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•' ^_o the tolling of a deep-toned bell In the steeple of a medieval church at
** I Leghorn, Italy, the world is indebted for the tuneful opera, "Cavalierla
V •» Rustlcana," which, In abridged form, is being produced at Proctor's
;; Theatre this week. „ . __
4i As far as I am aware the marvelous story of how Pietro Mascagni
i masterpiece came into existence has never yet been published. It was told
1 to me by a kinsman of mine who had been United States consul at Leghorn,
Mascagni’s home, and who said that he had heard it from that great com
I, poser's own Ups. Here is the story exactly as it was given me by the former
i- consul: . , ,
■r 44m*A9CAUNTS early efforts were unsuccessful. Song after song came
lVl from his pen In an endless stream; but only now and then, at long
« intervals, was he able to find a market for one or the other of them. They
' were tuneful and sweet: but, somehow', luck seemed against him and pov
*' «rtv clutched him and his family tighter and tighter.
"One day when starvation seemed Imminent, harassed by debts, dls
heartened by the coldness of publishers and Impresarios, dismayed by the
V fate which threatened those who were dearest to him, Mascagni decided to
If put an end to all the trouble at a single desperate stroke.
"Even the desire to die came to this child of genius In a poetic manner.
He was passing by the church at the moment In which the desperate thought
" occurred to him. Half unconsciously he entered and began ascending the
steps to the steeple to take a last look at the city and surrounding country
Vi which had furnished him with many themes and peopled his Imagination
It with so many beautiful forms.
!; "He was half way up the steeple when suddenly the big passing-bell
V began tolling Its mournful message to the city that another soul had gone
,7 forth from its Integument of clay Into the mysterious 'Beyond.' Never
had any sound seemed so solemnly sublime to Mascagni. He stopped to
l listen In reverential awe. Through the thunder of the reverberating clangor
', there rang out to him. as distinctly as If played by an orchestra, the majestic
notes of what the whole world has since been listening to with unceasing
1 delight—the great Intermezzo of 'Cavalierla Rustlcana.' And as Mascagni
listened the whole outline of the opera took shape In his mind and he knew
' then, in a flash, that he was carrying In his brain a stupendous musical crea
m tton. He knew at the same moment, beyond all peradventure, that fame and
. perhaps wealth could no longer elude him. The steeple whence he had de
‘ Cided to throw himself to death, had led him unexpectedly Into paradise. He
V, hurried home, wrote out the inspired notes and—the rest Is history!”
it 9 • o
i rpniS story, which is published here for the first time, holds a two-fold les
’ * son. It teaches up first of all never to relinquish hope; never to give up
the ship. If die we rtfhst never let It be bj» Jumping overboard. Time enough ,
;; to sink when the ship Itself goes down—If It does go! In nine cases out of j
»• ten those who leap Into the sea from a disabled craft perish, while the craft
• Itself Is salvaged by and by and those who remained aboard are saved
'■ The other lesson taught by this story of Mascagni’s "turn of luck" Is,
-Whatsoever thy hand flndeth to do, do It with all thy heart.” Through all
' the years of discouragement Mascagni never ceased to do the work for which
. he felt Providence had designed him. And it was thus that he acquired the ,
"proficiency in composing without which the big passing-bell would have,
Bpoken to him In vain. For, either he would not have understood Its volce
" to thousands of others who heard the same clangor It conveyed no musical
’ message at all—or, even If he had understood, he could not have reproduced
the sounds so that others, too, for ages to come, might hear and be en
thralled. ___
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NEWARK THEATRES l!
THE NEWARK—“The New Henrietta.”
SHTTHERT--“At Bay.”
MAJESTIC—“The Little Lost Slater.”
ORPHETTM—“The Five Frankforters.” Matinees dally.
KEENEY’S—“The Home Breakers.” and many other vaudeville and “movie” acts.
Continuous from 1 to 11 p. tn.
PROCTOR'S—“Cavallerln Rustlcana” and many vaudeville and “movie” acts. Mat
lnees dally at 2 p. ra. Evening perform anres, S:00.
*,YRfC- Vaudeville and exclusive moving pictures Continuous from 10:30 a cv
to 11 p. m.
Washington—“The Battle of 0-40-0,” and five other vaudeville hits and photo
plays. Continuous from 1 to 11 p m.
MINER’S—Roble's “Beauty Show." Matinees dally.
GOODWIN THEATRE — Photoplays. From 2 p. m. 1
NEW YORK THEATRES | i
ACADEMY—"A Desperate Chance.”
ASTOR—“Seven Keys to Baldpate”
(comedy*.
pf> Asro—“The Secret.”
Booth—Ony Bates Post in “Omar, the
Tentmaker.”
BRONX OTERA HOUSE—"The Fight.”
CASINO—“High Jinks.” (Musical com
edy.)
fow \N—“Potash nnd Perimutter."
COLUMBIA—“Broadway Girls.”
comedy—“Kitty Mnckny " (Comedy).
