The evening world. Newspaper, October 17, 1914, Page 5

OF Bite nt AO AONE “Big Jim Garrity Strong Melodrama Powerfully Acted F\ By CHARLES DARNTON. ROADWAY put up a dollar for honest-to-geodness melodrama st the New York Theatre last, night and got more than its money’s worth from “Big Jim Garrity,” with a two-dollar cast. The total result wae @ theatrical bargain thet bids fair to make popular priced history. First of all, John Mason put his straight-from-the-shoulder art within reach of all, Think of the possibilities! Imagine, if you Joho Drew, vid Warfield and other stars who loom high in the theatrical heavens getting in touch with the common poéketbook and spreading themselves Uke @ one-dollar bill. but all of his associates joined with him in a that had nothing te lose by comparison with the acting we see night after night aleng Broad- weg. ‘Laugh an you may at melodrama when ft pulle off the mask and stands egpshamed, there was one scene alone that was worth the price of admission. im straps and gagged with chioroform, Mr. Mason, as the railroad ‘leo who had begun bie career by escaping from prison, telegraphed hfe situation by clicking his fingers against the arm-ef his chair and then eased « pistol and shot a lamp out of the hand of a crook who wes about 90 Gash it upon the head of the villainous doctor strugglirig with a really Step eo detective. What more could you ask? : lee ness may cause amusement, but it disarms critielem., After all, ‘Guere’s nothing like a thrill to stir an audience, and, what's more, Owen Davie Bas succeeded beyond question in making “Big Jim Garrity” tell @ story. 38 must be confessed, however, that he has distributed “dope” with a rather fee hand. Jim himself is not addicted to morphine, but Bis wife is fed:en it +» wy the doctor, who is far from being an honor to his profession, while Jim's ~\@14 fallow prisoner, Dawson, who forces himself into the house as a butler, te &@ hopeless victim of the drug. It is therefore an éasy matter for the deetor : Dawson to rob the safe in the house while Jim's wife is under the of “powders,” and then to turn suspicion against Jim's son. But ‘the play turns upon a rather weak point when Jim suddenly opens a door 90nd a maid who has bean listening to everything that has been said, for “@he" moment he accuses her of being @ party to the robbery she is given x ny wha a nineteen years in St. Quentin that he left behind him when he made hig s way.” co a Mason qualified both as an actor and athlete by vaulting over thy «Yerdnda into the garden after the maid hed revealed the ratiroad manager's s+ Foal identity, But his greatest stunt began with bis telegraphic feat in the -@bcter’s chair and ended with the shot that brought the third-act curtain Gews with a bang. Dawson and the lamp fell together, and the detective goon made short work of the doctor. It so happened that the audience sat In.exactly the right place to see the doctor open @ drawer of his desk with his foot qnd then reach down with one hand and pour chloroform on the « that was clapped over Jim's heat ry Moment tiat powerful hero ~Bol up to eee about Dawson, whom he had fdoked into @ closet. All this may seem child's play, but Mr. Mason made it man’s work—in fnot_ the work of @ veritable Samson. To show that hé was atrong he took up an tron poker in the first act and bent it double. But aside from this trick Mr. Mason suggested strength of character as well ag of musclo, with the pesult that “Big Jim Garrity” produced the effect of strong melodrama #-wewertufty acted. John Flood added to this impression by playing the cowardly, scheming @ostor for all he was worth. His dying confession was a striking examplo of melodramatic acting. As the wife of the railroad man who bad been