The evening world. Newspaper, October 24, 1914, Page 7

‘of the Salamander s ew Into BY CHARLES DARNTON. ae a Frost. THE EVENING WORLD, 8 site : t [FRED STONE, THE INIMITABLE, IN HIS VARIOUS C a ai cth ATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1914. AND David Belasco is devoting much of his time nowadays to the writing of a play to be used by David Warfield next season, When Mr. Belasco |s engaged @ dramatist he is a very black eye. ABOUT PLAYS PLAYERS ics I'd play second and help t! win the world’s champlonship. “Are you an adept at the game?” “No,” came from the discouraged comedian, “I’m merely a second base- man.” And with a yawn he took,a basket ALL@® FALLOFFS KI ES HARACTERS CHIN ¥ oP Theatre. Theatre. Thursday—“‘The Battle Cry, Boudoir,’”’ Garrick Theatre. Plays for Coming Week. Monday — “The Highway of Life,’’ in “The Lilac Domino,” Forty-fourth Street ”? Lyric; “‘Milady’s Wallack’s: Mi Wed. fat. Girese Bae” Dane In Bardow's Masterpiece, DIPLOMACY, “The Salamander” (aici vay eau Tuesday—‘‘Experience,”’ Booth Theatre. ei ae Comes Through Fire BY BIDB DUDLEY a nee Stahl in “A Perfect Lady, ahs wes r ¥ deity | : udeon; Dipped! Opera, Comique Company! || tue BEAUTIFUL ADVENTURE rh oe Kye, 8,15." Mat Wed & Bai, GARRIC y S, THURS. OCT. 29 wiki ea CY 08 AMUSEMENTS. ‘ Se SHAKY. COME EARLYs! ITY the poor girl who will do anything but work for a living! Can|absent-minded man. And now comes] 6nd with a yawn He Tole iat, UtiL oO an 4 ‘ you? This was the question at the Harris Theatre last night, when|the sad part. David Belasco has ® lshypert offices to draw bis salary. “a B HIGHWAY OF LIFE," 4| ‘The Standard will have “Too Many at i Van f dramatization by Louls N.| Cooks, Paik Si STO “The Salamander” was presented in the form of “some episodes in the Mfe of Dodo Baxter.” Very well! But if this is the in Manhattan, let me ask without fe for the deliberately unemployed, who becoming profane, ts Dodo Baxter? And Usually discolorations of thie sort are the result of temperamental up- risings, which bring on fistic en- what fe ehe? She is simply a vain, shallow little parasite who plays men for what they are worth in jewels, flowers and other perquisites that she eells in order to keep her room rent paid and her silly, empty head in the region of the seventh heaven. Like most of her kind, she pretends to fol-| A day or two ago Mr. Belasco was low @ calling—in her case the stage. Grafter ia too good a name for he! But the truth is she means nothing. She is simply a cheap peddler, devoted counters. Mr. Belasco's case, how- ever, Is different. Absentmindedness is directly to blame for the abrasions around his optic. Jat his desk In the antique room at \the Belasco Theatre pondering deep- to the trade of hawking the gifts that she wheedles out of hor fovlish ad-|1y over the ‘Warfield play. Finally mirers. An attempt is made to sentimentalize her, but the result is a dis- mal failure. Such a girl, if compelled to earn a living on her merits, would he decided he'd knock off a little while, and he started up the stairs that led to a balcony in the room. CRAWFORD ENGAGED. Clifton Crawford has been engaged for the principal male role in the sup- port of Emma Trentini, who is soon to be seen and heard in an American- 'Polemblut.' His a Broad- Best ized version of most recent appearance in way producti in “My Girl,” at the A BACKWARD GLANCE. Marie Doro, starring witb William Gillette and Blanche Bates in “Di- plomac; at the Empire, made her first stage appearance aa Eva in ‘ncle Tom's Cabin,” rker of Charles Dickens'# “David Copperfield,” will be produced at Wallack’s Theatre on Monday night. awber, Emmet Daniel Pegotty, and Dorothy Parker Im to have the role of Em'ly. Other characters will be played by Eva Vin- cent, Helen Weathersby, Massie who is to be David. see | | acen Fisher, O. P. Heggie and J. V. Bryant, G ay “Tho Story of the Rosary will be} the attraction at the Bronx Opera | Houne, “The College Girls” will b the Lennox Pawle will play Mic- | Columbia, be at the rrigan is cast for|,, Mary Vit VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS.