The evening world. Newspaper, September 5, 1913, Page 3

CAL UNDERWORLD PLAYS WOESET Report on “Lure” and “Fight” Incomplete and Two More Will See Shows. HB IS READY TO act.)$ Be Precipitate, but Will Protect Public Morals, Reporte made to Police Commiasioner: Waldo to-day by Third Deputy Com- Wilesloner Newburger and Chief In+ @eetor Sohmittberser concerning the sig, “The Lae,” at Maxine Elliott's , ‘Theatre, state that, while the ecene in the second act representing the interior Of & bawdy house is indecent and sug- Geative, the investigators were unable jon i# tn violation of The reports did not satisty Commisioner Waldo, inasmuch as they Indteated that Mr. Newburger and In- Sector Schmittberger did not under- stand their instructions. Whether the stage representations of disorderly houses “The Lure" ana in “The Fight” at the Hudson Theatre cometitute @ violation of the criminal Statutes {8 a matter Commissioner Waldo intends to leave to the courts. The question before him ts whether these performances are a violation of PubFle decency and moruie. Fourth Deputy Commissioner Ditton was anked by the Commissioner to-day to attend performances of “The Lure” an@ ‘The Fight" and report his im- resstons. It appears that Deputy Com- migstoner Newburger was unable to a’ tend the performance of “The Fight last might, and the Commissioner has = official report on that show. Mr. a hel sald the} “wea it they are fithy an an affront to public decency. These from hystericu! Not of arms and the man we sing, Dut of—er—iimbs and the woman! Way for the new siit gown! But we're safe fm predicting that extra tra Mfc squads will be needed to make way for it when it hits Forty-second street. The new elit gown 1s going up—'way up. Bo far tt has reached a mid-hip alt- tude, but it's still climbing. Even at Present New York has never seen any- thing like it—off the burlesque stage. And what is !t? Oh, well, if you haven't looked at the pictures, know that the new slit gown is a akirt with two tails, hung separately and tucked up on either side to @ point some six inches balow the high waistline, Under- neath the new slit are worn silk stock- inge—no observer can have any doubts on this score. Women who are afraid The Evening World yesterday printed comments from several for the two bawdy-house plays which outrage public decency at prominent theatres?) How long will ft tolerate a orm of drama which outdoes in nasti- heas anything previously attempted by Jooal managers? It has endured “crook plays" and dramas of disease and de- Generacy; is it prepared to accept the new Red-Light Drama, with its sordid representation of vice for vice's sake, ia all its bideousness? ‘These viclous melodramas degrade the stage as it has not been degraded be- fore. They have nothing to do with dramatic art or dramatic morals. They @erve no use other than as an ignoble appeal to @ prurient tas Their per- formance ig an affront to the intelli- Bence of New York playgoers ag well as an offense against public morals, and they should de suppre liness to fith will presently find it necessary to resort to obscure places of amusement and Inquire carefully of sophisticated friends as to the charac- ter of the drama they are likely to witness, Away W tl thel Playe! New York Herald. New York playgoers are long suffer- ing, and prudishness is not one of their characteristics, but there is a Itmit to thelr toierance. That limit has about been reached when plays exploiting the disorderly house are being pro- duced with alarming frequency. The “erook” dramas were not so bad. At least the form of evil which they held up to the mirror was not so steeped in victousness as that which is now being attempted to 1d about the stage, they could not have succeeded better than by the presentation of theae types of disorderly-house drama, It is time the police interfered to prevent their further production, if only to pro- test the managers from the conse- quences of their folly. Pro as of the Drama. New York Sun, @f'there remains any citizen who has feayed that a certain residuum of pubd- Uo god taste and good manners might Prove strong enough to check the course of the stage in its progress toward the complete revelation of those subjects discussion