing to do. I am only out on parole, and no one can tell what ts about to happen."* “You are right—bless you both, my children! If enly Madeline were here"— “I promise to do @s much as this for you, Bob, when your thate comes—and may that be soon and sudden too.” (To Continued) Rob, The Coming Of the Law!