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Saturday, February 1, 1913 . EL PASO HERALD i IC Theatrical Panic Is Feared By , Managers of New York Theaters Lack of -Stteeeoses May Close j PiayJiouses and (Jonvext Them Into Garages, i "A Poor, little, Rich. Girl" Proves to Be One of Big-- gest Hits of Season. (By Biaery B. Calvert.) NKW YORK, N. T, Feb. 1. The theatrical situation in New York te said to be approaching a erisis. Oae prominent Broadyay man- London that within the next six months ! there would be the greatest theatrical moat notaoie ?"'" "" "y panie America has ever known. . ' agination New York has witnessed in T wAitlH't oaa.n.lcfA ma aaU tklo TTJftTIY ft. SO&SOll. manager, "if not before long-, half the I theaters on Broadway were turned into automobile garages, where people will store their ears while enjoying the. evening at the picture palaces. The whole trouble is that there are too many theaters in New York and no plays to pnt in them that is, no suc cesses. At the present time there are only four real successes in New York and there are 68 theaters." Despite these conditions and the dis couraged attitude of many of the man agers here, there "were three new pro ductions this week, one of whieh, "A Poor. Little, Rich Girl," proved to be one of the biggest hits ei the season. It is surely assured of a long and suc cessful run, unless everything goes to smash. , "The Isle o' Dreams" is the medium through which Chauneey Oieott Chauncey the perrennJal, the Lillian" Russell of the sterner sex uses this season as an adjunct te his County )fayo voice. "The Isle o Dreams" was written by -Mrs. Rlda Johnson Young, who knows quite well hew to please the Irish heart. And the entire audience at the Grand opera house Monday night; irrespective of race, color or previous state of in nocuous dessuetude, applauded Mr. Ol eott and his company and turned the theater into a regular hive of merri ment. Mr. Oleott sang four new num bers, including one with the same title as the play, which was enthusiastically The play is the story of a little Irish waif who falls in love with a princess. It develops that he is of royal blood and, therefore, "eligible" for her hand. nhi I TflNF HOXE REM O I UnCO KDY. v oil l"ltL PAIN in Pit of Stomach. or Right Side, or Back ache, under Shoulder Blades: Stomach Trouble. Indigestion, Sick Headache, Biliousness. -Colic, Jaundice. Gas. Nerv ous Weakness. Constipation. Blues, Catarrh. These are all common symp toms of Gall'Trouhles. Send for copy righted Medical Beok en Llv- ETO -"f. er. Stomach and Gall Trouble! " & Gallstone Remedy Co, Sept. 378, 219 S. Dearborn St, Chlcace. Adv. m m af W uomguutorD Closing Out at Cost our entire stock of Wagons, Buggies, Harness, Horse' Blankets, etc The entire stock must go. Also our Blacksmith Shop for sale All tools and machinery and general supplies. The oldest estab lished and best equipped shop in El Paso. It's a bar gain for! somebody. The Buildings Are For Rent. H Corner Overland & la the tipper left hand corner 1 si nrle Doro, appearing at the lyceum. In "The Sew Secretary." Below are Been Miss Viola Dana and Johnnie Blake, In 'The Poor, Little, Rich Girl" at the Hudson. On the right Is Mile., Gaby Deslys. at the Winter Garden, and "fa the small circle at the bottom is Cliaun ce'y Oleott, who la appearing at the Grand opera honoe. In "The Isle o Dreams." The said dainty and royal hand is con ferred on the erstwhile ragmuffin and the atay has as happy an ending as. anyone would wish to see. The Poor, Little, Rich Girl" made her. bow to the New York theatergoers at the Hudson theater on Tuesday night and before her curtsy was half over she had won a place in the hearts of her audience from which she can never be dislodged. This play is from the pen of Miss Eleanor Gates, the novelist, and is the It is the allegory of childhood, writ- ten beautifully, sy Amini"- , w a -u an intelligent understanding and a po etic fancy. With some reason, one might say. in the light of recent developments, "Pity the poor millionaires? but to pity the little child of the millionaire, knowing the average child's passion for luxury, is something of a new thought, and Mtas Gates has worked it out most in