The evening world. Newspaper, December 27, 1912, Page 19

OH WONT YA TATE ME ‘To DAT THWANEE: SHORE THo 1 CAN THEE of MAMMY DANTHE WUNTH MORE ‘Rutherford & Son’ True to Life: and Finely Acted BY CHARLES DARNTON. the panting reviewer, does not speak distinctly. by her boy. Innocent ve more dissurbing! While teotive piay of the hour, pains and consider; brought "The Argyle Cam door, At the $0 @queoze in & story. murdered for the fa hunting for Bleuth.of molodrama h: dom of countorfeltai Uke "all tha mono; ‘As tho Keon, buslnos HE Little Theatre has turned from the I “Rutherford and on," @ hard-working play by devoted the greater part of her young life to writing fairy tal lish readers. Oddly cnovgn Misa Sowerby's first play is quite another story, a drama of such strength that it has made its way across the water. Slowly but surely the stage is getting down to life. Bear this in mind ff, Ilko you are rushing madly from theatre to th nights, If, however, you look for only amusem nothing in the play that Winthrop Ames, with his almost defiant magagerial in- telligence, has had the courage to produce. fron and as remorseless as fate, But it 1s true to life and finely acted. As Norman McKinnel ae John Rutherford. only joy in life in a clandestine affair with her father’s right-hand man. The highest dramatic point ts reached in the seoond act when Janet faces her father and he gives her only another night under his roof. This scene is wplendidly soted by Miss Edith Ovo and Mr. McKinnel, But at other times Miss Olive ance, what mare (s thei M>, Burns unbosomed himself at the Criterion Theatre, Harri nd Harvey J, O'Higgins remained out of sight, thus proving themselves ‘to be authors of extraordinary modesty, them blush unecen while it ts duly set down that they have written the de- With great iM they hi up to 4 In making the detective for all the world lke a business man they let the Nght of truth shine through his office me time the; O14 Argyle, like meny a rich man bofore him, has been ood of the plot, But murderer no other Aisoovered @ to make him look in the last nat, tive Robert Hilliard deserves a laoga reward if out performance, ina foy to hoar, Othore 4 moh too loud, nota’ cools funny, Jacking In humor, and Interesting, ty the youth who bawis at the top of his lungs ae the fon the murdered man and the colored ho ia vooiforous without being It ta evident that the play hi ‘a eenaitive ear and nm sense of humor, As @ matter of tact, the play is eadly It he ts back to New York, to have him back, for he fa an actor whose diction hae not enly nothing to fear from the diotagraph but y to the gray phase of Ife with Girha Sowerby, who hae for Eng- tre these tre, you will eee in the thi “Rutherford and Son" is es hard as Rutherford, brutal, dominant and blind to everything but the good of th firm that carries his name in letters of lead, Norman McKinnel ts the finest actor that England has sent us since Forbes Roberteon. This in iteelf should mean something. But the play means much more. It is @ play with mud on ita heels, and it gets down to earth with a vengeance that leaves nothing to the tmegination of people who are not @bliged to work for a living. Rutherford te a power in himeeif, and he recognizes no other power. His busi- nese fe hie religion. He represents the emoldering fireg of his factory, Hie family ‘¢ nothing more to him than Pile of elag. To eave the firm nam from ruin he seizes upon an invention of Me eon, en ingenious weakling, through hts most trusted workman, who less daughter out of bondage. It ts this incident that gives the play {te moat human appeal, ‘The faithful, gullen epineter, a household drudge who sete the table and then takes off her father's shoes while he draws up his chair end sweeps aside the dishes to make room for his letters, has found her As the workman who is the cause of this trouble, J. Cooke Beresford comes in for third honors. He realizes perfectly the type of man who works out his life in a mill that grinds every trace of individuality out of the poor wage-earner. This Way explain why his sense of duty to his employer ts greater than, his love for the woman who has given him everything. She realizes this when she draws & shawl over her head and leaves the house. The