The evening world. Newspaper, December 5, 1914, Page 7

SUS arns _— “SOME FAVORITES TO BE SEEN € og VA SOsePuine "tN re) PUBLIC Plays for the Coming Week Monday—Hazel Dawn in “The Debutante,” Knickerbocker The- atre. Tuesday—“Watch Your Step,”” New Amster- dam Theatre. ‘AZEL, DAWN will be brought out asa star by John C. Fisher at the Knickerbocker Theatre Mohday night in “The Debutante, @ comedy of European lite by Harry B. and Robert B. smith, with a Mamsteal setting by Victor Herbert. Mise Dawn's role is that of an Amer- feam girl who brings her ratber in- @ifferent fiance to terms by appearing ‘G8 & professional violinist at a m @eerede and encouraging the atten. ., tons ofan impecunious French noble. was. Among others in the cast will be Will West, William Danforth, Baird, Robert G. Pitkin, Wil- muth ‘kyl, J. Abbott Worthley, ‘Thomas Reynolds, Zoe Barnett, ‘Maude ‘Odell and Syivia Jaso.. Mr. Herbert will conduct the orchestra om the opening nigh! oe “Watch Your Sto; described by its producer, Charles Dillingham, as “g syncopated musical show,” will be offered on Tuesday night at the New Amsterdam Theatre. The book ds by H. B. Smith and the music by Irving Berlin. The company includes . that dancing pair, Mr. and Mrs, Vernon Castle, Frank Tinney, who Is to be a carriage caller at the opera, ® Pullman porter and a coat room boy; Elizabeth Murray, Brice and King, Sallie re nee Harry Kelly. . With Mr Patrick ampbell in the tle role, “The Second Mrs, Tan- y,” will be presented at Wal- lack’s ‘Theatre to-morrow night for benefit of the Committee of Ee In the supporting cast will be ith Wynne Matthison, Viva Bir- 1, Aubrey Smith, Kenneth Douglas, ahem Browne, Philip Merrival ri Keithle: fhe Richard Hattera ° SER rianse tor the benefit of igian women and children will be ven at the Strand Theatre on Tues- lay afternoon. Among thuse who have volunteered to appear aro Mra. Niderses Campbell, Margaret Anglin, rie Doro, Mile. ynne Matthison, Marie Tempest, lie Neilson-Terry, Julie Opp, Allen, Frances Starr, Willian Weraham, William Crane, Robert tell, Francis Wilson, William lliette, Lew Fields and Joe Weber. oe curtain raiser at ednesday afternoon, by George Cronin and Ralph Mo ty will be given. Lucille Watson will’ play the only feminine role. Mme. simova, Ruth Chatterton, Dorziat, Edith for Richard Bennett beatae gage t at the Hudson Theatre on Mon- fey akg in Brieux’s sociological 1d Goods.” othe Sat ne to the Stan- dard Theatre. Chauncey Olcott continues his suc- cessful engagement in “The Heart ‘Paddy Whack” at the Grand Opera ‘ Third Party” will be the at on at the Bronx Opera House. Billy Watson brings his “Oriental to the Murray Hill Theatre. MOTION P PICTURE PLAYS. edgiion ¢¢ to film plays the Vita- will_offer_a_ one. he a over Dull. Cabaret Artistique. mit RVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1914... ‘© THE NEW PLAYS © “Sq Much for So Much” Sure Cure for Rheumatism. By CHARLES DARNTON. BVIOUSLY, if we are to judge by what we sec on the stage, the at- O tractive young woman who clicks out a living on the keys of a type writing machine in this busy metropolis must “watch out” if she is to save herself from becoming a carbon copy of a human document, There was more than a suggestion of this in “Help Wanted,” and lust night at the Longacre Theatre Willard Mack pounded away at the same old moral. Playwrights, of course, are privileged persons. All they have to do is to assume that certain conditions exist anti then try to make us believe everything we see, It's as easy as—writing a play. A difficult matter? Not at all! Just put yourself in Mr. Mack's place, but if worst comes to ‘worst don't—please don't!