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

New Ply “Five Frankforters” Like So Many Family Portraits. Ordinary as “TARZAN BY CHARLES DARNTON, OF THE APES.” T last wo know why the Rothschilds got along #0 well! They had a mother worth her weight in gold, judging from what Mathilde Cottrelly made of (Copyright, 1908, by EB, J. Clode) ¥ her in ‘The Five Frankforters” at the Thirty-ninth Street Theatre last ieee night. This mother made her sons’ millions seem too paltry to think about, Seek no further for the charm of the comedy that Basil Hood hat adapted from the German of Carl Rossier, Even the open-hearted woman's sons didn't seom at all tight-fisted. If you are thinking of dropping around to borrow a Th him, togethe SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALMENT. Deane (davgiter of Bir Artur Deane, « shinowner), iy returning to Bogland ftom a on hier falher's ateainatin, the sinter. At fint a throw want, ‘Toaee avks Irie if it te true Ventnor, At the ‘4 broken.down gentleman, A urtkes the Sirdar, Her steering gent jerwel mins won & reef and breaks in down with all on boara, CHAPTER Il. The Survivor: Anselm and the money's yours, To give Edward Emery his due for a thoi oughly appetizing performance in the role of this simple soul, make it two loaves—buttered on both aides. We've eat down to more substantial where he hi circle more cordially, “The Five Frank. forters"” seemed Mke so many family Portraits. Names didn't matter, spite of the fact that London's censor thought otherwise when the play came Within his jurisdiction. A Rothschild by | tnecaan qeorrider, and. Goria’ tare any other name counts as dear, And; gone down with the ship had not a Gudwla was good enough for us when} ailor, clinging to companion ladder, the good dame's four ambitious sons| caught her as she whirled along the and her devoted @randson came to pay! steep slope of the deck. a. their respects at the old home in Frank-| | He did not know what had happene fort, It remained for her, as sho ex-| With the instinct of self-preservation , | he seized the nearest support when the preesed it, to “turn Jews’ Alley into| \eenel struck. It was the mere im- Lovers’ Lane.” | pulse of ready helpfulness that caused Love and Lucre ran a rather slow|him to stretch out his left arm and race when Solomon agreed to lend a! clasp the girl's waist as eho Lab died hard-up Duke more money than I can| Past. By Idle chance they were on the " port side, and the ahip, after pausing hs Peat aes Chartotte Solomon wang, for one awful second, fell over to atar 1 fe his dave jomor vi wenlide Cottreliy ae Frau'Guduln. coined with the barotieteles ‘he haa |” already brought home for the social good of the family, found no difficulty in getting on the good Fide of his gran Parent deal to Charlotte with his eyes, while she in turn heaved up in the center with a mighty crash of rending woodwork and in| tron. Men and women, too atupefied to sob out @ prayer, were pitched he: long into chaos. i torn from the ce hd The man was not prepared for this Meanwhile David, who| second gyration, Even ae the stairway other, was saying a} canted he lost his balance; they were nally sald something | both thrown violently through the “to her father. She gave the play its first dramatic shock by announcing she | oPen eer ee yt Bed would not marry the Duke, She had been presented to him In bis garden, where Bolling surf. | finder abel eolileions @ great green hedge grew all round—shutting out even memories of that hedge geries of impressions, a number of fan- Growo by “Nie Gay Lord Quex"—and tastic pictures, were received by the } akhough he fad shown her all over the benumbed faculties, and afterwards place, its beauties were as nothing to painfully sorted out by the memoi compared ih Fear, anguish, amazement—none of ig er ony pesuertl eee these could exist. All he knew was in David's dyes, that the Mfeless form of a woman— When Charlotte declared herself we for Iris had happily fainted—must be Were deceived into thinking for a mo- held until death itself wrenched her ment that the play had risen to its from him. be Gee highest point—not excepting the tallest Then there came the headlong hedee Gree seen off ied’ ot stage. plunge Into the ewirling sea, followed That's where we were wrong, Solo- by an Indefinite period of grasping ob- livion. Something that felt like a joving rock rose up beneath hia feet. driven clear out of the water ned to recognize a familiar ob- Ject rising rigid and bright close at hand, It waa the binnacle pillar, j Screwed to a portion of the deck which e away from the charthouse and was rent from the upper framework by contact with the reef. He seized this unlooked-for support with his disengaged hand, For ona | fleeting instant he had a confused vision of the destruction of the ship. Both [the fore