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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23
AN IDEA FOR A FARCE.

Edward Peple declares that the pro-
totypes of the principal characters in
his play, "A Pair of Skies" at the Long
acre Theatre, are pair of prominent
business men of Richmond, Va. Both
are lifelong friends OF the author.
Mr.. Peple is a native of Richmond and
resided there until he was sure of an
income from his books and plays. His
chief occupation was auditing accounts
for the American Bridge Company.
After THE Prince Chap" THE Spit
fie" and THE Littlest Rebel" began TO
earn royalties, he moved to New York
and settled down as an author OF plays
and books.
Less than two years ago Mr.. Peple
hurried to Richmond to answer In per-
son a telegram from each partner In n
business firm Like the lawyer in his
farce, he was called upon to settle a lot
OF petty disputes pertaining to the an
nual accounting of their business. He
Strengthened them out and returned to
New York: but in less than a month a
long distance telephone message sum
moned him again to Richmond.
Mr. Peple is usually mild hammered,
modest and obliging man. but Journey
Ing tn Richmond got on his nerves. so
he decided to try and put his two friends
on a peaceful basis. He took their ac-
counts and inventory i'm hand. divided
them equally and started them off as
competitors. When his work was COM
pleted the trio met AZ a club in Rich
mond one night and the CONVEX sa Ion
was naturally confined to matters per-
tanning to the business
At dinner II occurred to Mr. Peple TO
wonder what might have happened had
the two men disagreed as to the terms
proposed in the dissolution OF their
partnership. Then Mr.. Peple proposed
game of cards and his imagination
began to work. Had he permitted his
friends to gamble, he wondered what
would have happened to the business ?
Then Mr.. Peple won a pot on a pair OF
slXes-not because he played good
game OF poker. but with hyhothetical
question working in his imagination he
absertmindedly forgot to draw cards
the other players thought he held a
| pat hand, and when he did bet they
all threw down good hands and Peple
! inuch To his surprise, won a fairly good
SIZED pot on pair of skies From that
| point he employed the fiction which
dominate, the final scene in the first ac,
or his play and developed. along "A
| straight line. the story which is now
being enacted.
When "A Pair of Skies" was finished
and ready for production. 1t was sub
United to one or two managers. but un-
Ike "A great many successful plays, IL
had not been ''peddled" from office 10
office for months at a time. Il had a
week OF trial performances by stock
company in Rochester n. V, Just d
year ago this summer. From that time
until Its premiere in New York last
| March. Mr.. Frazeo controlled the pro.
ducing rights and its success here and
in Chicago has warranted the Assem-.
bling of three additional companies
! 'making five in alb to play the farce in
the West South and East.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23
WHY DAINTY MARIE WED.

Dainty Marie, at the Palace Theatre,
married a motion picture leading man
a few days ago. When asked by the
Mortified management why she had
committed matrimDny she drew her
bathrobe proudly about her and said:
IL suppose you think that getting
married Injuries my pull with the men
in the audience. That isn't so. because
! am going to work enough better to
overcome the alleged handicap OF hav-
the show business thinks It best to be
for Dainty Marie.
II married Earl Fox because / am
crazy about him. saw him first in
a flicker drama. and what won my
heart was his ability to roll a cigarette
with his left hand while keeping the
drop on a desperate with the right.
81 watched Earl in about a hundred
film stories and saw him do every
thing from jumping of a trestle to vol
planning in monoplane through
a German dirigible. and, heavens above
US. how he did make love- | grew
to hate those ingenues and leading
women who smlrked at him.
Then ] met Earl and thought to my
self that here was my man made to
order. He could give one variety in
life, and variety is the spice OF exis-
tence. A well trained motion picture
leading man Is house broken to every
excitement in the world and simply
cannot ne feazed. They are great COM
pany around the house, and | am keep
ing hubby right with me.
"Gir's, marry a motion picture actor.
They are the most interesting type OF
men, for they never take dare and
will dive on the Flatiron building II
YOU ask them. or they will go after
chop suey at o'clock in the morning
in a dangerous nelghborhood."
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23

