The evening world. Newspaper, May 2, 1913, Page 27

Let uTH THee tow You Loor tw iv! “Are You Got Their Start Yi a Crook?” \ Almost Criminal. BY CHARLES DARNTON. H*=> down! After all the crook plays we've endured without calling for WMT) ag Soe By Hadison C, Peters. wd @ half of his life, He wae overwhelmed by poverty and Wal wt y y g (NF with hardships, was disgraced and imprisoned for debt, and {ibid x ade , \ Hh N° his clothes and hie wi children, who gathered sticks in ry his dead child his neighbo and called him 1 @. i help or the police, along comes one that wouldn't hold up even Diamond Jim Brady when he does his eighteen-carat best to make himself a shining Wark tn the front row. To put it mildly, “Are You a Crook?’ at the latest spring theatre—the Long Acre—iast night proved quite harmless. While the play by William G, Hurlbut ané Frances Whitehouse cannot be called a criminal offense, it certainly sug- fests @ farcical misdemeanor. The crook play is bad enough im Itself without ; it worse by making nothing of it at all, as the authors in this instance Bave succeeded in doing. Although the pretty new house in Forty-eighth street, @ foot’s throw west of Broadwa; bas tl What the Moon Could Tell {28 MBDIES |x nS hSE va, | By Eleanor Schorer | you mizing new ealy dificulty is to find an answer to the bewildering nonsense that becomes bondi mt, Pesitively cryptic in the course of three acts. The idea of a @any crook plays that she can’t keep her hands off another woman’ a i i Beed one from « farcical, if not a moral, point ef view. How the possibilities of she secs herself as automobile holdup iy #" il 2 eulphur-cured india 4 laugtdng ot him, be We pects every one else of Nothing could be mo! be simple is not necess: And the worst of it ts after it bas taken up more ti! it 1s worth, turns out to be ress re hearsa!. The stage the electrician in the triclan shouts back, tl {ous to know whether her voice"reaches.” and finally all the characters turkey- . trot about the, stage, while you limp Bac : toward. the atreet feeling that your ¢ 1A . pockets have turned inside out. Ae In es oalt that would fit your little a.» MMygrite Clark as Amy Herrick... ner and with » soft bat on the back setter pretty head, Miss Marguerite Clark was a burglar that any discriminating Old kind-eyed Moon could tell a lot of pretty quaint @orics. And one |all blue! How the kiddics would lke to play awhile longer! Pity te indeed <. eittzen would welcome. It was funny t6 see her lighting her way into @ briliantly | would de adout two kiddies. He secs them kise “good night”. with dig shiny | akin to love and sometiines the moon sees a romance grow out of that Uitle Baa eeNTOcR ike!e crock with modern Ipc Torna ee aay ewe er | sears tn their egeh when calle “Bedtime! Bedtime, with the aktes | feel But that's another ttle opportunity to get the pretty picture into the rogues’ gallery | '0r# eyes muree ime time, akties | feeling of pity. Bu 8 another etory. bs - . : adorned by several ambitious actresses, That past mistress of stage Copyright, 1918, by The Prem Publiding Co, (Tho New York rime, Elita Proctor Otis, revelled in the role of @ sophisticated lady with a “Wine we've had ONE morn- sf il ‘sentimental leaning ‘toward a susceptib! ctive and gave the play its only fag uv pills!” Connie told toweh of character. The twinkle in her eye was like a star on a dark night. ‘There’¢ nothing like an “old-timer” to remind us that acting is still all bso. 4 kicking up an experienced pair of heels, George Fawcett, as the somewhat An A lately NEW weather-beaten apple of Mies Otis's observant eye, sald more with his ¢: = Of Detective Sto < ae th ig ve him:to Joseph Kilgour was a heavyweight who seemed to have: forgotten " of the cast worked hard, but to no purpose. (Copyright, 2012, by Deda, Mead & Co.) very good families, and I am eure you mem for the Star and telephoned my this casket.” he commenced solemnly ‘Are You a Crook?” is not likely to be @ burning question in front of the SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING cHAPtzas, Wl! suffer for What you have done. story in so ae'to be sure of being with “th je @ certain substance which I new Long Aci ‘heatre for Jong. Its value might be fully expressed in the title, | | Craig is @ devective-scientist, & by being faithful to your mistress. Craig at the crucial moment, For I was have recovered from the dust a “The Near-Pearl Robbery.” But the end of a story is no place for a headline! | #8, stole onutat gy oe Only be eye, Go live thorougi Bar Tou are placed again.’ yy! rig. I will see that sata ATOR ve t F e Hf Ut i ep | xt move by @ vacuum cleamer in the room ef me, I found him atill in hie Mrs, Close.” ry attaching two colle of thin One could feel the very alr of the to the connections on the outside room urcharged with excitement. queer-looking ee black box, Craig drew on a pair of gloves and ce pated that,” ed eying the carefully opened ti forced sq soon,” said Craig after she he little box spiciously. ‘ “ ad gone, ‘leaving etl nl =e nin roa chine? You're not going to blow At ternity, 1 ea it that you were going to tell me (jl alicia ms ater Gore wean) Mela gover Be. ‘The girl wa@ profuse do eee thanks as a pan wing my. hand Betty Vincent's Advice to Lovers wi when Marie came int “Never mind what it is, Walter. You'll dazsling point of light. et BS ore ciel ail “Bomethiag that may be vary taser, find that out in due time, It may or Both Gregory A ®t attorney ana toaster bal her room gt Be en fre rAPTER IV. tant, Craig,” 2 aid, lon't je may not be an sofernal machine—of Close and Lawrence whi to each tgp tee earring ly, The Worst Form of Prison. Ca. . understand it myself. Pri pelNK @ different sort than any you have other when the tube was displayed, that he wus we |AGINE 1 Wrought to bear on the Star to keeP probably ever heard of. The less you indeed they 4id throughout the whole|!es fire! The manager wus ready to om |™ Peres TOMDLATHY Aasuming whet oetaia to The Tube. {hia thing out of the papers, oF at least Know now the less Ukely you are to exhibition of Kennedy's evidence, shut up shop an’ open « peanut founéry, Ra D e,s wroree punishment for murder than the electric IQHT as well mak to entaicaine it) give anything away by a look or an act, “No infernal machine was ever more that peeved.” chalr—imprisonment for dife in State Prison, That person would be no more foolish or mad than the man or woman who voluntarily enters into a marriage “I'm not surprised,” commented Cra!g. Come now, make yourself useful ae well subt! eaid Craig, “than the / a “what do you mean by reasure being gy omamental Take these wires and lay which I hold In my Nand. ‘The timagines |z incl, weateatly ee eT | Fate Asuating the, 20. DrSUENET” sete lawyer, Lawrence, 12m in the cracks of the floor aad be tlen of the most gensational ‘writer of | vtgurg‘it is, Yuh eee, when & man without love., Oh, of course, broken engagement is at Fleaned everything but the called up the editor this morning —f gemuy.0°t,t2, et, them show. A Uitte ere ean oe Rita rater aac, “ith the! stops here, the smokin’ room ant cafe| “One night it wus ral best an unpleasant contretemps: at worst = temporary | mattress and the brass bare behind the 40n't suppose that you know, but he power to work fearful deeda, A large, | where women is barred is such « blessed |WUS takin’ me home, when tragedy taf onv-of two people. Bu hief eutterer | mattress on the bed. Now I'll tackle BA# some connection with the interests the black box back QUANLIty of this substance in the tube | reliet to him, after home, that every~|8 sires oat waa ey A s pitt n the unloved man or woman wh. w control the Star—an would produce on me, as I no ing seems like Paradise.” The | em. T think we ought to go into the on, gctivity of one of the reporters from Foal eran hava incurable Burns, Just as it ald on ite] "Woh, the brutes!" I exclaimed, near where I live, They’@ married for the eake of a fetish—a promise kept in the jon-cleaning business—more mone: letter but absolu nnibilated in the spirit. fait than in belog e detective, Tl bet” oe Siar ROR OF MR at ale one were suspect- Siscovarer, before hie death. A emal es ey ain't" abe Gefensed, 018 Bek Ae Hy ff course, would not act ¥ " we could hear ‘em most-@ Anything ts better than such a miserable denouement, | The cleaner was run over and under perorter loying @ man named Mf something of the sort. Wh Poet: toe, 12 | Con's Mame tue Tf Zon Nas be ga) soem heaved alongside ‘The shipwreck of love before marriage 1q infinitely more | the mattress and along every crack and yronnedy Went. * Was doing ao 1 ran the wires acroas the QuOmy gt ena weal aaa ‘ne| ‘round with # bunch uv gloom tied on| sway. But just as we heaved é endurable than if it comes after. fropay, of a brass Bon. ae Sone } wi gon't understand it, Crate.” ¥ con; fect eae around the edge of the room : 5 ") ” oung man has; because I am a y i gee hy fesaed, “bul “ ” Rear enough for @ long enough time, mB lL Witten: +7 be rb fe R08 beceuae 7 am | Popo » ane haven't 1 we departed, very much to the the news to the papers, and two a P ‘There, he said, taking the wires ‘tere in my hand, gentlemen, I hold paid me im good dea later they almést threaten us with euit from me. “Now I'll complete the Jod the price of w woman's beauty, 1f we don't stop publishing tt.” by carrying them into the next “And now, having shown it to you, for to yer collar-button, an’ along come enme| he drew off an’ landed her one “Gee! It wus flerce! ‘A cate for rne inevitably, providing I remained kind friend an’ picked it off fer a min- ute or two, yuh’d do the same thing, |0op, yuh know, Yuh don't know what toads women is|roll wus there with the goods, until