Faltroaded into prison, Miss Amelia Gardner betrayed the effect of drugs in a. nervous, vivid manner, while John Emerson made Dawson a pathetlo wrecl In short, there was remarkably good melodramatic acting all along the Mr. Mason not only did this new trick with dignity,; ‘FEE BV JOUW MASOW < i i i | Monday Night—“Kick In. Theatre. Plays. ENING WORLD, |FIRST DOLLAR MELODRAMA ON BROADWAY W Plays for Coming Week Tuesday—"Diplomacy,’’ Empire; ‘‘A Pair of Silk’ Stockings,” Little Theatre; Montgomery and Stone in “Chin-Chin,”’ Globe. Wednesday—“‘Life,’” Manhattan Opera House. Thursday—Rose Stahl in “‘A Perfect Lady,’’ Hudson Friday—“The Salamander,” Harris Theatre. To-Night—Princess Theatre Reopens With Five! Jo BATUERDAY, uw EmMgARSOW OUTOBER YT, T9Ts By De Zayas ” Longacre Theatre. HE postponed opening of “Kick In.” @ play of New York life by Willard Mack, is now an- nounced for Monday eve- ning gt the Longacre Theatre. Jo- sephind Victor has been added to a cast headed by John Barrymore and Jane Grey. eee ‘Winthrop Ames opens the Little Mae, and when lighter touches were needed William Sampson, as the laconia| Treatre on Tuesday evening with “A never failed to meet the demand. Considering his natural sense of buntoy, Mr. Gampeon exhibited great self-restraint in resisting the tempta- tion to straighten out the poker that Mr. Mason bent as easily as an actor work, Then there was Robert MoWade, an actor who is never fo make the detective as hard and cold as steel. “a eraeden Altogether, it was a cast that raised Mr. Davis's four-act Pair of Silk Stockings,” an Eng- Miah comedy. After a quarrel with bis wife, a young man invades her bed- room at the country house of a friend and then fleen without revealing his identity, taking with him a pair of her atockings.: The author, Cyril Har- “Woods's |court, is a member of the company, > }which also includes M. Hamley Cut- ford, Sybil Carlisle, Mary Glynne, Harbara Allen, EB. Clayton Greene and Kenneth Dougitas. e 8 e Gardou's celebrated play, “Dipto- macy,” will be revived by Charles Frohman at the Empire Theatre on Tuesday night, with William Gitlette as Henry Beauclerc, Blanche Bates es the Countess Zicka, and Marie Doro as Dora. Geffreys Lewis will be the Marquise, Gustav von Seyffertits the Baron Btein, Leslie Faber the Julian, and Giorgio Majeroni the Count Orloff. ! Anne Caldwell and R. M. Burnside, and the music by Ivan Caryll. With ‘the. comedians will be Belle Story, Charles T. Aldrich, Douglas Steven- son, R. E. Graham, Violet Zell, Helen Falconer, Marjorie Bentley, Zelma Rawiston, Evelyn Conway, Lola Cur. tis, Lorayne Leslie, Edgar Leé Hay, George Phelps and the Six Brown Brothers, eee , “Life,” an American melodrama by Thompson Buchanan, will be pro- duced by W. A. Brady at the Man- hattan Opera House on Wednesday night. In the number of its acenes and cbaracters it is said to exceed “The Whip" and other Drury Lane productions, The story sets forth the perils of a young eollege man, the stroke oar of his varsity eight, to whom -clreumstances point as the murderer of a New York banker. The pictorial features include a collego boat race, a coaching scene with a crowded four-horse tallyho, a debu- tante’s ball on Fifth avenue, the front of St. Patrick's Cathedral, a mobiliza- tion of Mextoan revolutionists in El Paso, a pitched battle on horseback in the Mexican desert, and tho storming and domolition of a mine stockade. Motion pictures carry the story between acts. Among others in the huge cast will be Kathleen Mac- Donnell, Leonore Harris, Mre. Stuart Robson, Josephine Drake, John Bow- ers, Ralph Stuart, Walter Hampden, Montgomery and Stone begin the weason of the Globe Theatre on Tues. day evening in a musical fantasy called “Chin-Chin.” The book is by Sheldon