geniously. Gwendolyn who is "The Poor, Little, Rich Girl," iivea in a mansion. Her papa has to go eyery day to Wall street, which is filled with terrlbl. "bears." She is surrounded by all the human satellites snpposed to be essen tial to the upbringing of a rich girL She has her daneing master, and fenc ing, master, and a French teacher, and a music teacher, and there is the butler. and the governess, and the nurse, and the footman. The governess was "the snake in the grass," and the nurse was "a two faced thing." And poor, little GVvendolyn could seldom see her mother because there was a "society bee buzz ing in her bonnet." She wanted to walk, but she could only go out in an awful motor. Then, one night "the two faeed thing" save her a. sleeninsr draucht and little Gwendolyn dropped into the realm of i the imagination. , Then, surprise -after surprise greeted the deeply interested audience. The audience is led to "Telltale forest," where no guile is practiced, and here the author's vivid imagination flashed out brilliantly. Here, in this forest, each character appeared as his real self. The father were money-bag clothes and wes lashed to his money machine; poor mother had to carry a bonnet, in which a bee kept up a constant busz Jane, the nurse, was adorned with both her faces, and the governess, in the guise of a snake, hissed menacingly. There was an abundance of humor in this scene. Thomas the coachman, who dropped all his 'h's" and spoke without any regard to grammar, met "the king's English," and then there was a terrible fight The conflict waged back and forth, until Thomas slew "the king's Bnglish" with a des perate thrust of "I done it." Another scene was in the land of usmess and Santa Fe Sts. Nbake, Estate lights, where candles, burn at both mm8 and. after that, to Robin's Hood's room, "where they go "round." "They" were the society people who have nothing te do but sit &d bore eaeh other te extinction with their petty gossip. Here the author exhibited the edge of a fine satire, but in a good natures way. There was nothinjr stereotyped about the play. It was full of surprises. The whole thing was constructed logically, dexterously, and sent the audience away with a feeling of mental exailar atlom The chief attraction of the piece was the inimitable work of Miss Viola Dana, who was, of course, the rich little girL She was demure, simple and moot ap pealing, playing with a gravity that was delicious. The part was long and exacting, but little Miss Dana trod th-eugh it without a misstep. She was, in short, quite wonderful. The role of the mother was played adequately by Miss Laura Nelson Hall, and Boyd Nolan, as the money-bag father, was excellent. Jane, the nurse, was made very Interesting by Miss Gladys Fairbanks, and Frank Carrier, as the talkative organ grinder, was quite a hit. Harry Cowley played Thomas with a slight tendency to overdo the part, but, on the whole, his performance was very good. "The New Secretary" is another French fiasco adapted from the French of Francis de Croisset by Cosmo Gordon Lennox. Jt had Its New York premier at the Lyceum on Thursday night and after it was all over the audience wandered out into the mild mid-winter air and asked "why 7" "The New Secretary" proved to be about as stupid and empty a play as has been offered to a Broadway audi ence for a long, long time. ' , The first . aet consists almost solely of a stupid tea party through which runs the idle, aimless chatter of grand mamma Florv. The act gets nowhere and the eurtaln falls upon a bewildered In the next act "The New Secretary" comes. He discovers a plot to ruin, financially, his new employer. One of the conspirators is the barOn Gamier, who is affianced to the daughter of the house. Mile. Helene Miran-Char-vllle. "The New Secretary" routs the conspirators and takes it upon himself to break off "the engagement between the, baron and Helene. The latter has played eavesdropper and after the con spirators have departed she confronts the secretary with the awful revelation. "I have heard all!" Then she soundly berates him. "How dare you, she ex claims, and his answer is, You are the daughter of a millionaire and la poor secretary. But you are poorer than I am and I pity