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ctober 6, 1913 The Evening World Daily Magazine, Monday, O BY Gouies, THATS THe First TIME ight, 1918, i Courtship—Then and Now (ousstivitive,) By Eleanor Schorer {|} Creat MenasI Knew Them * By Mrs. Gen. Pickett. No. 6-—HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. “Evangeline” All Pictures and No Drama. . BY CHARLES DARNTON. EEING “Evangeline” at the Majestic Theatre is about as satisfying as take | S street car past Longfellow's house in Portland. Thomas W. Broad- hurst’s dull, plodding stage version of the poem leaves no choice | Hore is a piay that ie all pictures and no drama, Why in the name of all @eat’s dramatic Mr. Broadhurst did not make use of that uprising of the Acadian farmers againat the British soldiery in the church {s more than I ¢ derstand. If this had been done the clash that thrills would have made the play quite another story, Kven now it ts not too late, perhaps, to let the patient @pectator eee what goes on inside the church instead of keeping him outside | where the women unly stand and wait. If anything can put life into what is merely @ slow-moving pandorama it's the incident that has been left out | ‘The scones of the quaint Nova Scotian street, the sunlit orchard, where the | Detrothal feast of Evangeline and Gad- Friel ip celebrated, with a disappointing lack of spirit; the beach, with clouds) of smoke from the burning homes the British have fired before driving the} Peasants aboard their ships, and par-| ticularly the low-hanging, luxuriant | trees of Louisiana, ure well painted. | But all that ts not canvas is wooden— especially the actors. Evangeline is, of course, an essentially Passive heroine, | wandering forth to seek Gabriel, and| the mere devoted search for a lover | cannot in itself hold the interest through four acts. At the same time! this character, with its truly poetic| Deauty, offers an actress opportunity | to do something more than merely walk | through her scenes. \ Yet Miss Edna Goodrich, on Saturday | night, displayed nothing more than en- durance, She seemed capable of go! right on to the North Pole without the slightest fatigue of body o- spirit. Not | only did she stand the journey remark. ably well—a journey taken without even a change of expression—but when th aimshouse was reached In the end al appeared to have kept her youth wit ina Goodrich ae Evangeline equal success. How much farther shi Caprright, 1914, by The Krewe L'uviishing Co, (Tue New York Kvening World), 7 HERE have been more “poetic” poets than was the ene who made the old Craigte House the ethic centre of Cambridge, it few Who Were so much loved Mr. Howells said of Longfellow: “He never came bu: he Weft our house more luminous for his having been ther And many there were to echo that tribute, There was @omething tn him fi er than his thought and higher than bia Verse that made for the man, and reached out to the deops of human hearts, drawing him near to all phases ot manity, from ¢ philosopher with trained vision discussing with him the problems of life to the little enild With eyes of adoring wonder telling him of a new toy of @ Joved fairy story. “1 am sure of the affection of one of my visitors,” sald Longfellow, his whimsical eyes glowing with love and mirth- fulness. “A little friend called this morning, as he oftes Goes, and after looking with discriminating eyes at the + contents of my library asked me, ‘Have you “Jack the Giant Killer? Upon the confession that my collection was lacking in tha most important respect he looked at me with commiserating expression, lipped o& my lap and went away. “He came next with hie Httle hand clenching some apparently valuable bject which, on being disclosed, turned out to be two cents that he had brow: me ao I could buy that valuable work for my very own, I took it as & high eompliment that hould think me capable of enjoying the seme book that pleased him. “1t is always @ compliment that a ohtld should fancy that we eajoy climbing beanstalk