The evening world. Newspaper, January 24, 1913, Page 17

( | * BY Gouties THERE 1 THE SLD POND } USED. TO SHATE ON WHEN I Wad 4 BOY, ca Qt ‘dedly at that, to be about as pl Deadly Duil.. BY CHARLE HEN are we to hear the last of Lehar? Once again he comes waltsing YY sere ti cime'Srer“zva'e Gand body—to, the old tartar tomes Evidently he writes contracts as eastly as he writes music, i spite of the unmistakable fact that Viennese operetta is just about played out in New York least, if not the country over. Everybody's overdoing it—and rather Last night at Weber & Fields’ music hall “The Man with Three Wives" sant as paying alimony. Sweetiy innocuous music CHA LEAN bs WARS ZIFTER brought down b Nasal detonations of down to shake the love out of his feminine admirers, and he also rolled his eyes stong the lines of the actor who has had his day and an occasional evening in the one-night stand. As the one and only wife of this supposedly gay deceiver, Miss Alice Yorke @ressed up to the Broadway standard and sang accordingly. worst of herself in the first act by the Glethes she wore, and after that she @ian't matter, As the hopeful wives-to- ba, Miss Sophys Barnard, singing tustily, ‘Od Mics Dolly Castles, cieguived a8 Zaglish blonde, geve the plot @ hplp- But there wae no sparkle in the music, an 20 the deadly dull performance slowly but surely exerted its funereal effect. It was kept all’ long-armed, long- legged efforts of Miss Charlot: ‘wood, who figured as @ bride who coukin't easily fit either an upper or lower berth on @ wedding journey. She wes funny at first, but not without ‘being vulgar in the end when she threw & leg about the neck of her under-sised captive, Sydney Grant. The trouble with Miss Greenwood is that she doesn't She makes a big mistake in thinking that her vaudeville eraining hae fitted her for Broadway. he is funny, but shi Lepr me eu » eupecially wi pay Prphosg far in the curtain calls, Yet, with all her faults, she was the saving grace of the performance. ning only by the know where to stop. the lyric terror. t the beg She made the Green- The Evenis 8 BF “S'’Matter,’ Pop?” : , MM, THEM WAS , THe HAPPY DAYS! A A NOTION ‘To TAWE. JUST ONE gh idk AN' See! TI RM san OF THE OLD THRE S DARNTON. trickled through @ book that should be Placed on the market ae @ sure oure for insomnia, The programme was more considerate than the press agent, who @igclosed the names of the woman and the man who toyed with the original ‘book and Gallied with the lyrics. I, for one, shall not betray them. Their secret safe in this column. They may, ta their uninspired work, have felt the nese spirit—who knows? But humor is @ thing of the soll and cannot readily _be transplanted. Gometimes it falls In ast night's cast there were tungs, it no humor. As the man who was supposed to be struggling along with three wives. Cecil Lean caught the Viennese spirit with the success of « Chicago drummer on a Cook's tour, He had the Nght charm of a by-product of the Chicago brand of musical com- edy. His songs were the last shout from the lake-front. When he broke loose in the fret act we realised the sad mistake we had ma: in not leav- ing ‘8 at home on the plano, The Wagnerian crashes with which Lehar curtains sounded Mke the cooing of doves compared with the He had a lock of hair that he brought Nu Ln) Us fi os CHARLOTTE GREENWOOD es LIDONIE In leading a very awkward batet Mile, Dasie won her way to the footlights, She has never looked 90 well, nor danced eo charmingly es she did at the opening ‘of the second act. But the joy of the ballet began and ended with her and Signor Bonfiglo, whe lent her a strong arm when it was needed and whirled t on tle own eadcount with considerable. skill, “ts other respects ‘The Man with Three Wives” was nothing more than a matter of endurance. Betty Or No Exchange. Vince Advice to Lovers ent’s of another girl I know, I am afraid it would cause jealousy if I ask the latter A, 8." writes: “After corresponding |for her friend's home address, What fof a little while with a young man he, shall I dot? pugaeated that we should exchange pho- tographs. I sent him mine, but have not heard from him since. proper for me to write Decidedly not, until the receipt « big part of the to him again?’ he acknowled, your picture and keeps argain, oo writes: for @ joke, I took ar “The other evening, ing from @ young Judy who is 4 good friend of mine and pawned it. She seems to be angry. What is the best way to make up?” Reiurn the ring to her and promise’ gever again te attempt etupid joke. t such a rude and “af, D."" writes: “I am nineteen and tn Jove with a girl @ year younger than myself. 6 has no people to look after hi Paovid I be able to support her on $10 a week?" Not properly, She wants me to marry her, in New York. degan't she get a job and then the two Why @ you marry and keep on working? wv. 6” writes, “I am 1 love with a et whagy I met at the Dirthay perty mission w call Would it be Go ahead and ask. If you are in love with one girl what do you care what the other one thinks? *G, 8." writes: “I um in love with » young man who seems to care for me, although he pays attention to other iris also, Hi I know. if he really loves mi If he does he will tell you so some time. | An Apology. - “L, C." weltes: VA young man whom I have known three months insulted me, yet stl! wants to be my friend. I have asked him for an apology, however, and he has refused to gi one, 6hall I or friendship cannot if he refuses to apologize for hurting you, ee / “L, 8." writes: “Ie it proper for & girl to ask @ young man to call on her by himeelf when he has called eev- eral times with s friend?” ‘4 No; she should walt till he aske-per- unscommpaniod, x Te taki ae World Da “ome Ps } ily M ; Just A MINUTE MA! I'M GONNA Give THe BOYS A ‘ATIN’ LESSON? “AN aboard!” he shouted. The Folks That Write Our Books HACEDRAY, Kipling and Eden | Phillpotts are amohg English authors born in India. The lat- est addition to the list is A. 8. M. Hi chingon, the young romancer whose recent “Once Aboard the Lugser’ followed by “The Happy Warr! Louis Joseph Vehce is now in Paris, ‘The action of his next book, “Nhe Day of Days,” to be published in February, will be placed in New York, and every- thing will happen within twelve hours, John Masefield, the new English poet, author of “The Everlasting Mer- was indentured on board e aquare- Tigger at fourteen as a means of dis- cipline, His family in Shropshire had despaired over the clever youth's habit of going off on long tramps by himself instead of going to school. C. Coles Phillips, who has drawn « bookful of his striking tadeaway girls, {se a Springfeld, 0,, boy, thirty-o it hi first jobs in Ni was that of a solicitor of adv tising. He belongs to the New Roche colony, Isabel Gordon Curtis, author of Of the novels of George Macdonald, now little spoken of, she was Mterally brought up on Mr. Curtia was a dramatic critic for years. Grant Richards credits the late W. T. Btead with leading him into the intimate acquaintance with Paris of which he gives evidence in “Caviare."* ‘Wit Allen Dromgoole, the Southern girl who hae just sent out “The Island of Beautiful Things,” was named Will. lam first, because the family had want- ed a bi She adopted the “Allen” off from @ sign above @ shop door in her schoolgirl period, and when whe he Inside” friends call | appears “Miss Will Franck, Journey her Harry A. Vagabond's World,” has written a book, #oon to be published, of his experienees ae 4 plainclothes poticeman and census- Panama, . author of “A Around ‘ the taker in ~ I'm not going to work at-all,” says Ralph, the five-year-old son.of James JOSEPH JEFFERSON ' F the time of Garrick, Born in Philadelphia in 189, Joseph's Gebut on the stage took place in Wash- ington at the ege of thre Tis was at @ benefit performance and the child was brought forward on every possible opportunity thenceforth. beyond the territory from Richmond to New Orlea REAT happenings in the Land of Heavylids, last night! 4 most pe G culter thing took place when the Hush-a-bye Book opened—instead of the sprightly Uttle fellows who weually jump out there rose elowly from page eight a soft, fieecy cloud, Upon it eat a Mttle pilot. And the Uttle Book-People climbed up om the cloud. Some one Rotsted @ oat! ond eway they few! It was'indeed a merry sight to sce those cunning little people who afford children_so much pleasure having euch a hoppy time themselves. Up, up they flew, Moh adove the earth, leaving the Hush-a- bye Book lying open on the town. The Queen's long train stretched far be- hind and her golden hair rrone MOTe WeEREY than ever in the eunlight. NOW T26Ys, WATCH Me CLOSELY AND DotusT As 1 Do! od azine, Friday: January 24. 