Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-09

THE LURE, AT SHUBERT'S
HOLDS AUDIENCE TENSEI-Y

"The Lure" the most discussed
New York play of the present season,
made its road debut to critical audi
ence at the Shubert Theatre last night
and was given a reception that was
little short of an ovation. The fact
that white slavery" in it's most re-
pellent form is the theme of the show
was entirely lost sight of in the grip
ping and masterful way that George
Scarborough, the author, has handled
his subject and in the splendid man
ner THE Lure is produced by the
cast of nine persons, each one star.
The story of 1.-THE Lure" is told in
plain language. but it is intensely hu-
man and depicts condition that con-
fronts young girls in every city of any
size in the country today. It is
story of life in the underworld, but
! 1t Is the story of that life that the gem
| erai public knows but little of. In
other words, It is the secret side of
! the underworld life that Is revealed,
not the side that is openly Haunted
before the public.
1t will not hurt you to see THE
Lure" Instead, 1t will help you and
will make you realize that there are
conditions confronting the unprotected
women OF today that make the pro-
duction OF such plays as 1.-THE Lure
almost necessity, so that these con-
ditions can be exposed and com
bated.
| Briefly, the story of THE Lure Is
as follows; Sylvia Jones, a shop girl
living in q lower East Side New York
! tenement, earns Sc week and has a
| mother who is dying through want OF
money for an operation to save her
| life and the trip to the country after
ward that will restore her to health
| Sylvia has tried to get the 500 needed
| to save her mothers life, but has beer
unable to beg, borrow or steal it.
| She is about to lose her position al
| the store and remembers that she has
received an offer of aid from Mrs
| Kate Lockwood. ostensibly the heao
| of an employment agency, but in real
ity one of the white slavers." To hel
Sylvia appeals for aid and thus get
! into her clutches at time when Boil
| McCauley, a secret service man, ano
admirer of Sylvia is closing in on th'
! gang of white slavers.p
Just as Sylvia, in order to save hel
mothers life, has succumbed to the
| temptations of the Lockwood woman
i
ment agency and, thinking she has
4 been false to him, repulses her and a
| first refuses to believe her story tina
she has been lured there by false pre-
| lenses.
With the Lockwood woman is Paul
her husband, a most despicable type o
man, and jim Wilson, a New Yorl
politician, and real head of the gans
of white slavers." In the second act
which is the big act of the show, Nc
| Cauley gets into the employment
| agency by posing as a gas inspector
and gets the evidence he wants
against the gang. the really big clima'
of the show coming when, after a ifs
fight with Paul and the Lockwood
woman, during which furniture AM
glassware fly freely, McCauley make
his escape, taking Sylvia and Nell. an
other white slave" with him.
/ In the third and final act everything
is cleared up by McCauley causing tn
arrest of Paul and Wilson, while h
and Sylvia are happily on the way I
be married as the curtain falls.
Just on the old courtesy idea tina
ladies should come first, we will frs
take up the women members of tn
cast, five in number. Miss Mar
Nash. as Sylvia Jones, played the un
sophisticated shop girl in a name
that won her place in the hearts 0
the audience at once. Her work in tn
second act when. to save her mother
life, she allows herself to be dragge
into the net of the white slayers,
was highly dramatic piece of worl