yer in the hotel business, To my|steps up, mild, an’ interferes, with @ hag recently promised to meet me on} When you and the girl are both of several different occasions and then ‘ou have the right to marry despite “Tt te perplexing,” said Craig, with the And wh! my ewn safety I will place it back * . An’ gee! th sept bis attentions?” ut rather enlightened. Drawing off his gloves, he proceede: * in the gutts Tt @epends on whether he has had good Her Parents Object. oa eee melee ey wrere Pre; He pulled down ti “I have found out by @ cablegram to- Wing brah tn excuses for breaking his engagements) “p, MM." writes: “I am seventeen and|in the game. Don't ask me ahy ques- ann ea hile. and whether he has proffered bis p0l-! man of different nationality from my | tions, Walter. Then you will have no **!, ” ” 1 be egies promptly. own loves me devotedly. But my par. | seorets to keep if any one should try Saraven,” he vesune 1 shall ease ents object to my receiving bis atten | to Pry them loose. Only remember that Teddy tor them toe veral minutes “7, D." writes; “I am twenty-OA®/ tions, What shall I do?” this man Lawrence is a shrewd char- apsed.. ‘Then the conger rapped eter, and in position to marry. But the! So jong as you are under “th looking @n the door. assure him, girl I love wants me to walt @ year or| ing at home I think you'll pa Fe ay ie ut want these two notes delivered “Mr, Close,” began Kennedy, “if you 7”) your parents “What's the matte: y." said Craig to the boy; Lawrence will sit over he We Do you think she means fairly? Why not? If she is younger than you j at tad’ Crain tthe boy a ey a“ d in @ detective da OF the roam, while & vertainly be wise to walt “B, D." writes: “Bhoul Bight? ¥ aeees. corieiely ™ | auld 8 girl Of Ring en, If YOU BF® posite side, with Mr, Jameson tn the forget th teen go to the theatre with a young | ,, OM mon Dieul I rest well, yen But story and forget the notes tt yee ait iB" writes: “ams widower with! man unchaperoned? He 1s « family | MM" cio’ send for me He say that tam pire you shother quarter. Mow scurry wrae Th ie batten anteater do molentite ersian, PUL ne (Otte A ame ae ee rts et f ttetcoiee alee eae that t jog oe X- 3 c f child arged. apprehend that at vazous stages in oe eae ee are quite one and the A Stroke of apoplexy was at first be- of Mrs, Close. She herself Ce and have asked a girl t0| friend of long standing.” Some servant tell ef your both you, Mr. game. Radium possesses this advantage, Meved to have cauned his death, but a she never wanted to return to me, She says ene loves me, but| It depends Slogeiner on the girl’ vit nd srry, And ni e flirta with other men, even when We! cial environment, in some tre! what {fs to become me? Wil! mad- you, Dr, Gregory, will want bs hi Of sleepless 2: Pt er my wife?” " nol “ ‘ould be embarrassing, if not from steady A specialist called in to vie ae we have been discovered! ‘should you be altting near .ne gmanation from red ae at oot from reading this and Now, if we are ready, I varies slightly with changing conditions 3 X-ray or radium hi ia.” of the ps and vacuum in the X-ray is and day that seven weeks ago an o: : npated wultiarews tas teas ed & gink with the gold him away! thirty-five dollars @ milligra @ obeyed, “only it got lot of from @ certain person in America was| ——-——--———--————- as Biled by g corporation Goaling 'n thio... coy gaye detore this order was matic application of sithel 2-rana oF this with measured Placed I recall the following despatch radium by a student in the university elt @ thrill run througd Which appeared in the New York papers, who roomed next to bim. The ett. developed his case. Liege, Belgium, Oct. —~, 1910, dent has disappeared, ‘ What ts believed to be the first orim- “Now here, 1 believe, was the inal case in which radium figures aa gestion which this American crtmtuel & death-dealing agent |s engaging followed, for I cut tt out of the Public attention at this university rather expecting sooner or later tried repeatedly to re- fter the boy had gone, he sald "Two notes to Close ory, asking them to be present casi and Gre; with thelr attorneys to-night. Close her — Will bring Lawrence and Gregory will Pab.anlene x0. truds er “A. Bu" writen) “Ia, tt proper tor a | ¢Zelaimed Crate with considerable wex- bring © young lawyer named ‘Asche, & e notes are #0 ardly refuse the “ ation, The remembered the poor very clever fellow. T "0. D." writes: q"A girl and I are in| young tady to wives party on her tw sacri- word can bi ake her my wite. | ty-second birthday?” Gr who hed isn he averenare net. wereed teas they 1y placed a small leaden casket tube, Still, the effects om the bedy are to tp my attentions! Surely, if phe wante to doen ser ke seit: “Maria, I Menawhile 1 carried out on assign of bie lecture ball “Je much the came, NE ae eee he OE | \, Coe acuemeivien . a —_—