yon from the bot tom of my heart- Marie Doro, who once bewitched the countrv in "The Morals of Marcus, and seems to have been oomed ever since to be assigned to inane French roles, struggled bravely with her P"t but there being nothing to struggle with the audience could only sympathize with her and wish her better luck .next time. Charles Cherry, as the secretary, did all he could to make the part fiu man He certainly looked " inspiring, but there was nothinK ta his part that would permit him to act. Mrs. Whiffen. s he Grandmamma, was the nice, sweet old la'lland0n10! altogether uninteresting. Claude om lngvJater was droll, but more in a Yan kee than in a French way. Harry Red dinir and Wilson Hummel seemed to think that Self pity was the Jof humor. The best act!ngn .he piece was furnished by e2nan.3h,t1"e schalk. who is always good. This sure fire actor registered a hit whicn me plThde,dNew Secretary" is devoid of dramatic interest barren of witand charm, and will, doubtless, go back to France on the next steamer. "The Man With Three Wives" is an other Franz Lehar light opera. K ran in Paris last summer under the title of "Les Trols Am ou reuses," mo the book, which was originally written by Julius Baer. was adapted by Paul N. Potter. The piece had Its premier at the Weber & Fields theater on Thurs dav night before a l.rge and friendly audience. Franz Lehar was ta. composer of "The Merry Widow, and ready that Nemesis has succeeded in VilliBg his "Gypsv Love." and "Eve, a-j an bUt assassinated "The Count Ar x.tixem botire." . , . But "The Man With T!r-p Tvives" prnvra us nniiin ' - Tnilv rw with thf hoc has remarkable quality was always pleas ing, and while never inspired, it had a lilt which sometimes proved quite charming. In its Parisian form "The Man With Three Wives" was very amusing. Jto the Parisians. It is the storv of a fat man who has a wife in Vienna, another in Paris and another in London. They sang to him and made him drowsy and then, of course, he -would get con fused as to which wife was singing. That is the aituatten. Not without Its comic possibilities perhaps, hut so old that it would require a genius to in vest it with real merriment. The hit of the piece was made bv Charlotte Greenwood as the flirtatious bride. She was. a truly bright spot a graduate of the Winter Garden, and the only rearret is that there was not enough of her. Miss Alice Yorke sang in s9 pleasing manner, as did also Miss Sophye Bar bard, who marred her work somewhat bv her exaggerated prima donna man ner. Miss Dorothy Webb was cute, but she hasn't much of a voice. And Miss Tolly Castle plaved with ronsJT rharm. of a girlish, demure kind. The men did not .intake as -good an impres sion as the women. Often Lean, as the much married fat comedian, was rather a sad lot He seemed 'to be utterlv lacking in a sense of humor. Sydnev Grant -was the best of the men. Ar thur Geary proved to have a very goot voice. Leslie Kenypn was something of -trial, beine hopelessly miscast, and Robert C. Pitkin sang and danced in as sprightly .a manner as his clothes would allow. ... ' The ballet dancing was exoeptidnnliv fine and the mountings were gorgeous. The piece was staged by Messrs. Huff man and Wilson. Little Bobbie's Pa He Writes Poetry and Ma Plans What She WIJ1 Buy With the Money. By William F. Kirk HAVE a new ideee about making up some verses, sed Pa. I have tried for a long time to git a new I idee, sumthing that is a lot out of the ordinary, so that all of the editors wHl jump at a ehanat to git ray lines. I am glad that a grate lite is brak ing oaver you. sed Ma. I jivish you wud tell me what yure idee is & how much munny you think you can git for each pome you rite. Thare is so many things that I need. Here is a list that I made out to-day befoar you read me any of the lines that you "have rote: Two yards of Irish lace, to fix up an old frock. Goodness knows, sed Ma, that the old thing is falling to peeces, but I -was thinking that I cud use the Irish Ice on a new frock wen you git reddy to buy me a new one some time the first of the month. The second artikel on my list sed Ma, is a frock for dark eevenings, weu the lltes arent so bright as thay are on lite eevenings. You know, deer, sed