road ehe takes may lead to ‘he river—or something worse, To my mind the author goes to extremes in preparing the scene, Leaving Janet out of the question, it is not reasonable to suppose that young Rutherford, even though he has rifled his father’s cash box after he has been robbed of his invention, would leave without a last look at his baby. Only the young wife remains to drive @ hard bargain with old Rutherford. She makes him promise that the name of Rutherford and Bon will be perpetuated se for the last The scandal of the daughter is brought vivtdly to light by Miss Marte Ault rrulous and vindictive old woman. Miss Agnes Thomas gives another touch of reality to the play as Rutherford's grim, practical sister. But first and last it 18 Mr. McKinnel who gives the play its gripping, relenticss power. Big, brutal and hard, saying more in a glance than most actors can he makes Rutherford a tower of strength, And as @ play of char ford and Son" is by far the strongest of t! “The Argyle Case.” FTER that real detective, William J, Burns, hes assured us that “The Arsgylo Cano” {# a real detoctive play, as he did at the opening perform- to aay? In my humble capacity I may adi that it {a an interesting Getective play, chiefly beceuee tt illus! Process by which criminalc without gloves ar Stration of that little household neces tes the ti print handled and alao for its demi n- ity—in New York at ieast—the dictagraph. we may be, we can't know too much about the latest invention. For ell we know wo may be living over a dlctagraph—and even a volcano couldn't Ford Let we Robert Hilliard ae Aeche Kayton, been rehearsed by a man lacking both Mine Stella Archer {a painful as the heroine, and Mies Belene Johneon es the wife of the eountertelter whe shoate himself gives way te her emotions with old-fashioned freedom, It is Mr, Hilliard whe makes "The Argyle Case” timely has led Rutherford's apparently epirit- | mE Dont WorR+, pet. 4 It THROUGH WITH, THE WEED- TH XMAS CIGARS wi HAVE To Go i UN: SMOKED - THATS Aur’ To Rect Historic Hymns By Frederic Reddalle aft Lecturer N.Y. Board of Education, ie | Coorg Now York Evening World). "| No, 12,—“SUN OF MY SOUL.” | 3 w favorite closing hymn, this lyric of the Rev. John Keble runs a close race with “Abide With Me,” and you will hear one sung about often as other for this purpose, to which ‘Sun of My Soul" is admirably adapted in {te last stanza: “Come near and bless us when we wake, Ere through the world our way we take, Till in the ocean of thy love, We lose ourselves in heaven above. Hymn in Keble's great book, ‘The Christian Year,” written nearly a cen tury 0, but still highly prized and widely circulated. “John Keble was thé eon of Rev. John Keble, vicar®of Coln St, Ald- wyn's, Gloucestershire, and was born on his father’s estate at that place, 1792, He was graduated trom Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1810, taking his M. A. Gegree 1813. A brilliant schola: many prises during his cours: 814 was appointed Examining M three years. His ordination as deacon occured in 1851, and he was made priest on Trinity 6unday of the year follow- ing.” In the quiet of an En, jcarage he wrote "The Christian ¥ which tm- mediately became the most popular de- votional book. It is @ curious fact that Keble lived to revise the ninety-sixth edition, In this book are hymns for all the aeasons and days of the year. The work appeared in 1827, the result of long labor and of auch polishing and revision as Gray put upon the “Elegy. It had also the same clasical eucc: It became and has since remained a household volume. In 1831 Keble was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford. “Bun of My Soul” wae set to music to a very old tune named “Hursley.” nh The tuneful melody has undoubtedly added not a Uttle to the popularity of ——>__—__ Airship Hunting. H UNTING game from an aeroplane nised field sports, In France ro- cently an aeronaut was invited to take @rout the field he was etruck in the eye by @ bullet from one of the guns and the hymna, Will likely be one of the recog- Part in such en event, and while flying painfully, though not eertously, injured. These ines are from an Evening | WONT Do ANY HARM To LET Em STAY THERE - ITS A STIMULATION THE wien Vy Cheer Up, Cuthbert! By Clarence L. Cuilen. Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Go, (The New York Evening World). k Belf-Conquered ert Noses Knows of the Scars of the are Bracketed in the larly Gentle People! Bubject of Rules! of If Some of us could “Going To Do," we'd Strange how Few AVE ye heard, “Wille Gee," Who lived tn the eea? lH wide; Ga A cocoanut green bis It” and “Letting Well Enough Alone” All of the Bure-Enough ‘Rough Dia- monds" of our Acquaintance are Singu- The Man who Really “Plays the Game" never becomes Diffuse on the Drink ts Going to Find us! on the Dollar for the Things we are Get Away from the Belief that WE are By the banks of the southern ocean | Where pirates bold used to abide? Buch @ queer sort of name ts “Willie It doean't mean much to you or to me, | Yet the lad who boars this curiove name ‘Was blown to ea in a hurricane, A mongoose wild, a crow or two, These were b/a passengers and crew; |On the trep chat served ae @ crasy boat |For dayssm old ocean he kept afloat; (I wot it must have tasted good), A shirt hie only hebiliment, except their Wear- is Not the Embittered One! Sometimes an Emotional Shock is the Cure for the Habit, even when the Will is En- feebled! There are Occa- sions when “Grin- ning and Bearing Betting! Where the Last Realize Ten Cents e Lucky! of us are Able to Willi By Oscar ye landamen, of & bamboo hut by only food ky eg re eae Alone in ail the World in Having Trouble! 7 No Beneficial Idea ever Came from the Brain of a Brooder! “Perhaps” is « Promissory Note that generally Goes to Protest! The Real Holiday Spirit te NOT the Ki the Barkeep Dispensea! ‘There's Never any Closed Season for ‘Trapping the Bats in the Belfry! 7 te “Every Man his Own Chime Master” that's the Joy of ‘Being There With Bells!" Nothing can Equal tn Cowlicky Shag- the Pelt of the Man who “De- that he be “Stroked the Right W's an Easy end Hilarious Const Down-Hill from the Normal—but w! a Long, Laborious Trodge Back! The Honestly Happy Folk don't Try to Define WITY! Expkining is with our Enemt Exact It! Our Friends don't The Coveted “Another Chance” Never Withheld from the Man who A: sumes Responsibility for his Previous Fall-Downs: ts e Gee Wegelin. T'te of auch as he, that the poet wrate. And thus he watted serene, content, Until the etorm its fury epent. They picked him up asleep but alive And @ drink or two 414 soon revive ‘This hero of so strange a tale, Who safely rode the raging gale. O ye who ol4 ocean have never seen Except on @ summer's day serene; Method we Employ | |ably never forget, south through the middle of our Great |Great Central Plain ts made up of one 3} Is Your Child Doing Well At School By W. D. Puivermacher. ere lk Vek tes seine GEOGRAPHY'S OBSTAOLB. Gmaq\HOUSANDS of boys in the ‘ érammar schools are able to master arithmetic and grame mar/ with ease, but month after month are marked de- ficient in geography, A conscientious parent, you naturally determine to help your boy to get rid of that deiictency. ry evening you sit down with your @ memorizes the location of this city and that river, Despite that fact, he comes back to you the follow- ing month with geography marked upon his report card as the subject in which ho ta deficient, “What ¢an I do," you ask. Instead of making the subject alive and full of interest, you treat the lad as automaton and ask him to re member the location of places, with no reason why they are in their particular Jocality, You do not appeal to him as 4 reasoning human being, If you wish him to remember the lo- cation of New York City, explain to dim why it was built, just where jt je, point out to him the fact it is at the mouth of the Hudson, that tt 1s accesible on all sides by water, that it hae one of the finest harbors in the world, Th explain that these facts are reaponsible for Its continued growth. He will prob- after that explan- ation, that it t¢ at the mouth of the Hudson river, Do not ask the child to memortse the fact that the Mississippi River flowe tral Plain, First explain that the Gradual slope westward from the Ap- palachian Highlands and of another eastward from the Rocky Mountains, Ave him just wh the two would meet. Ask him, in what direction all | the rainfall upon these two slopes! would naturally flow, Ask him