The evening world. Newspaper, December 15, 1914, Page 12

@ THE NEW PLAYS © “Driven” Merely Drives | catalan You're quite right. feet en bad luck would ha’ Hall ‘Frontispiece — A painting of Old St. John’s Church, Christmas Eve, 1860. ‘ Cooking recipes and other helps for the house- wife. Puzzle picture for the children, - Copy of Gas Logic free at any Manhattan or Goto} * Bronx Gas Office, or send a two-cent stamp with name and address to GAS LOGIC, No. 1 ve., and have a copy mailed to you. rather col | of her v wan Minx Ww ent, ho HY do we drive ourselves to the theatre only to crawl back again? &nyone else, who Ka Sometimes I wonder why a manager doesn't atand just around the| (pine monen Ln corner and ask himself thia simpie question, After all, we ask’ band as only an eumaparatively littic of the theatre and we give It a great deal—ten't that no? | but the altogether Gay what they will of us, managers must admit we bob up courageously no fatter how the war may be going. ‘And, speaking in the same vein, waan’t {t Willle Coifler who, for a short | ton. In. the weal Wo, urged us to (nip, here goes another split Infinitive!) never say die? Last night at the Empire Theatre the heroine of the play, “Driven,” stulo, Lealle Fat etemed to turn to wa in the end and say just that—and no more, Wo left fee to Nve happily after with her husband. Nothing romantic in that?) Hxht trousers with There might have been something big and human in it,| 4 fUwoven perhaps wore w quite robbed him of serious conal all as comedy, es it there wasn't. We sat up late only to ace, in |lisie cl & pet dog alt up and lick up two or thr tal notes Bae to ee 0 Sauer were imagine we have no idea of oath Nahe" hee pete end, riven” merely drove an inno- #rankly, this English play “Driven” te deadly. It hasn't enough dramatic feteod to keep it alive, I don’t mean to say that FE. Temple Thurston doean't know how to write. nak ered ay he doesn't know how to write a play. “Do you know what I am going to do?” asked the heroine, after her a ul eecece had given her only two years to live, “I am going to live—live— anything of of Mr, Thurston’ irritating Dstt ful wits of a 1 “CHILD'S SCALP FD AND BURNED Out by Handfuls, | vachetor's cupboard that sho felt she Ara ald and Olnt-'had deen “counted on,” and #0 aho ve m, for, women! tt Ph play. Diana, law- who insisted upon attend- ing every night-session instead of | taking his attractive encumbrance .to | *rmon: and tn, the Bavoy and the theatre—this Diana of the chase—did nothing but turn up her nose at @ Poche Melba in the | “4 ! rooma of her devoted lover, Captain | war be Give her @ very nice supper. But rew #0 many delicacies out of hi : hat afty" couldn't Grew her fur-trimmed mantle about othe: her and walked straight out of his Dlace, Cc le apn Needless to add; the play went with | theatre was her. All along she had proclaimed | ners in the name of t her intention of living her short lite maith ohn for what it was worth, only to leave | #00 It cold because @ very good supper, with champagne, had been prepared for her. ki London, of course, with its restau- rant lights out at midnight, even when German visitors are not likely down from the sky, is a rather cheerless prospect. Mut why sei fe ee Useful ® Gif seful AmpasGitts At Special Sale Prices GIRL® | __ Boys’ | 65 GBC | Cope hat to match, os illustrated. it were, for her? Naturally, she came to her senses im the morning, but we no sooner eaw Captain Furness at the telephone, rising out of his despondeacy to run away with her, than the whole thing ‘Was put into cracked Ice, ) fo ony the least, this English mance came out cut-and-dried. 1) lover, in which Furness gave up the letters sent him by the wife, amount. ed to nothing more thay a capitula- tlon, with the result that the Captain was reduced to the rank of a cowaril, not to say a cad, when he learned hat the woman he professed to love thrown quite out of joint by the latest cabi m-~this army. officer would have staked everything on the atand he had taken. But he quailed at facing life with a woman who hat only eighteen months to live. Here was the big, throbbing love story that the playwright should have told, even though it ended tragically. at hing of the sort hi love letters, onl: wife into his arms wit play rest at 11.45. Such a Rusband could exist only in England, Happily, the pet dog survived Curtousl; ough, the husband did once upon the hope of his wife's recovery, held out to him by a young doctor who figured the professional consultation. He pre- The December number is beautifully printed and illustrated. Some of the ferred, seemingly, | On