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DRAMATIC NEWS
AND COMMENT
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otic. like an orchid In bouquet OF
roses She looked Ike nobody I have
inol.s eysr seen Sn,. although now and thsn she
That is the fascinating quality OF hor
face. 1t Is perpetually changing it's sug-
gestions. 30 that IT ends in battling and
eluslveness and its variable moods. Mr..
Beerbohm thinks she might be Persian
or Romany. and he told me that she
sSe IS 1Se m the an fs s5 wne
John while she is on It. But the truth
II that she belongs TO no race. for all
the races seem 10 meet and ningfe in
her heard many theories broached
One man hazarded the Wild suoss that
she Is descended from a red Indian
She is a squaw.' said he. Another main
declared that she is Irish with a drop
OF Spanish blood. This comicai diver
sty. Of opinion indicates the extreme
suotlety and Elasticity Of her features
for she ls woman who appears 10
sum up all the women OF all races"
To Charles Frohmans amazement John
Drew stepped upon the stage OF the En-
letter perfect in tho long, intricate part
Of Benedick In Much Ado About Moth
ing" II was the twenty-ffth play Joint
ly produced by Mr.. Frohman and MT.
citation, but II was the first time IN all
those years or among oil those plays that
Mr.. Drew had ever been letter perfect In
a new part earlier than the dress re-
hearsal-which is generally n night or
two before the first performance. When
Mr. Frohman realized that Mr.. Drow
had mastered every word OF the lengthy
role OF Benedick. he quickly tried his best
to turn his surprise into happy consratu-
latory phrases
"It is a record John said the man
ager to the actor Perfectly splendid
and wonderful; letter perfect. You must
have given a good part OF your summer
TO II Tell me Just how long have you
been letter perfect with Benedick?"
Eighteen years." said Mr.. Drew.
Eighteen years." exclaimed Mr. Froh-
man,
'Yes II was that long ago that you
promised me that l should play the part
some day"
SO that one never knows. In thea
ter. listening TO an actor speaking one
part how many other characters he may
have inside Of him-all yearning for ut
terance.
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Tho Mountain Spring. and Other Poems. By Nam
nile r. Glass. Published By Sherman. French

Tho Mountain Spring and Other Poems. By Nan
nle II. Glass. Published By Sherman. French
6 Co.. Boston.
This IS a volume OF short poems. the
opening one giving title to the book. The
sentiment throughout in the poems is
religious The title poem of the book.
takes for its text Revelations xxi, II,
"And let him that is athirst come. And
whosoever will, let him take the water
OF life freely" The poem Is n good
sample OF the authors sentiment and
poetic power. and we reproduce II in
full. as follows;
wandered dovyn n mountain road.
Past flower and rock and liohcn gray.
Alone with nature and her God,
Upon fitting summer day.
Tho forest skirted TO tho sdgo
or Capcn river. Hampsbiro's gem.
Which. bathing many a primsorse ledge
orr kpaTkled like dlndem.
AZ length siIvcry spring l splcd
Gurgling through and fern along
Waiting 10 bless with cooling lido
All who were gladdened by It's song.
Oh who would pass with thirsting lip
And burning brow. this ipped wave'
Who would not pause with Joy and sip
It's crystal depths who would not crave-
This query woke voice within
Why slight tho spring OF Gods great love.
That fount that oloansoth from all sin.
Our purchase paid by Chriot above7
Whoever Will may drink! Oh. why.
Worn toiIors In this earthly strife
Reject 4 mansion In tho sky
Reject heavens bliss and endless life?
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Is more or less melodrnmntio: and the other iH
tho problems which arise whom all the males nTa
killed and woman finds hersolf mistress OF lifa
and itn government
All class distinctions and distinctions
abolished: women work nke men. boics no long
dependent upon mon; mothers are the most
precious things In the stnte; there useless
women living in frivoty; and people no longer
worship money aud wealth. position and power.
but lead hontby. useful lives.
The book Is intended natiro on the lives
lead nowadays and tho appalling vauty
OF modern civilization.
An erratic Imagination supplies the
material for the novel which is not
likely to be much regarded by the Ameri-
can public, or for that matter any
discriminating public anywhere.
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There are samples here OF many forms OF
acute brain work, all following an intro
duction which is shrewd explanation
and treatise on the general subject Of
conundrums and riddles The title chap
ters are Early Bnglish Wit" ''Mytho-
logical Conundrums" "Biblical Conun-
drums "Hlstorical Conundrums,"
Conundrums OF the Alphabet" General
'Connndrums, and "Charades. Stories.
and Contests"
Altogether the book is one that is
fresh and desirable in its line.
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AN IMAGINATIVE FANTASY.

