The Washington times., 1914-01-31
White Slavery
Again Grabs -
the Stage
By BEAU. RIALTo.

TNO new plays in the process of
incubation for presentation next
Il week are THE Crinoline Girl,
Julian EItinge's much-needed new
vehicle, and Oliver Morosco's Help
Wanted" The first mentioned show is
a musical comedy in which Julian FL
tinge win do female impersonauon.
1t has been on a tTy-out at Atlantic
City. Eltinge starred in The Fascl-
mating Widow" for four years. playing
the long and short grass territory, the
kerosene and incandescent circuits, and
the piece was pretty well thre0dbare
when he passed it up for THE CTino-
Morosco will take the bull by the
horns and try his story out on Broad
way first, ignoring the time-hOnored
dog custom. The Western producer
is always so sure of his production that
lie sets it up on Broadway without pre-
liminary, and so far he has made
good. But his temerity reminds one of
the Omaha blacksmith who built him
self flying machine several years ago.
The blacksmith worked on his con-
locked doors. Nobody knew the nature
Of his invention. When il was COM
pleted, the smith was so sure it would
ny that he scorned the usuad wood-shed
try-out urged by his friends. Instead,
he borrowed a gas balloon from cir
Gus and towed his aeroplane a mile
in the air. he cut the rope-and
dropped $3.50 feet to earth like a plum
met Put, cheer up. The Smith was
not hurt beyond a few broken bones
and lived TO try it again The premiere
of Help Wanted was delayed by sew
eral necessary changes in the cast.
A New White SLAYER.
Theatergoers thought it was all over
the sporadic eruption of white slave
kY,A
There is a new one. The House of
Bondage" at the longacre Theater.
The House OF Bondage is taken
from the book of the same name, writ
ten by Reginald Wright Kaufman. 1t
has eminent sponsors in the medical So1
cieties which indorse it heartily as
having a moral, and as graphically por-
traying white slave conditions of the
present day. Its production has aroused
the same question that former plays of
similar trend produced, Does the pub
hcity given TO such conditions do good,
and not haTm?"
The play as a play, is fiat. and the
jRded first nighterS refused t. enthuse
over il Deputy Police Commissioner
New berger and his stenographer oc-
Pennsylvania girl is lured from home
by q white SLAYER. TIE subsequent
four acts in eight scenes. norIr9y her
miserable life with Il pOrdy madame.
White slavery treated la a clean and
wholesome way, wherein the right tTi-
umphs and the villain is killed is the
unusual-for this season-feature of
The Yellow Ticket" Michael Morton's
Russian melodrama put on at the FL
unge, by A. H. Woods. After several
disconcerting delays, due to changing
the third act and the illness of Flor .
ence Reed, the leading woman, the
play made its premiere With one of the
strongest casts cf the year.
Miss OH
more, Julian LEstrange. Marey Har-
Ian and Emmett CorriGan are all stars
but they work together without the
least display of rivalry. THE Yellow
Ticket has climax In each of its three
acts and is one Of the most logical
and Eel-written inelodranRs of the
season 1t tells Of a Russian Jewess,
who was the victim of all the wiIes of
the secret police 10 force her into an
immoral life, because she, by deception,
obtained yellow ticket which is
street woman's passport to any part
OF the empire, because sne wanted to
visit Ter dying father in st. Petersburg,
without the pale Of settlement
Victim of a Police Chief.
After the police have estranged her
from a wealthy English family with
whom she lived in St Petersburg,
through the instrumentality OF the
fellow ticket, Raron Andrey, head of
OF pretense Of friendship. She kills MIN
with a hat-pin and then surreaders to
the police.
Julian Rolfe, an American newsbaper
correspondent. who is in love with her.
learns Of her decd from a letter she
sent him. de and the girl are the
only ones who know the scandal of
the Geath of the baron, who officialIy
oied Of an appendicitis oneratIon. The
police determine 10 send bctn to Si
beris, but the plan is frustrated by a |
telephone call from the American EN-
1assy and both Journalist and girl are
liberated.
The third act is the weakest of tbe
three. the Intervention of tn, Aneri-
can embassy being sery undiplor1atjc
and a triBe vague. Hut 7he EapIe
screams and that enihused the Cirst
night crowd. which acked the thesfer
Portion, the author, made q speech in
v hich he said his play was founded ON
TACT and written with a view Ia eynos-
inC and rectifyinE the awful pIicbt DF
Jews in Russia today. Miss I;eeJ did
tho bests emotional work of her career
and John Mason as a Trassio0ate VII
lsin. was in an entirely new rnIs which
lie filled with great credit TO the amaze
nCent OF his admirers, who had never
befors seen him in such a part.