The evening world. Newspaper, December 16, 1913, Page 21

Las casna hASLASLA Forbes-Robertson Brings Out Othello’s Lover-Like Qualities. BY CHARLES DARNTON, HERE 1s something so fine in everything Forbes-Robertaon does that when he seems a bit too fine for the particular thing he is doing we can only | ®ay to ourselves in this farewell season, “We may not see his like again.” No one, it seems safe to say, expected anything new or startling in his Othello, @ince it does not Ile in the nature of his dignified art to startle or to amaze. | Yet, aside from the nobility of the Moor he eave us at the Shubert Theatre last | night, there was @ wholly, unexpected display of physical power, | 1 don't mean oy this that physically the actor proved himself pre-eminenuly | fitted for the role he added to a | long it is honorable, In fact, 1 am at, & loss to understand why he should take “Othello” upon his already heavily-laden | da that the play gives Miss Gertrude Ell.ott an opportunity to distinguish Lerself as Desdemona, and this she certainly did last night in every scene but the one of the bed chamber, where the willow song sounded a note of her Ophelia that raised a question of sanity, First of all Forbes-Robert- @on does not suggest the soldier who modestly speaks of having easily mado mince-meat of twenty men. Then, too, this Othello was not nearly fo black as he 1s usuaily painted. With a walnut finish, as the fe carpenter might say, he looked ike an East Indian, and a bit too ascetic to be taken at his own words. For It was the lover-Iike quall- tles of Othello that the Engl sh actor brought out most of all, his ardor and devotion belying his appearance. Noth- Ing could have been more warmly hu- man and yet more dignified than his address to the senators, delivered with that grace of manner so characterist'’c of him. It was the elocutionary mo- ments that counted most of all. The relation of Othello and Desdemona wa made finer and more poetical than most readings of the Moor's part have made it. To put It all in an over-worked word, obertson = “ennobled’ Othello, and played the character on so high @ plane that there really was danger of making the Moor tn the end seem 1'ke a self-restrained English gen- tleman unfortunately compelled to kill his wife. But the only fault to find, when the deed was done, wae the tum- | ble Othello took as he made short work of himself. Why not make easier work of {tf and die across the bed? And + Forbes.Robertson as Otnello, granting that “Othello” is nothing if not glorified melodrama, it is rather amusing at this late day to see Iago jab is wife in the back with a knife as he gocs out. Ferocity was the one thing that Forbes-Robertaon Incked to make the Moor ® man of passionate tmpulses. But he failed in this completely only when Othello shows hia firet gleam of human intelligence byi rounding on Iago. The reat gurprise of the performance came when Forbes-Robertson displayed re- markable vitality and emotional power In the scene wiicre he charged Desdemona ‘With unfaithfulness and then struck her across the face. While he was never * the furious beast that Salvin! made Othello, he was sufficiently unreasonable in Nis Jealousy to sult modern requirements, and ‘his air of authority as he silenced the drunken braw! of the camp commanded respect. There was a fine pride in everything he dit. Miss Elliott's Desdemona was one of the best thince she has done. Clear. eyed, straightforward and distinguished by the air of a great and good I Miss Flliott reached the highest point in her performance as she faced Othel acousation, This was done beautifully and simply: In the last scene Mine Adeline Bourne rose splendidly to her opportunity as Emilia, acting with defiant spirit and force, She had the “sweep” that was needed to carny off this acene, As bad luok would have ft, 8. A. Cookson was hopelessly miscast as Tago. He acted intelligently, though without that fascination #o essential to the character, Alex. Boott-Gatty made Cassio an engaging leutenant, but he foit the effect of wine so quickly that we quite agreed with him when he declared that drinking should not be made @ social duty. Betty Vincent’s Advice to Lovers The Girl Who Wooes. ! O girl should sive @ man the chance to eay that she is running after him, The man who i “M. @." wri “I have been paying attention to fl for six months and yesterday