The evening world. Newspaper, February 6, 1915, Page 4

FEAR YOUNG COE ‘David Belasco Throws STARS OF THE STAGE WHO WILL APPEAR BEFORE NEW YORK AUDIENC 4 ISAPHASIA VICTIM; For Sta , TURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 191 Y 2 } ' Fort —— Imagination, and He Smiles} poler, Fortunately, the ert a | ‘ brings back t ind hearaal ©. Stranger of at His Reputation as a Magi-] of “Coriolanus’ that {saw at the Ly- ‘um Theatre in London. His Description | Tn the » Tried to Sell Papers in Bos- ‘ ton; Begged in Lawrence. cian and Hypnotist. By Charles Darnton. HAT'R the new idea In stage nettings? It's an old one The stage in sackcloth? It's Just a matter material, No foot- lights? We've done without them be- fore. Now, I'm not saying thia to let you know ail I know about the thea- jtre, You may take it as the gospel red robe from the shoul- BOSTON, Fev. 6.—Finployees of the | pA AC TO 4 Standard O11 Company in Boston have Feceived instructions from the ox- _ Soutive offices of the company to as- niet in every manner possible in the | wearch for Henry Clarke Coe Jr. son > of an eminent New York surgeon, who 4, x Mr. Belasco clapped his ha the picture he still saw in his eye, and then brought himself back with: Nery and costumen come see- ond with me, iighting first. Along fantastic linea, of course, a producer | 4 can go to any extreme. But the play x . ’ y tem Avenue and Forty. _ gkating, the other to instructors, men and women, | -T ‘ ar iecreenenenn 668 conte Dey 2 De Commerce, master of toa, classic, fancy danc- has been missing from his home tn Roston since last Baturday., The fam- ly now fear he is a victim of aphasia. Private detectives have learned of | ‘& Well Greased young man, answering Coe'n description, who was seen act- ing strangely in the corridors of the Tremont Building, Beacon and” Tre- mont Streets, late Thursday after. noon. According to half a dozen tenante and employees of the Tremont Build- ing, a stranger who appeared to be fm a dazed state of mind, sought to nell papers to persons he accosted in the corridors. ‘When the stranger deciared that If Pre was not able to well his newspapers he was willing to purchase any that the other men had, they concluded he ‘was suffering from dementia. Another coincidence considered aig- nificant bas been discovered In Law- » rence, Mass, Tho information was that 9 young man greatly resembling Coe called upon two ocoupanta of t! Bay State Building there about 12.30 noon Thursday. Ho called upon Mre, 6. E. Elliott, a cornetiere, the second floor, and politely for something to ‘eat, addi: be did not desire money, Mrs. it referred him to a tea room in building, but be waiked upstairs the real estate office of Cheney ten. Mr. ere Cheney he repeated hia re- Mr. Cheney was impressed by young man’s appearance and sent to @ restaurant. man in the Lawrence episode to be in @ highly nervous according to Mrs. Elliott, y and the waitress ye eerved him. In the mean time Mra, (oe fr, who fg in a delicate condition at her All- aton apartment, and Coe's mother are convinced is dead or that he met ‘with foul play. -_ DANCING AND SKATING AT _ GRAND CENTRAL PALACE, Roller skating and dancing have made Grand Central Palace, Lexing- Street, ‘a8 immensely popular resort. There are two huge floors, one devoted to cing, T 00, +They teach the modern at 25 cents per half hour and dancin pene UU atage his clase Wednesdays. and rd children from to PAY STEAM-COOKET Oatmea fs wise to get rid quickly of mts of the organs of diges- ff headache, languor, de- of spirits—the troubles which the best corrective is Remember truth from no jess an authority than David Belasco, who has put “Marie~ Odile” into sackcloth and put out the footiights of hie theatre, As an ad- vortising expert he might have been expected to make the most of hie latest production, but instead he | duiged in nothing more than @ one- inch smile and remarked: “There's nothing extraordinary |e my use of aackcloth for the