The evening world. Newspaper, October 31, 1914, Page 7

Mi to happen. asieter® Rea LAS CAGE AY Set ‘THE CAREFULLY Syatun ee i Worm. Do You Know the History of Your New Gown, Mi- lady? Learn It From Edward Knoblauch’s Play—it Will Make You Think.° ; By Marguerite Mooere Marshall. fe my lady's dress made of? stained indelibly, if invisibly, with black vengeance and tears of 3 lace with the laughter of a wise Dutch maiden tucked away in ite folds; flowers wrought by a Whitechapel waif; fur that saw a man's Hfe tumbling in ruins sbout him; cat-like cruelty with the mouse suddenly turned mur Gerer. All that and more is in “My Lady’s Drees,” the play by Edward Knoblauch at The Playhouse Theatre, which every woman in New York should see, which will prove to her that the world is no bigger round than the circumference of her own skirt. Halt a dozen nations, young lovers and dying men, a i, girl with the hair of Melisande, a brute sat toe wasatal@be sausasa Cay Lady's Dress.” It’s esure silk, fur-edged, lace foaming above and beauty is @ little thing beside the hidden In her dream she sees first the peasant’s house in Italy, where the silk worms afe spinning the fabric of her frock. Significantly, this scene comes to its tragic conclusion because of @ woman's love of dress. Peasant Nina, Anne in metamorphosis, has made it one man, to win a gayly ovlored kerchief for her neck, while she really loves another youth. The cheated suitor, on the day of Nina's wedding to his rival, plans a diabolical vengeance. He will not tell of Nini kisses, and risk a knife thrust, but shee doing it for his sake, dressing to charm the flirtatious old reprobate img Graught, refuses a kiss to her “oave-man” and then—things begin © THE NEW PLAYS o Adele Blood Highly Decorative in “Milady’s Boudoir”. By CHARLES DARNTON. EMARKABLE construction work!” exclaims one of the odd charac- ters in “Milady’s Boudoir” ap he glances about him. And he ts right. Architecturally, “Milady’s Boudolr” te a remarkable play. You may not believe it, but the simple little home a designing old millionaire has provided the beautiful actress about to burst upon New York is eo arranged that she can look right down into the theatre that already bears her name. In fact, her dressing-room ts part of her home. Maxine Elliott's cozy-cornered the- atre isn’t in it with Joan Blackmore's combined temple of art and comfort, ‘Then, too, Joan accepts it all so simply that it gains an added charm. Home and mother (whose size suggests @ certain spaciousness throughout the apartmen mean so much to Joan that she doesn't question the millionaire until he pops right out of the wall. not for all of us, of course, to understand the devious ways of mi!- Honaires interested in the stage, yet when a large, middle-aged man of wealth steps calmly out of the wall of a room we are naturally curious. Sven Joan shows surprise, What does this mean? Why, it simply means a private elevator with t secret pa explains the millionaire, eo that may have a means of escape from stupid, bothersome persons when she is famous, But she doesn’t like the idea of his using it in this unceremonious fashion, Doesn't she, though? His calm is ruffled. Surely he can do as _ he Ikes in his own house! Something has told you this, but Joan, knowing nothing of the world, has fondly believed all along that the theatrical magnate who is to bring her out had made all these unique household arrang. ments in order that she might be comfortable and more in the atmosphere of a star, as it were, than she would have been in a Harlem flat. The naive child of twenty-five or 4 thirty can scarcely believe her ears when the piqued millionaire tells her | | the truth. She 1s dreadfully shocked, also pained. “friend” who arrived in the masked after her debut for an understanding. the stage in case he 1s repulsed, When she repels him thi that may be politely described as realistic, and though Adele Blood, who has the role of Joan, can hardly be called a weak little woman, she ts dragged into the dressing-roo! This is the “strong” scene in J. C, Drum’s candid Iittle play. It in more than one sense, but fortunately the faithful company manager, eum- moned by the maid—who ts his slater in disguise, if you please!