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THE PLAYS THAT LAST.

The plays to he seen at the New York
theatr,, are: at PAYS to Advertise at
the Conan, Irwin Beds at the Fulton.
"'rhc nawi" at the Shubert, life at
the Manhattan Opera House, Goa Trial
at the Gambler. THE only Girr' AT tn"
Thirty-ninth Street, Under Cover at
the Cort. M. WI" at the VI" cine
Elliott, "The Big Idea" at tho hudson
Theatre, Innocent" at the Eltingc,
kick In" ut the Repul! Diplomacy
at thu Empire "PyRma,ion" at the Lib
erty Theatre. "The Miracle Man" at
the Astor. "Outcast" a. The Lrceum
Theatre. MY Lady'S Dress" at the
Playhouse "Tho only Girl at the
Lyric. THE Phantom Rival' at the
Belasco. DADDY Long-leRs" nj the
Gaiety. THAT Sort" At thc Harris Thea
tire "The Law Of the Land" at the For
ty.ciphth Street Theatre. "a Pair of
silk Stockings" az the Little Theatre,
"The Marriage Of Culumbino" at the
Punch ard Judy Theatre. three short
plays ~ the Princess Theatre, what
It Means to q Woman" AZ the Longacre
Theatre and Experience" at the Booth
Theatre
The musical plays are "SuHi' ~ he
Casino. "Chn-Chin" at the Globe.
Dancing Around" AT the Winter Car
den, Julia Sandersou In THE Girl From
Utah" 81 the Knick"rbocker Theatr"
"rapa's Darling" at the New Amsterdam
Theatre and The Lilac Domino" at
the Forty-fourth Street Theatre.
The beautiful spectacle The Wars 81
the World" continues TO attract To the
larger audiences han u
has ever held before
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THE PLAYS ON THE SCREENS.
Dramas That Arc Seen aud Not
Heard Here This Week.

The theatres which continue to
present popular dramas Of the film are:
Tho Weber Theatre, which still has
"Cabria" on view; the broadway Rose
Garden, which will continue to offer
"Lifes shop Window" indefinitely.
Claire Whitney, who was selected for
the heroine. is To- hc at the theatre this
week in the flesh. Tho Vitagraph
Theatre has two most interesting
dramas in THE Little Angel of Canyon
Creek" and Two Women"
The Strand Theatre has as its at
traction this week "Aristocracy," Bron-
son Towards penetrating and dramatic
study of social life in this country.
Tyrone Power plays the role acted by
Wilton LaCkaye in the original produce
ton. There were some fine actors In
this play when Charles Frohman pro-
duced it first at Wallack's with William
Faversham, Blanche Walsh and others
famous then in the important roles.
In his illustrated travel talk at Car
neRie Hall tonight Dwight Elmendorf
will conduct his hearers on a pilgrim
mage around the Mediterranean"
Commencing with visit to Madeira
the course will lead to Tangier then to
Algiers and through the gorgcs NJ
Chiffa to Phillippeville, Tunis, Carthage,
and so To Port Said and to Cairo. 4
short soiourn in the Holy Land and the
tour is continued To ancient Ephesus,
where will be seen the traditional prison
of st. Paul, the tomb of st. Luke and
the great temple of Diana. Then
through the Dardanelles to CONSTANT
nople and on to the Adriatic for
glimpscs Of Corfu and Of beleaguered
Cattaro with its ford and its forts. The
Bay Of Naples and Genoa will follow,
and then to more familiar scenes at
Villafranche in the Department Of the
Apes MarItimes. After visit to Monte
Carlo and the many picturesque resorts
along the Riviera de Ponenti the lee
ture will close amid the mad sayety OF
the Carnival of Nice and the Battle of
the Flowers.
This travel talk will be repeated to-
morrow afternoon. and Northern Eu-
rope" will be the subject OF next weeks
discourse.
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number Of new dances. Other acts on
the excellent bill will be La Milo, who
will make her American debut and who
Is alleged to pose in the near nude;
Conroy and Lemaire in new skit called
The New Physician" Grace La Rue.
Bobby North, Alan Brooks and COM
pany and Mr.. and Mrs. Gordon Wilde.
Ching Ling Foo the famous Chinese
magician and his company of Orientals
will he the star attraction this week at
llammerstein's Victoria. Other acts on
the bill will include Walter G. Kelly,
THE Virginia Judge" stuart villa
Holt Wakefield, Lydia Barry the Chad
wick Trio. the three ieatons, Toots
Pnka ana company, Roy Pearl Pcpino
l.oretti and Antonette and motion pic
lures.