with him and Jack, just as we should feel flattered that a man inka we have e talent for the calling that he puraues, whether it be painting a barn door or @ picture that might be expected to turn Rephacl greta with avy.” In hin study at the Craigie House was the chatr, made from the wood of the 014 horse-chestnut under which “The Village Biackamith” once Bad his smithy, Jovingly cherished as the gift presented to him en his \ty-mecond birthday by the echool ohiidren of Cambridge, “It a the easiest easy chair ever sat in,” he eald, “because it Is cushioned with Joving thoughts.” “And every child who comes may eee that beagtiful chair, Tam tola Do not #0 many small visitors tire you?’ I aeked. “No,” he repited, with the smile that always it up hie face when he talked of children, “Welcoming my little guests and ahowing them the branch of the old tree catved on the back of the chair and the stanza of the ‘Blacksmith’ around the scat are the roses that bloom above the hoar-frost of my lifes wintry days.” 1 apoke of a poem by him which I had recently read, and ealds “] wish you would write a poem on Gettysburg.” “That 1s too great for me,” he replied, “or for any mortal han@ or i Bwested the corn belt rather than the forest, \"y t Except for the curtain, which, strangely enoueh, came down with a sound rrr Uke that of the wind through the trees, only William Furst's “interpretative” | I h e M emen t re) De ihe ery oi a muaio was atmospheric. It said the things that the actors didn't know how to Some secret Souvenir gay. Those descriptive passages put into thelr mouths by Mr, Broadhurst might | "4" on Ee better have been spared. The stage management of Gustav von Seyffertits left | Page & Ce.) ‘tol it, al thur, ‘N, . P @ certain stiffness in the groupings that was felt in nearly all the scenes, ‘ baled beagles ee INSTALMENT. There was? Y a tae ady with tera ie wes abd anrenraien 4 of the Boe Mou're uot gviag te te In sho! vangeline'' 1s so wooden that ft is not likely to appeal to any one | EOE seston My eave, (wo cottage Rear the becch, who sometime® sald, and he hud some kind of @ re %@@lous, are your but echool children, They will doubtless be blind to the bud acting and see only “s Fented a room or two just for company, membrance or keepsuke of the lady In ‘Jealous!’ ga. the good pictures, It looks very much as though Manager Arthur Hopkins witl end she toc ine in. ‘She had another @ little rosewood bux that he kept &Te you talking have to pin whatever faith he hus in his production to the very, very young. ac ler, too--the Reve ni Arthur Lyl* locked in his desk drawer in hi think ten Gines as much of you as 1 did a fo he was the headliner, You're ‘Beveral tines, says she, ‘L before 1 knew auout it.’ oer yon, I'll tell you all of tt 4f ® him gloomerin’ over that box of even: And it did, Lynn—if you can undere minute. It's only a one-act play. inge and he ulways locks it up right stand it, will have to go before she learns how! | ven though Infinitely greater than mine, God has written that poem, even ae to act is a question for her to decide. Though she looked pretty enough Ip her | He fought the battle, fed speed ie egal Se ce the Coates of history; Norman cap, she never once suggested the “Sunshine of Saint Eulalle.” ft fa written In settee oe » ped - lo Aes ree mee be Leary etre llapier | From beginning to end the acting was a disappointment almost too hard to! of those who fell of the broken hearts at home of e mon natn bear. Richard Buhler made Gabriel @ fat youth instead of a stalwart one, such wives and children, a wi we Peathoyad Aico oe home a lover as could never bring u flutter even to a village maiden's heart. The two | nd alone, and of the woman who a tt and tase 3 upea fathers that stand out as spiendid characters in the poem lost all their Individu- ite panting side an hs, blo lp ngdl ree, whe lovea potted ie ont Oty BF tee Banas oF ven8 eects Dare eee ae ee ae ener Music has ever been love's language the world over and through all | of @ mediaeval troubadour werenade or in the guise of the latest popular | icine thought of It appals a come ena, a eee ssortunity te carry off the honors of an entire per, “60% And milady never fails to understand its message, be tt in the form | ballad of 1913.