The evening world. Newspaper, December 28, 1914, Page 6

A ©THE NEW PLAYS e@ “The Lie” Hardly Worth the |i, thoroughly Tenliand by ‘Altred Telling. constructed on artificial misund..- jn he doe Winhop h he did forget Hines for performa If lieth oA can be said of the] Villain | play, not much more can be said in favor of the star, While Minn Il on haa moments . rity, especially in ber lon of grief and disillu N® ofeter taking another by the throat and forcing her back into alnever for a moment BY CHARLES DARNTON. little chance relves, The wuReed typifies the hair, while you ait comfortably contemplating the parting tn her Englishwoman of an old house. Hor “Lady Luxury” Too Conventional For the Casino. extraordinary facial contortions mar blond, wavy hair, may not be a beautiful apectacie, but It miven you!even the earlier phases of her per- the only real satisfaction to be found tn "The Lie,” the latest play by Henry Arthur Jonea, now on view at the Harria Theatre b Margaret Mlington is compelled to as the last generation wait pationtly until the fourth act be. | fore getting her clutches on both the ye eee ore aubtin and eonvine @ister and her role. There you have ing than thos he employed in build ' the piay for what it is worth as dra-| ing his play, which belongs matic material, gentle theatre-goor. If You are shocked, so much the better. Any little thrill that comen in the) course of a dull evening ie more than) welcome. And there can be no ques-| tion that Mise Mlington gramps this | violent situation with @ powerful hand. Physical strength sometimes | counts for a great deal on the stage ‘The arts Mr) pany to produce “The Lie" imust| serous sister Is not only powerful in the physical sense but effective as a stirring bit of acting. It may not be o the characteristicaily English period when so-called dramas »-.0| unquestionably human. isn Violet Homing is more than standings and almurd mistakes mero-| clever aa the tricky piater, and C. ty for the anke of a “big scene.” -The| Aubrey Smith make Dibdin a fine, lone human character the author has| big, sincere chap, Aa the ly jcrentad ie that of the old, broken: | succeeds only in doing the wrong down baronet who haa taken to the| thing at the right tima, Vincent Ser- ano is so explosive that the wonder "t blow up and make an ‘ end of a bad ey He nt o opening | a Worse piece of work at the opening |e ould never play anything but the However, it should be considered that Mr. Jonen haa given the actors to distinguish them- truth is “The Lie" te ent, ahe| hardly worth the telll ones used to induce Kelwyn & Com. |Hut her final attack on the treach-| ggR ADY LUXURY," tho new mus- iP feal comedy at the Casino, certainly calls for indulgence it ston the part of « metro; ver has done Evidently, he olitan audi. But her outburst at the end of the third act, when she cries as the blond sister is motoring off, blow. ing mo a kise—Jud: blowing mo a kise ridiculous waste of What strange mortals these stage beings are! Take the biond sister for example: Lucy walks right Into the first act @ ruined lady, To her brunotte sister she confesses she hae played her Hiitie game and lost. She had made sure of a rich young man im cold-blooded fashion, but before he} could marry her he had been stupid | enough to die, Bho is nadiy in neod| of @ husband, Will Elin: wo with her to Brighton and stand by until the child ts born? Now Elinore had been planning to go to the County Bali, but she agrees to go to Brighton. A eeaside resort may seem the ta place on earth as n refuge in such ovent, yet Mr. Jones bas sot his heart of Brighton, and so Brighton tt Is. Hite play bes certain ingenucus charm. Meanwhile a most cligible young Jandholder ia hanging around the al- mont-ruined Abbey to ask Elinore to accept bis hand and his fortune, But Mr. Jones takes gout care ti Gerald doesn't say any more than plot will allow, The word th vottle everything happily 1# terrupted, But there are no end of words about :he County Bail and; other things that do not seen of vitai a cecil 3,260 Winter Coats Prices start as low as $5. zibeline, cheviot and astrakhan. At $7.80, in broadcloth, boucle, astrakhan lamb cloth, and many fur-trimmed coats. At $10, all kinds of pile fabrics; mixtures, broadcioths, and evening capes of brocaded plush. At $12.78, richly fur-trimmed conts of brocaded caracal, zibeline and other favored fabrics. At $18 are wonderful double faced mixtures with fur collars, fur-trimmed caracal, snow-ilake corduroy with fur collars, rich plushes, At $16.75 are two very fashionable coats of plush opossum collars. Other coats at $18.78, $25 and up to $150 for elaborate evening wraps; all worth an average of double tomorrow's price. 