- CORT—“Peg o' My Heart.” (Comedy).
EDEN MUSEE—New waxworks.
ELTINGE—“The Yellow Ticket.” (Com
edv).
’ EM TIRE—“Legend of Leonora." (Com
edy>.
>oerv.FOURTH STREET THEATRE—
r “The Girl on the Film.” (Musical
- comedy).
*FOR TV-EIGHTH STREET—“Today."
• - (Drnma).
FUT.TnN—“The Misleading Lady."
ffAlETY—‘ Young Wisdom."
•GARRICK—"The Dear Fool.” (Comedy.)
GRAND OPERA HOUSE—Chauneey Ol
- cott In “Shamepn Dhu.”
-GLOBE—"The Queen of the Movies.”
**• {Musical show.)
HARLEM OPERA HOCSE—“Traffic in
Souls." Photo-play.
HARRIS—"Adele." (Musical comedy).
HIPPODROME—"America.” (Musical
spectacle).
HUDSON—"A Little Water on the Side. ’
(Farce.)
"KNICKERBOCKER—"The Laughing
Husband.”
KEENEY'S THIRD AVENUE—Vande
rille.___
LIBERTY—"Sari.” (Operetta.)
little theatre—Bernard Shaw’a
"The Philanderer.”
LONG ACRE—Marla Rnna, drama of
peasant life In Catalonia.
LYCEUM—"The Land of Promise.”
(Comedy )
LYRir-i_‘‘Othel1o.” (Faversham. ns Jncrn;
R. D. M*»oLean. ns Othello; Cprilia Lof
tnn. ns Pesrlemono. and Constance ("ol- *
Iter, ns Emilia.) Curtain rises at 8
sharp.
MANHATTAN OTERA HOUSE—"With
in the Law." (Drama.)
MAXINE ELLIOTT—"Help Wanted."
(Comedy.)
MINER’S PEOPLE—"Bells of Beauty i
Row.”
MINER'S BRONX—"The Behmnn Show.”
MURRAY HILL—"The Love Makers.”
NEW AMSTERDAM—“The Little Care'
(musical comedy).
OLYMPIC—"Parisian Beauties.”
PARR—"Sin ” Photoplay.
PHILLIPS—"Zabern.” (Military drama.)
P1..W HOI SE—"Things That Count."
PRINCESS—Five short plays.
PROCTOR’S—Vaudeville.
REPUBLIC—"Traffic in Souls.” Photo
play.
ROYAL—“Never Say Die.”
SHl'BERT—1"A Thousand Years Ago."
(Coined v».
THIRTY-NINTH STREET — “When
Claudia Smiles.” (Musical comedy.)
WALLACE'S—Cyril Maude In “Grumpy.*’
(Comedy.)
WEBER’S—"Traffic In Souls.” Photo
play.
WEST END—"The Deadlock.”
WINTER GARDEN—"Whirl of the
World.” (Musical comedy.)
, l[>
Week in Opera
..MONDAY—7:30 p. m.. Metropolitan Op
era House. "Die Melstersinger." Cast;
j, Destinn, Berger, Mattfeld, Well, Gorltz,
o, Braun, Reiss, Sehlegel. Conductor, Tos
canlnt. 8 p. m.. Century Opera House,
“Rlgnletto.”
TUESDAY—8 p. m., Metropolitan Opera
<«*■ House. Philadelphla-Cblcygo Opera
[rCompnny, "Louise." Cast: Garden Dal
>• mores, Berat. Dufranne. Conductor,
Campanlnl. d p. m„ Century Opera
it House, triple bill, "Hansel and Gretel," i
j I ballet divertissement, "Cavalleria Rus-j
•> tlcana."
[Wednesday—2 p. m., Century Opera
Ij House, triple bill. "Hansel and Gretel,"
ballet divertissement, "Cavalleria Rus
- tlcana." 8 p. m., Metropolitan Opera
I’I House, "Der Rosenkavaller.” Cast:
• Hempel, Ober, Case, Forma, Mattfeld,
■ I Gorltz. Veil, Scblegel, Althonse,
► . Murphy, Kuysdael. Conductor, Hertz,
[t 8 p. m.. Century Opera House, triple
bill, "Hansel and Gretel,” ballet dl
[J Tertlssement, "Cavalleria Rustlcana "
♦THURSDAY—1:30 p. m., Metropolitan
Ij Opera House, "Siegfried." Cast: Gad
J: ski, Ober, Spnrkcs, .Joern, Reiss, Gorltz,
I. Griswold, Rnysdael. Conductor, Hertz.
r 2 p. m , Century Opera House, triple
bill. "Hansel and Gretel," ballet di
ll yertissement, "Cavalleria Rustlcana."
. 8:10 p. tn.. Metropolitan Opera House,
»- "The Girl of the Golden West." Cast:
» Destinn, Mattfeld. Caruso, Ainato, Oil
Si IT, Dldur, De Segurola, Reiss, Badn,
*.Rossi. Conductor, Polacco.
