Arizona republican., 1914-07-22
II MUST HAVE BEEN AWFUL
 TO GET THIS REFORMATION
Alleged Play With Purpose?" Turns
 Out to be a Riot

"The New Chief of Police" was dis covered at his desk in a most ornate and aesthetic headquarters office He had on a scrumtious new uniform of a style and fit that denoted the import ance of his office and as the curtain ascended he was busily telephoning to his sergeant to have the navy in readi- ness to help him repel boarders in the shape of one of those perfectly impos- sible and invariably lonesome repre- sentatives of society who always loom utive in sex novels and the ever in- creasing crop of sex plays.
 There you have it, it was a sex play respectfully dedicated to the host of good fellows" etc. You know the kind. There is a name for the man who cap- italiZes prostitution; what about the person who capitaliZes the same vice in the form of lascivious novels and obscene plays; the vapid vaporings of their more or less vacuous minds are heralded from one end of the country to the other They hide under the mantle of reform when it is simply a matter of commercialism with them In the guise of a sermon they unfold tales ! of degradation and degeneracy unfit to hear They reek of smut and their work is stench in the nostrils, while their bank accounts grow fat at rec ord breaking speed.
 However, We are diverging from "The New Chief of Police He was really, a pretty sensible chap, and even if he | did have to hand out a choice crop of platitudes. he meant what he said, and he pounded home his points in true 1 policemanic fashion; then too, he was responsible for the appearance of the sailor. How the audience did love that | one. He was a regular sailor even ii , he was miles from the coast line; he had all the fat in the play and how ht | did use it. Straight and to point he 1 was. When he had anything to say he said it with little finesse and much unction, whether it was his opinion o1 1 the redlight district or the Y. M. C. A 1 While he was on the stage everybody 1 had a good time, except the counterfeit l clubwoman and the ravishing damse of the carmine hair and green stock ings. From just where this particular breed of damsel emanates we would not care to say, she certainly is nc Phoenician. Possibly it thrives in tn. coastwise cities but We have oul doubts even as to that; but then on, never can tell in these days. MT Wal
 ter Montague, who wrote the playlet
 says so himself and he really ought tt know.
 This same Mr. Montague. is not tha
 a fine high brow name? epitomizes hi
 cherished effort as "A Dramatic Ex
 posture of Modern Hypocrisy; h.
 should have described it as a comic ex
 posture of dramatic incapacity.
 It is really shame to go after rTh
 New Chief of Police" seriously, it i
 really awfully funny and it tickled tn
 audience to death, furthermore it i
 going to pack the Columbia theater a
 every performance for the next week
 that is if they decide not to make crim
 son locks appear in the shelter of
 barrel
 If MT. Montague had succeeded in hi
 intentions of being serious he woul have been exceedingly offensive; bu as things have turned out he Is ex
 tremely funny. "The New Chief of Pc
 lice" is the best burlesque we have see
 in a long tim.
 l MAJTT ANn nAVTEG