Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-11-29

J and we attend the coLNedies to satisfy
/ this particular requirement of our
natures. We like to weep at ano,her's
I! sorrow. and we so to witness tragedy
TO appease this subtle but human de
! sire, there upon the stage we see a
little world apart from ours-.he foot
lights separate US from the intricacies
behind the effects We crave as sue.
l'cessfully as the Atlantic ocean sep
arates Europe and America"
Love stories OF the good, old fash.
toned kind have not gone out OF sty,e.
This is demonstrated by the remark
able favor accorded Lavender and
Old Lace" the new play fashioned by
David G. Fischer from Myrtle Reeds
delightful book of the same name,
which the United Play company Inc,
is sending 10 the Illinois tomorrow
with Sarah Padden in the star part
This play, produced in Chicago last
spring, or rather in early summer, met
with speedy favor. The critics prais-
ed it and the public filled the theatre
for several weeks. despite the fact
that the thermometer during most of
the run was lowering close to the CEN
tury mark. o. L. Hall in the Journal
said: 1T provides an abundance of
comedy" Frederick Hatton in the
Post expressed the opinion that the
play would have a long career and the
Chicago Advance made the comment,
1T is love story as fragrant and ex-
quisite as its title" In footlighting
Myrtle Reeds story Mr. Fischer has
taken few liberties with the original
text so that the thousands who have
read and loved this simple and appeal
ing New England tale will find their
faVorIte characters, Miss Ainslie, Miss
Hathaway, Hepsey, Ruth. Mr.. Ball,
Joe and Carl. true to life upon the
stage. Lavender and Old Lace"
promises to prove one of the most de-
lightful OF the seasons attractions.
The supreme marvels of natures
handiwork as wrought in the grand
canyon of Arizona will be reproduced
by Lyman H. Howe at the Illinois
next Tuesday. This mighty world-ruin
and world-giory is truly the greatest
wonder on earth. The next greatest
is that Americans should still persist
to go abroad to see world wonders,
when by far the greatest of all is right
here in their own country. All who
have seen 1.-The earth and the fulness
thereof are unanimous in declaring
that the Grand Canyon so far trans
cends all others so-called wonders
that there is no comparison. There is
nothing that approaches II even re-
motely anywhere en- earth. If the
fails of Niagara were installed in the |
canyon you would need a field glass !
% locate them. True there is power /
and splendor in a mighty cataract or !
N the vast reaches of the boundless /
ocean. But for grandeur that is ap- /
Dalling and unearthly; and beauty /
that is ineffable, the Grand Canyon
eclipses everything. The
gastness of the view amaZes specta-
ors quite as much as its transcendent
beauty. The unreasonable devasta-
ion astonishes the mind, and the
weird, bewildering, mysterious piano.
anna stirs the emotions. The magnl-
ude OF the scene is almost too vast for
human thought. 1t is indeed over
vheiming 1t is thrilling alike for its
mmensity and for IFS grandeur. 1t
,verawes beholde-s because the
enses cannot encompass it, yet it en-
hralls the imagination by the magic
T its beauty. 1t is here and not else
where thai nature has done her utter
1ost: it is here that the sublimest
"a gedy was enacted. Among the ,
wenty other big features to be pre-
ented are thrilling scenes of rescuing
urvivors during a terrific gale from
n ocean greyhound dashed on the
ocks and torn by raging seas; an
eroplane ride over Paris; wonders OF
eep sea life; a motor ride through 1
ne French Alps; a study in palmistry ]
nd many others. ,