The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1913-09-06
BY Beau RialtO.
written for the United Press.)


NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-White slavery
is the keynote of the seasons melo-
drama and perhaps it is not far cry
of Uncle TOMS Cabin" It's the
power of suggestion again. Perhaps
the power of suggestion is nowhere
more potent than in the show business.
Every hit is followed by it's hundreds
of imitators, just as surely as man is
followed by his shadow. Peter lost his
shadow, yes, but by the same token he
has never been initiated, which leaves
the rule unshattered. With our drama
slowly but profitably selling itself into
white slavery, was it any wonder that
a Harlem stock manager thought of
black slavery and revived Uncle
Tom?" "The Lure" at Maxine Elliott's
was the forerunner of an avalanche of
social evil" plays and here was Mrs.
Stoves slave play all ready for pro-
duction.
'Uncle Toms Cabin" is so old that
it is new to lot of folk on Broadway
and off, and such a radical departure
from the conventional redlight drama
that it is small wonder that its revival
has aroused a storm of discussion. 1t
was so popular that the original run
allotted to it has been indefinitely eX-
tended. All must agree that this in
tensely modern play is a revolt alike
against the false romance of Barrie and
the false realism of Bernard Shaw.
Doubt has no place in dramatic criti-
cism. Barrie has often placed his
heroes in tree-tops, and such places
but he never put his heroine on ice
Topsy, when she tells little Eva that
she ''jes growed' demolishes with one
phrase all the ponderous science of
eugenics
Great Extravaganza.
Up at the Hippodrome on Sixth ave
nue., they have come back home at last.
After going around the world and COW
ering every known and imaginary
country on the globe in their specta-
cles the Hippodrome management has
come back to America That is the
name of the production that recently
opened the gigantic theatre 1t is a
affair, America" covering
every part of the nation and it's devel- |
opment. In the cast are Indians. cow
boys, plainsmen Alaska miners, SOL |
diers-and girls. There are hundreds |
Of the latter, dancers, singers, look
ers" and just plain girls. For many
weeks the girls have been drilled tire
essly, their rehearsals lasting from
until far into the night, and
ed chorus in New York Over 500 new
aces are to be seen in the cast and
chorus this year. But the chorus
girls and men are not to be seen in the
,tereotyped ballet, as in former Hippo
lrome spectacles. The greatest fea-
ure of this years show is the Carnival
If Sports, which replaces the ballet
Arthur Voegtlin, who trained the
girls, thinks that all the sports of the
world lend themselves to art, and the
girls this year instead of going
through the old time dancing steps,
in every form of sport, cor
ectly costumed. Baseball, football,
acing, hunting, basketball, polo,
achting, riding, tennis and swimming
II are portrayed. And contrary to the
sual hipodrome spectacle, this one
las a real plot. 1t involves the foiling
f a plan to get possession of certain :
'anama canal maps, love romance
nd subsequent honeymoon trip into
very part of the United States Cali
Ornia, Arizona, Panama. Alaska, the
and other places are
hOwn
Human Interest Story.
There is a bit of real local color"
1 Potash & Perlmutter, the sensa-
onally popular Montague Glass play
ow running, which portrays the do
lgs of those humorous Hebrew part
ers in the cloak and suit business.
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