was my birthday, e me a nice gold fob, What shall I give her for Christmas besides candy and flowers?" Why not give her a camera? Don't choose jewelry; she really should not ee aie nad nig have given you a watch fob be repetted rather! A Christmas Gift. than attracted, B." writes: “Will you please tell an if he is | me of an appropriate Christmas rt for eaddish sort of) young ledy whom I love dearly and person he may! who I know loves me” make the girl &) What te her epecial tad? I advise laughing stock, that your present should in some way Tt a man makes! suggest that. an appointment with you and falls to keep it, don't tdephone or write to him to find out what se the matter. Leave him to make the exouses and apologies which are certainly owing to you, Untti he does make them he should be ignored, her request, The next time I told her Don't give him expensive presents or| she must watt for two weeks, where. fease him to come and see you./upon ehe waxed extremely sarcastic, Be cordiat and kind, of course, but be| But should I give her money? Wo are carefal not to give him the impression| mot engaged.” that you cannot get along without hie! There is no reason in the world why Visits and attentions, If you feet that! you should give her money, and the ‘Way, A little hypoorisy fs not enly par | right sort of gizi would not ask you for “P. D.” writes: “Last aummer I met a young lady on whom I have since spent Much time and money. Recently ai asked me outright to give her rome money, The firet time I complied with donatle mH advisable, any, ‘xk writes; "What the duties | = "R, BA” writes; "Two weeks ago I met of @ young couple when they ‘keep steady company’? Should they give up thetp boy and girl friendsT’ Net emtti they become engages to ad othen & young man about my own age, and have seen him several times since. Would it be proper for me te send him & Christmas card” Zea, dus Gea’ sich ont 0 aig ene a IWHADDA-YA WANT-FO- RRCTMUTH | by unraveling ‘“‘S’Matter, Pop?’’ « @ x Bs Sree (The New York Evening World.) ne RAMAAMERA The Evening World Daily Magazine, Tuesday int WHO You THE SMEARING ©. _/SOME COIN HANDED MY PROFESSOR AND WE ARGUED P\ OVER THE AmMouNT ! ay RSPNE LUPIN, what's your real opinion of Inspector Ganimard?" “A very high one, my dear fellow.” “A very high one? Then why do you never miss a chance of turning him Into ridicule? “It's a bad habit; né I'm sorry for it. But what can 1 say? It's the way of the world, Hero's @ decent detective chap, here's a whole pack of decent men, who stand for law and order, who protect us against the apaches, who risk their lives for honest people like you and me; and we have nothing to give them in return but floute and gibes. It's preposterous!" vo, Lup! respectable ratepay: “What else am I? I may have pecut- far views about other people's property; but I assure you that It's very different when my own's at stake. By Jove, It doesn't do to lay hands on what be- longs to me! Then ['m out for blood! Aha! It's my pocket, my money, my watch © © © hands off! I have the soul of a conservative, my dear follow, the Instincts of a retired tradesman and a due respect for every sort of tradition and authority, And that ts why Ganitmard inspires me with no little gratitude and esteem.” “But not much admiration?” “Plenty of admiration too, Over and the dauntl courage which comes natural to all those gentry at the Criminal Investigation Department, Garimard possesses very sterling quall- talking Mke @ th Gecision, insight and judgment. I have watched him at work. He's some- body, when all's said. Do you know the Edith Swan neck story, as it was called T* ‘I know knows.” “That means that you don't know It at all. Well, that Job was, I di the one which I thought cleverly, with the utmost care anf the utmost precaution, the one which J shrouded tm the greatest darkness and mystery, the one which it took the biggest generaiship to carry through. It wee a regular game of chess, played according to strict scientific ané mathe matioal rules, And yet Ganimard ended knot, Thanks te him, they know the truth to-day on the ual Ges Orfevres. And it ts a truth quite out ef the common, 1 assure much as everybody Edith Swan-Neck $/ rtainly * * * one of these days °° © when I have time © * © But the Brunelli is dancing at the Opera to-night; and if she were not to ace me in my stan!" ee 1 do not meet