Walter Kingsley. who used to watch
the ballroom steps in order TO find
available talent there for the long list
OF Keith theatres, told THE SUN re-
porter yesterday some Of the reasons
FOR the so-called decline in the popu-
larity OF the modern hooters as they
are disrespectfully called. Mr.. Kingsley
said:
Public ballroom dancing is a fast
dying cult. To-day the dancing floors
Of Broadway are trodden by the feet of
outianders, folk from Baton Rouge, Eau
Claire, Great Falls and the edge OF the
beyond. The metropolitan shuns the
resorts where all and sundry dance
The sub moral pensioners on frail fem
ininity are going back to their oldtime
coaling stations and the fleet of sharp
witted souteneurs with nimble feet and
ingratiatlng smiles are dispensing. II is
not so easy now to walk into tea dance
and make up boldly to the wives and
daughters of business and professional
men carried away by the tango into
the Dor erland OF vice and knowing
nothins OF the men they dance with eX-
oept that they can teach one new steps.
Yes, they were adept AT teaching new
steps and the new steps We're usually
downward. In one resort in he Thiitics
the maids tell Of sixty girls of good
families who We're picked mp by young
fellows doing the best they could for
themselves in the space of eight
months This is fact for The maids
worked with the men to interest the
girls This was not commercial vice,
merely the trihine Of men out fov a
good time, who realized that IN tango
time the going * good
The theatres, especially the Palace,
are Offering exquisite profession dam
eng as featured attraction still. That
s because the dancing de'irium did
educate the American public to appre-
ciate technical dancing, Europe has
long had public trained To- watch with
critical acumen the steps and pastures
- us great dancers. but until the past
year or two America has had few
learned, eNactng spectators a. the
dance. Gcnoe on i'aN,uva were flds
because one was told they were great,
but from now on uur pubic viii Judge
for itself. The word of the overlo'ds
In vaudeville to all performers Offering
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23

stems trite tale contains not a trace. Its
spoken dialogue Is OF an illiteracy that
pains the ear Of the spectator. Barely
has such total lack OF cultivation been
revealed in the language which an
author puts into the mouths OF his
actors. Such language would be impos-
sibe in any other country. But Mr..
Reizenstein has gifts more important
for the playwright. He has shown in
"On Trial the possession of unique
talent for building up dramatic scenes.
In comparison with the talents dis
played by recent amateurs he Is most
welcome figure. II Is not in the least
to be accepted as certain that he will
write another play SO skilful. What
seems in this play to be the result of
work and aptitude for the theatre may
be only a lucky huke.
American playwrights often put their
best foot forward first and never seem
able to catch up to their first achieve
ment. Nothing that Eugene Walter has
ever written since was technically equal
to paid in Full'' or The Easiest Way"
He is not alone In the failure to live
up TO the best promise OF his earlier
work whether or not the idea of "On
Trial" was taken from a play produced
last year in Hungary We are not pre-
pared to say The foreign play Is soon
to be produced under the name OF I'm
nocent" and 1t will then be possible to
tell whether or not Mr.. Reizenstein in
vented the interesting formula that he
revealed last night OF whether he bor-
rowed IT, At all events he is welcome
figure in the list OF American play
wrlghts, and his work on Wednesday
night was an agreeable contrast to the
amateurishness OF most OF the plays by
Young American authors put forward
every year. Some Of them, like sylvia
Runs Away" contain a good Idea or an
interesting starting point. But the lack
of all knowledge Of what to do with their
material makes them worthless. Mr..
Reizenstein has shown a trace OF real
constructive genius in ION Trial |;
is to he hoped that he does not, like his
predecessors, fail to make good the
promise ~ his frst play.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23

So it may be that Mr.. Reizenstein has
been the David to STAY a Goliath Of the
drama and take away forever one Of its
most useful eXpedients. At all events
trial scenes for a while will be dull
without the incident that he has sup
Piled
Technically the merit Of MIR. Reizen-
STEMS play resides in its careful
preparation. This is shown in one scene
that reveals the supposed infidelity Of
the wife by the loss OF a pocketbook
1t is by the final appearance of its finder
that the husband Is convinced OF his
wife's relation with the man he kills.
No detail that can impress on the
audience the connection between the
pocketbook and the supposed guilt of
the wife has been omitted by the play
wright. So the audience il prepared
for the full effect of the disclosure when
it Is reached.
OF the characterization MIR. Reizen-
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23
GEORGE TYLER TALKS ABOUT
ONE OF HIS NEW STARS


