The evening world. Newspaper, September 8, 1913, Page 13

ne New * “Lieber Augustin” m with De Wolf Hopper a Happy Hit. Y CHARLES DARNTON. | Gocen't seem possible that one of those ancient, false-nosed bankrupt rulers ef qupposedly comic opera could be funny to-day, does it? | yet De Wolf Hopper, by his never-failing power to make us laugh, @t the Casino on Saturday night in achieving the seemingly impossible. Me Amalgamated Order of Unoriginal Librettists (foreign and domestic) ought Grew the last red cent out of its treasury and give him a medal as big as a . Resolutions of respect may come later, for while he lives there is appar- Hy no danger of the Smiths and other confirmed members of the historic Gtarving to death. A fitting inscription for the medal would be “While Hopper there hope” Material no old that we could hardly; belleve our eyes was turned by the and only Hopper into the stuff of which laughs are made In his hands j invention of Oscar Hammerstein's great-grandfather, the “loaded” cisar, ‘Became @ eputtering novelty, and if he had put !t gut with a siphon we should bly have died of convulsions. He entered ing matches with nervously hly recommended by stage ; aw things" the morning after one of *(fhote hilarious nights that usually occur between acts. He did all the traditional Inge that we had come to believe would never be done again without ever Fy ice losing his grip on our funny bone, ' > There is only one explanation—De Wolf Hopper {s a born comedian. It 4 doesn't matter whether he is “starred” or not He makes himself a star, his manager has nothing to do with !t He Proved this in ali the Gilbert and Sulll- van revivals, In having his name in big letters on Saturday night he merely came {nto his own again. A comedian who can do what he did ought to have his name on life-preservers. All the fun in or Augustin’ seemed like hii own individual humor, and whether this is true or not, Edgar Smith, who wrote ' The Evening World Daily M x BY “‘S’Matter, Pop?’’ # Fe we Be x HELLO, BILL. WHAT ARE \You pone 2 BuT SEG THE IDEA the American version of the piece, couldn't ask for @ higher compliment. doubtediy Mr, Bmith deserves oo aiderable credit for keeping the hard-up regent, with his vegetarian subjects, fely out of the onion belt. While he was about it he might have gone fur- ther and given the piece an English tltle, Another uniform for Mr. Hopper would also be a change for the better. It's @ small matter, but that white coat was not particularly suited to our tall peculiar, Woolworthian style of —{t didn't “bring out” his comic points to best advanta; However, good fun and good music made “Lieber Augustin” un altogether De Wolf Hopper as Bogumil, happy hit. Leo Fall's score atrikea the ‘May De Sousa ae Princess Helen, any very pleasantly and it cont o1 wets @t Jeabt than even turkey-trotters will like. The best of the music foil, Quits properly, to Georxe Macfarlane, who Was in fino vole It was a delicht te heat him, though not always to see him because of Kimaces that he should im f control along with an impulse to come down to the atx of the foot- " .“E want to be simple!” cried Miss May De Sou nd then she wusn't! BULL, ere sang agreeably except when #he did her utmost at the end of ono or two numbers to raise the roof. Roseika Dolly danced so charmingly that a gratetel management ought to give her a pair of stockings as a reward for one of the most effective features of the perfermance. A little more dancing and a Httle less singing would help Mise Grace Field, who has @ very clever pair of feet In any event Mise Field should let her hideous red wig curl up and die. ‘Ae @ fusay, cackling creature of the court Fred Lenlie served aw the means of bringing out @ roar of laughter when the uncannily numan Hopper—who always pe tly what you think you would ray-reflected: “His mother must have frightened by @ chicken.” Unusually pretty chorus girls in unusually piety costumes played @ large part in @ Korgeous production. sMeration with another, as Mr. Hopper used to say, the Casino has an all-round ‘Nearly Married.” “qmuses see ple rushing madly about and dashing In and out eet papa Revie co-respondent at @ road-house, you may find \y Married” enlivening. Frankly, T aidn't, . safe to eay that Edgar Selwyn's farce at the Gaiety has epeed, but It 9 mechanically that spontaneity be left out of the question. To be @ farce cannot stop to get its wind, and this one 6 the jeity it depends almost entirely upon character—and that a rather dubl- ene, While the professional co- eespondent 1s new to the stage, not ehe belongs there. fternoon-tea manner she {9 not sophisticated, wenited by Mise Virginia Pearson ahe not the saving grace of