1,500 Dresses Evening dresses start as low as $8.50 for our $16.50 to $20 grades. There are a dozen pretty styles at this price. At this price three styles in importance. Borein lies the fascination of the, machine-made play. Occasionally an, ‘autbor goes to great lengths. On this score Mr. Jones may claim the long- distance championship. Because Ell- nore dosen't go to the County Bail, plush, with Anyway, Lucy tells the lie ‘or which any sleter might blush to the Tes et you are sent home to wu whether you couldn't have spent time to better advantage olae- | . Jones has written “a new play of Baglish life’ that le no ly in ‘the sense that it has never been pro- before, Otherwise }: is as 0!! down to a few garments of this or that style, color, material or size. Second and Subway floors, Old Building. Every box is de serving of the mame it bears. HOLIDAY FUR SALE Continuing Tomorrow in the Fur Salons $100,000 Worth of Muffs, Scarfs and Coats “ at 30 to 50 Per Cent. Less 18 furriers—best in America—-join with us in this sale. Many more would have liked to—ONLY the furs had to be sound and genuine, furs we could warrant without reserve, styles that women want, prices very, very low. Every fur in it is a selected fur. Every fur in it is what it is said to be, Among the 47 kinds of furs in the sale, every woman may be sure of finding the kind she likes. The styles are new; coats 30 to $2 inches long according to whether they are to be used for limousine, street or motoring; muffs in the pillow, barrel and melon shapes; scarfs in 2-skin, snake, double fur animal, straight and Russian shawl effects. Some of the Wonderful Furs in the Sale MUFFS Real black lynx, $88.50. SCARFS Black fox, as little as $13.50, Beaver naturel, 015. ‘fo match the muffs Raccoon, natural, 610. Hudson teal (dyed musk | Mink, natural, 628, $1.90 fora bleck coney, rat), 016.50, 885, Me Japanese mink, black opos- Civet cat, 011.60. eum, of taupe kit coney, 97.50. Rit for beaver, Russian fitch, 625, Black coney, 01.30. Half a hundred prices run- Black cat lynx, 612.50, Shunk, #20, COATS—$22.50 up | tink £2, $8 for # beautiful Fur Salons, Second floor, Old Building. OPENS AN ACCOUNT EDIT TERMS $Y Dew 559 /"G Down $10) $5 Pow 975 /%9 Porm 150 Open Mondey and Saturday Evenings 106 ST. L. STATION AT CORNER FISHER Bros COLUMBUS AVE. BET 103 &108 57 Prices Average Half Less. As line skirt. ence. The book by Rida Johnson Yousg fe childish, and William Sehrocder’a = music while the performance generally sug- gente & house party of young people who are never quite sure of them. relves in their efforts to be enter. taining. Except for the quality of youth the Piece has little to commend it, #o that altogether it seems too conventional for the Casino, led to give up the luxuries her for- tune makes possible for the simple life on & Texas ranch that her un- rainly suitor offers her, is almost too simple for the atage. f& etory-book for the very young, or at least the Rida Johnson Youngs. The heroine, who is She belongs in| an Harry Conor _ia “Lady Luxur; HOLIDAY WEEK at WANAMAKER’S The JOIN WANAMAKER STORE, Broadway, Fourth Avenue, Kighth to Tenth Street, Store Open 8.80 to 5.30. Holiday Spirit all Over the Store «+ :Visitors in New York Cordially Welcome: Music and Pictures in Auditorium, Especially for Children Annual After-Christmas Sale of Women's Coats, Suits and Dresses Many Below Half Twelve of Our Best Manufacturers Have Asked Us to Clear Their Stocks at Wonderfully Little Prices, and in Go the Ones We Have Selected with Our Own Well-Assorted Stocks, to Go Out in a Jiffy. Afternoon dresses start at $15 for serge, silk and velvet dresses the prices of which have been more than double. this group are dresses for wear under coats or indoor afternoon wear, At $13.50 is an evening dress model with a lovely crino- A dozen other attractive styles at this price. Some fur-trimmed. At $25 is a splendid group of evening dresses, prices of which were 842 to #68. Other dresses, for afternoon and evening similarly reduced, at $30, $45, $50, $75 and $95. 