El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-21
George Scarborough a Much
Talked-of Man; Earle
MITCHELL New Play.
CRy Emory B. CaIvert.l

EW YORK, Sept. 21-George
Scarborough, a former Ell Paso
boy, is one of the most talked of
men in New York today. As the author
of "The Lure" he received much men
ton from the critics, the press in gen
eral and the public when the play was
produced. and recently he has been
drawn into the limelighI by the action
of police commi Ssicner McAdoo in SUD
pressing this and several other plays.
It is charged in the New York Review
that the suppression order came as a
result of several other plays being
copied after THE Lure" with no OBJ
ject in view except to pander to the
immoral and make money out of a sub
ject that had proved such a drawing
card in what the Review terms one of
Since the suppression of THE Lure,
several leading men of New York
have come out openly in defence of the
play as a teacher of a great moral les
son and a factor in awakening public
interest in the dangers of white
slavery Rev. Madison c. Peters and
Norman Hapgood are among others
who endorse the play.
Lure" was not accepted for presenta-
ton until after it had been read by
many people Of high character and
broad information. and that the plaV
thor, Scarborough, had presented a
formal written endorsement from
Stanley W. Finch, the special commits
siOner in charge of the federal bureau
for suppression of the white slave
traffic. Scarborough was for a cOnsid-
cradle period one of the men employed
under the direction of commissioner
Finch.
THE Lure" on its opening night, re-
ceived the endorsement of district at
torney Whitman, eXpolice commissioner
Bingham, judge Warren W. Foster and
many other men of note These men
all recognized in "The Lure" a play
sincere in its purpose, fundamentally
truthful in every detail and above crit
icism in its civic purpose.
These men. all OF them familiar with
the white slave traffic. appreciated the
fact that 1.-THE Lure" could do more to
prevent such conditions and to reform
existing evils than all of the stories.
articles and reports that can be turned
out by the printing presses. These men
that only by arousing the
great general public to an outburSt of
thundercUs indignation could they pu-
rify the shame of New York and the
equally black DISGRACE of all other
large American cities.
Another FL PaSOan.
Earle Mitchell Of FL PaSO. who has
played parts in William A. Brady's pro-
auctions for years now has the role Of
the jailer in Believe Me Xantippe." a
New York success of the present sea
son.
at was one Of the sorrows Of my
life" he says that I missed being a
Kentuckian like the rest of the family,
by two weeks or so.
81 had an experience in Kentucky
once" he continues. that further
showed me why he wanted me to be
one; it also showed me Just how much
ancestry really counts down there 7
was playing a dinHy little part in a
show in park at Paducah-I had only
gaduated from p furniture salesman
in FL Paso, Texas. into an actor about
six months beforehand I had not made
any noticeably large amount of money.
In all probability I looked more like a
tramD than a scion OF a good Kentucky
family.
zone day was listening to some old
dodgers about the time when 2 sheriff
was the biggest man in the country
" 7 remember one man. remarked an
old inhabitant, a mighty fine man, too.
for governor because he would rather
mighty right, too
Then. in still. small voice I piped
up. What did you say his name was2
Mitchell was the answer; William
Mitchell
"Perceptibly swelling. I announced:
That man. gentlemen, was my great
grandfather
$50 began my first success on the I
stage. From that moment 1 was a
matinee idol of Paducah. There was no
home, not even the most exclusive, in
which J. the down at-the-heels play