humor, She Merigzely businesslike. ry ie strikingly new 1s to bo dine ered jn the procedure of a man that rpne off with a wife who ts suing him fag -diyorce, though Mr. Selwyn docs gyzceed Jn giving it fresh turn here aga there, But the author carries such Qeamall, bag of tricks that tt ts soon @pbayated. The exploding of tires of thre. automobiles as the resuit of Dgeken hotties thrown in the road by a ePcylating innkeeper grows rather ngjonous, and the hinges of the door Oe eee cartainly. overworkea, Virginia Pearson ae Hattie King, only thing that docsn't atrike twice Bruce McRae as Harry Lindsay. ‘the gdme place is the lightning that accompanies the rain in the last act. x while occasionally amusing, have na reality, just as they seem tq-have,no homee—possibly because they are Now Yorkers, ruce McRae gives a great deal more to the role of the husband than It ts . He is euch @ good actor that he deserves @ better opportunity to display ‘Skew and charm ho always brings to a part. Mine Jane Grey gives little the role of the vacillating wifo and looks as though she had stepped ame shop window with Misa [uth Shepley, who ts camfortal ¥ ‘As thie placid individual Mark ° ix" amusingly to Taking one con- | (# i (Copyright, 1911-1912, by Doubleday, Page & On) SYNOPSIS OF Jeff Peters nership with PRECEDING INSTALMENT, ‘(Continued,) CANDALOUS talk,’ 1 Tepliea. ‘Tie not a pale- face custom.’ John Tom laugha loud and Ddites into a cigar. ‘No,’ he savage equivalent. an eternal wall be- tween the races. If I could do it, Jeff, I'd put @ torch to every white college that a redman has ever eet foot inde. aS the Oh, I know, There’ feasta and our dingy equaws to cook our grasshopper soup and darp our moccasins?! “‘Now, you sure don’t m wpect to the perennial dloaso: education? eaye 1, scandalised, ‘De- cause I wear it in the bosom of my own inteflectual ahirt walet, I've had education,’ saya I, ‘and never took any harm from it. “You lasso us,’ goes on Idttle Bear, not noticing my prose insertions, ‘and teach ue what ig beautiful tn literature and in Iife and how to ‘appreciate what ie fine in men and women. W have you done to me?’ saya he. ‘You've made me a Cherokee Moses, You've taught me to hate the wigwams and love the white man’s way. I can look over int» the promised land and eee Mrs. Conyers, but my place te-on the reservation.’ “Litte Bear stands up in chief's dress and laughs again, ‘But, white man Jeff,’ he goes on, ‘the paleface pro- vides @ recou: Tia a temporary one ith ) Beh Tadd js as oily as @ salad in the somewhat Han prince me pre over the roadhouse, tries in vain to make his I fe Wincing. — J¢ ae the self-t young the ‘J Dut It gives @ reepite and the name of it fe whiskey.’ And etraight off be walks thie path to town again. ‘Now,’ saye 3 ta my mind, ‘may the Manitou move r 5 TES TS i agazine, wennnnery Aa RAR ROAN OOS NO WHATS MORE. THEY Gave me Monday. September eta hea nok = tokc u BS ve BY ve him to do only dailable things this night!" For I perceive that John Tom le about to if of the white m “Maybe it was 10.80 as I eat emok- ing when I hear pit-a-pate on the path, and here comes Mrs, Conyers running, her hair twisted up any way, and @ ye burglars and li-out rolled tn ‘Oh, Mr. Peters,’ ehe calle out, ae they will, ‘oh, ob!’ I made @ quick think and spoke the gist of it out loud. ‘Now,’ saye I, ‘we've been broth- ere, me and that Indian, but I'll make @ good one of him in two minutes t— “No, no,’ she says, wild and crack- ing her knuckles, ‘I haven't seen M Little Bear. “Tie my—-husband. He’ stolen my boy. Oh,’ she @ays, ‘just when I had him back in my arns again! That heartless villain! Ever: Ditterness life knows,’ she saya, ‘he’ made me drink. My poor Mttle lamb, that ought to be warm in his bed, car- ried off by that fiend!’ “How did this all happen? I ask. ‘Let's have the facts.’ “Twas fixing his bed,’ ghe explains, ‘and Roy was playing on the hotel porch and he drives up to the atens, I heard Roy scream and ran out. My huaband had him in the buggy then T Degged for my child. ‘This t# what he gave me.’ She turne her face to the Nght. ‘There i @ orlmson streak ru Bing across her cheek and mouth. ‘He 414 thet with his whip,’ she says. “Come back to the hotel,’ says L "On the way she tells me eome of the wherefores. When he alas with the whip he told her he found out she was coming for the kid, and he was on the same train, Mra, Conyers had been living with her brother, and they'd watched the boy always, as her hus band had tried to ateal him before, I Judge that man was worne than a street railway promot It seems he had spent her money and slugged her and Killed. her canary bird, and told It around that @he had cold feet. “At the hotel we found @ mass meot- ing of infurtated citizens chew! tobacco end denouncing the outra; Most of the town was asftep by 10 @cleck. 