^FRIDAY—8 p. m.. Metropolitan Opera
* House. "Travlnta." Cast; Hempel, Matt
s’ febl, Maubourg, Cristalli, Amato, Allan
s'. ian, Begun, Bada. Conductor, Polacco.
*• p. m., Century Opera House, triple
bili. "Hansel nnd Oretel,” ballet diver
tissement, “Cavallerln Rusticnnn.”
SATIRDAY—1:30 p. m.. Metropolitan
Opera House. “Tristan und Isolde.”
Cast: Frematad. Ober, Oorger, Well,
Braun, Schlogol, Murphy. Conductor,
Toscanini. 2 p. m.. Century Opera
House, triple bill, "Hansel and Oretel,”
bnllet divertissement. "Cavallerln Ruh
tloana. 8 p. rn., Metropolitan Opera
House, 'Faust.” Cast: Farrar, Fornia
Maubourg, Martin, Ollly, Rothier.
Begue. Conductor, Hageman. 8 p. m.,
fentury Operu House, triple bill, %«!»
sel and Oretel.” ballet divertissement,
"Cavallerln Rusticana.”
I Af. Y. Concerts
.'i— ii
MONDAY—8:115 p. m., Aeolian Hall, con
cert by Institute of Musical Art.
TI ESDAY—3 p. m., MecDowell Club, re
cital of traditional British nnd Irish
songs. Alan MnoWhlrter. 8:15 p. m.,
Aeolian Hall, concert of chamber music]
Knelsel Quartet.
WEDNESDAY—3 p m., Aeolian Hall, lec
ture recital at piano on Acts II. and III
of ' Doottcrdaonimerung,” Walter Dam
roach.
m8,,AY"78: c? ?• m- r*rnegie Hall.
Philharmonic Society; soloist, Maud
Powell, violinist
FRIDAY—2:30 n. m„ Carnegie Hall. Phll
harinonic Society ; soloist. Maud Powell,
violinist 3:10 j>. m., Aeroiian Hall,
Symphony Society: Brahms program:
soloist, Carl Flench, violinist. 8:15 p.
*5” Aeolian Hall. concert of Modern
Mus» Society; soloist, Maggie Tevte
soprano. • ^
HATl'BDAY—3 p. m., Carnegie Hall, vio
lin recital, Mlscha Elman. 3 p. in.,
Aeolian Hall, piano recital, Leopold
(iodowsky. 8:15 p. m.. Aeolian Hall,
piano recital, Elenore Altman.
7
'GRAND OPERA AT
An unusually long program of en
tertainment Is offered at Proctor’s
Theatre this week. Mascagni’s "Cav
alleria Rusticana” in its first pre
sentation on the vaudeville stage was
the headliner and the longest num
ber on the bill. A motion picture,!
entitled "The Battle of Shiloh," also
proved a lengthy but interesting
number. '
The opera is offered in English. S.
Avitabile, of La Cala. Milan, late of
the Abom Opt ra Company, is the
conductor and producer. In the cast
as It was presented last night are
some well-known operatic stars.
Santuzza was portrayed by Miss
! Kestner, of the Royal Argentina The
atre. Rome, Italy; Lola by Miss A.
Hanick, from San Carlos Theatre.
Italy, and late with Sig. Bond; Mam
ma Lucia by Madame DeDieux, from
the Opera Coniique, Paris; Turiddu
by M. Scaretti, from the Metropolitan
Opera House; Alflo by M. Meyer,
from the Henry W. Savage Grand1
Opera Company; organist, M. Coletti.
The solos were excellent and the
chorus numbers quite their equal.
The pictures this week are In four
reels and are presented two reels at
a time. The}' are thrilling and high
ly interesting. A pretty love romance
is woven into the story of the battle.
A sketch that produced great
laughter was Surgeon Louder. U. S.
A.,’’ In which Imhoff, Conn and Cor
sene played. The playlet is one of
military life and is based for its fun
principally on the deafness of Sur
geon Louder and the careessness of
Private Casey, who drops matches
and lighted tapers into powder cans.
The pow'der finally goes off, and the
results are laughable.
Others who "got over" their turns !
were Edwin George, the worst jug
gler, but funniest on the stage; Miller
and Lyles, clever negro comedians;
Jimmy Lucas, an original comedian;
Saunders and Von Kuntz, character
impersonators; Belle Onra. erymnast, j
and Gormley and Caffrey, acrobats. I
I
I
- I
Louis Robie’s Beauty Show, with 1
Miss Liby Blondell, Sam Green and j
James Rowland as the leading fun- |
makers, were well received by large
audiences at Miner’s yesterday after
noon and last night.
