The evening world. Newspaper, September 19, 1914, Page 5

NeW Plays for HE MIRACLE MAN," a play by George M. Cohan, based on Frank L. Packaré tory ef at name, will reopen the Astor Thestre on Monday night. Three @66t side crooks read of a “healer” in ‘the Bouth and go there with the pur- Dees of using him as the means of & Mepey-making wcheme, In the end, r, they are led to believe in by patriarch’s faith because of the les” he performs. The oast MM include Gall Kane, George Nash, Mjiiam H. Thompson, Earle Browne, C. Marlowe, Frank Bacon, grey Helton, Ciitford Dempsey, Fred- ok Maynard, Danie! Burns, Ada . Gerrie O'Brien and Mary} vad . oe Pritet Schett's postponed appear- ease in “Pretty Mrs, Smith,” a play With music, will be made at'the Casino on Monday night. The book by Oliver Morosco and Elmer js, whilo the music is by Henry dgmes and Alfred Laka! le * “Tipping the Winner,” a comedy by ge Rollit, comes to the Longacre tre on Wednesday night. a ae s@pnes are laid in London and the ry has to do with humorous com- tions arising from the plight of girls, who conceive an extraor- A red dinary scheme for amassing & for- ¢ and land themselves in all sorts Harmonies, Ainong others in the will be Edith Taliaferro, Mar- Greene, Molly Poarson, Fred- jt ee Noyes, Eric Campbell and H. A. Brendon. oe @ fo- eorge Scarborough’s lat- "i fag nae In Love?” will be yught out at Maxine Elliott's Thea- we. story is that of two life- fends who are rivals for the e of a girl. At the same time it ts the workings of the mind of igirl who is under the spell of lo ning, and as a@ result ts pu: ‘and afraid. In the cast will be ico Brady, Theodore Friebus, Je- Patrick, Charles Balsar, B. R. ‘ham, Edward See, Jennie Eustace, Find: Lucia Moore and Na- Comatock. | William Tell’’ Next Week’s Bill At the Century By Sylvester Rawling. OSSINT'S “William Tell,” sung in English, is to be revived at the Century Opera House next Tues- Right. Once familiar in the r ‘ertory of every opera company, It hi wot been heard in New York for years gnd to the younger generation ppera-goers it will be as novel as rand new work. Howard Shelley, formerly with the Philadelphia-Chica~ Opera Company, who now Is the Beverr of news to the press from ten and Sargent Aborn, the mana- of the Century Opera Company, t many of the essential elements popularity and esper jy now a wave of patriotism » swaying Geatinies of European nations.” | by | The principal parts will be sung | Ewell, Muriel Gough, Henry Weldon, William Chalmers and Alfred an. Mr. Jacchia will conduct. Loe will be repented on Friday | vad Saturday evenings and at the ‘Thuraday matinee. In pursuance of the new policy ot! the management, which is to present | one new opera a week and to carry er one from the week previo armen” will bo repeated on Mon- ‘Wednesday and Thursday eve- and at the Saturday matinee, ‘cast Will be the sume save that aud Santley, an English contralto, Pill succeed Kathleen Howard as Care Won. Mer. Zuro will conduct “peace” demonstration in the Atthbe ° = Regiment Armory to-mor: oct humang-Holnk will sing it Se! fae Have Peace,” whlch was ded~ tpated to Mr. Taft when he was Drea! Mt the United States, by George rag jr. and Ernest 1. Ball, young Americans, the foriner tho author of the poom the com- and the latter yO! he muste. Tet etat of the Century Opera fpmpany under the direction of Joa! Pasternack. 2 eaused an » war in Europe hag caused Guindonment of opera this season, by the Philadelphia-Chicago and the Bos- MF Opera Companies. ‘Too many , bers of the oF nizations have PP called to the colo A week ot there was issued an of im@ement that the Metropolitan Opera pany's Reason will be car ed on r what the difficulties, ‘Tho matte t mk of a rich harvest for givera yess ot all kinds, however, great. The Philharmonic Society an Roances that it has lost only two bers of its orchestra and that Mr. Maky. will be back by the end of month to begin rehearsals, Walter Pamrosh ts happy because the Sym- phony Society 18 Intact and will give Jee oie fenneaia wil be “The Miracle Man” Reopens the Astor Theatre Fritzi Scheff Comes to the Casino With “Pret- ty Mrs. Smith,” and “Tipping the Winner” Will Be Seen at the Longacre—To-Night “What Is Love?” Will Be Produced at Maxine Elliott’s Theatre—William Fox to Give Unique Enter- tainment on Big Scale at Academy of Music. The orchestra | Coming Week 1 Eltinge “Tho Crinoline Hi will be the attraction at the Grand, Opera House. “Potash and Perlmutter” will move to the Bronx Opera House, The Standard Theatre, Broadway and Ninetieth street, will have Mc- Intyre and Heath