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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-20
A Specialist in .Cads

One of the most amusing features of
Peg o. My Heart. which will at last
reach Philadelphia Monday evening is
Hassard Short. He plays Alaric Chiches-
ter, the scion OF the arlstocratic family
which treats Peg and her engaging Irish
terrier so unsympathetically 1t is not
altogether a pretty part, but 1t Is one
after Mr.. Shorts own artistic heart. He
speciallzes in cads.
For 10 years Mr. Short has been on the
American stage, and in that time he never
has essayed any other role than that of
the snob, silly ass. cad or bounder. His
first appearance in America was with
John Drew. in THE Second In Command"
but previously he had long experience
with Sir Beerbohm Tree, Mrs. Pat Camp
bell. Cir Charles Hawtrey, Weldon, Gros-
smith and others,
Mr.. Short realizes that he will probably
have to play the cad all his stage days,
as managers, once having found an actor
who can portray certain type, insist on
keeping him at the same line, whether
he likes 1t or not.
Il am In the groove. I suppose" says
Mr.. Short. American managers have q
habit of keeping one playing what one
makes ones first success In. But really,
/ don't mind, for II is rather nj 20 some
times to be the one person in the play
who can say nasty things TO the n Sroine.
/ like the lines in Peg"
Mr.. Short claims one other distinction.
He doesn't utilize the monoele. He can be
silly without this omnipresent glass, Is his
way Of putting 1t.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-20
The Silent Audience

If Bernard Shaw could only have his
merry little way, the Broad Street
Theatre would never ring with mirth as
1t does when the curtain is up upon
"Pygmallon." lie has set himself firmly
against both applause and laughter.
When one OF his comedies was being
acted in London he inserted, program
note reading:
Dear Sir or Madame:
TT Is your custom to receive my plays
with the most generous and unrestrained
applause. You sometimes compel the per-
formers to pause at the end OF every line
until your laughter has quieted down. l
am not ungrateful; but may I ask you
a few questions7
Are you aware that you would get
out OF the theatre half an hour earlier
II you listened to the play in silence and
did not applaud until the fall of the
curtain?
do you really consider that a per-
formance is improved by continual inter
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Ing who changed the plot when non
was looking. besides the changes tn
angel made.
This is the second assistant hack, who
changes behind the first cnes back, be-
sides the guy who tends to the book
Ing
This stern director OF the stage re-
wrote three acts in a boiling rage. be-
sides the second assistant hack.
This Is the agent who hunts for vice
who said the drama wasn't nice when the
stern director of the stage.
This is the Agent who Hunts for Vice
who said the drama wasn't mica when the
stern director of the stage.
This Is the play all tattsred and torn
that the critics display for the publics
scorn-the work of the agent who hunts
for vice Cwho said that the drama wasn't
nice) and the stern director of the stage,
who wrote three acts in boiling rage,
besides the second assistant hack. who
changes behind the first ores ba k be-
sides the guy who tends TO the booking
who changed the plot when none was
looking, besides the changes the angel
made-why shouldn't he? He was the
guy that paid!-besides the changes the
star demands at the first assistant play
wrights hands, besides the changes the
manager made, because of the public he
was afraid
But where is the play that the pay.
wright wrote?-New York Evening Sun.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-20

