The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-02-20
PERFECTLY HAPPY
ARE THESE ARTISTS
Society Of Illustrators Make
Merry at Annual
Smoker.
TRAvESTY SEX DRAMAS
King and Queen Are at Peace
when Importuning Suitors
Are Sent to Grave.

All Of the great artistic geniuses or the
day, the maxixe 'Tltians. the tango An
selos. the turkey trot MINISTER'S. the
Castle walk Reynoldses, in short every
body who ever showed any billboard pro-
clivity whatever, went to the Berkeley
Theatre last night for the annual smoker
Of the Society OF Illustrators and smoked.
drank. laughed and had good time.
Besides a great deal of original humor
which was heard and seen In the lobby
between acts there were two playlets
which were entirely futurist in design
and effect. One was called Perfectly
Happy" as being appropriate to the &C.
casion. which was spiriuious as we'll. and
the other was billed as Plague o My
Art and proved to be a sort OF cigarette
pantomime which smoked with great sue
cess.
Nothing very serious happened to mar
the success Of the evening. James Mont
gomery Flagg sat through the entire per-
Torrance without cracking smile. No
one was elected for hilarious conduct. and
perhaps the only flaw to a happy perform
ance was at the close Of Perfect Happi-
ness" when a feeble voice shouted
Author and was heard only by the
voices owner and the author himself.
c. B. Falls ran down the centre aisle, but
no one saw him. 30 1t didn't make any
difference,
An AuIeGOricau Tfavesty.
Perfectly Happy" was an allegorical
0avesty OH any one OF the recent Broad
way sex dramas. II recounted the ad-
venture of the Hunchback King with
his delicately philandering Queen. the
three hunchback lovers. afTectionately
known as the Red the Gray and the
Green, and the Lord Chamberlain. c. b.
Falls, besides futurizing the scenery.
wrote the piece. 1t was full OF thrills. as
any one may see from the following
story Of the play:
The Philandering Queen is at her toilet.
The King bids her good-by and goes upon
his way. And then-hush "a gong. Here
comes the Red Lover. But love is not to
BE- theirs, for just as they are about to
- Perfectly Happy the gong sounds.
Mayhsp it is the HunShback King come
home again.
She hides the Red Lover in a closet. But
the King doesn't enter-it is the Gray
Lover. Alarmed. he too hides in the
closet. Then the Green Lover enters.
Again the gong. Is the Phiiandering
Queen never to be happy? She picks
the Green Lover up by the scruf OF the
neck and hurls him into the closet. En-
ter the King himself.
Dear. I've forgot my turban."
The Queen gets his turban from the
closet. The King suspects; he insists upon
u dance and while she Is gyrating he
three lovers. He goes The Queen dashes
to the closet and finds the three dead
ones
'Ha. hs !" she laughs.
Again the gong sounds and the Lord
Chamberlain comes in doing "a maxixe.
He, too wants to be perfectly happy, so
the Queen promises him happiness II he
will toss away the Red Lover, whose
body she has dragged 10 the centre OF
the room The Lord Chamberlain
snatches up the Red Lover and goes out
with him. The Queen. who has kept the
red turban. drags forth another lover
from the closet, puts the red turban on
him and when the Chamberlain returns
says:
Here he is, Why don't you throw him
eway?'
The Chamberlain is amazed. But per-
haps after all he was mistaken. so he
throws away the second lover and by
the same ingenious process the third.
Enter the Hunchback King. The queen
crowns him with the red turban and when
the lord chainbt rlain enters and sees as he
fancies the Red Lover come back TO life
ne 10 dazed with horror and stagsers out.
The king and queen are left alone They
are Perfectly Happy.
Miss Kay LAUREL, who played the part
Of the Philanderng Queen. did not make
0 curtain speech, although everybody
wanted her to, she had done the part 70
captiv atingly.
smoker In Two whiNs.
plague o. My Art" which was an
Oounced as a satirical pantomime proved
60 be a smoker in two whiffs and a reel
undone by Robert J. Wldhack and Fred
y. Dayton. with musical drawings by
John T. McGovern and properties by Mar
tin Justice and LeJaren a'Hiller. whose
ZANE has defed all attempts at solution
BY the best known philolosists. The story
= beautiful. A synopsis Of It follows:
Philip Morris, who Is Edward NJ. Ashe,
10 young artist struggling for position
and living care free. happy life on one
meal day eaten at an automat. His
wife. Fatima, who Is Martin Justice, tires
Of poverty and the necessity of singing In
. cabaret show to help out the cost Of
living. But Philip sticks to his automat
and squanders the rent money for canvas
and paints. The landlord threatens evic-
ton. The villain, an art manager. comes
with a tempting offer to Philip to make
South Sea illust rations. He tries to renew
Bis old affair with the artists wife. and
the wife, now intolerant OF impecunity
renounces Philip and returns to her
mother in Flushing. Philip accepts the
Illustration offer.
In the following hlm Philip Is seen
voyaging TO the South Seas In the only
chip carrying the American flag. In
cidents of his being shipwrecked and dis
covering an uninhabited island follow.
He eats queer fruit and is stung by a
tsetse fly. He sleeps for 100 years and Is
rescued by Lord Salisbury, who Is a
Hitler, and his companions. who sail
by in an enormous airship.
Philip returns In 20li and finds art
commercialized to the nth degree and
controlled by great trust which has
succeeded the Society OF Illustrators The
trust president too is a son of PhiljD's
posthumous child The trust trembles (you
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