The evening world. Newspaper, December 17, 1912, Page 23

The an Unhappy Experiment. EY CHARLES DARNTON. “T would be most unfair to Misa Elleabeth Baker to judge “Chains” by the} J twisted substitute that was dragged out at the Criterion Theatre yesteri afte von, for tn welding this English play into American ehape Porter a Browne has made auch a bad Job of {t that Charles Frohman will be lucky | he's able to sell It for okt tron. i As @ party to & very unhappy experiment, Mr. Frohman must bear his share | f the blame, In having the Diay taken out of tt» English environment he not | tdy robbed tt of tts ohtef Interest but its real meaning. Originally tt was a dull | y study of the life of drudgery to which clerks in that part of London known | “The City" are doomed, and as it must have had tnteresting charac from the common, eve view, even though , We can ¢ imagine young} Wilson, an underpaid clerk with a wife, on his hands, longing to go with dls un-! married fellow-clerk Tenn to Aus-| tralia, and at the moment of start-! ing. without having disclosed his piin| to his wife, finding himeelf chained to| the domestic doorpost by her whispering | into his ear that she Is to become aj mother. But the drony of this situation w missing yesterday afternoon. The young | husband was only too glad to stay where he was, instead of making a dash for! South America. For that matter, he feomed to be doing the sensible thing. | There had been a great deal of talk! about South America, and aven Canada, | in on apparently forgetful moment, was mentioned tn terms glowing with goldon | Promise—but neither took the place of Australia as viewed from London by the original author, The lot of the Olive Wyndham as Ruth Witson, average New York clork 1s hard enough, @helly Hull as Hichard Wileon. heaven knows, but unless I am greatly, mistaken the doesn't look for deliverance in South America, Moreover, the wrenching of all meaning ani sincerity from the play by the manufactured happiness of the emling {8 an artistic crime that cannot be too severely censured 'If “Chains” has any dramatic significance at ali, {ts claim must He in its Absolute sincerity in depicting the drab Ilyes of commonplace people strags! for existence. To give such a play @ conventional “happy ending” leaves it w nothing to say. In the changes that have been made Mr. Frohman may have seen the possibility of another “Bought and Paid For,” judging from the prom! nence given « slangy youth who has a great deal too much to say. Liks the * amusing character in Mr, Broadhurst's play, he has the soul of a parasite. But ‘hig character is ridiculously overwritten, and though cleverly ected by Edw! Nicander, yester‘lay afternoon it became tiresome and merely served to emp!e- stze the bad judgment shown in the desperate attempt made to ‘“Americaniz: Silas Baker's play, . But askie from its characterization, the play tn ‘ts original form must have | 9 been slow and duil, for it never moves beyond its one sttuation—the proposed departure for the “promised land” that Misa Baker saw im Au Ma and that Mr. Browne, perhaps with the final obscuring his vison, tries to eee in South America. In plain English, there 1s no action. Miss Olive Wyndham (who always plays upon my ungelfish young wife charmingly and appeallugiy, and Sheily for all the world Ike a poor devil down on his luok. Mise De igorously rebellious as a young woman who thought she saw a way out of “the chop" by marrying a man she didn't love, Mra. Tho:nas Whiffen, who had to | sing a hymn—poor thing!—Meplayed great patience as the mother of the dis-| s aw the distressful boy, In fact, the play was very well acted. | But I don't delleve ft will ever be acted arain in this land of tho free and the home of the ootimiatic. pow hearts a) acted the stood by her mond Kelly was ty 0 i Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers Ye The Long Engagement. |‘ "eonsiiation you obviously ae- “J. B. rites: “A girl and I are . | \ery much in love with each other, To Win Him. | jut we cannot merry for four years. Po you think wo should become en-| deeply tn love with @ young man. Will age’ at once?” you please tell me how to win him I think It would be better to walt! You ean do nothing except be your a year or two before formally promts- | pleagant, natural self when you meet! ing each other. Four years is # long|th!s man. time for an engagement, ee “W. G." writes: A young man Pala} writes: “A young man has|me a good deal of attention last sum-| been paying me attentions for some! mer, but has not written to me since he UUme, but I think he is more eertously | left the city early in the fall. Would it interested in another girl. Shall I/be proper forme to write to him and ask him about this?” | ask him to dinner on Christmas day Is would be very bad taste for you) It would be out of place, alnce he has to make such an inquiry, since you|never written to you. are not engaged to the young man, “M, J." whites: “I am a young