The evening world. Newspaper, May 17, 1919, Page 7

pasesriaan ee. , Actors Add the Shamrock To American Stage Laurels By Work in Irish Drama Have Caught the Spirit of Ervine’s “John Fer- guson,” and Play Close to Erin’s Soil, at the Garrick, Is Admirably Given. By Charles Darnton. \ " G. Ervine. The remarkable American actors play it admirably. EH MAY well treasure the shamrock as an honorable badge of the drama now that “John Ferguson” has come to us from St. John thing about it, to my mind, is that In the old days the Garrick Theatre was the home of Harrigan and Hart, but these racy comedians gave their distinctive talents to Irish life in New York, not life in Ireland, They loaded themselves into Paddy Duffy's cart, by way of carrying off a song, and from one end of the country to the other they made a popular appeal. Now, in this same theatre, we have Irish drama of the soil that makes us think because of its simplicity, The astonishing thing about the performance is that most of the actors have never s foot on Irish soil, The same is true of several actors in “Dark . Rosaleen,” the play at the Belasco Theatre. “Dark Rosaleen” is, to be sure, a play of another color, with a horse race to clear the track, yet its characters are close to the turf. “John Fer- guson” calls for more sincerity, more conviction. ‘The wonder is, as I have said, that American actors are successful in catching not only the spirit of the play, but the dialect of the characters. I have no means of knowing whether Dudley Diggers is Irish, but bis act- ing as the weak-spirited grocer who covets Ferguson's daughter leaves | ¢, nothing to the imagination. Handi+ capped as he is with a contemptible role, he gives one of the most artistic performances of, the year. He com- pels warm admiration as an actor, even though you may turn a cold shoulder on the character he plays. As for Ervine, he is not @ stranger in the land. His “Mixed Marriage” and “The Magnanimous Lover" were given here by the Irish Players. Er- vine knows his people—this is the wecret of the dramatic appeal he make in bis plays. He must have lived and worked with them, in the fields, perhaps, to understand them #0 well. Plates from the rack on the wall, a mug or two, a cloth for the table—and the scene is set. Bare fect express another phase of Irish peas- ant life, If you have read “The Rat Pit,” by Patrick MaoGill, you will know what I mean, for that story gives one the feeling of bare feet cut by stones—the cruel sting of poverty. In his way, too, Ervine fills the heart with pity for people who hear the wolf gnawing at the door, Yet his bare-footed beggar, Clutie, is cheertul goul, content with his whistle ‘and his own philosophy. “Tm away in the head,” says he, “and I ought to be locked up in an asylum—and 1 would be if 1 was worse nor lam, It's @ queer pity of @ man that’s not distracted enough to be put in the madhouse and not wise enough to be let do what the rest of ou do 4 It is easy enough to hear Ervine dalking over the shoulder of this simple-minded beggar. When Chutle is told that the villainous landowner has sold his eoul to the devil, he aptly responds with: “Why would the evil be buying souls when he can get wilions of them for nothing?” No fool, this Clutie! It ie he, in fact, who drives Andrew Ferguson to kill the man who hae wronged his sister, and he does it with the utmost cunning, ‘Instead of “the grand, sweet milk” that Clutie loves, it is a bitter strain that runs through the play. Every- thing has been “planned,” according to the view of the old religious fanatic, But the letter from Fergu- son's brother in America, with the money that would have kept murder from being done, is a simple bit of writing that adds a poignant note to the traged: “It Is a great deal of money to send, and I have had a lot of bother to raise it, but I could not let the farm go out of the family without making an effort, so I send the money to you with this letter, Mf I am well- spared I will mebbe come home and see you all, I am getting tired of HENRY HERBERT ae * Chute” America, It is no place for an old man that wasn't born here.” But he missed the mail by @ day, and eo Hannah cries: “There would have been none of this if he hada’ forgotten the mail-day. One m dead and another in jail in danger of hia life because my Uncle Andrew old Greek tragedy, But Ervine is always simple. He is to be counted among the dramatists who have given the theatre a new Irish drama, @ drama of the soil and of the heart. It is this quality that doubtless has inspired American ac- tore to add the shamrock to their laurels. New Offerings In the Theatres (Additional dramatic announcements for the coming week wil; be printed in The Evening World of Monday.) ULINE FREDERICK will be seen at the Rialto in “One Week of Life," a play by Cosmo Ham- iiton which Willard Mack has arranged for the soreen. A girl assumes the