proscen- Jum arch and the firet row of by Rot to mention my doing away the ‘foots,’ The amusing fact le ‘het I did all this in pretty much the aame ree! meale, at the San Franck thirty-three years when | produced ‘The Passion * 1 changed tho auditortum to eathed Pp hin effoo! the lobby. enable me to do this, ‘Lucky’ win placed $100,000 to my oredit. I $110,000, I took out everye t that amacked of the theati filled eighteen boxes with ac wi i had nothing to do but add to the ality of the acenes on the stage, and ught others down the alsies from ok of the hours, Ho, you see, anything new in my most juction. ry have merely tried te ber jae! 0 Vm not doin present pi simple w crea’ per And way Is the best.” ran hia fingers through his ‘ite hair and then asked: “Do you remember that weird River of Soul in ‘The Darling of the Goda’? Well, I did that at a cost of Mra, Langtry went to eee it night after night. Bhe said it haunted her, Yet it was the simplest thing in the world. At the back was & with a mountain wpotiies Games rather a flare of light, This drop was lifted to the height of @ girl, low it wore four oF five ai has into harman; souls being swept down that river, whereas | never more fteen Girls for the acene.” My a consider ‘The Darling of the in’ your greatest scenic acieve- mont?” I asked, “No,” wae the answer, opinion that scene little Japanese her child tort fat! teen minutes without a word, To do this it wan necessary to have a scence of changing beauty. The secret of fascinating stage pictures lies in lights, There you have it In a word. how I tell my part of the story. O opera singer is accompanied by orchestra, #0 I accompany my ac- tors with lgh have been called t fn oki brightest days among the hills, I would sit and watoh the wonderful shadows, After a time I began trying to reproduce those lights and shad- owas. I loved it all, and T couldn’ wrong, for | was following in God's footateps. How can you be false to art when you are true to God?” There can be no mistaking the artiat in David Belasco when he “lets himaeif go" on the Bubject rest his heart. Then, too, he instinctive) dramatizes CM bey he says, an this brings out the actor in him. Al together, he gives a remarkable per. tage ie a ular inati- ho ruminated, “Yeara ago the old stock company days we called ‘stool’ the green baise cur- ‘eon baize carpet Palace as well noene, The scenery was parted ia the middie, as you may remember, and shoved into place. To add to the sim- icity of production in those days we ad only gas footlights and ‘borders’ protected by wiring, efore that, when we jumped from oil lamps gas we thought we were revolutions ing the theatre, Then the kerose! lamp with ite reflector was laced by the locomotive bull Pp that thne we had relied upon red fire e errihing fri ‘Uncle Tom’ attle scene in ‘Ric WITH PIMPLES ALL HER LIFE But Miss Ayres t a “Beautiful | Complexion, at a Cost of Only $2.00. Nov. 23, 1914. All my life my face was covered completely with a mass ef pimples, blackheads and blotches, I spent a lot of money on numerous reme- ies treatments without success and no relief at all. 1 sled 6 many that [ was afraid my case could not cured. Resinol Ointment and Resinol Seap seemed to do me it from the first. I used two jars of Resinol Ointment and some Resinol Soap, the total coat being only 82,00, this |completely cured my case. My akin is hout a blemish and [ am ‘the pos- [sexsor of @ beautiful complexion.” (Signed) Mabell Ayres, Stone Moun- | tain, Va, and that love of the romanti RA" howr toot teat ealcty had s04 Boney now, 7 gaiety o} ougneas aro beat expressed in ° Site yMOON Vi light or the brilliantly illuminated HORTIG baliroom. We also know that thi ANP . the murderer seek the Stamans very little, It ts largely a mat comenon sense. wreatest of modern dramas, to my aimple reallam, Other pla: for other methods, but the demand is always upon t real genius in th with life the purely mechanical inventions, we | heard Mackaye and operated