in “The Ham Tree.” “The American Beauties" will be seen at the Columbia - new burlesque company called ‘The Tempters” comes to the Mur- ray Hill Theatre At Hurtig & Seamon’s will be ‘The Gay New Yorkers.” or its attraction the Olympic w! have "The Crackerjacks.” deceit Julian in ___THE EVENING WORLD SATUR AY, SEPT Academy of Music to Have Three Forms Of Entertainment at a Single Show Drama, Vaudeville and Photo Play Make Up the Combination. PATRONS VOTE FOR IT. Proprietor William Fox Out- lines His Plans for the Coming Season. The Academy of Music, one of the most famous playhouses in this coun- try, opens its doors on Monday next prise in the world of with a new e the theatre—the presentation of three forms of entertainment at a singlo uch a Little Queen,” with Mal Pickford, will be the principal lin feature at the Strand, Pt ot a ation wt be shown 6 screen at the Forty-for Street Music Hall. slab VAUDEVILLE THEATR Nora Bayes, who recently returned from Europe, will head the bill at the Palace in new songs. Other features will be Henrietta Crosm in a playlet entitled “One Word’ Frank Fogarty, the Dublin minstrel; Frede V. Bowers and company: Gene Greene, in character songs; Raymond and Caverley, and Bar- nold’s animals. At Hammerstein's will be Valli Valli, the English musical comedy prima donna: Belle Baker, in songs; Conroy and Le Maire in a new act; Ray Samuels, Havema “Kings of the Forest and Desert,” Fisher and Green, and Edna Luby, in “The Cru- cial Moment, At the Colonial will be Valeska Suratt, in “Black Crepe and Dia- monds"; Hal Forde with songs and stories, W. G. Hurlbut's playlet, “The Bride”; Jack Gardner with his plo- ture melodrama, “Curse You, Jack Dalton"; the Nine White Hussars, and the Farber Girls. The Alhambra will have Adelaide and Hughes in their latest dances, George MacFarlane in song Brice, character comedienn Grapowin and, Anna C . “Poughkeepsie,” Corinne Sales in “That's Silly,” others. The bill at the Royal Theatre include Gus Edwards's new song revue, “The Pekin Mysteries"; Mor- ton and Austin in “Success,” Collins and Hart, Genevieve Warner, Nor- fiest, and Harry Richards and Bessie Kyle in “A Regular Club Fellow.” and will its first New York concert on Oct, 28. While the Boston Symphony Orches- tra has been forced to postpone to an- er season ita projected prelimin- four of the West, it assures its subscribers that its Eastern pro- grainme will be carried out. Dr. Karl begin rehearsals early in id the first New York con- scheduled for Nov. 5. The Kneisel Quartet must lose the services of Mr. Letz, the second violinist, who is at the front with the German army, His place will be taken by Samucl Gardner, Mr, Kneisel’s programme wili be unchanged. The Flonzaley Quar et is unimpaired. Preise TWO BURNED BY BONFIRES. Clothing of Roy Fire—Roth Go to Hospital, Josephine Klein, six years old, of No. 236 East One Hundredth street, waa se- riously burned last night while playing around a bonfire in front of her home. Women of the neighborhood extin- guished the flames that had caught the child's dress, She was taken to the Re- caption Mospital, ous Hughes, four, of No. 167 Lin- coln avenue, the Bronx, got too near late yesterday afternoon, to # bonfire land bis dress caught Other chil: dren beat o the flames and the boy Waa rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where it was auld he has about an even chance of recovery. | performance, drama, vaudeville and photo play. And the interesting fea-| ture of the opening is that the patrons of the house themselves decided by ballot that this was the kind of per- formance they wanted. More than eighteen thousand of them voted for the triple bill. It was in their hands to say whether they wanted the old stock plays back again, or vaudevii alone, or motion picture plays, and the majority cast in favor of a combina- tion of the three. And William Fox, the proprietor, #o ordered it. PDGOOO TP OTEOD OH PEEEORG or Renting a the Same Problems. Evening World. How to get fair mortgage loans on suburban and country property puszling many prospective home- buyers. Although 6 per cent. first mortgages on 30 to 60 per cent. of market valua- tions would seem to be the best kind of investment, such small buyers do not find a gupply of money in 4 way adequate to their demands. F. . @. D. ¥. R. write thi Mrs. a loans In order to buy homes how to find them. If brokers and lending institutions fami! with the Properties cannot provide the capl- tal, the next best way might be to advertise im order to reach private investors who would appreciate such bigh-clase securities. Cc. D, E. writes: “I own @ lot in Palisades Park, N. J. and intend to build. Can you refer me to a good building and loan association or a builder who would accept a small and take @ mort- it? t it @ house with all tmprove- Cte eSiNhy saiori0. HOME SEEKERS’ CLUB WHAT Do You Want to Know About Buying, Building Home? p THOUSANDS of Busy New Yorkers Are Interested in WRITE for Counsel or Advice to Real Estate Editor, iA and title. You can search the title in the public records of the town or county. 