1915* re OR Beeste and Bobbie had never liked. more, because they think of the bully Memories of Players Of Other Days. Coveright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Eveging World), —AMED for his remarkable por- trayal of two or three char- ecters, Joseph Jefferson was the fourth Jefferson in direct descent from the first who made the name famous es an actor in For more than ten years’ before he had reached his majority young Jefferson went about the country with barnstorming expedi- tions in the South. ‘The winters were #0 cold and the walk- ing’ #0 unbearable that the tmpecuntous During the Mexican war many actors taining the soldiers at night, fereor did not find this let for his talent, so he brought his versatility into play by ,eelling the | But no great success was achieved un- soldiers coffee and cakes, Atter many vicissitudes Joseph re-| ‘There « Production far more elaborate turned to Philadelphia, In those days/ than any other resulted in an emphatic lucrative out- By Robert Grau. at the Winter Garden, he made a: hit as Caleb Plummer in “The Cricket on the Hearth.” It was in the season of 1858-69 ‘that Jefferson began to play ‘Rip Van Win- cle.” Dion Boucicault’s influence pre- vatled on Jefferson te cut short his ap- Pearances tn “The Octoroon" and devote himaelf to the character that afterward Drought him fame and fortun A dozen of the best known stars had failed to score any particular hit as “Rip,” and Jefferson was quite reluctant to permevere. Bouctcault insisted that the others, including Hackett, Burke and Yates, made “Rip” a drunken got, and he knew that Jefferson's idea was to uplift the character; to make him half human and to invest the role with more humor. In fact, to build up a sympathetic character that would Bouctcault firat advised setting the In @ foreign town, elther in A or in England. ‘The two artiate were all the time making important changes in the play's text and action. {ti @ London opening was secured. several stock compantes played-continu-| success—a success that lasted’ for more Broadway and Houston York City, Jefferson played success the two important roles tn “Our Ameri-/ “The Rivals" was only made attractive| ‘at trick on m can Cousin” without attracting much | to the public by presenting a etar ca: ention, But in the following year, | which ously around @ half dozen large citles.' than thirty years, during which time ‘And for ten years Jefferson went from) Jefferson would occasionally shift to one to the other, sometimes ae a star, Rob Acres in ‘The Rivals” or to Caleb more often as @ member of tfe com- pany, and finally as the mana: In 1457, at Laura Keene | Plummer, | Although “Rip Van Winkle” alwaya| Theatre, at drew capacity audiences, tt ts but fair UP sx dreadful tasting powders ae he that Jefferson vainly tried to Ms impress tn other roles, Even included William J. Florence, ==|Mrs. John Drew and other notable to the coming time when he shall; players. This celebrated combination | Tite | also presented “The Heir at Law” with Jefferson as Doctor Pang!ons.” But though he was censured for not q|¢Mlarging Me repertoire, Jefferson al- ways pointed to the empty eests at Dell and ;eum Serfermances, ne sempered. with je to gin admittance ooo him as Rip Van \ BY ELEANG| e SCHORER. —— Bessie and her brother Bobdie watched the little Book-People cross the border between the Land of Heavylids and the Land of Open Byes. Uttle Book-People peered down at the Land of Open Byes, which lay below them, a2 eagerly a8 all oMidren explore the Land of Heavyltde when frst!" they go there, The tall buildings, church steeples, beautiful parke ond im-|anthropoide are mense rivere were wonders undreamed of to the little Book-People, Both kiddies noticed that ae the cloud eailed over the Land of Open Byes it made the earth rather dreary. It wae just the kind of dreary day|eummon The But they don't mind those daye any time the little Book-People are having. ELUANOR SOBORER, Jungle Tales for Children By Farmer Smith, mtr Nets York bveclng Weritin® NE day Jimmy Monkey went over O to eee Dr, Baboon and while he was there an awful noise was heard outside. “Kerohoo!"" Woking out the doctors windew, Jimmy Monkey saw Mr. Giraffes legs. ‘Dr, Baboon looked out aleo,and sald: “Hello, Mr, Giraffe, what's the matter with you?’ “I have @ terrible cold,” anewered Mr, Giraffe, “Wait a minute, I'l get on top of the house and look down your throat," eaid ‘the doctor, ‘Then he acampered upstairs.and got on the roof where he could look down and seo what the trouble was with Mr, Gi- raffe'e throat. In the meantime, Jimmy Monkey had climbed out the back window and up in @ cocoanut tree, Dr.’ Baboon grated Mr, Gt tongue to look dovn his thr n Jimmy Monkey took a good atm and threw @ cocoanut right down Mr. Gir- | affe's mouth. “Oh, Dootor! \raffe, “Dy With that Mr. Giraffe went dashing | down the road and Jimmy Monkey went ‘back Into the doctor's office singing: |The Giraffe has a great long neck, | And when he goes to sneeze \It takes 80 long to reach his mouth It winds up in a wheeze.” When the doctor came back he mixed Dootor!" yelled Mr, Gl- not give me medicine so; i sald to himself: | j “1a fix Jimmy Monkey for playing Co 1p pee Ap lla lh POT TA — ZA Lang w Wot Like Any Story You Have Read TARZAN OF THE APES By Edgar Rice The Romance o/ a Jungle Man and a Yankee Girl, san i ot L if nu FE ti i | i sf af, E f ll ait i ul came that he spen' time in the vicinity of last home, and less and tribe, i ( i i i i { i i f i king when the great king eo hor. Yhely menhandied ere the bow. found knife had, by accident, pricked ‘the eavage heart. Tarsan's knife on 3 z il i : duties of Ia the ably, te atoten his ist ii i fs Res thet the cofmmands ‘mat! are, or possibly that ‘one of his daughters in ‘Whatever his decisions, copt it ae final, ani turn pations eatiafed. ‘Then comes Tana, shricking ing tight her side, from atreaming. Gunto, her cruelly bitten her! , eave that Tana te not bring him nute and eoratch hie Sack for him. So Tarsan ecolds them threatens Gunto with @ taste of the Geath-bearing olivers if he further. Tana, for hep-part, te to promise better attention to her duties. And #0 it goes, Ittle family ences for the most part, which, if unsettled, would reault finally in or factional strife, and the event diamemberment of the tribe. Tarzan tired of it as he found kingwip meant the ourtailment of Mberty. He longed for the little cabin and the eun-kissed sea—for the cool in- terior of the well-built house, and for the never-endt boo! H z i : ih ! ; [ 3 t per i i st ' ' it A i i i ettd i i : i i ' t4 Hie ia it, hi 3 i i H § ify FF i i Ege f Ite i him, nor could they understand aught of the many strange and wonderful dreams that passed through the active brain of thelr human kt So imited was their Tarzan could not even of the many new truths, and the fie of thought that hia reading had opened longing eyes. tribe he no longer haa the cronies as of old, A little find companionship in many strange and simple creatures, but to @ krown man there must be some sem- Diance of equality of Intellect as the for agreeable consociation. Had Kala lived, Tarzan would have sacrificed all else to remain near her, but now that she was dead, and the playful friends of his childhood grown into surly brutes, he felt that he much Preferred the peace of solitude of hii of loader- beasts, 4 and Jealousy of Terko: son of Tublat, ld much to counteract t ¥ ef f When Jimmy | powders bh said to himself. “I'l bet Dr, Baboon tried to get even | with me for playing that trick on him,"* —2— PROSPERITY. “Prosperity has ruined many @ man,” remarked the moralizer, “Well,” rejoined the demoreliser, jonkey took one of the, an's desire to renounce pes, for, atub- made an awful face and| orn young Englishman that he was, he could not bring himaelf to retreat tn the face of so malignant an enemy, ‘That Terkoz would be chosen leade+ in his stead he knew full well, for tim ‘and again the ferocious brute had estab- shed his claim to physical supremacy over the few bull apes who had dared resent his savage bullying. Tarzan would have liked to eubdue the deast without recourse to knife 0 f FY ia T'was going to be ruined at all T'4 pre fer proaperity ty do it"=Wiss, ua EA eres