successfully in ry pointed out, “you don't atim himself, in his in harmony with the pla took his curtain oall of the pl dreas that su | than the theatre. This is a good atory and a new on tered a monastery.” “whi answered. “Old fri me to live in the monastery. there four or five pose it w: emn life thi Greas in later years. But moi 1 fn that lite within t And David Belasco is nothing tf not dramatic. —— ot| “POLYGAMY” TO STAY Ford's intense drama of imi American life, Monday, ite twelfth week in New tinue to be its home for the remainder of the season, appeal to the | | element in an jortant part, wort mux. 4 moonlight. Poots it, that the sick cham- ued light, and #0 op. lights reflect various after all, means Wednesday matinees have proved so succensful that the management has decided to offer the sa scale for the extra to be given on Linc: Washington's Birthday. ia interp company seen earlier in th Ohrystal Herne, Mary Hudwon Collier,’ William Mi Hamsey Wallace, Howard Kyle twenty other prominent players, © THE NEW PLAYS “The White Feather” an English Parlor Game of War. BY CHARLES DARNTON. ite or words, motions, ir of For example, the Tanqueray,’ ‘ns wonderful, jack, ne way--it must be staged with and may call imagination, The it, the dreamer of our imagination | . My one aim | to stimulate the | id I find I can best do | with the ald of lights. As for Ife, who Mi & great deal of what has been \e eeeey, a8 oth opune ‘ort aps, BONE e ea that have been done here. For instance, the first double stage I ever of was invented by Steele BESS FE-S-S-9-9-0- T been done in this rather healthy bit of senti hoing, don't you think? instantly hts,” he jate im- ni tion, you distort reality. And ul deat tre, It -H-H-H! There's a spy-play in town. It came to the Co: from England last night and was produced by that Irian kemactine with the theatrical movement on the right and left of Broadway, W. A Brady, as “The White Feather. a It proved both exciting and entertaining. As a stro: > weak moments, but a trick fre-place with a complete parlvend Aiea connected with the chimney (a German achievement); « walking stick that could be turned into an alr rifle for bringing down carrier pigeons; a alcto- | J graph carelesaly hidden in a jardiniere, and am infernal machine that had the innocent appearance of a kodak, all helped to curl “White Feather” into the form of a war melodrama full of strange devices, = ‘The authors, Lechmere Worrall and hours, It may even be sald that the| qonreeder of Mabel Reld. however, | J. B. Harold Terry, evidently wrote! “action” depended large! hestory he aa wariniaal pare cir play in all seriousness, but for all the world as theses tae re Gynt reeks aa the Tandiaay, ond pplly it turned out to be a comedylthe old days had become curtously JOM Burkell as the walter who was { so far as its effect was concerned. To| mixed with war of the present times, nearly choked to death, were others begin with, the hero pretended to be] There were the usual “complications,” | othe White Rent eay alone. |: a allly asa, and with an eyeglass tojonly they seemed different in view of and amusing novelly with enoumy © make himself look still more ridicu- | *R0.eerlous aapect of things generally. clever tricka In it to make it nlldly “teeee hts, faloe li mn "at he suggestion that he rical garb, was quite on tl] io aeeet the church rather nt neven years old I en- ere?” I gasped. In ind, an well as in ressing- “In Victoria, Vancouver Island,” he|lous he dawdled about a boarding) gown, the English hero ot the pled pelt I ther Maguire took | house at an English sedside resort/hand of the chap who was ready to} PEND iatcoou tk wee eae naked die tor Germany, but he had t grace to take him by the bane Aan rave man, ¥. 