MYTH two musical pieces for the total
w srist OF the week. shaw's "Pyg-
malionr remains the most important as
well as the most interesting offering at
any Philadelphia theatre.
The feature OF the play which has not
come in for discussion in the EVENING
LEDGER is the terrible, oh-so- English
swear-word with which Eliza INDUCES
herself in the third act. AS n matter of
fact, the part OF 'Pygmallon" that raised
the most talk in London is hardly noticed
In America. We can't seem TO work up
righteous Indignation over the word
bloody" even when we learn that II
has nothing to do with physiology, but
purports to be a corruption of the medic
val oath, BY our Lady" OF course, in
land where slang is quite as stylish as It
Is expressive, we don't grasp the real
secret OF West End Londoners' horror
1t isn't done. you know" First and last
the word Is low" Only servants and
tradespeople indulge.
a b. Walkley. of the London Times, who
Is servant only or the theatre going
public and tradesperson in nothing
more reprehensible than dilIitante French
illusions. took Shaw's sanguinlty in the
proper spirit of sophisticated English
gentleman and man of letters. His reply
-as he phrased 1t In his reeivw-was so
delightfully."- cutting that II would have
annihilated Shaw. If the latter gentleman
hadn't been Shaw and hadn't known that
he used the word for n real dramatic
purpose. Here is what Mr. Walkiey wrote:
Q. greatly daring Mr.. Shaw, You
VIII be able to boast you are the first
modern dramatlst to use this word on
the stage! But, really was 1t worth
whtleI There is whole range OF for
hidden words in the English language;
little more OF your courage and we
suppose they will be heard, too. And
then good-by TO the delights OF really
Inlimnfh cOnNnraatinnl
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SAVING THE PUBLIC
FROM THE PLOT

The chief Impression OF both "Fads and
Fancies' and Dancing Around" is the
utter futillty OF books For years all
the critics OF America have been abusing
the producers OF musical comedy for the
way the songs and dances and comedians
run away with the plot and lose It before
the nrst act is over. Every month the
plea for continuous and consistent mar
rative has gone up from the press And
sem Al Jolson and Frank Tinney continue
bad for plots
Tuesday evening = great light burst
upon us--two OF u.s. It was probably the
result OF one revue on top of another.
Anyway. by the time Harold Atteridge's
collection OF British officers and popular
singers had spent a quarter OF an hour
and any amount OF vociferation on the
outlining of the plot of Dancing
Around" the fear suddenly struck home
that they were going to keep 1t up all the
evening. Think OF following all these
humOrless futillties to the endl Imagine
trying 10 work up any real interest in
who fooled whom and which married
which, The first spasms OF plot in ''Fads
and Faneies" promised better; but the
sense OF real enjoyment through the rest
OF both those shows was suddenly flooded
with a great light OF understanding when
some OF the characters walked out in the
last 80 seconds OF play and announced the
result OF the contest Until iibrettistA are
capable Of something beaides the old SEN
timentalities, long live the comedian with
his axe out for the plotl
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"FADS AND FANCIEs'"
SUDDEN DEPARTURE