responsibilities of @ household to en- able the wife to spend a week with her child in the country, only to discover even, on jive ets of the husband Gnd he & perplexing pa A eng comedy called “The Belthop’s Secret,” the Rialto Magazine, scenes jn Norway and musi- cal numbers will complete the pro- gramme. caer “PLL GET HIM YET,” FILM COMEDY AT RIALTO Dorothy Gish appears as a come- dienne in “I'll Get Him Yet," which will be the principal screen feature moves to its inevitadle| BILLS AT NEW YORK | AT HE ae HARRI . THEATRE to a man much older than she, ond who, when she inherits a conceals the fact and secure ad- joining house to which she arranges & secret entrance from her original home. She goes there whenever her husband is away and poses as Vicky Van, hostess to a gay Boheminn set There will also be a new Chester- Outing picture, a comedy. the Topical Review and concert numbers. poahetrih Si AND AMERICAN THEATRES The film attractions at Loew's New York Theatre and Root will be “The Stronger Vow," Monday; J. Warren| Kerrigan in “The Best Man,” Tues- day; Maxine Eliott in “The Eternal Magdalene,” Wednesday; Tom Mix in| “The Coming of the Law,” Thursday; | Mary MacLaren in “The Unpainted | Woman" and Margarite, Fisher in “Charge It to M day; Zena Keefe in “The Amateur wide Sat- urday, and Hale Hamilton in “Full of Pep,” Sunday At Loew's American Theatre and Roof the firet haif of the week will be “Every Sailor," the show given on the last trip of the U. 8S. 8. George Washington; Sherman, Van and Hyman, Regal and Mack, and Jim Rowland, The film offering in the theatre will be Geraldine Farrar in “The Stronger Vow.” On Thursday the bill will change to “Which One Shall I Marry?” a morality allegory; ‘Will H. Ward and Martha Pryor, GISH baal Ger Him VET4 RIVOLI. Stephen McNally, May Dinos and Laemere De Wolf in “Making Good," a sketch of theatrical life, and Norma Talmadge in the photo-play “The New Moon.” esas ‘ROMANCE AND ARABELLA’ PLAZA OFFERING On the screen at the Plaza Thea- tre will be Constance Talmadge in “Romance and Arabella,” to-morrow, Monday and Tuesday; Alice Brady in “Marie, Ltd.,”" Wednesday and Thurs- day; Mabel Normand in “The Lit- tle P and Charlie Chaplin in “Polics Friday and Saturday. at the Rivolt, he has the role °f| wp RICK OF INN! OCENCE” Susie Faraday Jones, whose ‘ather has placed a railway system in her| AT 81ST STREET THEATRE name in order to avoid payment of a heavy income tax. Susie insists on really running the railroad. Among the orders that §. F. Jones, as she Bigns herself, issues is one forbidding through trains to stop at Rivera, The angry commuters, thinking S. FB, Jones to be a man, refer to the now manager as “Skinflint Jones.” Other| be vaudeville acts. features will be 9 Venetian ballet, 2 comedy, the Rivoli Pictorial, a Prizma picture of Glacier Park and orch tral and vocal music. EL LE “THE WOMAN NEXT DOOR” STRAND FEATURE Strand Theatre will have Ethel Clay- ton in “The Woman Next Door,” a photoplay made from Carolyn Wells novel, “Vicky Van” The story con- cerns a girl who 18 anhappily married Stella Talbot is the star of “The | Price of Innocence,” the photo-play | Theatre the first half of the week. Thursday wil! pring Enid Bennett in “The Law of Men.” There will a Cs ee STEEPLECHASE PARK AND LUNA ATTRACTIONS | Luna Park, Coney Island, will offer new attractions. George C. Tilyou will open Bteeple- chase Park, Coney Island, for the summer to-morrow. Bands of music, dancing, swimming and fun-making devices are among the features. SOME CHARACTERS IN THE IRISH DRAMA “JOHN FERGUSCN,” AUGusTin DUNCAN ae JonnN FERGUSON DUDLEY DiGkBS ae YAMES CARSER ———— ee: others, Thursday will will be gen, tures, eae Sai NEW COLUMBIA RE TO START SUMMER RUN | lanko, with Hurtig & Seamon's Frankie Niblo, Leo Hayes, Ben Rubin, Helen Le Roy, Irene Cassini, James Hail and the California Trio, Lower East Side Hears Mme. Powell Ca Joueph Kelly, Christ! Church; organ recitals at City Coll morrow and Wednesday afternoons at 4 o'clock, PROC TOR VAUDEVILLE AND PICTURE PLAYS At Proctor's Fifth Avenue Theatre the first half of the week will be wi Nyn ton’s Water Lions and Diving Burns and Frabite, Ryan and Nealy, Minerva Courtney and Procto; On Monday afternoon the Columbla to be seen at the Eighty-first Street | Theatre will offer its annual summer |show, “Peek-a-Boo,” written by Leon Bedini, with music by Michael Ve- In the company are Clark and McCullough, Joe Cook, Lalla Selbini, Ben Harney, Harlan Knight, James e Forest, Frankie James, May Myers, Emmy Barbier, Lillian McNeil, Kelso Brothers, the University trlo, Bolzar Sisters, the Thyee English as its chief attraction a big patriotic! Rosebuds, the Seven Musical Spi spectacle called “The Last Shot, or| and For its chief film attraction the| 11-11-11." There are also many other Hers, oria and horus of gi ee AGE “CHEER UP, AMERICA” AT HURTIG & SEAMON’S "Cheer Up, Ameri