Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-08-23
A Promising Title.

picturesque
It's motive Is the attempt of the Con-
solidated Fuel and Smelling Company
to triumph over the trust, which had
put up the rate on the railroad for the
carriage of the G. 4. and S, output,
thus forcing the Consolidated to dis
continue shipping goods entirely, un-
less no other way could be found.
Richard Waller, the president of the
company, built q cutoff or spur rail-
road from a point in the mountains,
connecting directly with the Trans
continental railway, saving $50 miles
In the right of way and cutting down
materially in the cost of shipment
charges. Nora Lyndon, his sweet
heart. backs all of her $4,000 shares of
stock In the scheme. thus insuring
her lovers success and the trium-
plant vindication of her own judg-
ment.
She Is more than willing to sacrifice
friends, money and social position in
the effort to prove his theories as
true, He brings her the best he has
TO offer-himself and wedlock How
she receives his offer and why she re-
fuses a conventional marriage, giving
him instead "her hearts gift" of love,
unhallowed by a legal tie, makes a
remarkable and interesting story. It
embodies a situation such as Suder-
mann treats in a recent work
Mr.. Kent is keen analyst of a
womans SOUL and he has thrust
deeply into a problem that is far more
common than the Philistine would
imagine.
HER HEARTS, GIFT" BY Oliver
Kent; nnthor. of "Her Right Divine
| G.. w, Dillingham;, publishers, 1915 East
twenty second street, New York.
Harper's Weekly.
The second number of Harper
Weekly. as Mcclure publication,
under the editorship of Norman Hap
good, Is brilliant, perhaps more so
than its immediate predecessor.
Three articles In it are striking.
| These are the conclusion of the
Confessions of a Reformed Dramatic
Critic" Hearing a Play With My
Eyes" and plays of Stage Life" the
last by Minnie Madden FislSe.
The first named article is glance
behind the mask of that poseur, the
metropolitan dramatic writer. 1t ex-
poses his shallow pretension of wis
| don in the lore and technique of the
stage and his cruel, brutal treatment
of the shivering actor or the still
more helpless actress who is placed
| L
is of such creatures that an actress
of some fame said to me not long ago:
"They come late into the theatre at
premleres; when they are not half
intoxicated their faces wear look
of supercilious indifference they
lower themselves into their seats
well-known to all the audience-with
an air of bored ennui. When they
go out between the acts they gather
in the vestibule and there debate as
to what degree of severity shall be
melted out to the play. The idea OF
finding a bright spot In the produc-
ton to emphasize for the benefit OF
the manager, or the star, that, alas!
is the furthest from their thoughts. y
All this is well illustrated In the
confessions of critic. Every sincere
theatre-goer should read the article.
"Hearing a Play with My Eyes
describes the delight of an American
in his first experience of q production
at the Coincide Franchise, in Paris
What the writer says Is only wha'
has made this playhouse renowned
since the time of Moliere; what III
describes has often been described be
fore, but seldom with such vivid Illus
tration of method and results that ar,
the marvel and despair of managers
IN other countries.
plays of Stage Life" the leading
article in the review, and therefore
entitled to be noticed last, as the
badge of honor, is Mrs. Fiske's pro-
test against the playwright who be-
| fouls his own nest in presenting g
picture of the stage false in it's con
ception. untrue in it's details and i'm
moral in its suggestion.
The actress writes with the same
force and sincerity with which she
acts, Her own success and fame
bear witness to the truth of hei
epigram that the theatre is not sus.
tanned by its weak elements"
Accompanying the article is a por-
trait of Mrs. IFlske from the painting
by Sergius 1vanowski. This ipor-
! trait recalls memories OF the actress
when she first appeared In Chicago
middle west. She came with little
eclat, as far as the great prairie
metropolis was concerned but she
had a champion, a humble reporter
| or an evening oaper, whose en-
thusiasm more than sufflced to serve
| in place of commanding influence
He had seen Minnie Madden in IN.
diana and had recognized her talent
He went from office to office and
pleaded for the little actress who
came otherwise almost unheraldeC
| and accompanied by an inept, mex.
perienced press agent. The result OF
this Door champions crusade for hii
pct was marvellous. Minnie Mad.
dern was acclaimed by the Chicago
papers after her first night with al
elan which would have enchanted q
star,
Like q ghost there rises before on,
the figure of the young actress o.
a past which she has outlived as sh'
| came forward in the reception room
of the Sherman House to receive my
card. She gave the impression of ;
creature in whom the elixir of lif'
was superintendent. One could ONLY
think of the passionate, fiery "Shir
ley" as one looked at her Her red
gold hair her flushed face and he
exuberant, cordial. but half-satirica
air had an overpowering effect. He
ewes. as in the portrait of M. Iva.
nowski. seemed as If looking through
and past one and as IL the inter
locutor were only an incident. on
to be studied for a moment for idea
and then to be brushed aside.
If Mr.. Norman Hapgood continues
to offer such articles as those ! hav'
mentioned he will soon impart T.
Harper's Weekly the SAVIOR which hal
made the fame of some OF the Lon
don reviews. rs there not some
thing in him of the spirit of William
Stead?
Waves In History.
In Hildegarde Hawthorne's Books
and Reading" in the September st
Nicholas, is the following notapl'
article:
"Ifave you ever stood on the sef
heach and watched the rollers come