The sudden decision Friday OF "Fads
and Fancies" to give up the unequal fight
against Dancing Around" and depart
from the Forrest this evening naturally
calls up comparison OF the two pieces.
The EVENING LEDGER reviewer confesses
to an impartial liking for both. But there
were undoubtedly reasons for the supe-
tior popularity OF Dancing Around"
''Fads and Fancies" is easily the pret-
tier and moro finished product. The cos
tunes are fresher and brighter; good
taste is more constantly to the fore The
humor OF the piece is more evenly dis
tributed through all the scenes and all
tho playersi there Is no Al Jolson Joke
trust Dancing Around" lacks a certain
polish that the review at the Forrest en-
Joys, but II makes up for II In viEor
Every one. from Al Jolson down, knows
Just how to get" the audience. There Is
smash TO the Lyrics show that the
other lacks.
But, fundamentally. the two make the
same appeal to the same people, and
that's why one Is about all the town can
support at one time. Dancing Around
is selected as the victor because It has a
seasons reputation behind II.
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Billy Some Day In Jersey. ana ,,t,....
Six Cents a Loaf. or Flower Is 60
UP" with Dumonts Mlnstrels. incirs
Ing Boyden, Lemuels, Lawrence ~
~ Jarvis, Golden, Bradley, CunnIr..
ham and o'Brien.
MARCH I.
FoRREST-"e0 In the Shade" vyItA p.,
ard Carle, Marie Cahlll and an escs,,. rs.,,
tlonal cast. Guy Bolton and Jsrcn,.
kern's musical comedy Of hectic i1s.
In the Philippines. Already seen n
New York. Su ~
GARRICR-The San Carlo Omar. ~.
pany, with Mines. Adaberto ana va
carl and MN. Agostinl and scIarstH
Monday, Aida; Tuesday "Ia,c,ss,
Wednesday matinee, Faust; WeSns.'
day evening, "Cavaleria,' and .tpa M,
acci"; Thursday, "Rigoletto': FriSs,.
la Gioconda"; Saturday mstin..'
Martha; Saturday evening, N Troy,
atore." Ivy
hBITH'S-Joan Sawyer and Comrsrv
modern dances; Claude GillinEwater ~
company, In "Wives of the Rlchp. Fsn-
ME Brice, with new songs and saylnr,.
Frank Fogarty, "The Dublin Mlnstrsp,.
- A. Rolfe's Colonial Days; coakisy'
Hanvey and Dunlevy Beaumonte ana
Arnold; Schooler and Dickinson, Brad.
icy ana Norris and Hearst-Seilg mo-
tion pictures. ~
AMERICAN-"The Argyle Case" Tht
detective drama manufactured By Hsf.
Ney D. oHlggins and William Burns and
acted by Robert Hilliard ~
MARCH g.
GARRICK - Seven Keys TO Baldnatssi
George Cohan's mastery dramatizs.
ton of the story of the young author
who went up to a deserted inn In win
ter TO write novel The andlencs
encounters many surprises and much
humor. GF
LfTTLE-"The Wild Duck" with Edith
Wynne Matthison and the resident CON.
pany. Probably the first performance IN
Philadelphia OF Ibsens famous drama,
BROAD-"Outcast," with Elsie Ferguson.
Hubert Henry Davies drama OF mis-.
tress saved from the streets and proy-
ing herself in the end woman OF moN
fibre than most of her fellows. Lately
seen in New York n
METRO ROPOLITAN-De Wolf Hopper and
Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company IN
a fortnight of repertory. First week;
" Monday, Tuesday. Saturday, matinee
and night, THE Mikado"; Wednesday
matinee, "Yeomen of the Guard',;
Trial by Jury; Thursday and Friday.
THE Pirates OF Penzance" Second
week: Monday, Tuesday and Sat1rdhS
matinee, "Yeoman of the Guard; !;
Wednesday matinee, "The 'Mlkedor
Wednesday night, 1.-The sorcerers ard
Trial by Jury; Thursday night, 'I0-
lanthe." and Friday and Saturday night
THE Mikado."
LYRIC-Robert Mantell in Shakespearean
and classic repertory. The plays include
his newly staged "King John" and
Concluded on Page Flis
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"zzHT zeAlZ or EzS-
LONESOME %InE "
HT 77zE L5>5zhrI/Z.

ruptions, however complimentary they
may be to the actors and the author7
"Do you not think that the naturalness
OF the representation must be destroyed
and. therefore, your own pleasure greatly
diminished when the audience insists
IN taldng part In It by shouts of ap-
pause and laughter. and the actors have
repeatedly to stop acting until the noise
Is over?
Have you considered that In all good
plays tears and laughter lie very close
together, and that IL must be very dis
tresslng to an actress who is trying to
keep her imagination fixed on pathetic
emotions to hear bursts OF laughter
breaking out at something she is sup
posed to be unconscious OF?
DO YOU know that even when there IL
10 such conflict OF comic and tragic on
The stage, the strain of performing is
greatly Increased II the performers have
to attend to the audience as we'll as to
their parts at the same time?
can you not imagine how a play which
has been rehearsed to perfection in dead
silence without an audience must be
upset, disjointed and spun out to weari-
some length by an audience which refuses
to enjoy 1t silently?
Have you noticed that II you laugh
loudly and repeatedly for two hours, you
get tired and cross. and are sorry next
morning that You did not stay at home?
''Will you, think me very ungrateful and
unklnd II I tell YOU that though you can
not possibly applaud my plays too much
at each fall of the curtain TO please me.
yet the more applause there is during the
performance the angrer I feel with you
for spelling your enjoyment and my own?
| p Would you dream of stopping the per-
formance of piece Of music to applaud
| every bar that happened to please you?
And do YOU not know that an act of a
plav is intended, just like piece OF
| music. TO be heard without interruption
from beginning to end?
Have YOU ever told your sons and
! daughters that little children should be
seen and not heard? And have you ever
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-02-20
The Fate of a Play
BY DON MARQUIS