of which gentlemen tnstinct- vely avoid, the early days of the pres- ent season must effectually have quieted under the guise of dramatic art. Heaven save the mark! Brothel Play No. 2, dealing frankly with Ife in disreputable resorts of the most vicious kind, was produced two nights ago. In it a talented American author presents the ennobling spectacle of @ father—a United States Senator, by the way—meeting his own daughter in a disreputable resort. his misgivings. Those aspects of dog. dation which have baffled th Little wonder that a young woman 5 srnice be oF ene etre | recently sickened on reaching the fr of wisdam and experience for their cor- rection and by common consent have been relegated to the police for such comtrel es is pomible, promise now to attain an exploitation that will eventu- ally render them familiar to all. ‘When iast year the theatre support- ing portion of the community applauded air after seeing Brothel Play No. 1 and was taken home by indignant friends, It tg said three more plays of similar trend are waiting for an opening in Ne York. Let the managers who father them beware, Plays of this kind are .an atrocious significance was unattemptable, the standard of the succeeding season ap- pears to have been set up, and there is every indication that {t will be valor- ously supported. Nor is thero any sug- gestion that the presentations scheduled for early performance are to be mit!- gated by the infusion of wit or tainted by amy hint of delicacy. Their effects are to be attained by sheer nastiness, if the prospects now so alluringly held out to us are successfully fulfilled. Ip days not remote it was the task of those seeking the de! neation of vice in {te groswert a1 t aovail forms to select with . that would hended tas! be reversed. curtgesty constituted as to grefer 9 ns, their wives and familles away theatre, Away with them! —>___—— R THAN “TARZAN You remember “Tarzan of the Apes Strangest, most fascinating mory ev printed in a newspaper, Woll, the same author (Fdgar Rice Burroughs) has written a new story nd more fascinating. AVE GIRL." epre-| THI ; i The situation will soon | publteation in The Evening Wer Not thewe, but persons so|day, Sept. 2 Puke id, Mon- Proper Way to Describe the New- est Gown Would Be to Call It a Chasm. presented on the stage in New York| we ing playhouse an act so vile] mult to right thinking theatregoers., | bead are permitted to y and mul- in tte implication that desoription of | ately they will drive decent THE EV of catching cold are also permitted by fashion to wear high leather boots Teaching almost to the knee The new slit gown should be in high favor with the physical culturists, be- cause It gives pertect freedom to the— er—limbs. The wearer of the new slit can dance the most acrobatic of all r rip a stitch, She and cool, too, being rid of the superfluous drapery of pre- vious primitive days, By the way, the new slit skirt 1s not really @ slit, It's! @ chasm. One thing more. The woman who wears the new slit must remove her account from the oldest bank in the! world. It wouldn't look pretty and it would be too much of a temptation. ‘The new elit itself can do all the tempt- ing necessary, thank you. Next? ASSASSINS ATTACK JAPANESE OFFICIAL Morttaro Abe of Tokio Foreign Of- fice Stabbed by Two Men on His Way Home. TOKIO, Japan, Sept. §.—An attempt Director of the Political Bureau of the Japanese Foretgn Office, He was! stabbed in the abdomen and is suffer- ing from a #evere wound. The crime was committed while Mr. Abe was walking home from the For- elgn Office last evening, He had urrived within @ short distance of the Americar Embassy when two young men ran out \of an alley toward him. One of them seized him by the shoulders while the other plunged a short aword into his tabdomen. Both of the assailants escaped |4n the darkness. Doctors say that the wound probably will not prove fatal. The motive of the crime tm not known, but there ts @ tendency to attribute It to the political excitement growing out of recent attacks on the Japanene Foreign Office and on Mr, Abe, in which their policy in regard to the California fand ownership legisiation and the Chinese question w. n Manager Harris of the Unite | Cigar siore at 3 the