—make a curtain speech about it, as he did last night. And don't, above all, follow his very bad example of trying to act the hero. “So Much for So Much” would undoubtedly have amounted to more if a clean-cut young aetor had been given the role of the newspaper reporter that it pleased the author to play. With his slouch and his slang, he acted as thougt experience had never carried this reporter above the Bowery. This is not said in a epirit of professional pride, but with a sense of dramatic value. The point is that Mr. Mack's play would have been better off with- out him in the cast. But he is sincerely to be congratulated upon his wife, Marjorie Ram- beau, who played the competent, businesslike and naturally pleasure-loving heroine so convincingly as to win her audience completely. She was as simple as the shirtwaiat she wore, and she made the most of the play by her direct manner, even when Mary got back to her east side home with rather uncertain steps at 2 o'clock in the morning. Now, Mary was “good,” yet willing to take Certain risks with her em- Ployer for the sake of going to the theatre with him and stopping off at a/ restaurant on the way home. If she took a drink or two—well, that wag her business. Of course her mother worried, and the worldly-wise reporter who couldn't afford to marry Mary was troubled in his mind. Mary was far from being the conventional “innocent,” yet she never suspected the trap her middle-aged employer had set for her until he pretended to be a victim of rheumatism that kept him from going summoned her to his apartments to dash off it was the old story, with an additional chapter concerning another girl in his employ. Newa of her death in a hospital was followed by her old Ger- father and the reporter who had made the wicked Steadman his special wsignment.,’ You may be sure Mary told Steadma: hat she thought of! him, and that the reporter threatened to write a “story” that would “expose” him. But they both cleared out and left the play rather flat, with Steadman glancing out of the window and remarking that a pretty French girl was crossing the street. “So Much for So Much" seemed like nothing so much as rheumatism, After limpin® about, the designing villain threw away his cane with such suddenness that he suggested great possibilities as a patent medicine advertisement. At other times the play proved a strange mixture of realism and crudeness. Just as in “Kick I et up,” in the lan- guage of the author, with the good-natured, old-fashioned mother and her slangy, impudent children, only this time the boy carried domestic realism @ degree further by going about in his socks. But here we were given glimpses of life that spoke well-for the author's observation. Mr. Mack has the faculty of making what he touches interesting, yet he lacks the larger understanding of human existence as well as technical skill to develop his story effectively. However, Mary is absolutely true to type, if not to the typewriter, and, ae said in an earlier burst of enthusiasm, Miss Rambeau played this part 80 well that she waa interesting and natural from first to last. Clear-eyed, de. flant and always sure of herself, she gave a performance quite out of the ordinary. She acted as though she had never set foot on the stage—and that’s a trick few learn, no matter what their training may have been. It will be interesting to watch the career of this young actress, now that her husban play has brought her in touch with Broadwa As the old German who was in at the death of ‘his daughter, Edmund ‘Walton struck a genuinely human note, Although halting occasionally in his lines, Joseph Kilgour, who waa rushed into the part of Steadman, made the villain plausible and did the best work he has performed aince he stepped out of “The Easiest Wa; Julia Walcot, as the old mother, was as real as her apron, and Ruth Perry and Cflarles Compton were quite in the family as the quarrelsome youngsters, So far as characterization goes, Mr. Mack has written with a pen that gets down to human nature, The trouble is that “So Much for So Much" ian't quite enough to make it worth while. few letters for him. Hero eure cure for wpoken drama, “What the Moon Saw," written by 8. Rankin Drew and presented by Sidney Drew and com- pan . A four-reel Scapiation of i e Casein a oO. D.,” will be tracting his programme just before the holida: The programme! arranged by Man- ager Moss for this and next week as well as the week following reveal vaudeville values greater than any i| offerad at the Moss uses at any other time of the “Buffalo” Jones, the cowboy who Col and who is declared by Roosevelt to be the most intrepid wild animal tamer he ever saw, is at the Moss Eighty-sixth Street house this week and at the Jefferson next