The weeks bin at the Colonial will
include Harry Fox and jennie Dolly.
Martin Brown and Rozsik Dolly. who il
a twin sister of Jennie; Joseph Howard
and Mabel McCare, in a new musical
revue; Bert Fitagibbons. Homer Miles
in a new skit called AN Innocent BY
I Stduuei' james Morton ana Ralph
Austin in Success" Frank Whitman.
the Azard brothers and Mcmahon Dia-
inond and Chaplow IN novelty called
The ScareCrow' The usual concerts
will he elven this afternoon and eve
ming.
Eddie Foy and his sven little Foys
viii he seen this week at the A.hambra
with him ON the b!l Will he Julius
Sieger in new sketch called "Thc
Warning George Whiting and Sadie
'Burt Hert titlgihbons. Harry Adler and
Nrnd airline in a New Idea" the Eu-
ropean Tumbling Clowns. the Arnau'
brothers. Mart ana Fabyinl. Cotter and
Boulden and the Orpngton trio. There
viii he III" usual concerts this afternoon
and evening.
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VAUDEVILLE AND BURLEsQUE
Pleasing Entertainments offered Ia
the Week stand Theatres.

Bessie Clayton, one of the best known
Of the American dancers, will be the
leading feature this week at the Palace,
She will be assisted by Lester Sheehan
and six other dancers under the direc-
ton Of Melville Craig, and will offer a
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popular with the patrons Of the theatre.
past seasons, he Will present an en-
tirely new version of the part which Is
the central figure in an original bur-
lesque called THE Dope's Legacy" In
cidental to the performance there will
be introduced a travesty on Bronson
Towards war drama shenandoah" Mr.
Kelly will play Col. UOpcU HOpp, Lon
Hascall Will appear a. Hdmlei BOoH
WdcrcddD NBdgdH Vincent Mack and
Harry Naa will traVesty Dave Mont
gomcry aEI Fred Stone. Amcta pynes
will imp rsunato Eva Tanguay. Jean
irwin will represent Trentini, James
Tnhrooke will give an imitation Of
Caruso and MGrtrlle will appear as
Julian Eltinge.
Tango Queens" IL the title of the or
ganization that will he seen this week
at the Murray Hll. There is a long cast
that includes Tom coyne. Jack Hub
Jack Martin. Hazen and Neugent Mabel
Leslie. Mabel Baker and Lena Talcy. In
the vaudeville division of the show
Princess Xemoa will lie = en- IT, an
Egyptian dance called Ten Minutes
Among the Pyramids" \ special
feature of the week at thu Murray Hin
will he a tango dancing contes, ON
Wednesday night. when three cash
prizes will he awarded the successful
contestants.
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Nk9ACES AND FIGURES IN THE PASSING SHOW

Three Wives" and Winter Garden fame
and sydney Grant. late of the "Tik-ToN
Man of on" which had long run in
New York and Chicago, and George
Anderson.
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WHERE TO DANCE.

Under the rosy roof OF the Broadway
Rose Gardens. tho dancing Of Lew Quinn
and Hurtense Faro Is inspiring enough
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WHITESIDE'S MODEL.

The Imagination Of the actor. srulp-
tor. painter or musician il ore of his
most. valuable assets. by faGcNing him
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Lew Kelly and the New Bohman show
VIII he seen this week at the Columbia.
Mr. Kelly through his characterization
Of Prof. Dope has become exceedingly
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Fritz Schen IN q comedy with music.
Pretty Mrs. smith will COM to the
Brooklyn Majestic Theatre this week
from the Casino Theatre. New York
Associated with Miss Schen will he
Charlotte Greenwood oc Man with
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about the room. pcering round each
article of furniture, tucked up the val
ances of the bed and opening its cur
tains wide. pulled up the blinds and
examined the fastenings of the several
windows before closing the shutters,
leaned forward and looked up the black
ness of the wide chimney. and tapped
the dark oak paneling for any secret
opening.
There were two big mirrors in the
room, each with a pair of sconces bear
ing candles, and on the mantelshelf, too,
were more candles in china candlesticks.
All these | lit one after the other.
The fire was laid-an unexpected con-
sidcration from the old housekeeper-
and lit it. to keep down any disposition
to shiver, and when it was burning well
| stood round with my back to it and
regarded the room again. / had pulled
up a chintz-covered armchair and a ta-
bic to form kind of barricade before
me, and on this lay my revolver ready to
hand.
