El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-11-16

the general public for approval before
long, was witnessed by many actors,
: critics, and persons prominent in the
social world, who were let into the
thearter through the stage door. Ev-
eryOne had the uncomfortable feeling
that somehow they were evading the
Sad to relate, by Products. is a
typical department store girl play. The
heroine, Mary Melinda, earning $500 a
week. as a shop girl, lives in most
abJect poverty. Her sister suffers with
tuberculosis. and the baby-there is
always baby too, forgot to mention
befOre-iS on the verge of the same
disease The man from the instalment
house threatens to remove the Nc
Linda kitchen stove unless the nay
ments are forthcoming. Mary arrives
nome Just after the man has left Mrs
Melinda, a scrub woman, had requested
the collector TO return later explain
ing that Mary would doubtless arrive
IN the meantime with her wages. Mary
arrives all right but minus the wages.
She had been TO the opera with
wealthy man she met in the department
store, who even then was waiting for
her TO make up her mind whether she
would walk the straight and narrow"
To be certain that she didn't escape
him the wealthy man" elected to wait
on the corner in his automobile
While Mrs. Melinda is tearfully de-
falling the threatening remarks of the
instalment collector, that individual
returns and threatens to Immediately
take the stove. Mary bids him wait.
and rushing from the house, returns
In a few moments with handfuls of
money and mans fur automobile
coat
The eLittIe Cafe.S
lust Because It's You" might well
have been the title Of the Little Cafe
which made its appearance at the New
Amsterdam theater, Monday night
Just Because It's You" is the title of
q song sung in the third act of THE
Little Cafe, and I now venture to
make the prediction that it is a waltz
mat viii be sung and whistIed from
coast 70 coast within a brief time.
NJ NJ C. Mcclellan and Ivan Carvu
are are the authors of The Little
care Hazel Dawn and John Z. Young
OF Pink Lady" fame occupy the title
roles Miss Dawn was the same at
tractive, charming, young woman who
appeared before US not so long ago in
another remarkable musical comedy.
Inc company was an excellent one and
the piece most deliberately staged.
John Young was the waiter in q lit
tie cafe in Paris He is left A fortune
put under the provisions of a contract.
ne must remain waiter. His place of
employment is an establishment that
attracts much attention in the Partisan
capital because of the loudly acclaimed
beauty Of the proprietor's daughter.
prayed by Alma Francis. Young as
Albert LOriflan, the waiter is madIv
infatuated with the proprietor's
aaughter The scheming proprietor of
the cafe, having known that Albert
was about TO inherit a fortune man
aged TO tie the waiter to his job with
a contract whereby if either marty
broke II he would have to forfeit 300
600 francs. Albert would have no mar
ticular objection to forfeiting the
money now that he is wealthy. but
Miss Francis as the proDrietor's daugh-
ter, makes his stay when the matter
OF the forfeit IS considered, almost i'm
peratiVe
Albert becomes a man about town by
night he entertains a queen of the
~ night restaurants. played by Miss
lawn, ana has Q hungarian singer
IaIl IN love with him for the way he
spliled soup on her dress. The pro-
prletors daughter comes to the all
night restaurant where the sporting
waiter IS holding forth. and Albert
Ilnds himself between three fires. Al
pert finally discovers that he is really
q count and everything ends happily
with his marriage to the proprietor's
daughter but not before he has fought
a duel for her. Adolphe a former. glass
washer in "the Little Cafe" played by
Harry Lepp, who accompanies Albert /
on his attacks on high society. con-
tributes much humOr to the piece.
Tongues OF Men,"
When 7 came away from visiting
The Tongues Of Men" at the
Harris theater. I bore with me only
confused tumble, in which beautiful
young rectOrs were hOpeIessly con-
fused. Briefly, the Tongues of Men
revolves about the attacks made upon
a famous prima donna. played by Hen
rletta CrOsSman, by the youthful rec
tor of a fashionable church Rev Mr.
Penfield Sturgis, who has objected to
her appearing as a reprehensibIe char
acter in an operate production.
The prima donna calls uDon- the rec |
tor and denOunces him for his narrow
ness They become quite friendly, and
the rector changing his views writes
TO the mayor requesting him not to
stop the opera, which the mayor was
about to do as a result of the rector's
sermon. For some unexplained reason
{ a point upon which the author did
not enlighten u.s. the rector is accom-
panied most Of the time by his rather
foolish fiancee, to whom the rector has
made half hearted proposal To
square himself the rector also proposes /
to the prima donna, but she manages !
to gracefully hand him back to his /