El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-10-30

| with her bare skinned Meccan wiggles.
/ Noon and Morris danced in ragtime
] sailor fashion and the Mosconi broth
| ers supplied some amusing burlesque-
| one exceedingly funny featur was
| stella Alayhew's 'WOp Cabaret" There
was a strong patriotic strain through
out the show. the finish of the first act
[ revealing soldiers Of all nation march
! ing into the melting pot and emerging
true Americans
Both book and lyrics were written
by Harold Atterbridge, while Sigmund
, RonberE supplied the music and J. C.
Huffman the action
Right over from the London Hay
market complete comes "Quinney's,
which has opened at Maxine ElliOtCs
theater- 1t was quite success over
there. but perhaps Horace Annesley
Vachen is a little too literary Tor
these parts.
The center Of the play is Joseph
/ Quincy. the most honest Of all living
dealers in curios. He IS a selL-inaae
man of peculiar type; rough, ready
bur at bottom kind and tender Ihere
really is not one bad spot IN hlIn- ne
loves his wife and vSrships his one
daughter. Posy, who has been mas
Greet enough to fall in love with James
his foreman.
old Quincy wants his girl to be
real lady. So il is quite a shock 10 MIN
TO find her writing Dillets-douN TO
fathers Of the stage, he tries 10 ehecA
her love
II Mrs. Quincy would have given
him time she could, OF course, nave
coaxed him into cOnsentinE 10 tne
match on which she and Posy nae
both set their hearts Instead OF
which-after old Quincy has Just
given his wife the most touching PROOF
of his abiding fondness for her, she
suddenly assumes an outraged AR anu
with her Posy, leaves her nome as
woman's protest against masculine
cruelty.
In the long run all is made clear. ana
Posy wins her sweetheart despite lne
manouvers Of a Jealous rival. her
fathers typewriter
Whatever favor may be given 10
"Quinney's' in these parts VIII prop
ably be due to the effective and quite
interesting way in which Freder-
lex Ross interperts the chief person
in the play. He slightly overdoes the
curious restlessness OF the not very
old but ageing Quincy But ne mas
managed TO evolve what seems cnaE
acter that really lives The rugged
ness which hides gentle heart- the
alternate shrewdness and unshrlnklus
generosity OF the eccentric dealer
drawn by the author. are well brought
out
OF the other artists i'm the cast. two.
at least. deserve more than passing
mention. one is A;-s Margaret Wat
son. who does all she can with "a char
acter bristling with Inconsistencies
The other is Miss Peggy Rush. VINO
looks nicer than she seems at several
moments in her adopted character OF
the self-willed but beguileing Posy-
Miss Emily Stevens is winning high
praise by her depletion Of the inso-
lently wicked rich woman Cslro.ine
Knoyls. in Louis Anspacher's play,
The Unchastened " oman. al the
Thirty-ninth Street theater
foreign dramatists. had invented
women OF her curious style and type
But we might look in vain through
out our native drama FOR an equivalent
Of Mr.. Anspacher's vile heroine
The two characters whom she re
calls most wildly are the wife of
Claude. in the Dumas play Of the same
name. and Hedda Gabler-
Caroline Knoyls does not rise to such
satanic heights as Hedda Gabler. when
that lady burns her poor, drunken
lovers maSterWork md gloatS over
what is really her in-anticide- Nor is
she so ugly in her vice as the wife Of
Claude. But she is as shameless and
potentially as cruel
II that were all. she might not in
terest us II happens. though. that
she has more than wickedness and
cruelty OF heart She fascinates- A
female snake she may be-nay she is
but snakes can charm as well as Kill
their victims
The contempt with which Mrs.
Knoyls views her husband il the
American comedy makes her akin to
Hedda- The unblus-ing JOY with
which she lives for evil proves her to
be of the same vicious breed as the
wife OF Claude Her e-Jtiness. again,
is that of Hedda. in old Ibsen's trag-
edy. But all the bad. the shameless
scOrn. the ruthless insolence Of Caro-
line Knoyls is coased with a fine
show OF superficial charm and breed
ing.
Il love to break through the conven-
tional partitions" mocks Mrs. Knoyls-
ION condition that the outer walls are
left standing"
There, in a few words, is the key to
the character OF the soUlless and VET
strangely charming woman drawn BIZ
Mr. Anpacher and so admirably inter
preted by Miss Steven