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NEWS AND GOSSIP
OF LONDON STAGE
England Has Its Annual At
tack of Pantomime
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TREE MOURNS TOOTH
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“Hullo Rag-Time!” Revue at the
Hippodrome Has to Thank J. M.
Barrie for Its Big Hit.
Vollmoeller in London
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fly MALCOLM WATSON
London, January 11.—(Special.)—1We
have all been so busy with pantomimes
and other kindred entertainments that
there has been little time for anythin?
else. When you consider that the num
ber of pantomimes produced in the West
End and suburbs of I^ondon amounts to
well over a score you will understand
that dramatic critics have had*more than
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them during the past few days. “The
Sleeping Beauty” at Drury Dane has nat
urally claimed and received chief atten
tion; It is upon Arthur Collins' custom
ary scale of splendor and easinly puts
everything else cf the sort into the shade.
There is no need to enter into a detailed
account of its many attractive features;
enough that it Is well up to the recog
nised Drury Da tie standard. Pantomime
In this country Is a dish that never or
rarely falls; when it does the only per
son to be blamed is the purveyor who has
cither neglected Ills duties or does not
possess the experience to profit by the
opportunities afforded him. As a matter
of fact many of the provincial theatres
virtually exist upon their pantomimes.
Beerhohm Tree is back in Dondon, but
l have only had the chance of a two
minutes' chat with him. Brief as our
interview was, however, it proved suf
ficiently long to show that he was im
mensely pleased by his stay in New York
Hiid that he looked forward to his return
there with the liveliest expectations.
There is always a fly in the ointment
and in Tree's case It turned out to be a
bad tooth, which caused him a great
deal of pain and discomfort. He has be
queathed it to a New York dentist, who
doubtless now regards it as one of his
choicest treasures. Its memory, however,
still lingers with Tree, as he has not yet
quite recovered from the results of its
extraction.
Rehearse New Pieces
Next week, managers whose attractions
happen to be showing a drooping ten
dency, will make a real start with re
hearsals of their new pieces. There Is
always a desire to hold over novelties
until the end of January, so that the first
rush for pantomime may he over and a
comparatively dear field Insured them.
At the St. James' George Alexander has
assembled the artists engaged for Karl
Vollmocller’s fantastic Chinese play "Tu
randot,” on the stage some half dozen
times, hut the proceedings have been or
a distinctly desultory character. On Mon
day the com party will begin to put their
shoulders to the wheel In earnest. In a
previous letter I Indicated that the for
tunes of the pieee would largely depend
upon the efforts of the four principal
comedians. | m**y now add that these
are Edward Sass. Fred Lewis, Norman
Forbes (a younger brother of Forbes
Robertson» and Vivian Reynolds, the last
being the St. James stage manager. A
stronger team could scarcely have been
got together, and as they are to be al
lowed a good deal of latitude in regard
to the development of their parts the
Issue of their endeavors may he awaited
without anxiety. “Handsome" Mack
Barnes Is to play the role of Princess
Turandot's father, Evelyn D’Alroy to be
the Princess and Godfrey Tearle, who,
young though he Is, is pretty certain be
fore long to join the ranks of West End
actor-managers, her lover. The scenery,
an exact replica of that used hv Max
Reinhardt when lie did the piece in Ber
lin, has been made in Germany while the
author himself has returned to London
.in order to instruct the artists in the
business respectively arranged for each.
It is n particularly Interesting experi
ment, this new departure of George
Alexander, who seldom plays the part of
truant In his own theatre. But he Is a
man of many occupations and really
stands in need of a rest. As an untiring
member of the London county council
he has to keep a watchful eye upon pub
lic events. When he joined that body
it was with the firm determination to
act up to his responsibilities. I have
known him on quite a number of occas
ions put his understudy on at the St.
Janies' rather than neglect a meeting
at which he thought his presence might
be necessary. Although late to bed he
Is always an early riser, and as often as
not if you ask for an appointment you
will find that the time named by him
coincides rather inconveniently with your
own breakfast hour. IIis theatre Is run
on strictly business lines: these he is the
first to observe, thus giving him the
right to complain if others are less mind
ful.
I he Son and Heir
Louis Meyer also will be starting pre
parations for his production at the Strand
of Gladys Unger's play “The Son and
Heir.” For close upon six months Evelyn
D'Alroy has held herself free to play the
leading part—it was, indeed, she who
brought the piece to Meyer. But the ob
stinate success of “The Glad Eye” has
prevented the realization of tills inten
tion. And just as it seemed likely to be
fulfilled the offer to go to St. James*—an
offer too flattering to be refused—came
along. So Ethel Irving is to have the
character. Later she. will resume West
End management on her own account.
