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

i Laurette Taylor ; ‘x » Wins All Hearts in LX \ “Pego’ My Heart.” IBY CHARLES DARNTON. B good luck wilt have tt, Peg’s words, “Laughter is not dead in this house,” are true of the new Cort Theatre, « really beautiful house, In which “Peg o’ My Heart" and Miss Laurette Taylor are likely to dwell for many a ‘a laughter that makes this play go. Here you have the whole secret of t! @uccess ecored by J. Hartley Manners's “comedy of youth. The autho it have described his play more accurately by calling it a comedy of trut the simple expedient of tellife the truth and confounding her hypocritic: ish relatives the little Irish girl from America keeps the house in roara © ter. That's the trick, and it's turned so cleverly that, while you se it, your are highly entertained. The story might have been written by “Tn or even our own Laura Jean. To accept it you must believe that t) utored Peg, sent to England to be polished off by-her aristocratic aunt an sing, polishes them off in short order and then falls into a fortune and th 8 of her adoring guaniian, Inctdentally she sneaks off to a dance and ke just in time to save her haughty cousin, Ethel Chichester, from running with a man who has a wife and child. But Pog’s lines are so brigitt that yy bifnd you to the faults of the play. There's no keeping Peg in her room. - and there's no keeping her sti!l—in fact she talks all over the place and naa! all the time. For Peg, you see, Is star part’ and must be treated accord- In Miss Taylor wins gl) hearts in ‘Peg o' My Heart” because she !s as direct asa child tn everything she says. Hers is the sort of acting that delights s:! ple souls. Everything she does is. studied, but she'ls clever enough to seem — ingenupus, for she has a certain wid eyed charm that 19 felt even while tt 1s questioned. Her smile !s another thing in her favor. She undoubtedly has tt in her power to bring back to the tage the type of soubrette that has been sadiy misying for yoars, T mean,this as a compliment. Meanwhile she has a great deal to learn along this ine. The truth she so loves to tell In her present role {s that she makes Peg an Iris Topsy. She draws the character of thi child of the people without delicate shadings, Whereas with a Iittle more care she might easily make us share the tenderness she is supposed to feel In the same breath ft may be suggested To say the least, {t is still Laurette Taylor as Peg. r the father she has left behind her. !@at only practice can make her Irish accent perfect. ant picture of Peg that Miss Taylor paints, it 1s too highly colored a 'A lesson in “make-up” might teach this ambitlous young ctress that nothing is to be gained by lips as red ax @ thini-alarm fire and hair that shames the noonday #un. The dog she carries couldn't be tmproved ‘pon. This poor little mutt is one of the vest things in the performance. Long may it wag its modest tall! While it remains true to its breeding, Peg changes so @uddenly from a ."ereenhorn” to an attractive young woman that you can hardly believe your és In the first place, a girl who has lived In New York eouldn't be so green and stupid as Miss Taylor would have us belleve, and in the last act, when she announces her departure for home and father, fine clothe if not experience would have taught her not to meke herself look lke an em! Warant. This {s done, of course, to emphasize what is known as a “character part, Dut {t is as obvious as the thunterstorm that repeats itself in tne last act, It would be difficult to belleve in “love's young dream” were tt not for the ‘appy fact that the middle-aged guardian is charmingly acted by IL. Reevos- Nth, A noat bit of work 1s done by Hassard Short as Peg’s idle vounz cousin 4. the other members of the company are competent. Miss Taylor ts really the whole show,” and she succeeds in making ‘Peg o' My Heart’ # laughing— 1 ‘therefore a popular—succes: “ Rachetty-Pachetty House.” HAT are the children coming to? ‘They now have a playhouse all thetr own enugly tucked away in the big dome of the Century Theatre. ‘This Christmas gift from W, K. Vanderbilt, a beautiful, magnified doll's house, opened on Saturday afternoon to an accompaniment of “Ohs!"