—ELEANOR SCHOKER. “But you wrote of the Cumberland.” ~~ q ( * “An instent’s flash great battle—the greatest of all navel contests jormanés that opportunity came to Mins Lillian ‘<ingsbury as the Shawnee An He te / woman. And how she missed it! That Indian legend as Mise Kingsbury recited | cause it overturned and re-established the naval syetem of the world. rf Many eorrows had deepened the natural repose of Cempergs ment, which diffused restfulness around every one near him At his imps | Emerson, then but o weeks from his own passing and with all memesy past things erased from his mind, turning away from the new-maée greve ef his friend of many years, eald to bis companion: “The gentleman w: ve just been burying was @ eweet and besetifubscul, t his mame.” x «= By O. Henry bee I. ‘Why, man, what our? it makes me that actre 8 are f “ t id Ne cits w that actin 4 eisietcal tite 1 The first time he walked on, Lynn, away 4? anybody ques tmta 99 One on me, Rar Ie eeiesee ratbankae BETTY V IN CENT’S preseenig {felt mynelt going: the first lines 19 room, the most hewutt(ul and glorious thing 2 » ad me, je wa iffer “Well, you i ne how long '* I'd ever heard of. Hi re " § meet after the ailm, and you never heard }IM and lex 4 hissed 19 to, and bein, ner Gs bad S The werst of all. The OMe in the room, but you felt him. Ra ea” fOwm Btawe Om nd being faithful just to what his well, were obligand to make ebift, ar, mind and bh ‘That aame afternoon we were 112¥ ded great to me ‘The men Fd’ ale wn mn meals eo they auld themselves peepere ing around in a boat among the water * known come at you with either jy tne tuts Ulfes at tho otme of the bay. diamonds, knock-out-drops or @ raise “arthur, anya 1, ‘you never told me Of Bulary,—and thelr ideaia!—well we'll you'd had another tove affair, But #ay no more. Ft pictured her! Oa, . He had face i 5 kind, and the H* had a face like @ picture of a ore cee trienda, who KUKHt—liko one of that Round Tale , A . | bunch—and a voice Ii ‘cello solo, A Girl's Chances. | treat tho young man ws you'e treat any |i su, x supper and show thelr 68> Ang hig manners we wl? 80h one else, neither avoiding him nor it ing "Dan' and = "1 ’ RE o girl's | monds and talk about secing winn, If you'd take John Drew in his A BS | ting yourself be teased about him. Dave and ‘Charlle' for 8 Thev're best drawing-room scene and compare on of the tre, . . Mra, Guriey did’ ¢ went on, to lot "Yeo, i: aiade me think more of | p . you'd have - Mra, . marriage in-| Be Careful. pansy and T BSE OMe gerne Mee Ginturbing’the peace One MFrested fOr him Know I knew. I hate to hear 4 Arthur than L gid beture 1 couldn't jurea by the fact! 1 Sena tell you, Tynn. SUI apate sel the particulars: bute: Men, Ue be jealouy of that faraway GIVINICY of nye trend am sixteen and} ys on the stage that ought to be pitied, “‘Refore you came, anys he, look: thit no used to worship, for 1 was going { that she earns her lies than a month Arth reading only this morning of @ recluse who deeply in lov with a man of twenty, to it's girls from good homes that are Ue'e i mo frankly in tho sve him mywelf, And L began lo luok . Yi iving? + to It's air i fazed, Hoe preached ing mo fran ; ‘ a cooked his own tireakfag fet nineteen years, son of Kentucky amilingy recalled am incident aie Mon sath rents object, ie husn't a ponestly ambitious and work hard tO night’ grand of aw Mothodist cnurin, & Previous affection pon Lim os a siting om earth, Just as must have been awfully bungry when ne) thet ocenrred im a happy little bome, 4 the peti ver ood reputation and has jately rise in the profession, but never 49 There was to be a parsonage th fines you know of It I fads Gurley: did rejolped the other, earagely,| Wanting to put away some furs for the cam shoul hey *l heen acting cool