—rushes to the rescue by bursting through the locked door. Mr. Drum may be forgiven, perhaps, for the reason that this 1s his first play. There's no knowing what his acquaintance with the stage, as a press agent, may have taught him, but his millionaire—like Wealth who assumed a proprietory attitude toward act- reases in “Everywomaa"—certainly cannot help the cause of the theatre. Joan has her revenge when she finally tells htm “You are cheap at any ce.” ‘That's a maddening thing to say to @ millionatre, Though she is But the unmasked vator doesn't intend to wait until gets such good “notices” in. the newspapers that she defies both the million- aire and the theatrical magnate. Little do dramatio oritics know what mey be transpiring in the early morning hours after a fret night when they are .. Diigefully snoring! Fancy @ devoted Iittle eallboy asleep on « trunk in the beauteous star's boudoir apd then waking to drop a tear on her I!ly-white/ haad. “1am engaged,” murmurs Joan to the company manager u moment ane seyret eg RNR ISIN SRN THE EVENING WORLD, LEON GVARTERNAINE * JOHNKEER” CeO reRMAWE aR s aiieak <a * antta® be Ne STAGS “JAGQUELIN "(LEON QUARTERMAINE) THROVGH THE CURTAIN even while she etands before the Priest he will fing open the windows and let the cold alr kill the silk worms, the sole fortune of the youn¢ husband. Nina mora pretty clothes, he sneers. She shall toi! under 4 heavy burden of debt, and bear chil- dren and grow old in @ few year: while he watches her youth and bea: ty being slowly tortured to death. ita earliest beginning “My Lady's Dress” undergoes a baptism of pas- sion and misery. HOW THE LACE AND THE SILK FLOWERS GROW. There misery and passion, too, ia ite weaving, but the passion is generous and not base. At his Lyons loom white, coughing Nicolas can no longer mingle the threads with his old dexterity. To his aid comes the roysterin, drinking Joanny, jose wife is the bottle in his hip pocke’ but who convinces the inspector that his own perfectly woven silk is the work of the slowly dying weaver. The latter never knows how he has been il have SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1914. saved, and for sole recompense Joanny bends over the fingers of the weaver's wife, Annette. More tears than smiles go to the making of “My Lady's Dress,” but mirth is not wholly absent, The lace trimming assisted in a gay little scene in a Holland garden, nearly three hundred years ago. Antje, still an- other Anne, exposes all the {di of a Dutch fop, and makes him pay for the exhibition with the price ‘of the lace that, centuries later, adorns “My Lady's Dress.” Whatever a wo- man’s personal fondness for clothes, she has no use for the man who makes enthusiastic tollettes. While_she fashions the silk flowers for Anne's gown, Annie, a cripple, in a Whitechapel slum, dreams shyly of the legend of Pelleas and Meli- sande. For sie, too, has glorious golden hair, and, since she cannot move from her attic, why shouldn't a “Bee my solitaire. It is a tear.” suitor climb to her on adder of gold? But Jack, her sister Liza's “boy,” banishes the vision, and Anno crifices her one beauty to buy Liza @ wonderful wedding. The delicate silk roses bloom in an atmosphere of Does that appeal to you? Perhaps you prefer the unconscious humor of the honest young manager when he ks her to marry him and then apologetically begs her not to let his pro- posal bother her. It is now 3 in the morning, yet Joan, after a few playful words, puts on her hat and atarts for Jersey with her beloved to find a minister, Mies Blood is forever putting on gorgeous things. Her dresses are ds ziing wond nd so tight at the knees that in walking in them she seems to be accomplishing the impossible. She ts handsome and shapely, and the blond tresses ehe painstakingly lets down in the first act struggle are enough to cause even William Hepner to open his eyes. Though she succeeds in being highly decorative in “Milady's Boudoir,” her acting is not illuminating. She epeaks in a monotone that nothing can alter and poses from first to last. Her attitudinizing ts apparently of firat importance in her mind, for she per- sists in it evon in the heroine's most trying moments, Though she goca through experiences that would make almost any actress a bundle of shriek- ing ne whe remains as calm as a