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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-16
Mantell as Brutus

Robert Mantell was seen in his ia =
miliar characterization of Brutus at the
Lyric Theater last night The play.
Julius Caesar" marked the opening of
the final week of the noted actors APP
pearance in Shakespearean repertoire.
Mr. Mantels Brutus is well known to
students of the stage. 1t Is a finely
drawn picture OF the noble Roman who
is torn by his love for Rome on the one
hand and his love for Caesar on the
other. The actor adheres to his earlier
Interpretation of the role, evidently pre-
ferring to heed the cry of the classcists
rather than that of the modern students
OF Shakespeare.
Fritz Leber was splendid Anthony.
He put so much character and life into
his acting that even the old war horse.
Friends, Romans. Countrymen," held
attention from beginning to end. There
was the correct balance between youthful
ambition and love for the master Caesar
to make the part authoritative. Caesar
was ably portrayed by Guy Lindsey.
John Burke, as Cassius, and Frank
Peters, as Casca, played the arch-con-
spirators we'll Miss Florence Auer, as
portia Brutus' wife, was especially sym
pathetic in her short scene.
The performance was acted as directed
by Edwin Booth in William Winters edi-
ton of the old actors prompt book His
influence was most strongly felt in the
mob scenes, which were more than mere
gatherings of supers who shouted or
showed al given signals. Julius Caesar
will be performed again at both Saturday
performances. "Othello" is the play to-
night.
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TIE THEATRE