place to-da hole in the side wali where t ought to be, The hole was woout foot square The cash drawer wan |broken and a little more than # hw! jdeen taken from ft, Several boxen of high priced olgare also were missing [The clock had hung within en feet ox the front door, and was in plain sight from the street. Only a boy could have climbed through the hole, The thieves, apparently, entered the building throug” the second story loft, which ts vacant, 4 out through the wall from the hall | stairs. A DRISKING COP FREE, A boon to wine cluldeen in part and ererbody in general is wie sanita uring Aluminum DRINKING CUP. whi be 6) igined ‘the. conan fo. next mn tO be Wi Look for the cenipen and crane 2 you aowetenis fan Feb TS Tis NING WORLD, FRIDAY WALDO’S CENSORS |Zxtreme Slit Skirt and the High Mousquetaire Boot, | Former Reaching to the Hip and Latter to the Knee sre TS ste EPTEM HUERTA NOW SENDS ENVOY ON SANE MESON AS UND Senor Zamacona Will Con-! tinue Peace Negotiations and Seek American Loan. WASHINGTON, Sept Zamacona ®—Manuel De Inclan, former Mexican Ambassador to the United States and ‘until recently financial agent for the Mexioan Government in London, wil! endeavor to carry forward in Wash'!ng- ton the negotiations between the Huerta Adminiatration and the United States for a solution of the Revolutionary 5 Prablem, Senor Zamacona comes primarily to} continue the negotiations begun with! John Lind, but his ultimate object tn to obtain for the Mexican Government the loan which the United States de- clared in ite second note It would en- courage American bankers to float If the Huerta Government accepted the chief American proposals, The Admin- wantaiuae 40) @smkaninits Sine ‘Abe, | stration here was sounded out as to the | mission of Senor Zamacona and had not | yet given its anewer when the latter started from Vera Cruz yesterday There geemed to be little doubt to- day in official circles that the Wash ington Administration would receive Zamacona under certain conditions, as he 1m well known here and regarded as one of the ablest of Mexicans. His affiliations, however, have been with the financial tnatead of the diplomatic side of the Mextcan Government. Some of the Constituttonalists in Washing- on look upon him as the agent of the “lentifica,” of financial group, that for a long time ruled Mexico's afta As he has been so Iittle a participant in Mesico politics because of his long ab ence abroad, others are tnelined to re- kard him as of a non-partisan dispo- sition toward the present situation, The coming of Zamacona produced an optimistic effect in official circles, The offer of encouragement for a loan to Mextco had baen conditioned on the acceptance of the chie! proposal nade by the United States, The ay rent derision of Muerta to senor Zamacona hefo ed from Washin no teeday thar th t had, in effect, accepted the Amerl- an atipulation that Huerta should not be a candidate tor re-election Although there is no assurance on record positively excluding Huerta from the Premdential contest, the hingtan Government ta taking tt granted that he will not run and te ely to encourage a loan under con- Altions that will further the effort to of hostilities bring about a cessation and acon election Voe W has taken the post jon also with reapect to the loan, that f Mexico accepted the American’ pro nal ase wt iposala for the establishment of peace ~Stlia the Southern sepublic, wae in-| cumbent upon the Untted States in re turn to assist in the financial rehabill- tation of the country. — HUERTA GENEROUS TO AMERICANS. MEXICO CITY, Sept. 5.-—President Huerta announced Yay that, in view of the American Government's {nabil- ity to provide better than third class or steerage transportation for ita citi- nen refugees he stood ready to provide first class transportation for them and pay the difference between the cost of that and what the Government at Washington can afford to pay. He sald ‘The personal sentiments of the constitutional interim President of the Republic toward citizens of the United States residing in this country are benevolent and just to the that—their Govern- ment having recommended without justifiable cause that they leave end while lamenting proper authorities, in view