Lewis and Effingham Pinto. Rose Stahl comes to the Hudson Theatre on Thursday evening in “A Perfect Lady,” by Channing Pollock and Rennold Wolf. In. Miss Stahie. support will be Harry C. Browns, Beatrice Noyes, Ned A. Sparks, Cherrie Carlisle, William Norton, Charles Sturgis, Adele Adams, Marion Stephenson, Chic Burnham, Isabel Goodwin, James Cody, Sidney Blairo, Albert Goldman, Harry G. Bates, Frank Hedn and James Gardner. eee \ “The Salamander,” Owen Johnson's dramatization of his novel of that name, will be seen at the Harris The- atro on Friday night. The story is that of a girl who comes to New York without standard of home ties and progeeds to make the most of her youth, beauty and quick wit, Her plan is to get everything sho can from men without becoming involved herself, In the cast will be Carroll McComas, Orme Caldara, A. E, An- son, Wilton Taylor, Albert Bruning, Francine Larrimore, Beverly Sit- House will have Fannie Ward in | “Madam President.” “The Prize Winners” will be at the Columbia Theatre, 7 A new burlesque, “Hello, Parts,” is announced for the Murray Hill Theatre. At the Olympio will be “The Girte From Joyland.” “The Locked Door” and “The Tangle” will continue to be the main film pro- |ductions at the Vitagraph Theatre, where dally releases will also shown. “The County Chairman” and war be jeatre. “Cabiria” moves from the Globe to Webern Theatre. VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS. The bill at Hammerstein's will tn- alude “Any Night,” Bam and Kitty Morton, the Four Bards, Ar*hur | Dunn, Willard, “the man who grows,” jand Hank Gowd and Dick Rudolph, the battery of the world’s champion baseball club, At the Palace will be Houdini, who escapes from an airtight tank of water; Rozsika Dolly and Martin Brown in a singing and dancing num- ber. Fanny Brice in songs, Els and French in “The Dance of the Tempt- ress," Tom Lewis in “Brother Fans,” Willa Holt Wakefield in songs at the piano, and others, Blanche Ring in “Oh, Papa!” will head the bill at the Colonial, where others will be Mabel Ri ing skit; Buster; Emmet de Voy, presenting “His Wifes Mother;" Hymack, the chameleon gomedian; Brooks and Bowen, and Cottina and Hart. The Alhambra will have Elizabeth Brie and Charles King in @ musical comedy; Nat M, Wills, “th lappy AMUSEMENTS, pan TO-DAY & SUNDAY WEEK GRIG'NAL YEAS TOMMY DANCER ictures will be offered at the Strand] - Eddie Leonard and) pwaY TheatreB'way A Great Big Vaudeville Show of Quality 10 Acta of Class and Exclusive Firat Run Pictures vd a Di Framer Creeey ani ne ia | Yosco, “The Edge of tne World,” the Gangdons “A Night of Boulevard.” ae at Ae cere ee ae ing;" Belie Baker in songs; Francis Dooley and Corinne Sales in oe Silly;” Harry Beresford tn Years;" Joe Jackson in te cle act; Weston and Leon, Gliding O'Mearas. Luscious Layer Cake | iS made with Hi cup butter, teup suger. 14 cups LJ cup milk, 2 6 ten flevoring ‘ TPs ie ae 3 pote buttered Soa with desired filling Order « package of Presto Floun a4l*St. thers. CONCERT vixx| Josie F lynn Misti ties] Billie Sea ton eae”? Ss HICKMA KOS. & THE Mimic FOUR AND COMPANY VERNA MESEREAU | NATIONAL | ROBERT | STEINER TRIO ROY TRIO [heh ted Vivian Rushmore, Dorothy rnhard, Becky Bruce and Susanne Morgan, ~ € . The Libtgy see Theatre reopens to- night with © plays making up the bill. There will be “The Goat,” realistic drama of London by Henry Arthur Jones; “Little Face,” @ quaint comedy of long ago by Roland Oliver; “Tho Forest of Happy Dreams,” a fantasy by Edgar Wallace; “Phipps,” a natire by 8 4 Chester Balley bered Chinese the Cherub." In rector, Holbrook Blinn, the company includes Emelie Polinj, Ruth Benson, Jean Murdock, A. G. Andrews, Harry Mestayer, Vaughn Trevor, Lewis Md- Doke aia Tateecor aan Gilmore, ontague venpo: Master Hunter Kauffman. e e'e Bennett bey “Damaged Richard Goode" to the Grand on Monday night. J pale Olga Petrova in “Panthea” comes to the dard Theatre. For its attraction the Bronx Opera a Sh-h-h! Ever See a Star Asleep? Just Take a Peek in Charlotte Greenwood’s Car Honest, There She Is Taking a Nap, Outside Stage Door—Prettier Than You Thought, Surely! She Really IS Pretty. ‘You've caught me this time,” «tid Miss Charlotte Greenwood as ‘we “ran a-bunk” in the narrow -~chatl, with rows of dressing rooms on either side, back stage, at the Casino Theatre. ‘YI wae not expecting company,” she continued, holding out a fallco drese comically, (NOT apologetically). “I'm not at all dressy, you know. ‘Comfort be- fore all’ is my motto.” ‘The.tiret glimpse of Miss Green- * ‘wood confirmed suspicions which If You Neglect ~ Your Scalp Your " Hair Will Fall Ihave harbored for some time and revealed a fact which ah uses all ber genius to coneesl— E ‘Cuticura Soap ® Shampoos Preceded by light touches of Cuticura Ointment ap- “plied by the end of finger to the scalp skin willsoften and remove patches of dandruff, vallay itching or irritation and quickly promote hair-grow- ingconditions. Special direc- tions accompany each cake. *Wamplos Free by Mall Fi SsaeS 4 she ie really pretty and graceful. Miss Greenwood ts long, lean, Jank Letty, who kicks herself to the centre of the Casino gambols and frolics thero, much to the delight of pleasure- loving audiences, “Btep right this way, I live at the end of this alley,” she urged. SHE SLE IN HER CAR AT THEATRE DOOR. ‘We went into a cosy little room with cretonne covered walls. 1 mirrors, bright lights and e effects of a “comfy” dressing room. “I'm onty half awake, I just came up from a sleen in the car,” she continued. It took a long whi curled up in the tonneau of a machine, but rather on 4 silk. ~~ en couch wit lacy, ecented pil- lows. One of my illustons died right on the spot, for it was really true that Miss Charlotte Greenwood actually dou!'ed herself into a little knot (and a surprisingly Lit~ tle knot she can tie herself into for such a lengthy girl) and napped outsi¢> the stage door in lare of the Great White Way. tell me how you learned to kick!" I pleaded, knowing per- fectly well that the bromidial request would bore her to death and also that she could not pos- sibly answer me, because kicks like those Miss Greenwood kicks are just birthday presents. They can't be taught. If could there would be a mad rus! of girls who wish to gain fame. ACTUALLY USES SOAP, NOT CREAM, TO WASH HER FACE. But it can't be done, and Miss Greenwood answered me to this effect out of a froth of soap suds which formed a tiny iridescent bubble at every word. Another {llusion dead! ‘Who ever fancied an actress washing her face with soap? Soap! After all the street car advertisements of creams famous Miss So-and-so “‘ap- proves!” For the first time in my ltfe I met with @ “disap- prove.” med, e shows and I I like my car awfully, but the only reason for that is, it gets me home more quickly than any other convey- ance, If I thought an aeroplane would do that stunt safely enough Td get one. “Home is the one place that I like better than any other on earth. It is in Bensonhurst. We have honored a song in this show by naming it for that dear little burg. I love that song, even if I do sing It myself. Charlotte Greenwood cannot be serious for a minute. If she were not just bubbling over with fun and mischief and could de- olde to buckle down to serious things she would probably be just as successful as she is as a come- dian, but she can The fun in her just has to sprout out. She is one comedian who doer se"BUSTANOBY’S (On B’way—Phone 8470 Col.) 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