George Tyler Is the latest manager 20
acquire the services of the gifted and
temperamental Mime. Nazimoya Nine
Nozimoya Ia. s.orod - ,or,o ~, hor
oa-,,u -.
uu' i's re'e"' years ''lo'e 'eni-
peramehtai IMAM gifted nut she Is al
ways Interesting. She badly needs a
manager who is not afraid To tell her
lust what are the dangerous tendencies
IN hor ,o,,oa ,,,. ,oa,. 80 h,,,,,.r
10 ~
u'o'e ''sa Ne'"e'So'e INTO Su'h ee'eh-
tricities OF conduct on the stage that the
public lost all interest in her, so does
the Russian actress with her exagger-
ated facial expression, her serpentine
gyrations and her general air OF every
move n picture threaten to make her
self ridiculous.
Maybe Mr.. Tyler will have the cour-
age TO tell her some of the important
things she must avoid hereafter unless
she is willing to lose all artistic re-
spect. In the meantime he has these
pleasant things to say about her:
Before and above all things she in
Dictates the intellectual type of daring
women with past, with an individual
mystery about her that no other actress
of the younger generation can touch. |
did not approach Nazimova for an en-
gagement until | had decided upon tho
kind OF play which | believed she
needed Having confidence in the ab!l-
ity OF B Macdonald Hastings, whose
The New Sin I produced at Wallacll' S
two seasons ago, ! got into consultation
with him OF my plans for a Nazmova
play.
"Of course | had talked with Nazi-
nova herself and probed her own i'm
pressions OF the play that would suit
her first. In my Judgment she occu-
MED a singularly artistic place in the
theatre, was possessed OF an entirely
unique dramatic feeling, and / felt that
It was necessary to give her the charac-
terization OF a woman almost extinct in
the theatre, because those actresses
who are capable OF portraying such
women have been lost to the stage.
Plays OF the Forget Me Not type had not
been written in recent years, no actress
among the younger women being able to
Interpret them. So Il was not until Mr..
Hastings gave me an outline for the sort
OF play l have faith in for Nazimova
that I brought them together so that
the playwright could become familiar
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23

There are plays ! have seen which
would never do for mo at all. because
there was nothing in me that had any
part in them My heart was born in a
deep shadow and | can never stay out
in the sun very long because il blinds
me. ] agree with Dusc, the Italian
tragedienne. When she met Emma
talve, the great opera singer. for the
hrSt time Calve told her that every
night before she went to bed she opened
her window and kissed her hand To the
s,ar where she was going to live after
she was dead.
"'Ah! indeed said Duse. II I could
only do that But I can't. | have been
too busy keeping close. close to the pas
sIons and sorrows Of earth to soar so
high in the stars"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23
PLAYS OF THE WEEK.
Novelties with Music aud without
TO Ne Seen Here

Charles Frohman will open the season
AT the, knlckerbocker Theatre to-mor-
row night with THE Girl From Utah 9"
a London musical farce Of the approved
ind, by Paul Rubens and Sydney Jones.
There are new numbers by Jerome
Kern. The three stars to be seen in
this play are Julia Sanderson. who was
such popular feature OF The sun
shine Girl; Donald Brian. who was in
The Marriage Market" and joseph
Cawthorn, who was one OF the come
dams last season with Miss Sanderson
The play was acted first at the Adelphi
Theatre in London.
Just how dramatic the proceedings
will he may be determined from the
official account OF what happens in the
two acts and four scenes OF the play:
Una Trance. the Utah girl who has
fed from Salt Lake City rather than be
one Of the many wives Of the Mormon.
Is the cause of the grand chase and
unusually comical adventures which.
interlarded with songs and dances,
make up The Girl From Utah" In
fact, the entire story centres on the
adventures of Miss Una Trance. The
Mormons are after her a taxicab ac-
cident lands her into Sumplemeyer's tea
rooms. Here she meets Sandy Blair. a
young actor. played by Donald Brian.
The Mormon who IL pursuing Una
leaves his hat in the shop. and Joseph
Cawthorn. who keeps ham and beef
shop In suburb of London. puts the
hat on and is mistaken for the Mormon.
with that the fun begins in earnest.
The real Mormon carries Una and a
crowd Of friends off to a house in Brix-
ton, and. led 10y IA trail of confetti
dropped by the young lady. r. Brian
Mr. Cawthorn and the others start off In
pursuit. How they track her down to
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23
NEW PLAYS OF THE WEEK

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. The
atre: THE Girl From Utah." by
Paul Rubens and Sydney Jones.
with Julia Sanderson. Donald
Brian and Joseph Cawthorn.
TUESDAY - Republic Theatre:
The High Cost of Loving"
adapted from the German by
Frank Mandel. with Lew Fields.
WEDNESDAY Cort Theatre:
Under Cover" by Roi Cooper
Megrue.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23
The Girl From Utah. The High Cost of Loving anc
Under Cover Come to BroadwayC Gossip
Of the Theatres.