4& matter of fact, up to this point, England was given quite as hard knocks as Germany got. ao that it was largely a question of the hero's getting German submarines into trouble with British cruisers, But nm one could possibly take the play seriously, As the extraordinarily resourceff: #py who made himself seem a Terme less tdiot, Leslie Faber displayed hitherto unsuspected talent as a com- edian and kept the audience both amused and interested, not to gay thrilled at moments. He did a very clever piece of work. Jessie Glen- denning displayed nothing but per- plexity as weetheart, while Fran- ces Carson de the girl with the white feather aa light as the dubious souvenirs she carried. The Fraulein that was a perfect hotbed of German spies, In fact, the landlady @d her ron seemed fairly to live upon maps of mine fields laid out by the British, and to aid them in their secret opera- tiona they had a German waiter who received decidedly rough treatment from both sides in this parlor game of war, As for the hero, he was presented with a white feather by an impulsive girl who thgught him a coward because he stayed at home, while his distressed finncee didn’t know quite what to make of him, ‘The private sitting room where the tion of the play occurred seemed the moet public place imaginable, with people popping into it at all 1 was years, and I sup- the infludnce of this sol- led me to adopt a sober f all felt there was something dramatic wall AT PARK FOR SEASON. Harvey O'Higgins and Harriot Wi rn olygamy,” begins on ‘ork, The Park Theatre will con- WED.— FRI. SAT The popular priced e New York Ig 99 8 Lesson. Likes “* Polygamy CLevER, Ones? a ts Sf PONCH AND ULE } CA a The Reigning Fad of the Town! Crowded to the Doors All the Timed Come and See Why! Commencing Monday Afterneem, N WEL AND HIS RLESOU * AN ENTIRELY NEW SHOW. eWibe' Dale "broke bei, SMOKING PERMITTED, : SPECIAL LADIES’ MATING DAILY EXCEPT MONDAY! Be. f oe VaupEViLLE TMRATMMs, Ui YU-TAKAME 4382 DANCE OF PASSION 14" ST. NEAR 3° AVE | — OTMATING | © vy] DAILY | CENTURY BALLET RUBSE AVLO Mteadstee WS, WA York audience, The jewelled kind, gether with smacks like gatling guns, the kind that clothes its women folke| Pd they did it and were unashamed, in furs and tucks them in in com.|424 they looked as if they'd like to fortable limousines. Also, the demo-|*punsi= | “'* 8°04 old American “Bully!” cratic kind that one sees in subways| And, when ihe curtain lowered on and surface cars, husband and wife,| that act, you could see all around |p) ONE man and ONE woman, and| you and in the seats just in front of the real New York, Not asone|you brown-hatred, gray-haired and jormon wives tn the play sal ‘baired Darbys and Joans snug- y, if you arrest @ man for hav-|gling up a little closer together. ing more than one wife, you'd have| 80: of the homely old Darbys to bulld a jall wall around every big| showing the scars of the battle of life city.” ~bald headed and seamed of fave, and Ma, be so, but New York isn't in| the old girls, the brides of their youth, that lint. altting besid | Last ht, when nerves were, hearts at the monstrous wrong that | ™'™!™ strained taut as young Brigham the @lay was revealli CARN Kemble plunges bis ‘hooked fi) TO-N into the throat Ry the Mormon Mormon boy and girl married and, then, coming bome to rooa' That's “Polygamy,” and done by the playere at the Park Theatre, Mr. and Mrs. New ‘York, Mr. and Mre. Brooklyn and Mr. and Mrs. New Jorepy and Mr, and Mre, Out-of- ‘Town from everywhere swayed in their seats and forgot their stoiciam and wept softly as the young wife sank crumblilngly to the floor outside the bedroom door of her husband's new wife ag abe turns the knob and Kowa then that the door is bolted |, grown up and “thelr chickens foe — ee 80, SECOND BILTMORE MORNING MUSICALE a Ea peer aed OLLER SKATING GRAND CENTRAL PALACE From 11 A. M. to 11 P, M. dally and Sundays in the largest Roller Skating Rink in America. New Maple Floor, Large Promens 1915 Richardson Ball-Bearing Ska! Lady and Gen- tlemen Instructors, We will teach you to skate for 25c PER LESSON Come and skate, It ts the healthiest and cheapest exercise in New York to-day, e Lexington Ave. USE 46TH STREET ENTRANCE