and aft portions were burst ‘asunder by the force of compreased alr, | Wreckage and human forms were to jing about foolishly. The sea pounded | Upon the opposing rocks with the noise Alma Belwin as Charlotte jof ten thousand mighty steam ham- | mers. Edward Emery as Anesim. joa uniformed figure—he thought it ia were not without Individuality was the captain—-atretcled out an un- ‘ availin, rm to cla eo t fis the other sons, while Pedro de Cordoba looked imutterable things when Char- Mah eURDETLEaTie ealine eee the lotte’s fate hung in the Duke's bank balance, as it were, ward 3 kay eal But a jfealou’ wave rose under ba very decent, good-looking sort of Duke, and Miss Alma Belwin gave Charlotte] th» platform with devilish energy and a cortain healthy charm that made her attractive turned it completely over, hurling the The Five eFrankforters" is a curious little play overladen with sentiment at) man with tls inanimate burden into one moment and weighted down with money the next. Nevertheless and not- Be apethiens Ws feet fighting madly withstanding its uneventtul story, it keeps close to the hearthstone, and for this|for his life. | Now surely he was Aj 4 +s q| doomed! But again, as if human extst- simple reason has “ real human app To bring it to your own door, It's a) O1- Genended on naught more serious family play for the family. than the epinning of @ coin, his knees — rested on the same few staunch tim- bers, now the ceiling of the music- Betty Vincent’s mon's mother was wiser than Solomon himeelf, He no sooner reminded his daughter that she belonged to a race in whocn obedience to parents ts the first law than his mother brought him up with a short turn by commanding, “Then obey me! He saw the point and yielded ft instantly. Mine. Cottretly needed only this scene to complete her triumph, She made the mother not only kindly and human, but shrewd and authoritative, The play ‘pained ite whole meaning from the racter she played with thorough un- derstanding and sympathy, The humor of the family found homely expression in Mr, Emery's capital portrayal of the “undaunted” Anselm, to whom decort- ‘tions were almost as satisfying as food, Frank Goldsmith, Frank Losee and John Sain: room, and he was given a brief reapite, His greatest diMculty waa to get his breath,,so dense was the apray through wards, in ¥ dear young men, if youl Miso, don't Ike &1 Give all praise to the women you certain iT! YOu uke: keop silence about the others, need not frequent to shield her from the flying scud with his own form. The tiny alr-apace thus provided gave her some relief, and in that in- stant the sailor seemed to recognize Forgetful is likely to fight shy of the hostile me special attention suddenly appeared, q ; ‘ong resolute yphoon ea It’s exceedingly [and when It came tline to go home (B)| Strong resolute man and a typhoon fea wrestled for supremacy. Wi @ Wings As Original and Out of the}, “isi “weak “Ricker ott er strength he drew sailor wclousness of his st shaft the elouds banked up tn the he gale parsing away, Althongh the wind atill wh with shrill violence It was more blust was wullion or twe of them you'll find th very y 4 thom Met approachable. Take along a loaf | ‘trange emotion, ira otmerres file wih ering than tiirente of home-made bread for the hungry ats notes that the steward has the though running \v treated many yards 1 finally dropped. surface was no longer scourged venomous Spray. Slowly and painfully he ratsed him- self to a sitting posture, for he was bruised and atift, Plays in our time, but seldom have we HEN the Sirdar parted amid- ment he became violently {11 felt ourselves drawn into the family @hips, the floor of the saloon swallowed much salt water, t until the spasn passed that he thou; She had slipped from his br ho rose, and wae lying, the sand, The idence s t 1b, } Which he was# driven. Even in that much that had happ vice to OVETS § [territte moment he kept his senses, his brain with horrif A The girl, utterly unconscious, showed “She nnot by the ‘convulsive heaving of her murmured Knows.?? 0% other tira to me, what does Ne] breast that ahe wax choking, With a "Surely F © Isay about me to them?’ And then she| wild effort he swung her head round her after such. an exca weak beggar 1 must b the last moment, Hving when we got ashore earth can I do to revive her?” of his own aching limbs have been suffocat: 1ODIOTOOS With o exhausted the girl closely to nd the two lay, clasped tightly heediess now of all things. How long the man trate he could only guess subsequent ‘The Sirdar struck soon after day ak and the remained prom awoke to a hazy eur flickering ne. ‘The sea, too, y high, had from ‘the spot and its wits With his first move: He had face dd surged ng suddenness, he hoi to lift Wh ’ —— her. He was not remotely capab of in this newborn anxiety, he her society, But} oy G. writes: “I was in a place of|a definite idea, Just as he vaguely one knee and gently pillow don't “knock” her ainusement the other evening with a| realized the identity of the woman in head and shoulders on the other, Her to.the other youn] young man (A) whom I don't know| his arms the unsteady support on eyes were closed, her lips and teeth women of your ac:| ‘ory well. ‘The man (B) who ts paying| VMich he rested toppled over. Again firmly get—a fact to which se un- quaintance, he renewed the unequal contest. A doubtedly owed her life, el¥e she would ed—and the rounding to and it was had down- memory of into 1 not ert a to give in at I am sure she was What on pallor ‘The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday. March. 4, 191 o DOGOHLDHDOGOHOOHS: of her skin aeemed to be that terrible bloodless hue which Indicates deat), The atern lines in the man's face re- laxed, and something blurred = his viston, He was weak from exhaus- tion and want of food. For the mo: ment his emotions were easily aroused, "On, it ie pitiful.” he almost whimnp- ered cannot be With gesture of despair he drew the sleeve of his thick Jersey across his eyes to eb ering mist. 1 deavored to of and vari condition r he was desperately Iris Deane back to conactous exist ence If it were pormible, Hie task was rendered diMewit by the waistband of her dress, He slipped out a clasp knife and opened the blade jot until then did he discover that the nail of the forefinger on his right ar them from the gath+ “n he tremblingly en- the neck of her dress her corsets. THe had a na fainting nent, and resolved to bring QpLove TREMENDOUS ,UNFATHIOMABLE HAD CAST’ Frs fg SPELL OVER THEM 1 had been torn out by the quick, probably during his endeavorn to grasp the unsteady support which contribut- ed #0 materially to his escape, It still hung on by a shred and hindered the free use of his hand, Without any hesitation he seized the offending nail in his teeth and completed the surgt- al operation by a rapld jerk, Bi ig to resume hin task he was startled to find the girl's eyes wide and surve: alarm, She was quite con surdly so in @ sense, and had noticed his strange action, Thank God!" he cried hoarsely. “You are still alive.” Her mind as yet could only work in a aingle groove, Why did you do that?’ she whia- pered, ‘Do what?” “Rite your nail “Tt was in my way T wished to cud bad form for A/insisted on becoming my sole escort. man to criticise! jut when we reached the station he put one woman before}me on the train and stayed behind, another woman, Of! Don't you think he behaved rudely?" ; course, the man] Yes, but so did you In “dropping* | on n 3 who does this ts not necessarily a cad:|(A), the gentleman who Ind taken you| Smooth surface. His dormant foul: he may be only thoughtless, But aside|ou*, when (B) appeared, zied desparation, buoyed now by the from his offense against good manners, pa |{nepiring hope of aafety, he fought his such behavior is unwise, undiplomatlc,| ‘Rr, B." writes: “I am in love with| way onwards lke @ maniac. to the last degree. a young man who often comes to our], Often he fell, three timer did the For the moment, @ girl may be pleased |house, He ts very nice to me, but 1| backwash try to drag lim to the awirl: Wer apsoointes, Byt after she stops tojshall T And out gale ceased to be laden with the suf- “think {t over she 1s likely to say to] Walt, and if he cares he will tell you focating foam, and hin faltering feet herself, “If he saya these things about ‘so, sank in deep, » white sand. This time his feet plunged against Bomething gratefully solid, He was dashed forward, atill battling with the raging turmo!l of water, and @ sec- time he felt the same firm yet emer “S’Matter, Pop?” * 00! 1 TANT Do it I woud FALL Down' STAND UP AND LET Go OF THE “TREE LIKE A T31G LADY’ SMATTIER wit A A ii i | Sf ) | Ny i i ‘The Evening World will gi ings by Children, (Phere will be @ first prise of $5 sayings as seem to the Editor the clevere: ‘Write on only one side of the page, Keep to 100 words or less (pref- : BRIGHT SAYINGS EDITOR, WORLD, BOX 1,354, WEW YORE CITY. The Sayings wust be ort; amd must be accompanied by name and address. erably less), ing V4, $10 Cash Prizes a Week for Bright Sayings of Children 10 weekly in cach prizes for Bright Say- adar 4 five $1 prises awarded for such of those submitted. BVENING al CBESHOOH iC Still Another UNUSUA of the Morni @od0er © 3 AARNE es. Story ao Ree ng wire collupaeds cient dead t thought. mournful’ “apestucte! "a Necnsidernei, |A@ventures of a Man and a Girl Cast Away on a* and wanted to unfasten your cor- number of inanimate human forma 1 Desert Island. act huddled up amidet the relice of the Her color came back with remark: steamer. able rapidity, From all the fich va» — This discovery etirred him to aatton. pA of tie . aria toneae Dat hgh He turned to bag A land on bad ‘ou have been selected of euch re- he was strand ith Is helpless atorative effect. companion. To hia great relict he dis- {nk® Sxcept ourselves; nevertheless, the She tried to Assume @ aitting pos- covered that It wae lofty and tree-clad, #!