comedy and tragedy becomes Injured
that Lew Fields is called upon for work
OF a more serious nature than any his
former roles have afforded.
The Cort Theatre will he opened on
Wednesday with Under Cover" by Roi
Cooper McGrue. The play had long
run last winter in Boston. William
Courtenay and Lily Cahll have the
leading roles. This is detective story
with an attempt at smuggling as its
PRINCIPAL theme.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23
THE PLAYS THAT LAST.
sumo Old Successes aud Other. not
So Ripe.

The plays TO be seen IN he New York
theatres are Potash ami FeriMutter'
at the Conan, Irwin BEDS" at the Full
ton, The Third Party" at the Shsncr,
"Peg o My Heart" AT the Manhattan
Opera House. "A Pair of Sizes at ;1e
Longacre. sylvia Runs Away" at tho
Playhouse, "On Trial AT the Cand.tr'
What Happened at %" at the HaR''
"Thc Dummy at the Hudson TOO
Many Cooks" at the Vhirty-ninth Street
and Kitty Macksy" at the COMEDY.
The musical plays are "The Follies of
1914" which is nearing It's end N ma
New Amsterdam Theatre The Passing
Show of 1914" at the Winter Garden
The Dancing Duchess" al the Casino
and Sylvester SChaener a. the Forty
fourth Street Theatre,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23

the BriXton house, all dressed In
wonderful DISCUSSES: how Mr.. Cawthorn
is one moment postman and the next
moment running up fire ladder in a
fireman's helmet, must be seen TO he
enjoyed. Again Mr.. Cawthorn dons the
Mormon's clothes Again he is mis-
taken for the Mormon and again
another chase follows with the police
In pursuit a chase which ends at the
Arts ball. where everything Is generally
eXpla med
A. n. Woods will present at the Re-
public Theatre on Tuesday evening Lew
Fields in farce called THE High Cost
of Loving" 1t was taken from the
German by Frank Mandel. Alice Fisher.
Ernest Lambarr, George Hassell. Will
fred Clarke, Vivian Martin. Charlotte
Ives, Helen Tracy and others are to
appear in the cast. SO much OF the
story as has been made public Is told
by MIR. Woods in these words:
Lew Fields is the Mustard King, a
big man in the business world. but in
his home town in the middle West bet
ter known as the husband Of Mrs.
khnke. for Mrs. RIinhc Is president OF
the local Purity League and the league
is the most potent institution in the
town.
LUd,riD's one act OF independence
during his long married life has been
his refusal TO join the league. Sud
denly word comes that the league Is to
investigate most persistent rumors
affecting the past OF citizen who Is
said to be well known. but whose
identity is vague. Also LUdicig remem-
hers that one of the principles of the
leapue Is that it investigates the private
affairs Of all but its own members.
LUd,riO joins with rush. His de-
lighted wife promptly makes him chair
man of the investigating committee
Now, although IL IL generally under
stood that the only spice In the life of
LUdtci0 is represented by the condi-
ment he manufactures. the OLD man has
certain recollections that time will not
efface and that resemble dangerously
the story Of the unknown man who is
to be- inve. tigated. The investigation be.
comes warmer until hIHkc's mustard
seems icy in contrast. and Lud,ciD'S
situation becomes desperate. II is in
these moments when the line between
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23
VAUDEVILLE AND BURLESQUE.
Varied Entertainments Offered nj,
the Week Stands.

Ethel Barrymore will apLear AT tho
Palace Theatre this week in ]. NJ. Bar
rie's we'll known playlet THE Twelve
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23

Hughey Bernard will bring his
French Models to the Murray HI
Theatre this week, when two one at
burlesaues called. respectively. I'm
Wrong" and Troubles of Count"
will be presented. in addition to a long
and varied vaudeville programme. Mr.
Bernard Will be assisted by George Mar
tin, George II. Ward. Walter Vernon.
Peter De Vail, Amy Allyn. Alpha Giles
and Flossie McCloud and a large chorus.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-08-23

The unusually long and pleasing bin
at Hammersteins Victoria Theatre tn.
week will include Gus Edwards ND
Kabaret. Maude Lambert. assisted by
Ernest Ball. Farrell, the Taylor Trio.
the Cameron Sisters, williams and Ran.
kin. Joe jackson, Nonette. Jarrow, "Tha
Girl from the Farm" the three Dufsr
Boys. Edwin George. Jonathan, motion
pictures and other acts
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-01
Representative Cattle Sales,
Stockers and Feeders.