1 talka the lady some quiet, and tafe har 2 will take the 1 welnds 2 / train for the next town, forty miles east, for it is likely that the esteemed Mr. Conyera will drive there to take the cars ‘I don't know,’ I tella her, ‘but what he has legal rights; but if I find him I can give bim an illegal left in the eye, and tie him up for a day or two, anyhow, on @ disturbal of the Pe @ proposition,’ “Mrs. Conyers goes inside and rice with the landlord's wife, who is fixing some catnip tea that will make every- thing all eight for the poor dear, The landlord oomeg out on the porch, thumb- ing bis one euspender, and eaye to met “ ‘Ain't had eo much excitements in town «ince Bedford @teegall's wife ewallered @ epring lisard. 1 seen him through the winder hit her with th bugey whip, and everything. Wha’ that sult of clothes cost you you got on? ‘Peare like we'd have some rain, don't it? Say, doa that Indian of yorn'a on @ kind of @ whitz to-nij ain't he? He comes along just befor you did and I told him ebout this here cocurrence, He gives a our'us kind of @ hoot and trotted off. I guess our con- stable'll have bim in the lockup ‘fore “I thought I'@ sit on the poroh and wait for the one o'clock train. I waan't ng eaturated with mirth, Here was John ‘Tom on one of his sprees, and this kidnapmng Dustnens losing sleep for ine. But then, I'm always having trouvle with other people's troubles. Every tow minutes Ars, Conyers would come out on the porch and took down ¢he road the way the buy went, like she ex. Pected to wee that kid coming back on a white pony with a red apple in hie hand. + wasn't that Ike @ woman? And that Dringy up cate 1 saw @ mouse go tn this hole,’ save Mra, Cat; ‘you can go prize up @ piank ov. it you Uke, I'll watch this hole. "About @ quarter to 1 o'clock the lady comes out again, restless, crying easy, a4 femalos do for their own amusement, and ehe looks down that road again and listens, ‘Now, ma'am,’ saya 1, ‘there's No use watching cold wheel-tracke. Hy thle time they're halfway to Hush,” she says, holding up her do hear soinething cor ‘Mp-fap’ in the dark; and chen there ia the awfulest war-hoop ever heard outside of Madison Square Garden at ® Buffalo Bill matines. And ue the atane and on ta the anveh there The Atavism of John Tom Little Bear 5, 0. Henry Jumpe the disrespectable Iniian. The lamp in the hail atdnes on him, and I fail to recognise alumnus of the claae of ‘Sl. ace le path Firewater and other things him going. atrings, Uke a trizaly hen‘, T. Little Bear, 8, 1 By C. M. Payne SOLILOQUIES OF A SUMMER WIDOWER Capwrteht, 2918, by The Prem Pubtiching On, (The Sew Tort Brening Waitt}. : TWELFTH DAY. ae 1 Go All of the married ones ehess wives are away are pretending to HE chap whe | nanda and trying to pretend to dhem- done |Se!¥es, thee they're blithe, gay degw to the Country,’ |PAvins the time of thelr life But there “a at pe ig one tn the bunch thet really e-) bawied It and pre. | levee It and that wouldn't become gulpyt and sentimental over his tonesomencet fertee Ao, pellove lit he dared to show himself up to the was meant to ex. |Test of ue from that angie, Dress, are unintel- ligtdle to ma I'm ’ finding that out ¢ od bbl fool ttmestt. Se ae wie went away, Well, 1 find that I'm about bere yo & million miles trom the least under- ic @tanding of these youngiah fellows. I "ree wae hope I'm not becoming a crab and tn- Locend pres dolerant of youth because I'm a bit past peo forty myself. ree ‘ea But the vision, the outlook upon life, of Lae these young chape I meet somehow knew Lectig @eome rankly absurd to me. And yet I away c sr know perfectly well that at their age & Cae, ore’ Was posseased of the name vealy views and sentiments . I wish the spouse would’ ! I hate ke blazes to be a Mooncalf, but biained !f I'm not going to elt down rivht now and write her th remularest ecrawt hy wov of @ love letter ning life. 1 poat It before It An Autumn Lyric By Eugene Geary. Copyright, 1818, by The Pram @ultishing Ca, (The New York Evening West), U1, hail to thee, calm, leckadalst-. And his brain is perplexed by the 6m | cal season, rious question , | When woodlands come owt / Of how to out penultimate | their new robe of brown, pad = An4 for some very strong, indescribable i reason ‘The Count 1 Gitane te tacts te the ety. ‘Tee tired summer boarders return] His conquests were sumerous by the? back to town. esashore ‘The (at esnaside boniface ghefully in gold es be welcomes Now he meevily wells a gay Pievrentine (4n4 there hte exstemers just a9 be fore, the gal And the college bred