Ma, that with the complexion wich I have I have to have two dlffrent colors of frocks, so I want this second frock so I ean match it with the old Irish lace that I am going to tare off of my old frock to put onto the new irock that you are going to be a good boy and buy for me. Third on the List. Third on the HsU sed Ma. is a vanity box. My old one. which I got neerly six weeks ago,. is all dented up. A fat man that got on the subway at Grand St knocked it off wen he was setting in the next seet to me, & a old lady which was standing up in front of the fat man happened to step on It I dident blaira the old lady, sed Ma. bee kaus she shud have bad the seet The next thing on my list, sed Ma, is a luvly set of furs for next season. I doant need them now. of course, sed Ma, but I can git them so cheep now, & I was thinking that it wud be a good idee to buy them wile I have-'a chanst Thay will be fine for next winter. If I can git sum nice sutes to ware with them & match them. Doant you think so? sed Ma. I suppoas so, sed Pa. Well, sed Ma, the next thing on the list of things that i am going to buy Is sum luvly lanjary. Missus Holly was showing me sum she had jest bought, six compleet sets and reglar Parls models. If you was a lady lnsted of a manr sed Ma, & cud see them butlful Paris models, you wud raye oaver them. Yes, yes, sed Pa. go on. A Few" More Trifles. Well, sed Ma, thare is only a few other littel things on the list that I can think of now, & I will wait for them until next week. The others can be used handy any time. Now deerest luv, sed Ma, what kind of poetry have you got to show me? This may sound like nonsense to you. sed Pa, but it is kind of Jingly, I think: Here's to the soldier wieh went to the war & Knew what his knife & fork was for. : Here's to his fat & luving wife, Wich stayed at home-& ate with her knife. I doant like it sed Ma. It is kind of silly, & besides, it Is a slur on us wimmen. Then I guess I will give up trying to rite, sed Pa. I did intend to malk a lot of extra munny this way. so you eud have everything yure little heart desires. But now I am thru. Oh. cure to think ot it sed Ma. that is a reglar funny peece of poetry. I jest got the point deerest Yes, sed Pa, & I did too. Tare up yure list deerest luv. Use Domestic Coke. Southwestern Fuel Co. 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It is intended to prepare the system for the crisis, and thus relieve, In great part, the suffering through which the mother usually passes. The regular use of Mother's Friend "Will repay any mother in the -comfort It- affords hefore, and the helpful restoration to health and strength it brings about after baby comee. Mother's Friend Is for sale at drug stores. IMP Write for our free book for expectant mothers which contains much valuable Infor. mation. 5RADFIELD REGULATOR CO., AUssta, Ga. The j&-$Lz "!5he Star of Bethlehem" A Wonderful Devotional Subject Showing the Birth of Christ Produced m Failhful Accordance With the Biblical Story and Cor rectly Costumed in the Garb of the Period. A THANHOUSER MASTERPIECE , In Theme, Acting and Photography. DCfT'T MISS IT! SPECIAL MUSIC AND SONG. Aflemowi 2le5 :30. Evenmg 7 lo 10:30 THEATRE WILL OPEN AT NOON. TCsaaEEsassEKssailBBBiacaaBaBassBssnsiHnEESSElsssacssBsBBeBsB r- FIFTY YEARS 1 William H. Crane today and 50 year nffo; also la ttro of the 100 different roles he has taken in his 50 years as nn actor. The Hnsband Question Keith Iey Makes a Hit With Be atrice and She Spends a Pleas ant Bvenlntr With Kim. By Virginia Tcrhnne Van de Water 'SBlsssssssr jCt S?p"5y&ffiS;jffi SfTBWvT I "3S -3Hr - SfapissBc I 1 Bsssssssas ?-?- .l -?-.asssBIMiasa WHBN Helen Bobbins and her brother had left Beatrice Minor with the assurance that they .would see her agfkto very soon, the wiHew lay in her' bammocH and watched the pair walk, away down the hill. Keith. Lacy's arm was around his sister's waist and Beatrice heard his merry laugh ring out at something that Helen said, then saw him drop a light kiss upon her hair. The widow's eyes became suddenly moist In all the whole wide world, she remembered, there was no man who had a right to show her such tenderness. "He's a dear:" she thought absently, and she gased sadly into the wet where the sun was dropping behind the hills in a yellow glow. It was that hcur in the late afternoon when all the world seems te lie hushed in the rich slanting rays of the sinking sun. The lake was like a mirror ,and there was no breeze to stir the trees about the house. Far off in the woods a thrush called softly. And as the woman looked and listened, a smile crept back to her face. 