The evening world. Newspaper, October 10, 1913, Page 23

— eT RM TR FI The Evening World Daily Magazine. Fridav: October 4 eo —— ‘‘S’Matter, Pop?’’ six his« SESE eoee = Be SOME ONE IS UNDER THE BED Courtship—Then and Now ~—7gh/oitiesa By Eleanor Schorer New York World) Best of Plays At the Princess. BY CHARLES DARNTON, 3B last certainly is not least at the P: Mask" puts everything else in the shade Here is a play to bring you into Thirty-ninth street if anything can, The rest is only a poisonous Otream that turns the corner of Broadway. If you care to follow it, that's your edfair. Leaving dialects out of the question, “The Black Mask" ts true to the de- @eription its authors, F, Tennyson Jesse and H. M. Hawood, give at, tragedy N¥\ Of Northern England,” but every word that is spoken seems to come from the eell—and that, to my mind, is what is known as good writin; The story itself d fe simple enough. You yourself might work it out in any nightmare, A man \\with @ face ao disfigured that he hides it under a black mask has won himself bride ey dangling her over @ mining shaft and leaving her to choose between neaks back in the night to chosen. There is @ struggle in the dark But death doesn’t hide behind the black @ band in the half-light that permits you te watch his movements and then drives a knife into the back of the lover who sits brooding over the crime he believes he has committed. The wife has slready Given him a new mask to wear for his safety, and also 4 y @f her husband shall be dropped down the shaft. She lends a hand in carrying (t @ereugh the door, You look on as you might at your own burial, ‘Then the fan and woman come back, he, of course, wearing the mask he has worn all along. He puts out the ight and she goes to her room, believing her lover wilt follow her. The husband climbs up the ataire in bis heavy boots. He opens the door, puts up a and to remove tay Mask—and the rest is screams, It is all ae horrible as it is dramatic, Every word means something, and y Move means even more, As the! ® wife Emelie Polinl, who proved her | strength in “Hindle Wakes,” act: though it were @ matt death, and in spite of the fact that plays @ dual role Holbrook Biinn never Joses his grip on your nerves, Iu short, the grim, gripping ttle play te finely | acted. The other plays lle 90 close to the gutter that the Street Cleaning Depart- ment should th VER did a Bob love to take his sweetheart joy riding. And over the | the very same sweet nothings that Bob and Bess are now cooing in the E same bill that your new six cylinder now climbs so easily (headed | great, throbbing, comfy car. for the high flat rock from which you are going to watch the sun Autos may take the place of carriages and themselves give way to called in to deal with | set) fifty years ago Grandpy and Granny, when they were Bob and Bess, | aeroplanes time goes on. Everything changes except the things we “Fellce” ts dragged from Mont-| went Joy riding. Old Jane could not carry them like a motor. They | say when in love—things passed from quivering lips to eager ears, between | ; i i I | i Omri, 5 ? i " e | Bast th’ preanen Ue ee ere a o nem Candy Fient. That tellers ate Coen ice vusttay|SPeim ought to be examined when be \@eaks, an’ I bet they fing it wus @avans nto a gumdrop, He wus partial LJ even though be could ‘a’ of ag thege built, When be wus Seem boG gumte crystalizeds fruit on’ yOU|tameumm, af @ day before pay dar wed, |G Gut Gwe to ecanut belttic es “Breay Ge be took me to o movie crate uv th’ stuff etasbed pooket, an’ all through (a Sneak ‘om round th’ other woulde’t sse-epellin’ his ap- Gud eandwich after. Thea, teeth wus fairly cheddin’ friea eyater or a Welsh apent hours ta front uv th’ giase with nk a u orange-colored cheeseclot®/an' pile in on twisted roun' my beam An’ then I've| Well, I got eo'e r awitched to Pa'e blue allk muffler, preside gyteon | beet an tryin’ to