The evening world. Newspaper, August 10, 1920, Page 19

TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1920 eath of James O'Neil Recalls ost Striking Romantic Figure Of the Count of Monte Cristo Played Part Nearly 7,000 Times ble and Proclamation, ‘‘The World Is Mine!” Appealed to Imagination More Than Any Character in Two Generations. By Charles Darnton. Copriisht, 1920, by Thy Prem Publishing Co, (The New York Tvening World) ITH the announcement of the death of tile veteran actor, O'Netl, there arises instinctively in the memory of count goers the strikingly romantic figure of the Count of Monte Chrisio bodied for generations by the veteran actor. Seldom bave actor and role in 80 Closely associated in the public mind “Most vivid of all are the earlier recollections of tes in the stage version of the Dumas romance Y O'Neil that Redmond him served for Photo, Byron, IN HIS FAMOUS ROLE MONTE CRISTO, "JAMES O'NEIL IN THE COUNT OF whirlwind of applause “The world is mine! this claim of lanWed pro- with the rir clamation: owad, years, during whict he played the part neurly 7,000 times. equipped for the Acter, temperamentally “and physically to the imagination, and never fajlod to eweep his ing and triumphant gfprship mlsht be questioned, or Ulan was In the character that Bny rate taken as an extravagant He found {tieulty In leaving mek But when Tene ONE! Once almost the death of e whon a performance at Mart in his prime tt met with eager he was caught beneath fi and enthusiastic appl from ca cloth,” alter the dummy ¥ Bods to the kid-sloved fe nus, nd ny mtrugeisiins thneon ybody joined in hearty smothering dust raised by the ulation of an heroic accom. turbulent stagehands y q snes Sa gy ick, UlConsclous at the edge of jnent, Firmly planted on a rock, juvensclats al {he actor stood supreme, towering don, Conn. is ned ~=Ohateau obstacles and, above all, stir dif, after t 86 in “Monte the imagination until it knew Cristo Born in Ireland, In 1847, Bounds James O'Net! » this country Mis is the wcene that wilt be best years old ahd parked h Hinverod, Hut thore remains also » Cincinnat! He was eely faded pleture of contristed aohinist when he Jeur--the celabrated ballroom nee to KO On tho stage, ne. ‘he mind's cye can still see wis a8 @ super. Stock com- nes OANcil in ail the glory of pany en ments followed in Chi- fening black, white frill and cago, San Francisco and New York Didled ehoes, descending the marble Then came his opportuntty to ap- e with stately tread and com- peny Cristo," amd over his own so completely as fo night 7 “ned into lasting me, rything before him A. sidelight on James O'Neill's tn- the display, heroic and qependent but generous nature was ing, there was acting of Un- afforded a few years ago, when the ted skil!, not merely depend- City of New London. tried to. diny It wan aoting ve upon exter from him a plot of ground It de hded upon fine training and guld- for park purposes. Mr. O'Neil set a Dy keen intelligence, Jumes price which the city regarded « Nail, before this time, had played exorbitant that {t begun condemna Forrest, grent BAawin other He succecde th Bdwin Booth, delaide Neilson and drama, tion proceedings. d 80 There was a long and bitter Jegal pes of the fight In which the relations of Mr oa P. The in “Monte Cristo’ " a 3 ee eth ; tor ded, mak- SNe and his cl t New London : wth Dantes fflend, former Congressman Bryan is, fie at “ F. Mahan, then Mayor, were strained hort lh'ss Bi i ost to the brealing point. In the cnaged by John Stetson. Ho POP ena Mr, O'Neil was the vietot. Aa soon aa he learned It, he sought out Mayor Mahan, Tefore the latter 1 out: could say a word, the veteran actor an, 7 that ye Heked you, ity can have my d—d old dand re 1920, by The, Trae Publiting O% for nothing!" Os) (The New York Breame We When Mr. O'Neil abandaned ¥ dear People: What are YOU he did so with a det doing for the boys and girls of make his retirement rp sole desire, he said, w erminaiion rmanent, barhood ? notlng to His to sek the Here Are Some of Society’s Pets at the Exhibition of Southampton Kennel Clubs | MRS HomtiwALL UF AND TMILO* Fov L. § iircarde 66] dinner ready?” 