El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-10-23

! on alone for a season or two said Mr..
| Sothern. But l would not undertake
! to appear again in classic drama with
! 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 al the 4Sth Street theater.
1t IS a romantic tale laid In a small
European kingdom and inevitably re
minds one Of Anthony Hope.
There are no asphyXIatng gases and
sanguinarv bavonet charges in What
Money Can't Buy" 1t Is a love tale.
The princess of a kingdom Is pledged
to a ducatless prince. An American
fmancier 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 up.
But the little state Is in money diff
culties. On the morrow a mortgage held
BY bankers for $4,000, 900 falls due and
IL fianee 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
his sons duel. George Fawcett played
the financier in a finished manner.
As the princess Anne Meredith was
captivating, while Sydney Shields was
was a buoyant American young man,
and Robert Cain was as prineely as
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 TO catch the next step in the
induetive reasoning by which the great
detective outwits the arch-criminal, Prof.
Moriarity, as 1t 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 hazy But Mr.. Gillette's pictur-
esque force and ineisiveness overcome all
difficulties. Joseph Brennan plays the
professor, while Edward Mordaunt is
Mr.. Larrabee. Ellen Freeman Is an at
tractive Alice Faulkner.
Elsie Janis in a play built to fit her
and well built for that purposes the
offering at the George NJ. Cohan theater.
The title given by the playwrights. Paul
Dickey and Charles W. Goddard, Is
Miss Information a name which re-
veals 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
Union boy IN raincoat and later she
Is seen tracking the stolen necklace in
a gay Partisan restaurant, where she
takes the part Of London nut She
does two captivating dances which
caused her to become such a London
favorite last spring. She mimics de-
lightfully and sings a little.
Besides Miss Janis there Is Maurice
FarkOa. who sings three songs well,
Irene Bordoni. Eugene Revere. Julia
Bruins and Francis D. McGinn, all worth
going to see
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@The Bargain also called The New
Shylock.' Is a strong drama by Her
man Scheffauer, now the attraction at
the Comedy theater. 1t depicts the
struggles and sorrows of Jewish pawn
broker, shrewd bargainer, but a man
of integrity, of ideals and of what ne
believed and purposed should be a model
family life.
But his son turned Spectator and
embezzled the funds of the firm that
employed him. stealing at last from the
stock of his fathers store. His daueh-
ter fell in love with a Gentle. His
second wife becoming jealous OF the
memory of his first. was consumed with
a desire to 90 upon the stage.
One after another they leave him.
The old pawnbroker's heart was broken
but unbowed.7 The strongest scene in
the play was that in which the jew