—., ence,” by George V. Hobarty! at the i of which formed a feature of! ings will tell how the Hrave The Murray Hill Th ‘The ‘Cracker oe Jacks,’ rd Mick! “The ace Theatre Geor y “Re Scenes" will be seen on t ba: tg ep Theatr The fel will have Fates and Flora David Belasco on ina Atte HE HARRIS (hu. ah Vrematinad hy the Author, Owen Jol bec led to throw up her hands and fall back upon he pace. ‘ 7 jompel P pon her nearest relation, «i. yteps up there is an abrupt turn, | stock compar he Coates Ober y the Lambs All-Star Gambul lust | National ue pennant and the | FULTON Ys, Wed. Pop), Bat, 00 7.20" no matter how poor that relative might be. vhed the laudir ouse in Kansas City. Miss Bates,) ‘Ing, will be seen at the Booth ‘The- | World's championshit . Me A vague eort of way Dodo is supposed to be an acireas, yet she dose! Mi Belasco reached the lauding | py the way, played Mrs, Dick In| Sprink, Will Tu Bal’ & h bill will be watdane TWIN BED: ¥ where the turn begins, still thinking| ‘Young Mrs. Winthrop" with the/atre on Tuesday night. Willan) paven in GAIETY ey nething more in the play than talk with a theatrical manager and then hurry back from an engagement with a stock company In Troy. “The Easiest Way, Laura, in * was willing to work, and good old Zaza began working on our sympathies in her dreasing-room. But Dodo merely turns from one | man to another to save herself from the necessity of earning an honest Mving.|an ofl painting on the wall. In his novel, Owen Johnson succeeds in making Dodo true to type, so far as she is concerned with a flashy, artificial phase of New York life. After the first act, which revealed last night the mercenary practices erhood, there was no dramatic growth, For one about the play. Then it happened. Instead of turning to the right he walked straight ahead kerplump into The force of the collision knocked him | down, and for five minutes he was | unconscious. There is no telling how me organization that year. ROLE FOR MISS DRESSER. Cohan & Harris have engaged Louise Dresser as leading woman for William Collier in the new comedy Mr. Cohan is writing for the come- dian, Until she is needed for this production Miss Dresser will be seen |have the role of Youth, son will appear as nee, Vharles Stevenson as Wealth, Mirian Collins as Love and Jullan Little aa Style, Other m pany are Mey McManus, Koxan |ton, Adele Holt, Willard Blac ‘and Thomas The play deal; | Elliott, the producer of the play, Will! Dresser In “A Ben John-| Rozikn singing Emma Dohly dancin us with ne tn Harry in songs an ‘4 will in- who utiful Fox and dda , : ue RUTH CHATTERTON in ARN COMMDY Daddy Long-Legs ERSTEN DANSK DE FO opt New York 2% (fit ty JOHN MASON’) ii ‘ 2 c e ht have been | with the experience of a youth who is Lori: rote! thing, the play never got out of the boarding-house in which Dodo putled | "UCh longer ho: mig deville in “A Turn of the i 4 rimer, ntch — comedia ee researc Cag, te ey ne’ toioa o change to « Harlem restaurant would have heen | “out” bad bis secretary not ap-|Kuoh” by Matthew White Jr. ana) “eet! Py the temnptatiogs of the world.) Sinks Cacniort and Hrnest Hall in LIBERTY'S 2 tet, Bees weloomed by way of variety. But there it was and there it remained, Even | peared just then and revived bin. direction. orge DB. Seitz, under May Tully's| Andreas Dippel will present his Dorethy,”” Miller Kent pres and uly Shattuck ing “Just in A All Seote at pete windiest Poe Five We "ae w fs ITKAINE, SHUBERT TH EATRI 4 the alcoholic hero, LAndaberry, was nursed back to health in Mrs, Pim's| Stringent measures were taken to a. She will prosent the sketch jopera.Comiaue Company at tho For: | won, DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS w - 7 top floor front, He, like the hard-hit Judge Massingale and the frankly | prevent discoloration ofthe skin, but | @t the Palace next week, ty-fourth Street Theatre on Wednes-|- Mile. Adeline Genes, th HE COMES UP SMILIN ood Waite 2a | pursuing Sassoon, dropped in and out