of the fact, ae stated in the newspapers, that the Government of the United States finds {t impossible to fur- rish only third class pasage, that F mane ‘tolcover the diffe: | wind; cover the differ- e "wnt existe, Fed — pro- vide free special ine and gra- tuities, to the that the Amer. with than ieans arrive in their country greater comfort and | they pela cA tae a WOMAN OUSTED POLICEMAN | Mrs. Laura Brewer, of No. 143 Lex- on avenue, was found guilty of dis rly conduct py Magistrate Barlow Harlem Court | -d.. on Policeman t charge thar she had tried to |deive him out from @ doorway into the {rain storm and had used abusive lan- guage to him, ‘The policeman #alf he had just been relieved from fixed post and took to the | doorway to walt for the rain to let 1p. Mra. Brewer appeared in scanty clothing nd ordered him out into the etreet 1 when he refused to go struck at cold at polleemen were “bums wand that he had annoyed by drumming on the door with his stick while waiting, He arrestsd her ay and won ” a hin The arrested for anking eman not to make so much none 1 would give you the heaviest pen said she w alty possible,” suid the magistrate to Mra. Brewer, “had you not been made to suffer by the atupidity of the leu jtenant in refusing cash ball. That par- Vejoutar of wupidtty is growing form © pollee You can Constipation EX-LAX The Delicious Lazative Chocolate \-LAN RELIEVES y lates the guimulates the liver an’ promotes Lgestion. or young ol sll Gruen, 100, 256, and 606, af perce TAXICABS HOLD UP MAROONED VICTIMS AFTER THE PLAY Men Forced to Pay $10 to Get | Women Through Flooded LACE TOPS FOR WOMEN’S FALL BOOTS Another Novelty From the French Fashion Designers. Streets, POLICE WERE HELPLESS. Injunctions Forced Inspectors to Stand By and Permit the Extortion. Taxicad pirates that knew no law or even outward decency hotsted their flag and rode out the storm last night when the theatre crowds were marooned and, under the protection of Injunctions a@ranted by Justice Ingraham, presiding Justice of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, laughed at the inapeo- tors from the Bureau of Li and extorted outrageows farea from men and women who were forced to submit to the extortion or remain jarooned all night. Victims of the taxi drivers telephoned their complaints to The Evening World to-day. One man declared that he was held up for $1@ when he and his wife were carried only a few blocks from the thetr apartment. Not in years been such a night of holdups slong Broadway, ‘The public had no ras (ress, although the new taxicab ‘ordl- noe in in effect. It was vain to ap 11 to the police, for they had no juris Motion, ‘The hands of the Inspectors from the Bureau of Litenser were ted, fhe court 0 time next month passes on the its of the contention that the Jnanve is contiseatory pollee who y familiar with the raid by the taxi drivers said that It wae | about the biggest Job pulled off in the | White Léght district in years, and that the total receipta made the wiretappers’ income too like a walters tip at a Sullivan chowder up the Sound POLICE WERE HELPLESS TO AID THE VICTIMS. “It tt was a case of ‘trimming @ lush." exptained one policeman, could have looked up the driver and taken care of the victim until he was in shape to appear in court and make @ complaint on a Inrcemy gharge. But the situation was unique lest night and early this morning. Women garbed in expen- nive gowns had come to tho theatr taxia at the ugual rates charged for The pirates failed to show the least clviiity to men or ohtvairy women. The rain beat down tn torrents Until 2 o'clock and the ims were caught tn the trap, to be released only when they paid the ransom. The piight of the theatre and dining public was Increaned by the subway flood. INSPECTORS COULDN'T HI APPEALS FOR HELP, At the office of the Burean of Licenses to-day It was sald that the Department was powarkes to act in the premises. An effort was made to enforce the new taxi ontinanoe, and up in the theatre and hotel district there were three squads of, twenty-one tn- @ach who kept up a patrol watching for violations. When the men ani women complains! to the city's representatives that they were being robbed and that the drivers paid no attention