The evening world. Newspaper, October 12, 1914, Page 10

MG BODIES JOIN an ON EXTORTION TELEPHONE RATE — s ty Are Asking Candidates ly ‘Where They Stand. campaign, Remerous independent organiz: telephone cause. _ Queens Boroughs. organizations have combined, P. D. Wright of No. Flatbush, as chairman. two boroughs which says: and final conclusion “Bext legislative session ” for New York the of Chari the Ronee and Agents of Apart- House Association. Bilative candidates in these blyman Mark Goldberg of » Who isa candidate for re- the Democratic ticket, MS written & personal letter on the Fate question, addressed if ww candidates, saying in — wou no doubt are aware an e the fight The Evening waging against the exe at and outrageous telep! Greater New York. be nents have the public appealed | ic Service Commission of | id District for relief, but | mt success until now, ¥ we company has been a demand | and then for more delay. must now be solved. the legislative session o! @ bill calling for a} thi Sve nts in passed 10 Ox- mber poli. | ry ter New York. Part: p had no part in this vote. +> as. @ bill te in the session to pass. before Jan’ will ul be, Introduced ‘a thi if re.) am firmly of the belief that ® constituents are entitled to know | ™ attitude is on this q' you will, if elected, ‘a bill. 1 would apprecia —_——>_—_—_—. D BACK FROM PARIS. Singers on Thursday. J. Guard, pres representative of ’ tan Opera House, who had Paris since the war began, ar: the French liner Rochambeau said Director Gatt!-Casas to this sntt” te has th ale Oot a Spanish violinist, war in Salzburg, found {t imposstb! personal t ry report of ‘eau announced to-day, 5a INDAY AT THE CENTURY, 218 Hubbard ga’ @ second ‘epera talks at the Contur, pemens For cn no ston samen ng Sttention of 8 of ithe . Mosurs, Aborn, are ra House coi was another large audience joert S) ‘Gol ‘@ variations o wave the orchestra ut oh a chance to die- iteelf, Elisabeth Campbell, Assemblyman Goldberg, rted by The World, for reducing extor- | telephone rates in New York fe being reinforced by allies in Ml boroughs and a variety of tactics §. tneure victory are being adopted One of the newest methods is ; Gemand on legisiative candidates parties for an expression before | of their allegiance to the| 4 action along these lines been taken across the Enst River ® Joint committee of civic and) associations in Brooklyn Eleven of 20 Irving | They Grafted a letter to be sent to all} bly and Senate candidates in 1 “We are interested in securing from & definite expression concerning | attitude toward securing from} Legislature a reduction in rates) for telephone service and|,wife, a drunken weaver substitutes nt in Greater New York, #0/ the rates charged in New York will compare favorably with charged in other cities in this! » provided the Public Service | mm does not reach a satia- before con. associations declare that they | rate | prevailing in Chicago, which, with a maximum charge of| gents per message and scales) fm wholesale usd "to two cents Meesage @ associations in Manhattan and Bronx, most of them being groups feal estate owners, have formed | Joint committee under the chair- A. Du Bots, head A similar} J* ¢ has been addressed by them to two rea hone | ‘Time | re delays and reached the Sen- the telephone eneat re- ra from you as to your views.”, bad old § @attt-Casassa Is Salling With Opera fternoon, the sub “Madam Butter- and fifteen minutes i. Maserously ‘applauded, these LEASANT dreams! First Lou! evening. | prise at all she had dreamed ia half humanity. “My Lady's Dress” 19 no! the loom of life. In it we eee ail ti cessful. But he has created a clever A play in three acts, scenes in each act, rapidity of moving pictures. Still one watches it curiously with the firet #limpae Into the cottage of the Italtan peasant where destruction awaits the silk worms when the discarded lover of the girl who Is to be married opens the windows and lots in the cold alr. He knows that the peasant and bis wife will be debt-ridden for the re- mainder of their lives. Then the scene shifts to a house in Lyons, where, to help a consumptive workman and his the good silk he has woven for the poor stuff his needy friends have just finished. In Holland a bit of Dutch lace is palmed off as French on @ dandy who loves a rich bride into the bad bargain—a touch of comedy that requi more delicate handling than it got all-round at the Playhouse.’ From the quaint old garden the spectator is carried to a room in the Whitechapel district of London, where a crippled girl \ 20 is at work on ar- tificlal flowers f! ly agrees to sell her wonderful hair in order that her | sister may have @ tiptop wedding. In @ Siberian stockade 1s seen the Russian sable brought by the trapper who discovers that his wife scorns him because bis earlier life as a atu- dent bad made him in ent, and 80 he leaves her to tho besotted native whom she defiantly announces to be er of her child. Finally there e Bond etree: establishment in hed dress is London By p ee displayed by a “mode! titled old reprobate and then is bul- Hed by the contemptible proprietor. ‘This is the most interesting part of the play, but It ends badly when the shopkeeper talks jeeringly over the telephone about the new ap fa dying erg and the girl through the curtain with pel ot “The i turally demanded ver: naturt ile. wet ft a hi order—and it. ally successful until she reached 4 part of the trapper’s wife. Here realized in looks and action the sullen, hostile, low-bred woman. But she completely missed the pathos of the little cockney cripple, which should have ag the most appealin, t accents that had mi | and French characters unconvincing. ¢ Miss Mary Deverell made the Seater slattern!: ter, with her hi | lucky se! a vivid ype Lucy Beaumont s excellenteas old woman, and Leon Quar- nine hit off tha Cockney lover eapitally. But his best work was the effeminate, slimy, conceited dreas- maker. The motive for killing him, 1| though, was not strong enough to be convincing, and Mi Boland’s wild screams after the deed had been done only added to the melodramatic ef- fect of the acene. ‘With Miss Boland and Mr. Qu termaine it was a case of lightn! changes, and if at times these seemed rely external, they