The evening world. Newspaper, November 30, 1915, Page 14

| } f f | } j i TH Bv maa WORLD, tvevwan 1, NUVEMBER 30, 1915. © THE NEW PLAYS © “Sadie Love” Amusing, Though Rather Impossible. BY CHARLES DARNTON HILE skating may become the fad of the winter, this healthful exer cise has its perils for the atea skating on very thin toe, With m-heated playwright who delights In “Pair and Warmer” author, Avery Hopwood, skimmed delightfully over the surface of troubled domesticity; but with “Sadie Love,” at the Galety Theatre last night, he took an oc onal cold plunge. To be quite frank, “Sadie Love” fmpossibie, though rather amusing. Farce, of course, has its own license, Yet at the same time it must carry ‘@ certain conviction, Failing in this, it can be accepted only as a concoc- ton of the theatre, We don’t at all mind an utterly preposterous play if it makes ua Inugh uproariously. This, in fact, is the test of far It it makes sixes and sevens of ovr com- mon sense we are quite willing to say to ourselves that life is a good joke in which we are only too willing to join, But when a honeymoon co so divided that six “couples” enter into it, what are we to mako of ut It's like a desperate play on that old eong, “There Are Moments When One Wants to Be Alone. The strain of Mr. Hopwood's s0- called “romantic farce” felt throughout the performance at the Gaiety. Imagine, if you can, a bride of an hour being confronted by a French charmer who still exerts her Peculiar influence over the Italian bridegroom. You may well say to yourself that Leo Ditrichstein is not the only actor in town who can turn quickly from one woman to another and at the same time maintain his emotional balance, Here you have an Italian, as temperamental as Vesu- was vius, about to start on his honey- moon with Sadie when the Countess of shrugs and other little things ar rives on thi and declares able effect. fact that Sadie’s old-time admirer Jim straight off a ship from abros “fall evening dress” and stands re y to elope with her in her uncertain hour js equa only by tho appearance of Jim’s wife, intent upon finding grounds for divoree and ac- companied by a half-portion man who “takes notes” ax the situation de- It's all rather confusing and more dangerous than velops. sometimes funny. There is a suggestion of French farce without the French touch. Italian intensity, French impulse and American devotion are combined to keep the dr Tf all this sounds a bit mad, it must be ad- mitted that “Sadie Love” has a few sentimental moments. For example, there is a charming love scene be- tween Sadie and her distressed Prince in the second act, Then, again, they ball rolling. tear off the pages of a calendar in a scene that might mean a great deal to comedy, farce. but is hardly sulted to The play ts largely a matter of m, With the last act coming of all, chiefly because it takes n shipboard and has a certain Yet the strain is felt to the place novelty. end, A great deal of pleasure was at- forded by the acting. Two consia- tently amusing and harmonius per- formances were given by Betty Callish and Pedro de Cordoba. 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Even Long Island has| ite limitations. ——= | MRS. LANGTRY PRESIDES AT A‘“*FAMILY REUNION” AND GREETS NEW FRIEND. It seemed like “the good old days” to the veteran theatregoers among Jast night’s audience at the Colontal ‘Theatre when they beheld Mra, Lang- try, the famous “Jersey Lily,” making her bow anew to the “grandchildren,” as she herself expresned It, of her former New York friends. Mrs, Langtry made it a real “family reunion” by a little heart to heart talk with the audience, following her; excellent presentation of a clever dra- matic playlet, “Ashes.” Though she| declared she felt heraclf “the oldest | woman in the world,” Mrs, Langtry | looked far from it. ‘She shows but little trace of the years that have pansed since she waa in the heyday, of her glory, Mra, Langtry’s sketeh in one of un- usual interest and in its enactment | she shows ahe has lost none of her| skill in dramatic portrayal, She plays the role of a clever wife, who shrewd- ly hoodwinks an unscrupulous former flame who seeks to aell to her a ten- der note written to him in a foolish moment years before, By an unex- pected ruse she causes the note end in ashes together with the check he has given him for it. ‘Those who have seen Mra, Langtry years before, at the height of her fame, need fear no great disappoint- ment in renewing