to the inw the Inapectore were presanted with the information that the highwaymen were going ahead ‘on their work under the protection of @ court order. An the case now atands the: Bureau of Licenaea haa heen forbidden to inter- fere with the business of six automobile anion operating in hotel and theatre districts. The attorneys for the Taxtoah and Auto Company served @ copy of the injunction on Chief Wallace to-day, The writ waa granted yesterday by Justice Ingraham, ‘The other concerns operating temporarily free of the new taxi ordl- nanco by virtue of court orders are: Mason-Seamon Transportation Company, the Yellow Taxicab Company, the Gree- ley Square, Hawk & Wetherbee and the Universal Taximeter Cab Company. All these injunctions were granted by Justico Ingraham and served on the Bureau of Licenses, ——_>——. Promoter Dies Suddenty. PHILADMLPHIA, Sept. 6—~Ctifford L. Pullen of West Hampun, L. 1, died services, and the men escorts did not ‘hemtate to pay the bill But when the show was over and the audiences began to seek @ conveyance to take thom to their homes or to supper in nearby re tauranta they found that they wero up against a transportation rate that would buy a ticket and sleeper from New Yort to Buftalo.”" ‘The women were in @ pitiadle pre dicament and the pirates took edvai tage of their plight and forced the excorte to ante up or “walk the plank.” without escorts submitted to the extor- tion an they thought of their gowns. home cooking. { | Are mighty handy to have in the house as well as mighty good to eat direct from the package with cream. Besides being the most delicious ready cooked cereal food made of corn these crisp, crinkly flakes serve many another useful purpose in suddenly In his apartmem in @ prom. Inent hotel here to-day. Acute dndi- gestion complicated by heat wae gtven by a physician as the cause of death. Mr. Pullen was @ widely known pro- moted and was connected with the Youghtogheny Power Company, with offices in New York. He was about fifty years oll. Band , j ote a, ent? wo Rolled into crumbs and used as an outer dressing for breaded veal, lamb, chicken, pork or ham, they give a zest to the ‘fry’ that makes the home folks ask for more. Softened with milk and used with usual spicing and fixing as an inside dressing for baked fish or fowl they impart a delicate flavor to the finished dish, remindful of the chestnut fillings that cast a halo around the days of old-time cooking. Post Toasties are sold by Grocers everywhere—and everywhere i folks who relish good things to eat, appreciate the delicate Indian * Corn flavor that makes “The Memory Linger to the| GOES TO JAIL ON GIAL’S ADVICE FOR AN fi “Don't Be Foolish,” She Lundgren Started to Pay Fine for Speeding. ‘William ©. lamderen, a young-qi dent who lives at Sea Cliff, Il, L, wae arrested for specding his automesie at thirty miles an hour yesterday e@ter~ noon on the Concourse, in the Bram. He was taken before Magistrate Minre ris In the Morrieania Court, where fe admitted his guilt, A good leciing young woman went along with *T have no alternative But to $33," said the magistrate. “But ing at the clock) I can sentence one day in jail, and the gait clally ends at 4." The hour wae then & feached in hia pocket after the Dut the girl whispered: “Don't be teh. Go and ait in the Sati for an Bo back wi tudent behind barred gate. ‘The girl got him some eventng papers to while away his t rd ent p> | for him outsile in the automobdiie, 4 o'clock he was freed. 1 3 HU revealed. canenitieicn WIRELESS FROM HALDANE. Repeats that He OMetalty An- nounced Brttich Poltey. LONDON, Sept. 6 (Tuesday), @80 A. M.--Viecount Haldane, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, whe te a Passenger on the steamer Lusftants, on his way home, sends a wireless Lora Ohancellor on his arrival at New York, thet Lord Haldene's eddryse Se- fore the American Ber Association Montreal waa an official pronounee- ment of the British Government's pel- fey. after the summer vacation, torlbek after your complexion. It are more noticeable in the city than amid the open life of the eountsy. Disfiguring growths ef hale ca: the department rete Won N. ¥. wrapper, on Mig. Co., 8/ Fast #8th Made by E. PRITCHARD, 331 Spring Ge., MY, i