Lupin often. He con- fesses with diMculty, when # cuits him, It wae only gradually, by snatches, by odds and ens of oo fidences, that I was able to obtain the different incidents and to plese the story togecier in all its details. ° . e 8 . . The main features are well known and I will merely mention the facts. Three years ago, when the train from Brest arrived at Rennes, the door of one of the Wegage vane was found smashed in, Thia van had been book d by Col, Spanmiento, @ rich Brazilian, who travelling with his wife in the same train, It contained a complete set of tapestry hangings, The case in which one of these was packed had been broken open and the tapestry had disappeared. Col. Sparmiento started proceedings against the railway company, claiming heavy damages, not only for the stolen tapestry, but aleo for the loss in value which the whole collection suffered in Consequence of the theft. The police instituted inquiries, The company offered & large reward. A fortnight later a letter which had come undone tn the post was opened by the authorities and revealed the fact that the thoft had been carried out under the direction of Arsene Lupin, and that @ package was to leave next day for the United States. That same evening the tapestry was discovered in @ trunk deposited in the cloakroom at the Gare Saint-Lasar The acheme, therefore, had miscarried. Lupin felt the disappointment #0 much that he vented his fll-humor in a com- munication to Sol, Sparmiento, ending with the following words, which were clear enough for anybody “It wae very conaiderate of me to take only one. Next time I shall take the twelve. Verbum sap. AL" Col. Sparmiento had been Itvi some months In @ house standing end of a small garden at the corner of le Fateanderie and the Rue He was « rather thick-i broa4-shouldered man, with black hair and @ ewarthy akin, always well and quietly dressed, He was married to an extremely pretty but delicate English- woman, whe was much upset by the business of the tapestries, From the Goat che implored her husband to cal) An Arsene Lupin Story ‘Cenyright, 1913, by Doubleday, Page Go.) TRh UT} SCKEP-| PPP THM (ae meee tan, ) GQ GQ) ry Vic PPAR PPPRP PPL PAPPRPP APPL PD PPD PPLPA RPP PPP PPR RDA, twist You woud 4 He's IN Room 323 AAR $Y wan | them for what they would fetch. The Colonel had much too forcible and dogged a nature to yield to what he had every rigut to deacribe as a wom- an's fancies, He sold nothing, but he redoubled hia precautions and adopted every measure that Ukely to make an attempt at burglary Impossible. To begin with, eo that he might con- fine his watch to the garden front, he walled up all the windows on the ground floor and the frat floor overlook- ing the Rue Dufresnoy, Next he en- listed the services of a firm wiil @ specialty of protecting private against robberies, Fvery window of the gallery in which the tapestries were hung was fitted with invisitle burglar al , position of which was known to none but himself, Thean, at the least touch, switched on all the electric lights and set a whole system of bells and gongs ringing. In addition to this, the insurance companies to which he applied refused to grant policies to any considerable amount unless he consented to let three men, supplied by the companies and paid by himself, occupy the ground floor of his house every nig! They selected for the purpose three ex-de- tectives, tried and trustworthy men, all of whom hated Lupin ike polaon, As for the servants, the Colonel had known them for years a@d was ready to vouch for them. After taking theme gteps ant organiz ing the defense of the house as though it were fortress, the Colonel gave @ Great housewarming, a sort of private view, to which he invited the members of both his clubs, as well ae a certain number of ladies, Journalists, art pa- trons and critics, They felt, as th arden gate, muon aneed through the as if they were walk- ing into a prison. ‘Tha three private detect sted at the foot of the stairs, each vinttor’a t ton ca eyed him up and down furpieton making hin feel as though they were going to search his porkets or take hin fingerprints The Colonel, who recetved hia guests on the first floor, made laughing apolo- ales and seemed delighted at the oppore tunity of explaining the arrangements which he had invented to secure the safety of hig hangings. His wife stood by him, looking charmingly young and pretty, fair-naired, pale and sinuous, with @ aa and gentle expression, tna expression of resignation often worn by Ghose whe are threatened by fate POH LEAVE.