toward me and corre. get there. You hear a lot of sympathy of a lunch wagon, and a ou Ha with y yout 4 o'clock this afternoon a man mer, wo the Congresmin ssid, @ woman ti corre get t gon, and hens and hon A ving Hardly any on2 as- watting! gaye T. 6 house for A nur to Ko anil + |e Western town went t) the drug store dy that way sick. Old iady foacte 6 email bag of act balls, Plestna irls and guckles when we were ma a ere marr Piftle! used to proach to me a gov ling with other girls Whatdo you sloshed around on chorus advise me to do?” you their fifteen dollars a wee) dear Iday saya Arth s, nowadays, thay the WAG| Gio ghinking abautthe man Aint a sorrow in the chorus that Heaven, but he maver could wer my course E went by my real name whit Gurley wax taking her afternoon snore Misplaced Sympathy. ou the dining room table, she wes to um works in AN OMCOl elie are probably Fiche cores vane cannot heal ... Mr” quite off those honevauckles and 1 was tn Sounityy former wf st couch, ay Lat iett ine pretty mu WELieK NOWN lecturer, who hee travelled | kitchen to look after some cooking, a shop le e i aly Fight about him, | ‘any tears to shed, let ‘em fection was a spiritual one, In fact, Al- eon A ‘ll over the world, covering 400,000 mit Heturning to the dining room s few minutes or a cattle: and you're too Young to Bo agulngt their | ¢4i) for the actress that gets @ salary Tdidn't tell him Ta heen on the though the laty aroused my deepest i ne by Arthurta study f looked Se catiae 4 wabee’ taka Ast the) ae a ‘mother found little Willie with his face Meat tect oe Be aes |e of from thirty to forty five folars & stage, 1 hated tha business “and sentiments and was, anf thouRhts my tn, ant nase ia bainch of Keye BANKINE ing of wouan, aggre ite eta Caving cntronn nes | o— ok for taking @ leading pa at went with !t: I'd cut it out for jal woman, BOYNE WORE: DOE RO! eli hin desk, wh Woman ig waking esery¥hery, militant y, Willie!” exclaim mother, with « unt. Indeed, the mass of critt We are four you [eet oe, Sie knows she'll never do und I didn't sce any use o* sarhy ve onever anoke to here It wae an teat furs ? [guess Ware Wl ounrene aL Cuee Corvin. the Wat Ont aga Geko cad Gale OM ie Glrectea at the business Git! Who em | j4) ightoen and twenty any any better; but she hangs on for years things up. T waa a good girl, My love for you, while no lone 1 \ ido vad Ue tog in Rraland 7 wh blame te militate | the world te the matter with your"? has! her femininity too BharPlY—| wo do not get an opportunity t Yand Moping for the ‘chance’ that naver didn't have anything to confess, ex la different ‘ou wo 1 {me bp fay @ ar *) unreasonable #@ Landor, Noung, mamma, acowered ttle Willie, phasizes her > make being an elocutionist, and that ans coma between 2 te Af Chie ‘ tring to get Binks out of his features, ve port Taudor, you Know, had @ vlotent |b temper ile reget eaecially when bie meals’ "Lut 1 believe these sour belle are epuiled,“— weet © Wasbington Herald, 8, . 1 fool plays we have to work about all the strain my eonsctenc pretty eee Palmose sure to mest more Men Ww qo not care to Mirt Our pareer, | «7 MM the plays es neve to wore short ¥ eonsclence would Re ee eee hg than the girl who ete es home, ate scold us for not golng out More, Plage ground the stage bY the hind less in a ‘Oh, I tell you, Lynn, I was happy Jess the latter's social life is exception- gqvisy us, Aviecivarrow Chorus’ in @ musical 1 sang in the cholr and attended tne “Pid vo during business hours. The girl who !tne ; -quaintance of any young men, | 6° \ int Having somes en = By ye A aoalee seein ; ataath ini A it i 1 owo you eight dollars, The expreasman question. ally ful And tho working girl comes ince your parents aro Alasatisne; comedy is dignified drama compared wewing society, and recited that ‘Ar har my trinket * = fo know mer under informal elreum>| with your soctal opportun fen ae Sith the idiotic things X've had to 49 Laurie! thing with the whistling stunt Be, @ from a ale ies et peathe ae Gane saticoh Galialtea