her sta, ance, while those who hav her should not lose this op A number of other interesting acts make up the full Colonial bill, best among them being a clever sketch, “The Highest Bidder;" Dorothy Toye, “the girl with two voices,” and Harry Cooper in a laughable comedy skit. me HASTINGS’S BIG SHOW A BURLESQUE SUCCESS AT COLUMBIA THEATRE. Dan Coleman, with Harry Has- tings’s Big Show, !s making his usual hit with the patrons of the Columbia. The piece in which he appears is a rip-snorter, full of good comedy. It 1g a burlesque of two acts, called “I'll Follow You.” Harry Hastings has gathered a tal- ented group of beautiful girls for his chorus, supporting a talented lot of principals, William Bovis ag Sherlock Bones and Arthur Henry as Slick Karter were cleverly funny, and Alma Bauer sang in wonderful voice. Din Coleman is still the same old Dan when It comes to laugh extract- ing, and before he came on in the second act somebody must have told him that his countryman, Jim Coffey, was ¥ ous in his bout with Gun- boat Smith, for he seemed to put more vim in his work cast are E Bill Bovil die Vincent, Anna Arthur Henry, Phil & who srves honorable mention for his wi Florence D: | ove *| made j that of th | |‘ “Der Rosenkavalier” , ”r jeorren’” " For Monday's Opera (12 Vi\vorees Geornen’ w [Mrs Shepard Seeks to Disburee | Unetul Presents Will Be Omered 1A |] oy FOR mi y gives, with force aid good aicuse aed | ant 6 Methén's ‘Reiate, Home of Mri. 6, 0, sévalags HOES women'aeoys Sylvester Rawling. HANKS, Mr Punetu- ality must be added to many virtues you Bodanzky! have closed, On the very stroke of 8 0’ . At the Metropolitan Opera House last night, the boxes a desert, the body of the house not one-third file an imp standees wore few was admirable. The o » original pv Including Frieda Hem: he performance t nearly was ntation here, Margarete Ober, Otto Gorits, Hermann Weil, Reiss, Paul Althouse, Basil dnel, Marie Mattfeld and Rita . happily restored to the part of Marianne, Miss Hempel, as the Princess, was moro fascinating than aver, Mine, Ober, as Octavian, used her lovely voice too strenuously, Edith Muson, tho season's new Sophie, foll something short of expectation! Mr Goritz, a8 Baron Ochs, seemed to get moro laughs than ever. Charming, | but a bit daring, was Sophie Braslau's exit in the first act. | | Pianists held the recital fleld yes- terday, three youngsters seeking fa- vor, despite the handioap of the pres- nes here this season of most of the world’s master players, Victor Witt- genstein, at Aeollan Hall last night was the most interesting of the trio. He has made progress in a year, not only in technical skill but in inter) re- tive ability. His programme included | the Schur ta in F sharp minor, Fr * and Me Dowell's * dagl Hie playing compelled respect and his pedalling was remarkably good. In the afternoon, at Acolian Hall Louis Cornell gave an exhibition of his powers which, as yet, are uneven. | Moments of charm were followed by disquieting periods. His programme; was rather cleverly constructed tn that it held examples of Mozart, d'Al- bert, List, Brahms, Chopin, ‘Ravel | and ns, and did not contain any one big, sustained master- work, At the Harris Theatre, in the after- noon, Marie Grunwaldt made her New York debut, She is sald to be a prize winner of the Paris Conservatory and married, but her stage appearance is that of a girl not far advanced in her! teens and her playing is without dis- tinction. Hor principal numbers were a Beethoven sonata and Schumann's “Papilions.” ——_— THEATRE FRANCAIS PRESENTS DUMAS PLAY AND WAR-TIME SKETCH Last night at the Theatre Francats | was notable not so much because | there was presented {n a most tnter- lesting fashion “La Princesse Georges,” by Alexandre Dumas the younger, with Andree Mery in the title jrole, but rather by reason of the fact that a new and absorbing sketch of the present war was given named “Son Homme,” in which appeared Mile. Irene Bordoni and Edgar Beemann, » work was seen in the Theatre ris for months, when its run was | Interrupted by Beemann’s going to the | war to fight. There he was wounded and returned to his career of an actor. | The very atinosphere of the trenches | possesses the play and the remarkable work of the soldier-actor, | It is a brilliant bit of impersonation, | if it can be called that. It simply shows the trenchman under a cloud, but nevertheloss in the most common- | a hero. 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