(T To me! LU HAND Him One AND TELL HIM t's] fRom you! IT CANT ' BE DONE. = ITS By Maurice Lebia c When all the guests had come the warden gates and the hall doors were Goued. Then everybody filed into the middie gallery, which was reached through two steel doors, while jis win- dowa, with thelr huge shut protected by tron bi the twelve tapi They were matchiess works of art and, taking thelr Inapiration from the famous Bayeu try, Queen Matilda, they represented the story of the Norman Conquest. ‘Tiey had been ortered in the fourteenth century by the deacendant of a man- at-armns in Wilkam the Conquerors tain, were executed by Jehan Gosset, @ famaqus Arras weaver, and were dis- eure © bunmdred yeurs tater, mm an old Breton manor house. On hear- Ing of this the Colonel had atruck a bargain for Afty thousand francs. They were worth ten times the mone Tut the Anest of the twelve hangings set, ther foot had not been treated Mt uncon by Queen Matilda, was the one which Arsene Lupin had stolen and which had been ao fortunately recovered, It portrayed Edith Bwaneneck on tlefleid of Hastings, aeriing an dead for th ody of her Harold, In the Saxon kin The guesis were over this tapest lost in en cated beauty faded colors, over the Ifeltke wrouping of the fiqures and the pitiful sadness of the we Poor Edith « stood droop ke an overweighted ity Her gow? Jed the lines of her la id flgure, Her ong, tapering hands were outstretched in a Restre terror and entreaty. And nothing 6 mournful than her pr which flickered the most «i nd despairing of amtles At remarked one of the whom the others Hatened wth deference A ver ehurining «m des; and it reminds me, Colonel, te smile of Mine And weetng the observation seemed to me approval, he ens Jarged upon h ‘There are other polnts of resemblance that struck me as the very graceful curve of the and the delioacy of the hands © * * and also fometi.ng about che figure, about tie weneral attitude” © . What you say ts so true” anid the Colne, that I confess that 1t was this tried to Jest: : December 16, 1913 By C. M. Payne al [Ne WDOYA a wee hou GAve THe WHOLE “Bus NE6S DEAD AWAY e mo! [of '{Romances ot Modeis, % ‘| 4 By Famous Artists Copyrait, 1915, by The Prem PubHehing Co, (The New York Brentng World), No. 6. Penrhyn Stanlaws and the Mootle Girl. YBIL came to pose for me,” began Mr. Penrhyn Stantaws in relating the romance of one of his models, “when a@e Was sixteen years old—a tall slender girl with a Miydine head eet marveliousin on a throat Burne-Jones would have taken joy In painting. “With all its sweetness and innocence her face showed strength and determination ebout the mouth and ehim ‘She was a born mudel, and therefore @ delight to patea, because she fell naturally into the most graceful peses and knew by @ wo.d what attitude an artist wanted her to assume. “She had been very carefully brought up by her mother, who sat by with her knitting white Sybil posed. Her grandfather was not only one ef the world’s most famous inventors, but also @ painter of no little mertt, and his levely \ing granddaughter seemed to inberit his talent tn art. ybll and her mother were very puor and struggled along on what the gist | made out of hor posing. The ambitious child was also trying to squeese out of their tiny income a few houre for weekly study at the art school, where |she had made wondertul progress, Mother and daughter were cheerful and net | to be disappointed in thetr hopes. | _ “The movies came into vogue, and no actress shoukt be found more com: | Detent to take part In the pictures than the lovely modele who had just the Knack (o obtain effective poses. 1 used to complain that nine out of ten of my models went off and married just as I had them well trainea, but now the movies rob me of them. “From @ mea.re Atteen dollars a week to a huge salary is @ jump so mirace loun that the opportunity the mowng pictures offer ts mot ta be ignored by such bread- winners, “Sybil waa in @ dream of hope fulfilied, for at inst she saw the way for sore rea! study. I like the movies, and especially is it amusing to recognise +n the | sereen before me one of itle who had posed for m “One evening last year I went to see some pictures with @ very well known young artist. One of the photo plays was the usual type of Western ranch story with {ts cowboys and horses and desperadoes and heroine who was in danger of beinr captured by the man ahe dil not love. As the herotne I recognised Sybil, who was quite entrancingly lovely in her cowgtr! regalia. “*What @ corker she 1s,’ eeld my friend. ‘Do you think she'é pose for me for some Illustrations I'm doing for a Western yam? ‘Aah her,’ I advised; ‘here te her addres.’ bsequent eventa proved that Sybil was not averse to posing for the eue cessful young artist. He talked about ber more than I thought mecessary. Then one dmy they came and confided to me @ beautiful secret which any child could have guessed from the way they looked at each other. Their wedding hae taken olace, but Sybil has gone on with her studies as before. ‘It’s all right to be mage red to @ famous man,’ Sybil eald to me the other day, ‘but I want to te heard from, too. And my husband's pride in my work is the greatest inapiration 7 woman could have.’ Your City Neighbor's Many Needless Noises By Sophie Irene Lo Covrright, 1918, by The Prem Publishing On (fie New Yort Greung Wath), WOMAN weites ee follows: open, and the commen eciees A ‘Won't you pleass tell me what [household ave familiar to en. nea redress @ person might have in evercome i a case WAL ehis? ch aFe necemary cheuld by 4 T live ine epart- a ment . ay — bedroom faces a tatrings rh court. In this Waich te not wee court there are end lee seemingly people ere many who arise very apartment houses where there are atsted early, One of Rrusioas @ them has an ore, We ell | alarm lock that aance of the 00s off almost ra before daybreak. | hie favorite tunes i cee on cee Soon IRN “Aa it te @ nat-| distracted, These, toe, im a measure ural thing for peo-| &r@ neeMess notees that with « ite ple to leave thelr bedroom windows! forethought could be vier at wight i ls Impossible for me to] Put your alarm elock tn some pat eacapa that alarm unless I close my | of your home where its eound will not window, which would be Injurious to my health, Sometimes I am able to go to sleep again, but many times this clock has disturbed my reat entirely, I think @ crusade against needless nolees around the home would be most come.” The point te well taken. The dweller of the apartment or flat must take tnto penetrate te your neighber. It fly be done There are thousands of telophones placed In homes whose bells are not heard on the outside, Further, the alarm Gell may be maf. fled and placed close to the bedaide ao that tts sound wil awake onty the per son tetended, Don't watt ent you are complatned conalderation that he ts not the oniy| against. Be your own policeman, one whose Interaste muat be conserved| Try to place your phonograph where and respected. ft will ive the least offense to others, Think what \t would mean tf every | Consideration te the Key that creates body had alarm clocks each going off at diferent tines! What a howl there would he from all quarters! Necessary noises are to be condoned, Dut needless noises are certainly to be condemned . In the summer time windows are nelahbora, Get the key before some- body “gets the hook.” If you will tve m @ efty with tts flats @nd apartments, them fearn to on} consideration for your commu- likenens that me to bny the ‘Your name tsn't Harold, Colone!?" hangings. And t Was Another rea- "No, thank you,” he dectared, with was that, by a rently curtoum continued merriment. “No, that's not it pens to be my name; nor am T tn the least like the Saxon king.” All have #inee agreed in stat that, + moment, as the Colonel finished speaking, the first alarm rang from the dows—the right or the middle win- dow (opinions differ on thie point)— rang short and shrill on @ eingle note. The peal of the alarm bell was followed by an exclamation of terror uttered by Mme. Sparmtento, who caught hold of her husband's arm, He orted: “What's the matter? What does this ith Swan- And the Colonel added that the coinel } stop at this and that my 1 will never have to go in true love's body, like her prototypa."* le laughed an he uttered these words, bat hin laugh met with no echo; and we find the sane impression of awkward silence tn all accounts of the ev that uppemred during the next few days, ‘The people standing near him did not know what to say One of them (@o Be Continued) Scena Ee