both scored in the Bond street episode, despite its {melodramatic climax. Here, too, Fuller Mellish was very good as the Sir Froid But as the Dutch father he suggested New Fing- land rath an Old Amsterdam. Mr. Quartermaine was amusing as the dandy. His lightness, however, only emphasized the inability of Miss Boland to catch the com: Her mincing tones as the wi | in the | “My Lady’s Dress” Y a Human Fabric from Loom of Life. By CHARLES DARNTON. ho snubs a; spirit. THE EVENING _WORtD, jee eat by the fire in the Belasco ‘Theatre and saw “The Phantom Rival” in hor sleep, and then at the Playhouse in “My Lady's Dress” on Saturday night Anne curled up for forty winks and dreamed of the dress she was to wear to a dinner that When she came out of her nap wo could easily share her sur- an hour, We could also believe that she possessed a lively imagination or that she had been @ great traveller. tainly, Edward Knoblauch, the author of the fantastic little play, has a pretty fancy as well as a eympathetio feeling for hard-worked tung less than @ human fabric from ne labor and suffering, the hope and Geupair, the comedy and tragedy, woven into the materials out of which the dress is made, Now this is a rather big order for a drametist to fill, ‘and it cannot honestly be said that Mr. Knoblauch has been entirely suc- novelty, more fascinating than inter- | eating perhaps because the kaleidoscopic changes of scene and episodio incidents put sustained characterization out of the question. = ith three} » much of the; opening scene made hor seem affect- ed, though when she returned to the role in the end she was much better, The resolution on the wife's part always to remember the hardship and tragedy that may enter into the making ® beautiful dress is a matter I e to you, my lady. How- ever you may feel about it, I am quite sure you will like “My Lady's Dress.” “Dancing Around”’ Dizzy Whirl of Gaiety and Color HAT glowing runway at the Winter Garden which Is de- signed to disprove the aasser- to the view is again used for a beauty parade in this time the fair are clothed in something more than splendor. They have come Into their own-—tights, Whether this change is & concession to the proprieties or merely reasonable gtpcaution mark- ing the difference between a summer and a fall production, it presents it~ self as a notable point in favor of the new show. While ther on the epicuous in to which attention ts attracted by crescents of black court plaster. gin going to a dance has told a chap ne that he will know marchers are a few bare knees Pl Harold Atteridge's simple little plot together, The music by Sigmund Romberg and ay, Carroll is un- ‘usually pate and rectotes ier rpO~ lations ser * Seon Cunningham ay whet braves comparison with Mary Gar- den. Thou Miss Cunningham tis cold enough to be crowned the Winter Garden she tiful voice and moreover knows how to use it. She also has beauty of face and figu It 1s possible she seemed less glacial in the warmth of @ big first-night audience than at the Friday night dress rehearsal from which the chroniclers of the oy times at Broadway and eee eon of beau- Around" proved to of galety and color, Another newcomer who may find herself a big favorite at the Winter Garden is little Kitty Donor, As a dashing youth she suggests an Amer- foan Vesta Tilly. Like several vaude- ville ladies who have made their way 8} here from the Pacific coast she is a bit leud vocally, yet she has a atyle of her own and dances very cleverly. As for dancing there's no end of it, and it's all good. Doyle and Dixon set the pace in their easy manner, then Bernard Granville and Etleen Molyneux come tripping along in “My Rainbow Beau,” and after ch ton Webb, Frank Carter, M: son and Lucy Weston. “The Shep- herd Gavot with Miss Webb and Miss Molyneux, is a charming num- ber that reveals eomdé of the prettiest costumes Melville Elils has ever de- signed. By way of i further vs riety there is a shadow di which costumes, apparently, i no_ importance. ‘This word reminds me that Al Jol- n raey be getting black in the face alting to see his name, for he is at importance. The per- ot of » with Bi $5 and See - Bulldog’ | A different ie the Bulldogs thick-handled . Antique Leather case nal Dalnace new Safety ly compact design, Boxes ‘9 -~atch $6. it at your Dealer’s a 180 ona Ro ee tion that distance lends enchantment | di yj caused by, irregularities and diseases | formance has evidently been de- | migned with the Idea that there can- | not be too much of him. He is very much in evidence and quite inex- haustible in his successful efforts to be entertaining. His black-face non- sense is as laughable as ever, but In | turning to white-face when he flufts about as a man-dressmaker in a | scene that seems like a part of “My Lady's Dress” he has nothing to sain, While he may be tired of burnt cork | and wish us to see him as he really is (vanity takes strange formal) he might better keep himself identified with the work in which he has won popularity, He should also curb a tendency toward vu ity and a soulful Tonsing to sing at the top of his lunge. If he ts not responsib’ for some of the things he saya should have a talk with the man who is and then go out and buy @ blue pencil. He ts too good a comedian to be allowed to spoil his oe fun-making by coarseness, By cor- recting a few errors now he may save himaelf regrets in the future, Jolson is unq lonably the “feat- ure” of the new show, in spite of racing ratiroad train that is de- pended upon to create a sensation. little more steam might easily be 1 put Into the song of the English soldiers, “It's a Long Way to Tipperary,” though perhaps the management doesn’t wish to emphasize it. There ig another suggestion of the times in the colors of tho’ Allies "ae" Ping girls come hing down t! y. Then “Dancing Around’ takes judden turn to Venice, where it ends with a fe hat Alls the Winter Garden with beauty. EEE HOMES OF WOMEN WRECK- ED BY THE INVADERS. Women deserve a better fate. American women are better off than their European sisters in most respects, He American girls, however, are of hly nervous organization and usu- Met suffer from troubles peculiar to their sex. 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