decide, An‘ I'l be blowed if [ Gas laren cane ow A am. Th’ orange does gimme @ look uv make « flossy dessert Giableary, but then th’ dark i i 5 z i you," “What's he? Yale or |old frien’ Princeton?” dames what’ Connie crinkled her retrousse feature | ‘sociates—readim’ yer bhoroesepe by an@ winked, 3 i i s E 5 i 3 & i i ots & A Suet plain lauaéry. FT! let | Wel, be bed on & Grand new cut : sf i Fi i § i . i | laundry, an’ they got 7 ja bex fitted on it fer deliverin’ tb’ fee? Well, he c’'n take th’ box off'n it | apiel; an’ there we an’ put one uv them dinky little esate! tu shassay back—an’ all there’ n for me. Bo we'll spin down there in | silence! atyle.”” “That gink nad deen at it “Going to take your lunch? bie ivories wos all tangle’ “Take lunch? ‘arryin’ a Switser |colls uv @ all-dey aucker (maybe kase sandwich, In @ crepe paper nap-|catied om’ jawbreakers !n your ay) kin, with @ dill pickle dampin’ through?! well, yuh e’n imagine tr disgrace uv Nay! Wh6n we dock th’ craft we'll hie|it, This dame trainin’ her eagia eye on us to th’ inn to dine. They tell me that|him an’ bim tryin’ te pry th’ they're @o rushed down there on that bic out uv his taeer Gee it was y that they ferget to collect th'| fierce humiliatia’. So I made ay | faa a5 TEs chooe a aoe ie ckrea eee walked the hill, horse and buggy tagging on bebind. They had a little|deep sighs. They are the only things that time changes not. Dy an artist who says he is hiding in | less ride, but just as much joy. They whispered sweet nothings—probably ELEANOR SCHORER. his room the wife of the Commissa eheok. It ie to hope that our waiter|miad I couldn't never trust him in per- {e troubled with sia. But talkin’ | ee e’ctety, an’ 3 give mim a honorable uv takis’ yer lunch brings me back to’ gigcharge!* of Police. It is a waste of time an the indifferent acting that Miss Polini and Edward Ellis put into it, though Lewis Edgard does very good work NN) i ree ceearee|| The Confessions of Arsene Lupin oF {est BetAdvatares yp By Maurice Leblanc Bride" 1s a crude attempt of William Miss Polin Vashti Glascon. Hurlbut to follow the French, 1 absence of her husband the unblushing bride hides one admirer under eeu Nosaias Wik, Gy pemian, Fan & Oe) of her aon by the count’s tnatructions Bouse, on @ day when ane wae ‘at home Zyonne, glanced round for a aspen bpp AAG ae Payee a Phin cheat nae £2 | STNOPSIS OF PRECEDING INSTALMENTS. gon would not come back and that she “If ever a danger thr score yout this founaeliteatticaee tne ant ianrers: pally who have stolen the jew they ha held out to her need help, do not h who. has qupsctd would never see him ey eon! °* ¢ard, which you see me put into this aented itself before her @ iA froag lied 5 “ te a'Oriy early morning | «nat bar hoaband tates Pewards of the virtue they know she doesn't posse: The ending ts tunny jo stiffened book; and, whatever the hour, whatever her the most inexplicabl the obstacles, I will come" stammered: @mough, but the piece is acted wo heavily that it remains only sordid and in. Serer Brsial Papen With what a curious alr he haa “You! Youl" a @ecent. Sowed te mo eal the New Tork ot And ashe astonished to find th-t ene these words and how well be 4 A man was walking up Saf an Just how far indecency may be allo 3 4 tage ie ®@ | poudalr and scises the ther right hand. which the count had Be conveyed ress clothes with his opera Qyention (hat ls bro pars Hen 19 $88 Baas 1 too hurriedly, atill retainea @ tAlity, of wis cape under his arm, and this iad, young, slender and elegant, she Fecognised as Horace Velment “You! ghe repeated. of which He sald, with @ bow: Yvonne, witR “1 beg your pardon, madame, but Tt did not receive your letter unl very late.” “Is 1t possible? Is it poastble that thisis your * *° © that you were ableto * ° 9 He seemed greatly aurprised: foom. The fact that the man and woman eative affair CHAPTER Il. turn out to be husband and wife doesn't