The evening world. Newspaper, April 16, 1913, Page 17

Newell, as the heroine who kept 7 and dry, expressed all her emotions in the same key. In odd contrast to the poetic play was the slangy skit by Robert H. Davis called “The Guilty Conscience.” It was evidently intended to be a satire on the Prevailing “crook play,” but as given it seemed more like a satire on acting. Thomas F. Tracy, who “pinched” a dia- mond necklace, and Miss Alberta Gal- latin as hie decoliete wife who felt she could hide % more easily than he and otraightway dropped it into her ample corsage, were without doubt the worst crooke this generous season ‘The Necken’’ A Rainy Day Play in Verse Elizabeth Crane’s More or Less Poetic Drama Suf- fers at the Hande of Amateurish Actors as Well as From Bad Stage |tvced. His ions experience maa wit Management, Whi le|yu ne was much too sow 8 tective who employed psychological methods to bring about @ confession. He simply appealed to the ‘still small voice’ of consclonce and placed a pair of handcuffs on the table. With broken sobs the lady crook put them on, but he unlocked them and then turned his head, as she coyly requested, while she dug down for the precious box. As you may guess, it was empty, and when the sleuth started on a wild goose chi after the husband the much better halt of that particularly bad actor strung the “sparklers around her fair If not slender neck. Davis's akit “Bob” Davis’e Little Crook Play Seems Like a Satire on Acting. By Charles Darnton. HILE the pouring rain of yester- day afternoon may have been wholly in mpathy with Mies ‘Mawbeth G. Crane's water-sprite play, “The Necken,” it was scarcely a drop in the bucket to the cold water thrown’ on this more or less pcetic drama by the amateurish actors turned loose at the Lyceum Theatre by Sydney Rosen-|a yery good chai feld. Although some of the members of | where cuss wor is amusing, and pace {t would have of success in houses poken with- the cast are not entirely unknown to| out fear of shock! b tage, they are in no immediate; ———~ anger of becoming victims of insomnia by wondering whether they will waxe| NOTES OF THE THEATRES. up to find themselves famous. But the worst of it all was the atage| The Mask and Wig Club of Pennsy!- vania University gives its twenty-fifth anniversary performance at Wallack’s April he ‘The dill is “Maid in Ger- many,” by Darrell H. Smith and Charles Gilpin, Mrs, Vanderbilt, Mrs, Archer M. Hunt- ington, Mrs. Stanley Mortimer and Mre. W. Bourke Cockran have taken boxes for the Irish Players’ benefit at Wal- jack's Monday for the Dubim Art Gal- lery. Madge Lessing, who 1s playing In Ber- lin, has been fined $% for running down clist with her automobile, ura Hope Crews, Ruth Holt, Julian L'Estrange and Allan Pollock will be in the cast for “Her First Divorce," the first play of C. W. Bell, a Canadian lawyer, which Harris & Selwyn are producing at Syracuse Friday. Cecil Spooner opens her new house in management. In this reepect the Sydney | Rosenfeld Production Company pro-( duced nothing but disappointment. The ‘Mghting and other effects were handled *0 awkwardiy that there was no Illu- sion. The author of this rainy-day play in verse was wise in having her little drama printed, for in Justice to Miss Crane {t must be said that “The Necken” reads much better than It waa acted. Though much of It is commonplace, it shows imagination here and there and / contains an occasional passage of real poetic beauty, notably tho final speech of the Necken. P Based on a Swedish legend “The Necken" 1s a variant of the old folk- lore play and recalls most of all, per- haps, Hauptmann’s “Sunken Bell.” In trying to dwell among men and win the love of Toa, « peasant's daughter, Jan, the Necken, succeeds only in losing his} «4, Bronx Monday with "The Wall violin, which the girl keeps when a) oot Gin Christmas celebration proves his undo- ing and he ix driven forth, A violla innte Maddern Fiske and pect would seem the last thing on earth, or| Atliss are making an appeal to Amerl- At any rate in the waters below, for} can women not to wear millinery which a Necken » as his favorite} Means the extermination of beautiful musical instrament. Bat that is not for| birds in America. us to say. We could only sit back dur-| The Israel Zangwill play to be pro- ing the second act yesterday afternoon | duced by the Ldeblers at the Hudson and riarvel that tie strange circum-| Theatre May 8 is ‘The Next Religion.” stances had deve! 1 a lady violinist so to way. If the seemed a bit weak wedish inovement cer- ‘The engagement of “Fanny's First Play” will end at the Comedy Saturday | evening, April 26, instead of next Satur- as was announced. st for the revival of “Arizon: as completed, includes Elste Ferguson, But wien she played | that was supposed to verything whirling n the rural Swedish equivalent of the |= turkey-trot, the stage management went! wrong and killed the joy of this lively! scene. Even the spinning top lost its| head and fell down so hard that it hadi to be dragged of the stage. After that Toa played her way to the Necken's pool and saved herself from a watery fate by conquering the pagan spirit with ner prayers, | Im the Hippodrome’s tank the play might have ended with a grand splash. | But it was all rather vague and with-| hat compelling human interest that drama. Laurence Efre was a! 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