The Washington herald., 1911-09-10

Intyre, the milkman duke, are to Blame.
''Snobs," a satirical farce in three acts,
by George Bronson Howard, deals with
the social adventures of Henry Disney,
erstwhile milkman and later identified
with a real true dukedom, five marble
palaces and some $70,OO00O0, who has
fallen in love with the daughter of a
pickle manufacturer and wishes to be
loved for his own sake. In order to
capture this altruistic love he takes his
friend Buck Reade. a stationary engineer,
into his confidence. and Heaves a shroud
of doubt about the Identity of the real
duke-in a word the smart set does
not know which is the real duke, and
thereby hangs the tale.
During the course of the three acts
many good situations are unfolded, and
Mcintyre, the stage milkman, together
with Buck Reade, who is Regan Hough-
ston off the stage, rise to the possibilities
of the scenes in a way that makes the
play one of the best that has been pro-
duced so far this season.
In the end the milkman-duke gets his
much-sought love and Buck Reade has
snobbery inculcated with more force than
pleasure.
"Miss Jack"
Musical comedy, which every year la
bors under some fresh affliction, is
threatened this year with a female i'm
personator. He is Rothwell Browne, now
exhibiting in Miss Jack" at the Herald
Square-a piece designed for the purpose
of exploiting his feminine graces, and
little else .f
Aside from the interest of Mr.. Browne,
which to most people is pathological,
there is not a great deal in Miss Jack"
which entitled it to cordial consideration,
Its music, by William Frederick Peters,
is an unmistakable emanation from Tin
Pan Alley" Its book and lyrics, by
Mark z. Swan, are so unusual in their
naivete that at times they become a real
delight. Possibly the composition may
find an audience elsewhere, but its kind
has long ago been outgrown by New
York.
The intrusion of a youth into the for
hidden precincts of young girls semi
nary gives Mr.. Brow an excuse for
plastering his face with cosmetics and
induIging in silk stockings and skirts.
In the latter he is truly at home, which
truly is art.
The comedy" which rambles through
some fourteen musical numbers, leaves
the audience stepped IN ennui and the
pieces painted with the brush of innoc-
soon house another play.
"Maggie Pepper.
One performapce of Maggie Pepper is
sufficient to Convince any one who has
seen The Chorus Lady" that Charles
Klein did not make any attempt to
create a new role for Miss Rose Stahl
when he wrote this play. Sne is the
same quick-witted, good-hearted, com
mon sense. creature as the Patricia
O'Brien, and has the same duties to per-
form-that of foiling villains and saving
innocent young gals" The only differ
ence is that the scene has been shifted
from the stage door to the department
store and Miss Stahl has been provided
with an entirely new vocabulary of slang
which she dispOses of in the way that
has made her famous.
Little can b. said ir favor of the plot
of the play, as it savors too much of the
melodramd. Mr.. Klein has a reputation
for presenting powerful dramatic scenes,
but in Maggie Pepper he has fallen far
below his level He has developed the
comedy part exceedingly we'll, however,
and most of his characters are excellent
These facts combined with the personali-
ty of Miss Stahl and the superb manner
in which Mr. Harris has cast the parts
should make the piece a success.
Maggie Ppeper' is, of course, the CEN
trail figure around which the piece re-
wolves She is a poor girl, who has spent
fifteen years of her life in a department
store, but when the time comes for a
promotion to the cloak department she
is overlooked owing to the unfriendliness
of the manager. The owner of the store
is young man more fond of the white