World Of Women. by ]. D. Borcaford. Tho
Macaulay Company. Publishers. New York
This Is a sort of q frivolous story
aimless. purposeless. and impossible. II
Is n mere fgment OF the imagina ton.
without form OF subtancc. The idea OF
the book is thus presented:
What would be the rcpult Il nearly all the men
ia tho world suddenly eXtermtnn,cdf Such Is
tho kernel around which the author has created
this story.
plague kills off men. until all Europe is prAo-
tlcnlly a woming world. Two things arc no
tccAblo. Ono Is the process OF mans clivaination
tho movement ot tho book which, OF course
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TO WHET TIE WITS.

a Handbook Of conuudruma. ~ Faith p. Ord
way. PubiShod by Sully Klointeieh New
YORK
The author OF this book has made much
research In this line. and has given the
public heretofore in Synonyms and An
tonyms" good representations OF re-
search or various kinds. In this book
the author presents 81 gripdstone where
on theE reader may whet his wlte," and
like all griudstones. though It's form Is
new, its ingredients arc OF remote origin"
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TWO BOOKS OF POEMS.

Tho Tboban Easlo and Other Poems By Chester
Allyn Reed Published BY Sherman, Frouch
CO., Boston
The opening poem in this work. which
gives title to the book, takes US BACK
TO the times OF Greece in her glory, and
it applies a contrast between then and
now. The poems are extremely we'll
phrased, and tho authors facility of eN-
preston in rhymic power and melodious
numbers proves excellent The book con-
tains twenty-three poems. each OF con-
siderable length, and all of them OK
ceedingly well done.
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LITERARY NOTES.

Jcsfcry rarnol's novel. Tho Amatsur Gentle
man. appears 10 he in greater demand through
out the Englsh-speaklng world than WIS his
flrFt great succcsn. Tho Broad Highway" The
storv OF BnrnabnE party. who set ont for London
TO become gentleman, hns proven so popular
In this country that Little, Brown Co. hsv"
printed second la-ge edition and for four months
.he book has been among tho zII best se11ers ~
reported In the Bootcmnu.
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THAT This play Will be popu-

THAT This play Will be popn'
Il lar, there is small doubt. In
addition to its several meIodra-
matte cljmaxes OF undeniable, if
crude, power, it is studded with
bits Of delightfully."- fresh comedy,
with city types that have been
studied at first hand and been
transcribed directly. And though
] have seen about 5000 plays of
one size or another in tho last
twelve years. I can remember none
that was better acted. Which is
not to say that there is n single
Mrs. Fiske or Margaret Auglin or
George Arliss in the company, but
shat the group Of competent actors
have been selected with such nice
discernment of their suitability to
thci r roles, that cast Of geniuses
could have served the author no
better That writer, by the way,
IS Owen Davis, who, after many III
starred efforts, has at last risen
definitely above the level of his
earlier successes, such as "Nellie,
the Beautiful Cloak Model His
sketch of a genial, assertive, "nob-
by small-time vaudeville dancor
is sheer delight and is played
with much life.like faithfulness by
Franlslyn Ardell, whoever he may
be, that it becomes all but impos-
sible to believe the impersonation
is acting. Louise Aichel and Bar
noy Johnson, as a switchboard girl
and a negro elevator boy, make
other veracious, though much
sslighter, sketches stand out by
thelr closeness TO reality. Frank
Hatch, as chauffeur who is ac-
tually the blondes old father, does
as much for similar part which,
however, suffers from verbosity
and exaggeration. William Morris
and Olive Harper Thorne, as the
couple most concerned. play with
sincerity and authority that get
the author over more than ono
rough spot: and Forrest Winnant.
as the dlssipated son, and Irene
,tenwick, as his temptress, are
hardly less than perfect. Tt has
peen long time since any figure
more enticing than Miss Fenwick,
In person and manner. has praced
our stage: I found myself repeat
edly comparing her to Ethel Bar.
rymore ia her early youth And
Alice Brady, as the daughter OF
me family whose cupboard was
bared-a role consplcuously un-
worthy OF her ability-had seemed
about ss charming as any girl could
oe' until MISS Fenwick came on
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perienccs and philosophy Of the
Jewish cloak and suit dealers, even
did the play not abound in the
sort of rough, alert American
humor y that has, as well. an ap-
peal much wider. There has been
some mystery as TO who is the
author OF the piece which was re.
ceived with such n din Of accla-
nation at tho George NJ. Cohan
theater; and the programme does
not help us out. We know that the
original sketches were by Montague
Glass, but. for the rest, the an
nouncement simply calls the play
"an up.to-date garment in three
pieces, made by our special de-
slgner - Charles Klein and other
native dramatists have denied that
they wrote it, but no one has ad-
mitted it; the fact of all OF which
is that the play has been several
years in the making, and probably
nobody alive could tell just who
Of all the cooks has kept the broth
from spelling.
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nome IS B0ISTER0US
,st, Slave Idea Is Worked Out in the
y wiz ,o nThe Family Cupboard"
Rv Vanderheyden Fyles.