The plot deals with a physical-cul
ture farm, and the hours every after
noon and evening. There the court
ing, marriage and divorce of youth, i
Miss Doris Thayer, to old age, John
nie Walker, are showrn in a clever sa
tire skit on the prevalence of mar
riages for money and the ease in
which the parties concerned can be
separated. Side lines to the main
plot allow the company full scope to
display their talents in the pleasing
manner that makes the show a sue- j
cess. v
Walker was particularly good in the |
impersonation of the old but ever |
youthful Colonel Doolittle. He and j
Miss Thayer made a pronounced hit
in "The Dance of Enchantment,” and
as an encore performed a graceful
acrobatic dance. Another number,
"The Captain of the Mineola Guards.”
led by Miss Blondell, and with the
entire chorus playing snare drums,
also scored Several other musical
numbers were led In a charming man
ner by Miss Augusta Lang.
Catering to the tango craze, Man
ager Tom Miner has instituted a
dance contest to last during the week.
Those entering will dance at each
performance, the audience choosing
the winner. The first will receive
three points, the second two pointsj
and the third one point. The couple j
having the largest number of points |
to their credit at the end of the week
will be awarded $50. There is also a
second and a third prize.
The audience at William Fox’s
Washington Theatre last night was
captured by Frank Rae and Company
In the "Battle of 6-40-9.” a side
splitting little skirmish for applause
which heads the bill at that popular
playhouse for the first half of this
week. The mysterious numerals
have much to do with the plot of the
sketch which is unique and gives a
capable cast the opportunity to shine,
as mirth-provokers.
Equally good as fun-makers are
Brady and Mahoney, two laughable
comedians, who provided much
amusement for audiences when they
were connected with the variety com
pany of Eva Tanguay last season
The pair present a riotous success
called the 'Hebrew Fireman.” A
delightful program of vocal selections
was given by Miss Viola Duval, a
dainty singing comedienne. .She has
a sweet voice and a winning per
sonality. Stewart and Gold carry
off high honors as singers, talkers and
dancers, and feature some original
dancing steps. The Eugene Trio
combine fun with exhibitions on the
horizontal bars. Several interesting
photo-plays rounded out the bill.
AT LYRIC IS A Huj
"The Adventures of Kathlyn" in i
movies is shown at the Lyric Theatre I
in Market street. Harold McGrath, !
the noted author, first wrote the Ad
ventures of Kathlyn in novel form.
The pictures are as interesting as the
book ts. if not more so.
The Kathlyn films will be shown
in a series. The first tonight and
tomorrow and the rest of the series
as the bill changes bi-weekly. Last
night the pictures were highly ap
preciated and drew the undivided at
tention of everybody present.
A novel musical comedy act en
titled "The Frolickers,” heads the
vaudeville portion of the bill for the
first part of the week. The act is
interesting and one is compelled to
laugh many times and it Is well
enacted. "The Vegetable Garden," an
entertaining comedy sketch will be
the headliner for the latter part of
the week.
Pledges of Affection.
Pledges of .affection are very often
left unredeemed.—Judge
LAUGHTER RINGS
at nr show
The audience at Keeney’s Theatre
last night was kept In a continual
round of laughter by the efforts of a
very humorous sketch called "The
Home Breakers.” with which Edwlna
! Barry and company head the bill for
! the first half of this week. The act
Is replete with laughable situations
' and deals with the home-breaking ac
tivltles of a servant girl.
A minstrel act introduces Coakley.'
McBride and Ml.o. who delight with
good jokes and songs. The three have
good voices and were received with
great favor by the audience Jamie
Kelly gave a selection of Scotch and
Irish songs in almost pleasing man
ner and varied his act with some
original anecdotes. Marius and
Clements presented a musical act
and are most capable vocal artists. I
A line of comedy acrobatics is the
offering of Minette and Side.lo, two
clever tumblers who have no respect
for gravity of either kind. A pro-,
gram of original songs raised ■Billie'’ I
Seaton to instant favor with her
hearers. Wilson and Washington,
two ' darkey" entertainers, rank high
as variety artists. DeCano's trick
dogs perform some clever “stunts."
The program Is rounded out with sev
eral very good motion pictures.
The bill for the latter part of the
week will be headed by Sherman
DeForrest and company, old favorites
in Newark, in a comedy sketch, ’’The
Jay Circus.” I
Patten’s "Diving Girls,” one of the
most remarkable acts in vaudeville,
will be another, feature. This act
ho ds a big surprise at the finish.
MISS ESTELLE, AT
An Interesting period shortly after
the foundation of the Rothschild
family of Europe is portrayed in the
"Five Frankfurters," being presented
at the Orpheum Theatre. It gives us
a glimpse of that stage in the history
of the family when it was commenc
ing to spread through Europe to con
quer kings and kingdoms.
Four of the Five Frankfurters are
sons of the first Rothschild. Solo
mon, the leading spirit and the most
ambitious, craves for honors, and,
not satisfied with heV ng beet,
granted the title of baron, he strives
to marry his daughter Charlotte (de
mure, little Mabel Estelle) to a reign
ing prince. But he forgets the other
Frankfurter, Jacob, young, and in
love with Charlotte. All Solomon's
plans are upset when Charlotte re
fuses to marry the prince and declares
lief love for Jacob.