save it from belng the worst thing (Continued) morally that has ever found its way into an American theatre, It hasn't even : the excuse of cleverness, for the dialogue is so strained and artificial that it The Wedding Ring. vee aa condemns Edward Goodman as an author, The exhibition that Mies Willette od Aan Far ss ease, re shen econ ershaw and Mr. Blinn make of themselves is certainly not to their credit. Mae ee eat aah will bo ainel ot Rima te widen ee, ‘A Pair of White Gloves’ Miss Kershaw betrays her weakness as an actress ig for your ** @ — a ene eee ea 4, to undo hen she tries to suggest @ Russian girl who winds up a Uttle supper in a ree- ewan, net HUI ne BANG Wan Teint te ee urant by strangling a drunken tyrant with her gloves, She is like a New detend herself, he loos- ‘and those which fastened ber Thy pol ‘ork chorus girl who has a bowing acquaintance with » headwaiter, and as for Ae. ce her end took from his t© her boey eu of indomitable daring! in freedom, " Abruptly, unconsciously, yn & mad hope invaded her: am. eet toot an slowly, patiently, began the Work ination, the consequen H aled It, Velmont, Cer went to the ope han wae walking up ankles. . down outside. She flung out the a ene “ in anewer ay on muatained velope, truatt ft Porhape it "Did I not promise to come + Blinn, he acts like a wine agent. me strips of canvas rea Btill, the thought of her # D rusting te tate arhie D Tuthe Black Mask" Ls the best of the tll at the Princess, It is human, while Leip ma of different lengths, In ane her; and the last ghackle fell as the be picked up, treated as @ lost ve Zour our ome ee” other plays are merely vicious. minutes Yvonne was lying on ® GOl® Clock struck eight. Bhe was free! posted. and ankles bound and “Gy, No sooner on her feet than s fastened close to her body. 4 jad completed this act wh: “Well, here I am,” he sald, with @ id complet on al ny 9 the window and flung back he lized its absurdii it was mad to emile f canvas Oe » The fon of calling xe that th th . He examined the atrips ol “ ; | ” It now dark in the boudalr, the latch, with the in’ PP nat the would reac 4 wrt eucceeded tA The Light That Failed. ecint switched on the electric Light and th fet" paseer-by. At that moment @ the address and madden stil tp he from which Fvonne Neg. mnocected while continul | desk where nahi Oh ihas th N reviving “The Light That Failed” at the Shubert Theatre last night Forbes-|went to @ little writing-deal policeman came walking along at the man to wh 1 med to keep ber leaned out. But the bri could come to her Rodertzon gave @ performance #0 fine and so much more human than his | Yvonne se stcocding in opening it, Be ments gain, etriking her face, calmed the hour, whater Hamlet that he not only held but moved an immense audience as he has never | letters. Not nit ON Tt Sire ‘einptieg evening, air sinking ner fee ot aa fpilowed which Wen atl the e 7 ed all the con- 1 Inveatimation, the effort had before In New York. His acting in the sceno where the halt-blind, halt. |Pickad the lock Mi cing the judicial in pete artist finishes the picture that means ail that is left in life for him |tents into a bundle, which be Carre. oyamination, of her son. foerens Yvonne stag. you I eye 8 © Ah, through those who saw. bin! e8 Dick Helder 14 years 88% when’) off ine, canibonrd he grinned. 