1 Mr. Jarrs He had come home from the office a iittie eariier than usual “It will be ready in a few mo- ments,” said Mra, dare, “Is wo "t walt a bad about you that you oa lnute or two for your dinner! Many and many a time the dinner has to wait for you, so 1t won't hurt you to wilt once for your dinner! “Can 1 have of cake, wake the Lt ‘I'm so hu f can't walt?” “I'in hungry, toc cream!” erled the Nttte “Now, loc yo a piece we boy, maw 'y ana 1 too want girl of the window an ¢ mother,” out vod Aad M "I see bother your tray be don't Jars “Don't way, please!" You know the so alraid window! I some day of me!" Mrs, Jarr had seized the voplane said mislead th remarh is 1 they'll children that ed Mrs Javr. wroplane, And fall out of the will fail out worried out lite little boy by the legs and was pulling bim baek into t TOOT for in his eager- hess {0 see stray gerop! tha might bs floating past he had thr himself out of the window tar beyoud what would seem to be in his centre avity. this noment Gortrude, the mald, rang the dinner bell, “Phere it is! 1 seen it!" eried tho boy, and he thrust himself out of the window again and im the line of hin little sister's vision. ‘1 didn’t got tu see the aeroplane! I didn't get to tex Wailie, jumpe a 1” eried the little g here Wasn't any! Your papa was only joking," said Mra. Jurr. "Come, children, come to your dinner, here WAS one!" cried the little boy, “Izzy Slavinsky saw the man flying in {t Sunday, and the man got $10,000 and now Ivey Slavinsky's tather Ja going to quit the glass-put- in business and is golng Ww be an ae plane man because he says he can Work at the giass-put-in business all his life and not get. $10,000, but the aeroplane man got that much money h ust flying th hours," y Slavinsky’s papa la going to in front of me let me ride in his aeroplane and he ain't going to let you!” cried the lite girl. “I guve Tazy Slavinsky & nt and everybody that gives him a cent can ride In his papa’s aeroplane, he says. And you didn’t give him @ cent,"" “Ha, I'll pull you out of plane and take your Brother Willie, vied Lor nsky aeropla Miss Jarr bey acro- ve!" orled in the built, paid-for place ne not yet An to soream, s, Jurr tret- to her lushand. “See what you have done! You've got the childr ali upset and dinner is waiting for them, and Gertrude wants to go out!" ‘The feanily then straggled into the yon bet ! lining room of the flat, whero the re you being kind to them? usion of his New London estate, dining room 4 ne Aro you being Maing them to STAY With an ocoasional visit to Now York, SuiKY Gertrude was bringing In the GHOOL er are you trying to get Bi entoy the soclety of chasen dinner nd (bumping “down the hoy «1 or fre school to work in friends In doth cities, His favorite dishes ¢ ale, eel viene jeer ap res rendezvous here was the Players’ seen a big grean and red aero- RPME) that YOU Chad, and in Now London wherever Maw," “sald young Anantis ht-control «und discipline at # Bryan F, Mahan happened to t inte wm mile long aid 9 akea you the succes ‘But [n 1916 the lure of the riaeet le high jon ansels rae Dt A gm a got the great stage ‘hero, He had riding. on I saw it, but Emma Rahat - wir sundant means, but he craved to do 4 y take boys and girls ont deel is ns ys h 8 org lito d See rdbvupen iiiteal tidied! x r or Jater your business will “I'm going to Naw York,” he teta org Fai he Ut * yr from having unver You em- the writor, “to look over the piotu never saw such a family! it’s giving Biiey who do not ODBY fietd and aco if thero ian't ane place nevereaw auch a filly! Ive givin j was of tee creain Whore T ean fit In, I don't Kive @ Ae p at the table! Give me that and see how it to revel in the splashings of Broad. phanente rt ast lee creagn Wey but I've got the itch be doing Then, red ining all the rest of the BD oss ‘eae hile throat someting to vary the quiet life | family were watching hae she BL. Us ATI. WORK TOGRTHDR had for yoars here. J don’t know fushed and said: OR THE CHILDREN Bee Gated BASEN Lr weANE On tt dec aee koe Yours truly ther they'll want me, but I'm go-. And she calmly proceed ead ' ALFALFA SMITH. , ine jook around and ecu’ ’ aad tbe pews item that interested ber, S MRS ESMOND OVSRIEN ANT SARs e MRS MORYON BRERS BOVE are shown some well known society women A whose tastes are not all for teas and dane The Annual Dog Show at the Southamptos Kennel Clubs, Southampton, 1. 