girl| ‘OI. G, “E. V." writes: ‘How can I be sure “H, A.” write! ‘A young man who | that the trl I love cares for me for my- has paid me attentions for three) self and not for the good times I give months has asked me to marry him, | her?" Po you think our acquaintance too] Does she seem to enjoy herself as short for me to make such @ promi: "| much when you are calling on her as Decidedly. Wait till you know him| when you take her to the theatre? better. “B. K." writes: “What would be ap- "G, M." writes: “For more than a| propriate as a Christmas gift for a year I have been estranged from a| young man who has paid me attention wirt, but I am still very much Inter-| for nine months?” ested in her. Would it be all right] Is he Interested in any kind of ath- to-send her a Christmas card?” let If a0, select a gift in some way Tt would be a good way to effect |connected with his pet sport. A FAMOUS VICTORY. HER CHANCE, “T would have you to know, sir, we} She—TI shall never marry a man who qame over with William the Conqueror.” | can't play polo, “It must have been some kind of a He-Very well; I'll leara to ride, conqueror who could make you come | But suppose I break my neck? over with anything.”’--Baltimore Ameri- She—Oh, there always are surviv: | ors, —Judge, World Evening Dail y Magazine, Tuesday: December 17 OW AR, SMITH, GOING BY THE Past OFFICE? WHR You MA, TOoTSste To CLEANERS HUBBY, Wren ‘ou MAIL THIS Now = 8& Goo, Tootsie - Nice BOGGS! NICE TooTsie - NOW =NOW- t “Son 7 GOOD MORNING. SMITH AR@ ‘TOU GOING BY= By (Copyright, 1012, by the Outing Publishing Cad SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING OMAPTERS Kent Hollis, & newsraper man, gore West to Dry Rottom to take chawge of tals dead father's newmaner and the Circle Mar ranch, The law is openly defied by the Cattlemen's Asm@elation, heated by a bully mamet Dunlavey, — Hollis thrashes Lunlavey for insulting Nellie Hasleton, 9 pretty @irt who liven on a neatly ranch with her drother © young san a is taken ap ot hie father's paper, lave unter him, Hollis overcomes “Twn Spot" amd tums hin from x murderous foo tuto @ fre Aled, a Government agent, cones to Dey me a inw which will calles the taxes due from all cattiomen, Jonande that Duntarey file Duntaves rage, refuses ranges to seud Nelli \eton great surgeon, Who he Helivees on cute the youbg STRANGE’ 1 WONDER WHATS THE MATTER WITH Hints Christmas Shoppers Domestic Dialogues --— By Alma Woodward — PETTICOATS, ETC. Scene: A crowded store, ROBABLY nothing !s more popular in the line of Chri 8, and @ man, Salesiady (who 1s a dream, undulates toward him)—I beg your pardon, did you ask me to give you @ line on some- stmas gifts than specially, 1s usu- a joss just what to purchase. | her husband's arm as they are about to enter)—| ‘Ming, sir? Just wait a minute, Jim, I want! to ve sure I've got my list I've got it al where shall we be suppose we ought to begin with Cousin | * suse sho lives in ‘Tex send hers first, a (rattled)—Samples of your! howered the marteet with such a va- Everything you've got elts and auch les that one can scarcely siake in selection fashion features red if distinctive furs ane destred Many women have but one set of tars them a set of black fox would | stook, you know. nerino petticoats, leslady (dreamily) ed I'll show you some really ravish- (beginning to sour)—Mertno | be ravishing, Mr. W, (sternly)—Don't you suppose | | this young Indy knows her stock, Sarah?! (coldly)--We're buying this nan sixty-five years old! anything RAVISHING— nd We'll have petticoats Ca (ndistinetly) I'm! to send her? | Mrs. W. (meditatively)—Well I haven't her I'd get her @ flannel- © kimono or a black Henrletta ¢ nize with any Fox is the cholce this se son in popus | 4, jar furs, and whethe She don't want she's got rheumatten! Salestady (nterrupting, suavely)—But there's no harm tn looking, madam, ts! Maybe some will be buytng the advent | color. in dress equally fashtonabie of brown as ve got to send his with | 6 & BONE | hers, you know some brown fur, and skun The latter made up of sepa- | in several strands euch finished off with a tail at the bot- n—i8 a new and handsome develop- | scart having six tails in front is @ special | cnest protector or a pair of arctica, or & They're all acceptable pres ents for people living In Tex: HEM ears only 2D on anysone's muff to match for $60, sto be worn with popular taupe gown, or one of the other forging to the frout we'll do., Til eyes and Jab t things, and whatever we'll get that thing that's leaving it to Fate-and {t takes the responsibility chum’ of Jact striped effect, Manufacturers have Ing in the gray dye! | finally produced a soft gray fur inter- persed with occasional white hair that 49 cold under the name of s! = of furs, and have (iypatlently) = But anything to get that your husband was { isiness himsel?, (arity) —Leally? ; And it'll take me about two to pick out that wkirt | through with e process of elimination ere shuffled here nm: la