The evening world. Newspaper, January 2, 1917, Page 10

f= T= [= [= TF]=] CARSRA RIERA fe [== |==1=1- (ARSE aed Pelee tel & “More Courteous— and Better Business” “Jones, I like that practice of yours of always being ready to talk when I answer telephone calls from you. «If there is anything that does irritate me in the course of a busy day, it is to have some office boy or girl call me to the telephone and then ask me to wait one, two or five minutes, as the case may be, until some unknown telephone caller is ready to talk with me. «+I believe it is the responsibility of the man who is calling to be ready to talk as soon as his party answers. «We should never take a chance on losing friends or business by unnecessarily irritating anyone we call. «It is not only more courteous, and better business practice, to hold the line until the party answers, but I believe in the long run it SAVES TIME,"” NEW YORK TELEPHONE COMPANY EVENING WORLD, TOESDAY, J bY CHARLES DARNTON J LIA ARTHUR deserved the hearty welcome given her-at the Criterion Theatr monda, Ss ‘0 do this sort of thing beautifully ® when @ subway Is being built under our feet 1s In Itself an achievement to challenge a materialistic age The author of the play, Willlam Lindsey, made this point neatly and simply when he said to the audience that he felt Miss Arthur's enterprise should be encouraged, The modesty of the author must be taken into account, for in "“Sere- monda” he has written a romantic play of poetic beauty. But as much can scarcely be sald for the dramatic quality of his work. The theme ts one that Stephen Phillips might have chosen, for It tells of a love doomed from the first. Seremonda, you learn, has been dragged from the altar by the fierce and lordly Raimon, who, | after killing the unhappy gentleman figuring in the ceremony, is sent off to fight in the Holy Land. This, naturally, is a bit vague as plays 60. You find yourself compelled to be- Heve what you hear, Raimon Is re- ported dead, but he comes back two years later, just after Seremonda has given her love to his devoted squire, Gullhem. Then Raimon, jeal- ous as Othello, kills the gentle lover and plans to serve Guilhem’s heart, as a@ rare dish at dinner, whereupon Seremonda leaves the table and jumps; into the sea. Like Tosca, she makes | an end of it all in a leap. Taking old Provence for the scene of bis play, Mr. Lindsey has brought to it hot love, flery wines, gay dance and ardent song, #0 that these ele- | ments serve to lighten the sombre | background, Drama is found in one |or two episodes rather than in the | play as a whole, The return of the | husband is to be expected, But the song of Guilhem, declaring his lov for Seremonda in the face of Ralmon, is effective, while the final act, with the heart of her lover offered as a f to the fair lady, takes an unex- pected turn. It is this scene, in fact, that gives the play its greatest dra- matic—or melodramatic—power. Here, at anv rate, a thrill is felt. There is ittle else to touch th audience. Yet th edy 1s both poetic and picturesque ‘in its suggestion of romance in the days of old. Miss Am@hur was strikingly pictor- fal, Moreover, she spoke so distinctly that It was a pleasure to listen to her. From first to last she suffered the dis- | advantage of appearing in @ passive role, At the same time, it must bo said, she was so lacking in tender- ness that she might have been play- ing Lady Macbeth. But she was al- ways dignified and beautiful. jopelessly modern, even nasal, speech, Alphonz Ethier | realized the physical and bruta of Raimon, Robert W. Fr: | Guiinem, read his ines well, especially jin the song of love. Ivy Troutman | was sympathetic as Gulda, though she THE NEW PLAYS “Seremonda” Poetic; Julia Arthur Pictorial. jt nigth, if only for her uncommonly fine production of “Sere- a romantic play of Southefn France in. the twelfth century. » after scene charmed the eye "Ad @ppealed to the imaginations” jnounces the engagement of her daughter, Miws M. Eunice Clapp, to MOTHER! LOOK AT | YOUR CHILD'S TONGUE ARY 2, 1017. sh . TO BE web To-mMorROw AS ONE OF THE FIRST could not by any means be accepted 46 the elder sjster of Seremonda, With its poetry, beautiful settings and picturesque costumes, as a re- action against the commonyiace life a “Beremonda” is worth see-) | Notes in Society Mrs, Edward Mortimer Ward of No. 129 East Seventy-third Stroet an- Bradish Johnson Carroll jr, Mr, Car- roll lately returned with the Seventh Regiment from the border. | The season opened yesterday at) Palm Beach, loclety peoplo have than forty new cottages there. Miss Helaine Piatt Petors, daug' ter of Mr. and Mrs, Ralph N, Pat made her debut Inst night at the Poters's hone, Wyndemeede, Garden John Van S. Oddie, Mrs. Hise took ; City. her guests to Miss Smity's dance at} a Sherry’s. Miss Helen Hersey, daughter of Mr, and Mrs. Henry J. Hersey, was’ Miss Frances Ogden Jones was an. married yesterday in St. John’s Ca- other dinner hostess last night, on. thedral, Denver, to Burney Corwin tertaining at No. 74 Park Avenue. Tuthill of New York. Mr. Corwin ts haar red the librarian of the New York Ora- Orchestra, Miss Josephine Chandler Smith of No. 655 Park A’ n » Elsie Welsh Saltus, daughter of Edgar Evertson Saltus. A dance was given last night by | Mrs, Philip Hiss and her daughte: the Misses Hilda and Helen Hiss, No, 48 West Eleventh Street for Miss ith Williams, daughter of all the grape in 1584— Garrett discovered the winein 1835. Virginia Dare Wine hasbeen famous ever since. pipe a} Proved in Four Oth | | The nineteen prohibition States, ac- OF One of the first brides of the new built recently or are building more year will be Miss Adeline Townsend, JOHANN ‘daughter of Mr. and Mrs, J. Allen Town- 'gend, No. 237 Madison Avenue, who will HOFF’S be married to-morrow to EB. Tunnicliff Fox. Cards are out for the wedding of torlo Society and a member of the Miss Mildred Sutton Ward, daughter of ZZ board of the Young Men's Symphay === Mr. and Mrs. James Henry Ward, to, cording to the summary, are Henry Smith Marlor. The ceremony | Georgia, South Carolina, North will take piace next Saturday after-/ lina, Kansas, Maine, North {noon in Christ Church, Rye, and will] towa, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, be followed by a reception at the Ward| rado, Mississippi, ‘Tennessee, home on Highland Road, Rye. Virginia, West Virginia, Arkansas, with laws approved Mr. and Mrs. Amos R. Eno Pinchot | Ark# with laws approves of No. 9 East Kighty-frst Street. will | Xet,efrective in, Michigan, Utah, eeu’ Minnesota vada are expected t year | Kive a large dance to-night at Sherry's, 0 go dry in Mrs, John C. Kerr will give a recep- tion this afternoon at No. 135 Central | Park West for Miss Geraldine C. Hall gym land Miss Mary Kittredge, debutantes. 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