will be at Mme. Maud Powell, violinist, was soloist at the People's Music Leagut concert in the Washington Irving High School last night. Her accom panist, Alex Skjerne, contributed a group of piano solos. The concert was one of a series to give the lower east side an opportunity to hear artiste of the first rank at low prices, Men in uniform will be guests at & concert to-morrow evening at the nal Farley Club, No. 16 40th Street, The artists, recruited from the churches, will include baritone from Corpus John Donovan, Alma Bachman, Helen Farnum, Eva May and Gladys Russell, A series of community music festi- vals for Yonkers has been arranged by Julius Hopp, { evening, M Hall. Local talent, several choruses, and an orchestra will take part. ve first on Saturday » opposite the City Samuel A. Baldwin will give fr Edgar H, Sittig, ‘cellist, will be soloist at the Waldorf-Astoria con- cert conducted by Joseph Knecht to- morrow evening. With the change of bill on be Patricola, Mary Maynes, Wilfred Clark, Ganet Moore, Allen and Conway, Mabel Burke and photopla: Twenty-third Street The- atre will start the weok with Fletcher, | Norton and Shea, Moss and Frye, Beatrix Deane, the | the Four Boises, On ‘Thursday thero| &@ new programme with the; Bobby Heath Revue, Frank Bus Keating and Walton, Lynn and Ber- Clyde Nelson and motion pic- Pantzer Duo and orgette, together Theatre with < 150‘ WALL STREET. ACROSS CIL FIELDS Bankers Representing $2,000,- 000,000 Capital Back From Southwest. | One hundred and fifty New York bankers, who trooped across the in @ special train to Investigate the big oll fields, are back at their desks to-day, They saw oil, got stuck In having @ Texas ranger search their cars for liquor, The bankers were dubbed “Wall Street doughboys” by the Texans, and were royally entertained at Fort Worth, The party represented more than $2,000,000,000 In capital, visited Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas flelds. and ¢ the war,” si expert of No. 60 Wall Street Among the New York finanelal men who mé the trip were M. J Brown, Empire Trust Co.; Col. Will fam C, Cornwell, J. $. Bache & Co. Bertram Cruger, ropolitan Trust Judge W. W. Foster, B. N AMUSEMENTS. B'WAY ano 47"SF PHONE: BRYANT 137 LO" ANNUAL SPECIAL ALL-SUMMER, PRODUCTION PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY MORK THAN A i D BHOAD WAY INSEIPOTION.” Harry T. Hall, Mere Bank; George W. Har bott & Co. Ladd & ¢ ‘Three th the mud and experienced te thrill of | * Leaving New York May 2 the party| “We saw in Butler County, Kansas, | wolls which produce more oll per dAY|(y. pun than the famed flelds of Roumania} i .., lca, heard #0 much of during |! J. C. McDowell, an oll) erm as in une | MATINER O NG Eee nae | DANCING ON A PERFECT FLOOH HURCHILL’S®. GAVTON in THe. PAA, EXT DOOR* SANDY Paarne very Mreeman; M. Gavin, Montgomery & G, Guildal, Hambleton &' Co. ts’ National | . Harris, Ab- William Ladd, Tilney, John B, Liggett Liggett & Drexel; oll, Liberty National’ Hank; DeWitt Milhauser, Speyer & Co. HLH. Scott, Henry Le Doherty é& Co; Koy W. Shaffer, Hambleton & Co; . W. TerMuelen, . representing Holland If. it. Warner, Bankers Trust Wood, Coigate, Parker & Co, ead James Q. Newton, Equitable DOUGHBOYS’ TRAMP, ‘Trust Co. DOLLAR BUYS THREE TIMES ASMANY MARKS AS M1914] g Rate Fixed for Sending Money to Individuals in Germany for Relief Purposes. as many Ge nat a rate of 12.64 marke 1s been fixed with the mission for tra ‘ividuala in soa, Thies May tration docs not for shipment of small par- cela of food to Individuals in. Germany’, because this sort of shipment cause of # ng space, too mu being xiven to the packing. _— BOYD HEADS SOLDIERS’ HOME A Me Me- oN, dof Institutions and Agen- oa has approved the appointment of yd of Jersey City, aa super nt of the iors’ Tome at ny on condition that he either nas commander of the New Jepartment of the nd Army i tion to his ap. ntendent resuited A. Re com fficlo a member of rs of the Kearny niment aa super m the c New York, with 800 other cities of the United States, celebrates joa Day” to-day to remind Americans new made and yet cltixens of the duty of Americanisation for all who make the United States their home. The day has been appointed as one for special effort in enrolment in the Bolshevism, The headquarters in Manhattan ts at No 1173 Broadway and in Brooklyn at | 2176 Broadway, The Governors of seventeen Stotes have issued proclamations urging olt- izens to onroll in the movement #0 that their names may be forwarded to the nationa) headquarters in this city, and in many of the $00 cities where Mayors have demonstrations there are parades and mass meetings. hi The mass meeting for New York le Hall to-mor- Americans not the speakers will a of Ohio and Dr, John Wesley Hill. Arthur wht Hymn of the it will be furnish ic’ and the music by the Police Band. 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