Of that she has already had same ex
perience botli at the Criterion and at
tiie Garrick, although in one or two in
stances her choice of plays proved not
altogether fortunate. Of new' pieces she
has had plenty of time to accumulate a
goodly store, so that we may expect to
see her, when at last she makes another
start, in a series of carefully selected
and interesting roles.
The presentation of the new Revue
“Hullo Rag-time!'* at the London Hip
podrome possesses two decisive claims to
notice: first, in that it is a sort of
apotheosis of what I am tempted to des
cribe as America’s national dance; the
second, because it contains a fifteen min
utes’ skit upon tlie censor and his meth
ods. This has been hailed as the gem
of the production, l|it only one critic, so
far as T have seen, has recognized in it
the hand of J. M. Barrie. The thing was
really done by the author of "Peter
Pan,” although lie refused to have his
identity acknowledged or his name
printed on the programme. However, it
so evidently hears his sign manual 1 am
surprised it was not at once universally
spotted. The trifle hinges upon the recent
craze shown by dramatists for introduc
ing a bedroom scene into their plays. At
the Hippodrome it is not, however, the
censor who raises objections, but one of
tiie characters, an architect who, on pro
fessional grounds, insists that the play
wright cannot have his bedroom at one
pcj*it because it would interfere with "the
staircase: at another, because it would
stand in the way of the fireplace, and so
on. Barrie does some pretty hard hitting
at actors and actresses through the me
dium of a couple of music hall aitists
whose dignity will not allow them to he
ranked with members of the theatrical
profession. The sketch is a capital bit
of fooling and quite in tiie author's best
satirical vein.
“General John Regan”
Charles Hawtre is full of his coming
production at the Apollo of George Bir
mingham's Irish comedy, ‘General John
Regan.” llawtroy has persuaded his old
friend Leonard Boyne to join the cast,
and may well be congratulated on secur
ing so admirable an actor. Leonard
Boyne is Irish to the backbone; long as
he has been on the English stage he has
never got rid of his delightful brogue.
I suppose he is well over ft); nevertheless
he retains all the buoyancy, and fresh
ness and the semblance of youth. If I
remember rightly his last appearance in
the West End was in Lewis Waller's
revival of “The Rivals.” In that he
stood out In the strongest relief, out
distancing all his competitors. Oddly
enough, he struck me as the living image
of Henry Neville, one of the best roman
tic a< tors vve ever had. Neville, also,
could he perfectly and splendidly modern;
his performance In “The Ticket of Leave
Man" vvas about as finished a bit of
portraiture as anyone could desire to
see. Granting that Boyne has an effective
part in "General John Regan” he ought to
run Hawtrey himself very hard for first
place In the race for popularity.
doing Too Far
From the Saturday livening Post.
I.ast slimmer c\ T. Heator of Mon
tana was visiting his mother in Ohio.
He was driving one morning *n a
small town, and a negro woman asked
him for a ride.
After she had climbed in she asked
Heal on where he lived.
“In Montana.”
“Is you drivin' there this mawnh'?"
she asked. "Better let me out right
now.”—and she climbed dow*.
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These facts explain the seemingly “absurd” prices quoted on Cloaks and Suits. No store
in the city can match these values—for no other store can buy and sell as cheaply as the
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AN AFTERNOON IN THE SLUMS
By MRS. J. B. REID
One does not have far to go to know
where crime exists in our city, degrada
tion. filth and tlie most unsatisfactory
conditions. In answer to a request to go
t^o the dens of dope fiends and opium
joints to look for a girl. “Some mothers
daughter w ho has w andered away. W'Q
accompanied three Officers of the law—
the one an employes of the city the
other the prosecuting attorney or em
ployed by the federal government em
ployed to look after the cases involving
tlie white slave trade.
If one started with any idea .of grati
fying an idle curiosity that spirit did
not follow us long. Pity was born, that
pity that goes out to those who have
loved, and lost their own in the sins
and temptations of the lowest walks of
life.
Worse than death—the remnants of hu
manity that stare you widely as you
enter their doorway. P6or degraded
woman lost to the world to herself nn*
true. Too drunk to tell you their name,
even the fictitious—too sloven and un
kept to want 10 touch the hand that
might he extended in friendship. Thes*
are "joints,*' and inhabitants less than
a half dozen clocks your city proper.
