The evening world. Newspaper, February 4, 1913, Page 17

a“ EAH COME-TH MY DADDY Now, oH PoP! eH POP? ec) OH PoP! d He At CoME-TH MY DADDY now] mille oo OH PoP On PoP! New Pl “Sunshine Girl” Bright, Dainty and Tuneful. . BY CHARLES DARNTON. ULL up your socks! This gentle injunction came like a free sample of soap P in “The Sunshine Girl,” a Galoty, that reached the Any man wearing a pair garters that had begun to feel the strain of a long, hard winter could not hear the reference to socks at halfmast without « certain uneasincss in his shins, Rubber will give! But the thoughtful soap fac- tory tirla who sounded the musical admonition in “Get a Move On," tho first and livellest song of the plece, had nothing to fear on thetr own account. They were as trim as their ankles, Charlos Frohman had provided any number of iretty girls and J. A Malone, stage director for George Edwardes, had done the rest. Mr. Malone je a very pretty Job of tt. There were, to bo sure, sev- rda of haughty show-off ladies who at one point turned thelr backs on Just to show they weren't afraid of lumbago, but on the whole, #o to speak and Ilkewise as it were, both the con- duct and the costumes of the girls were charming. A daintler production has not been seen in many a night. Although “The Sunshine Girl" cannot be sald to be so rare as a day in June, it 1s bright, sprightly end delightfully tuneful. Paul A. Rubens has given it sira that are as light ard refreshing as & summer breeze. Although the book by Mr. Rubens and Cecil Raleigh !s an- other story, the lyrics are exceptionally er, containing more wit than is usually found in one of the necessary evils of musical comedy. Bae failure of the story to sustain even ordinary intefest may be traced to the obvious fact that in the long run it entirely loses sight of the he: It was Vernon Cast Ing who adopted a so: oblige a friend, who r the hero of last night's ‘performance. He acted with a sense of eccentric hu- mor, sang well enough to keep the or- chestra leader from golng insane, and made a new reputation for himself as a To keep the dancing honors in the family his pretty and graceful young wife Joined him In a trot suggesting both wings of the turkey that proved the one real novelty of the evening. Circumstances over which he evidently had ho eontru! compelled him to take a new partner, Mise Julia Sanderson, in the “Tango.” Miss Sante might better have waited for tho dance she shared with him a moment later. But then stars have a way of stepping in where angels (ear to tread! Miss Sanderson, as the Sunshine Soap Girl, never looked prettier, and after jetting on singing terms with her voice she succeeded in spreading conside’ sweetness and light. But why, in stepping into the slippers of a full-grown star, @he chose to talk as though she had just come from the nursery, was more than 1 gould understand. Every word she uttered seemed to de tongue-tied with baby- dive ribbon, Simplicity may begin in the cradle, but surely it doesn't end & stray lord- Julia Sanderso:, as Dora Dale. ‘there. And in “Take Me For’ eo inly gave hints t! he was more than seven. There ts at least one line fn this song that should be spanked and went to bed in the “charming hotel” we heard about before § o'clock to-night As the fair youth who found favor in the Sunshine Girl's eyes Alan Mudie danced cleverly and acted engagingly. though with too much manner, The privilege of giving a troken-down Lon- don cab driver a German dialect wae Allowed Joseph Cawthorne, But in spite of his scemingly prehistoric dialect, he had 4s genuinely amusing moments, and in “You Can't Play Every Instru- ment in the Orchestra’—of which he 1s the author—the funniest song of the night. For two verses it was a howling success, then It took a political turn that robbed it of its distinctive char- acter and Its striking originality, If Mr. Cawthorne knows when he's well off he will keep that song out of pol- elt, Wilson and Bry skirts Steve Daly. Eva Davenport ae Mra. Blacker. another Song calle: 4 the created some laughter, but tt was Be escing with the plece and about as funny as a bad caricature, Another past performance was recalled by Mr, Cawthorne when he brought out hie old Veltable concertina. After ‘Narcissus he played something new and covered imeelf with the glory that comes with applause, Miss Eva Davenoort worked hard and