1,120 Tailor-made Suits At $15, a lovely fur-trimmed broadcloth model, and six other smart styles. At $18.75, a very attractiv: broadcloths and serges. At $25 broadcloths, gabardines, serges, velvets. richly fur-trimmed. Other suits at $29.50, $35, $45, $60, $75, $95; all won- derfully low in prices. Sizes 14 to 20 years. End-of-Year Sale---25,000 Yards of Black Silk 68c to $5.50 Yard for $1.25 to $15 Qualities _ This is an offering to finish the year with—like the climax of a series of progressively bigger and better events in the Silk Rotunda this just closing year. Black silks, too—which are so much wanted. And the prices! But please read the items below, which speak more eloquently than Coats at $5 and $7.50; Dresses at $8.50—At the Subway Entrance, New Building. Coats at $10 and $12.75—On the Subway floor (Central), Old Building. Coats, $15 up; Dresses, $13.50 up; Suits, $15 up—On the Second floor, Old Building. And a Great Out-Clearing of Girls’ and Young Women’s Clothing Some newly purchased to scll at extraordinarily low prices, but the majority comprises our own carefully chosen stocks now sold any comment we could make on them. 95c Yard---inch Satin Duchesse, our standard 81.50 quality; 1,300 yards, |—Various Black 95c Yard ilks, $1.50 to 84 qualities; 5,000 yards in 8 to 6-yard —-40-ineh Fine $1.85 Yard—$0-ineh Hine Crepe, our standard 63 quality; 3,000 yards, $2.50 Yard-|= P orted cades, were 05.50 unusual offering. to 87.50 yard; only 780 yards in this ok Foot di 68c Yard—35-inch Satin jouple; our standard $1.50 quality; only 500 yards, lengths. 9S Yard—yinen Mire dard est water marks; our 6 50 and ity; Poplin, our standard 92 qual- Lael and 84 quality; 4,600 itys only 1,000 yards, qual 2 —Satin, Taf- - Black $1.45 Yard—sstin Tol | $1.68 Yard PB! a2 meuse Crepes, etc.; all double wit width; 8% to 3 qualities; 1,000 yards in yard lengths. Selected $1.85 Yard—S§ele ae our standard $4 quality; only 1,000 yards. $3.45 Yard—|mported Brocades to $12.50; 1,000 yards, 1914. obliged to put in most of his time hid- ing his peevish humor behind a pic- laborious and| ture on the wall that serves as a slid- reminiscent rather than melodious,|ing panel. Occasionally he manages to be amusing, but for tie most part he js about as funny as a comic ple! hung in an abandoned gal the others, he goes by fits The halting performance produces the effect of a conversation marked awkward pauses, ‘The cast has itn peculiarities, Why the American brother of the heroine should be played by only the managenie the incongruous fact remains that this Mudie, ‘les immoderately, though he does succeed in turnin a lively pair of hi looks and acts as though Texas were undiscovered Arthur Albro bursts forth from time to {ime as 8 tenor who is likely to find his on this sentimental heiress Ina| known as the ‘road. Claire dances gracefully, just as she did in “The Quaker Girl” a few years ago, but he puts very little voice into 7 In ¢ group of velvets, corduroys, Many 68c Yard —Various Black Silks, our standard 81,23 to 84 qu ty; 5,000 yards in 1 to Syard 95c Yard—4-inch Silk. and-W -Wool itil a a et ious Silks, rades; 2,500 yards ™ $1.85 Yard—\ +" $2.50 to $5 in suitable $5.50 Yard—Fiack Velours formerly’ ia, our ¥ stocks at 810 to $15; finest and Fancy Silks, formerly 68 | imported. broche, velvets and peluches we have ever bandied. Manteaux, wees. - by English youth But frute in that region Emilie Lea gives a good imitation of a Russian dancer—but who in New York cares for such an imitatio: This is only one of the it yd A New Epoch as as a New Year ———— ¢ voce rattan pee OlAD TEDL LALO DD HARMONY WITH GOD MAN’S BEST RESOLUTION Man's Work-Week Ending Disastrously—Six Thousand-Year Days With Little aay and Death Mark the Course Blighting, Man's Lesson, even to Its cious—The Antit! s and Endeavors—God Permits the ¢ t Climax—-He Waits To Be Gra- ical Sabbath Dawning—It Will Bring Rest and Peace to All the Willing and Obedient—its Glorious Light Will Scatter All Error, Sin. Darkness. Detroit, Mich., Dec. ¢7,.—Speaking at the Detroit tor Russell (who will address | the ublic at the New Fork City Temple next Sunday even- took for his text Peter's words, “A day with the Lord is as a thous- and years,” and the Prophet's state- ment, “A thousand years in Thy sight are but as yester- ” (& Peter 8:8; Tealm 90:4). He part: z All resolutions st sin and in favor of righteous g and living are commendable and Tals But I rec- ommend a comprehensive resoluti namely, to get right with God through His appointed Channel, the Lord Jesus Christ, and through the instructions of His Word, the Bible. While progress- | ing in the knowledge of the Truth and jin the spirit of it, the individual will ‘be abiding in God's Love—“under the shadow of the Almighty.” ein But this implies faith in God, faith in t, faith in the je, and the study to an to get fully into alignment with the Divine purposes an from the perverting influences of the creeds. While every creed may be said jto contain some elements of Truth, | nevertheless