The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-29
News Of the Green
Room and Foyer
Some Of the More Important DOings
Of These, Our Actors.
TOUGHS AND THE F00TLIGHTS
The New York sun Is Severe Upon the
Latest Mclodramatic Glorification of
Criminals Called In the Tender
loin. ."-Othcr Dramatic News,

The Lederer play, "In the Tender
loin," which Scrantonians saw at the
Academy of Music Thursday night, has
received some severe treatment at the
hands of the Gotham critics. The sam
said of the first production:
There would not be much to say for or
against I'm the Tenderloin," but for the
presence in 1t of Tom Gould, the dive
keeper and George Apo, the green goods
crook. 1t illustrates crime and crimin-
ais, but draws a moral lesson from them,
and is no worse in this respect than many
another. In the present case the scenes
are coarse and tough. They run through
Broadway, police station, low drink
ing place and gambling house. The
things that happen in them are of no
dramatic account whatever, the sole ap-
parent object being to exploit criminality.
with Gould and Apo as central objects
of interest. This sort of degradation Of
the stage Is deplorable. The two i'm
moral celebrities names were printed last
in the bill, but their personalities We're
first in the regard of the audience, as
they were meant to be. The majority
bestowed the best attention on the parts
OF Gould and Apo, as represented by the
two men in person. They were greeted
by applause, which may have stirred up
envy in the heart of Mr.. Bryton and 9TH
ers in the cast Appo was a contemplate
exhibit to look at. He was of small stat
ure and had q squeaklng voice. His cos
tune was that of O dude sport, and his
smoothly-shaven face and slight stature
gave to the middle-aged man youthful
appearance He does not say much, and
were 1t not for his disreDute could not
have got n place among the least of his
subordinates. He appeared as weak
ling sort of walking gentleman" In sew
eral scenes. Incidentally he saved a man
from being swinded by sharper and
was the protector of innocence. There
was a reproduction of the interior of a
green goods" den, for which Apo was
supposed to be n 'steerer." First coun-
tryman, who has a farm near jamaica,
Long Island, appeared as a customer.
He pays his $3.50 in good money, and the
keeper of the place sells him $4,000 In
supposed green goods. The green
goods bills, examined and up
proved by the farmer-are put into a
leather bag This bag is adroltly eX-
changed for another by a confederate of
the keeper. The farmer takes the sub
stitute and departs, unconscious that he
has been swlndled. The next customer Is
a man about whom there are no signs Of
verdancy. He does not give the swindlers
an opportunity to cheat him and seizes
the first bag. AS he Is on the point of go
ing the keeper commands him to halt
and surrender the bag. He refuses to
obey and the keeper aims pistol at him.
Before the keeper has n chance to fire
the custoher fires and the keeper Is killed
The scene Is a reproduction of the killing
of Tom Davis by Texan in green
goods den in this city several years ago
None of the heavy acting" is done by
Apo. Tom Gould, larger man than
Apo, takes conspicuous part as the
keeper of the Sans Soucl. He has blond
complexion, and his sandy hair and mus
tache are carefully combed and waxed
His once famous Sans Souci dive is a
scene in the play. Gould steps in and
stops fight. In loud, melodramatlc
tones he informs the brawlers that II
there is to be any slugging he feels COM
petent to do II himself. His words are
supplemented with an extraordinarily
fierce CLEAN from his eyes, and the crowd
is instantly subdued. Gould walks away
with swagger something like the wad-
ding of duck, remarlting that his pa
irons must remember that he is master of
his own place. Again the visitors at the
Sans Souci become noisy. A policeman