fainted with al! her weight to add the Mirth. but with a mixture of Cockney dialect and American slang she had far an easy Une of it. Tom Lewis, whose bibors as a Pitteburgher in London af iim to describe himself as ‘the guy who put the plek In Ptecadilly,” raised on asional laugh, Miss Flossie Hope let the light of her big black ¢; abine ii) countenances and sang and danced neatly, 1 'not wonderfuily, ‘pe cime as q rather startling surprise when, without the alixhtest wpat into Kong, Hel to Love!” sang she with great enthusiasm no vain t ave. There were, however, so many charming numbers tedious strain felt in the last act, “The Sunshine Girl" Sycet Car Education. Lightning's Peril. |" Duesveldor?, Germany, a campaign | A 8 one climbs up to the mountain as been started for top the Canger from Nghtning ine riders, the Idea being to creases rapidly, and, asa rule, the sim tow and to avold many | cbeervatories located on the mountain gers to stich passengere | 02h Bt neevessarily. | ony » a8 discovered by the sclentific 1 niwhovhave had the experience Fifty per ve accidents &re of @ winter on the mountain top. It is { due t porsons allo ting or embarking | evident that ordinary lightning rods are While the vehicle is in motion and for | entirely inatequate to carry off the | ghagoirooxe of demonatrating the prop- enormous discharges of the mountain ¢ d approved inethods of performing | Sbuasarmorsam yintre are severe) ob- a e operations a moving picture exht- ries on Mont Bisac, at one fon has been devieed, ‘The result of | Cf (em, What Of Jansten, there have j foac demonstrations has been very| which the interior of the place was flied } {etstactory and @ great improvement with ribbon-like sheets of electricity and i ch the sondition of affairs has been hafls pf fire which moved ellently from I acted. eins bo poles, = - - . EAH Come-TH MY DADDY Now. tops are rather uncomfortable places of | HEY had been reading stories of times long ago all evening—of knights and ladies, of Arabian genti and enchantresses and Greek heroes, How Bessie and Bobbie wished, as they nestled down into thetr feathered beds, that they had been born in those wonderful That they and their father and mother had been like those wonderful people, So the Sandman and Billy Winks, who put all little kiddies to sicep, closed down the tired lids of eyes that were still full of the pictures of peo- ple and things long since crumbled to dust. Then—quick a8 @ wink—with a bound and a shout and clanking of metal, a xmone in armor with a white plume and riding on a big white horse, sprang out of the Hush-a-Bye Book! jit. Bobbie and Bessie were dazzled, frightened. Astonishing to relate, it scemed to be their father! Then they were surprised and happy. But again they were simply terrificd when another horseman, mounted on @ Diack steed and with a red plume charged furiously on the white -A-B9E Bee Coppright, 1018, ty The Prem Publishing Oo, (Bho Now Tauk Brening World), in long flowing garments. times! He eatd: And the children were. The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday. February 4. BY ELEANOR « ‘SCHGRER. knight. And there was a terrific battle. Oh, they were so afraid! Presently they recognized their mother standing near—a thn, pale creature, she was, She wasn't a dit Uke the strong, rosyoheshed, healthy, capable mother that they knew, The knights atill fought. Thetr father was losing ground, and the pate | oo lady looked on in hopeless and helpless terror. The red and black crushed the white to carth with a flerce blow, seized the pale lady and rode away triumphantly, leaving the white knight wounded upon the ground, The|ein't goin’ to get ue nothing by fightin’ vision faded, There was only the book and a little smiling elf perched upon | *monget ourselves,” “Now, children, you see how it might have been sf you had really Heed then, When you wake up be glad that you are alive right now. And be glad your paps and mamma are just lke ordinary mammase and papas.” ELBANOR SOHORER. al ll above, “Phoebe Cary wae one of the sweetest poets that this country ever produced. Her poems are not rgmarkable for ple beauty that every she is almost une- depth. But fo: one can appreciat qualled. The verses we are considering were written when she was seventeen years of age. Speaking of this hymn, 16 feourd world, The firet lines run as follows: “One eweetly solemn thought Comes to me o'er and o'er— I am nearer home to-day Than I've ever been before.” Phoebe Cary was a church attendant , here for many years in Now York under the Women-—not even & breath of fresh alr ministrations of Dr. Deema, and with the congregation of the Country to be farm hands or hired girls Oid Mercer Street Prev aren In conjunction with the lat’e: she pre- istoric Hymns By Frederic Reddalle tall Lecwuses H, T, Board of Bducautes. ‘ary Sisters," as they came be = known are dewerving of a niche all their own in the American temple of poetic fame, All was the abler of the twain. possessed the power of touching the hu- man heart in @ superlative degree, as witness the hymn whose Tcdmpoved tt (n the little back third. |4ifferent and better and more means of story ‘bedroom one Sunday mornin after coming from Church; and !t makes me happy to think that any word T & 7 has done a little good in the | Are City People Happier Vf Than Folkinthe Country? By Sophie irene Loeb. Copyright, 1918, by The Pres Publish ing Co, (The New York Evening World). ‘Copwright, 1918, by The Preas Publishing Co, > 7 | q Aan RS. ANSEL OPPENHEIM, student the city than taken them BACK to the Linda Yakbn bie M of Social Economy, who Is direct- farm? “ONE SWEETLY SOLEMN Ing considerable energy im the Every year, according to statistics, we ‘ THOUGHT.” “high cost of Hv¥-|consume more than we produce in the ay of food-stuffs. And Mra Oppenheim ing movement, | ! jay toward} claims the lure of; hopes to help point the city 1s mainly | alleviating this condition. we ‘ho inaist on staying close to the suffering in tree! streets and high bulldings, process of making | rather FAR the country with its seem- ends meet, She! ing loneliness and its distance from the says: s0-called pleasures, The country seems “If there could) unatractive; but it ts mainly because we be found a way to) have not TRIED it. induce those who Bre thousands of people who ate now @ charge|have spent most of their lives in the upon the commun-jcity and who then have gone to the , ity to go out to the| country who joyfully esy: ‘I would | farms @where, in-|not live in tow again for the world.” stead of being consumers, they would be| They claim that after one gets settled in ' producers, without doubt !t would re-| the routine of country e: duce the cost of living. But here we are.|tractions, in @ DIFFERNT way, « | They all want to come to the city, @t-/ just as alluring. | tracted by higher wages, shorter hours,! Apropos, there is a new incentive, with (Alice and perhaps, | |i t Phoede | title stands musement, “All other important business 1 zed; only agriculture is not. I armera around New York could by whioh @ producer in the country may or-|eend his wares direct to the consume: | and the farmer of moderate means wi small capital in fact, no capital, may auMficient help they-could produce twice! send his wares “from hand to mout what they ar@producing now. (aw tt were, und truly profit thereby | ‘It ts contrary to the law of nature! ‘This has been tried and not found | for all to succeed in the city, The siren. wanting. In France, Gormany and jelty calla to destruction an well as to| Eni the very small producer in the success, and for many there ts nothing country may live with vase, and ve to make them better men and tainly with much LESS hardship, by aving an eat ished Hast of customers to wham he may aend his produce ome of these workers need go to the hn. at even $15 a month and hoard than to e.ty hut on x months, arrange living or atarve?”’ for and pach thelr Cheaver and Dr, | Would tt not be better for them and the heg or steal in 1869 @ hymn book Much wisdom, that. It is estimated produce ev ad the Go that a few years ago two-thirds of the ernm: ‘The hymn's tune was composed soon population of America lived in the coun. | tie © American families, latter the words, and {t is to thin that|try or In smaller town! been @ number of bombardments, during | the lysic le oongregationally sung, al- | third (n the laree city. j though there have been solo settings by | tion 1s REVERSED. the bite Dudley Buck and dross.(¢he latter much tn — ay) and toe other, perchance now sirugglng to © Now the condi-| might well consider such # step in the ul Am-| Thi portation really brougét mere pesple te Geo we mane the advent of the parcel post system, | ably larger than thet of women, and be lady ?""