'Oh." she whispered "I ought to be very happy with all this beauty around me!" When the sun had disappeared be hind the hills, and the children were summoned by Mary to their supper, tl-eir mother decided that she would eat her evening meal with them. There fcre supper over and the childres tucked into bed, she did not return to the veranda, but seated herself in the little living room by the lighted lama and, in spite of the heat busied herself vitn some sewing. She was stitching away industriously, fighting off de pletion with her needle, when there was a step on the porch and a knock at her door. , "Come in?" she called and the door swung, open to reveal Keith Lacy, im maculate in white flannels, bearing in hif. hand a covered dish. "I am glad you are still up," he said. "Helen wanted to send you this ice cream, some of which we had for dinner, and I begged to be allowed to bring it She thought that you might enjoy a little of it I hope you like peach ice cream," he added naively. "I make a perfect beast of myself over it" f "Indeed I do like it." the woman assured him. "And you will' have some of this with me, won't you?" she begged as she brought in two saucers and spoons. Keith Laey Call. He shook his head mournfully. "I wish that I eould." he regretted, "but I cannot for the very simple reason that two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same tmc, ami I f,n t!ll fi'H of a miht sm.hI ,iin lit r ' '.Lt" !' ..- '1 r.. jimc, ' w I CIAN Today and Tomorrow ON THE STAGE AS THE HERO 1 M 'SU SINE 55 IS USIHESS' surely sit down and talk to me while I eat, won't you? I was Just begin ning to get a little lonely when I heard your step." "And you were embroidering to stave off the demon?" he aaked with a man's ignorance concerning needlework. Beatrice laughed and held up a pair of duck trousers. "No only trying to repair the effect of barbed wire upon my small sob's costume. He has a wonderful faculty for tearing his clothes." The man smiled. "It must be niee to have children with you all the time," he observed. "After all. we bachelors lose the real Joys of life in exchange for some of its trivial com fort." "And have a good deal leas worry than if you were married," supple mented his companion. "Perhaps." he assented reluctantly. "Yet you neTer regretted your mar riage, did you? It was an unconventional and unex pected question, but the woman did not flinch. Her pride kept her from ac knowledging, that, so far as her happi ness went her marriage had been a failure. "No." she replied steadily, "of course not" There waS a moment's silence, broken by Beatrice. "Tell me something about your Life in the 'west, Mr. Lacy," she urged. It wae not until the dock chimed 16 that be broke off suddenly and rose to his feet Ic Staytt a LoaK Time. "Oh. I am sorry!" he exclaimed con tritely. "You haTe been ill, and here I have kept boring you with my prosy talk. Why didn't you take me firmly I OAK WOOD CHUNKS! H " " ' ' ' 1 1 i . . . ill. n . . .I,., ifl CUT ANY SIZE FOR FIRE PLACES AND HEATING STOVES. ALSO COAL, WOOD AND KINDLING. HED Phones Theatr Wed. Feb. 5th Matinee and Might The United Play Co. 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"SisteV was having- some people up to meet me tonight and I fancy she will be rather peeved because they had no body to meet" "Oh, why didn't you tall me that be fore!" exclaimed Beatrice, startled. "t should never have let you stay." "To tell the truth I forgot all-about, it myself!" ho answered uneorfcerneclyj 1 Don't YOU ,nvu4 i .,?,. 1 llUdl IU L.UUZV to help your Stomach. Liver and Bowels back to health. Nature, needs assistance and HOSTETTER'S STOMACH BITTERS will do the work. It is for Indiges tion, Constipation, Colds, Grippe and Malaria. Try it and see. BROTHER: 35 and 36. t . . 1 . . a The it as tsl u E'-t r ? any J I