1, is always considered » rendex- Ponzi’s Got More Notes in the Bank Than Caruso Has in His’ Larynx: He Makes Your $$ Gain 50% in 45 Days, Which Is as Much as the Most Conscientious Landlord Can Do. By Neal R. O'Hara, Coprright. 1990. by ‘The Prem Publishine Co, (The New York Hvening World) m UST when Caruso was making big dough, along comes Ponzi to make — bs him @ piker, is the guy that ran up millions from a cent) » stamp. It is lucky for Rockefeller be didn't start with @ nickel shoestring, As things stand now, Ponzi's got more notes in the bank than Caruso’s “~ | got in his larynx. In fact, he makes Enrico look Itke the typhen ia an : all-star cast. Ponzi is a star descendant of Ponzi de Leon, Leon being the guy that un- veiled the fountain of youth In Flor- Ponai the rest of the boys are buying sou- Fd venir post cards. And a postage — fda. All that Ponzi de Beantown Stamp {8 still worth two cents in, has discovered {s' the fountain of Spite of the service you get for it. % ie darby. It shoots the same merry Ponsi's way Is cheaper than mak- * ing money with your own sextuple* preas, The way he's got it fixed with” postage stamps, the Government ~ does the printing for him. He takes the price of a fiivver from you and brand of chaser as Wall Street uses to water its melon patches, You've got to hand this guy Poni He makes your money gain in forty-five days, which credit 60 per cent TUT H] 1 VERY EASY, SAY WE, IF YOU KNOW HOW. js as much as the landlords can do, batehes it into @ seven-passenger The only other birds that gufn 50 car, He stretches @ dollar Into .a « per cent in forty-five daya are the mitiion with all his sleeves rolled up. You furnish the $1 and Ponzi toases in the six zeros in back of it. Thix baby etn turn decim’l points into commas on almost any bank-~ book. wuya that are making home brew, Hut Ponst does it with postage stamps! And any yap knows that you can't get stuck on postage stamps unless you sit on the gluey side up. ) COSTA Vern FOX AND “ DREWSTONE BY SMONSES — Ponsi has puxzted some of the big- It now looks like Ponzt will soon MATRENAY ONAL gest beans in Bostoa, They made Own what Columbus discovered, No |... matter what the safety guys say, the kid is still worth $3,000 a week in vaudeville. He's getting rich quick in something like ten seconds fla All hefp-got to do is to keep it~ which Is where Monte Cristo failed, * You will remember that Monte Cristo owned the world till be lost It to fs Monte Carlo, The way Ponzi bas money here and in Europe goes to prove that half the world is squirrels and the other half is nuts. The only thing that's got ‘em worried Is that they don't know which side js furnishing the nuts. Lenine’s Bolshevik money and Ponzi’s promissory notes are the a couple of runs on bis Beantown bank but Ponzi beat ‘em tn extra innings. To-day he's got more money than a pantry has ants, He's got enough dough to choke a giraffe, And more currency than a greyhound can jump ov He's put the crease in Croesus and he's still going strong, If five-spots were snow- flukes, Ponzi would be @ three-day bilzzard, AN ‘Ten yea * ago Pons was a walter. *} Now he’s proving that everything comes to him who walts, The three greatest Itallans to-day are Ponai, Marcon! and Martini—with D'Annun- zio in the second division, The Bos- ton bambino delivers the goods with ee cause of the paper shortage, but yous for the best in pedigreed dogs. The picture at the upper left shows Mrs, I. W. 4. Wall with “Milo.” Mrs. Esmond O'Brien corner is se ELIZABETH TERRY Cathleen Fox with prize-winning bulldog, the property of W. Breese with “Alexis,” Ane S TOTS “Drewstone by ’ her entry in the Russian Wolfhound Class, Is " { , : . 