week. The Six Berlin Madcaps, act, is at the Hamilton this week and at the Eighty-sixth Street Theatre next week, “The Great Diamond Ro! bery,” one of the biggest acts in vai deville, is this week at the Eigat sixth Street house and at the Me- ‘| Kinley next week, i “A Strand of Blond Hair,” as well as ‘Sunshine and “The Ghost Breaker,” Paul Dickey and Charles W. Goddard's sensational romantic drama, will be pictured at the Strand Theatre, with H. B. War- bas proved so popular at the New York Theatre that it will be retained indefinitely. Beginning on Monday afternoon the Casino Theatre will present Fd 8. Curtis's Indian motion pict in Christmas prizes at his five houses to holders of lucky coupons, The bill for the firat three days of! b next week at Proctor’s Fifth ‘Theatre will include Charles and Ada| Latham in the comet; jobody’s | ‘Tameo. cali. VAUDEVILLE ATTRACTIONS, Mose, manager of the Jeffer- ase, Highty-sixth his office and accordingly! a big time big 1 Mr. Moss is giving away about $1,000 N Avenue! stein's. one ve Fre Sings Tosca; Gluck With Symphon, By Sylvester Rawling. UCCINI'S | “Tose: was the bill at the Metropolitan House lest night, with Geral- dine Farrar in the title pa: Again, in @ season only three weeks old, the American prima donna demonstrated her worth to the box office, for the audience was larger than any save that of the opening night and of the two nights when she sang Carmen. With all her intelligence and appit- cation, both of which are great, Miss Farrar has not yet penetrated the soul of Tosca, as she seems to have done that of Carmen and Butterfly. Yet her impersonation is one to com- mand respect. In the principal arias, in the running by-play, and in the great moment of the killing of Scar- pia, she is worthy of the admiration she evokes. Giovanni Martinelli was Cavara- dossi. The young Italian tenor is not ideal in the part of the painter in love with the diva, but he sings and acts with sincerity, and is fulfilling | the promise that [ thought he showed Covent Garden two years ago last spring, — I heard him for the first time and had the pleasure of writing about Sit in this column, rp! | Scotti ts the Minister of Police, for | his impersonation is one of the most ‘convincing and memorable of con- temporary stage figures. The cast was familiar, including Bada, Rossi, Ananian, Begue, ul Cy Sophie Braslau. Mr. Toscanini con- ducted a fine performance. Alma Gluck, in an aria by Mozart and songs by Charpentier, made the Symphony Society's concert at Aeo- Nan Hall yesterday afternoon notable. ———————— Se interest; the Five Bell Ringers in a musical surprise, Bonita and George Pp Buephy presauas. aering a Admirer,” and act comedietta entitled’ ‘7 Winter rl,” Spissell Brothers and Mack in oer original pantomime “ he New Btellow, phone artist, rey Gartella Brothers in a comedy skating act. r Twenty-third Street htatre the headliner will be Wyatt's Scotch Lads and Lassies. At both Proctor’s Fifty-elghth Street and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street Theatres eight acts by well-known artists will be seen with special photo la; eet the Palace will be Annette Kel- lermann n exhibition of fancy div ing. Bessie Clayton in spectacula dancing, Lillian Chaw, dialect dienne;' Hymack, "the chameleon comedian: an acrobatic act by Bay- ard Cheebert’s marvellous Manchur- fans, Robert Emmet Keane and Mu- riel Windew in songs and danc Flanagan and Edwards in “On, an Oft" and Hussey and Boyle in “The New Chauffeur.” Ethel Barrymore, with Charles Dal- ton, will appear at the Colonial The- atre in the English one-act comedy- drama, “Drifted Apart.” Other fea- tures will be Jack Wilson in his “Im- promptu Revue,” Willa Holt Wal ficld in new songs, Clark and Herg- man in “Society Bud Nan Halporin and the Okabe Japs. The Alhambra will have Douglas Fairbanks, with Patricia Collinge, in Regular Business Man;" Tob: Claude, est pocket comedienns Maude’ Tambert and Ernest Balt Jn songs, Ed Morton, singing comedi~ ‘The Village Cabare' Koval Theatre wil Nesbit in the latest k Clifford, the Court- Since the Days of ‘51 tn @ new musical sk Wayburn's production of Slave Ship,” the action of which ta place just before the Civil