4° I sere est The all enerny, tet herasit fein One (owlNe mate dow! ° #9 Bow care: fat the Knickerbocker Theatre, By the eympathetio| "Waste of ti: 0 grinned. nim back? Ho me all, , ; HAGCw 5 etme sel “ ht appear at the least gound. The hours pussed by, the dreary houre lene of you power of his acting lust night Forbes-Robertson made the play a new story, It | "Nothing but SOU rma ey rtut thak ine moment of winter sveniig whee nothing but Ite pushed both aides to. Yvonne too< ‘was the finest acting New York has seen this season. er ee tin! 1 LR ie) tho sound of carriages Interrupts the , wy Miss Gertrude Elliott played Maisie with no suggestion of feeling whatsoever, ai allence of the street, The clock struck, ippose they Bene house, 1 have but, thanks to Miss Adeline Bourne, as The Red-Haired Girl, the apiendia actor |S! "ati A ein aly. In the half-sleep that numbed — ‘There 1# no one 10 whose forewell tour is already an assured triumph did not look for sympathy. ‘As he was leaving ro ais baselines ered ied ONCE ‘door, by his . wen, on differs "Sti! joined, gaged ana ¢ floors ot the house, w. told her “Your husband went out ten minutes Yvonne beard thi t her husband had’ dined, that hy D ine Buk Sere 14 to herself, sev. #oing up to hia room, that he was —"\Where ta he?” ui nave had an anawer from the work: volze, “Help! going down again to his study, But all “With hia mother, the Betty Vincent's Le eee te ae pelas hive Ie Mbasttan feetamaaa rare eater guetta) aw uc do yo wee Jatimy disponal.”” torpor was such that #he did not “finw do you kno his inspection: th: means employed? Origny, I presume? I also saw that he locked in, © © © But then the pneu- by th mingled, in her poor brain, with hi the thought of her son; cnc she stam- 8 4 with a choking throat: € Help ed an idem, a memory with. i led: “on, Mt tiple! He wan rung t count repiied: r, and aa though the hope of down on the sofa “Qh, it's very a! ; Advice to Lovers Bie SHR Tepe si) anova (Us tttsanes Aaeet ietaad tat fat fos can une sigan aft walt te rot ‘clock midday, to-morrow. My mother ginle, For some minutes she remained Strokes of midnight gt the oorner of this street and the Object? ised to answer my letters, Would you|has just telephoned to say tat aoe gbgorded in deep meditation, broken by co ot past twelve however, Att oapect re 6 soune ; : ‘ot come before,” came ou . hould He users Seis siyine me te return her picture and ask soug Se Pet oe ae key turn inithase nalmoat mechanical eories Yvonne thought of nothing, awalting Tat once entered, with the ald of spe “) writes: ie . lock am! the sound of steps going down of movements, whe put out her arm to@ tie events which were preparing and ‘ @ girl and 1 think she loves me, But} Yew, if you feel so affronted that you Mal ke: to the ground-Hoor, where her huguands jittle set of shelves hanging over the #gainst which He told this in the mont natural way, evellion wis c own fo She. pictured her won Tas one tells a meaningless anecdote ve noticed that she flirts with other| wish to break off ail acquaintance with |0.uy way, writing desk, took down four books, one ; gual . ° n, Do you think 1 have the right to| the gir She long lay inert, her brain reeling after the other, turned the pages with 4 One pictures those belngw wi a & drawing room, Hut Yvonne, sud her to give up such actions or to with vague, swift ideas that burned her gistrauht alr, replaced them and ended a and Who suller no more deniy avized w alarm, eax hei 4 'M. K." writes: “1 have been carry- | in passii ing on a correspondence with a man|her hus! many years older than myself whom [| humiliating conduct to 6 lam: She remembered py finding, between the pages of the behavior, his afth @ visiting card on which her eyes » his threats, gpelt the name: take each other tn thelr love | © # '* Hie mother But @ nigutmare shattered dream, For now fhose two betngs give me up Not unless she has promised to be vi : Cy de ORACE VELMONT, 0 be torn asunder; and ahe had “Certainly, the Count will eee that a your wits Bat informally at the seashore, He a A ata el, MDA HAD. followed bY an edeatoce Written ia pometli baa ONTUL fesllnge ia ter elirium, that trick has teen played op him and in * ert Jtten seve | UVe# & Jong distance from ma, and x/UMly chm? 1 "Pe guiar conspiracy, that Cercle de la ue Roya. ehe was crying and choking. a “@ R.” writes: “I have written Gon’t feel that I care to continue the} ine servants had been semt away until And her memory conjured up