without a jonable excuse, It was, (hey were only partially successful, —— day night in “The Lilac Domino,” al q md the bill'at the ELTINGE 474. (tht er) Lm C4 all eo badly stage-managed that act. Everything seemed impromptu, especially Sassoon's offer to supply a husband of convenience at a half-hour’s notice, there was no novalty after the opening His pearls were no | extravagant than the arbitrary action of the play. To see Dodo and the other girls of the boarding house turning their) presents of flowers, jewels, champagne and underwear tnto ready money . was @ revelation, to be sure, if you happened to be interested in that sort of petty trading, but viewed in the light of a heroine Dodo was hopelessly | It Was less than two weeks ago that Mr. Belasco wh¥e in an absent- nded state walked of a moving sireet car and waé nearly run over. | “L guess," he sald rday, “I'll have to employ a guardian until 1 gel through with this play. If I don't, T may walk out of a window and get killed.” MISS STOREY’! Every now and then vaudeville fu nishes the so-called — “legitimat stage a player who makes a decided impression, A few weeks ago Ray SUCCESS, and added a wealth of laurels Now prima to her already large supply. along comes Helle Storey, Cox began an engagement in “Twin! new operetta by the French poser, Charléi!’ Cuvillier. Painter and Mabel Riegelr |ternate In the title role, Amerioans who om= Both are | sons Mi fled with any. Vilfrid Douthitt, has been Ident!- go Opera Com- The Organization also include: an English barl- \lyn A ~ land dar Burt ton and L The Alhambra will Bergere | Croan, niin, his Latest tell in “The Suffragett and nn will 4 King in songs Whiting won, and n “The Lacks at Jonephine, on, ve Vaalerie Joe J. Panama,” ckso' Wed) INNOCENT IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE REPUBLICS! Wi, "iron a PAU IE FRE DERICH i unsympathetic, A frankly !mmoral woman ts entitled to much more respect donna with “Chin Chin” at the Globe, comedy Met; Jack € 1 4 d ‘and sympathy than a girl who plays the game without the courage to take M188 AUSTIN HER Oe Meee tench (a the Montecmery (tone: George Everett, Einar Linden, “curse You, Jack Dalton!" aero th ‘ the name. bd] Blanche Austin, the se and Stone whow that in dectdedly|®,.0uman tenor: | Jame Harrod, | ragtime singe emma HEH ICH COST ORG! Moreover, Maasingale was the only one of Dodo's admirers to give al yeur-old Dayton, ©., girl to whom | pleas B Haswards Rovere, OCuntee bed [aati hare : “geting,” but other times she brought into play a vivid, engaging charm, him soon. fi iy Aas | Re i begin. Later she will be . rom Philadelphia finds herself ‘daxhery Shop, By hie Snsrily ene SEO HEN AC h Anson not only triumphed ao ay to Lon Angele where she will More than 100 componers have sent | volved when sho con erve, accordion | Judge Massingale's P iy ucceeded In disguising the fact! appear in films for the Lasky Com- | Um cul compositions to the Little) berland Mountains to establish more and come | | that he fe an Englishman, He 1s the first Engliah actor to accomplish thinl weny. Theatre in response to Winthrop | school for the illiterate children of ay eketah | feat in an American play. Albert Bruning gave a well-considered and offen. | ‘The high buildings mar- | Ames's offer t have t the section. Among others in the \| } Gee Performance ns the walamander-hunting Sassoon, and Mis Rocayy| véivus to Mins Austin, "Why, people there play unpublishe cast will be Grace Elliston, William AMUSEMENTS. | a Mrartaves struck the one really human note In the phy ag the embittered | Hve Way, up in the atties, dow t they | PAW soit Wakeflcld, with the con- Tinabeih, Heatrice Aiea god Lain | °K : - || AFTERNOONS | EVENINGS Ameren who kept @ sharp eye on Dodo. Tn tow words ahe bronght home| 2, neulated, “And my grandfathers) gent of the United Booking Udiees, | Dix. Gallery nents will mahal Lillian)“ AKOMIAN WANs, sao an” || 10, 15 & 25¢ 15, 25 & 50c . rane ‘nia Sor ot Bray touch of romance or sincerity to the play. The audience had every right to