My precise examination had done me
good, but / still found the remoter dark
ness of the place and its perfect still
ness too stimulating for the imagination
The echoing of the stir and cracking
of the fire was no sort of comfort to
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little table by the fireplace were extin-
guished. l rose at once to my feet
"Oddp said Did | do that myself
in a fash of observation-disclosures
walked back, relit one, and, as l did
so, saw the candle in the right sconce
of one of the mirrors wink and go right
out and almost Immediately its compan-
ion followed it. There was no mistake
about it The flame vanished as if the
wicks had been suddenly nipped be-
tween finger and thumb, leaving the
wick neither glowing nor smoking, but
black. While stood gaping. the candle
at the foot OF the bed went out and
the shadows seemed to take another step
toward me.
This won't do" said |. and first one
and then another candle on the mantel-
shelf followed.
What's up" | cried, with a queer
high note getting into my voice some
how. At that the candle on the ward
robe went out and the one | had relit
in the alcove followed.
Steady on" | said. These candles
are wanted" speaking with a half-hys-
terical facetiouSness and scratching away
at match the while for the mantel can
dlesticks. My hands trembled so much
that twice | missed the rough paper OF
the matchbox. As this mantel emerged
from darkness again. two candles in the
renoter end of the window were
eclipsed. But with the same match l
also relit the larger mirror candles. and
those on the floor near the doorway, so
that for the moment l seemed to gain
on the extinctions But then in a volley
there vanished four lights at once in
different corners of the room. and
struck another match in quivering haste
and stood hesitating whittier to take it.
As | stood undecided, an invisible
hand seemed to sweep out the two can
dies on the table With a cry of terror.
| dashed at the alcove, then into the
corner, and then into the window, re-
lighting three, as two more vanished by
the fireplace; then, perceiving a better
way, dropped the matches on the IRON
bound deed box in the corner. and
caught up the bedroom candlestick. With
this | avoided the delay of striking
matches; but for all that the steady
process of extinction went on. and the
shadows | feared and fought against
returned and crept in upon me. first a
step gained on this side of me and then
on that.
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! Illuminated. There was something very
CHEEKY and reassuring in these little
streaming flames, and snufing them
gave me an occupation and afforded a
reassuring sense of the passage of time.
Even with that, however, the brood
ing expectation of the vigil weighed
heavily upon me.
1t was after midnight that the candle
in the alcove suddenly went out, and
the black shadow sprang back to its
place there. | did not see the candle go
out; ] simply turned and saw that the
darkness was there, as one might start
and see the unexpected presence OF a
stranger.
BY JoveT said l aloud; that
draught's a strong one" And, taking
the matches from the table, l walked
across the room in a leisurely manner
to relight the corner again.
My first match would not strike, and
as | succeeded with the second some
thing seemed to blink on the wall be-
fore me. l turned my head involuntari-
ly and saw that the two candles on the
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| the echoes were not pleasant. For the
same reason | also abandoned, after a
time, a conversation with myself upon
the impossibility of ghosts and haunting
My mind reverted to the three old and
distorted people downstairs, and l tried
to keep it upon that topic. The somber
reds and blacks of the room troubled
me; even with seven candles the place
was merely dim. The one in the alcove
fiared in a draught, and the fire flicker
ing kept the shadows and penumbra
perpetually shifting and stirring.
Casting about for remedy, l recalled
the candles had seen in the passage.
and, with slight effort, walked out into
the moonlight. carrying a candle and
leaving the door open, and presently
returned with as many as ten. These |
put in various knick-knacks of china
with which the room was sparsely
adorned, lit and placed where the
shadows had lain deepest, some on the
floor. some in the window recesses. un-
til at last my seventeen candles were so
arranged that not an inch of room but
had the direct light of at least one of
them. 1t occurred to me that when the
ghost came, | could warn him not to
trip over them.
The room was not quite brightly IL
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whose head rocked silently as passed
him, scarcely startled me.
