The evening world. Newspaper, November 19, 1918, Page 18

® THE NEW PLAYS >| “The Betrothal” Imaginative Romance BY CHARLES DARNTON SIDE from the fact that we are living in a practical age, a play like “The Betrothal,” produced last night by Winthrop Ames at the Shu- bert Theatre, lacks the finer poetic quality that Maurice Maeterlinck gave to “The Bive Bird.” ‘This time the bird sacred to the memory of the New Theatre lays | love with half a dozen girls before he -robin-bine eggs, The Tyltyl who once | finds the maid who means more to eet out to find happiness is now quite | him than any one else in the world. . |This maid is embodied in a Velled Figure, and about her cluster the a children that are to be—in other TYLTYL words the dream children of “The Blue Bird.” In neither a spiritual nor @ dra- matic sense has Maeterlinck de- veloped the idea suggested in his earlier play, He has merely plucked & feather from the wing of seventeen —just as Booth Tarkington did with- out bothering about poetry, His phil- osophy is nothing more than the plil- osophy of instinct. Except for a poetic touch here and “The Betrothal” is @ rather affair, Moreover, it is ob- Like Tyltyl, most boys have REGINALO SHEFPIELO s COMIC PAGE esday, November 19, 1918 We IF MY HAND WORTS, MOM Kisses T AND The HURT Gors Away You, DON'T UNDERSTAND « fT S ONLY ACHES AND PAINS AWAY WHEN You ” SSING MAKES EVERYTHING Go AWAY ~ does n> WHAT ARE ‘You sire ABouT BIG LITTLE FAMILY ‘CAUSE I REFUSED M6 Buy HER THAT SET OF FURS” TH’ GREAT @corr! BAWGON(T— SHE @AID GHE'D GET EVEN WOH MeE- WHY PICK discovered that the , iris they believed themselves to be in love with were commonplace, if not vulgar creatures, glorified for the moment by the eyes of youth, Maeterlinck has taken the most simple form of life and labored @ poetic fantasy. He deals stiny by bringing it down from a majestic figure to an infant- in-arms, as it were, thereby robbing it of any posstble meaning. Reginald Sheffield was buoyant and responsive to bis halt dosen sweet: unlike Peter Pan, for he has grown | hearts | as tyts m une 7 tthisor wed her el 4 up, and in his dream he aces the | Mattison bestoned i TGs pote a mother of the children that may en-| maternal’ instinct to Joy, Another rich his life. The journey he tak ee bit of — was done by Cecil ‘app as a miser is nothing more than the usual course | *“50 4/0 .Totnal” i an imaginative through life, There's no lad, per- romance, beautifully staged, but lack- haps, who doesn't imagine himself in ing in appeal. About Plays and Players N t made by Andre JOHN MASON COMPLAINS. la Chappelle, the Swiss opera; John Mason fo pretty mech pro- impresario, who arrived in New| voked. Seated in ot York recently, states thet New ing, York is to see a dramatic operetta] ike i called "1815" goon, It was originally) “Why do so Ca A Pye wee the in Frenah under the title of “Les| Words ‘furlough’ ‘leave’ inoor- Cent Jours." ‘The theme covers the! "ectly when speaking of soldiers? man in the arn: wo t last 100 days after Napoleon Bona-| grate of Second Lacuvenant te grant parte's return from Elba. The libret-/ed o Seren takes a few to is by Mr, la Chappelle and the re ar 4 officers are muslo by Josef Lauber of Geneva and| S"y, ved loaves of abeance. To say Dr. Louis Cappe of Paris. ig wrong. It is wrong, to officer ie on a @ commissioned HANNEFORDS AT THE HIP. tough. Dawgonne it, people ought to The Hanneford Family of whiri-|e, more careful’ iy ay wind bareback riders, six in number, cia ap eotanane ste thereat tad became a part of “Everything” at “ROADS OF DESTINY.” the Hippodrome yesterday, They are A HW Bnglish and were with Barnum & ." Woods bas set Wednesday evening, Nov. 27, for the initial pres- Bailey for several seasons, The act,| entation of “Roads of Destiny,” with whieh is both novel and exciting, in-| Florence Reed starred, at the Repub- cludes the work of a very funny|lo Theatre The supporting com- clown, Edwin Hanneford. colm Williams, ‘Alma Belwin, Ed. ——— mun re an MORE DREW COMEDIES. — |by ‘Channing Pollock, suggested’ by The Famous Players-Lasky Cor-| the O. Henry story of the same name. poration has made an arrangement —- with the V. B. K. Film Corporation bea Gossip. hereby it will distribute the Mr. and ‘wot Kelly and Donald Gallaher pe “he Prodigal Son" in- are to be in “The Mrs. Sidney