The evening world. Newspaper, February 14, 1914, Page 7

S038 S00 SS SAIOLAS | over the rail. SMOKE UP! THIS PLAY l Ee en ean nas ae a, to schedule, It rounds curves, crosses trestles, dips into down-gradem, but, never loves its poise. You feel it must be a good cigar. z iS TIMED BY A Cl AR “Say,” asks the woman, as she settles herself, “are you a New Yorke? He nods, and later, when the conductor has been called by the womma as the last card in her little game, the gentleman who has been attentive only to his cigar boasts: ° > “I'm not caught by those tricks. You can’t get a New Yorker. Wt cast Railroad Comedy at the Princess 8} con” : Meanwhile he has said to the conductor, “I haven't left this chatr simoe » Runs on Schedule Fixed by @ Pere 9} came out onto this platform.” “Do you expect me to believe that?” asks the conductor. fecto, and the Heroic Weed Is Tri- ‘“Tou've got to believe it.” “Well, I don’t—not without proof. Let's see you preve it.” | i umphant Until ~Train Does the “{ will,” returns our confident New Yorker. “Look at the ash on the end of my cigar.” { t i , [- ‘The cigar, of course, ta held up for YOUR inspection. It's for YOU Mr. 4 4 Tango and Gives Virtue a Terri Bilan has been cultivating that ash, as you might have colored a meer i ble J olf. echaum. You gaze at the cigar, then swallow it whole. That's what you're there for. When you ace a cigar holding the centre of the stagé and burning 2800 0 SSS OHIO SIE | 0 hole in the plot you seize it eagerly and intelligently. You're net geing to " ‘tharles Darnton. |tot that cigar get away from yeu. { Pa OU'VE hea teyte | “Feu can put down a cigar and still keep the ash,” argues the coal: i rd of s minute-gun, of course, though you may REVEr | witted holder, “but you can't keep it Hghted, can yout’ And with that he q Y have heard one, But what do you know about a twenty-five! envelope the awed conductor in a cloud of amoke. minute cigar? While you were in your eober senses, at least, The copductor says he'll be Garaned. A great many conductors are you wouldn't think of brushing past a wooden Indian and asking/ pefore they finish a trip. But that’s neither here nor om the New York Cen- the Ratohet-faced gentleman behind the counter for a ten-minute, or a/tral. The point is that the cigar proves its owner hae not been neglecting fifteen-minute, or a twenty-five-minute cigar, would you? Yet @ cigar! tt for the lady who has spoken harshly of him to the cenduster. And se may be s man’s best friend when the world’s going the wrong way round | the conductor is brought to gee the light without the ald of « lantern, ‘ with him, or even when he's taking a little trip by himself. In triumph the cigar starts to go out through the door. So far so good! \ You are willing to bet your last green coupon on that cigar. Then the New Yorker and the lady who has gone out of her way several miles to make hie acquaintance get caught in the door as the train executes @ tango move- ment. Thie gives Virtue a terrible jolt. Left alone on the platform, The Lady Who Knows Her Way About draws yellow bills from ao black wallet and sweetly murmurs, “Tt can be done!” ‘Tet, after all, “Maggie's only a woman, but @ good cigar is a smoke.” ‘What Kipling didn't know whem he wrote that ie that any eld cigar may be the making of a play. Ne% Plays for Coming Week. OF THREE,” aj Miner's Peo OT “tari comeay by aur] eg, Wale tnt hy Panett, steers on Honaay night |dents'of DartpoutnGologs wil prs the Harris Theatre on Mo! wate o nO had ‘The story revolves about @ a! ‘ona Serve coonerteeae fat that house, woman who is beerptaps one ner| VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS. takes it upon heree! aad ut of] Virsinta Harned, in a playict based former husband an‘ keep or on Tolstoy's novel, “Anna Karenina,” other entangle: ts, In this she is} will head the bill at the Palace The- aided by hor ten-year-old daughter, atre, Other numbers will be Joan Sawyer and John Jarrott, «dancers; whose candid remarks are constantly |ricig Friganza, Elizabeth Murray in embarrassing her elders, In the cest/character songs, and Miss Norton will be Katherine Grey, Orrin John-jand Paul Nieholson in “A Dramatic ‘artoon.” gon, Anne Meredith, Will Archie) "ior nerstein’s will have Emma Maude Granger, George Hassell, Mary| Carus, Eva Davenport, Lyd Alden, Francis Byrne, Vivian Tobin sarc and Harris, and Sam Coilet, ‘. open ct a mt May Robson comes to the West/t Runtioces, End Theatre on Monday night with twenty fivo, will be the “The Clever Woman,” & new com- tion, e edy by James Ford. In tt Miss Reb- Helen kg (2 in jeratudy,” { “3 “BAY, ARE VOU A NEW VORKER?” a James rton, and Exidi: sor with qhare the trials, tribulations | 207, J. Morton, and Eitdic Bo | © But I'm pot trying to find a moral—certainly not at the Princess|and tri ich fam-| Vaudeville.” 4 Theatre! No,-this twenty-five-minute cigar is a strictly dramatic propo- $ sition, such @ novel one that you can well afford to take a puff or two of it.’ Phe novelt? Hes in the fact that Lawrence Rising’s mile-a-minute Little | Mise 4 3 play, “It Can Be Done,” is timed by the cigar that Holbrook Blinn smokes yndon Hundred | and Twenty-fitth Street as Miss May Buckley, hiding her naturally honest nature beneath a yellow 1d Teegeeg eee rien Marines’ wil be CI wig, makes Jesse James look like a hand-car bandit. The play lasts t J L. Lasky'’s newest offering, twenty-five minutes, so it remains for the cigar to do the same, as it is by The Beauties,” wilt be the topliner at the Colonial, John Hyams and the aah on ft that the innocent man proves he has not raised a hand Lella Mcintyre in “The Quakeress,” against the defenseless woman who carefully plane to hold him up for $500,| Mary's Free Hosp! Minnie Dupree in “The Man in Thomas Benton Carnahan jr. @ ten-| Front,” and Kathleen Clitford, male After nearly all is said and done, it is the cigar that takes first impor- ar! ior, who has been re- | lance in the eyes of the audience, That perfecto really plays the hero uD to ety in'the role by Cyril Maude, papesonstors Tu Re SURGE a: SNe Ja critical peint and saves the victim from the righteous indignation of a| will play “Grumpy.” om pee Heading the Alhambra programme = @ carefully reared conductor by displaying an ash\eo firm and unshaken that be eee i ae ney Des- pal Ra dod Mes eS ee 4 evan Virtue itself could be no more triumphant. Here's @ new idea and a|mond, Gladys Cdnterno, Sibylla Bau-|clude Cross and Josephine, John C. clevor one as the stage goes there days, but at the same time you can’t help|ham end Florence Ware. Rice nd Sally Cohen, in “Mary and wondering what would happen at this ingentous turn of the plot if that ree eevee, aoe She kara ata § Roa ® linea acrobat, cigar should “fall down" in ite own peculiar lines one of these nights. Mr.|io “Julius Caesar,” his production of “Within the Law" will be ses: Flinn. mixht, of course, palm the stub and produce a “prop” cigar with allast year, on Thureday night. He/tne foyul Theatre. a ot painted ash, ut, no—curtosity has led me to learn that the cigar ho appar- |W!!! act Mare Antony, tance Col K. Hackett in “The ni Y js Grain antiy enjoys (actore sometimes like good cigars) has a wire running through |0,7 Subse the brutes ac gf Lust” will be the attraction at the it that holds the ash, Therefore, Mr, Blinn ie calm, self-reliant and just a ‘he Whi comes back to the! “The is From Starland” come \bit ehesty, For, you see, he plays a New Yorker, and this New Yorker is hattan re toed for an en- gure Be can't be “done” that he amokes contentedly, When the woman eoens of Phe sree - At Keith's will ve Rube he ie going to throw herself from the back of the observation pW some hae {~~ Blomcta” Retire “Ar. y because life without $60 means nothing to her, the trained New Yorker| Bert Baker brings hie “Bon Ton ‘od @hone tranht even Gick an ash. ‘Theatre, of the capac Playe That Remain | To Win Prestige of | New York Runs.| aces that test the capacity of the Empire Theatre. 4A the Lyceum Theatre Mise Billte Burtte is preparing to celebrate her 180th performance in “The Land of Promise” by @ distribution of allver ea equvenira New songs and fresh humor have |" served further to enliven “The Laugh- ing Husband” at the Knickerbocker, | Th Bernard Shaw's “The Philanderer” 8 running along merrily at the Little Theatre, William Collier is keeping audi- homer with."A Little Water em the Bide” “The Yellow Técket” te scoring ene enjoying wall deserved popularity. “A Thousand Years Ago,” Percy Mackaye's Oriental drama, reaches ite fiftieth performance on Monday evening. ‘The Winter Garden's most success- ful production, “The Whirl of the World,” ia drawing record breaking audiences. “Potash and Perlmutter” continues to raise laughter at the Cohan The- atre, which ie crowded at every per- Claudia Smiles” at the Thirty-ninth Street Theatre. The Princess Theatre is interesting, amusing and thrilling its audiences with the five short plays that make up ite excellent bill “Kitty MacKay,” the pleasing the} Scotch play at the Comedy Theatre, ie continues to make friends, “Maria Rosa,” with Dorothy Don- nelly and Lou-Tellegen, enters on its third week et the Longacre Theatre on Monday evening. Mabel and ith Taltaforro in "Young Wiedom" begin the final week of their onepenmeens Os te Gaiety nig! ences of the Hudson Theatre in geod | ing to see Cyril Maude in “Grumpy” at Wallack’s Theatre, ren Ki stantly adding to it~ reputation as table successes of the holds the Casino, Things that Count” will cen tinue at the Playhouse At the Forty-elghth Street 5 RL si Mazine Eliott aT, Mat Wed, Hai.” HELP WANILD ji inte "Fo-Day” at FAVEKSHAM All-tter Cant tn « Waar] LINES HIS POCKET WITH |/Giai.tt: YOUR SKIN'| grr yy HiGi Ji THE THINGS T/) en her sixty-second week at Cort “Peg o week Maxine Elifott’s Valli and Fra mainly responsible for the gayety of “The Quem te the Movies” at the ‘ter- i Nished herself at t he selasso Theat Te. Capacity audiences are still going Discomfort After Meals with « semaation Tht 01 ‘ , the Tentmaker,” at the Booth | Resinol alse. a . saya tnd yurette Taylor on Monday night te the: | PEGI ORE ALTE CEL - 14 ine, free, weit Raltimore, Md. 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