El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-21

uIar success of the theatrical season.
In the first place it again demonstrated
David Belasco'S pre-emlnence in the art
of stage productions; in the second, it
overfloWs with domestic virtue, and in
the third it is mined by masters OF
their profession.
The author of the new success is
Alice Bradley.
The play tells of a westerner who
made millions, lived in an overwhelm-
that his wife could not keep up with
him. He tells his wife that she is ''as
obstinate as a mule" And so she is,
for she is appallingly good-a fact that
heartily Wearies the millionaire.
He decides, therefore. to obtain
divorce or separation from this moth
erly milestone and to marry a young
woman of the world. This young
woman agrees to the match. providing.
of course, that he first legally free
himself from his first wife.
The rather sordid motive behind this
agreement on the part Of the young
woman of the world IS strong per-
sonal feeling that the millionaire is
man marked for public distinction
or a premonition that seems destined OF
fulfillment for he becomes the gov
ernor of western state.
1t is at this point that the governor
and his lady separate, he visiting New
Il.
Willingly follows in his wake and they
meet in a Childs' restaurant, where the
governor has gone to snatch a bit to
eat, while his lady has repaired thither
because it is so homelike and clean"
Here, in a scene replete with pathos,
the estranged pair are united and pre-
sumably live happily ever after
thanks to the stage setting of Mr..
Belasco, the acting of Miss Dunn and
Emmett COrrigan, who plays the gov
m 4 Mfn d..l1 ~ ~rna
author.
within the Law" a play in four
acts which was produced at the new
Eltinge theater last Wednesday night
proved to be most vivid melodrama-
Bayard WELLER, its author. worked in
all the usual attributes of a play of
shop girl, q couple of villains and the
triumph of truth and righteousness be-
fore the final curtain.
Nevertheless. or perhaps for this very
reason, the piece gave every evidence
of pleasing the audience and was her
aided as a success.
Mary Turner. a shopgirl, played by
Jane Cowl, is arrested for stealing
goods in a department store in which
she works for Sc per week. She is
not guilty but she is convicted and is
sentenced to three years Imprisonment,
principally because the owner of the
store asked the judge to make IAN ex-
ample of her"
Before she goes TO prison she tells
her employer that If he wants his girls
to stop stealing he should pay them
living wages and adds that when she
gets out of the penitentiary she in
tends to devote herself to getting even.
Once out of prison she engages a
lawyer to tell her what she can do
and what she cannot do and, sur
rounded by a band of crooks who do
her bidding. she openly defies the law
because she is acting within it.
But her deepest plot is against her
former employer, Glider, and her plan
for revenge entails marrying his son,
which is a simple matter, because the
young man is already in love with her.
After this the plot becomes very murky
indeed.
call off one of her pals who intends TO
rob that residence, and while she is
there her husband finds her and i'm
mediately assumes that she has only
consented to become his wife that she
might turn a trick on his father" It
becomes evident, however, that the en-
try is only trick on the part of the
police and as the scene moves on Mary's
pal shoots an intruding officer dead
and makes his escape. The result is
that Mary and young Glider are held
for murder. This terrible state of af-
fairs is cleared up in the last act by
the confession of the man who did
the shooting.
very ingenius starting point has
been provided for MY Best Girl" a
new musical farce, which opened the
Park theater last Thursday night. The
fear that he had run over a man in
his motor car led a young man of easy
life in this city to change places with
a chauffeur in order to escape arrest. |
hQnnanE 10 aha iC
perfectly satisfied with the arrange |
ment, since he is a deserter from the !
army, which he Joined in fit of
pique after a disagreement with his |
sweetheart. Their troubles have been /
settled and he does not want to go !
back to his military duties.
It IS not difficult to see WHAT is /
going to happen to the man who has |
taken his name and there is no devla- !
ion from what seems inevitable. me /
youthful rounder is taken in the plas,'e
II the deserter and sent to Governor