El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-02-06

audience at the RnickerbOcker theater
did not lind a dull moment. The
music by Jerome Kern had a refresh
ing novelty, really metricaI lyrics.
The chorus Of eight fairly good look
ing young women were in excellent
voice.
Mr.. earle displayed great agility of
mind and body and brought down the
house with a half song, half recitation,
called 'FOOlishness' in the second act
Miss Cahill made excellent use of the
many witty lines supplied her. There
were in all eighteen vocal numbers and
some of these viii be Whistled and
sung for many a day.
In My L2dy's Dress" Miss Cahiu
sings q coordination Irish and negro
dialect song while begging American
girls TO wear cotton dresses and help
the south. Another great success was
"Whistl!ng Dam
This musical comedy actually has a
plot. Bob Mandrake, a role taken
by Mr.. Carle) is agent for the Manila
Hemp company, located on AmerillO
island in the Philippines. He is in
cllned to look upon the wine when it
is red and is engaged to wed Polly
cambridge, n rich widow, played by
Miss Cahill When the latter arrives,
she is shocked to be told there are
nothing but men on the island
Until God creates something better
Polly signs, we poor women will have
to be satisfied"
Then after calling a native hoy" a
Wabash porter in B. Y. Ds' she settles
down to stay. Arrive her brotherinlaw,
the bridesmaids and a rival of dusky
hue for the affection of Mandrake.
Another character introduced is the
Tiger of the Pacific who smokes
cigarettes in q long holder and has
at his back a band of ferocious Moro
warriors.
such is go in the Shade" and
guarantee anybody who sees it a hot
old time.
Mr.. Bottoms other play, The Fallen
IDOL now at the Comedy theater, is
Numerically opposed to go in the
Shade. 1t is a most serious work.
Victor Naldecini, celebrated plan
ist, is Overtaken while still a fairly
young man, BY lOcomotOr- ataxia; so
that Christine, his rich and charming
young wife, finds herself settling to
the position of nurse and caretaker in
her fine home
1t is not strange for her to fall in
love with James Credible, a handsome
and needy young sculptor, who is a
distant cousin and old crOny of hers.
The wife Of the pianist gives the
sculptor the $4,000 needed TO finance
a commission that represents -hs
promise of his career
He is busny and happily at work
On THIS monument When he StuEbleS
on the knowledge that his model is
the bitter. cast-off mistress of Valde-
cini and the mother of a boy bearing
his name. The woman is about to
bring punitive suit for the mainten-
ance Of the child, when, to shield Mrs
Valdecini from the Odor of the scan
dal, the sculptor buys silence with the
funds that had been advanced TO min.
Even when Christine discovers thar
this money has gone to hush "a shame
full story and believes the story his
CREDIBLE holds his tongue at the price
Of his career and her trust in him.
The truth comes out in a scene OF
very effective, dramatic irony, when
Naldecini and the model meet face to
face Then he sees for the first time
the picture of his son with his own
name written across it and learns for
the first time that the boy is crippled
with lameness the mother blames on
him. And she tells him that at the
boys birth she cursed the father and
prayed that the affliction would be
transferred to him. He is left, hOr-
or-struck, believing it was she who
had stricken him. He still holds in
his shaking hands the photograph
with its telltale likeness and inscrip-
ucn. He tries to throw it into the
fire. it falls short He tries TO pick
IL up and finds that at last NE can
not rise. 1t is part Of his very punish