ily Cupboard" the author starts a
great deal that he never finishes.
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stage hand, and later. property,
man. in a Chicago theater, AT the
Harvard commencement last spring
he was graduate of honor, and he
is now busy on new and more
pretensious play for David Be
lasco. His maiden effort, oddly
named "Believe Me, Nantippo!
ran hundred nights in Boston.
at a theater where most plays are
put on for only one week, and very
few remain beyond fortnight,
Mary Young mrs John Craig.
who created the leading and most
snowy role there, comes to New
York in the part, Unless am
much mistaken this is her first ap-
pearance here since childhood. III
The early '9Os, when she succeeded
Biiou Fernandez in such luVe-
nile roles as came along at
Dalv's. and was, of course, to
prow ND into the Ada Rehan of
her day. All the little girls at
DaIv's were. John Barrymore
plays the opposite role. as the
iargon of theatcrdom has 1T, and
others in the cast arc Theodore
Roberts, recently released from
Ludlow street jail, where he pre-
ferred to pass six peaceful months
rather than pay alimonY; kath-
crime Harris. who is Jack s attrac-
tive wife, and Henry Hull, young
est of the family of handsome men
into which Margaret AnglIn mar
ried two years ago.
THE unusual title Of the Bal
Il lard farce is significant in
the plot. 1t is a favorlte phrase
of the Barrymore young man, who
makes bet that he can commit a
crime and, with twenty-four hours
start. can evade the arrest for one
wear. The crime decided on is
forgery of friend s name TO 4
check. Furthermore, as stipulated
IN the bond, he submits To measure
ments, TO the photographer and to
description of his characteristics
and peculiarities. all Of which may
be published broadcast, with re-
ward of $4,000 for his capture.
The second act finds the year near
lv over. with the daring young
New Yorker still free. He turns
up i'm the hunting shack Of Colo
RADIO sheriff. That bluff person
CThcodore Roberts, | need hardly
saw announces lhhh MS uuliNc Ndli
him back to town. but his self
willcd daughter MARY Young. in
what actors call a "fat' part; OH,
very. very fatl) replies that she
will not stir until she has shot
a deer. So she is left alone. When
the glib Barrymore bohs in, search
ing for square meal and not
averse to pleasant company, all
goes well until he lets slip his fa-
vorite term, "Believe me, Nan
tippe!" Thereupon Little Sure
Shot, the sheriff s daughter, GOV.
ers him with her rifle and keeps
him prisoner for the night Nor
Is that all. An actual ruffian
Crank Campeau, playing the part,
as usual. without "A shave).
thinking tho girl alone, enters the
shack, only to be similarly treated,
the act ending, in short, with the
two prisoners backed into a bed
for the night, while their captor
settles down on guard duty with
her gun across her knees.
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THE next act and the last pass
Il in another hotel. also much
frcouented This place is Of the
tcnderloin variety. The part of
it we see is the red-walled living
room Of the apartment occupied
bv the dissipated son The girl,
with her father and a friend, n
former partner in vaudeville, oc"
cupies an adjoining apartment, at
the young man S expense. His un~
Informed mother is supplying him
with the money. The beginning Of
the act reveals the boy in bed, in
p room beyond an archway. sleep
inc off his last night S drunk All
The details of his awakening, at
noon, of tho wretched way he feels
and Of his cold shower, in the bath
room partially visible beyond, are
faithfully enacted for the un-
sophisticated. Then, after the usual
stream OF characters who clog up
the play have come and gone, the
point OF the act comes with the
bov's proposal OF marriage to the
blonde She is so taken aback by
this and by his belief in her virtue,
tnnt SnC TelusbS nill. az iCuSN' pht'
plausible and human touch
seems to be the authors idea. un-
ill. the next moment, he has the girl
plot to gain her revenge with more
determination than over This
makes her refusal rather absurd.
She tells a long story about having
been deceived by respected man
of middle age, when she was An
underpaid shop girl Of sixteen. At
this point, pop conveniently drops
in and the little liar says he was
the man. though, actually, he came
along ten years later in her life
of infamy. However, the untruth
serves to bring the curtain down
on the "punch' so dear to the
managerial heart The incensed
boy. believing implicitly in tho fas-
cinating girl, strides over to his
father and strikes him across the
face. Instantly. he falls to his
knees. burying his face in his
hands. The father says they will
understand each other better in the
future, now that each has some
thing to forgive; and the curtain
falls. TO rise again and again on a
semi circle of bowling actors, man
accr thanking the audience for
their reception Of "great play,
AN author falling over chairs and
the general uproar Of metropoli-
tan frst-night.
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a AFTER this, the author, man