1 cost would vary from $1,600 to 96,000, according to final lane. Seek builders of lenders active In that section. Keansburg, em told I willehave to Washington and Montgomery reets, Jersey City, to find out if I the rightful owner or not. AfSo, I have a 9489 estimate on a three-room bungalow, with porch, 12x12 living room, 10x12 dining room, 8x12 kitchen, asbestos shingle roof, toilet, cesspool, sink; gas in each room.” Surely learn first whether you really own the lots, The estimate for construction seems reasonable. Mre. B. writes: “Buying property in New Jersey for $680, $60 down and $10 a month, the interest is charged at 8 per cent. and must I it on the full amount. $600, or on the bal- ance? I have paid $120 this year. Must the bi Rey, all taxes or as- @essments while he ie paying for the s Toust that be borne by ould be paid on the bal- ance only. The holder of the title Mr. Fox is heartily enthusiastic over the method he pursued to de-' termine just what his patrons did! want. “I wi them to have just) what they wished,” ho sald, “and as| I couldnt ask every one of them I hit. upon the plan of taking a vote in the districts in which the Acad- remy’s patrons live. I ‘selected these two diatficts, from Canal street to Fourteenth street, river to river, and from Fourteenth street to Eighty- sixth street, Park avenue to the East River, and then I took 60,000 names of residents there from the telephone book and 60,000 more, who had no telephones, from the City Directory. ASKED 100,000 ERSONS TO VOTE. “To these 100,000 I sent a circular asking the recipient what form of| entertainment he or she wished for this season at the Academy. I offered stock drama, vaudeville or motion} pictures, and I asked that a reply be sent to me on a postcard I in- closed, “The circulars were sent out on as well It will colved 33,000 replies. ‘Then came the verdict. Of those who answered 15 per cent. wanted etock, another 15 Per cent. wanted vaudeville and atill | @n a third 16 per cent. wanted movies, | these Pl Bu-the remaining 85 per cent. was, them in solid for a combination of the three. | It determined me at once. I would give my patrons just what they wished, and, furthermore, I would! give them the very best that could be obtained. Within a week orders had been given, one-act plays were in rehearsal and the motion plays were selected. And I am indeed pleased with what I have now to offer to my interested patrons, “In saying that the programme is to be three-fold, all has not beon said, because I am sure I have provided for Academy audiences a unique musical batkground. I have had in. stalled a $25,000 pipe organ and em- ployed an orchestra of thirty finished musicians who will create 4 musical programme second to nothin. that is to be heard in this city, With ¢ incidental music which accpmpanies the photo plays bination and tha’ | was not of the t theatres plays, I treme. been taken and all the” lays are to be thoroughly ceneareed a0 that the accompaniment shall be CARE TAKEN TO GET THE BEST “2 appropriate as artistic. Incidentally the ted entire Academy has been renovat and redecorated. The old seats, there for forty years, have been taken and new comfortable ones ou installed. be really a new Academy of bale for Monday's performance. “For t atic stock at the Academy, because I believe this to be the school for the higher stage, and hecause I wanted to Sept. 1, and ten days later we had re- sive my patrons the best plays at reasonable prices. Hut, in view of the big photo-play productions that were being made of cosggs, with the beat stars in them, lalso by reason of the fact that hree years I conducted dram- the Broadway s#uc- jays were being photographed ‘as we could possibly produce stock, I decided that I should offer the Academy‘s patrons a com- programme, to include these photo-plays. I realized that they must be given in the best manner only, t they could be given with Bi vaudeville and short p! sure that that was what the patrons wanted. Therefore I put it up to them, let them vote on {t and decide it themselves. Now that they have done this I shall