The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-02
"fHV JUDGE AND HHG JURY"
SRD AVE. MELODRAMA IN STILL
LIFE At WALLACk'A.


Food fer Infants, n Rendered PalatabIe
% May De-lda Conquest Q Peaches
and rpeam Heroine Wh0 Made Love
C~OnVlncinSiy to Undesery1ng Miner.
The Judge and the Jury" which opened
its peppers on the Great White Way last
night at WallAck's, acts like q Third avenue
EnelodramA with aspirations 10 rival "A
Girl Of the Golden West" and The Squaw
Man" Tho scenery and cost unes are
much the same; but In throwing on the ex-
uberance Of the theatrical outskirts II has
failed to take on sven that uncomfortable
literary and dramatic skill which is neces-
cary to Broadway. II IL a rip roarer In still
life. Pistols flourish, but bark not. Love
and jealousy are R-stirring, but the NOR
tality In low. On all sides what you get ID
less than your moneys worth, even when
press tickets reduce the price to carfare.
Miss Ida Conquest In tho pathetic heroine.
and she presents q daughter Of the alkali
plains Of New Mexico with her hair inn
peccably Oombed and her peaches and cream
complexion unimpaired. She loves the
sturdy miner (Mr. william Desmond, but
10 fascinated by the city chap (Mr. Walter
Hale, who wears a clean shirt every day
Juot - 10 WOutu uaNo " uO III NbC ohhOAo
smuts Of the Auditorium Hotel. He tries
to lure her to Chicago and diamonds, and
h says she will think It over and tell him
In the cabin up on the mountain. Chicago
delights her and dia monds dazzle her
She tells the audience several times that
she 10 fascinated like a little bird looking
into the eyes Of q serpent. But native purity
and love Of the sturdy miner conquer and
she goes TO the cabin and gives back to the
CITY CHAP the stickpin that he gave her. ~.
But the greaser hates the city CHAP with
a greasy hatred. He steals the pure
heroine's pearl revolver (calibre az, and
shoots him up up in the mountain--though
the diminutive noise OF shot Is not allowed
to offend the Broadway ear and the wound
Is 30 slight that the city chap RECEIVERS in
an entr'acte.
Everybody believes that the pure heroine
did IL. Even the sturdy miner believes Il.
He is the kind OF hero who will believe
anything against the heroine. except the
obvious fact that she IL a pure heroine
with a complexion that remains pink and
white amid the sage brush, and Is always
te-rew to him. .
Now al il happens the local miners and
COW punohers have organized themselves
into a Law and Order Club which Is nothing
less than a New England sewing circle
in red shirts and chaps. They don't know
about the pearl revolver; but none the less,
at the next church sociable-or wherever il
is--their moral sense is shocked by the
fact that the heroine inc the city chap were
nut together on the mountain unchapsrOned.
So they Roseip, thus taking from The heroine
her social standing, and then they come in
a body and tell the city chap that he must
take his white shirts back to Michigan
avenue.
The hero still doubts the heroine, but
this il the crisis Of the third act, so ap-
parently he feels obliged to face the sewing
circle in chars and protect the rival whom
he hates and the heroine Of whom he be-
lieves the worst. When it has been proved
to him by a~ntecedent probability, sign
and example that the pure heroine Is pure
he consents to marry her.
The actors render this infants food as
palatable as may be. Miss Conquest was
certainly pretty. and she made love to the
unbelieving miner with more pathos and
earnestness than he deserved. Some OF the
heroic lines seemed to please the audience.
but for the most part N remained unreason-
ABLY cold.