show girl on salary day. To put it gently, Miss Blood can hardly hope to equal Joan's New York triumph us an emotional actress, Mrs. Charles G. Craig is using as the silly mother, William Riley Hatch playa the millionaire doggedly, Henry Bergman talks well as the theatrical magnate, and Edward Lynch makes the company manager a reliable sort of chap, The play is well staged by Reginald Harlow, but in spite of its furnishings “Milady’s Boudoir” cannot be called an artistic achievement. Like Miss Blood's Derformance, it suggests nothing #o much as 6 splurge. Plays for Coming Week strong | |; \LSIE FERGUSON will appear at E the Lyceum Theatre on Monday night in “Outcast,” @ four-act play by Hubert Henry Davies, After being jilted by a woman in his own net, Geoffrey Sherwood, a middie aged Englishman, meets a woman of uw usual type who has known life's vi: situdes, Between these two chara ters, socially far apart, there is mu in common, The play dealin with their redemption. London., The company provided by Charles Frohman and Klaw & E) wer for Miss Ferguson inc aries Cherry, Marguerite Les! Warburton Gamble, J. Woodall Birde, Anne Meredith, Leslie Paimer and Nell Compton, re ‘A Marte mocunaet with her London company, begins an engagement at the Comedy Theatre on Monday night by Henry Arthur Jones, en- lary Goes First.” It is de- scribed as a satirical comedy of mid- dle class life touching on English political conditions. The story con- cerns the struggle for social prece- dence of two women living in the provincial city of Warkinstall. Much hangs upon the settiement of the two burning questions, “Who goes in first to dinner?” and “What impro- priety?” Later in her season at the Comedy bol Tempest will be seen In “At the “The Marriage of al) ‘and “Art and Opportunity.” Browne will again appear as her leading man, At the New. Arasterdam Theatre on The scenes are laid in Monday night Klaw & Erlanger will present “Papa's Darling,” by Harry B. Smith and Ivan Caryll. The piece, adapted from a French farce, ts based upon the fdea of a mythical eon and @n equally mythical daughter of two supposedly ultra-respectable rural husbands to cover up their visits to Paris, where they are very gay in- deed. The company Includes Frank Lalor, Dorothy Jardon, Alice Dovey, Fred Walton, Octavia Brooke, Jack Henderson, Frank Doane, Edna Hun- ter and Lucille Saunders, . Another musical comedy, “The Only Girl,” by Henry Blossom and Victor | Herbert, will be offered by Sol Weber on the same evening at the Thirty- ninth Street Theatre. Among others in the cast will be Wilda Bennett, Ad Rowland, Louise Kelley, Vivian ‘Wensell, Josephine Whittell, Estelle Richmond, Marorie Oviatt, Thurston Hall, Ernest Torrence, John Findlay, Jed Prouty and Richard Bartlett. At the Casino on Tuesday night Tew Fields will present a operetta, “Suzi.” The H book of Franz Marton has adapted by Otto Hauerbach, and the muste ts by Aladar Renyi, Jose Col ling will appear in the role of Suzi, a comic opera star, whose roma with the young son of a Hung: Colonel of Hussars forms the of the story, Other members of company are Conte Ediss, Tom Mc- Naughton, Lew Hearn, Robert Evet Fritzi von Busing, Melville Stewa: and Arthur Lépeca. rs Mme. Nasimova will appear at the suffering and self-denial. Do you remember the pei elllings of fur on “My Lady's dros: That fur came from a tr: in Siberia, with i drama. A cave wom & college man—and wishes she wasn't. So she makes love to an oaf as | norant and brutal as herself, un one day, her husband finds out. He doesn’t kill her and her lover, al- though she despises him for not doing so. When he discovers that he hasn't even a child to call his own, he re- turns to his revolutionist companions, comforting himeelf with the thought that “they finish you quickly when they catch you the second time. TRAGEDY EVEN IN THE DRE! MAKING—THE MANNIKINS, Last, we have the fashionable dressmaking establishment where the gown Is put together. Before the cur- tain-comes the beautiful human fur- niture, the mannikins in the gowns which they are showing off to some of Jacquelin’s choicest customers. ‘There are several really lovely cos- tumes shown In this scene, particu- Harrie Theatre on Friday night in “That Sort,” by the English author, Basi! Macdonald Hastings. The