El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-28
" Milestones" Is Another
Success of New York
Theatrical Season.
CBy Emory B. CaIrertn

New York, n. Y, Sept. 28.-What the
critics without exception agreed was a
rare treat Of joy and laughter was seen
IN broadway Jones', a comedy in four
acts, by George NJ. Conan, produced
Monday night by George NJ Conan. at
the George NJ COhan theater. GEORGES
mother, Mrs. Helen F. Conan, and his
father, Jerry J Conan were amone
the dozen who supported George in
the cast, and the old folks were en-
Iirely adequate and very appealing as
a pair of small town folks who con-
tributed their share toward the really
remarkable humOr of the piece.
broadway Jones" is a surprise in
many ways. Who would have thought
that George NJ. Conan could cut out
both his singing and dancing, and stin
make hit? Well, not a song is torn
off. not a dance stepped, nor even a
flag waved, and the show is the big
gest laughing hit of the season so far.
broadway JOnes'-George NJ Co
han plays him-is a young man from
a small town who gets that inevitable
wanders down to the city and has his
innings at starting things" but in the
end is mighty glad to return to the
jay town again
The kind of humor that makes the
piece so successful may be illustrated
by the moment when broadway
Jones" learns of his sudden wealth and
speculates what he viii do, deciding
among other things, to buy Brooklyn
and close it up"
''MiIestOnes, is Il Success.
"Milestones' is another success. The
play that captured London last season
has taken firm hold on New York.
Arnold Bennett and Edward Knob
LAUGH, the authors, have provided an
exhibition of real life-one of those
the footlights and all the accessories
OF the theater and feel the Joys and
sorrow of real humans.
The story shows So years of the
lives of its principal characters. The
scene is laid in London, and, from first
lies bears the name of Rhead, the other
that Of Sibley- The first period is that
Of 1S60-the time of crinolines and
other fashions that now seem queer,
and before ships had been made of
iron, except by "crack-brained expert
mentalists," and before electric lights
were dreamed of. Sibley, Rhead &
Sibley are iron founders. John Rhead,
a young man, loves Rose Sibley, and
she is affianced to him, but Rhead
maintains that ships ought to be and
will be made of iron, and he Quarrels
with Roses brother and father-the
latter old and both cOnservative-and
parts with them, the engagement with
Rose being temporarily stayed
The second period is 1885, with all
the amazing appliances of scientific
discovery and invention which marked
the last quarter Of the 18th century,
and all its hustle of business enter
prise. Old Sibley has died long ago.
Rose Sibley, whose hand is sought in
marriage by q young inventor named
Preece, who has invented a process for
Tightening steel and who maintains
that ships made of steel should, and
will, supersede ships made of iron
John Rhead, as much an obstinate lag
gard and IneddleSome regulator as the
Sibleys Of his youth, disapproves of
Freezes matrimonial pretensions and
prevents the contemplated marriage,
compelling Emily to become the wife
of an elderly nobleman named Monk
hurst
Performance is Remarkable.
The third period is the present John