* and “Ans!” t certainly will be echoed by all the kiddies, who have a new sensation in re for them. Except for the slope of the floor, which 1s bound to try the rubber e necks of the youngsters who will be obliged to stretoh it in thelr attempts ince the stage, the Children's Theatre ts perfect. It won't do to be too hard on anything that went wrong at the start, otherwise shoul! have to scold some of the moving plotures for refusing to move, And y the play was the thing everybody was waiting for, and after pretty n Tord hath spoken a@ little piece about It ‘Racketty-Paeketty House! ed. Now, mind you, only poor dolls Itved in the old racketty-packetty te dwelt in a castle, But they got all mixed up, going one other, and strange as it may seem that beautiful doll, Lady Patricia ede Vere, fell in love with, and finally married, that ragamuMn doll, Peter The most thrilling moment, perhaps, came when.a huge hand holling a 8 thrust through a window of the racketty-packetty house and the ‘ia Lady Vere de Vere waa taken out of the box big as ilfe. Then the shadowgraph serenade of Peter to Patricia to keep your eyes and ears open. ‘At other times t? » dolls were compelled to keep the play in action by danoing and round, ‘There really was too much talk, Master Gabriel, as Peter, ost talked his head off, saying this-ah and that-ah to maxe it even Jonger, ith such a soplisticated air that he made you think of Broadway when all re doing your very bost to forget It. But he was so lively that solng. Baby Esmond was beautiful to behold as Lady Vere de ‘autna was funny as Ridikilis, and there was a round-faced, aybe she was Ynez Seabury and maybe she was Helen Milling. jow—wiho looked and acted as though she had veen made for the t. Miss Maude Granger, as an old nurse with a cracked votee, had no patience poor dolls, but there was a very charming Uttle princess ‘who liked them. seemed too had that they were all way over there in England instead of right tu our country, where they, the aristocratic dolls, wouldn't have heen’ so Tow. ranees Hodson Burnett, who wrote the play, probably nt to Fingland to find a castle, Still, she might have fours one'in Paine A that would have been much better, wouldnt It? vill cles ~The Pocket Encyclo W—(How great is the air pressure “Boss?” )—1t pedia comes from the Duteh t the tevel of the sea?) _ | Word “baass’ meaning master or si 457—(When was the first marriage |Pnor , Sn crioniene) hat Is the oldest banknote In Sperformed in the American Colo: existence?) banknote now In tie + water Asiatic Museu (Why do pipes some- S times burst in cold weather?)+ y, 6092-(When did the postage stam» Tienes appear?) ‘ 4 800-—(What is the differcnoe be- ° @n absolute and @ limited narchy?) n, St. Petersburg, Russi ist thinese Governmen d by (What are the two kinds of archies?)—Absolute monarchies and {ted (or constitutional) monarchies 664—(Why 1s England's climate temper- ate, though the country 4s on the same latitude Une as Labrador?)—It is tem- pered by the Gulf Stream. What are the oldest itving things?) —Trees. Montezuma's cypress ‘tree in Mexico is said to be about 6,260 years old, SHESH questions will be answered { Wednesday, Here are replies to Frida} (What ts the origin of the word aten samme tntte . My Dw MY ENG q Aw! CUT OUT THE) KNOCKING AND” ANO | KEEP ALL YOUR’ CLOTHES REPAIRED AN! YEAR ,I’D UKE You Fi WE JUST TRACED ! "SLIPPERY ‘HANK* THE CLOTHES THIEF TO: THIS HOUSE HAS HE BEEN IN HERE ? i} w York Evening World). de co Household Electrics | By Stephen L. Coles. © Copyright, 1912, by ‘The Preys Publishing Co, (The Electric Incubators. [trical matters which has developed . among grown people is reflected in the A lass sh Orulry aus has! tremendous growth shown dn the manu possible to have a chicken farm |#cture of electric toys for young folks, is Ghe eerie’ ce Geile Apatinant ‘Tho | There are now several American con- jcerns of considerable magnitude devoted outside appearance of the new incuba-|Qaiiti to electric. toy making. tore 1g muctt the same as the old-faah- | mectric locomotives, trolley cars, Pull- foned kind. ‘The difference is in the m& and freight care of all kind mottiod of aupplying the heat for bats 08 youenter” care, racine automobites ing the eggs. ‘Thin ts accomplished with | stectric jighted @tation buildings and carbon filament incandescent lamps, the | semaphore signals are