The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-17
The Theaters Of New Y ork
The Shepherd Hing with Its Costly Equipment. Two
That Failed. Edna Wallace Hopper Impersonates
Herself.."The Hour Glass

been metricaI. Anyway. dignity of diction
is needed and is lacking. AS il is, what we
hear does not accord with what we see.
and thus two OF our senses are set against
each other in contradiction of pleasure
and pain. David and his Michal are
gracefully picturesque pair for Wright
Lorrimer is handsome and May Buckley is
pretty: but May makes the Israelite
princess a charming girl of the present day.
in manner as well as in speech. while her
lover is consistently different. Besides that
incongruity. the actor is an utter stranger
to New Workers and so. very happily. has
no personality other than that Of David.
but the actress is well known to US on the
stage for her own cleverness and off the
stage for having been the cause OF ma
MAC admirers pistol shot In Broadway
restaurant However, / say TO Mr.. Lorimer.
in the scriptural phrase oft spoken in his
drama and recently rendered into slang by
Dowie's use of it, Peace be with theel
You will never see two Of the new plays
in indianapolis They are dead at the early
age OF six days. Then why write more
than obituary items? Because their brief
struggles to live were interesting TO those
who like to watch dramatic phenomena.
IAN African Millionaire" and THE Super
stitions OF Sue" will not be charged up
against the reputation of Fred w. Sidney
and Paul Armstrong to discourage them
Who remembers Belasco's Younger Son.
which was killed in half week. or Gillettes
Ninety Days After Date" which survived
miseraby month at cost 10 him OF $50
600? Those two men have grown wealthy
and wiser and SO may the other two what
proved a mistake was made with An
very stage where THE Amateur Cracks
man" had prospered three months. Be
cause a gcntlemanly burglar had been a
favorite in the one play il was expected
that a gentlemanly bunco swindler would
become as popular In the other. This con-
fidence man operates against one victim
only-a millionaire who has wronged him
financially and so excused, IL not justified.
a recourse 10 the eye-for-an-eye doctrine.
Colonel Clay sets out with his wife TO get
by tricks and devices q compensatory
amount OF Sir Charles vandrift's wealth.
They sell gold bricks to him in the forms
of paste diamonds that seem to be rare
gems. a bogus painting purporting TO be an
old masterpiece. and q lot of counterfeit
commercial paper. Vandr.ft is a self-made
and self-satisfed millionaire and CLAY is
so clever a rogue that, under the mitigating
circumstances, the author was not to blame
for counting on him TO amuse audiences
atrically called "protean." He assumes the
diverse DISCUSSES of a detective officer, a
commssary of police, a clergyman and a
necromancer. II. Reeves Smith. the actor
who assumes them, is sufficiently versatile
for the job The episodes read well in a
series of short stories published by the late
Grant Allen. But Sidney, who is an Eng
fish actor, put them into play so NAL
adroitly that they are utterly Intellectual.
The other six-day-old play that is dead,
1.-The Superstitions of Sue" had farcicaI
ideas enough for long and merry life IL
| they had been made the most OF. And
| should say that Paul Armstrong might
suscitate il for vaudeville for which he has
| written hitherto. by condensing IL to TWEEN
| ty minutes. Sue believes that nothing but
| bad luck can come of betrothal made on a
| Friday that happens TO be also the 18th day
| of a month. and for that reason she declines
| Jim's offer of marriage. although she means
| to accept il on the morrow. In the interval
| the detected Jim. instead OF suicide by his
/ own hand, hires a stranger to Kill him in
| the morning When he learns Of Sues pur-
! pose he strives to esca pc the execution Of
| his own sentence. but he doesn't know the
| assassin by sight nor the nature of the pro-
| posed homicide. and therefore is In mortal
| terror of every unknown man who comes
nigh. Among his innocent visitors whom he
suspects are an Oriental fakir with a
poisonous snake a subway blaster with a
red flag of danger a pugilist notorious for
! having killed his man and others with vari-
Gus ways of death at their command, in
Guiding voluptuous girl selling health pills.
which, for all that he knows. might contain
knockout doses. Your American sense OF
humor tells you that busy evening OF good
fun should have been wrought from that