The evening world. Newspaper, November 6, 1918, Page 20

| eta B ©THE NEW PLAYS © | “The Long Dash” Machine-Gun Melodrama Y CHARLES DARNTON- © matter what terms are offered, German spies are still being caught In “The Long Dash" at the Thirty-ninth Street in the theatre. Theatre yesterday afternoon jountry had nothing to say for himself after a very good gun had done Me work, Robert Mears MacKay and Victor Mapes have written one of the most se VEN TRILOQUIST) OBERT EOESON les JOMN ANC Paul HAZLETON “Ingenious war plays of the season simply by making an automatic gun hold the stage. This gun is operated by a wireless system, and once the German conspirator and his under- + Mngs are brought within range of it they are perforated with bullets. It is all very amusing in spite of the fact that the very good hero looks even the former ambassador to this exactly like his very bad brother and takes his place when the villainous person is knocked out by a “stroke,” as it is conveniently called. Mean- while the very good brother has taken the place of the wicked one in order to carry on a deal that may mean a great deal to Uncle Sam, The bad | man dies without creating more than | @ passing disturbance. But the gun | works to the bitter end, when the ! German spy and his simple assistants | are shot to pieces more or The | fact that the gun is swung around 4 until it threatens to annihilate the audience is neither here nor there. In of a doctor and the Board of th is kept a on until the German villains are shot by the hero who gets into action with the wireless gun, Robert Edeson acted very well in- deed in a dual role, After being | simple and pleasant as the brother- in-law of the heroine, he bad a late dinner in @ high-backed chair and! then came up growling as the terrible husband, This trick of the theatre was turned cleverly. Violet Kemble Cooper was sympathetic as the neglected wife, but so thoroughly Wnglish in accent that she put the play out of tune. acted the German spy with a certain distinction and gave humorous touch of character to the electrician who operated the wireless gun. | “The Long Dash” may not make a great dash in tho theatrical world, but it serves very well as machine- gun melodrama, Jie Actors’ Equity Association, declaring that certain man- agers have not lived up to ‘their agreement to use ite contract ‘im employing players, last night ‘an- mounced that it would meet at the Hotel Astor Monday to consider the matter, Diplomatic negotiations, it is said, will be abandoned for radical saeasures of obtaining the ends de- sired, The meeting will be open to aM persons interested, Francis Wil- on and Patrick Francis Murphy are to speak. Wilton Lackaye also will have some comments to make, Sev~ eral managers against whom com- plaints have been made will be in- vited to sit on the platform and give itheir side of the argument. One of ythe features to be demanded of ell ‘managers is an agreement that here- “after contracts must be exchanged wot tater than the end of the first fweek of rehearsals, IN FLANDERS FIELDS. The following rhyme has been sent fs as original with Mrs, H. C, Brandes ef Parkville, L. 1: ‘The scarlet poppies o'er your head womemorate the you shed, sleep in peace; your fight is o'er, a Brews where you Ne in. Flanders fields! Ritsu ecaridt inte, ide oy sete ° reat Te trecore beans, aids thaty thes ‘ Wel not break faith with you who died, ; A NEW PLAYWRIGHT. ‘Now what do you think of Wesley Hamer, dramatic editor, critic and everything? Wesley bas gone and written a comedy composed of a Yprolorue and three acts and wo havo informed Richard Walton Tully “fs to produce it. Further than this ‘we know not, as, whenever we seck Gdditiona! particulars, Wesley says: “Ab, my friend, you strive to learn feo much!” HERBERT LIKES IT. « Victor Herbert recently heard some ef the music of “Good Luck, Sam," ‘COLLARS (CLUETT PEABODY & CO.IWC. TROY WY. “EDPIDULAR MUSIC At RAGTI io ae GTIME PLANO PLAYING Players the New Jersey soldier show which will open at the Lexington Theatre Nov. 25, and was so impressed with the work of the composer, Sergt. Mer- rill, that he offered to help fix up the hestrutions. Mr, Herbert says ‘the show has somo real music in it. 'd never compl HERE'S A RECORD. ‘The matrimonial speed record be- longs to Gertrude Hamilton of the Centruy Roof “Midnight Revue" and Lieut. Bruce Field Higgenbotham of the 86th United States Infantry. They were introduced to each other by John McGowan of the “Midnight Revue,” after the roof show early last Friday morning and at 5.30 o'clock the same morning were mifrried in Hoboken. They are spending thelr honeymoon at the Hotel Biltmore. Mrs, Higgen- botham is continuing in the show. It was love at first sight, says both, Gosh, it must have been, oft an TUT, TUT, NOW! Agnes Tait, the Hippodrome nurse, who treated ‘a newspaper man’s eye Monday, says that if, as is reported, he thought her beautiful with but one optic working, it must have been sym- pathetically affected by the other, Modesty, thy handle 13 Agnes. GOSSIP, Jessie Reid has been engaged tor |the new “Midnight Frolic.” Forrest Robinson will be Doc’Bifers and Charles Dow Clark Jap Miiler| in Riley’a “Home Folks.” Thomas Dixon will produce “The Invisible Foe,” a three-act play by Walter Hackett. It is a London suc- cess, A third “Going L company will open in Newburgh, N. Y., to-morrow night, There may be one more, Sam Forrest has returned from Washington, where he saw Mary Ryan begin @ road tour in “The Lit- tle Teacher.” Max Spiogel has temporarily suc- ceeded the late Harold Edel as man- aging director of the Strand John Cort’s “Listen Lester” com- pany will go to Johnstown, Pa, to- day, where it will open to-morrow night. The Committee on Public Inform. ation has delegated Sam L. Roth- apfel to assemble “Under Four Flags” This film will be shown at the Rivoli and Rialto during the week of Nov. 17 Babe Stalman was about to do a toe dance at the Terrace Garden Dance Palace before 2,600 people last night when a report that Smith was elected reached her, She immediately did a Smith toe dance. At midnight {t looked as though she might have to learn @ new one, A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, A note just in from the State Insane Asylum ‘at Central Islip informs us that old King Constantine was very fond of bananas, but his mother al- ways made him eat prunes FOOLISHMENT. ‘There was an old lady named Ww ins every per perfectly ‘Treat meet She'd spill in ew “1 love everything on two feet," Henry E. Dixey | FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, “His face Mt up.” “No wonder! He's lantern-jgwed.” COMIC PAGE Wednesday, November 6, 1918 No, BuT MY Mom DID AND SHE HAD & LOT OF RovaLe THE BIG LITTLE FAMILY DAWGONE — SOME SENTENCES IN THIS “CooP"—TH’ BIRD IN “TH' NexT CELL Gor 20 Years! How LONG DID You GET ‘No. 134"? Gost! WHEN A WOMAN STARTS SHOPPING SHE NEVER KNOWS WHEN “To sTOP! - GISIESALIGAT. CAARLIES GOTTA Pur AVER. 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