The evening world. Newspaper, September 1, 1914, Page 7

| ghipmen have been asked to resign. “Cordelia Blossom” Brings Out a Gallant Colonel. in CHARLES DARNTON. letins were forgotten for the moment by the audience at the Gaiety 6 last night when it learned that the Blossom Grays had backed the terror-stricken militia out of the railroad yards and that the Colonel himeelf was riding up the main street on his white horse. A horse of @mother color wouldn't have answered at ali, for though he had become mixed up in politics, the Colonel was atill as pure as the “cook! Whiskey” he accepted as his final reward. In leading “Cordelia Blossom” to the stage George Randolph Chester 24 Lillian Chester were rather uncert at times, but at all events they @uoceeded beyond question in bringing out both a gallant and an amusing el, and Burr Mcintosh acted the part so capitally that his return to the stage assumed the aspect of a triumphal march. Full chested as the role is, Mr. McIntosh demonstrated that this tin soldier had thumping under his coat as well as fighting blood in his veins. But his best ‘acting, to my mind, was done when the Colonel, with ‘es, you,’ agreed to all the fine qualities he was told he possessed for the mayor, And though there wasn't the slightest doubt in his mind office was seeking the right man, his fatuous eelf-approval was his inherent honesty and his violent hatred of corrupt politica, that present conditions were unspeakable because he hadn't been i i 7 Opens at Palace By Roy L. McCardell. The Admirable Crichton could do well, but h ver went ge of the Admirable drove the detested social elect from the ball into the reception | oronton in this respect. hotel where Colonel Blossom was already #o warm under the amy conservative laundry would have rated him as @ bad Altogether the social amenities were of a nature to promise a free But ‘as ladies were present in gowns to be saved at any cost, Cordelia, the Colonel's wife and adviser, smoothed matters over before Gamage was done, and the next thing jhat tractable gentleman knew ‘was being groomed for mayor. This was one because Cordelia thought help her to become president of the Isis Club, and Mrs. Jim Fleecer ‘the social eminence the exalted position of secretary would give for Jim, the rising young political boss, he loved his wife, and had a sense of humor recat br enna would be a great joke the head of the rival ticket wana prank deal of laughter, but politics and octal ambitions got mized that the play appeared to be in danger of being overcome eat or ennui when that unscrupulous leader, Mrs. Pickyune (her ‘eettied hor!), paused for a moment in her second run for the presidency popped a bright idea into the Colonel's swollen head. She hit the mark ig he really ought to ride his white horse at the head of the Grays they went forth to quell the strikers, For one critical moment, with play hanging in the balance, the Colonel! hesitated. Then he proved him- amenable to good stage management by marching off and getting into uniform. He was in a fair way, of course, to kill his political career, but #0 happened that Fleecer, speaking for the Mayor without permiasion, tele- ed for the Btate troops to come right along, 80, when the Colonel got to Be depot all he had to do to become the hero of the hour afid win the labor ‘vote was to tell the unpopular militia to go back home. ‘The play seemed suddenly to change from a comedy to @ melodrama, with Cordelia in tears and a growing fear on the part of everybody that the town had been let in for a bi shooting scrape. But when the Colonel returned without having a hair of his head missing—and this was important fm Mr. McIntosh’s case—Cordelia threw herself into his arms and cried, *% love you!” and the Blossom ticket was es good as elected. It only remained for Cordelia to win the club election, and this aia not prove wildly exciting. At no time, for that matter, were the women aa inter- @sting’as the men. This was partly due to the fact that the rivals for the @lub presidency were not placed in a single situation that the audience could. veally joy. Then, too, Miss Louise Dresser stood squarely on the Mason end n line that the play draws as the ecene of ite story, whereas if she had leaned toward the South her Cordelia might have gained in charm and at least approached a characterization. However, she showed improve- ment as an actress and looked even prettier than usual, Oddly enough, with Mies Lillian Lawrence as the rival for club honors, the feminine contest resolved itself into a battle of blondes. This warfare will probably be fol- Jewed with more interest out of town than it is in the metropolis, and so prove of real value to the play. Miss Jane Grey played Georgia Fleecer along the straight, simple lines followed by Miss Dresser. Both were certainly attractive enough to keep the Colonel and Jim from going out for that “cooking whiskey” and leaving them te enjoy the beauties of a night filled with the song of meighboring back fence. At any rate, Some one should save th @oming to this very bed end. Harry C. Brow: eomed equal to any emer- as Jim. He was ays aure of himself and effective, though noisy. saving grace of this too familiar character is the youth of the political bess, though his manner of speech is much the same as that of the Northern breed. Sam J. Burton gave the play a touch of Southern