Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-09-01
"Lucky Jim" at the Academy.

A deau Chinaman is a frightful-looking
object, especially when he is a stage
Chinaman and the man working the spot
light slips in green slide.
Yet it was a Chink who saved Lucky
Jim's life by stealing his pajamas and
sitting out in the moonlight of Jim's camp
in Death valley. Ariz. and allowing the
heavy villain to stab him to death; think
ing all the time it was Jim he was cut
ting up.
Lucky Jim he is from start to finish
From the start when he arrives In his
fathers Office wearing a dinky flannel
hangs around the Wall street district
just to catch sight of him. His father
has placed his all on sugar. but the heavy
villain is playing the game with trained
dice and taps the wires. sends in phony
quotations and cops the coin. But Jim!
Not only does he Immediately start for
Death valley to recoup the busted pile, but.
standing on the stage like pocket edition
of georgemcohan. says: Father. you
heard me say that l learned mining at
Columbia; l also learned something else
learned how to box and with that pre-
liminary speech he wallops the heavy in
the jaw and makes his getaway.
Death valley. Ariz., is bad place.
but there seems to be nice crowd out
there. There are two Irish comedians
and fat sheriff who join Jim in his pros
pecting schemes. The villain gets there
too and strikes it rich. He bitches up to
a half-breed the best actor in the show,
and together they try to give Jim the
in which they do not get a jolt in the
jaw. He is terrific hitter, that Jim.
Jim's claim is a rank one. No gold no
foOd-nothing but alkali and light comedy.
He does not know that the heavy villain
and the half-breed are working in tun-
mel that runs into his claim. and that is
why they are getting out more gold than
they can count. Jim and his bunch are
nearly all In. when the girl he loves and a
stenographer from Wall street arrive on
the scene OF course the heavy villain is
in love with her. too. Death valley is
fine place for ladies.
This lady-Edith, her name is-gets ban
died about and choked and beaten and
runs the gauntlet that all girls do when
the villain is in love with them.
Finally the villain gets caught up with
and they tie him up in a stockade. Every
now and then he tries to make his escape
carrying a long .22-caliber siX-sheoter.
comes just in time to prevent 1t. The
Indians under the half-breed's leadership
try to rescue the villain by surrounding
the stOckade. and it looks for a while as
if the supers would have to don war paint
and tear down the fort. but Lucky Jim.
who chased off on pony, brought back
part of the United States Army and
SdSeu tue udy again, ptuSSeu tne Hall
breed to the heart and bowed to the au-
dience
During these strenuous times there is 4
good bit of comedy work. several of the
characters enlivening the gloom of the
siege by specialties.
Last act: All of sJims crowd. rich and
happy, wearing evening clothes and stroll
ing about the roof garden of the Cliff
House in San Francisco. Edith is a
dream. Jim Is certainly well trained when
II comes to wearing swell clothes-in fact.
all of them are. In this act the wire
Taper who upsets the old mans schemes
in the first act appears and gives the VII
lain dead away. He is a very good actor
the wire Taper, and gets a great hand
He and Lucky Jim sing a clever little
song about a man who told his wife he
would not be home to dinner. The light
ing effects are good.
But to resume. The villain tries to run
off with Edith. although it is her wedding
day, and Lucky Jim throws him over the
cliff. Curtain.