The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-21
Ak'GOVERN STRIKE A WOMAN?
'hEI ER! mr. Az TEMPTED"
SAYS 7EBRIHIE TERRl.
mis- to u NIIlnlnes> whom lie Has Fooled
Tor the sixteenth Time-The Entire
McGGNcrn Family Puts out -Four
Able Villains IN Fame and Fortune

him The place was the Windsor Theatre.
tile play For Fame and Fortune, 10y Hal
Reid the industrious playwright who
turns out meudruma u minute
FOR Fame and Fortune" made three
big dents in the American drama three
world shn king innovations
/. Other champs have introduced their
wives on the stage It was left for Terry
to introduce his mother to the stage
.. Since Sophocles trod the blooming
boards the villain has always done the
cigarette smoking for the entire cast. In
For Fame and Fortune" II is the villainess
s. Terry McGoven is the first hero in
the drama 10 make three separate and dis
tinot rescues within tine spuce OF Two seq
onds at the climax of one and the same
act.
1t was just this way
Mrs.. McGorern. Terry's mother as played
by Nellie Moskell the only phony Nc
Govern In the cast. is whiting In the lumber
yard to wax the wadding out OF Terry for
lighting,
Mrs NcGoVern is wooed by Dutch
lrish knockahout sketch team with rubber
stomachs Grace Watson. who's the real
Mrs McGopsrn later on. and is played by
Mrs MoGovem mot Mrs McGovern, Te1y's
mother. but Mrs. Terry McGovern and
she's the real Mrs McGoyern now-this
isn't expressed very well but it's late at
night she's waiting. too. and
enter the villain. who explains TO the Yl-
laines- that Grace Wilson has inherited
fortune In Ireland. and the villainess ~
the only other heir, and II Grace Wilson
is out OF the wnyCe-urse herl--they'll win
out, and the assistant villain il instructed
to seize Grace Wiisou-Ceurse the Cyril
and carry her away.
Then enters the india rubber stage child.
who can take beating and come up in the
second act like Joe Grim, and the orchestra
plays The Flower Song, and Terry SAYS;
Mother and have been hungry; never be
il said that any one hungered while mother
has a cent, and the che-ild goes off to have
a new frock on Terry, and night falls softly
over the back drop.
The villain 1t is me che-ild! Course
her. she must be-put- out- of -the-way. When
she re-teahns, drop her from the peah'
Who will know
The villainess I'm on
Enter Grace and the che lid.
The assistant villain seines Grace and the
viliainess the che-ild. The villain pulls
his gun and gloats.
Bing'
Enter Terry.
Bin The villain gets his on she jaw.
Bat. The assistant villain takes the coun,
SPLASH Terry j. In the Fast River after
the che-d
(Curtainl
w nee -tAtAt Gee cecil
Act II The cafe Of the Hotel Metro
poe All the Windsor supes drinking
vine Painted Police GdEeiie people on
the back drop doing likewise. T,rry has
married trace in the meantime, and there's
a little Terry at home. l'errg Senior, l.
matched to fght Pedldr Palmer The
villaines- int reduces the create dramatic
innovation Of the century here by doing
the villains smoking,
Ten thousand dollars against Terry
La. ,tt,s Ian
the vlllaines-:
Grace McGovahn is at home alone
Go to her propose to drink a glass Of wine
10 The baby and put in her glass this poison"
You're on says the villanets And
when the lights 20 UP. there's Old Lady
McGoyem rocking the baby 10 sleep
The Mc6overn cf the third generation
il good sleeper He never yelled once
while lie lnockai,out team kicked each
other alternately in the face and the stom-
ach and while Terry fooled the villsneas.
For the star re Che-ild. Won see saw the
plot and riped it on to Terry He dashed
down the glass '-oa ked the First and second
Assistant Villains as they arrived. and
Mrs McG0rcrH. 1.-THE really, truly Mn
G-soaked the vilainess on the iaw
II is the villain
Back. bad man. cries the stage che-ld
and pulls gun on the coarse man.
Whoop' Whee-ee-eee- Whoo!
la the fr-t part Of the Third the only
really exciting thing the villain does i 10
dope Terrys medicine ball with dynamite.
But Sam Harris gets gay with Terry and
losses 1t ont Of the window, and up goes
the garden Of Johnstons road house
Enter the villain and gets hi, in the solar
pexus
An interlude while the knocknbcut lovers
kick each other in the stomach 10 JOY ami
merriment 40 loud that you couldn't hear
the haze drum when thew au0pd
And now il ia night in noisome cellar
above the Eas, River. The swift current
r-runs terribly below. Look and shud-
dab gays the villain Me- first wife
plunged down the trapdoor into that tide
Mrs Tern McGorern and the baby are
asleep in the cellar. by the way, ha wing been
fed knockout drops and lured thither
Mrs. Tcrry is awake
The villain gurgles TO the First Assistant.
Stand with your knife At the br-rat's
thr-rosr And now. Mrs McGoWrn. write
as tell YOU " your che-ild's blood flows"
Mrs NcGarcru has to write q note TO
Terry saving simply scandalous things
Have YOU done with meh?- asks Mrs
Term.
4 have give me the papah-
Never | rend il 80! And II you touch
me che-ild, you do it over me dead body
The whole villain squad is upon her in a
body But the window sa sh on the back
drop falls in with crash The calcium
spots II.
'Tis Terry. with si1-shooter in either
hand and an expression IS though he we're
contemplating Young Corbett.
Curtain
And the no smoking signs are Jared
on the wall.
Act Iv-The fight Of course Johnnie
Burdick PLAYS Pedldr Palmer as though
the British manner born. The villainess
does nothing more terrible in this act than
try 10 dope Mrs Terry with choral in a
dope syringe.
For once a McGovern is tempted to
strike a woman SAYS TERM az he foils her
Then. seconded 10y HVuhey McGoV era,
Terry puts out Pcdiar Palmer IN three
hammer and tongs rounds. He vaults
out Of the ring and Mama McGore5n and
Mrs. Terry McGororn and Huqhey Meteor
ern and the stage che-ild and the paper
mache Baby hcGororn fall INTO each others
arms. And they are so sweetly happy
reunited thus. as not TO notice that the
villain and villa'ness have tried 10 shoot
them and been considerately foiled by
all the supcs except those painted on the
back drop.
1t must be lively and exciting to be a
McGovern
Floating Mine From spanish war Days
Found.