The evening world. Newspaper, August 18, 1913, Page 11

XN TOYS, THIS 13.4 LIFE SAVING DOG CAMP THEY WANT US ‘To TAWE CARE OF +tiM ‘TODAY Leys ‘TAI Him out AN’ SAVE SOME ONE'S Lire “Potash & Perlmutter” Mere Character Sketch, but Laughing Success. BY CHARLES DARNTON. © those festive patrons of the arts and trades, the buyere who are at once the hope and inspiration pf early openings along Broadway, “Potaah & Perlmutter’ must seem @ most happy mixture of busi: Qné pleasure, if not greatest play sin jam’) of Posen.” At any rate all the tricks of the and-suit trade were practiced at Cohan's Theatre Saturday night to the apparent delight of an audience that Was not disposed to examine in detail the work of the designer who has done Rig best to cut the Montague Glass sketches to stage measure. The fact that “Potash & Perlmutter” will not bear close inspection of no g@reat im- Dortance, perhaps, to any one but the supposed expert w! identity may not de efficiently disclosed until Manager Al. H. Woods writes his memoirs. For the present we inust try to believe that Charles Klein did not write the play, ag he vehemently declares, So many playwrights dt@ tackle the Job at different times that it is interesting to hear of one who didn’t. Modesty @o rare as that now displayed may be explained by the fact that the tournament began wien violets were in bloom. But after all it may be just as well to let the honors go to Mr. Glass, whose sense of character is first, last and all the time what gives the pleco its humor and interest, While “Potash & Perlmutt in stage form, remains merely a character piketch, it certainly scored @ laughing auccess with Satu: igh e and will probably appeal to a large pub- Uc, especially in New York. Little more than @ duologde, it was made amusing by Barney Bernard and Alexander Carr, comedians well Atted, I might say ape- clally endowed by nature, to play the argumentative cloak and suit makers. It Carr seemed a trifle conventional at ‘umes it was because his role teft him no choice, Bernard had the advantage in @ part that gave him @ Clear course along simple, natural lines, and from the time Abe combined business with social greetings in = letter he dictated to the stenographer until he looked “like ten cents on the dollar’ when bank- Tuptcy threatened the firm, he walked off with a large order of laughter. ‘The other characters had no reality. Only Abe and Mawruse seemed true to life, and even they had to work very hard to be convincing in sentimental momenta that were decidedly labored. A Thetr devotion to the young bookkeeper ‘who proved to be a Russian refugee with a charge of murder against him ‘was equalled only by their resignation Barney Bernard ae Potash. ad'gone on his ball bond and te wos 12 Alexander Carr as Perlmutter. Canada. In making them souls of | @enerosity the playwright evidently overlooked the fact that he had forced them to move to larger and safer quarters with adequate fire-escapes sdlely to ‘gave themselves from a strike. Sentiment nothing, with the result thet the play had no charm. But {t had charact nd Rumor, and eo it managed to be genuinely entertaining the greater part of the se 4 the older Hebrew whose mind worked more slowly than his partner's grxorsie OF PRRODDING OHAPTE! Bernard wae an amusing study, while Carr took the upper hand with the ante ang patvilege of one who hae the right to abuse his partner but won't let any one ‘eet as eee ore bog got 9 th @lee aay © word against him. A brase-mounted ealesman whose expense ac- | sie tbe smitty Of rea itt hi ogant included an item for a $7 dinner that led Abe to conclude he had eaten | sme ens, to steal them, | Dogan wallate the goldfish wae played with sublime assurance by Leo Donnelly. As a sentimental Seu ‘eis a gs lady's id at the Carr: bayer, Lee Kohimar was amusing, though in an exaggerated way. Although | 3, (p, moruins of the mideeschion, Kee aafe Sacre “Hite Proctor Otis's characterization of Abe's wife went no further than a tack wig, she roused one of the biggest la 4@ the night by her rejofhder, when Abe said playing pinochle wasn't @ crime, “Tt is, with the luck I’m hav- tag,” Mise Louise Dresser carried her blond head high as a designer who ‘waeabdove mere money. It ts enough to say that the role did not call for an aetress of great gifts. Joseph Kilgour made the beat of a bad lawyer, but he is to go to seed altogether he should train down and get back to his form, The other members of the cast were of the sta; itagey. ‘The eame might be said of the play were it not for the two characters Mr, Glaze has created. Just for the fun of the thing “Potash & Perlmutter’ will undoubtedly do @ great business, ——_ ee