the She leaped from her seat, The key la 1 don't want him era) times to a young lady without re-| correspondence, Ought I to do eo?” the following evening by thelr master’s strange tuing which that mao bad said bed turned in the lock. The pond tiga me here? °° i must go 10 mE s@eiving 05 answer, eltbouga abe prom-| Cortalaly arb \ ‘qracs, We covorness bee carried to Der, 0 tow sears Detore, in that enme Mp0 Ooming, atizneted by her eee - iy t ) at eer netitasaneren esl = ey ey _ Sse onninneennnmyeniennannlaprennsng es z A adie \ eon, © oo Dusbend, on his side, has gambled away “One moment, © ¢ © all hie property and bas no means de. “One moment! * * © But don't you Yond the allowance which know that they have taken him from from his mother, Comtesse s’Opigny, me? ° © That th burting Bim, &nd the income of « large fortune which Derhopa? © © o your son inherited from of your With set face and feverish gestures, unclas, @he tried to push Velmont back, He, “it ts this fortune w compelled her to leaning over her in @ re- aid, In & serious voice: and let us not wante time, when every minute Firat of all, remember thi four times wix yeura ago. on the fourth ‘oc “And what has prevented him unw i alt nd that of my mothers religious feelings are op- ivorce. The e828 'y would yield in case"—— bh gave me hi understand that my 100 wi i] ‘e no longer welcome “In case could prove me guilty “ince that day I have not seen you. of ahumetul conduct” Ant, noverthal 1, your Velmont shrugged bis shoulders, daith in me wi “Theertore he is powerless to do ear ecard which I bets the pages of thing againat you or againat your som fat book and, six years later, you send Both from the legal point of View ame id none other, from that of his own interests, he etucy you to {nue You must bios against an obstacle which ie the obey me bilndly, Just ws I aurinvunted moat insurmountable of all—the virtue every obstacle to core to you, ao L will og; honest won epite @ave you, whatever the position may be." ba pavinine Ge milinit meer calmness, his m riendly tntonation, | mean that, if a man Ik eae, @raduauy quieted the countess. ThOURN gtter ao many hesitations Poy the til very Weak, she gahied # freh sen8® fyce of eo many 4iMcuitien, risks 80 of ease and security in that man’s goupttul an adventure, it must be be o h he ave’ no fear" he went on, “The muse he thinks bas command of weapons.” Comtoxse d'Origny lives at the other end “4 “Waat weapons? ) Allowing that 1 don't know, But they exiet © @ © it ie or else he would not bave begua in to be back before taking away your son.” ba G Avacter b Wall if i» twenty, “Yvonne gave way to Ber despair, Bh Oo take YOU “And in ihe Words he used to yeu, aWay at taroo o'clock exactly, and to q ° ‘ft HS BJ his threats, ie there nothing that allowe yiu to guess? “Nothing.” -. “BU * % © ati Velmont instate, We “there must be something.” And be *nough, continued. ‘Has the count # particularly intimace friend © * * io whom he com fides’ , take you to your » wo before 1 know “Whi have twenty mi! Aout it ix nut too 1 “Ask ine what you want to know." “Do you think that the Co: had y—any murderous intentions ‘Did anybody come to see him yeqe day! o, nobody.” oncerns your sont? a he alone when he bousé yee taking him away, I suppose and locked you in? ‘ee because he wan to divorce you and At that moment, yea.” te. marry another woman, @ former friend “Hut afterward?” r of yours, whoin you have turned out of “His man, Bernard, joined him meap Te that it? Ob, I entreat the door and I heard them wer ine frankly! These are about @ working jewellers ——_” ‘vi and your hes = “49 that aij?” . ail conse, “And avout something that wes to uw that the matter concerns your 808 happen the next day, that fa, a Bo your husband wished to marry an- 43 o'clock, berruse me seen? @Origny could net come cartier: “Tbe wontea dea no money, Tow $e W Contin... ill a i nt Wa A aaa mat ay?