This is the play that the playwright
wrote.
These are the changes the manages
made. because OF the public he was
afraid, in the play that the playwright
wrote.
These are the changes the star de-
mands at the frst assistant playWright's
hands, besides the changes the manager
made, because OF the public he was
afraid, in the play that the playwright
wrote.
These are the changes the angel mad
why shouldn't he? He was the guy
that paid!-besides the changes the star
demands at the hrst assistant playWTight's :
hands, besides the changes the manager
made, because OF the public he Was afraid.
In the play that tho playwright wrote.
This Is the suy that tends 70 the book
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WHEN IS A REVUE
NOT A REVUE3

There Is one very good substitute for
plot besides extraneous fnn-travesty. Il
dourished Ia the days OF the Weber and
Fields Music Hail. There was a good deal
Of political as we'll as theatrical satire in
the early .Follies" And now traVesty
sssn1s coming back again. The summer
show af the Winter Garden usually has a
let Of H. and George Cohan has made
what appears 70 be q masterpiece OF the
Kind IN 'sHullo. Broadway" But Dan
elng Around" has none az All. and ''Fads
a|nd Fancles. which promised to be a true
ssfeEu8." developed only some mild satire
- pet GoEs and Ford cars. Aore's the
H1zE
- noursa. thsfs is ono dlmeulty about
zzsfesty; sutslds New York the subject
q fhe bufissque is very likely not 20 have
aslne % town yet There IL only one So
lazlen for this; 70 produce the piece on
Hfoad~ag. 50 on tour when the plays
Hafleaqued are pretty sure to have pre-
esded yqu. and depend just as much On
rs anluainz character Of what happens
s. On the fact that anybody can rscognizs
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the parody. But all this means more
brains and added risks.
PUTTING BRAINS INTO
MUSICAL COMEDY SCENERY