cl! for Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers [fiche =e The Best Wife? CHAPTER XX. (Qouttaued.) The Foiled Get-Away. AMES CLUNEY, looking after them, did not quite approve of Jack Doogan walking off “B. D.” writes: “I have known a cer-| if with his flancee, so, mut+ tering, “I'll do the expl tain young man for several months, He | [| J ing in my family.” he h lives near me and calls frequently. He has taken me out two or three tim tened after the couple and pushed Doogan aside, . Do you think he loves me?” If he does 1 ie will tell you s hat's all right, Cluney,” said Doo- “You tell It to her.’ probably doosn't know himaelf—yet. olmillar to the one you ‘have written me. It ought to clear matters up. Does He Care? HAT sort of girl makes the beet wife? It seems to me sential character- {etice in a wife, fhe must love her He gan, cheorfully. husband = beyond) ug ym wry will.” returned Cluney, ua, ' elee aca "I wih somebody would explain it Cree unt be[ O14 and am employed as a atenog-|to mo," remarked Joan to Carotine, as supremely beloved | TAPBeF tn & downtown office. My em-|the two girls followed Clunsy into the ployer {6 @ man many years older than myself and is married, Several times ne ly and asked me out to lunch, although his manner has adjoining room, Doogan was glad to get rid of Madge, deautiful girl as she was, for he felt by him, ‘When thie state a woman tries her } of affairs that things were tting hot, and he hardest to overcome whateve RAtUFAll been pertectiy respectful. Would it Ba) Wat Satie te nee Be ant er ‘uilts and failings belong dyer ont ‘Wise to accept his luncheon invitas| found Mr. and Carr looking dis- cha usually moets with a good meas tlons?* i ramen ae tan ae as On the other hand, th A of Buccs i you dla not notice him, do go out with him you will, at the (his way to the closet in the rear hall, husband views his wife's He unity loving thing will L START TH 00 ANYTHING ON THIS FARM THOSE. RuGES LAvV6H AT ME. S MNO EARTHLY le when he w ade the best of J: “The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday! August 18; 1913: “I'm willing, mo “Well, then, do ‘Mr. Jamison says. Make out an inventory of everything we own, while I go.and hunt for that stook. And I'll find it if it's in the howse," she added determinedly as she departed for the upper regions to begin her search. “Inventory muttered William (Carr, alone. “Now they'll find out that Iam in business dimculties and from that I have even mortgaged my home. Oh, dear!" The distressed old man trotted after le. his wife, and Jack Doogan, who had deen watching him from the closet, came out, suitcase in hand, intending to get away by the front door—for there were too many“ people looking about the lower floor where the kitchens were to make it safe for him to go in Th that direction. had hoped, for just aneak out of t library he came face to loughby coming in, you going?” demanded Willoughh; “I was just'"— “Oh, you were going to leave us in the jurch, were you?" said the doctor, “No, you don't! You're going to stay right here till this mystery is cleared up. You Promised to stick and see this thing through, Got your sult-case, too, eh? No, you don't! Give me that. Yo stay here until we find out where thom things have got to." In apite of Jack Doogan's rather de- termined renlstance, Dr. Willoughby took away the sult-case, and as he made his way to the rear hall sald, over his shoulder: “Tl put this sult-case where you won't find ft, I'm going to make you atay till things are straightened out." “Durned fool!" muttered Doogan, ‘Then as Nell came tn he @ald to her, hastily: “Say, Nell!" “j “How did he get that ” she began, "Nevag mind how he got tt, You fo! gult-case, better do that,” advised ieficle « with an indulgent eye. , where the euit case, with the plunder low him and plant it the minute he va hens of magnifying them. |g cee be the subject of unpleasant in It aull reponed behind the brooms 't down,” adding to himscit aa Nel fi harbors a rushes, n, Willoughby: anes z chieavor i a pretty'| +8, y," writes: "Tam tn love dith | rill dust tay in here til) there's e Rotting nutty. T let that | gon sort of home, gun man wno has oom @ut with ame hance to, Deng th” he decided, zne boob take the satchel right out of my j Almost oy: air) you may selec’ Bag Uy | tho OF three tines, though he has also |" atr, Carr Dr. Willoughby came back just then, U / ner th entialities @ a been out with my ot But he ca! ia Wile, Who wae in such @ minus the suit-cage, and up to wife for so hor names ang eaye she doom't 4 condition that rhe could see Do Ww, you — for him, Do you think he loves the penitentiary and electric chair I want to see { iat Tho writes: In the ahronoe of Mu e ‘on the hori i Fe atia