squirrel {3 another dyed fur that 18 fashionable and goes well with locking the passage bY the Civet cat sa black and white mottled fur that has sprung nto strong favor etta cloth dress you that was a darned fool way of do Placed upon the trapping of the former having advanced the price von that It now comes under the head of ex- elusive, For evening wear on the first floor ‘better let me do th! the white fox businesslike manner young women and for day wear, pretty with the red now #0 fashionable. Other furs for the youthful are the blue or red fox and A cross fox set Is pret handsome one can be had for $5. verine {8 a wonderfully soft and pretty brown fur, a nice set of which sells! footsteps twice! . (warningly) You'd better let tlils petticoat, the saleslady up here is apt to sassy if you don't pull I've had expertence with toning his coat ly)—Just leave it to me so sharp that she'll costumes that are her up sharp 1M pull her up (victously planting hereet? ‘a styles in children's fur. are not the bulky affairs years. Neat colar front tabs and medium sized mufts ar Show me your lin of merino petth |to wet that skirt They don’t show monta in both lungs Desides, I would! fT had pneu not wholesale, James, et ee Sn The Day’s Good Stories Explanation Demanded. Irtehman just landed got work on the New York Central as fingman at Tarry- is firet day on the Job be waved the red danger aigual before the Empire stale eeched down, the tain and the crew ran up, Why did you atop thts train?” ~ began the flegmen, “Don't you know 4 {atop @ trnin without camer” the eonductor ex. fo 20 minutes late now,"” ma the anewer, "Where have ¢ prison offenee to “That's Just ft, yer been the last twinty minutes? / -SOME , te r i | Where Soap Was Needed. ement was selling farm machinery friend at the gate held hin horse, and @ conversation took place with the small boy of the family, With grave tneredulity he was saying: you sure you ere only nine years oldt must be some mistake. Podtive, but to make sure, “ale | io catted, “atn’t I Just nine years old!" ted to © comer | After a time he ventured made you think T wae more than "Bay, mister, what ¥ yon could get eo dirty in Chrtstian Herald, ——— A Careful Critic. ANDY wos an elder to the cbnre, and « love for tt hme he kuew sho would make him ea excellent married Tiow be ‘Pina 18 @ handsome assy" who met him in ¢ er aren the bide after the marring Jott nin 2 1'm no" prepared | as i Rocking for Time. > rock Dimerlf to hd fro i a mo At of & person f dat way all de ‘a Wy oneiiatioma as good fur nothin’ 1 me a silver wate) ays mortn’ like dis twan's affliction, Hollis's men capture "Grenay, Dimiavey's bencleman, rebranding Otrele Tar cat Hollis saves ‘Greasy’ from iynching and takes him to te Sherfff—one of Tunlavey's hesters, The Aderiff releases the prisoner, dette Mollis’s pro- tenta, Hollis, tn ‘The Ibteker, tells the story nd suggests Allea for Sheriff, “Kollia alo srranges Vat Neitle Hazleton alall stay at ble ranch, under Mra, “Norton's care, during ber brothet's absence. Nellie, riding alone tw er cabin, te confroated Chere by Yume, one of Duntavay'e tlic! Ae be advances toward her she draws a He wrenches the rerulver out of her hand, Hollis, riding past, ones Yuma's pouy tethered in treat of the Hagieton cabin and pauses in amasement, CBAPTER XXil. (Continued) Proof of Gratitude. emiled, Probably eome cow. doy from the Circle Bar had Deen in the vicinity looking for Hazleton's cattle, had met ‘Nellie and had stopped at the catin, He remembered to have heard Norton say that he was sending « man 1n that direction eome time that day. That must be the explanation. But while he sat, debating the propriety of riding dawn to the cabin to satisty hie curiosity, the sound of a pistol shot floated to ‘hi® eare on the slight breeze that was blowing tewara him. He wat erect, his face paling, Then he smiled again. He had been in the West long enough to become acquainted with the cowboy nature and he surmised that Neliie's visttor was very Mkely exhibiting hia ekill with the revolver, But he turned his pony and urged tt down the sloping side of the ridge, riding lowly in the @irection of the cabin, After atriking the bottom of the bope he rode out upon @ broad tevel that stretohed away for half a mile, He made better time here and had atmost covered half the width of the plain when two more reports reached his ears, He was close enough now to hear them @istinctly, and tt seemed to him that they sounded muffled, He halted the pony and sat stiffly in the saddle, his faze on the cabin, Then he saw a thin stream of blue-white smoke issue from the doorway and cur! lasily upward, A grave doubt assailed him. No cow- boy would be Mkely to exhibit his skill with @ weapon in the cabin! Nellie’s visitor must be an unweleome one: The pony felt the eudden apure aad eA Uke a whirlwind over the sematn- Ing stretch of plain, Hollis had become suddenly imbued with @ muepicion that brought an ashen palior to his face