The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-12

10 over without arriving at any definite
conclusion and the curtain went down
The Socialist metal band now began t.
resume the steampipe symphony and the
audience filed out temporarily.
The second act showed that the barn
was still staying at Lady ARne's house un-
chaperoned. The barn had changed waist
coats and ~cravats, but it was still the same
old barn. Lady Anne came in YEA ng
Nottingham lace curtains and sighed:
-O-o-oh. the difficulty of knowing how
TO act!" Lady Anne was referring here tc
the mining business. Then the barn went
off stage and John Reid came on to discuss
love, socialism and his new book of poetry.
The discussion continued steadily until 4
o'clock, except during a slight break once OF
twice when the actors had TO go OF stage
for a new start on their lines. Hdmer, the
reporter, also came in to get an interview
and said all he wanted to know was whether
Lady Anne thought it was right for a sue
cessful man TO leave his money TO children
who perhaps are not industrious.
John Reds old love for Lady Anne re-
turns temporarily. n when he tells heI
that a Friend of Labor has sent him a check
for $1,000 to help the miners keep up the
strike, Lady Anne calls up that old love to
tempt him TO keep the check from the
strikers. John is tempted and falls do WI
on his foolish face. He kisses her fondly
like n drummer eating soul and then he
brushes her to his painting BIN ruthlessly
as il with passionate abandon a great
splendid steam shovel were biting into a
hillside glorious with tender flowers.
In the last act they put it all over John
Reid. Mother Jones flays him orally. first
for his ~falseness to her. He utters words OF
repentance, but those words might have
been the voice of a landlady saying: I'VE
snail have porterhouse steak for dinner To-
night for all they were believed. on
stage a mob and the steam pipes rumble
o~minously. Lady anne and the barn es-
cape 10 Italy by way of the bach yard. All
have zone. will John alone to meet the
strikers. who know Of his pertidy.
They are two things left for John to
do. He can go out and take his chances
with the not or he can advance toward
the audience and beg for mercy. Coward
that he is. he prefers the mob. For a mo-
ment he goes out to meet the mob, but
soon returns unpaced and with the casket
handles torn from his coat. Mother Jones
returns 10 the centre of the stage with him
her string tie and hair swaying like laundry
on a windy clothesline. John tells her thai
suicide is the only relief. She begs OF him
not to do this thing, and ~gesticulates ner-
vously like a biograph.
+Good-by. Ellen " says John as he kisses
her on the bangs, and shows her the poison
in his hand "Good-by, you must not-tal
remain here"
There is a final curtain then with John
alone on the stage. Many had hoped John
would take the poison right in front of the
audience. but he didn't.
I. Hayes Hunter, who works behind the
scenes at Belasco's Theatre, was the John
Red yesterday. Jack Kennedy had his
name inserted with a blue rubber stamp
on the programme as the barn. Alice Au
lance was Lady Anne and Katherine King
was Ellen Sands, the Mother Jones Of tho
play.
Julius Hopp came before the curtain after
it was all over and many thought he IA the
author. Julius announced that the real
reason for the organization Of the Socialist
Stage Society was TO produce Mr.. Hops
The Friends of Labor" during the winter,
The play, said Mr.. Hopp. will go far toward
increasing socialism. Yesterday per-
Torrance was undertaken, he said, with
$2.25 in the treasury. but he hoped that
when the gate receipts were counted some
OF the deficit would be made up.