—Youth't Don’t R Te lecture @ well-known omic mentioned the feet das of men wes The Day's Good Stories 3 parte the mumber | mumorousty “I can therefore recommend the ht" | arate to thet part of the warld, A young lsdy mated tu fot up and, full of tndign room rather uolally, whereupon the marked © burey es that.*--Toudon Bystander, Accumulating a Library. HEN George ° “ wiving Carnegie a tariff, I thisk of my old friend sob ued wpeaker was amu! Gompers, Tobb was entertaining me in ''s evening, "Samm, my bog, mever lend your books,’ Thee | eted, Near future, and with Uttle effort Dave | eyuas hus hand toward @ particularly a wean ueetion then arises: Have théje safe assurance of success, on account| sri!” he enld baptorme| Thon Way Allee the Sra ‘Do you ore those volume? | end tram: er at fu-' increased facilities in the way of trame-}ef the present condition as to the prod:| wel, every ene of thiw wee leat to mn!” eset ‘Weskingwn Ges, W. Perkins ‘goee ta Y anna) rt ‘ workers and. woms_ daaren | erovelied (2 ena tamped down about the the wall on an improvised stool, wore in for reducing the | showed loves and uniform. He | paced coi aft rary one |r ee ty 4, 1913 By C. M. Payne YOUNG MAN, SERIOUS OB IECTON res DRAGGING THE G AROUT, TH Wot Like Any Story Yoo Have Bead TARZAN OF THE APES By Edger Rice Burroughs. The Romance o/ a Jungle Man and a Yankee Girt. thrown fer and wide, and a mass of dead undergrowth spread in as natural e man- ner as possfble over the new-made grave to obilterate all signs of the ground having been disturbed. Their work done, the sailors returned to the emaf boat pulled off rapidly toward the Arrow. The breeze had increased considerably, and as the smoke upon the horizon was now plainly discernable in considerable barney Le peng lost no time in un full sall and bearing organs the southwest. Bie an, an interested spectator of ali that had taken place, sat speculating on the strange actions of these pecu! creatures. ‘more eruel than the beasts of t! yo . Sie! How fortunate wae he abe, ied 12, ihe dence and security of the great gli Pee PEE AEA ited E Ha ze sz I Retr il isle men who had not spoken before. i “Right enough,” replied the sailor who hed resented Gnipes’s autocratic i Li : whil u're diggin’, Peter kin be @- Taltin’ of @ mep of the location soe we kin find it again. You, Tom, and down end Fi jie if eh v* ested “Just f “Git busy there!” growled Snipes. “You @idn’t think your cap'n was e- Goin’ to dig with o aia teh ‘The men a] looked up angrily. None of ham lined Snipes, and nig disagree: ceive the chest and oMfeatmally ie able show of astherity since be m view. iy gone to real head and ring- this labor without knowing the value leader of the mutineers, had only add- of the contents of the chest? of fuel to the flames of their hatred. ‘Tarzan of ti Le you mean to say thet you don’t told him that the chest contained valus! the men would elled to bury the chest without his curiosity satisfied y the time Tarzan had hunted his we cane 6a cae | ne, eA. OE, the cn tncy ‘nad cabin, appeared se bright as day to the constter-| since Gripes had sesumed command He ned often wondered at the exact eftet| When they had a trench of ample size t to bury the ‘Tarrent tea BUTPOSe of the lamps. His reading an! rey A ane, TEN inter Matpe’s he Pictures had told him what they alten phy A were, but he hed no !dea of how they body on map A te 20Uld be made to produce the wondrony ne | ve dinnt’ teresboute.” he explaimes, Sunlight What ome of nis, picts the lectern re| The others saw the cunning of the eug- HTCmRG Wen es gestion, and a the waa t mean that ft need be done tm each | ened to sccoramodate the corpes and in the centre « deeper hole wae excavated for the box, whioh was first wrapped tn sa!l-cloth, and then lowered to {ts place, which brought its top about a foot be- low the bottom of the grave, Darth was while the younger, tilted bac was t until the bottom of the SFAV® deeply engrossed in reading one of tans books. Tarsan was not particluarly inter- unceremoniously into the ested in the men, however, #0 he sous'it Two of the men then rolled the rat- first etripping {t of Its weap- was the gtri. ‘and farious other arti which How beautiful her features! How dell- the sever members of 'y cov- ! upon it until it would ? mote. wT) vat Yoo @f the loose earth w