some of tie toss number required depending upon the|moxe in demand. More elaborate are ese capacity of the incubator. {the miniature central atations in which The lower part of each lamp bulb $9) rear dynamos are driven by real steam covered with violet paint so that the) engines, On the second floor of the: jnewly hatched chicks will not suffer | stations are toy machine shops Nghted from the glare of the lamps. With cur- | by real electric Mmghts. The machine rent at 10 cents per kilowatt hour the | tools are driven by line shafting whi cost of current for hatehing !8 about) jn turn is driven by little electric one cent per egg. Owing to the ease tore, with which the heat from the lamps {s| | controlled and tho steadiness of its Some of the ouvfts are ver isive, as toys go, but their ed exit there is no @mell of kerosene and the operated by dry batteries or by alr of the room does not become foul. That's one’ thing the electri certainly can not do the room unpleasant. New Washing Process. HB housewife will wish success to a & new process of washing, bleach: Ing and disinfecting clothes which ; has been watched with interest by laun- drymen throughout the country during the past few months, Patents have been granted on the process and the appa ratus 1s now beng developed commeret- ally, It 19 asserted that the time and p necessary have been “reatly re duced and that the clothes are t arned | ‘out absolutely clean and sanitary. | ‘Pwo electrodes, or terminals, are tm-| |mersed in the washing fluid in the | receptacle with the clothes and are con- |nection with the house lighting circuit. inevbator In the Jattes case dt is necessary to make the air Iniuse a “current reducer,” which fs Piled by the toy maker, ' {nected with any regular source of cure |rent supply. When the current ts turned on an electrolytte action takes place | | which is strong enough to cleanse and| purify the clothes but not powerful] ough to harm the fabrics, | The action which occurs nay he com- pared roughly to the electro- iemical reaction in @ storage battery © il. The Process should not be expensive and) ought to produce eminently desirable and sat'sfactory resulta. Electric Toys. ‘The rapidly increasing tnierget in eleo- | Domestic Tim M too! you PRESSED FOR93.% A BACK — By Aima Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Go (The New Yors Evening Werld), The Willing Little Santa! Scene—A New York apartment. rs. at Just —Obristmas Eve, 816 P. RS. A (her mouth Oh, Henry, to the stationery and get me an-) other spool of that gold cord, 1 haven't |thinas with crumpled white paper nap- got enough to tle up Uncle Jos You know It's « regular skin how little cord there is on one of those | spools—10 cents they soak you for ‘em, You don't need to put on your run around with your hat, ot pins)— Henry, run around suspen- (Mr, A. dons hie outdoor attire and moves ee towand the source the percentage of eggs hatched! value {s beyond the question of cost for | YOU Se ts very high. those parents who can afford to buy | **mPs The new incubators are flre-proof, them for thelr ehildren. The toys arc might door.) Mray A (calling to him) as well re of white thesue paper, |want to stuff out that corset cover nies and the boudoir cap L got fc |May—it makes ‘em look more. any around Silhouette Sayin Cool T hope iW be caster oat'om dis beid thowit is carrying And, Henry, another I bring me becaus ure. And if real pretty * Christmas there bring a doaen jor two and I'll let you Mek ‘em; you know you used to love the taste of muci- gs tt. MY THLEIGH THIS DRESS SUIT 1M GOING TOA Dialogues The Evening World Daily Magazine! Monday! December 23, 1912 uM INE! AT 6 To- a (Copyrigte, 1912, by the Outing Pubttahing Oo.) ping on OF PREORDING CHAPTERS, {Dy feats e pres 2 core, Weat - pedal es bas eas Tuc Yn Wat ot ca cure, the, young, wane ; Bit esate ME, en hcl te dat care dct ‘Os, elec fon’ diy" the tinsh “Tetwemn Drustarey. and Hollis couies 10 ‘a climax wh are tes locks the Is open, are to ry t Handling © wae ou ® through the door by Hollis, Ho! and the door closed after him. Hols sianced furtively at Duntavey to see that gentle- man scowl, He thought he saw @ ques- tioning glint in Allen's eyes as the jatter looked suddenly at him, but he merely amiled and gave his attention to the next man, who