The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-29

~ - GOOD young teloW OF rev MIL
| lions discerns the plot OF the bad old
reach New York for tight. Yet
don't believe there Is any plagiarism.
1t Is coincidence only. r
However, The Ringusaster" IL so
| nearly a duplicate OF The Lion and the
Mouse" that Arthur Byron can hardly
keep them separatesin his memory. Ar
thur was for long while the fellow
who braved Rockefeller lion" and
now he fights q Rockefeller ''ringmas-
ter" He was glib enough In his first
| personation of the newer nero. but in
a repetition that ! saw, his mind re-
verified. to the more familiar role. and
| he became uncertain what to say ex-
actly when faced up against second
| embodiment of the morey power. Olive
Porter, writer OF The Ringmaster.' Is
a secretary to Wall Street operator.
with tickers clicking and phones ring.
| ing In her ears, while. she shorthands
and type-fngers her employers dicta-
| lions so the noisy commotion OF a
clear to her. Naturally. she locates the
most important portion Of her play In
| the midst Of that sort of turbulence,
with the old '.ringmasters" young an
| tagonist dashing 'twixt tickers and
| phones, dancing Jigs Of alternating
! glee and wrath, and everything within
| sight or sound at the Utmost stress and
strain Of crisis in cornerins Of the
market The actors memory served
him perfectly as to all he needed to say
| to and about his foes daughter--with
VIII ON, Inevitably, he was In love, and
who thought his fight against her dear
/ father was horrid; but In the long spell
| Of technical stock talk he was some
| times at fault. So was the audience,
except the portion familiar with the
processes Of speculation. OF course, the
power. of the Rockefeller was over
thrown again all the same.
| The local. transltnry playwrights
| continue to hold their mirrors up to
nature as they find 1t degraded In the
Tenderloin 1.-THE Only Law" IL q reit-
Grafton of "The Easiest Way" IT
makes Just the same sort Of exposure
Of show girls and prodigates In their
personal encounters. The heir to mil
lions In this case. though. Is no degen-
crate pursuer Of o pleasure, and he
means no harm TO either himself or the
| chorus creature who fascinates him,
but earnestly desires to marry her
away from the vicious life she Is lead
ing. She dotes on fellow SO low and
mean that he lets her support him from
| her wages OF both honest work and
more remunerative sin. She will be no
ones wife but his.
"You chump." he exclaims adding
other epithets Of contempt and disdain,
mot marry him! Why. grille. II won
make no difference to US. We'll be to-
9ether same as now; and think of the
Doodle wen tap him for. Why. It's ike
picking up the Kcoh-i-nor in gut
ter"
| Although shameless and conscience
less, she won't go into matrimonial
triangle with q husband she can't love
and paramour she can't help loving
The scoundrel pleads and argues
coaxes and curses. all In Vain Howev-
err, she 10 willing to wheedie tip out
| of her dune. make considerable for
tune by thus surreptitiously getting In
l on a big Wall Street operation and then
| scoot 10 California with the wretch OF
| her fond and foolish heart. He sui
| leniy says all right, but he means al
wrong; for, with the money In his
hands, he doesn't buy tickets by rail-
with that show girl across the conti-
| nent, but by steamer with announcer
show girl across the ocean.
The authors Of '"rhe Only Law" are
| wilson Miznsr, famous socially as q
wit and more generally known for his
| marriage to the extra wealthy MRS.
Yerles, and George Bronson howard
q young actor who was arrested, few
| nights ago. on the complaint OF nis
formerly afEinltive show girl that ne
/ had taken back by force. under threat
OF death by q frightfuiiy long dagger,
some Of his gift jswslry. Why doubt
| the authenticity of the Mixnerf Howard
| depfctf6fis on life where society and the
stage meet at their roukhest edges!
| They are ruthless realists. Here Is the
| way they round out their expertiy MADE
and cieveriy acted drama. The good
| genius among their creations Is pro-
| fessional thief and swindier who. Tor
the girls sake. exposes the plot to run
| of with her money, and then, when sne
emotionally bids him burn the really
| althv lucre, uses II instead to save
/ himself from prison for wire-tap rob-
| bery. The audience applauds that APP
/ nrovingly. Then the girl, cured at last
1 ~ her infatuation for the prohigate,
| consents to marry the miiiionaire's son.
| without confessing WORD 10 MIN OF
1 what she Is or has done. The curtain
| goes down so quickly that l can't ten
| you what the people think OF that ch-
max.
| Manv a thrifty show girl wishes that
| admitting spendthrifts, instead, OF send
ing flowers to her. WouldShand over the
| posieS cost in cash. How to trans
mute such soft tributes into hard coin!
| "The Florist Shop solves the problem
| The shop's florist takes orders for how-
ers and delivers lingerie Confidential
| circulars tell actresses that, when now
ers are bought for them. they may take
| an equal moneys worth OF hosiery or
/ other underwear. Shy violets are thus
cultured into bold stockings. and bie
red roses fade coyly into dainty white
lace things. The notion has been
| brought with the farce from Vienna,
| but as presented here. with chic and
| cheeky French woman as the peculiar
| florist 1t seems to have tarried In Paris
on its way to popularize itself In New
York. The shop becomes place OF
| coquetry and several times the plain
| farce looks sure to break into ham-
boyant extravaganza; but It doesn't
quite do that. even when three breezy
| widows In a row get scared at the ru-
I NOR of one little mousse while trying
on gay silk stockings, and leap on
| chairs to lift their skirts before q
| thousand spectators.
| This farce carries other than stage
| women blithely along. Two are chum
brides. One husband has been a rake
and doesn't dare tell his bride, so;
while the other husband. with a spot
less white record. Is besought by his
wife to confess that his past is daubed
! Interestingly black. Under the circum-
! stances. the men think II shrewd and
feasible to swap histories. So the mis-
| deeds of a culprit are taken over by an