peng stances, She ts therefore much better syould provide you with better ones, | 24,,th® thirty-centers. in it, ‘In @ manner bord supon the Alwa: i t Cros says aha am.” tT hated most was the men— profess onal,’ as the we ly village “Always from qi ing at yOu per rep ted tt. And Arthur and t went he Gblo to decide whether # certain suitor | your mothers ought to ask a eoin will make her happy than if #he only |men to call Why don't you suggege Hd I thought you were “You didn’t tell me what was in the ma, young women box, Lee" said Milas D'Armande ans. ng wron De ing and ble he men He frying to buy you with rowing, 1 loved her f avked. wet ope fied ‘0 ‘across t nd walking jn tho soods, and ‘and ¥ . i rpleel ie ‘ Haran baw him once a week in his best clothes." much’ ser or Extra Dry, according elamining, and that poky little will He #e 1 Ideal of beauty and the to understand, and so if lously Really, 1 don't see wherein lie the Fo- —_ Ly Uieir estimate of your price, And the ecemed to me the best place in the \ on as nie Sy sau Nt ae of tecen melee Gum. morcere Des mantic advantages of the fle young = «q, M." writes: “A young man w qnen in the audiences, clapping, yelling, world, Td save y to ly And ths keepsake that "i ¢ fitted it, and unlocked o right’ saya 1. me of ‘em Tu to kick into the audience during j T ctuasionalie aaa lume @ noon Whom Mer ing. crowding, Weithing, gloating there alwas's, sck and key and moon pained! (he itd are. Tut you can't say that about men, that old vaudeville swing act of mine, Ore area cketbook on Fe Of wild beasts, With thelr eyes “But one morning old Mra. Gurley iy tat a remombrar so omenonty ana When you know one man you know ‘wn Is there any of the cooktall lett, Lymn?" _ tho stairs of an elevated stati ko & Hele ye n ali! ‘That settles the human-racy THE END, < 4 By aa | don you, ready to eat you up if yeu the widow lady, Kut gos wh I the rand packed my : “Pp, D." writes: "Iam in love with & notifed hin of his loss and When he| tome in helping her string beans un the Arthur f Pe es young man whom I have known two saw me the next day he presented me |} nate "em! porch, und began to gusn Ine gity, Pn flirt or two with years. One night a year ego his little | with a fine box of chocolates as a mark “Well, J'm not telling you much about ation, ag folk# who rent out ther * SR RD 1 ne THD CONFHSSIONS OF ARSEWE LUPIN. f { In Hayfully hard t languave wh anit By Maurice Leblanc there for Arsene Tinpia, the Freno! r died. He saw me that night, but) of appreciation for what I had done, | myseif, am 1, Lynn? usually do. Mr. Lyle was her did not greet me. Since then IL have| Was !t right for me to accept rel *[ had two hundred dollars saved up, idea of @ saint on earth—as he was not apoken to him, but my friends tease | cand land 1 cut the stage the first of the mine, too. She went over ull tix vire 1 wa he, Arthu ee him every day, wasn't exactly conv \gummer. I went over on Long Isiand tues and graces, and wound up by tell. ‘an ly sce, and L had the babit down | enthralling characters im Sotion, Me is as famous os Sherlock Molmes KY Wie Perenry a “tes man has never ae {f the) and found tho sweetest Uittle village ing me that Arthur had had aa ex- ‘Why didn't you ever meet hort E pat, left mo then an@ hip sdventures are fully se stirring, ‘The latest end dest series of WAS TAOIST ee sehen ats ee Introduced! that ever was, called Soundport, right tremely romantic love affair, not long asked. ‘Were your positions ia Life aa | "wop maw ‘rts saya t ‘ant | Qrwone Lupin stories will begin serial publication im next Wednesdas's 1 think you should n lane ced ree S Sent eee You to let the! on the water. 1 was going to spend the before, that had ended unhappily. she different? @t up and take note The xbost’s about | Bvening World, Oct @& Be om the lookout for it front originally. But gummer there, and study up on elocu- didn't seem to be on to the detalia, bus = ‘She was far above the’ gays Are to Ww ie, I'm golng away from here and ‘ OR i tI TAT a, oe