El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-10-24

! on alone for a season or two said Mr..
Sothern. But l would not undertake
to appear again in classic drama with
I out her.
'She has always been the major part
OF the combination and without her the
labor OF making new productions would
be too great and the reward too doubt
full
George Broadhurst's latest flight to
fancy, What Money Can't Buy" has
been produced at the 18th Street theater.
1t Is a romantic tale laid in a small
European kingdom and inevitably re
minds one Of Anthony Hope.
There are no asphyXiating gases and
sanguInary bayonet charges in What
Money Can't Buy II Is a love tale
The princess of a kingdom Is pledged
to a ducatloss prince. An American
finaHcier Is engaged in building a steam
railroad through her fathers domains
and the financier's son and the princess
are soon deeply in love.
Because the American Is "a commoner"
the princess sOrrowfUlly gives him mp.
But the little state Is in money diff
culties. On the morrow a mortgage held !
by bankers for 10000. 900 falls due and !
on the same day the son and the prince
" fiance of his sweetheart are to fight |
a duel
Of course the son wins the fight and /
the American father easily takes up the |
mortgage Then the prince jilts the !
princess for a pretty dancer and the {,
American boy makes the princess his |
bride.
The best scene in the play is where !
the father is awaiting the outcome of J
his sons duel George Fawcett PLAYED /
the financier in a finished manner.
As the princess Anne Meredith was /
captivating, while Sydney Shields was 1
a convincing dancer. Calvin Thomas /
was a buoyant American young man. /
and Robert Cain was as princely as l
could be wished
sherlock Holmes still has its thrills. |
William Gillette proved this at the En-
pire theater Monday evening. for the
audience waited with as much breath
lessness 10 catch the next step in the
inductive reasoning by which the great |
detective OutwIts the arch-criminal, Prof
MOriarity, as it did when this same
actor first brought out the piece in the
Garrick 16 years ago.
Conan DOvle's stories in this melo-
dramatic form were again revived in
1912. The old excitement and original
freshness never fail.
The plot has to do with the recovery
Of certain papers likely to compromise
a royal parsonage. In places It Is a
bit hay. But Mr.. Gillette's pictur-
esque force and ineisiveness overcome all
Joseph Brennan PLAYS the
professor, while Edward Mordaunt is
Mr. Larrabee- Ellen Freeman is an at
tractive Alice Faulkner.
Elsie Janis in play built to fit her
and well built for that purposes the
offering at the George NJ Conan theater.
The title given by the playwrights. Paul
Dckey and Charles ". Goddard. is
Miss information a name which re-
geals little. Behind the name Is a comic
crook plot, mixed with melodrama and
vaudeville. and all suited to allow Miss !
Janis to show off her varied talents
Miss Janis starts off as a Western |
MON boy in a raincoat and later she /
8 seen tracking the stolen necklace in I
4 gay Partisan restaurant where she
takes the part Of a London nut She (
ioes two captivating dances which /
'aused her to become such a London /
-avorite last spring. She mimics de-
lghtfully and sings a little.
Besides Miss Janis there is Maurice
tarkoa, who sings three songs well,
Afht Dpluoul- Eugene fNeNeTe- slulld
Bruins and Francis d. AlcGinn, all worth
going to see.
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"The Bargain" also called The New
Shylock. Is a strong drama by Her
nan Scheffauer. now the attraction at
he Comedy theater. 1t depicts the
truggles and sOrrows of a Jewish pawn
'roker, a shrewd bareainer, but a man
f integrity, of ideals and of what he Z
'elieyed and purPosed should be a model
amily life.
But his son turned Spectator and J
mbezzled the funds of the firm that
mployed him. stealing at last from the q
took Of his fathers store. His daugh- 2
er fell in love with a Gentle His I
econd wife becoming Jealous Of the
iemOry of his first. was consumed with ! d
desire to 20 upon the stage. O
One after another they leave him.
he old pawnbroker's heart was broken q
ut unbowed-7 The strongest scene in q
he play was that in which the jew e