There are signs that the merry-merries
are taking to the new stagecraft of Ger
many quite as fast as is the straight
drama. Almost every musical comedy
nowadays has a touch OF something novel
and imaginative In the settings. 'Sari"
had remarkable example in its last act
THE Girl from Utah" gave us a sug-
gestion OF the Oriental in the Mormons s
room that was far more potent in its
simple use OF warm rose and brown and
OF pendulous curves than were all the
minarets and arabesques of the last act.
The two reviews of this week are good
examples Dancing Around" begins with
room finished In blue and white to
match the blue and white OF the officers
uniforms. Both are treated in the same
effect of white braid. "Fads and Fances"
rather splits the virtues of the new stage
craft. A number of scenes are full OF
broad, arresting color effects; number
Of others treat design I'm just as interest
ing way. The scene in the dogs nur-
Eery for instance, has an admirable ar
rangcment of Its two round windows and
one square opening. And all through
both reviews color Is used in the cos
tuning with a vivid originality that
makes even chorus girl interesting.
The final sign that the musical comedy
producer has walked UP to his opportu-
nifty Is Mr.. Hiegfelds use of Joseph Ur-
pan, the Ntennese scenic designer who
made the Boston Opera Houses produc-
tions notable and who set Edward Shell
don's Garden of Paradise" Mr. Urban
has already designed background for
Ziegfeld's Midnight Frolic" He is now
at work on the entire staging of the new
summer edition of THE Follles"
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CONTINUING.
BROAD - "Pysmalion," with Mrs. Pat
Campbell, the distinguished English
actress. Bernard Shaw turns Cock
ney flower girl into the phonetic equiv
alent of q duchess, A fine impersona-
tion In a fine comedy.
LYRTC-"Dancing Around" with Al Jol-
son. A Winter Garden show with a
hussar hero who is looking for beauty
spot and finds whole ballroomful. Al
Jolson conyulsively ruins the plot.
VAUDEVILLE.
KEITH'S H'S-Mrs. Leslie Carter In "zaza,"
with Hamilton Reveil: Wee George
Wood, comedian; Bickel and Watson,
the well-known team; Okabe Japs,
gymnasts: Ed Morton, comedian; Lyons
and Yosco. musicians; Hazel Cox in
songs; Moore and Young, dancers;
Cole and Denahy and IIearst-Selig
pictures.
NIXoN'S GRAND-willlam ]. Dooley in
"The Lawn Party; Mcmahon, Diamond
and Chaplow, in 1.-THE scarecrow"; De-
vine and williams, in "The Travelling
Salesman and the Female Drummer" /;
Norcross and Holdsworth. the old
cronies''; Nine. Rialta and company, in
1.-THE Artists Dream; Walter Weems,
comedian, and laughing pictures.
GLOBE-Tim Mcmahon and Edith Chap
pelle In How Hubby Missed the
Train; Fletcher Norton and Nina
Payne, singing and dancing; Bessie and
Harriet Rempel in when We Grow
Up; May Melville, dialect comedlenne;
Craig and Williams, comedians; Will
Morris in THE Vagabond"; Pesee and
Termini, street musicians
WILLIAM PENN-Hoyt's "a Dream of
the Orient" with Nine. Makarenko and
Company; Eddie Carr and Company in
'"The New Office Boy: June McCrea's S
"Coontown Divorcons," with Vaughn
Comfort and John King; Harry Breen.
song writer; Hallen and Hunter, boy.
girl and violin; Espey and Paul, novelty
artists
Cross KEYS (irst half of week)--
Harry Jolson blaciface comedian; the
Five Musical MacLarens: Howard Lane
and Company in THE Green Mouse" ;
the Brooklyn Comedy Four: "A Night
IN the Alps" and the Three Melvin
Brothers, acrobats. Second half week
The Eight Musical CO. eds, ''In Old
New York;; Martini and Frabini, sing
ing and dancing; Henry Fletcher. Ger
man monologist; Ross and Ashton in
The Surveyors" and the -Four .ylctors,
acrobats. '
a. STOCK. ,Gr ...
Maggie Pepper" with the
resident company Charles Klein's anus
Ing department store drama, in which
Rose stahl starred. 1t records the trials,
tribulations and triumphs OF sales
girl.
EMPIRE-"Alias Jimmy Valentine" with
q. new stock company including Ethel
Elder, Richard La Sale, Dorothy Dale
and others. Paul Armstrong; very hu-
and nnltainp TnaIalrar,a nF
crook who tried to go straight.
lfINSTRELS
DUHONT'S-"The Sawdust Trailers, or
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POOR MANI
LRT," "A GIRL or TODAY" "RICH MAN, POO
THE NEW WEEK


ertra matinee on Monday Washnotons Birthday
popular oss
Philadelphia a in
as,eNce
FrankN ~
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Concluded on Pars Fl,t
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1915-03-11
referendum VOTE PROVES
It NO ''OFF|CERS STRIKE
Special Convention Reconvenes and
Receives Vote of Membership
Rejecting Surrender or
Compromise
COInpr0I