Greater than the power of the Im
mense fortune of the famly, however,
is the gentle spirit of Frau Gudula,
widow of the first Rothschild and
mother of the four Frankforters. It
is the gentleness, the simplicity, the
sweet and quiet nature of this gray
haired woman that really sways the
millions of the family, and her words
step in to curb the vain ambitions or
Impending disturbances in the family.
The performance was done rather
Indifferently.
In addition the novelty of the p’ay
as seen in its costumes, aroused much
untimely laughter from tb" audience
and spoiled whatever effect there
was _
“NEW HENRIETTA’S” QUARTET
DELIGHTS LOCAL AUDIENCE
BY ADELINE CAKRICK WELLS
TWENTY-SEVEN years is rather a
1 long life for a comedy, but if all
the comedies of a decade or so ago
are as worthy of revival as "The New
Henrietta," this week’s offering at the
Newark Theatre, let us hasten to re
move them from their shelve.*, dust
them, dress them anew and offer tnem
to a public whose sense of what is
good has been trodden upon to the
point of obliteration by the hee.s or
present-day compilers of comedy, so
called.
Not having seen the original Henri
etta, which first met with approval in
1S87, before your time and mine, it is
impo.-.s.ble to say whether the comedy
in its 1913 clothes is as good as was t.ie
offering presented to our parents; bat
it is with utmost satisfafct.on that wTe
can declare, and reiterate, that "Tne
New Henrietta," with its clean-vut
humor and clever situat o..e, makes
us wonder how, in the last tew years,
we have stood, or rather sarNthrough,
some of the hodge-podge. ultra-risque
affairs that have been placed be.ore
us with the caption "runny” in large
type over their insipid heads.
It was a- large, receptive audience
that laughed so heartily and often last
night. Members of the Repub.kan
Indian League and their friends occu
p.ed the entire lower floor and boxes,
and the quartet of stars, with their
able assistants, received recognition
enough to satisfy even histrionic
hearts.
Perhaps the palm went to Douglas
Fairbanks, whose exquisitely droll
delineation of the character of Bertie
Van Alstyne showed a new phase of
that young man’s ability. He whom
the theatrical public has come to
know as clean-cut, quick, clever, ar
dent, et cetera, has shed these char
teristics for the moment and appears
in the guise of a slow-tninking but!
right-hearted son of a wealthy fath
er, a haberdasher’s delight of a son,
whose haphazard ways irritate his
brainy father to the point of casting
him out of his house.
More important to an actor than
looks and brains is the sense of un
derstanding. the qua.ity that can pick
a person from the pages of a manu
script and make him live. This is
what Fairbanks has done tofBertle.
Bertie is no end of a simpleton on the
surface; his blankness of expression:
and s owness of speech would drive a
temperamental woman stark mad;1
but as we come to krew him we find
that behind the fog that envelopes
his thinking apparatus is a sense of
values that admits of no argument
as to right and wrong. Bertles loves
Agnes and wants to marry her. And
he tells her so. Or, rather, she tells
him so. But when his brother-in
law’s honor and his sister’s happiness
are at stake Bertie resigns his hopes
of Agnes and takes th^ blame of an
unfortunate affair without resent
ment because, to hie primitive mind,
it is the only thing to do. His sim
plicity is co lossal, but lovab’e and
somehow right, as Mr. Fairbanks de
picts him.
Do not gamer rrom tms tnat Doug
las Fairbanks Is the whole “New
Henrietta.” Shining with him in its
stellar skies are William H. Crane,
who hasn’t had such an opportunity
as this since the days when he de
lighted everybody as David Harum;
Amelia Bingham, who has abandoned
her vaudeville “Big Moments from
Great Plays” to return to the legiti
mate, where she belongs, and dainty
little Patricia Collinge, who is too
young to have much of a past, but
whose future is fairly bristling with
possibilities.
The story of the “New Henrietta”
concerns a mine, in which old Nick
Van Alstyne has such faith that he
not only sinks all of his own money,
but that of his friends. In its depths.
His rascally son-in-law Is ambitious
—for personal reasons—of making his
wife’s father bankrupt and enrich
ing himself, and when old Nick falls
In love with a charming middle-aged
woman—whose money is also sunk
in the Henrietta mine—Mark sees an
opportunity to send the Henrietta
stock falling in order to buy it up
again for himself. Van Alstyne has
planned a yachting trip, and it is
while he is away that Mark beg'ns
operations. Fortunately, however,
for the sake of his fortune—and the
plot—Van Alstyne steps ashore in
time to hear the extras. He rushes
to his office. The stock is down to
sixty-six and a third. If it reaches
sixty-five all will be over. Van Al
styne rushes to his vault for the se-/
curlties that his brokers demand be
fore they'll obey his orders to bu
They’re gone. Mark, the soound-er-el.
has taken ’em! Just as all hope seems
to have departed in comes Bertie,
whom his father has called "the fool.”