believe she would run away with him and no reason to think she had really learned to love Lindaberry. There was nothing to indicate her change of| heart. For that matter she might just as well have announced her intention of marrying the theatrical manager who cheerfully advised her to “trim” the financially eligible gentlemen berry to prove that a salamander can go through fire without being even lay called “The Survival of the Fit-| Rennold Wi ee en ee to come ver been on, New York | Slay, @ Fit-| Renno olf, has now been #et for] ley, Hanvey and Dunleay ope y Mata: Wed. singed, The only mi mented is that some people Ko through life with-| Avsciutely mystified her. She was so [He ve a, Wednesday night, Tait Minntraim and. “Whe Rane nat PoPAnueane | : on her Hist. She obviously chose Linda- out getting what they deserve. Judged as a play, “The Salamander’ came through fire into a frost. For her , Miss Carroll McComas made Dodo all that she should have been—attractive, tantalizing, vacillating and vain—in short, a real type not altogether rare in New York. dant upon being in New York had 4 Lyric Theatre on Thursday n . | George M. Cohan, that she has just| The play ts concerned wit Mile, Sherri and Blanche Doyle Io fn the more aerious moments she seemed, ike Dodo, always to pe| Worn off, he will test her natural act~ | COTE Ca diay which whe will mull | tucky feud in which a young wong | aoclety dances, with thelr Fox ‘Pr ‘the manning of a woman's life in which there is a child but no husband, Mr. Belasco is to give some prelim- inary stage training, arrived from her home yesterday accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Minnie Austin, The young woman is a niece of Ralph Austin, of Bailey & Austin, musical comedy actors, ‘The train yhe board- ed to come here was the first Miss Upset by what she saw that Mr. Be- [iico told her to take & week and neo the sights, calm down and return to him. ‘Then, when the novelty atten- Ing talents and her course of instruc source Broadway. Gossip. Sallle Fisher may soon be seen in ical comedy in Chicago. jeorge H. Atkinson bas written a resigned as New York representative of the Red, Blue and Green Hooks. Georgette Cohan, who ie living near London, has written her father, and sing at the Prince of Harry Hermsen, operetta are laid carnival, The scenes of the in Nice during « ee Rose Stahi's postponed appear: at the Hudson Theatre in on Perfect Lady," by Channing Pollock and “The Battle Cry," @ dramatizatlo of Charloa Neville Bock's story of the fame name, will be produced at the } tre will Honnie | songs, dan. Grace De senting “His Wife's Mother, ai" at the Royal The: » Tempest in joodrich a Mar, Emmot © the World The bill will “My Wi Include at the f their ET nd MATS. WED. MONTGOMERY & STONE ¢. susan ie, Batak Biche Today & Sunday Concerts Tomo'w UNDER COVER), STANDARD Sita MME.PETROVA: eek—-"TOO MAN) O's MIRACI LONGACRE Pi ‘ark 4} RS. FI Tree HANI um, Chote Wad AST 4 DAYS, To Toes 4 , Cohaa’e W. dsth Bt, ves TRICK CA b ot. & PAN’ cook, x = MAN. att ee TORb & Abba Mle afta | jn ‘out at his home tn Ohio, says | 4 VIE Where the ordinary actress would have been mandlin, Miss Sitgreave night out 6 9 te ee wane 4 benefit ut the Park The-| Adele Blood comes to the Garrick | MAC KAY Kine Kivi & Mer Miustee) Mine, H P } poignant. Orme Caldora made rather poor work of Lindaberry, waves wan| tipay Be ign Ape eine get through | uire on Now, 1. “ Wheatee on Thurshey Riche ee | \) ite. € devine at is ne IR ELAND.A, Naz Taylor was very good as the matter-of-fact theatrical manager, and Mica! Nie antique room whe hong other | Andre, Mile, Sherri, Morence Doyle lady's Boudolr,” a drama by J.C.) Martone Nest Week 3) 6A? SOU St taING iad, Quartette a Fetheine Larrimore was genuinely amusing na an artist's moder the en things, ere statues of Various shapes [nnd {nels for tre ier ee acatean qunracter js that | Pr x FF nt a sre ett herself open to the auspicion that she had taken Mise Hillis Goext| and sizes. One figure fascinated Minw |The. tre beginning Mo pie | of & younm achreak who 18 having. bar fan [1 how vanors SCOTCH | Ares tel ‘as a model of acting, Mis# Bille Burke) Qustin, and she received a di Broufway Thestre beginning Monday. | first experience ws a New York war Muir Leugue at Aterten, || a Se New trand 50 3a Hole Tony oe . < coottegelly y ook hold of tt peicteeness |The whole play takes place in her ‘aaa tw 606, Next Weok— Pe. But after the amiable grafters had exhauated thetr Hittle bag of | whack whe Lone ne + : BT nal ke tar te i as ” of tr ‘ plasco scrubwe rest. NEW PLAY 18 PROMISING. dressing room, and the types general NI Harrivg Ten in 3 “phe Salamander” was like so much cold lobster, aKa Se wae she FAiese ee ene eam |v are those xamocluted with the the. “THE HABERDASHERY”’ 3 | ing after wielding the mop. Word from Wilkes-Barre suys that atre Among them @ millionaire who | SOCLETY OF NEW YORK Fun and Gir, one Boranieteet = ; " . Means toe Won ix interested In the young star. It P Sk . | TAFT STANDS VOTER’S TEST.) s2:rerident tow. to, work, the voting) seen vere Winter Garaen | te drat time Tat night Sinan iiood's, wupnart will bo Henry |JOSEF STRANSKY connec test Nous tease ere someone at a Republican. rally, presided) AL dole Oe vedo Jarden| A drama of much promise ergman, Mrs. Charles G. Craig, 5 bn rep eae ae hold the Haws and ts /sperkers” wern Senator Hrandewse "at | ado yea out of bed on the wronk! i “i. Gould and F. Whitehouse, oth | Pallan 1 Raward Lynch, Mark | ick Rudolph lewd y aia ta (ca sheatient, Conneticut’ and) Senator ‘Turton Of futely certain that the world was Porn ane boty heretagore practical- and duck (FE vamos thgion Battery and 18 yaork, NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 24.—Will-| oag ¢ ees Sineet SahERi But OF, Real he said, “I'm going to W. A. Brad ite ninduetiia of “Tires | Han ore ee Ti Coie PRISE WINE ha. jam Howard Taft, professor of constitue | me BD. 1, Sou Ji nton, heatrical business, AN EXPERIENCED MAN. Shompeon Buchanan's bie American Viote | THE PRIZE \ a if ticnal ww in Yale University, was mado! ,'he & D. 1. Southerland Aasociation ‘asked @ friend, A negro appteaghed Ben Atwell of inelodrama, will be seen toonigh au OWL itevitar | j | ae bia * & Connecticut voter hee yesterday. Ho rove Street Grammar School No.| "Oh, I'm tired of it. T want to be| the Hippodrome on the street eT e Guere lion canes AAtee ai Bi ee ee reid males kot ee. fead a section of the “ satitution, swore 3 Will hold its fail meeting next Tuesday | either a writer or a baseball magnate. | day and said he want enlist” in curtain rines at 8 o'eloch Manager, Ho Godfrey Turner, 140 | BROOKLYN AMUSEMEI i. uphold 1 aa ell fe the laws of the evening In Public School No, 95, °jn| As It 18 now I'm getting so nervous [| one of the arinies of Wars of the er ee) 2 STEINWAY PIANO USED. 7 7 — roe oueeanery counter; . ‘Clarkson street, near Hudson streai, can’t sleep a wink after 11 o'clock in| the World.” “The Spur," a three-act play by, . fenne CHARITY. R * “ ‘Ward. While he was rending some One Vion have heen invited mot oni (hg the morning. It's awful to lle awake! “Do you know anything about fires Anniy Nathun Meyer, will ve Winea we | CENTURY since am : ~~~ | ue STER at iy ‘the an To-day Met... MADAN. Ut Be BALA, THE FA S % members of the amsociation and their in the iniddie of the night like tha arma?” asked Mr. Atwell the Court Theatre on Monday after-| saute, Low BERATED, BACAR Ly RVERY AUNDAT, TWO 4 f= vey OF TH i Re an ge arch, 0 prot, ‘Tatt joked around and said: wives and guei but also all former “What do you want to writ) "Fliahahms?” came from the neeio iam gt here to be ade, fun of", | pupils and graduates of Grove treet | | “Baseball. Or, better still, I “say, Mr. Atwell, Ah wah a flahman ear a an! AE yy, ans dmin-|own part of a baseball club. For in-| for seben. yeare ast ole Numbab then ab the iatra stance, if I owned half of the Athiet- ‘Leben in ty. a noon In ald of the Belgtan relief fund. eee By | o' My Heart" comes to the Grand Opera House. i a INNA, mt re hers 11 Wi liane Kaoeb,, Pa aot ae tance