We found two we knew, and who knew
us, and those two spoke “of the good
woman for one among us had been good
to her waddling with drink, a cigarette
in hand, she ;old the truth of her past—
that part of )i?r past wo all knew--and
said: “I cannot and will not tell u ie
about any thins”-and aven amid all cX
that dishonor, she seemed to have cn
earnestness in defending her word.
Again we met a patient—a dope fiend
who had just been released from the
mines, one who had given promises of
reform under Judge Abernethy's treat
ment. and she only returned to the same
old haunts to sink deeper into the abyss
of crime—certainly she would l»e better
off with a life sentence in the coal Ileitis.
It would sound like fiction to tell you in
words t^ie whole truth as we saw it To
paint even a picture In lines would in*
too tragic for a civilized city. These
things are here—amid citizens, mothers,
fathers, sons and our own girls in a few
blocks of our preachers, hankers, lawyers
and jurors. We say citizens first because
this is a government of the peop'e and
for the people.
We find it very easy to Jump on our
employed workers for laxity of duty—to
blame somebody else besides ourselves,
and yet we are to blame because we
allow the situation to go on and on.
The vice of the town is on the increase
or else competition is getting bolder.
Can wc expect to have it better when
the children are hardened to such scenes.
At one place we heard a child's voice
crying out from the dungeon of sin -but
upon investigation 1t soon was hushed
and no child could be seen.
We could sec boys of tender age mak
ing their* pennies along the streets, and
do the mothers know that they are eat
ing their bread at the expense of their
boy's souls.
Maybe we are talking too much, per
haps many will say we were going be
yond the rights of a good woman to
invade these precincts? But what mother
would hesitate to endeavor to save an
other mother’s daughter. When we have
lost interest in the distress and anxiety jl
others and are unwilling to give our
selves to aid their conditions, then we
have lost much of our usefulness to the
world, and deprived ourselves of the
privilege that God has given of helping.
“We questioned as to the reason or so
many wicked lives, so many.young women
who are shut in by shame from the joy
ous sunshine of life and the answer:
“Many have been unhappily married,
untrained, uneducated, and weak, they
have fallen to a worse misery."
This sends a message home to mothers.
| Begin today to equip your daughter, for
! a life of duty and usefulness. Mufh of
[ the unhappiness of early marriages re
sult? from a lack of training to home
| duties, with no knowledge of the need of
I sacrificing one for the comfort of the
I other—and then the separation—and as
we noted, the life of eternal darkness
often as a consequence.
We are not of the kind to believe great
reforms can be worked in a day, but wo
do recommend that they begin—that an
effort he made to at least clean the
premises of tilth that Is liable to extend
its germs over the entire city. If the hu
man vice is to continue let the exterior
not advertise to the world the unkept
streets, alleys and yards, no matter what
>ection of the city Is infected. Again,
then were men and women dancing in
the dance halls—great big, strong men. Is
there no right of th# vagrant law to
get them busy? If they hold night jobs,
cannot their places be filled with men
who rest and are ready for a better ^Ihss
of work? These are impressions made
upon us who are among tho»e interested
in seeing the best for Birmingham. We
cannot appreciate the best until we Know
th*» worse.
This is not intended 'as a criticism of
individuals, but a true story of condi
tions told in a spirit of helpfulness to
those who are covering the field and have
been unable to see things just as they
arc.
We find In this section visited there are
29^ young women lost to the world, living
a life of dissipation and misery, and yet
half has not been told. We only heard
a few days ago we had too many work
ers for charity and philanthropies. This
indicates we need more associations and
stronger organizations to help to find and
eliminate the evil in its infancy—now we
have it grown up—established in our
midst, and are maybe considered
“cranky" if we ask can It be stopped?
“Since women for tea forsook spinning
and knitting,
And men for punch forsook hewing and
splitting."
"Women and wine, game and deceit,
Make the wealth small and the wants
great."
Benjamin Franklin says: "What dnain
talns one vice would bring up two chil
dren.”
The Street Name »
From Biff. *
As the early morning train out of the
city drew up at the first station one
morning; a pleasant looking old gentle
man stepped out on the platform, and In
haling the fresh air. enthusiastically ob
served to the trainman:
"Isn’t this invigorating?"
"N'o, sir," replied the conscientious em
ploye, "It’s Milton."
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