Bertie has had a time of it. When
he tried to take his seat in the Stock
Exchange they mobbed him. There
was no seat there at all. Bes:des,
thev all were calling "Henrietta,”
which was the name of a famous
actress, as well as that of the young
woman whom his brother-in-law had
wronged, and who had died. Bertie
knew nothing of a mine by that name,
i and considering their shouts highly
personal, started in to lick them all,
succeeding in beating three before a
number of kind friends helped him
with the aid of fists and boots to the
I street.
Nevertheless, when Musgrave,
Nick’s secretary, told him the situa
tion. and Bertie grasped the fact that
his father was ruined or painfully
near it Bertie, the simple-minded, the
direct, calmly wrote out a check for
the money his father had given him.
It didn't even entei his slow, honest
head that this was a generous thing
to do. To Bertie it was the only
thing to do.
The final act finds everybody happy,
but the villian, and who wants him
to have happiness? It is comforting
to know that on the stage, at least,
“virtue always triumphs at the last.”
Mr. Crane is wholly lovable as “old
Nick.” It is good to see him in such
a satisfactory role. Miss Bingham’s
work is characterized by the finish
that has always made her per- ;
formances worth while, though she i
has one gesture which she rather
<#veruses. think we fussy folk; that of
ever placing her right hand on her
hip by way of showing exasperation.
Mannerisms will grow.
Patricia Collinge is all that her
dainty first name conveys. There is
no person in the cast whose work is
below standard. Ably supporting the
four stars are Lyster Chambers, as
Mark, the son-in-law; Halbert W
Brown, as a fashionable clergyman,
also in love with Mrs. Opdyke (Miss
Bingham), Edward Poland, Arthur S.
Hull, Malcolm Bradley, who takes
the role of Musgrave: J. H. Hunt.ey.
Bud Woodthorpe, Eileen Errol and
Zefiie Tilbury.
The present adaptation of “The
Henrietta," which was by Bronson
Howard, is the work of\ Winchell
Smith and Victor Mapes. Robert Mil
ton has staged the offering with good
taste and discretion. Newarkers ought
to appreciate this opportunity to see
a comedy wholly worth while.
I’m going over again, myself, I want
to hear Douglas Fairbanks talk some .
more.
MTS ADRIFT’IN
i
Daniel Frohman presents Mary
Pickford, the highest salaried “movie”
artist, in “Hearts' Adrift,” the latest
photo play of the Famous Players’
Film Company, at the Goodwin Thea
tre, in Broad street, today.
A miscellaneous mo\ing:picture
program will he shown tomorrow. On
Thursday and Friday “Paid in Full,”
with Tully Marshall, will be seen in
motion pictures for the first time. On
Saturday the last series of the French
detective, “Fantomes,” will be dis
played.
Next Best.
Aunt Spinsterly—I hope that your
opinions uphold the dignity of our
sex, Mamie, and that you believe that
every woman should have a vote.
Mamie—I don’t go quite so far as
that, auntie, but I believe that every
woman should have a voter.—Public
Ledger.
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Virtue’s triumph over vice and a
mother’s love tell the story of "Little
Lost Sister,” a white slave play be
ing presented by an exceptionally
capable company at the Majestic
Theatre, In Springfield avenue, this
week. The play Is a forceful lesion
and one that should be seen by every
man, woman, boy and girl.
The plot is woven about an Innocent
country girl, who harkens to the voice
of the tempter, who promises that if
she will desert her poor home in a
mill town he will get her a position
I as a cabaret singer in a Chicago res
taurant at $100 a week. Lured by the
offer, of which only the fascinating
side is revealed, the girl runs away
with the man, who is but a "cadet
for a Chicago resort, and her down
fall rapidly follows.
In her plunge down the path of vice
she brings trouble and heart agony to
her mother, sister and sweetheart.
She is finally saved throu-’h the
agency of a woman’s vice prober, who
caused the resort in which the girl is
held to be raided Just as the "white
; slavers" are going to ruin her sister,
who has been brought into the res
taurant a victim to the poison nfedle.
The ending of the play shows the
reunion of the family in the little
cottage in the mill town, as the
"cadet" Is arrested by the once co n
try boy sweetheart of the girl, who
has become a successful detective.
The strong scene of the play is in
the cabaret restaurant where the
methods of the "slavers” are bared
and where the po son needle and
strong arm men play principal parts. !
There is nothing of the tmposfc.ble !
in the play, and it is probably being .
enacted in real life almost every day .
of the week, bringing sorrow and suf
fering to hundreds of families.
The play at the Majestic is excel
lently staged, both scenicly and dra
maticly, and will undoubtedly be a
big drawing card.
The leading characters are taken
by Marguerite Allen, Cecilia Jacques,
Elsie Crescy, Ralph Elswoith, George;
E. Kempton, Mitchell Ingraham and
E. H. Horner. Others in the £&st are
Lew A Warner, John Maurston, Ar
thur Wesyon, Rowland J. Rucker, Ed
ward Spilven. Thomas Conway and
Katherine Milleh.