where Think of the woee of the southern tsi Ever at the mercy of Neptu wiles, Who fight the gale, the sea, the storm, Where the sun is HOT (not only WARM, Then think of the land wherein ye well, Where year by year all waxeth well, ‘An4é you who think thet your lives are naught, = Remember the Story the deep heth And that wea vadly rent, hue ba held Oe own oo fe Salt oes, reece ssf Reeall this ohfd saved from the een ‘Tne wonderful younguser, “Willie Gea” oes i even he would expeut to find a rive though he had never known an: more about the Groat Central Plain, | ‘The boy or air! will at once point out \to you the wreatest river in our jand, curiosity haa heen the time to tell him He will prob. Then, when his jaroused, that | the name of that river, ably never formet It, In much the same manner impress CRDING OMAPTERS. | ree re of tle Gendt ele Nay ranch. "The “Cattlemen's Asave ty “named. Thaniaves: Tnsulting "Nellie Hasleto teary “raach rufflans, comes to Hollis overcomes, "Ten Spo pi from, an jen, a Governinent ageu, mo’ enforce the law. Hollis Nellie Haaieton's brothor to» gre he ean cure the ‘men capture ding Detwer when Allen an ia for Sheriff Allew, before. open, looks the door of the Sherift #1 of . where the ballots re to R % it, at ite Sbe..goten, ot A ot a cone poi lie, “ " vn into t with ‘the sdntent of runnii the election to ait themsel Houle amase it. y owt, lect Alien, Rapet ee CHAPTER XXVII. (Continued.) The Sere and Yellow Da AZOR-BACK RIDG® was a des. olate place, Never attractive, it reared aloft barren and rombre, frowning down upon ite fringe of shrubbery, the | latter atripped of, ite leaves, tte acant uty gone and bending its bare . bitter, driving storm that raged for three days and started a dnift that the cattiemen could not stop. Arrayed in tarpaulins the cow- boya went forth, muffering, cursing, laboring heroteajly to stem the Vide. The cattle retreated steadily before the storm—no human agency could halt them. On the second day Norton came Into the Circle Har ranohhouse, wet, isgusted, but ehting mad, “If this rain don't stop pretty f0on,” he told Hollls as he dried him- self before the open fireplace, “we'll have cattle down here from over the Colorado line, An’ then there'll be hell to pay!” But on the third day the rain ceased 4 the sun came out. The country @miling tn the eunshine, mellow, gits- tening, inviting, But the damage had deon wrought. From Lemuel! Train of the Pig Pen outfit came word that fitty per cent. of hia cattle were missing. Truxton of the Diamond Dot, Hen- ningeon of the Three Bar, and nearly all of the other emall owners reported lonses. Of course the cattle would be recovered during the fall round up, but they were now red and fair prey for cattle thie 4 with the round up still two wee y St meemed that ny must be atolen, Yet there was nothing that could be done; It In folly to attempt to “cut out” cattle on the open From the editoi Kicker might be the Law had come into Union County. Many men of Dry Bottom entered the Kicker office to thank Hollis; othere doldly draped thelr houses with flags and bunting. Dunlavey had visited Dry Bottom twice since the Incident of the primary. He had eatd nothing concerning the In- @ident to any one ve possibly hie tn- timates, but from sneer that ap- peared ‘on his face when approached by those whom te considered friendly to Hollie tt was plain that he intended con- tinuing the fight. Hollie had been compelled to record In the Kicker the unpleasant news that Dunlavey had refused to comply with the new law reeulating brands and t submitting of fists for taxation, and al that he had threatened to shoot the firet officer who trespassed on his land, Perhaps in @ calmer mood Duniavey had decided not to use his weapon; perhaps there was something about the quiet, cool and deliberate Alten whioh convinced Duntavey that the former himself in the event of trouble, At any Allen had ridden the ynmoleated by either mits of the by auction of a thousand of Duniaw Dont oattle, He ordered Potter to print It wo that he might post coptes through+ out the county within @ week, ‘The night following the issue of the Kicker containing the announcement concerning the coming of the law Pot- ter had informed Hollis that ho had every geographical