atmosphere as a darky, but it was Mr. McIntosh, above all others, who made “Cordelia Blos- fom" typical and amusing. OGDEN MILLS SAYS HE FORCED BARNES OUT @lopes Chairman of Republican State Committee Will Not Be Succeeded by Dummy. Ogden L. Mills issued a statement e-day tn which he says it was ho ‘whe forced William Barnes jr. to from the race for re-election State Chairmanship. Rarnes out,” declares Mr, “There is no question that announced my candidacy have been satisfied osten- let things drift until the of the now State Committee, mean time quietly lMning up Committeemen for his own ‘Thé fact that he knew I would be @ candidate in the tor the State Chairmanship as as last Saturday caused him completely reverse the position took on Friday, when he ir, Root, Mr. Parsons and that he would under no EL i ii t s be s sE32 WAR CAUSES SUICIDE, Frenchman Driven sane and Shoote Himself. PHILLIPSBURG, N. J., Rept. Btlenne de Cottignies, forty-eight old, a French silk weaver, who had here four- yer was found dead with bullet hole in right temple in Fet woods, He had been acting queerly cently. He seemed to becom insane over the war his native country is now engaged tn, rly this morning he went to the house where his wife and her daughter had taken refuge after hsithreats to kill them and fired a shot into the room in which Henry de Camp lay asleep. While the police were searching for him word of the finding of the body was received. rs Canadian Liners Carry Guns. MONTREAL, Sept. 1.—With four dig guns on their the Canadian Pacific ner Lake Manitoba gnd the Allan line steamship Scotian, ‘arrived here Jast night bearing American and Canadian refugees from ‘Europe. The Cunarder Ascania and the Allan ner Scandinavian also reached port, carry- ing refugees but no armament. — Suffolk Sighted Again, GANDY HOOK, N. J.,.Sept. 1.—The British cruiser Suffolk was sighted about two milea south of Ambrose Light Ship at 9 o'clock this morning, apparently waiting for supplies, it s it fh ment prior to Sept. 28. “I am glad that Mr. STOMACH TROUBLES Bick Headache, Billousness, Dysy trons after ating. Nauses and al a and Bowel Complaints, positively cured a: the entire system put ine health: i. order by the regular use of R. & G, Pills. A Clear Skin For clear skin: com — bright ey good appetite cues no” R-G PILLS Get « Box To-night. For sale ot Drugsists, 100, and 260, the Box, of the present State Chairman. “The danger now is that Mr. Barnes will attempt to put in office some respectable figurhead whom he will control, This must be prevented at costs by those who have t interests of the party at heart. Mr. Barnes refused o make any comme! ~ ANNAPOLIS CADETS RESIGN. ‘Bwe Out on Misconduct Charge and Third May Go. ‘WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—On account of alleged misconduct during the recent @ammer cruise three Annapolis mid- Slmon J. Lonergan of Nebraska, of the fiyet class, and Thomas L. Chalmers, lampshire, of the third class, and the authori- real ‘pation of the | Qf Rhode Teland, o Naval Academy Heu, of court- Inge the three mi I mentioned this to a booking agent standing beside me at the Palace Theatre yesterday, and the vaude- ville man replied: “If this Crichton guy has got an act framed up with the class to it that Schaffer has, send him to me and Ill book him aolld to the coast!” But the Admirable Crichton ts long dead and can never do two-a-day un- leas some spiritualist doing all bring him back. This Sylvester Schaffer all alone as the ten-in-one act, or whole show to himself. His debut at the Palace Theatre yesterday kept the biggest audience that beautiful new vaude- ville theatre has ever held out of the open air. Schaffer made his grand entree with two mediaeval huntsmen on dap- ple gray stallions dressing the ee right and left. He drew yards of rib- bons from the mouths of the horses and did many other mystifying and astonishi feats with the dapple grays as adjuncts, wondrous as the curriculum of the Gryphon school in “Alice in Won- derland” was, the one-man vaude- ville show, for the slim and classical- ly handsome young foreign actor in- cluded “reeling, writhing and fainting in colls”—or rather painting in oils, He painted in olls and he fiddled and he marksmanshipped and horse- rode, dogtrained and, according to the veracious press agent of the Pal- ace, all the while the trained dogs were being put through their acts trained fleas upon their backs go through stmilar feats in every detail. This plausible young man offered to station sceptics in the wings with es- pecially prepared opera glasses with microscopic - telescopic lenses that they might see the fleas tumble when the dogs tumbled and jump when the dogs jumped and hop when the dogs hopped. “I will make an affidavit that the fleas, Sylvester Schaffer's own aspe- cial trained fleas, go through the acts just as the dogs go through them,” the press agent insisted, . Possibly this is true, and if so {t only bears out the reputation the pro- tean entertainer from Europe bears for exact and minute detall. Each of his separate divertisse- ments had stage settings in keeping. To conclude his varied variety per- formance Schaffer juggled a horse, A contretemps occurred—but per- haps it was an Intentional comedy it—who knows? It made the climax “horse” on Schaffer, as thoy say in the vernacular. 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