The attract.on at the Majestic next
week will be a dramatization of the
sensational novel "One Day."
PLAN TO SHOW
HEALTH HEMS
Pictures to Be Displayed
Throughout City—To Start
* Cleanliness Campaign.
The Newark Anti-Tuberculosis As
sociation decided to organize the
public school children and keep the
city clean and have health films dis
played at a number of motion-picture
houses throughout the city. This
decided at an executive meeting -of
the association held yesterday after
noon in Prosecutor Hood’s office in
the Prudential building. Many man
agers have announced that they are
willing to show the health films at
their theatre, and the association in
tends to sell tickets for these places j
at a small cost, to defray expenses, to;
the employees of stores and factories j
The committee which had charge of j
the Red Cross seals which were sold .
during the holiday season reported a J
larger sale of stamps than a year ago.
Miller Street Public School,,which sold
the largest pumoer of sea.s during!
the Christmas season of 1912, again |
headed the public schools in the city.
Miller street sold $208.50, Chestnut j
street, $109 02 and Bergen street
$146.75. All of the public and pri-!
vate schools in the city sold $1,608.80,1
and this is an increase of $344.70 over
last year’s amount.
The full report for the sale is as
follows: From firms and individuals,
$1,925.87; societies and organizations,
$172.25; public and private schools,
$1,608.80; Newark Fire Department,
$67.60; agents, $78.04, and at the post
office booths. $805.62. Total amount,
$4,658.28. This is an increase of
$112.75 over the amount of the sales
during the Christmas season of 1912.
Addresses on handling and provid
ing better accommodations for tuber
culous patients were made by Rich
ard F. Mattia, of the Board of Free
holders, and Dr. George L. Warren,
chairman of the tuberculosis sana
torium committee of the Board of i
Health.
Freeholder Mattia advocated the
purchasing of land between Caldwell I
and Overbrook and establishing a
county farm for tuberculous patients.
He further declared that he was in
hearty accord with the proposition
ENGLISH ACTOR AS IRISHMAN
SCORES GREATLY IN "AT BAY"
It appears to the writer that the
Messrs. Shubert, who are featuring
Guy Standing and Miss Chrystai
Herne in “At Bay,” on view a* the
Shubert Theatre this week, are over
looking a big bet in the press agenc>
line by not telling in advance what
a delightful bit of real Irish comedy
is portrayed by Mr. Standing.
Mr. Standing is an English actor of
note, who has played many fine roles
in this country, but ifas never ap
peared in any calling for the de
licious Irish brogue that he displays
in “At Bay.*’ And as real Irish
comedy is always likable and lov
able, whether it is the singing type
of Chauncey Olcott or even the rough
knockabout comedy act, it would
seem that the able corps of Shubert
press agents are overlooking some
thing.
As Captain Lawrence Holbrook, the
dashing Irish soldier of fortune in
“At Bay," Mr. Standing is most lov
able, and makes the role stand out
far larger than the manner in which
George ^Scarborough, the author
meant it to stand out. Mr. Standing
piays the role ih what he calls a
Dublin gentleman” style, and makes
the wit and humor with which his
lines abound so spontaneous that
he has his audience in roars oi
aughter practically all the time he
is on the stage.
The dainty, clean and heart-inierest
ng romantic comedy drama "At Bay"
is a far cry from the lurid, sordid
underworld play, “The Lure,” yet Mr
Scarborough wrote them both, and in
so doing has stamped himself as a
master in the art of playwritipg. It
is hard to conceive two plays so
radically different in theme, “At Bay”
being just as delightfully breezy and
sprightly as “The Lure” is gripping
and salacious.
Mr. Standing has a great big role
in ‘‘At Bay,” and plays it in such a
truly whimsical manner, with just the
right touches of Irish wit and brogue,
that you fall in love with him from
the time the curtain rises. Back ot
all his humor and whimsy there is an
undercurrent of dramatic power that
brings all the more into the fore
ground his splendid ability.
Miss Herne, one of the youngest of
the emotional stars of today, as
Aline Graham, does not get the same
opportunity that Mr. Standing does
to display talent, but that she pos*
sesses it is very evident from the
able manner in which she rises to the
occasion ’(when she *s called on to do
so. Miss Herne, a daughter of tha
late James A. Herne, author and star
of "Shore Acres," has a voice of won
derful flexibility and a splendid stag*
presence. It is noticeable that she is
able to rise to the sudden heights of
emotion without the effort that marks
the work df many of the so-called
emotional stars of today.
The company supporting Miss Hern*
and Mr. Standing Is one of high
class, especially capable work being
done by Edwin Mordant, as Robert
Dempster, chief of the United States
secret service, and W. W. Crimmlns,
as Father Shannon, a Catholic priest.
Repression In his work where a ten
dency to overact is a great danger, s
one that would spoil the role, mark*
Mr. Crimmlns as a real artist.