live up to my. part of the bizein and set a mil stone of progress in the dramatics own. PRODUCTIONS. “Yhe plays I shall produce wi be the best it is possible to secur¢ and ‘by the most distinguished dramawata, The vaudeville acts will be sensational and drawn largely from the European In the matter of the photo- have been careful to an ex- No photo-play will be shown the greatest care has that can offend any woman or young WILL BE SEEN IN NEXT WEEK’S PLAYS girl. seats every one pecre it is accepted and pass upon “There's a little in connection with this, A short time ago I was offered a photo-drama which was more or less on the white slave idea. I told the agent that I did not want it for my theatre, as I did not think) it proper for my audiences, eo many) of my patrons bei ung women. But he would not no for an} answer and even came to house to nee me again, There! told him for the last time that his play was not one that I would care to have my little girls see, and therefore I could not submit it to the children in my au- diences, Then he went away. “No sooner had he gone than my little daughter Bella, who is nine! years old, came into my study and! said, ‘I'm very proud of you, papa. I heard what you told that man just| now. I'm glad that you won't let other little girls see picture plays that you'd not let us see.’ Thi think, will express w! bout photo plays and what I intend to do in the censoring of those submitted for the Academy. “Our performance, which Is to be continued from noon until 11 o'clock in the evening, will be really three performance: day, each of from three to three and a half hours lon: ‘There will be an hour or an hou and a quarter of photo-play, a play- Jet for forty-five minutes and vau ville for an hour or longer. There will be three vaudeville acts each performence, The programme will be changed every Monday and Thurs- day with a special programme for Sundays, which grill not be repeated during the week. “The photo-plays for the first week will be Marie Corelli's ‘Vendette’ one of Brady's productions, e Dollar Mark.’ The second week we shall show ‘The Lost Paradise,’ with H. B. Warner in the lead, and Jack London's ‘The Odyasy of the North.’ ‘The Wages of Sin’ and ‘The Dia- mond Necklace’ will be our firat playlets. ‘Aa for our prices, all the matinees will be 10 cents for any seat in the house. At night the lower floor will be 26 conts, with 15 cents for the bal- cony and 10 cents for the fallery, The Academy seata 3,400 people, an wero it not for this fact we could not possibly hope to run with such low prices for the tickets. —_—2——— CALLED TO CHURCHES. Gathering of All Creeds Asked for Three October Days. ‘To the Mititor of The Evening World: In view of the gratifying results of the Go-to-Church: Sunday” last winter we have bes constituted a committee, at the re st of the Federation of Churches, to which other preachers of additional denominations will be added, for the purpose of gathering in the churches and @; ues of all creeds the largest possi number of the pop- ulation of the & boroughs of New York City on Satufday and Sunday, Oct. 17 and 18, and also to urge the most general possible response to President Wilson's call for prayere for peace on Sunday, Oct, 4 We feel the need of the great influ- ence of your paper in this enterprise. | May we be assured of your editorjal | support and of as much #) as the war and the electi for news | and other I/'The poltcy slip gig te merely Tam- ments except heat, sized rooms, cement would it cost First TAMMANY TP TOFATHFUL LE PLY SUP Will Direct Voters at Primaries. 11-44, 59-' of wt You can get a silp from any Tammany leader. Sept. voting day, when candidates for office on the several political tickets will be nominated for the first time by direct vote instead of by convention process, many‘s method for informing tts fol- lowers whom to vote for in order to pick the straight orgentsation candi- dates, On the primary ballots no special designations, emblems or other die- tinguishing marks are permitted, Each party has tts eeparate ballot, which will carry nothing save bare names grouped under the titles of the offices for which they are candidates, On the face of it, there ia nothing to distinguish between the Tammany man and the independent Demoorat. Regulars and trregulara, organization men and boiters, Murphyites and anti- Murphyttes, wherever there ia a con- test within the party ranks, are jum- bled in together, In this mix-up it fe vital to the reg- ular organization to devise some method to guide the faithful No man could be expected to remember