these are so horribly mixed with errors in such poisonous combin: tion that it is a wonder we did not follow blind leaders into the ditch of | fidelity long ago. : | From the Divine standpoint the | thousand years from Adam's day until | ; now are merely the work-day portion of P a great Week, whose Seventh Day, pbath, of « thousand year i ‘the last Da; he | * or trial for the world " knee shall j less, to the | In the Divinely arranged custom of | the Jews the new day begins at sunset. | t | Thus we are in the evening, or begin- ‘ning, of the great Seventh Day of the | Week——the Day_ throughout glorious Kingdom will reign “from sea to sea and from the |» river to the ends of the earth,” putting | down everything contrary to the Divine as standards, and uplifting the world of ‘mankind (bought with the precious | blood at Calvary) from sin, degradation | patch and the tomb—step by step, to human perfection in a world-wide Eden. The unwillin; Wearied Children Fall Asleep. halt thou labor and do all | D' | thy work; but the Seventh is the Sab- | shalt not do any work.” Whoever reads -arefully, intelligently, the of his-| ¥' t struck shh Gat aeeiy wel of i tory must be which has been manifested by our race. ids, the ruins of ancient cities tell us of human-|[ \ ity’s ceaseless struggle against the ad- | verse conditions prevailing in the earth, jainst sickness and truth of our observation, saying, “We have not wrought any deliverance in the earth.” (Isaiah 26:18.) A few have | gained fabulous riches, name or fame, | place or power; but the jority have gone down to the tomb, slain by the reat associated monarchs whom the Bike, declares are now reigning—Sin an ry the lessons learned by Adam's wearie The children will not be lost, however. The eater mellowness of beart and the | broader views of the majority of those who have fallen asleep in death after battling for even fifty xe | that our race as a whole might do better work in a second century thaa in the | first, Moreover, 5 he great di ard ney, bitter fruit, and the hopelessness of by Divine assistance. Humanity’s Next Lesson. | The forbidden fruit of Eden was from the tree of the knowledge of gooc an evil. Doubtless the Creator would event- ually have given our first parent full knowledge of both good and ing by observation instead’ of by rience—the way recommended to our peresis by the Creator, but in orance rejected. temptation, fall into sin, and would rience its penalty of ath. While for six thou- therefore ex sorrow and sand years His eye has sented in the combining forces ity—labor unions, eto. ‘The head-on collision which think- away |f 0 . roms darkness ¢ pie OF Highteousnean shall (ari ‘poams."—teaian 60 ‘Dromieed of ym, tht oe Seve + ator between jbath of the Lord thy, God; in it thou | fume « juggest jeuses or lands, parents or cwaliaerel the afore Sis in Himself from betore ion of the world. That clim Opera House, Pas-|lieve, is at hand. The six thousa of the reign of Sin and Death are en¢- «i Lehn ‘i ieropiel Tithe be ed wi not improperly might term the natural reault of | (tia) aera the great sation, now being ushered in. h- represented in the accumulated in human affairs, we be- years Trouble, human selfishness under the influence of ‘ ples of the Ne ‘ ower and energy called trusts ines, is about to come into ith selfishness (sin) fepre- human- ) foresee, and which the ba ; Scriptures graphically portray, will give society an earthquake shock.” More the graphic picture is t of a world-wide conflagration whic! i olve the heavens, or ecclesiastical well as the earth, or social nd the mountains, or king- doms of the world. This awful shock, yaa roel a, so far as possible, lowing peace an: benevolence, will ered y for the glorious blessings of the gre: Seventh Day, in which man will res from his own endeavors and come fully under the control ef the Hah, whose eousnces for hi man uplift has been prophetically pictured for centuries, The Picture in Retrospect. ‘ople are warned to avoid, ly prepare the wi Rule of Right A tt oped that world. wi Aramedintely spr wi ‘ult of Jesuna Work. On. the contrary. Sells Made Sora He Prit of Darkness ete. Week, oo tar Cfathte ste ta tcan 1k. Tl lights ro: ‘bean Nor did God, so rough | the it vi Woe! mth Waiting for the Mother. was generated by Father i] as condemned to death at ‘What the race ffice’ of Lite-Giver to Adam vel win fuitil it. however—in th Ou ask? aid’ not bermit “Ad bilshment of ee rr Eve as bi ri work ‘Arrangement God th Rgentution rime, is Deri mankind, Church, _ were it all of Gi more VALUAMLE COUPON, have besa prot wraaa, wo.