Arizona republican., 1914-09-20

year, outside of the Fourth of .JuIv
 for the kiddies. Ba-num and Bailey's
 Greatest Show on Earth will be in
 town and, for the day at least we
 will all be youngsters once more.
 Some More New Plays A Modern GirP which opened at
 the Comedy theater early last week
 proved to be rather surprise for
 she turned out to be very conven-
 tional and popular idea had it that
 she was quite the reverse It served
 to present Julius Steger. who has
 hitherto been prominent chiefly in
 vaudeville and musical comedy, in
 t!e leading role and told the inside
 lie o1 a very, Very, very elite First
 Family, the Van Nordens, who were quite the knickeriest of the Knicker- lockers and it also staged d family
 row which for q time tickled the au- dience but so many grdhdiose phrases crept into the scrap that it did not seem q bit like home and ended by boring everybody
 The very latest play of which a re- ' Erlanger's production of The Dra- gon's Claw whlcl. was shown fer the first time at the New Amsterdam theater last Monday. It seems to have created q sensation and is d stirring war play with scenes laid ill China. It is frankly melodrama with troops of all nations figuring in it n no at the very last minute.
 In spite of the yellow perils who are snarling at the gates, time IS found for q little intrigue between the wife of Captain Deering and Ed ward Barkley, who seems to act as first aid to bored beseiged ladies and he takes her off into the hills for long rides to offset the monotony of life in the beseiged legation. Ma turally they grow very friendly and eventually the lady is discovered in the gentleman's arms, which was indiscreet to put 1t mild ly, and that starts another war so that from then on until the finish W hen the United States troops come piling on to the stage and relieve the besieged there is war inside and outside the walls.
 The play is wonderfully mounted and it's cast contains many notable artists. It adds another to the al ready long list of melodramatic of of the season and it seems to have made a real hit.
 Another play which is causing a i lot of comment is Innocent at the i Eltinge theater innocent" is the !! name of a lady" who seems to be ] about as far removed from the mean 1 ng of the word as is possible for | in human form to be. It $ played by a remarkable cast with 1 Pauline Frederick as the misnatned | ady, and it was adapted from the 1 of Arpad Pasztor by , George Broadhurst.
 The lady in question is the daughter | 1f a simple old man who brought her up in absolute ignorance of the i ways of the world the flesh or the ! levil. When he dies sine is taken Ill | charge by friend of his who lm- nediately sets out to show her the world. In the course of the show ng she is taken to Mukden, Buda- test and Nice. She proves an apt pupil and promptly becomes as near Y the opposite of her given name IS woman could well be.
 Miss Frederick made her Ian ,uishing exotic whose kisses would nave caused either Sapho or Car nen to hide their heads in shame. She was a temptress of the most enpting order and her one best bet vas turing men of means to financial destruction, disgrace and violent leath.
 In spite of all these attributes the ,lav seems to have proved fhVVef largely perhaps because 1t was long n talk and short on action, as one rite puts it even the kisses were low-that is they were long GraWh ut" Miss Frederick. who was bril- Iant in green frock when she cached the heights of her ambition f Monte Carlo, looked throughout he evening lovely enough to 1ustliE he constant talk abOnt her fasclna- ionS. It can scarcely be said that