eet seve t aseepted som | roubiy he will ill you a0, $€ Xe dome, thers, thers, he squeaked it : 3 inte the earetrump } AMlentions fom a friend of Nie, aleaply be all right, Don't 'e te Wet hows of my lover Binge pia ine wine's ee CAILLTaRY ZOn's wive War. return hag broken off with me, an Ey 4 Nan plandered fom mfore Wl Zou aive ma 8 |moturmed. "We must wither nd Mr, Wee 708 ble ng eer eeeeey ; ScAPORA We HA ie Doogan, dryly. ‘The fellow who owns {t was hore, ralaing Cain. Everybody in the house wes looking for those cer- “oouaunl granted , woes ae baes oe he le ‘ ~ t. os The Great Laugh-Sto open. Good! You say J o eee here, lookin I." He stopped, with a queer grin, muttered: “Gee! What do you think of me? Blessed if I wasn't forgetting the sult- case. I'm a hell of @ thief, I am. An! H Nell. @he's a little bit of all ‘That's what eke ts.” ‘Hore it te, Jack,” ead Nell, exultant~ ‘a8 she held out the sult-case to him. yoed it the minute he laid ft “Now, don't get excited,” he said, as he took out his pad and pencil and besen to scan the inventory he had made tn his character of detective. “Did you get the money in the closet—the four thousand under the rug?" “Yes, I've got it, and the sable and sealskins in the steamer trunk “Good kid! I'll check them off, What about the trunk?" ; “E lowered the trunk from a window with a rope, and it’s in the back yard, When it gets dark, which will be very soon, I'll get a taxi and hustle it out through the basement, Now you go on and beat it, Jack, and I'll be with you at Frampton’s in a little while.” “There'a @ lot of good stuff around here, Nell. We ought to have a mov- rt an," observed Doogan, regretfully, jack!" cried the girl, with reproach. ren't you satisfied with what we hay MN, T don't know, kiddo, It #eema @ crime to stop stealing when every- thing ts coming #0 easy for us,” “But you promised, Jack, that this would be the last trick you would turn. “And I'm going to keoy my promi he replied, quickly, “Don't fea Frampton's, the back room! Don't forget." “T won't." “Now V'll go.” Jack Doogan went to the door com. municating with the front hall and, as he opened {t, bdmped into that fainous detective, Lieut, Joseph Thompson! CHAPTER XXI. In the Name of the Law. PUD, here T am,” announced the detective, superfluous ly, ag he threw a profe: alonal glance about the Me brary. | —-~- WHY A CITY MAN CAN T GATHER Gccs dusT As Weir as & CounTRY JAY— BE DONE MoMER HEN DEFENDING HER YOUNG. of the Summer ime 1 no one in particular. ti t “Weil, now you're here, what do you want?” he “What ly. added, “That's right, ‘And the dot. yor Doogan, “But an, nodding and emiit: u ain't dotty. 0 Thompson, 1 want? in an hour, didn’t yo laughed Doogan, nervous- Why, you tld Bo I did.” the hour's up. "Oh, you're on the dot Hw parring for wind, ae it Miss—er—Mias Jones?” They won't de here tifl 9 to t ‘hat's so! Nine to-night!" aid Doo- at the detec- tive, as if to conve: & moan you've made of it?” “Who won't be here till 9 to-night?’ growled the detective out of the fog 0 thrusting him, “Phe two you want to capture,” re pit led Nell, which Doogan and Nell i'm right on eee Hope bibrted out were “Thia will be a great feather in your cap if you pull it off," Jack Doogan es sured btm. off the map.” “Who's Burns? “@ ult your stall a “You'll have Burns backed snapped Thompson, Why don't you tell me what the case ta?" tu "Shall we tell rning to Nell, Yes ir, him? said Doogan, I think we'd better" This wan rather a poser for Jack Doogan, but he pr to the emergency, for, told hes ing mentaily, Jack Doogan ba tation, he ck that made Yes, of course any Evidence’ ‘es, you're right. Robbery! elf equal the It's vollective Tlave you ‘This sult case te ce T think ]'d better take It? Thompson ned for tl st cane, but Poogan drew it awa he ob- Jected hastily vo. T think you'd hetter not" Then, to Nell: “What do you think?” De ly can't get tt-no evidence! it tht ‘1 think you'd het "Yes, I think n, keep it. afr." right,” agreed looking at Thompson knowing. ‘You nee, tf you take it, the thieves > ere’ the If you leave the thieves will get it, and evidenss, Tou wader- , otena ‘Hore be le," ogid Jack Dooger, a4- “l aot. uma’ apaweged the égiectire PR Nt ee na a gp My Hunt for a‘ Wife 4 New York Bachelor's “Quest of the Golden Gui.” Copyright, 1910, ty The Pres Pubitihing Oo, (Phe New Tort Brentag World), 6.—THE MOONSHINE GIRL. Beabdright my thoughts were all for Dorothy land I counted the hours and minutes. Also visiting Caristine ané her mother were some that appeal. tell them?" Powers shove! 