El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-09-05

jury as I ever saw and judge Frank
Young might take his seat anywhere
without the least shock TO the court
room idiers-
Robert Strickland is tried on the
charge Of numbering his friend, Ger
aid Trask. There are many witnesses
against him whose testimony seems
unimpeachable and he himself only
asks to be put out Of the world so that
he can forget his grief.
But the lawyer assigned TO defend
Strickland is struck with certain in
constituencies in the prosecutions
theory that the killing was done in
the course Of a robbery. TO get at
the truth to find out what had gone
before the shooting in the library Of
the Trask apartment, to search out
and bring before the jury the motives
that had moved all the actors in the
tragedy-this is his task and TO per-
form il he must rely on what he can
draw from the witnesses as one after
another they are called to the stand
To accomplish this end on the part
o. this prosecutor, Mr.. Reisenstein re-
sorts TO a daring device. As the wit
ness on the stand begins TO tell her
story. the stage darkens and the mar
rative is acted out before the eyes
Of the audience. Three times this IS
done In the course Of the play. It
is an entirely unorthodOx proceeding,
but It works admirably.
It is with capital ingenuity that the
key TO the case is withheld until the
very end. when the jury is in the midst
Of its deliberations and when the
jurors. in Sitting the evidence, come
upon a small, uncOnsidered trifle on
which, as it happens, the question Of
the guilt or innocence OF Strickland
depends entirely
Outside the news is swiftly carried
through the courtroom that the jury
is coming in Has there been a YER
dict2 Have they agreed2 And on
what2 But the jury has come out to
ask for testimony on this one point
and on this point the case turns and
the play comes TO an end
Marie Hertenstein, the American
pianist. about whose safety there has
been some anxiety. due to her res
ence in Berlin during the excitement
occasioned by the war has been
reached through the efforts OF the
state department at Washington She
is now armed with a special passport.
She was stranded, until relief came
I'm gold, which was handed her by
agents OF the United States govern
ment. Miss Hertenstein leaves Ger
many in a few days. and will be IN
America in time 10 fulfil her concert
enEa Eements-
Under Cover" that sterling mas
terpiecc Of stagecrafu by Roi Cooper
Megrue. which ran all Of last season
at the. Plymouth theater in Boston.
was given its initial METROPOLITAN
presentation at the Cort theater.
~ der Cover has a plot that is
entirely original and Thoroughly in
teresting- II is a melodrama OF love.
mystery and thrills, and consequently
tells a story that is intensely dra-
matte and that commands the atten-
ton throughout its entire action
The cast is headed BIZ William
Courtney and includes Lily CahiH. Lola
Fisher. Lucille Watson, Phoebe Fos-
ter, Mae Selwyn, Dewitt Jennings,
Milfred Draycott J. Wilson. Ralph
Morgan. n. Crosby and John Nav.
st Elmo" film adoption of the
novel by Augusta Evans, was the star
feature picture at the Strand tbeater.
1t is said a most elaborate and pains
taking contribution TO the silent
drama, depicting the manners, cos