The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-03-13
LIGHT ON The JAPANESE WAR
BLANEY MELODRAMA THAT
TELLS YOU ALL ABOUT IT.

ships With UevOlvers ana Saved the
Day for ~TogO-Hard Worked villain.
The sta 90 has hitherto failed, except in
a few minor instances, to attempt an in
terpretation of the profession Of Journalism.
The atmosphere, obvious yet elusive, OF
the ne wspa per Office has defed the attempts
Of author and actor. |
The newspaper profession as we'll as the
drama, therefore, Is under heavy debt to
Charles E. Blaney, author, and Henry Clay
Dlaney, interpreter, whose drama, The
Boy Behind the Gun" was produced last
night before an enthusiastic n appreoi-
alive Harlem audience. at the New Star
! Theatre. For the American newspaper
man it has done what Brown OF Harvard
has done for the college man.
Willie Lire, a character that will llve
In literature, Is the hero He is special
correspondent Of the San Francisco I'm
quirer. The drama opens at q reception
Given In the Golden Gate Yacht CLUB In
San Francisco. Soon after the curtain
! rises the villain is on. He is Count Burd-
no1, spy Of the Gar. He has a beautiful
black matrass. But Prince Yoshi, servant
Of the Mikado, recognizes him So does
his ex-wife, the beautiful American girl
whom he has we'd, %r-robbed Of her fathers
estate and cast of.
Enter, presently, Lieut.. WiHship, who
loves Dora Lipe who the villain has sworn
shall be his. He hates the villain by In
stinct. Enter the heroine, Mddge Mttrose'
the dashing little soubrette whom Willie
loves. She wears knee skirts and a low
neck to an afternoon reception. Why she
does this we do not know. Perhaps 1t is
a custom fbr heroines among the Pacific
Slopers. The villain insults her. Why he
picked her to insult We do not know. How
could be tell, thus early in the play tha9
she was the heroine2 He had not insuited
any one before.
and Sing Lee, Whites Chinese valet, unite
in a soak of all nations on his anatomy,
while Willie sits on the back OF a char and
foils him with a revolver. Yes, Withe mas
q valet. The paper puts up for him. IL
must be fine to do newspaper work in
Somebody hands Willie Lire a Yiddish
aWar," he cries. Come, Prince and Lieu
tenant. we must go to the front. l invite
you all to accompany me on my, private
YACHT" Gee! aiprivate yacht all the way
across the Pacific. And the last time we re-
Ported port dn a suicide sST 6 CENTS in Long Yet t'' tSiaes e'' yyhi sS
happened afterward proved that we are a
better reporter than that guy.
The villain breaks in again as the curtain
falls, and WiRie foils him by squirting
seltzer into his whiskers.
"A whisker highball!" cries Wtie as the
Willie foils the villain three times in the
next scene. and saves the whole output
of the Pacific Coast shipbuildlng YARDS Tor
Japan. And in the next act he thwarts the
villain, who is trying to keep Lieu..
Win8hip out of japan. and gets the whole
cast aboard his private yacht MGdge
goes too. She has persuaded sing 70 steal
ruises herself as Aley Chaterton, corre-
! spondent of the London Telegraph.
Seems to me l have seen those clothes
before" says Willie, as Atgy, boards the
Yacht. He recognizes his clothes, but not
his best girl. We couldn't have been fooled
that way. The villain as the curtain rails
is struggling in the hands OF the police.
And when the curtain rises we are in Japan,
and the ladies of the Golden Gate lach'
Club are geishas. So is Mddge.
Willie sees her and loves her for the
: American girl she resembles, whereupon
he marries her. just before the marriage
'he'is. about to be arrested for having IN ms
! possession the Government plans which
a The villain has been buncoed out OF by
. Ho,ue, because Lieut.. Wttshio ice-arse
: himS must be proved a Government spy.
. Just when it looks dark for Wii'e, In comes
. the Jayanese army.
SFor your services to the Mikado you are
awarded the freedom of the oity!' says the
g sure captain. ,u,od,- or;.s VIE,
with acumen. But the villain chloroforms
e his iste and carries her away to Pt. Arthur
T Follow mel" cries Wittie when he hears the
9 news. "and We'll see what a Japanese army
:, and an American boy can do And away
he trots at the n cad of the army
Well, there's a tot doing in the next act
It's in the military hospital at Port Arthur
a All the men are wounded, except The JaE
army, and all the women are nurses. IN
y villain is thwarted until he is weak on hi
pins. Before the curtain, a mere chile
y could foil him.
/ You see that wounded man in cot o.
Kisses the villain to the surgeon. Here arr
T. 1000 rubles. Take him TO the operating
room md so operate on him that he diesl
And he points TO Lieut.. Winship. Blu
Willie and Mddge while he's gone for lite
bea rers turn the o upside down. So the!
;e get No. Q, who is only a plain Russian drosk'
driver. And when his death yell resound
from within. the nurses and patients, or!
t. saved" And even Gen. Stoessei, whom
le YOU can tell by his whiskers, can scarce for
bear to be cheered, just then a papier
IN machs cannon ball cuts a CHASTITY gap i
" the back wall. The Jap army does
he scaling drill over the same and the entir
as cast is ~saved-except the villain, and he
c. spared.
h reporter. He is a great rescuer, but a poo
u news gctter. Why didn't he let the worl
TX know that Togo's victory Of the Sea of Japa
k, was fought of Port Arthur during y IN
have done it. If we couldn't have got
nc I wire we'd have saved it to sell to a mage
~ zine.
lie But 10 it is. As the flagship lies of Pol
ch Arthur, manned 10y the former Geisha girl
mt the villain enter to sell out Russia. Al
he ,1ircl Togo, with great acumen, discover
he that he is a spy. As he is hurried to ex,
cution two Russian battleships wabbl
CHI along the back drop.
hit "Rojestvensky's fleet To your gun
re. meu!" cries Togo. =.
ir But Willie Lire and Mddge are there II
cts sailor costume.
e. I'VE belong to the Stars and Stripes
,ra cries Willie. But when japan needs
ng friend we are there!'
Noble fellow, ] accept you!e cries To0
RS. Man the bulkheads men. and to yo'
in tholepins lit Was something like tina
nd Let America and Japan do their dutyl',
ole Now there is Just where Willie fell dow
rat again Why did he never let the publ
es- know that Rojestrovensky was licked wi