88 " simply buys stamps in Europe walle. 2 it's a great scheme if it don’ . Ww seen at the top centre with sven In the lower centre, while the lower right photograph shows pr oN fed ped 4 Boh, don't weaken. (f ‘ “Lady Topsey,” in the Boston Ter- Elizabeth Terry with “Toto” and 0,” her Pekingese exhibits, The : i rier clas. In the upper right-hand show took plnee Aug, . ) weile Tine DNOMTFPOSS ‘ i — Rn inna veers) 7) , : Che mopped a moment, ‘There never was » Bide Dudleov. ; | mich «@ busy bird (the ‘ y few seconds he brought food Coprrient, 1920, by By Prem Pubivhing Co. (The New York Myening World) “a ‘ for the infants, Soon Mrs, Wren 66 HLL." said Lucily the Waits pioobing Bug: pahat Would Deca joke |p { sopmir Joined him, and sueh abundant prov! rexs, asthe Friendly Patron “Bout cops that pinch people It $ — M sion went into the house for the bird- . 5 the hn ought to mo fine, ‘ TRENE: ANy 4 POR goose rad trait , picked up the batt gh “Maybe,” conctuded Lucile, a mo- .f i OFB APN “De A | Uillaren ENery tlie tie Mother Bird bill of fare, “Tae by the papers that ment inter, “Wf got & lot of good Jokes i Copyright, 1020, by The Pree Wubitahing Co, (be New York Hrening World: came with a bit in her bill there was the Poles and Bloahisoviots are together I may try to write that Bug (9 ‘ uitshing Co, . " k Evening World) ” 5 a e i i ROM the porch In my jog house Was waiting for Ue litte binds to *, "come of chirps from several little scrapping on the Hug River. That comical picked bial M4 ! in the woods I saw a bit of the Come, whe hardly left the house at sis iat hay 5 ought to make a plot for a comical ‘ i fe story of Mr. and Mea, Wren “ll, He never consed bla devotion neon’ ilttle chirdmeana: thoy waned CPAre cunaniin's 108%” IRENE JEANNETTE, H and his solleltude for her comfort there reid ceatata - “It might,” he replied. . ‘ 4 two little birds who et vory much and welfare more food than ever. My. and Mrs. OSH,” Ne rege Uke tuman beings, whowe faithfulness Sometines sho would come out on Wren were unfailing, ‘There were no “Gee whist” Lucile wort on. “Can't PARIS PRIZE WINNER + to duty is a lesson well worth know porch tw outede her door, just AtkUMents, no quarrels during thew» you see the chorus rushing in to an FOR SHAPELY LIMBS ' } fag. to fel some air, but she nover left (Tying times. — * : nownce that Gen Hitemupald has pile aed Py H 4 sa eiee 5 = , the ple, She knew the great miracle I bave never seen such tireless en. just found the Bug und is firing vol { Karly in the spring Mr. Wren sang of miraclea was coming and she dane rey 44 on the part of Usese two sual aftor volley with insect powder? 5 i his dong, the greatest of all songs In not lea creatures of the woods In the care of ‘They could be the residents of the nature—-the song of love. At such times he would chirp beau- their young. town of Warhorse- you know—tho Hat beau eet cudaroe iw tifully to her and bring her nicer My niece, Aline, college girl whose refusees. Then the General could i and continued {ts sweet worms than ever, his wee wings ful- statistioal ‘training impelled her to step out and sing his wong, ‘I'll Make: ae the day, tering every tle he came near her count the number of trips m by oviteh ‘em Runlikehellsia,’ Get me?" mewhere in the deep woods she ~ 12 Sympathy a Mr. and Mra. Wren {nn day carrying = "'Sure!"