@nders may itve on the south side. ture, and {natinetively her hands He knew that the ehip could not have Another pause. Amidst the th traveled to her dinarranged coatume. drifted to Borneo, which atill Iny far Sensations of the moment dria foun Pat “How ridiculous!” she sald, with @ to the south. Thie must be one of the Melt idly speculating as to the mew: Nittie note of annoyance in her voice, hundreds of imanda which atud the Of beche-de-mer, and why this cominon #Y which sounded curiously hollow. But China Sea and provide resorts for ®Allor pronounced French #0 well. her brave mpirit could not yet com- Hainan fishermen. Probably it was thoughts reverted to the mer. mand her enfeebled frame. She wae inhabited, though he thought it |, "It surely cannot be possible that the perforce compelled to sink back to the atrange that none of the islandere had Sirdar has gone to pieces—a magnitice support of hin knee and arm. put In an appearance. In any event, 1 of her size and strength? yo you think you could Ite water and food, of some sort, were i "It is too true, until I try to find some water aamured. ‘ Powe you hardly knew sito ' gasped anxiously, But before setting out upon his #truck, It happened @o @uddeniy. Afier- she nodded a ohilditke acquisence, queat two things demanded attention. ward, fortunately for you, you were un- and hor evelide fell, It war only that ‘The gitl must be removed from her conscious.” her eyen smarted dreadfully from the present position. It would be too hor- “How do you know?” she inquired, rible to permit her firet conscious gare quickly. A flood of vivid recollection was to rest upon those crumpled objects on pouring in upon her, the Ddeach. Common humanity de- ‘I—er—well, I happened to be near you, manded, too, that he @hould hastily madam, when the ship broke up, and we examine each of the bodies in case life —er—dritted ashore together. Was not wholly extinct. he rone and faced him. So he bent over the girl, noting with sudden wonder that, weak as ghe was, she managed to re jen part o! me Sl Sioa fot heehee fae “You munt permit me to cafry you ® jife. Were it not for = Nttle further inland,” he explained possthly have om. mt gently. Sho gazed at him more earnestly, see Without another wort he lifted her ing that he blushed = In hia arms, marvelling somewhat At ofealt and sand that ene erect the strength which came of necessity, “why,” she went aan his face. and bore har some little distance, un- otement, ae « til a sturdy rook, futting out of the ficed in the saloce verona Fe nand, offered shelter from the wind and that you are now d Fase oo: How ts tt protection from the etn afd ite revela ‘ane mi ie (ke “Tam so cold, and tired.” murmured in accident on board Iria, "In there any water? My throat Kale, madam. I am a fair hurts me. fa Ab Ge seem tore) He pressed back the tangled hair 0% sede A from her forehead as he might soothe ™Y Offer was accepted.” hd, = ee how looking at jim “Try to Ne still for a very few ved my life.” she minutes.” he anid. “You have not tong *owly. It seemed that this obvious to suffer, I will return immediately.” Needed to be indelibly established in Hin own throat and palate were on ind. Indeed, the gitl was ov fire owing to the brine, but first Dy ail that she had gone through. hurried back to the edge of the lagoon, DY degrees were her thoughts marsh There were fourteen bodies in all, ie themselves with bictd coherence. three women and eleven men, four of yet she recalied so many dramatic inel- the latter being Laecars, The women dente that they failed to assume due were #aloon pansengern whom he did Proportion. not know. One of the men wan the surgeon, another the first officer, a Capt. Ross, of Sir John and Lady Toser, third Sir John Toser. The reat were of the doctor, her matd, the hundred an parsengers and members of the crew, one individuaiities of her pleasant life They were all dead; some had beon aboard ship. Could it be that they were peacefully drowned, others were fear- all dead? The notion was monstrous. fully mangled by the rocks, Two of But tts ghastly significance was instant- the Lascare, bearing eigns of dreadful ly borne in upon her by the plight tn injuries, were lying on a cluster of which she stood. Her lips quivered, tie low rocks overhanging the water. The tears trembled in her eyes. remainder reated on the aan a it really true that all the ship's When he reached the first clump of company except ourselves are lost?” sha brushwood he uttered @ delighted ex- brokenly demanded, mation. ‘There, growing In prodii ‘The sailor’n gravely earnest «lance luxurtance, waa the beneficent pitcher- fell before hers. “Unhappily there te plant, whose large curled-up leaf, no room for doubt," he said. shaped like a teacup, not only holds @ “Are you quite, quite sure: lanting quantity of rain-water, but {am sure—of some.” Involuntarily mixen therewith its own palatable and pn» turned acawand. natural juices, @he understood him. She sank to With hia knife he eevered two of the ner kneas, covered her face with her leaves, swearing emphatically the penag and broke into a passion of while on acount of hia damaged finge: i weeping. With a look of infinite pity and hastened to Iria with the prectous POS' hea and would have touched hor beverage. She heard him and managed shoulder, but he auddenty restrained the to raine herself on an ae t the !mpulae.’ Something had hardened thie , ‘The poor atte eyes gietoned ai man, It cont him an effort to be cal- prospect of relief: | Without @ word of ios” nut he succeeded. His mough question oF eurprise sho owallowed the tightened and his expression pat contents of both léaves. tenderness. ‘Then sho found utterance, “How o44 "NCS em tear ye it tastes! What fe tt?” ehe inquired. a B 5 claimed, and there wae a ting But the eagernem with which she studied roughness in his voice, “you quenched her thirat renewed hie own Seta. the hastens must calm yourself. momentarily forgotten torture. ie tongue acemed to ewell. He was abso. Of Shipwreck as well as of war you lutely unable to reply. know, We are altve and must took af- ‘The water revived Inte tke a mage ‘ef ourselves. Those who have gone are beyond our help.” ‘ draugnt. Hor Mery intuition toM her “mut not beyond sympathy,” ur hi wafled Tris, uncovering her swhemiag {You have had none yourselt.” ht eves fore ficeting took et him, ven in / pei iplkelns pon ete r the utter desolation of the moment she t to fatnt again,” he could ‘marveling Don't you think T had better "He required no second bidding, Agter Cou not, help marveling loowen th things? You can breathe hastily gulping down the contents of more easily several leaves he returned with a further f,fenueman and tried to p A ahowt of a amile flickered on her supply. Iris was now sitting up. The y on lips. 'No—no," @he. murmu: y hed burst royally through th eyes hurt me—that ta all. Is the slaude and her chilled limbs were wain- weg eet band Ly t of Maret any-—water? ing some degree of warmth and elas "3M when he was in far a cage himeelf, should be eo utterty He laid her tenderly on the and rome to hile feet. Hie firt alance “rwiat Jo att” whe repeated after an- “erent to the fate of others was toward the ava, Ho naw some: isloue Grauehe. Thing ‘witch made” htm blink with Oster Stree “he oltoher-plant, Na- “*aned. wae astonishment. A heavy #ea wae still r t al ‘uel tn @n Une ‘Now, medam,' oatd, “ runnin wn mvere tial that we should obtain over the barrier reef which ‘ually generous mood sie devised this {M4,'nat we show one a 8 amall Iagoon his one method of storing water we oe detter peels) beta ree Commotion outaide “Mise Deane reached out her hand €or Whereab and the comparatively smooth eurface more, Her troubled brain refused to ee outs, Can you of the protected pool was very marked. YOrt. at guch « reply from an ordi psf werd the trees, er immediately stood 8 te i ef rf i! | it 7 salt water, but the sailor was sure that this was @ premonition of @ lapse to ungconselousnes It i , ! £ fait Bi, At low tide the lagoon was —almoat completely Isolated. Indeed, he im. DArY seaman. The sailor deltberasely ' Trig agined that only & flerco gale blowing Milled the contents of @ 4 ing leaf pressed cher hale Deck from the northwest would enable the Sy “Certainly I can walk,” she waves to leap the reef, save where @ madam,” he said, with an odd «whee do you propose te ao" atrip of broken water, surging far into ™xture of deference and firmness, “No «well, madam”— the small natural harbor, betrayed the More at present, I must first procure position of the tiny entrance. some food. Yet at this very point a fine cocoa- She looked up et him in momentary nut palm reared its stately column #lence. mR high in alr, and its long tremuloua ‘The ship te lost?” she eald, after « fronds were now awinging wildly be- Paus mh fore the gale, From whera he stood it “Yes, madam. 5 appeared to be growing in the midat “Are we the only people saved?" a, for huge breakers com- “I fear so. hid the coral embankment. ‘In this @ desert island?” ntinel of the land had a weirdly “I think not, madam. It may, by Impressive effect. It was the oniy chance, be temporarily uninhabited, but ’ fixed object in the waate of foam- fishermen from China come to all theese capped waves, Not a vestige of the places to collect tortoise shell and beche- do-mer. I have seen no other living be- f Ls s “, Pas Hh Ie AN