a AFTER this, the author, man
n ager and actors pulled thdn-
selves together for another
"punch but for some reason tbis
did not quite land The young
man S money has run out; and with
it goes the girl-back to vaudeville;
Learning the promiscuousness of
her past, the boy Is more than ever
ashamed of bis treatment OF his IA
ther, and he decides to kill himself.
Az this point, mother, in slit
skirt, follows the fashion Of the
play and drops in. She takes in
her sons desperate determination
and telephones for pop. Then she
emotcs a lot and struggles with the
boy. somewhat Il la Mrs. Alving.
He is gaining ground, however, and
is on Che very verge of ending II
all" when pop dashes in, momnler
topples over IA a fat faint, and the
play ends with the prodigal weep-
ing in his equally prodigal fathers
arms
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MO better time than the present

could possibly have been
seized upon for the presentation
IN New York Of the three
sGn comedy derived from the
Potash aud Perlmutter'' stories.
so long popular throughout this
country. The metropolis is full OF
buyers who could he counted on to
70 IN crowds 10 enjoy the ex-
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|A4bh wv
h of ibe over.supply of
yw York, many mana
Mar.ed to dramas that
Z. in frank treatment
sos generally discussed
a. ] mentioned last
y describing "Tbe
Nominating subject Of
Z expected 10 De white
! s0t about that The
sf9,rd" vas TO be
~ Two on that theme;
i hardly can be called
faai least a first cous.
blush easily, do not
" J have 10 tell. The
heauces us TO high life.
'lsFbody and the pro.
EIt us We are iu the
!Elsly. An extravagant
Nve Harper 'Thorne)
5Dsd even her own
elt,diiures in the prep.
, he marriage Of her
tH Brady, 10 the son
r''d Douglas j, Wood,
ss'r, !. AT the height Of
discovers that her
.LSin Norris. is in great
.sl'; The fact brings
pa iull stop in her So.
sse realizes that for
las had no part in
|, lie, except the
ny , money; she feels
2 That has been dor.
a 9ases apologies and
'saln hSr old place in
a. ;'e'eolIy, tho other
!, = couple comes home
" islsht drinking bout.
!, lt'ssr =. cbidcs the Young Unf,
NSlnpant, for his was.
" hay hoy replies
&c. .e.ld turn 10 drink to
t,s Lase Of such a father.
g is..esci is,,ec Thai his respect.
t Si.'es Sis a flat on the
laudeville. No N'sc,"E sonT,
,outh declared rh;s
.' - he regrets il deem. sa,s
1t. ttnth. for his
is,ss :. ihe room behind
~. U, ! The husband
M ny, and the first
NJ I, p; a;, departure from
.ely0rcc imminent.
"a M we are in the
ssa,e wa he has gone.
y iic,s 70 . drop into that
s' ss,s On Who do NOT looj, t~J :
y 81 SsloIsss accord ord are teie. teIn
&ss'I IIyas ing. the latter are are
ks' ~, .,sae Romaine and md
i s,a!i,s s'..s his aaughtar uug err
20! ssS!As,'s neglect esiIsf'GTi ~
>tia S's 1s,i iiss,poOsible for or
q iiSla ma. ~ 5is own will THG
.s /. ,aaa and left home mr,,
sduple. ana d"ay .,y with
Sslg. the neon1e ,Se plot
sssss!,sl!-I viii wilIYp,r pot VIII who
htts ailoAinp sl,! no! con
sI,sa,;;v,lae, einbod;n,,ss i,,s
81 daspsI, &C. |, IN ~, an a awful SH
~ 70 b1sD,et y.les the girI
sssnn,,ages her thaa I1%
.asIaiai SII,sin ,ts tas IsW1n.S Isl1nS
!, II e ,sa On - tna,y Y. Turn
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THE success Of the play is due
u to the faithful way in which
Mawrus Pcrlmutter and Abe
Potash and the other char.
acters have been transferred from
print to footlights, and the way in
which the comic savings (I cannot