a child's size violin (which Just ft ts | her) with « skill far beyond her year VAUDEVILLE FANS GET EAT PROGTOR'S: This Week's Show Provides Many ,!0t of hearty laughs. Thrills of Comedy, Music and Merriment. Vaudeville “fans” who like a good thirsty, | FULL GAM y it was o disease not to be men- | toned in polite society. pd with her more MT | robust performance in “The Molluse.” An Innocent Dog to Drink. | Her bast sconce ‘wore anaced. with | Miss Haidee Wright, who brought feeling and eincerity into the BY CHARLES DARNTON. \ tent than as nue Theatre from y Bi hea be walked in to collect there this week (and every week) ar sure to be supremely satisfied when they make their “home run.” This week's show starts off with one of those “rehearsal” take you behind the «cenes and Kive you @ glimpse of what the lighter side of a vaudeville actor's life is like It is presented by and Evans, a pretty girl and clever | an, who close their act with | exhibition of dancing on/ the letters sent to the Captato Kneed role of the army officer who went in for taking Mi tion and introduced a very bad as by wear:ng style of inorning di ft black aack-coat, ent little dog to drink, Comedy? Welt, you may see it, but I coulda’ tt —— “YOUR GIRL AND MINE.” Dr. Anna Shaw Makes Debut tm Play for Suffrage. for women! A neven-act photo abiding member of roadway premiere at the} yesterday, “ “Oh, aren't they cute!" is heard on they were, it might be remarked that the Wilton Sisters are the best act on Proctor’s good bi! little girls of grea! whom plays Dvoral Pains and Aches Disappear Like Magic Begy's Mustarine Greatest Remedy on Earth for Headach knockout punch ts nm it y n the audience ha fiaine for his 90%, ie ed for the benefit women: National American Woman’ Furness, who had really done his bast | faye Associntion: ahd not the | Hewat’ hnew herself.” The theatre wus i they just r will surety and qi ism and NI mi e yellow box. Subs oat | _.THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, The other has a voloe whose excerlent quality promises much for future de- velopment. The Jewell Comedy Four furnish some excellent quartet singing and a Then comes a clever little comedy sketch presented by Lowell and Esther Drew. The scene is a drug ntore and the multi-colored “sodas” | drawn by the clerk make the audience Harriet and Bessie Rempel & Co. show should fill Proctor’s Fifth Ave-! have a novel sketch showing the way to our childhood dreams fail to come cachers” this week, for the bill true. It has lots of laughs and a hint offered given a full “nine inning: thrilis and comedy, music and merri- a of Of @ tear for contrast, Walter and Vivian provide some ‘more songs and merry foolishness, ment that Umpire Public will surcly | and Charles Sweet gives an excellent have to call a “hit.” And all who go | comedy musical act marked by un- ¢ {Usual imitations presented in an in- |{mitable manner. Not to be forgotten are the Aero- plane Girls and Proctor's Topical Ke- , showing Interesting current events in motion pictures, Some re- markable views of the Edison fire and also striking war pictures are among those shown, For its chief attraction, Proctor's y-third Street Theatre had tt's Scotch Lads and Lassies. At w the Fifty-elghth Street House Guard's Water Nymphs gavo an interesting exhibition, “The Yachting Party” was the main event at the One Hun- dred and Twenty-fifth Street Theatre. BURLESQUE SHOWS. tien” proved a popular attraction at the Columbia Theatre, were seen in a two-act burlesque, called “The Beauty Prize,” and Mr. Robinson kept the house in laughter with his comedy, All the latest dances were cleverly performed by experts. Among the principals, with Mr. Rob- inson, were Gladys Wilbur, May Fern- hardt and Mabel Lee, “The Big Sensation” was preeted with enthusiasm at the Olympic. burlesque, “Hotel de Luxe,” was full of fun, and the vaudeville portion of the programme introduced a number of clever entertainers, among them known as “The Little the Brianza Trio, Ital- Tony Smith and Mamie Champion, and Zumara, a harem —_——————. Two Overcome by Gas. Misa Eva Decker, twenty-two years jold, and her nephew, Harry Smith, slx, | were found overcome by gas in their room on the second floor at No, 882 Eighth Avenue, at 6 A. M, to-day. had accumulated during the night from a leaky tube to a heater, of the Polyclinic Hospital brow out of danger with a pulmotor. ihe them |Simday World “Wants” Work Monday Morning — Wonde » FURS Mags, 134 W. 34th si and Women’s Near Broadway ° Ready-to Wear Open Fvenings. Mail Orders Filled, Opp. Macy's. 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