With differences
are due to birth others
ra all the European nations sat
together Sub District United Mine Workers OF
America being united their demands
proved racial differences proved what
after all showed what
expression OF
~ noon 90 70 tho strike now on
compro
Monday with their local unions take
d questions Sunday SO that the Veroc Oh e
could be reported Monday.
This personal reports of the delegates Man after
nan and reported the stand for At
continue
v It seemed represented among
the delegates language they all said the
o thing which in United States Brothers Stick
AIbasin Presdes
pdont Charles Abasn presided
first session Vice President Roy was al
bis post duty acted acted secretary the absence
of William Applegartn VINO 10 Sill eoHno Us 49,
rheumatism T.. :, -. .n ~ +.
The Convention III
-(ey Ledvinka)
Friday, n
pident G. J Aban called Convention order 10
o'clock H. 1915 and explained fully the purpose OF Gaining
Inc W. No and William gs
tns Of our organization the industrial conditions existing no"
on Moore spoke along informed the delegates
State where the miners are the
Andree raised the dues and
% e to the fact who have JOB.
failed assessments to our which
tie of five appointea TO oraae n the Reo
appointed the m
luton Committee: William summeve DaVlo lh0n %
Te Committee after debaon submitted the foo"'ne
s0m ,T pssu s ss At
dno District and who have not p any
dues % organization novrer+ shall nav
.ResoNed, That any member VINO nae Pe.."e" r-7---
ntinuedO
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PSALM OF LABOR

l have wrought in the glare of the
furnace, undaunted by the Kissing Of
steam and changing of steel.
/ have enriched the nations. / have
produced the wealth of the world. }
But mine eyes have been blinded
and my hands have been shackled.
did not see that Jle we.tth haf
created was mine, nor that the goot
.hings of life belonged to me.
But the scales are falling from m.
eyes l am beginning to see.
will arise in my strength. l vii
break my chains.
will take what belongs to me.
will lay hold of my own.
/ will bring comfort and abundance
to all. I will bring peace and Joy tc
the multitude.
All mankind win be blessed. Al
the inhabitants Of the earth made
glad
For / am greater than greed. I an
mightier tina nMammon.
! am LAbor-Ada II. Sttmson.
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For centuries / have served man
kind. For ages l have borne the bur
dens Of the world.
have stirred the earth. have
made it, to bring forth increase.
have caused the desert to blossom
and changed the wilderness into gar
den p
have garnered the grain. have
gathered the fruit.
/ have fed the world. have pro-
yided food for all the people.
/ hae tanned wild beasts and made
them the servants Of man.
/ have woven fbers into cloth and
fashioned garments. 1@ave clothed
the people.
have hevn down mountains and
ttransferred the rock into human
habitation.
| haxe feiled the giants Of the for
Fest and made them furnish comfort
and protection tosman.
have gone into the bowels Of thu
Iearth and forced her to give up hel
NkstsssNe 2 !. $3.50. 49,
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REDUCTION
TO LODGE
Condemn Sen. Moore

Il =
lat a joint meeting at Yorkville Of
Lycal Unions Nos. gu and 1896, and
Representatives from other Locals in
tbs district, the following resolution
wis UNANIMOUSLY adopted.
Resolved, That we condemn the &C.
tin. of Senator Justin Moore, of JEFF
feson county, and Senator Howard, of
Bllmont county, in supporting the Gal
l8her bill, thereby attempting to kill
tfe Green Screen law which we have
wIrked SO hard to get passed, and. be
'itfurther
Resolved, That we consider it very
u4riendly act to the miners of this
site who have stood SO firm for the
Last II months to- enforce the Green
.AHi4Screeh law, and be it further
Resolved, That we have copy Of
Till resolution sent to the Martins
Ferry Times copy sent to the U.
H. w. Journal and copy sent to
Zach of the above named Senators and
DIR Representative in the house.
The undersigned committee was ap-
pinted to write this resolution.
RALPH ROBINSON,
L. U. No. 391, U.-M. w. A.
WIN. BUMGARDNER,
II L. u. No. 1896, U. NJ. w. of A.
T F.A. NUNLEY
L. U. No. s71, U. NJ. W. Of A.