Chicago. June 1.-Week trade
in stock and feeding cattle was OF mar
row volume al the bottom levels OF the
week and dealers We're left with
supply OF about 100 head TO carry
over into this weeks market crop
that is carrying more really good to
choice stuff of all weights than mas
been left at any week end this spring.
among them some highly bred steer
yearlings comparable To stuff selling =
extreme top registers of the market at
the recent high spot.
Declines enforced during the week.
measuring largely 15d25 cents and
more on much stocker she stuff. leaves
the general market from 80 30 cents
lower than the record rates recorded
two weeks ago as much AS 60 cents un :
der that extremely high time on some
of the plain and medium classes. This
slump has put the market down 10
prices which are logically expected to
draw out an improved country demand
this week now that corn planting Is
pretty we'll ever with and in view OF
the fact that graZiers who have not yet
supplied their wants will 5e inclined to
realize that grass Is at its best In June
and young cattle graZed on good pas
lures during the next thirty days be-
fore the extreme hot weather sets in
may be expected to make the best flesh
gains of the sea son.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-01
Spying on Students.

The manager Of detective agency
recently established in the Belgian
university town OF Louvain sent cir
cular letter to the parents Of number
Of students Offering to send them
monthly reports of the behavior OF
their sons for a small fixed fee. The
students heard OF this. and several
hundreds Of them marched to the OF.
fees Of the detective agency and broke
all the windows. They then made .
demonstration at the house Of the VICE
rector Of the university, who had ap'
proved Of the scheme OF monthly re-
ports. The students state that they
will not cease their protests until the
vice-rector has resigned.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-01
How a eed-sprino Caused a Fire.

IRE which might have been &C
companied by disastrous results was
recently caused in a curious way by
wire bed-springs short-circuiting a
storage battery which had been tenn
porarily placed beneath the bed. The
occupant of the bedroom in sitting on
the bed caused the springs to sag,
short-circuit the battery terminals and
fuse. thereby burning hole in the
mattress and setting fire to the bed
ding. The battery had been removed
from an automobile and was being
stored for the rest OF the winter be-
meath the bed. where 1t would be out
Of the way and not freeze.-Electrical
World.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-01
Bermuda's Drinking Water.

The rain catch is a notable incident
Of the Bermuda landscape. There is
no other good water. All that Ia
gained from wells is brackish. So
the people either use their white
washed roofs as means to catch rain
water or they build big open catch"
on the hillside, with covered cistern
at it's foot into which the rain, thus
collected, runs and Is stored The
soil is scraped away from large sur
face Of the white coral rock that un-
derlies all the island This surface
is cemented and whitewashed, and d
low wall built on three sides with
the reservoir or tank at the bottom.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-01
CHICAGO Produce.

Chicago. June !.
Butter Steady; creameries, 20 q
esH.
Eggs-Steady; receipts. 9c.239 cases;
IT mark cases included. $50 1Sia or
binary firsts 17Adl7a4; frsts, 1914
@1sA.
Cheese-Steady; daisies, az 014A
twins, 14@14k: young Americas, 151
15A: long horns, 15G 15A.
Poultry-Alive. lower; fowls, 1872.
II Pork-Cash, 1890.
Lard-Cash, 9.721a.
Ribs-10.s7k m11.25.
Rye-No. 2, S6@6S1a.
Barley-50 as.
Timothy-3.75I 4.75.
zg Ciover-s.006l 1900.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-01
Fu,n,l,co . soyhood Dream.

Legend says that 20 years ago d. A.
Madden. Washington man living on
The outskirts Of Kent, sat on tho bank
Of the Mississippi and viewed with
envy a houseboat drifting down the
river, which was occupied by two
boys At one end and two Gagged ALI
gators at the other. little thinking
that he himself might some doy pos
sess a curio equal in curiosity to the
.ough-backed gator. He now owns
Z remarkable collection OF mermaids.
devil ish. lantern Ash and other ma
rine habitants that he has Assem-
bied during his trips about the coun-
try. He has Just left for st. Paul.
where he will realize bis quaint de-
sire OF boyhood by embarhtng on .
houseboat that will soon be Oh to
New Orleans.