Liebler company makes the produc- tion. At the opening of the play the heroine ia on the verge of suicide, but she is finally saved from moral disaster, . é “Bringing Up Fat! will be the comedy offering at the Grand Opera House. “The Third Party” moves to the Standard Theatre. The Bronx Opera House will have “The Dummy.” — NEW BURLESQUE COMES TO COLUMBIA WITH “THE LONDON BELLES.” Rose Sydell will bring her London Belles, with Johnnie Weber as princi- pal comedian, to the Columbia Thea- tre on Monday. A new two-act bur- lesque called “The Rising Sun,” writ- ten to exploit Weber's individuality as a German vomedian, will be pre- sented with elaborate scenery and costumes and @ company that in- cludes several of the best known per- formers in_burlesqu Among them are Will-Nell Lavender, Louis Theil, Billy Burke, George Clayton Fry lara Stinson, Kathleen Jesson, Chauncey Jesson, Pearl Turner and Eddie Turner, Election returns will be received by special wire Tuesday night and read to the audience. “The Charming Widows” will be seen at the Murray Hill Theatre. ote ympic will have “The Revue of 1918. | The Vitagraph Theatre will con- tinue to give the motion picture Fates and Flora Four- ish” and ‘Sylvia Gray.” A film production of Elinor Glyn's story, “Three Weeks,” will be shown | at the Broadwa: Rose Gardens Theatre. “The Man from Mexico,” with John Barrymore, will be seon on the sereen at the Strand Theatre. “Thirty Leagues §Inder the Sea” will be exhibited at the Casino to- ternoon and evening. Dolly and Martin Brown mong the principal dancers | at the Gardin de Danse. VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS. At the Palace will be Kitty Gordon in “Alm: ranklin, with ee Hughes, in the latest dances; and Bonnie Thornto! Jonephine, and Laddie © Singer's Midgets, a European troupe, with seven ponies and two| baby ‘elephants, will make Amertoan debut at Hammerstein ‘on the bill will be Joe Howai pe Mabel_McCane, in a new ac! Robert F. Dailey, in « fa Dainty Marie, on the fying rings, ané Has- riet Burt ia songs. a Jamon and wAst 2 TimEs ALL FUN, MUSIC, DANCING AND PRETTY GIRLS. ay st larly a pure re even! without trimmin, with wonder- ful drapery. Sir Charles, rheu- matic old roue, Who manages to keep an oye to spare for the pretty mode Also there is Jacquelin, lent, effeminate, revolti who brings out the new manniki! Anita, as a “one man show"—8Sir Charles being the man. Ho insults her, she @iadains him, he turns furtously on Jacquelin and the latter, of course, attempta to make the girl pay. We see behind the cur- tain all the loathsome tyranny of the man who boasts that he brated the winning of his firat mx by kicking the possessor of Anita go home to her sick mother, and finally jeers at that mother in a telephone con- versation with a friend, after havi aded his victim to the last inch op, Dally ats THUGE al DAILY icv 1HPPOPROMEN iS By WORE” "WARS Ems. 1,000 ris Gre eiset thse Winter Garden 4.: PARES Pie ae: of her endurance. hind the curtain shears, which something that is at once soft and solid. He falls, his convulsively kick-| ing legs grow still and the last drame of “My Lady's Dress” ts done, Your gown, the one you wear to the theatre, has maybe been through) adventures just as thrilling. Do you over think of that? | EXPERIENCE scien the sh sn omer, fm The Alhambra will have Eddie Leonard and Mabel Russell in a ai ing and dancing epecialty. musical comedy, “The Claire Rochester, who sings both so- Prano and baritone; Fred Sosman, monologist, and Lane and O'Donnell. The bill at the Royal Theatre will include Mr. and . Carter de Haven in “The Mashe: Bessie Wynn in songs, Paul Morton and Naom! Glass in "Before and After,” Claude and Fannto Usher in “The Str ight Path,” Brooks and Howen, Joe Cook and Glooson and Houlihan. Rey nae at rae ia q eres {CONSEQUENCES fein ee 48th Se. Eee etn be LAW il Land wi BROADWAY at tint Ea Continuous Noon to 11.30 ll ATER NOONS 3 5 ANINGS MIDNIGHT sHow YS UESDAY santo eae Vand SUNDAY” me 1 POU ARINER MIKE BERNARD “MY BUTLER” REAM OF THE ORIENT” iflcent Musical Spectacle Co, of 12. _ Deak hit 6—Other Excellent Acts—6 INU PR att ffiopoersore. Foor. CENTURY &% Seon ou Wart, 0a * Pe! ay of vt SPR. arity ny vs. Bi RK ree MRS. 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