The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-12

millionaire. who indulges the whim of employing broken-down, hard-up fore ign nobiemen for his household ser wants. His butler is an English lord, his valet a French marquis. his coach- man German count. and so forth. His way Of enjoying his new world wealth is to humiliate old world aristocracy, but the outcome isn't all pieasurabie to him; for the supposed coun- tess whom he hires for e house. keeper. is . lion tanner from q menag- erie who trains him to. lick her hand. while his daughter. son. brother and nephew get involved variously.
 By the process indicated, an irresis- tible singing and dancing show aas millionaire's daughter, known as the Dollar Princess and q MT. Smythe, whom she hires for a private secretary. is new tanning of a shrew by a. domi- nating lover. She Is acted by Valli valli, he by Donald Brian. and both are of much account in nowaday pieces from Vienna. Brian Is slim 1.-the, hish-tenor young man. with breath enough to sing while he dances. A very Timber ballet girl is substituted for his sweetheart in a waltz that. compared with the one which he en- chanted the girls as Q wa1tzing wooer in "The Merry Widow" Is as a cyclone to a zephyr. He might cash up his combination of voice and legs at $500 c week In vaudeville. With brogue to his tongue. he might make Irish col- Teens in America forget that Chauncy Oicott or Andrew Mack ever lived Lucky Brain.
 Was Courtice Pounds's vogue as the minstrel prince in The Mikado" before your time? He was sweet fellow with still sweeter voice. I'm told that the pretty Louie Pounds. the lion tanner in The Dollar Princess" Is his sister. Can't be. Probably a daughter. An other agreeable young woman is the Adrienne Ausarde who, as the multi millionaire's niece, marries his titled groom, so that he may serve as her courier on a European tour that pur- ports to be honeymoon, but in &C., tuality she won't let him So much as touch the tips of her fingers with his lips. So he pretends to fool with a hotel chambcrmaid. makes a rendezv- ous with her, pretends not to know that his unconjugal bride has substi- tuted herself for the jade in the dark. and kisses her into yielding condi- tion. said both of the weeks musi- cal comedy revelations were to1erably we'll behaved; and that's true despite the carnal conquest Of this bride, for the incident Is carried by an innocently LIdVebty VT a en 6ahucs
 The title of Isreal Zagwilrs new drama Is the best thing about 1t. That assertion is neither as fiippant nor as cordemnatory as It may look. Fang will had great idea-vital. timely. impressive, dramatic, but instead of writing with the sharp. pointed. color full pen of the dramatist, he wearied his audience and submerged the force of his ideas by the wordy a.A.k ~N aA A title--"The Melting Pot"--crystalized his big theme more dramatically than any words in the whole length of the play. But MT. Zangwil1 Is an enthusi- asst with a mission and an enthusiast, with a mission rarely is drama tist. America is the melting pot of the world, he Interestingly submits the crucible in which all the races of Eu- rope are fusing and reforming, being purged of old world feuds and preju- dices, to come out ultimately a great and masterful brotherhood
 It Is only once In a long while that a dramatist creates for himself basic theme as once so vital and so alive with the contrast and conflicts essential to the important play. But MT. zang- will, 1t would seem, thinks he knows more about enforcing a theory or be- lief than Sudermann or Pinero, Ibsen or Ga1sworthy. Not one nf thees sa~rs has eyar preached line through their plays, yet not drama from either (barring some deliberately light enter tainments by the older r~D has fail- ed to impress dominating thought on the minds and memories of its audi tors. MT. Zangwifl has written and produced nine plays. not one, of which was M tn out mBxi4 ,pfsthemc yet just one If which achieved afslsbgtantial stage success. h1t would seem as though the novelist would by now accept the fact that drama is thing of visualized ac- tion not of talk.
 to the particular melting pot of this play to produce the American of the future are both Russians. but the one A Jew, the other a Gentle. The former. a violinist is possessed of the disease of acute oratory in its most ad- vanced stage. A word sets him on on a tirade about the wrongs of the Jews or a heavy rehearsal Of the familiar horrors of Kischeneff that nothing short of a hot poultice showed down his throat seems likely to stop. Then our old friend. the Long Arm of Coinci- | dance. reaches in. The Gentle heroine l is the Americantzed daughter of none other than the leering noble who led | in the massacre aof the parents and tebr6thers and sisters of our Jewish mu-
 The most dramatic scene of the play Eis looked for in the meeting of this nevertheless old man with the embittered young Jew. Fear ful of his life the baron has come armed with a revolver. better have brought ,earmuffs. The uio,lnist does not undertake 70 do him hodily injury. He sits right down and begins to vkik. He does not hurry him
 
 starting with Jerusalem. he works on leIsurely down through the ages to