The Washington herald., 1911-10-22
"EVERYWIFE" AT CHAsE's.
Excellent PlayIet by George ". Ho
bart to BE Seen This Week.

Excellent PIAyIet by George ". Ho-
bart to BE Seen This Week.
There is nothing new under the sun, -
runs the ancient saw, but it evidently
does not apply to polite vaudeville.
'Everywife" is so new and so great
in vaudeville that the patrons of the
''two-a-day theaters," 1t is said, have
to pinch themselves lest they fancy
they have unconsciously invaded a 81
theater and are witnessing their
moneys worth" although this beatific
condition does not always prevail among
the audiences in such theaters.
Something different in polite vaude-
ville?'' was the way one New York critic
put it, answering himself thusly: 1T
cannot be found. This form Of enter
tainment has taken to itself every pos
sible form and device for the delight
of the eye and ear or the humorous
and pathetic sense"
And yet everybody in New York who
saw "Everywife," the great Lambs
gambol feature, the product OF the bril-
liant pen of George v. Hobart, present
ed in the most prodigal manner by the
veteran producer, Joseph Hart, realized
that in the vaudeville world there is
something brilliantly new and convinc-
ms III lllG llllS VI HdlI-nOuT
In "Everywife' there are twenty-five
characters. all OF them vital and strong
ly contrasting, with four spendid scenes
In which to work out the plot. It is
a very simple story, and yet most telling
in its effect. Briefly stated, It concerns
Everywife and Everyhusband, who are
spending their honeymoon in a cozy little
fiat, served by a pretty maid in pink,
known as Happiness. Everyhusband is
n y hi
he will not even go out nights, and
really neglects his business TO stay
around where she is.
Reason insinuates that he is doing
wrong to be so attentive to her. but
Rhyme slaps him across the back and
tells him not to heed Reason. Soon
a woman in green makes her appear
ance. She is Jealousy. She comes be-
tween Everyhusband and Everywife.
and while Reason urges Everyhusband
to tell the truth, inasmuch as he is in
nocent of wrongdoing, Rhyme insists
that Everyhusband shall ib about the
other woman. Everyhusband does So
teIling EVerywtfe that the other woman
Is sousin whom he has not seen for
ever so long-the same old story.
Everywife knows better; there is a
stormy scene, in which Happiness gives
notice and says she will go out and seek
from the house and goes his way. A
month passes and Everyhusband is dis
covered at the stage door of a theater
He has refused to listen to the advice
OF Reason, and has made the acuuaint-
ance Of many girls. Gayety. Excitement,
Dress, Frivolity, Amusement and Love
illness, but of all of them he is bent on
pursuing a plump little mink named
Squabina.
He approaches her and asks her to
have supper with him. Reason impIores
him to remember Everywife, but he
thrusts the intruder from him. The girl
feels the presence OF Reason, however,
and tells her new-found admirer to go
home, saying: II amt going to wake up
In the morning and stumble over any
body's reputation" Several months
later Everyhusband is found hanging
around the club with keen-eyed Gamble
and red-nosed Drink. He is rapidly going
the pace when Reason gets hold of him
and shows him what a fool he has been
making of himself.
He advises Everyhusband to ask Every
wife's forgiveness. So at last is seen the
couple reunited and Everywife presents
her Everyhusband with a cute little
dramatic purpose, weighing seven pounds,
named Everybaby. Happiness returns to
her post, the man with the keen eye
and he OF the red nose disappear, and
Jealousy picks up her train and departs
also.
And who" inquiries Reason, will re-
member any Of the unpleasant things
that have happened?'
Nobody"