fact upon the ehild, by showing him the reason therefer, De 208 expert from him a aventer power of thas yeu have pouraelé, that day delivered the notices to Allen, CHAPTER XXVIII, OLLES had demonstrated the fat that @ majority of Dry H the law, Dry Bottem had had t0 be eure—the law In Deflance of the Law, Bottom's oltisens welcomed With the olevereas ming of the Law “THE TWO-GUN MAN'S" Greatest Novel By Charles Aldeo ites one another to discuss the phen menen. might be able to give a rood account of * Seltzer man “on the trigger” as ite chief ad- vocate. Few men cared to appear be- fore such a court with an argument against ite jurisdiction. The law, as the citizens of Dry Bot- tom had seen it, was an inatitiition which frowned upon guch argument Few men care@ to risk an adveree de- cision of the established court to ad- vocate lawe which would come from civilized authority silent agalnet the come in spite of the element that had offed at it And now that day had arrived, The Law had come. Even the evil element knew it The atmosphere was vibrant wi! Pressed excitement; in the stores men and women were congregated; im the saloons ruse a buss of continuous con- versation. On the street men greeted In a dosen conspicuous places were posted faring printed notices inform- ing the reader that a thousand Circle Cross cattle—a desert which followed—were on the day to be sold to the Below this announcement in email. neat print was quoted the law. to swagger forth with recklees disre- gard for the polite convent'sne— ekulked {n the background, sneering st this thing which had come to rob them of thelr pow hich they elt presage’ thetr ultimate downfall, But Dry Bottom ignored the gunmen, or mmiled biandly at them, mtving its tention to Ben Ailen’a posters and cussing a rumor which had gained rapid credence, to the effect that the hed @overnor had telegraphed Allen thi would hold @ dotatt df United States soldiera in readiness for any contin- gency. The 00d citizens «mited, Ant throughont the day many of {hem Panned' and repassed the Kicker offiec. anxious to get @ glimpse of the man who hed been instrumental tn dringing edout thie innovation, Shortly after noon on the #ame @ay Dunlavey rode into Dry Bottom, dis- mounted, hitched his pony to the gal) in front of the Fash'on and entered, Tn former days Duntavey’s appear: ‘ance within the doors of the Pashia was the atgnal for bolatero For here might alw: law's chief advocates ther nt i ‘To-day, howere Thus upon Dunlavey's eilence-ntrange and awkward—fel! the barroom. There were short rods and mon fell away from Duniavey ar he crossed the room. and came to @ ta)? before one of Ren Allen's posters, te rend evel e of It~every word, Ss man interrupted hi Then, finishing hier RB. he turned and fnesd th* crowd, his face white with wrath, bir ips snarling. Why did fools tear th’ entrance a t some of vou bloomin down?’ he demanded No man foit !t Incumbent upon ht renly to tl and Duntavey watcho4 them for an {natant, mnearing, ha glittering menacingly, Then ho Goniy turned, selzed the poster, agely tore it into piece, hurie th pleces to the floor and stamped up them. Then he turned acain to the alient crowd, hia face inftamed, his voice enim Ping with a bitter, venomous sarcasm “Roared! he sald, “Scared out clean —Itke a bunch of coyotes runnin’ trom Ho made a strange enna unuttersd'e men ao weakly constitute * willing to atick when things go the other wave ligh Tie turned adruptty, atrode out through the door, mounted his pony and rot rapidly down the street, Severn! of the men, who went to the door ac'ss bt departure, saw him riding firlously toward the Circle Crons, ‘Then one of his former friends taughed harahly—earcaaticnlly, "E reckon that tonforfoot 1s totherin’ Bie Bi lot," he sald ae he turned to th into town, e told Mollie, the latter determined to make the return trip to the Clecle Bar In tho evening, Therefore, after A short conference with Judge Graney and Allenmand a frugal, though wholesome supa in t Judgag roome back of tl which Alien 000! out upon the Coyote trail aug jogged Quictiy toward the Circle Rar, There was @ good mnens Se, oleae eat, invigorating, though Pry atter the rein, “toa igs the wall lay clear them, hard Kp Pe Conuiguenn Part ¢ ; riding, me