Drew comedies, to be re-| tended for the Pun % leased monthly, beginning Jan. 1./atre. om ORS duty The ‘Three comedies are finished. They are} We are advised by the Press Com- “Once a Mason" and “The Amateur nie that the soldier boys in “Good Liar,” by Albert Payson Terhune, and| LUCK Sam.” which is to play the “Romance and Rings,” by Emma An- | “*x!nston, have red cheeks, @erson Whitman. The V. B. K. Film| Frits Letber of Robert Mantell's Corporation is the producing concern, boty ory ends his spare time mak- It is made up of the Drews and A J. 4h armor he wears on the stage, ‘Van Beuren, le the Drews are on | !t beats poker. tour in spoken play, “Keep Her| George Thornton, the “donkey” in Smiling,” they fn carry a complete | “Sinbad,” has recovered from the in- it os ’ and’ work when |“uenga,” A! Jolson was donkeyless for Gnd where they wish, § weet. . — The Seaside Home for Crippled ART OVERTAKES ZIEGFELD. Children will have its annual benefit me Drama League of Philadelphia %. 9 Strand Friday morning, dorsed “By Pigeon Post,” the 1’. ae Bicgtela Fe Pavesce which has| Bertha Kalich says the soldiers and teen playing in the big York |#ailors who saw her play “The Riddle: guburb. It le the first time such a/ Woman” Sunday night were @ de- thing has happened to the producer, cidedly appreciative audience. who has heretofore been noted for his} William (Yotng Bill) Batley has judgment along other lines and curves, quit vaudeville and returned to films, AMa' he is so" tickled he intends to|All he says about vaudeville is that it frame the indorwement. Peggy O'Neii | Just ain't. fs to be in the cast when the play| “A Place in the Sun” will open at opens at the George M, Cohan The-|the Comedy Theatre Tuesday, Nov. atre next Monday night. 26, while Walker Whiteside will begin — his engagement at the Belmont Mon- THE APPLAUSE DID IT. day, Nov, 26, The first act of “A Stitch in Time,” |, A" autographed programme of the - Friars-Lambs "Frolic-Gambol," held at the Fulton Theatre, had just endod| a: the Metropolitan Opera. House i hen « sallor went 4 the Won ombce Bnd asked Treasurer peer Oh ea has been given Gov,- Harris if it was a good show. Harvis| or President W Feplied in the aMrmative. Just then a| Of "esigent Wilson and all the men Durst of applause came from the ‘-|viven originally to Marshal MoCarthe, It Dears the signatures wide. but he thought the new Governor “Gosh!” said the sailor. “Gimme|should hay: Dee ichats for to-nignt, quick. That| = pave & Show must be great.” Later it was found that a Chateau- YUM! YUM! ‘Thierry veteran had been making a| Mrs, Root of Leonard Street is some epeech for the War Work Campaign. ' pie and cake baker, not saying any- When Manager Bailey heard of the|thing about the delicious coffee she {incident he contributed the sailor's; makes when any of her friends call on admission moncy to the evening's col- ber in surprise.—Greenpoint Home Ne’ lection. | News. A NICE OLD MAN. A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY, Doris Faithful, of “The Canary,”| Lem Harkness of Wellsville is a Was on a sireet car the ether d when an argument twox piace tween the conductor an @ressed old man, 1 gould not pay his f: - | King George threw away. gonductor could not eho a FOOLISHMENT. Miss Fiithful offered to lend the man | Toone save was & youngster named Pringle @ Rickel, He accepted it an.t insisted | Pst down and grote & short jlugle, “4 having her name and address. ‘esterday she received a letter at the : Globe Theatre and found it was from| 4% he applied 9 Dens, ghinete the old gentieman, ‘The envelope apne contained five one-cent siamps and| FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE, @ request that she send t two Uckets for “The Cawary,"" for a living.” He didn’t get the tickets, “Yes, he writes me.” ‘illness oo JOE'S C Joe, DID You SEE WHAT WAPPENED To “THE CAR LAST NIGHT WHALE WE WERE IN AT “THE “ MOVIES ? SOME SWEET CHILD, SCRATCHED HIS NAME ON ONE OF “HE DOORS!" “SOMEWHERE IN NEW YORK” THE TOSTSIES ARE WHEN HAROL Now PA SY, CAARLIE. 0 GETS WHADDAY/ PAM OMERS Gol’ , MPANY Comi| NO AE AAS MAWS EXPECTIN’ To HAVE wT . + DROP IN ANY WASN'T For DAISY'S AL) SET HAVIN’ Cc | ha MINUTE! SHe’s ALL WoRKEO WILWE OER GE IN BED THAI DAVIN’ Com UP Over IT! OF THE WIRE! 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