who's who by name. Hence the new polfti- cal policy slip. This primary ballot being modelled id | after the Massachusetts system, Tam- many sent over to Boston to inquire how the bomses worked the game there. They found in yogue at the Hub the planola shect music system to in- sure organization success at the pri- mary polls. This consists of a sheet of paper to lay over the official ballot, but with perforations #0 made as to disclose only the names of the desired candidates whi the voter could mark. ‘This it Music system was found unavailable in New York City, because the primi ballot this year will be so large that {t cannot be laid out flat on the shelf in the voting booths It would be esible, therefore, to spread the perforated paper in careful adjustment. The number plan es devised is simple. On the primary ballot every name will have @ serial number be- janing with one for the first name in the group for Governor and run- ning down to the last name in the district, The Uttle political policy slips will give the numbers of the favored candidates. Besides, it will not be necessary for the puzsled voter to be able to read the names, Every man recognise mere numbers, His district captain will hand out on primary day the selected gig, and all Pressures will permit? # ROLD ARROWSMITH, . KR. HULSE. VICTOR G. FLINN, JUNIUB B. REMENSNYDER. THOS. W. SMIT! ITH. CHARLES W. M'CORMICK. Cc. REXFORD RAYMOND. THOMAB EDWARD PO?PTERTON. ALEXANDER LYONS. H. PaaS MENDES, ‘WM. SHEAFE CHASE. 8, EDWARD YOUNG. TORONTO, Sept. 19,—-Leading sup- porters of the Irish National cause in Toronto met last night to commemor- the final signing by His Majesty j@ measure. the voter will have to do Is to vote as directed for 3-7-11-17-34, &o. ‘W. L. DOUGLAS "3i1'4 & '4il SHome 8 is primary; should pay taxes and assesementa un- Prod ia @ special contract to the cont PASSERBY 1S, SHOT IN WILD CHASE AFTER 0 PN Crowd Joins Pursuit on Middle ‘Numbers Such as 4-11-44] East Side—Fugitive Beaten Into Docllity. The man fought desperately, ‘but. the «a detective beat him into sul i and led him back to the Yo Court. pA Moran was taken to Flower Oil dealer of No. tte Beet urth street. The Cotton Oil Company of No, 37 street got a wi detective quietly until just alee court-house, when he down and fied. —_——_— DIVIDEND IS PASSED. United G. @ B. Corporation Says ft it Advisable Just Kom Because of the aigturbed financial can- ditions due to the European war the United Gas & Electric Corporation, cen- trolling public utility compantes all over the country, has passed a dividend an ite firat Preferred stook. In @nnouncemen| cor that the dividend has Been fully, but the disbursement is advisable. The clared at this time is a semi-annual of 8 per cent. Bank Defieit 938,394,100, The statement of the average con@i- tion of Clearing House banks and trust compantos for the week shows cash reserve decreased esas a deficit of, $38,384,100 quirement ae PRS Rena Made thie ght ‘M cup, Sem Ayriorr 1 tenepeen’” gloge, innamon. Subway laborers at work in Lexing- ton avenue jumped inite the. chase to- On Monday, Sept. 28, there will be} 4ay when a man darted among them distributed about the city myaterious| from Fitty-seventh etreet, dodged bits of paper bearing strange com-| through the crowd and sped toward binations of numbers, very similar in| Fifty-sizth street, with Detective form to the old-time policy slips—4-| John F. Rein, warrant officer of the 3, and an endieas variety! Yorkville Court, close behind and flourishing a revolver. Men and women fied into doorways aa Rein, calling te the man to halt, fired twice into the atr. Rein dared not shoot at the fugitive heels, but again he fired into the air, and, as the man turned weet into Fitty-sixth street, shot once more, this time at the ground, The bullet Ticochetted and struck Andrew Morgn, @ driver, living at First avenue and Twenty-third street, in the left leg. Moran, who had been eta.ding out- aide No, 139 East Fifty-sixth street, fell vAth @ yell, which seemed to un- Rerve ths Zugitive more than the shots had done, He alowed down and Rein overtook him at the corner of Madison avenue, becalise of the crowd close at hie BEECHAMS. - PILLS * was tl Bader, ry = iw a orale we dor a ak ° Point, returnii Desbresecs Street, 2 F, M. '. Street, 2.40 . . Hudson River Day Line ~ Desbrosses St. Pier. eet” ee New York. Cs Steamer ‘GRAND REPUBLIC’ SPECIAL OBSERVATION TRIP UP BUOSON RIVER Beat Wountaln and Wighiand Falls HEN Ey Mee ‘Qo.'o ma STATER at 00. ent. 8. ELECTIONS AND MEETINGS. UCR TO STUCK! 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