was now entortaining, The latter proved to be Lemud Train. le did his voting quietly and grimly. But he twent out through that Hollis opened for him he “Lordy, what @ drunken bunch looked at Hollis, “One of your men, he eald, grinning aight! He knew that Aflen friends; none of them could be spared in this orisis, He emiled inoreduiously, had been only ® ehort time before that his men had accompanied him to the door of the || Sheriff's office. At that time they were perfectly @ober, Tt would have been | impossible for any of them--— “An’ Ten Spot's a hummer when he | gite started,” ‘Train was say “lve seen him before when he cut toose, an’ lhe sure is ly terror!” ‘Then with a word of was gone, saying that he the “dam he could and that he purposed “hitting” the trail back to ‘1s ranoh. He had certainly done some damage to Hollis, The latter's aind now rioted with all sorts of conjecture and he | mechanically did his work of letting j man aft man out through the rear | door, scarcely seein He was aware of an odd ve ™ ty Woodward —— |#tep on the corns of the feller ahead Ms |of you, #0 when they jump you o'n t to the counter, They haven't got | ny more gold cord #0 1 got allver an’ jeu the white tissue papers gon Mra. A—Oh, well, etufe thone the mention of ‘Ten Spot. Had Dunlavey » uceeeded in bribing Ten Spot to desert |him? He had left Ten Spot at the Cire Bar, not inviting him to Dry Bottom Decause he felt that the latter would rather not come, since he had deserted Dunlavey. And ‘Ten Apot had come to ltown anyway. What did tt mean? Did ft mean that Ten Spot had come to assist Dunlavey in nominating Watkins and de- | feating hie new employer ‘He frowned again, and for the n | Mrs. A (sntpping her cord)—-Oh, all few minutes gravely studied Dunlavey's right, crank, Well, here then, oll these face. Ho was sure that the Iatter's man- |wunning boots I got for Algy—that's |" had changed, | more tn your ne. ‘Tha mooking amile which had been on Mr. A @ tis face since his arrival the Sheriff's ! ndignantly)—Me off that Kia's tice had been superseded by a huge grin [boots! Guess again, guess again! | Mrs. A (busy writing cards)—No, | Wouldn't have time, anyhow. | Mr. A (arkmly)—No, you bet Twouldn't, | | Me for hitting the hay. T'll lay a bet with you 6 to 1 that I'll be Inhajing th: Alfalfa in elghtéen minutes,” 8 © 8° Mrs, A (jumping up)-—Well, you'd bet- | Kins as lorg as I can't get tissue—it'll ve kind of novel, anyhow. Listen, Henry, see whether you can't do up thi brag jardiniere, with the eat, so that |they won't break through the paper— U've wpolled four sheets already. Mr. A (yawning)—Oh, let ‘em atick through, ; pi a , you dangerous, reck! a le of dissolute men, had it in his power to make things decidedly in- teresting should he advance on the Sher- {f's office with the Intention of assisting Dunlavey, Several times since hiring Ten Spot It A Hollis had doubted him, ‘The suspicion [ter not. T wouldn't ike to bet WHAT had assafled lim that perhaps the ap- tine YOU'LT, get to ved to-night. You pearance of ‘Ten Spot at the Hazelton [gotta deliver a lot of packs, there things t rificed Yuma gm (0 thelr destination? OF uring the next quarter of an hour he you want to Cough Up four Or | cave more attention to Dunlavey than jenmer service it'¥ 14 the mteady stream of men that passed th 6. through the room, though he recognized A (deaperataly)—Mour dollars! 1/1 goodly number as triends he had made 4. haven't got a cent, I'm atrapped-—| during the latter days of the drought ped to the hide, Why, 1 t risen during the rv His manoeuvre vey's strength and {wot enough cash loft to buy @ halt tn- | torest In a clgar band! Where do I have hud dinsipa it was ph to be seen that @ majority \ lofthe votes cast were for him. If noth= } up the last of ghem)--isi¢ unusual or unexpected happened (, Ril ¥ one place that’s a! within the next hour, or untll 9 o'clock, Little out of the way to Ket to-that's |the hour named in Watkins's proclama lizaie's, You take the subway down to tion for the closing of the polls, he was ety-sixth street an’ get off an’ take a) | assured of victory | Bronx local up, an’ get off at One Hun- | ‘Thoughts of the same aracter were gt {dred and Forty-ninth street an’ take Parsing through Hollis's mind, ‘There ty | the Wentchenter avenue car and get off Wa¥ silence in the office, A man was jat Union avenie and walk six blocks, Vote at the table-writing hiv favor. 