War, wi | be the chief attraction at Hammer- Another new feature will be “Water Ldiles,” showing six girls in a diving end geimuing, eet. where also Laddie 5 ye - and Crosse and Josephine. Pi Opera | th tor! y her Tight to rank among the few Mozart singers left to wi Mr. Dam- rosch’s programme for his orchestra had for its principal feature Beet- hoven’s “Eroica” symphony. Besides, he presented three settings of British folk-songs und dances by Percy Grainger, an Australian composer. “Molly on the Shore” especially won vigorous and deserved applause. The Florent Schmit suite, descriptive of played with more than usual ive. cloned the ime. The orchestra played with more than usual effective- ness. A somewhat unusual programme was given last night at the song re- cital of Franklin Riker, tenor, Aeolian Hall. many composers, and two by thi himself. He seemed best, in songs |which required mainly delichcy of ex- ression and good taste, and some of fuebery that seemed to delight mont wee the little known songs by minor composers. Mr. Riker’ voice has increased in volume since he was it heard here some two seasons quality is good and ita scale tatty even. A number of light American songs completed his programme. The first of a series of “Moments Musicales avec Danses Modernes et Classiqu under the patronage se artists of the Metropolitan 0) Company, will be given at the ale dorf-Astoria next Friday afternoon. The soloists will be Karl Joern, Lucy Gates, Paolo Martucc! and Vera Bar- stow. Specialty dances, classic and modern, will be introduced, which there will be general dancing. The patrons include the Mesdames j Alda, Bort, Braslau, Cage, Destinn, Gadski, Hempel, Homer, Matszenauer and Ober, and the Messrs. Caruso, Amato, Didur, Gilly, Gorits, Joer Martinelli, Martin, Polacco, Rothie: Scotti and De Segurola. Fernando Tani and Dr. Anselm Goetsel will be the musical directors. The dance music will be played by the Russian Balalajka Orchestra. Maximilian Pilser, the accomplished young New York violinist, who been the concertmaster of the Phil- harmonic Society's Orchestra thie season, will gi recital at Aeolian Il to-morrow night. His pro- gramme will include the Bach con- certo in E major, the Vieuxtemps concerto in D minor, and composi- It contained so: for harp and organ by Th a IN NEW YORK PLAYHOUSES NEXT WEEK ~B wav AND a7 eee LOST TWO TIMES TO-DAY—ED, LE WAOTHE and THE GINGER GIRLS COMMENCING MONDAY AFTERNOON BIG CHOR: RAUL F mat Ti. GUS FAY 2 GAYETY GIRLS #2: with HARRY K. MORTON Us PRICKA—AMOKING TLAS sv 2Teme OLY MPIC *r%; 14 ST.- NEAR ST AV & [THEWINNER Morgan, harpist, will give a freo HOME OF RBURLE SQUE CHANGE Christmas organ concert in the Old i 4104 PION MATING ® or First Presbyterian Church next Mon- OANtR ° PROGRAD) Tho programme will , ‘ ' ky “ t IWEERLS went O TENPTERS ctReUs Yuletide ‘onaeon, to AD AN K SPECIAL |QUE EN CLEO)#! ORIENTAL FRAGE | SUNDAY AT TTRAC ION! lGREATE ST or th DANCERS CONCERT tions by Teschaikowsky, Sarasate, Victor Kolar and himself. German Liederkrai Graff, conductor, will gl private concert of the season at its clubhouse to-morrow nigBt. Karl Joern, tenor, and Carl Friedberg, Pianist, will be the soloists. There i oma by the men and hol! and the orchestra the Philharmonic William C. Carl, assisted by Maud first time, together with the fantaisi ‘The operas announced for the Met- ropolitan Oj House next week are as follow Saturday ning, for the benefit of the Italian Hospital, “Aida. Hamlin, the Chicago tenor, il give a recital at Aeojian Hall oeneecae afternoon. His pro- ‘ao! ancient and mod- Schubert, Schumann, Lalo, Carpenter and Mrs. Beach, some of them novelties. Harold Bauer, the renowned English pianist, will present an all-Chopin programme at his recital in Aeolia Hall thia afternoon. A feature of it will be tie sonata, opus 35. Prof. Samuel A. Baldwin will give free organ recitals at the City College on to-morrow and Wednesday afte: noons at 4 o'clock, me me @ Coat te Pr: hb In. CADILLAC, Mich., Dec. 5.—The Rev. ‘William E. Gordon, former pastor of the Btittaville Methodist Church, wept yesterday when sentenced to sixty day in jatl for the larceny of an overcoat. 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