The door to the red room and the
steps up to it were in a shadowy corner.
l moved my candle from side to side, in
order to see clearly the nature of the re-
cess IN which l stood before opening the
door,
Here it was, thought |, that my pred
ecessor was found, and the memory of
that story gave me sudden twinge Of
apprehension. | glanced over my shoul-
der at the Ganymede in the moonlight,
and opened the door of the red room
rather hastily, with my face half turned
to the pallid silence OF the landing.
| entered, closed the door behind me
at once. turned the key found in the
lock within, and stood with the candle
held aloft, surveying the scene of my
vigil, the great red room of Lorraine
Castle, in which the young duke had
died. Or. rather, in which he had be-
gun his dying, for he had opened the
door and fallen headlong down the steps
| had just assembled. That had been the
end of his vigil, of his gallant attempt
to conquer the ghostly tradition of the
place. and never, l thought. had apo
plexy better served the ends of super
stition.
And there were other and older
stories that clung to the room, back to
the half-credible beginning of it all. the
tale OF timid wife and the tragic end
that came to her husbands Jest of
frightening her. And looking around
that large shadowy room, with its
shadowy window bays, its recesses and
alcoves, one could well understand the
legends that had sprouted in its black
corners, its terminating darkness.
My candle was little tongue of light
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me. The shadow in the alcove, at the
end in particular, had that undehnable
quality OF a presence, that odd sugges-
ton of lurking living thing that comes
so easily in silence and solitude.
At last, TO reassure myself, walked
with candle into it, and satisfied my
self that there was nothing tangible
there. stood that candle upon the floor
of the alcove and left it in that position
By this time | was in a state of con-
siderable nervous tension, although to
my reason there was no adequate cause
for the condition. My mind, however,
was perfectly clear. postulatcd quite
unreservedly that nothing supernatural
could happen. and to pass the time be-
gan to string some rhymes together, In
goldsby fashion, OF the original legend
of the place. A few spoke aloud, but
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marvellous distinctness upon the white
paneling, and gave me the impression of
some one crouching to waylay me.
l stood rigid for half minute per-
haps. Then, with my hand in the pocket
that held my revolver, l advanced, only
to discover a Ganymede and Eagle glis-
tening in the moonlight. That incident
for time restored my nerve, and a
porcelain Chinaman on a buhl table,
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in its vastness, that failed io pierce the
opposite end Of the room, and left an
ocean of mystery and suggestion beyond
its island of light.
! resolved 10 make systematic ex-
animation of the place at oncc, and dis
pei the fanciful suggestions of its OBJ
SECURITY before they obtained hold upon
me. After satisfying myself of the
fastening of the door, began to walk
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Have l got that right?" said, and
repeated his directions. He corrected
me in one particular
And are you really goings' said the
man with the shade, looking at me again
for the third time, with that queer, I'M
natural fitting of the face.
('This night of all nightsr' said the
old woman)
at is what l came for" l said, and
moved toward the door. As I did so,
the old man with the shade rose and
staggered round the table, so as to be
closer to the others and to the fire.
AT the door l turned and looked at
them, and saw they were all close to-
gether, dark against the freight, star
ing at me over their shoulders, with an
intent expression on their ancient faces
+ Goodnight" said, setting the door
open.
ITS your own choosing, said the
man with the withered arm.
l left the door wide open until the
candle was we'll ahght, and then l shut
them in and walked down the chilly,
echoing passage.
l must confess that the oddness Of
these three old pensioners in whose
charge her ladyship had left the castle
and the deep-toned, old-fashioned fur
niture of the housekeeper's room in
which they foregathered affected me in
spite of my efforts to keep myself at a
matter-of-fact phase. They seemed to
belong to another age, an older age, an
age when things spiritual were different
from this OF ours, less certain; an age
when omens and witches were credible,
and ghosts beyond denying. Their very
existence was spectral; the cut of their
clothing, fashions born in dead brains.
The ornaments and conveniences of the
room about them were ghostly-the
thoughts of vanished men, which still
haunted rather than participated in the
world of today.
But with an effort | sent such
thoughts to the right-about The long,
draughty subterranean passage was chill
ly and dusty, and my candle fared and
made the shadows cover and quiver
The echoes rang up and down the spiral
staircase, and a shadow came sweeping
up after me, and one fled before me into
the darkness overhead. I came to the
landing and stopped there for a mo-
ment, listening to rustling that I
fancied l heard; then, satisfied of the
absolute silence, l pushed open the
baize-covered door and stood in the cor
ridor.
The effect was scarcely what l ex-
pected, for the moonlight, coming in by
the great window on the grand stair
case. picked out everything in vivid
black shadow of silvery illumination.
Everything was in its place; the house
might have been deserted on the yester-
day instead of eighteen months ago.
