The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-02-21

eiris will. 1 think. be eoddied and euddisd here as the '.ponisS' have been.
 Don't you believe all thars In "Havana" is English; for there's Jimmy Powers. Six Ensiishmen in the employ of the London 0afety humor factory and music foundry are billed as authors of this show, but our Jimmy Is named along with them as . 'rs- wiser of the American version" Jimmie Powers Is something of Pete Daily fn popping off gags and lines. His role is. or was. of Ao more account than any one of four others: but he has . spruced 1t up with New Yorl's brisk sort of wit that is stands out from the iogy London humor of the predicament with the woman. who, as his sailor sweetheart in that port. happens to be his wife also and the mother Of his child Moreover, he strikes right into . band of revolutionists. who force him to take the oath of a desperate secret society. Can't you see Jimmy. with his curio face grimacing fright and his eloquent legs an tic with attempts ct flight: Inevitably, there is a topical ditty for Powers. He Is supposed to be English and his shipmste Is a cockney. but Jimmy Is the same pop eyed. click -jawed Yankee that he was at his start ia Fun In . Photograph Gallery" quarter of a century ago. He doesn't look his age, but he is old enough to know better than to attempt a cockney dialect.
 But as to his topical dogserel. In a Havana plaza, he buys fortune telling slips cHAcu anu Coucu out tO by UiEos hoih a dark senora's basket. At the end of each stanza's question. he gets . pertinent sn- swer and thereupon he sings: And how did the bird know that?" No genius In 1t. Yet 1t is something to give an original twist and turn to topical song.
 haven't given the plot of""Havana" and won't. The scenes are in and around a cigar and cigarette factory: there are Car mems in plenty, from principal coQuettes to rows of them in the chorus; and you sniff for garlic in the Spanish air; but our whip ping of Spain to set Cuba free isn't men, toned. It is . clean show.
 Du: nss to a sSeou. %1.ss Ts. loOss SC just now; and. tas ever. the charEe of im- morality is met by pleas of dramatic art. The half dozen current plays denounced are "salome." the opera with the dance of nudity; The Easiest Way and 'Ths Blue Mouse." one earnesfly. the other jovisily and both frankly exposing the shame of show girls; 'The Girl from Rector's." and "The Queen of the Moulin Rouge" depict ing carousals in song and dance at New York and Paris restaurant; and Miss 1n- variously reckless frolic. Now, all those entertainments contain excellently graphic art. with here and there passages of literature. and so. like Bougereau pic- lures and Zola books. defense of them Is possible and in some respects plausible. What I mean may be told in an account of the Apache dance in this weeks downward in, indecency. The manager of the new, show, "The Girls from the Moulin Rouge' had a row with him of the older one, '"The Queen of the Moulin Rouge. over dancers whom both wanted; hence the imitation in title and an elaboration of the apache novelty, in which pantomimic act Ing is surely admirable and perhaps depio- rabie.
 The apache dance was first staged in Paris It isn't an Indian exercise copied from our Apaches. but got its name. I am told. from American tourists. who took note of it's wild savagery and caught at the French nickname of apaches as applied to the most desperate of burglars and high waymen It is q waltz purportinG to be- In the manner of the worst Parisian resorts If thieves-places where the most venture some summers are not taken by guides where police officers never 20 except in couples The dance represents a phenom- non in the hypnotic control of depraved girls by the men who live on their earnings. I will leave it to you. for I won't write an opinion, whether stage art should be licens- ed for such a use. 'The Girls of the Mou- lin Rouge" is for two hours and a half merely such former female mtnstrelsy as now calls itself burlesquery; and then for twenty minutes the stage Is given over to eight performers from Paris and what has been a carousal in New York roof garden s transferred to Parisian thieves dance louse.
 tipsy dandy follows a girl into the den md instantly three thugs empty his pock- it's. beat him terribly, throw him limp into he street and divide the swag into three four as the decoving girl gets ione. These fellows take from their sweet hearts, but don't give. When two more girls come in from the pavement for a iance their lovers demand all the money L a-rr E----x Ix- tpckinsa in ready obedience and Is roughly lissed for It, The other has none and is hrashed for that. Oh. this isn't polite ircle of society. But 1t goes in for the | of the dance and the three cou- | ,les become walters of much the same | lose- gripping. snug-hugging sort that may | ,e seen in our Bowery halls of debauchery.
 Now comes the apache dance. It seems | hat one of the girls. personated by dark | linn. 1.-the. young spaniard. proficient In | made a change of lovers. | Ter old mate. brawny-bodied and low rowed comes in to take her back from her | oung new mate. speedy scuffle drives | he younger away. The girl. though. Is not | egained by physical force. but by hypnotic | lower as curious as Svengalrs over Triloy. | The girl evinces keen antipathy to the man ut when he fixes his eyes upon her she l .oes covering to his arms for the cance. He erks and filings her roughly to the music ,he escapes ana sthrtS u run o"es' pAN --N ooks back to encounter his mesmeric gaze md returns to him dazediy. The others top dancing and become spectators; Tor It appears that an apache dance Is like an in- roluntary shake-dance among the Shakefs IT A frenzied torture-dance among the Mex can Indians-an outbreak of abnormal ,motion. The actresss face is painted pal
 D her long h,acb hair Is torn loose, her manner is distraught and she suggests a mad wrath of passion. The man is stolid ma brutal vet his dominance is mental Again and again he throws the girl violent V to the floor and as often she stasgers to Ter feet and goes back to him for more The climax is that her new ,r and younger lover returns and stabs ,is rival to death Tableaux. Curtain. And hat apache dance Is an artistic achieve nent. But
 Franklin Fyles.
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