waiter, 60 U8! yurewel, cuney cuncent —d once more with his “eet” im the ben elapr asap = more wi Sal rr Lave by the oid bromitn, unsold, <, ‘The travel stained actor, with never a| The leaves, with the guy cummer fact * vest on, fons, are dying, ' Parades the Riake once mere in his/ Go, cut with your oversents, autumn What I ertme; te here. (s on his moccasina, and the Ught in hie OWHERE can individuality be, while fer genesal wear bright eslored, a 2 ee = cae cog ay hy better displayed than im the/| sleeves in crepe er alk are fevered. — ju arms he >: that kid, eaent Grapertes, Many eves half closed, with hie Uttle shoes bas Leal dangling and one hand fam around the Indian's collar, * ‘Pappocee!" eays John Tom, and I white i notice that the flowers of the 1a the original clawa and copper color, pays hi mother's arma, John Tom. ‘Ugh! Catch whi ring pappoose.’ “The Ite woman te in extre f#lajnoss, Bhe must wake up that atir- up trouble youngster and hug make proclamation that he fa his mam- | urement, Iwi to ank questions, but I looked at Mr. | f and my eye caught the ma‘a own precious treasure. Little Bear, sight of something in } 0 to bed, ma'am,’ saye I, ‘and about youngater Itkew! more danger be I got that thing out of hia belt poned of it wher can't aoe tt. taking in thelr curriculums. “It te 10 o'clock ne Tom wakes up and } ain What wan tt, Jef? he asks, ‘Heap firewater,’ aaya 1 “John Tom frowna, and thin tle, mimed.’ @aya he direc the interesting Mttle phyatologts up known a@ reversion to type. member now, Have they gone "On the 7.90 train.’ I answers, "eh Paleface, gaye John Tom; ‘b Dough a Uttle bromo seltzer, and then TEE CAVE Orat. he'll take up the redman's burden again.’ "The Cave Girl” by Bagar Bice Burroughs, anther of “Tarsan of the = . Apes,” will begin sertal publication ia The Evening World Monday, Sept. 23. To-morrow:—"HEL PING THE | “er ‘Gave Girl” te even more wAusual and mose exciting than’ OTHER FELLOW"—the romance Of | wparsan of the Apes.” 30 deals with the adventures of an east. | an adventurer who could boost every | ewey om an Deopled by ape-men and savage beasts and of meer [ one dus Aimeslf. and he Inye the kid in his ‘Run fifteen mile,’ says . for th nd the kidnapping bust- at tt waa eariler in the | the eye of education) The V opening continues to be the For even the football col- leges disapprove of the art of ecalp- when John | ein seen tn fall gowne and will prob- ke around lad to nee the nineteenth century tn nis Dring Ma Chief Wish-Heap- styles are being featured, the prime idea deing te accentuate the figure below sirdie, ‘The pulled up effect sa new Graperies that has found favor tn ‘This te produced by @ box-pleat in the centre front either stitched to @ depth of five or siz inches or simply flat. These skirta should be cut in ploce with the seam in the centre track. | be oon‘ini ‘They wif then pull the fullness down gracefully toward the back below the hips and retain the narrow foot meas- The Japanese draperies | a1 which are the Grawn-up variety that ten at the waistline in front are produced by o! riy iaid pleate across the front and arranged in deep folds over the hips. These folds are weighted |gowns they vary from the slueve-cays to form the fulness in the desired|to the threeque .er length. The wolshta are placed in - eee biindl; tee tnz| Irish Bace’s Start. |‘ lace originated from the failurd ite man, a mation of him and bout sleeve tor afternoon and street weir but for G@resy occasions the th quarter length ‘@ popular. In even. t. ‘Now this @ad- no and din- about aix inches apart of the potato crop that caused the famine of 188. The abbess of a con- vent in County Cork, looking about tor some lucrative employment to help the half-atarved ehildren who attended her Tam Ably be the amart collar of the season. |@chool, unravelled thread by thread ie It in an easy matter to make « collar| scrap of point de Milan, and finally mas- nowadaye nw the prevailing {dea tw to| tered the complicated detatla, She ther have it ill-fitting to give the pull away | selected the girle who were quickest from the neck effect. at needlework, and taught tiem woat favorite neck finish, tut the back should be high. The Medtot collar te Lis a ane Sleaves of contrasting color or fabric|she had painfully learned. ‘The new |) Wynckat Are a foature of the fail waiata and | dustry prowpered, and one of the pupi! Tree Will make ible the renovation of/tn # pardonabdle “bull,” declared that it) yet? lant feason's Waist, For dressy wear|it had not deen for the famine we would the transparent «eevee are popular all have been starved.” etter Ao. | - island tng with 0 glestons wilé gis ‘ ) owner nr nme, —) ee Oa ae omnes TR eS,