* heard {t Bt inet atid cathe forward to Came: Uhaidey when Mr. Wren was food intormed me that nearly threo “And next, just for comedy, a fol- weet him. His litte wings very, very busy bringing warms, and hundred trips were made in one day low could be seen trying to ontoh with Joy as he flew over to » Hoon T hoard very ny little squeak#— (she and Inez, her chum, having noth- ome fixh. ‘Then the funny man could bird house I had aet in the fi the little Wrens bad arrived, and how ing else to do but count), And Miss es to him and say: ‘Ah, hal I see small tree just within a few hungry they were! Mr. Wren never F., our stenographer, who ix intensely ® fishing Pole,’ Nifty, oht me. : = interested In our Iittle neighbors, teed "You bet! iia Anelinto nities) douse sand = to peep into the nest to xen how they _ “There waa a fellow in here this came out and | 4 her to eee Ve PPAR AARP AALA ALP A LLL ADA EW row and to check up on HOFRMME Ww 4 to discussing it with lovely home he had found for hor. $ HERE 1S A DAINTY BLUE VEL- $ them and to ascertain their filing sys- Mo and he thought T was @ nut. ie e went in, and methinikn she waa VET CHAPEAU, TRIMMED tem since there was ao much food ele ae Sonia eee Wbertust, sed with it. She came out and Sho returned with the report that It OF, Whatever they the two of them went off tnto the WITS WUE VELVET, was the cleanest proponition ahe had | “But I go furtber in telling him ened ti’ Gheaiins ik al “ain aan: about it 1 tell him they eould have : 5 7 . big paper machine cockroach Pretly soon they came back. They ‘The Jittle birds were tucked away 400! Lie flew in and out several times, doubt bonaath tho twige And atl the retied’ qrenses acroes the sLAge tage RDd the what they wanted, Mr. and Mrs, Wren every day on the (eee eee ei dard bearer ’ All this time he yas singing his returo trips when they brought the of the Polistied Army stop on the i happy song to her, to tell her how foul ' Liles Log hgts qahaocroned ire ‘ stage and give the comedian Oh, what a busy time tt was! Curry And soon the winged croaturer grew Wh tia ‘te think of your sug- ing emall ywige and making the nest stron; Wren realized they gestions?" ai t ins would have to learn to fly and go “He saya I ought to put my Ideas \ aS we very His time for stn; their own way. She then began the in cold storage. That gets my goat } iid wo" excep! we work of tem et TAM OSt tome 1 ask him what he ever wrote und V . chirping sasunwnces: ne tham out and seeing them go “on he telle ine, "Ihe of Gingérale.’ t wi i and wou a their own hoo but that ia He sayn three ers are (iht- i striae Ry Boneh ais strawa and nother story and long to rolate in eS ee the ie to ad ig : ¥ a 7 here duce f Then he ordera «a ham sand. and take thom from his im S)) Mee dt to say that when one bas wich and # cup of Java. I serve him | then go inalde to fix them wh ‘th perfect proendure on and quit b fteen cents’ worth ; went for m Soun was as s {ttle animals, one of food yn't sound like no three. 4 ished. - sumans cannot cornered fight between managers for t It was wonderful team work—thia by his show,” home building such team ef- ow nt you write a piny about There was nv f willa or devotion » the the Bug yer?” = — cantroverny of Ivey know ie thats, 1 couldn't: write any PNM OEANNE TES iwerercy $f Agreed porfect! x 0 1 f knowldge an F Al done thir quiet 10 be gloatiod in thin lesson — Li made n trip te kitchan. ¢ eit Mrs. Wren wow in wnt ends hap- W n e returned» a8 ‘or Miss lwene Jeannette hag ar- i the nest for a considera time, and A pxe, [ might jot down my ideee for ved from Paris and has et ' while she was ther he big reason? uh show ye £ How Would back $10,000 worth of Parisian — off and fteteh 0 ‘worn, t iblline thing it de to ha he Bug River be lu sown for exhibition here. While Li we There were tiny an 1 re Ave ROME One I's tn Paris Mins Joannette won frag er oe. ‘ ‘i oliminat # policeman? Thy he come- ap for shapely timibe a a fiuph~ m| Aad in the latter days, waen she Lig selfishness, diss Fecoack: "Xs, it doe 100k ike & tom inodel canton’ Drew, postage stampa, which Is more than Burleson does, The way Pons! jug- gies red and greens, he makes Post OMice look like a child's game, He 7 don't let that worry you. Ponai is still ahead of Kid Lenine, because Ponzi controls both the reds and the , green: Any way you look at it, AND PFIRO a former Morton Chance,” Mrs, sasha Nhe