There were candles in the sockets of
the sconces, and whatever dust had gath
cred on the carpets or upon the pol
ished flooring was distributed so evenly
as to be invisible in the moonlight.
l was about to advance, and stopped
abruptly. A bronze group stood upon
the landing, hidden from me by the cor
ner of the wall, but its shadow fell with
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Very WELL" answered. And which
way do l go?"
you go along the passage for bit, )"
said he, until you come to a door, and
through that is a spiral staircase, and
halfway up that is landing and an
other door covered with baize. Go
through that and down the long cor
ridor to the end, and the red room is
on your left up the steps"
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II was like ragged stormcloud
sweeping out the stars. Now and then
one returned for a minute, and was lost
again. Twas now almost frantic with
the horror of the coming darkness, and
my helf-possession deserted me. l
lesped, painting and disheveled, from
candle to candle, in a vain struggle
against that remorseless advance.
I bruised myself on the thigh against
the table. sent a chair headlong, I
stumbled and fell and whisked the cloth
from the table in my fall My candle
rolled away from me, and l snatched
another as l rose. Abruptly this was
blown out, as swung it off the table,
by the wind OF my sudden movement,
and Immediately the two remaining can
dies followed
But there was light still in the room,
a red light that STAYED off the shadows
from me. The frel OF course, l could
still thrust my candle between the bars
and relight it.
turned to where the flames were still
dancing between the glowing Goals and
splashing red reflections upon the furni-
ture, made two steps toward the crate,
and incontinently the flames dwindled
and vanished, the glow vanished, the re-
fections rushed together and vanished,
and as l thrust the candle between the
bars, darkness closed upon me like the
shutting of an eye, wrapped about me in
a sitting embrace. sealed my vision, and
crushed the last vestiges of reason from
my brain. The candle fell from my
hand.
flung out my arms in a vain effortto
thrust that ponderous blackness away
from me, and, lifting up my voice.
screamed with all my might-once.
twice, thrice. Then l think l must have
staggered to my feet. know thought
suddenly of the moonlit corridor, and,
with my head bowed and my arms over
my face, made run for the door.
But l had forgotten the exact position
of the door, and struck myself heavily
against the corner of-the bed. l stag
gered back, turned. and was either strucl,
or struck myself against some other bulky
furniture. | have a vague memory of
battering myself thus, to and fro in the
darkness, of cramped struggle and of
my own wild crying as I darted to and
fro, of heavy blow at last upon my
forehead, horrible sensation of falling
that lasted al age, of my last frantic
effort to keep my footing. and then re-
member no more.
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l opened my eyes in daylight. Ny
head was roughly bandaged, and the
man with the withered arm was watch
ing my face. l looked about me, trying
to remember what had happened, and
for space l could not recollect. I
rolled my eyes into the corner. and saw
the old woman, no longer distracted,
pouring out some drops of medicine
from a little vial into a glass.
Where am l." l asked. Il seem to
remember you, and yet cannot remem-
Der who you are
They told me then, and heard of the
haunted red room as one who hears a
tale. I'VE found you At dawn" said he,
and there was blood on your forehead
and lips"
1t was very slowly recovered my
memory OF my experience. You be-
lieve now," said the old man, that the
room is haunted" lie spoke no longer
as one who greets an intruder, but as
one who grieves for broken friend.
Yes" said l; the room is haunted"
And you have seen it. And we. who
have lived here all our lives, have never
set eyes upon it. Because we have never
dared. Tell US. is it truly the old earl
who"
No" said 7 "i+ ;s not"
Il told you so,' said the old lady, with
the glass in her hand 1T is his poor
young countess who was frightened"
1T is not" l said. There is neither
ghost OF earl nor ghost OF countess in
that room, there is no ghost there at
all; but worse, far worse"
Well" they said.
The worst of all the things that
haunt poor mortal man said l; "and
that is, in all its nakedness-Fearl Fear
that will not have light nor sound. that
will not bear with reason, that deafens
and darkens and overwhelms. 1t fol-
lowed me through the corridor, it fought
against me in the room
stopped abruptly. There was an in
terval of silence. My hand went up to
my bandages.
Then the man with the shade sighed
and spoke. That is it said he Il
knew that was it. y Power of Dark
ness. To put such a curse upon a wom-
AMI 1t turks there always. You can
feel it even in the daytime. even of a
bright summers day, in the hangings,
in the curtains. keeping behind you how
ever you face about. In the dusk it
creeps along the corridor and follows
you. so that you dare not turn. There is
Fear in that room OF hers-black Fear,
and there will be-sO long as this house
of sin endures."