1 gaxed tell her it was all Suddenly from the roof of the boathol 1 kinsed her ence and ‘twice was almost upset by my fair companion, who coced: I a4 not know you loved me so much. I am eo happy! end “When shall we ted them?” kinsea, given by her thvttation, a propossl? If I have ever longed tor anything I longed at that moment to be saved from selling m; ‘When shall we Did ahe really consider these @oul into involuntary bondage reamily and profoundly at the moon while 1 summoned courage to § mi fell t& form of & man. Chria shrieked with alarm. And (nen Jack, her sixteen-year-old brother, appeared oveg- head, in his hand a rope from which he dangled the dummy be had rigged to frighten the apooning couples. € My one thought wae to get Christine away, and I advised her to go to ted because ahe wae so upset by Jack's villany. almost /a mile to telephone to my ehum, Dick, on long-distance to send me ! he sad good night, ond I ram urgent telegram signed by my father te come back to town immediately. ‘The next morning when the telegram arrived J read the eummone to sembled group on the veranda, Christine expected me to come back that night if poesible, She tried her beat to get a word alone with me before my I sent Christine and her mother @ jettenc thanking them for their hospitality and regretting that I could not When I saw Christine In town she had enough of Eve's taet to our Uttle episode. I have never ceased te love and honor that young left, But 1 wae too fox: grace, Jack, Song of a Stay-at-Home. delights, y for tha the it come not By Eugene Geary. Copyright, 1018, by Tle Pres Publishing On, (The New York Evening World) A’ with your praises of eeaside Of the long, eummer days and the cool, balmy nights, Where pleasure's git measure te filled to the beim, And, tho’ bathing’s ©ad form, they are all “in the ewim.” And the penniless youth builds his Span- teh chateau. ‘There's enjoyment, you Geep-sounding sea, But the sweet little isle for met eay, by the of Manhattan Here, carclese and happy, right joytul Away from that nightmare—the eummer hotel, Where the waster strides on his Up by with a curl When you fali to hand over the regular “tip.” “Now, ed dew: deteotive'’s shoulder, o'clock sharp.” “I got you,” for the second time. Gon't leappoint us again,’ Doogen, with his hand on the watch go. “Be here at nine was Thompson's reply “Hello! Who's that walking about tn thet hall? Hear ne Doogan pushed Thompson along to- ward the rear door, as he cttedly: “That's one of whispered ex- them now. Scoot! Huetie! Get out before he secs you! @coot!"* The detective made a dash for the door to the front of the house, but Nell threw herself in his way way, through “Certainty, added other door. ‘This ts the other’a the way in Hurry! Il be here at nine sharp, the detective, as he turn rear door, ‘Have you got the right time’ Doowan. You'd Petter ‘sneak out the other basement," she eaid. way out. The promised ed toward the "* aaked Thompson put his hand to hia fob pocket, but drew !t away again with « muttered oath and growled: eee night. lari In the mean while I oan time on clocks tn—tn''-— “Cales—ealoons 1 ve, 1 Brow,” pay, men grinned Dosgen. eu hpow whe wey, eet ike ae SSG Sa Be we an re ut I wee mating om jmmatons exaeer ai’ grabbed my watch It wae worth elx hundred dol- too. I'll get It back soon, because T know the crook who took it quite depend for the And your friend says “Old chappie, I'm busted, you know; Won't you tend me a trifle-a hundred — or sor In quoh @n existence po viessure 4, see— Oh, the bright Uttle tele of Menkatas for me! My life te untrammelied by care er ee aret— I'm away trom the wiles of the eummer coquette, Who keeps gushing sentiment alwage on tap. And forgets you just after her afters noon nap. But this season I'm out of the race Gar her hand, Lat her flire she may by the com, shelving i May her conquests be many as shellpds the rea But the tight little isie of Manhattem® for me! just then, and [ was obliged to let my It makes no difference, how- ever. I'll get it back, As soon ag lay yes on the fellow who grabbed ft #2 take him in.” “That's right!’ assented Doogam, “I'd lick him, too, when I get warmly. declared at alge aes Jack him, If T were you “That's do," what ‘i “Well, 1 will sav . Lieutenant Thompson well away tha gan picked up the suit Pered to wet out of the house have done it, tea, Just as he was at the doge, William Carr came moonimg inte ¢he room, with @ paper pad in his hand, on which he was writing the names @f various articles about him, In feet he was making out the inventory which had been suggested by Douglas Jam Hehind Carr walked bis daughter Caroline, watching her ee pected parent narrowly, “Wish some one would choke that old man’ muttered ck Doogas. “He's always in the w Hefore William tim, Do und with bie pad in his hand, busily going over the liet of articles he had compiled in