bring myself to call it wit or bu-
mor) have been woven into a
conventional, but serviceablo. story.
To begin with, the firm OF Potash
& Perlmutter has succeeded so far
as to Justify removal from it's
dingy old place OF business to q
spacious new one; and, further
more, to engage the designer Of the
famous Arverne sacque. When she
arrives, in the blonde and buxom
person of Louise Dresser, she turns
more than one heart in the cloak
establishment. Also, there Is male
favorite on the payroll. n book
keeper from Russia albert Par
kerr The Russian government Is
after him. but when Perlmutter
and Potash alexander Carr and
Barney Bernard) are made to
realize the horrors of Siberia, to
which the bool1lieeper surely would
be deported for his sociahstic
principles, they are so moved that
they resort to every known ex-
pedient to save him from extrndi-
tion, Tt nearly costs them their
establishment, but ultimately, Of
course, they save the business and
the man.
The play is boisterous, impudent
and violent: which is equivalent
to saying that it faithfully pre-
serves the style and spirit Of the
stories that it came from, The first
audience greeted it in lsind-bel-
lowing. clapping, stamping, pound
ing, screeching its approval. And
manv, many more audiences win be
as delighted. In short, "Potash
& Perlmutter' is not SO. much a
friu,uDh ae q riot
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A NNUALLY, starting with the
N theatrical season of 1910
1911. John Craig, director Of the
Castle Square Stock company in
Boston, offers and awards u prize
for the best original play written
by student OF Harvard or Rad,
ctifre college. The first year,
think. and the second year, / am
sure, the honor went 10 member
of the female institution; but last
season n son OF Nebraska, studying
in Professor Bakers famous class
in dramatic writing, carried off the
prize. His name is John Frederick
Ballard. Before going 10 college
lie served an apprenticeship rs
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MANY years ago, when all of
lY1 us were young or younger
still or not yet born, popular OPP
eretta was ''The Isle Of Cham
pngne,' in which we wero intro
duced to people resident on an
island upon which and through the
streams Of which no water fell or
flowed. Only champagne. Every
one from the reigning monarch to
tho lowliest lnave drank cham
pague. bathed in champagne, wash
ed their clothes in champagne.
Then one day, Il ship containing
hogsheads of fresh water was
wrecked on tho shore. Tasting the
oure beverage, the satiated inhabI-
tants were exhilcrated; drinking
freely of II, they all sobered up and
their happiness and hilarity We're
unbounded. The success Of "When
Dreams Come True" is much the
same as tho success Of the hogs
heads Of water. Broadway, satiated
with the endless, Sparkling flow Of
glitter1ug entertainments such as
1.-THE Ziegfeld Follies" and "The
Passing Show of 19l3,' has been
refreshed by the simplicity and
youthful verve Of n romantic OPP
eretta with its clothes on.
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MOUNTAIN FLORA AND FAUNA.

ton.
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Social Evolution by Or. r. g. Chaplin ~
Smith College. will bn iscicd by fhe Oentury
Go IN September It will present sle-
,nontary aud readable but scientific, surrey Of
tho important facts and principles involved In the
evolution OF human nature from lower forms o.
life and Will have over eighty illustrations from
diagrams mnps, and photographs