Mario Majeroni, us Judson Flagg, a
blackmailing lawyer, does a fine bit of
character work in the second act,
where he dies from heart failure after
a thrilling scene with Miss Herne, aa
Aline Graham. Mr. Majeroni made
the despicable blackmailer so realis
tic that the audteme is glad to see
him die. Incidentally, the fact that
Aline Grahnm inflicts a stab wound
with a sharp paper file while Strug- \
gling with him, and thereby cause*
it to be suspected that she has mur
dered him, furnishes the plot for the
dramatic end of the play', while Mr.
Standing’s chivalrous efforts to shield
her from her supposed crime furnish
the comedy end.
George Howell, as Gordon Graham,
United States district attorney, and
father of Aline, both looked and acted
the part, as did Charles Mason, a*
an inspector of police, and Edward
Dehay, as Policeman Donnell. John
Herne, brother of the female star of
(ho show, played the small role of
Rernardino, the Filipino servant of
Holbrook, in such a capable manner
as to dialect and make-up that he
had tho audience wondering whether
he really was a "little brown man” or
not. S. E. Hines, Freeman Barnes.
Fred Hilton, Harry Hadfleld and Miss
Phyllis Young complete a cast that
leaves nothing to desire.
“At Bay" Is peculiar. In that there
are but two female roles In It, that
of Aline Graham, played by Miss
Herne, and Hattie, a maid, a small
role, played by Miss Young.
If you want to see a real type of
Irish gentleman on the stage, and ^
one that you will thoroughly enjoy,
take a trip to the Shubert this week
and see Guy Standing in "At Bay."
It is really one of the most enjoyoble
creations seen on a Newark stage In
many a day.
of having the Verona Sanatorium,,
which is now being conducted by the
city, turned over to the county au- |
thorities.
Dr. Warren announced that the
sanatorium had cost the city $143,000
to operate it during the last three
years. He further said the institution
was too small and its facilities wer«*
limited, but he declared that the ma
jority of the *nembers ofjhe Board
of Health were not In * favor of
abandoning the place until the in- ]
stitution fvaa turned over to the
county. No action was taken by the
association, but members will shortly
appear before both boards for a hear
ing.
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John Buckme:er, of Richelieu ter
race, is ill at his home.
In the Vailsburg Methodist Church
tonight there will be a musieale by
the choir of the Petty Memorial
Church, at which Miss Anna Bene
dict. of 11 Richelieu terrace, will be
one of the soloists.
A rehearsal will be held Friday
night for a minstrel to be given in
the Vailsburg M. E. Church under
the auspices of the Richelieu Young
Men’s Club.
An official hoard meeting was held
last night at the Vailsburg Methodist
Church.
Elvln Georges, of 562 Sandford ave
nue, has been confined to his home
for a few days by a slight illness. .
Mrs. O. Jaehnig, of 11 Cliff street,
Is at Palm Beach for a few weeks.
'The Unity Building and Loan As
sociation will meet tonight.
The C. Lis ©her Association, of South
Orange and Brookdale avenues, will
have a theatre party at Mirer’s to
night, with dinner at headquarters
after the show.
Today.
Her gownlet cost five hundred beans;
Her furs, four figures In a row;
Her hat removed from papa's Jeans
A hundred shekels more or so.
In fact, though she’s but in her
’teens.
She’s quite the dearest girl I know.
—Judge.
“HILL" IMPROVERS
10 RETAIN NAME'
Move to Change Title to Civic
Association Is De*
feated.
Members of the Clinton Hill Im
provement Association voted last
night to retain the name of that or
ganization. The vote was taken after
a motion had been made to change
the name to that of the Clinton Hill ,
Civic Association. The vote stood
twenty-one to twelve when a post
card poll was taken. President Theo
dore S. Fettinger thought such a
small vote did not express the true
sentiment of the association. He
called for a vote last night and th>
question was votej down heavily.
A program in commemoration of
the birth of Abraham Lincoln was
rendered at the meeting. President
Fettinger read fn address on the life
of Lincoln; Vice-President William
Walters read the Gettysburg address,
and “The Star Spangled Banner" was
sung. Gustave F. Sommer, In a short
speech, told of seeing Lincoln as he
passed through Newark on his way
to Washington.
An address was made by Walde
mar H. Croszman. general secretary
of the National Association for the
Study and Education of Exceptional
Children; He announced that a publio f*
meeting would soon be held in New-*
ark with a view to forming a New
Jersey branch of the society and ex
tended an invitation to his hearers
to be present.
The association decided to send its
committee on taxation to the joint
debate which will take place In the
Dickinson High School, Jersey City,
February 27, between Senator Charles
O’Connor Hennessy and Commis
sioner George F. Bresinger, of Jersey
City.
Morning After the Night Before.
Smith—Well, I guess I aiji a post
Impressionlst.
Jones—How do you figure that?
Smith—My post-impression of last
night's party is a headache.—Judge.
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