4¢ Ah LACM nanaat Gat brn o er, Hollin ay [Berth ke Breen n’ One Sixty-ninth | consulted his wateh. It lacked over an [Sa, ive right there, hour of the time for clos The man in Mr. A (who's been following wildly) What do I have to deliver there? [the paper tnto the hat. Mrs. A (eweetly)—Only that flextble| Hollis opened the rear door to allow | Mier for little Jimale, the vacuum cleaner im to go out, While the door re- for tAzzie and the Flemish book shelves | ™M#ined open « sound floated in, which for James, Sr. they all heard—an ear-splitting screech, followed Instantly by @ chorus of yells, oy (ae com Salo he trance) |, pistol report, more yells, and then a . @ i number of reports. iets GtABROME Tune orig Ga mem tp door, Be ge ¢ table fintshed writing and tossed w len grimly. would sure be too arimiy assured Alien. other stx-shooter, auth pe Norton looked at Allen, face was pale, which he felt behind Dunlavey, wut hin longer menaced the Circle ager; thelr, mussies, le ding, were &n tho visitors, having gained gathered together in the centre room, ons; men, tA age, bronsed, wor, lunged forward to within arm‘a length ofa @rinned widet; situation had passed trol, for, catohing Molt ore Hollis’s veins. had been conducted fairly; they had given Dunlavey and Watking an honest election, even though they had found arin ui gun trom the furiously at Greasy, knocking the flashing of metal Duniavey’s grin grew dertstve, ‘Tt ‘bad if my trends should bust up thia peace meeting,” ‘he snecred. “There won't be nothin’ ‘ef it he drow Bis The sounda outside grew in volume as they wept toward tho Sheriff's of- flea, They broke presently at the door and an ominous atlence succeeded. ‘hen @ voice reached the intertor—hareh, jative—-Ten Apot'e veles, up, you shorthorne!” % eatd. ‘The latter's “oO; with which the door was ¢astened, awinging it open alightly. Am he did se there was a sudden rush of bodies; Ner- ton tried to jam the door shut, failed, nd wee flung beck several Cg 4 jo surging, yelling crowd that i i cree tet ‘elop, Gomething i the nen who had come roclatmed trouble, Alien had not moved. i! i ! r-+ 3 & g 5 zl PH itl Thoy were not awed by Alien’ they grinned hugely at oung men of Jean, nmistakably under the tn Allen and i i i & t him. ‘Two guna!” he Why, I rife ‘oung = cowboy'e “You boys are just tn time," Thero waw another roar of laugh: Many of the men seemed only mow te have become aware of resence and they urged . round him, disregarding Allen's guns. The latter seemed to realize that the Ms as he came near; “choy'l run things to sult themselves now. pectin’ Ten Spot to mutt inte the game” T wasn't ox- “I reckon they've got ue.” 1 also sought HoMts's side id the three ir the rear door, toa watching the crowd around Dunlevey. Hollis tried to eatch Ten but fatled—the latter seemed to avotd him, Spot's gase etudtousty A wave of dull anger surged throwgh Until now the contest yet. abin #0 opportunely had bean & part of tt necessary to eliminate them as active Mr, A (in a high key)—What? Me? 4 plot by Duntavey to place a spy in Ma participants, From now on he was Mra. A (calmly)~How else can I get employ. They might have purposely #ac- assured the contest would be a jok hough a grim one. He had depenéed ‘upon Allen's success—it meant mush to him. ‘The thought of fefture just when vio- tory was within his grasp aroused him, 1 in spite of Norton's low werd of caution he stepped forward and rut beaMe the table on which reposed into whieh the balots had been ced by the men who had y 1, ilo intended to take personal arge of the hat, determined upom ee- iving & far deal in epite of the gres* odds, As he stepped forward he saw Qreesy to snatch « uolster of @ cowboy who ‘This attempt wae frua- the puncher, who euddenly ood uear him ated by dropped his hand to his holster, where closed upon Greasy's. The puncher saried, muttered profanely, and struck him down 4 corner, Other men moved. There were curses; une came out. 8 felt rather than saw Norton ead advance toward the table and beside him. A grim amie reathed his face over the knowledge that In the crowd there were at leset two men upon whom he to the end—whatever the a, §TQ Ba Continus fore