and an awful rage into his heart Hg aiid bia pony down one side of a steep arroyo, sent {t scrambling up the other aide, jumped {t over eome rocks that IHttered the rise, spurred savagely through a little basin, aad reaching the edgo of the porch, dismounted and bounted to the door, He saw two figuree-Nelile Hazleton and a man. He saw the man’s fingers ‘pping the girl's throat and the lust f murder surged over and blinded him, In the duek that had fallen he could vnly dimiy see the man's head and he ng his right fist at it, putting every nce of his atrength into the blow, He t the fist strike, realized that it had 1, and tried to recover for a see- A blow But the terrific swing had carried him nee, He whirled clear around, slipped, and came down to the floor flat on his fa He up {nan howey his brain aftire with rag 8 with eager- Hd not the gun a 4 woul and t man=to seize hin wart 9 eruwh and s s that nad seen nt ¥ feet fre facing him, on ts hands y r se was the man. He a, and even as rl the gained weed at his gun holster. Th ad not yet cleared the holster when loll s was upon him “ He struck again with his right fet and missed, crashing against Yuma tn Is eagerness and carrying him down ta the floor with a force that shoak @ cabin.a@A@. they fell Mollls felt a itll dtl a e Coming of the ——— Se “THE TWO-GUN MAN’S” Greatest Novel tzer sharp, agonizing pain im his teft wrist from witch the eplinte had been ealy recently removed and the hand hung Timp at hts side, entirety useless, For an Instant after the fan Yume Iny still, breathing hearfy. Thea he Made @ sudden movement with Ais right arm and Golis oxught @ glint of meta: le threw himee!f at the arm, catching Nt with Gis right dand just above the wrist and Jamming it tight to the floor Yuma tried to equirm free, failed, end with a curse drove bts left fst into the side of Tollts's face, Again he tried to aqutrm tree and @nr ing the strommle that followed the hand holding the pistol was ralse’ trom the floor, Holts waw tt and wrenched @es- Perately at the arm, twisttme tt and drawelng tt farone'y downward to the floor, Yuma shricked with rage and Patn aw the force of the Impact cracked Kis knuckles and sent the weapon ciat tering ten feet ans. For an tnatant both men lay stent Panting from their exertions, Thor Yuma succeeded tn getting one leg ove Hollis's body and one arm around hii Rook. With @ quick motion—saccess:: @evause of Hollis'’s injured wrint—i turned t -tatter over on his back. 1 eves alight with an exultant, malevolen fire, he ertpped Holtie's throat with 0: hand and drove at hip face with tii other. A quick movement of the hex served to defeat Yuma’s atm and bh fist thumped heavy against the foo: bringing a grimace of pain to his face. Disregariing His injured wrist, Hol!) wrenched savagely and succeeded tn roii ing free of Tuma and reaching his feet He had moved quickly, but the lithe sprawied out on top ef him. But Yum had eucoseded in holfing to the {t was grasped in his outstretehed hand, just out of Hollts’s reach. «For an tmetant egain doth men stlent, dreathing repidly, Then, ing to the rage that still Holts bounded to his Yuma oe crashing Mew in iis lings, ils stood eripping his hand, rew @ knife from of hie ehirt and epreng toward Hollis tensed himself for the rapidly measuring the distance, when Yume ome close enough caught him squarely on the side of the jaw with @ vicious right swing. But in som manner when Hollie stepped aside avoid Yuma's knife his feet had becomy entangled with the legs of the table thal Yuma had previously overturned. As ho struck he slipped, the blow af Yoma'’s jaw not having the force he intended ft to have. He caught himself, Slipped again and went down, turning completely ever the table top and fall. ing face downward to the floor, He saw Yuma throw himself forward and he tried to wriggle out of danger, but he failed, He felt the half-bread's weight on his body, saw the knife fash in the dull ight. He ¢ried to roll over and grasp the knife tn its descent, but could not, hie left arm, now useles: betng pinned to the floor by Yuma's knee, A revolver roared spltefuily—onoe twice, Yuma's knife hissed past Holl! ear and struck the floor, {ts point sunk deep, 1ts handle swaying idly back and forth. Yuma himself, inert, Imp, rolled from Hollis's back and lay flat on hi own, his eyes we open and starin two huge bullet holes in his forehead. And in the open doorway of the cabin stood Ten Spot } Li hall For an instant Hollis could not realize his escape, He looked at Yuna aud then Again at Ten Spot wiy and pain: ully he got to his feet, looking a t the wreck of th om, Stagge \ litte, he walked to where Tea stood, gripping Jatter's hand silent. y, at a loss for words with which to k hin But apparently Ten Spot did not notiee “ omtasion, for he grinned broadly, 1 recKon there's folks which woul ‘all that a right clever bit of shootin’ he sald, “seeln’ as there wasn to pull off no fancy stuff!" (To Be Continued.) ’ ee ume