Z as II is, loses nothing Of interest be-
cause ii is wholesomely minus any OF
the impudent and salacious dramaturgic
devices of Broadway musical comedy, and
| the dialogue. free from suggestiveness,
cen bring merriment OF which one need
| not be ashamed. Why. there isn't sin
glo double entondrc" I'm the whole piece.
yet large audience laughed continuously
aud heartily. There was not single
speciality and no one noticed the
omission. There were no hints Of ad-
vance styles In lingerie from the chorus.
| ior the chorus was busy with its proper
mission of song and not diverted to
service as cloak models. 1t was all very
diuerent-aud very much finer-than the
meiange of vaudeville, blatancy, bra2en-
ness ana boredom, known as the revue
ANA curiouslN-or naturally-an average
crowd liked It all
Liked 1t despite the fact that Sir VIII
'Rln I't his book run as romantic
operetta without underlying satire of CON
temporary foible, such as the estheticism
puoble pungently pricked In Patience" ="
or OF universal shortcoming, such as the
pretentlousness, pomp and malfcasance
laughed to scorn in "Mlkado," and despite
tho iact that Sir Arthur's score has gem
eraIN more sophistiCatlon than spon-
taneity, rs might he expected In work
which Is virtually the swan song of the
major line of Savoy operas, that was
broken after the collaboration ceased the
year after It's premier. 1855 Yet it has
all tho typical Sullivan qualities of
huency, of delicacy of characterizinu
touches, Of merry musical iests equal to
the wit of the librettIst. Of varied en-
ploymcnt of tone color, of recognition Of
the fact that there Is a woodwind choir
as well as brass In the orchestra and
ptanlssImo and moderate as well as
their extremes among the principles Of
composition. These are facts forgotten.
or never known by the cafe and cabaret
school Of composers who write the scores
of nowadays
1t was good TO hear "fn Days of Yore.
with its intricate part-writing eSquisitely
vocaized by the male chorus: "The
Merryman and His Maid" drolly acted as
well as sung by De Wolf Hopper and
1delle Patterson; Were Thy Bride"
the Cozening lyric, bewltchngly rendered
by Gladys Caldwell; 30 Weary Voice."
another liltful triumph for Miss patter-
son, Arthur Aldridges sentimental tenor
ballad. and score more of fine, funny.
fnInIiI phDrilqpq
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trayer Of 1bsen roles. The story deals
candtdiy with the folly OF secriacine
human lives for the sake of petriotlsr,
and power and presents some brutal
truths which no imperial essayist could
successfully attack.
An aged mother is heart-brokon be-
cause the war has taken her sons to the
front. While she is prieyinp over her
plight an officer about to march away
enters the cottage and demands tho hand
oil her daughter. The King has decreed
that we all must marry he saws. The
guI Is shocked by such proposal but
hnAllN consents at the advice OF her
mother While she Is unwlingly folded
w inc arms Of tho prospective husband.
Whom she scarcely knows Joan n daugh-
IeF-lh-Iaw of the aged woman, comes i'm
from the fields. She Is horror-strickeu
ON hearing that her sister-in-l.w is about
to make such a sacrifice As she expects
shortly to bring another life into the
world while her husband is away fighting
LOT MS country, she denounCes the sys-
tenn which Compels mothers TO make their
oHspTlng food for cannon Facing the
amorous admrer of her sister tn-law, she
declares. THE time will come when we
VIII stop giving you men to be used as
cannon fodder. You ask us to go and
breed for the empire, but we have no
80 w say WuHl SIHll De uOne Wltl our
children.' Her denunciaton changes the
mind Of the bride-to-be. The maddened
otticer Informs his superior and Joan Is
threatened with imprisonment for being
n traitor" Her burden is increased
when she hears shouts Of news from tho
front and learns that her husband has
been killed She asks the commanding
ofhcer TO take note to the King, urging
MIN to end the conflict Then quietly she
takes revolver gropes her way out OF
the house and kills herself
she was crazy" says the commanding
officer. but will keep this matter
quiet"
Nazimova's portrayal OF the distracted
Joan is dramatic triumph. Endless cur
tain calls greeted her efforts. As the
heart-broken mother Louis Emery gives
character study which IL In itself q
stirring appeal Excellent support is also
given by Mary Allen. as the sister-in-
law and Charles Bryant as the intended
bridegroom
Other acts on the bill which won favor
included Claudius and Scarlet. in music
of long ago, Mack and Orth. singers and
comedians: The Legrohs. wonderful aero
bats; lie Roy Lytton and company. Bo-
land and Holta, Cleo Gascoigne. a classy
singer of operate airs and Paul Conchas
in feats of strength
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one finds 1t easy to associate the con-
fident grace of Miss Harrisons manner
with the assurance and the artistic
righteousness of her playing Certainly
this was a time when nothing but excel
lence was expected; yet the performance
passed far beyond expectations. Miss IGar-
rison, playing Tschaikowsky's Variations
on a Rocco Theme indicated a mastery
of the yloloncello which was an impecca-
ble IS 1t was unobstrusve.
In her swift caden2as, and even against
the orchestra, her harmonics were clean
and clear; her bowling when II needed to
be rapid was never hurried, and the tone
which she drew from her instrument was
So rich, so fine, that quite apart from
the graciousness of the music, 1t blessed
the ear upon which II fell. 1t Is not In
point to say that one rarely hears the
violoncello played by women' because one
rarely hears 1t played so well by men,
The sense of rhythm, the nIceness of ac-
cent. the feeling for nuance of feeling
even in suCn a work. are things which
must be taken for granted i'm the case
of amy artist. They are, eventually, as
much a part of the artists technical
equipment as mastery of the scale. Miss
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Harrison brings to these qualities n pene-
trative sympathy, a thoughtful lowell
ness and an artistic dignity OF interprete-
tion. She is wonderfully good.
Symphony and Players
Doctor Muck has been urkiudly taken
to task for his program, i'm other cities
CcNccpting Boston. where he is properly
worshpcd) Last night one could Won
der. i'm advance. why the two Overtures
found place. After the fact IL became
clear that each had It's Justification TN tho
wonderful orchestral qualities 1t could eX-
hiuit Wagner for the wind and Weber
for the horns were as gratifying as could
well be. II is not often that the third
choir of au orchestra finds opportunity
for individual display of its talents.
When that choir contains such horns rs
those of ,hc Boston symphony 1T de-
serves. once I'M a season, to speak alone.
The part song for four golden throats
was as beautiful in "Der Freischuelz'
as the rising beauty Of the woodwind I'm
the Faust overture" And In Conuec-
ton with the latter ii may be called
10 the attention OF those who fancy that
pr Muck Is tealperameutaiy Incapable
uE conducting only the first half. that 1t
was the second haIf os the overture which
passed I'm cNa.ta'ion even The last move
mCut OF tIr symphuul
Brahms first, the worlds tenth accord
ing to Won Buclow. has had tho good
fortune OF two .playings within very
short time. As previously with TIE
"Erotca,' Dr Muck chose to play the
same symphony as Mr. Damrosch. In
Doth cases he WIS justified because it
could hardly ne said. after the two per
inrmdnccs, that the same work was
played. The first ImoN cmonl was certainly
not of SURPRISING distinction. the ale
Eretto received hut a minimum of tuspira-
tion, There remained then the Hndantc.
to show the WOudrous virtuosity of the
oboe and clarinet. and tho finale, to show
tile Nrtuosity. more wonderful still. Of
the orchestra and its conductor To ac-
cept the SvuthCsis. the slow creation Of
tnls glorious work, which leads neither
10 heaven uor t. he'll, bat to vartn with
lis own pa.sious aud it's own pains, was
an experience Of the high, st order.
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TIGER INN, LANDMARK
OF REVOLUTION, RAZED
Place Where George Washing
ton Often Stopped to Give
Way to Modern Buildings.

The old Tiger Inn is being torn down:
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queer little signpost bearing an aggressive
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ot II tiger IN the jungle. 1t was TINS sign
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Rich in historic interest, the ancient
landmark just stones throw from the
6'tt street station, has succumbed TO the
ehcroachments OF modern real estate de-
NcIopmcht. ana corps OF husN Work
men arc laboriously taking II down, so
that 1913 suburban homes may rise phOe-
niN-likc from its ruins
1t was one of the few remaining types
of the old taverns OF Revolutionary days,
ana what the residents out there cannot
understand Is why some historical socl-
ETY. Keen on the preservation or just
such reminders or former DAYS mas hot
been interested enough 10 save the old
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A LII day long n snow storm ragged.
"A One of the sputtery, fiourshy, spring
snow storms that begin and end so un-
eRpeetedly that no one can tell much
about them.
And all the day. TImmy GraytaIl and
Billy Robin hid in the safe shelter OF
some barberry bushes. Timmy Graytail
Ahugged down close TO the ground and
sily Robin stayed just as near as he
eould-he liked the company. He was so
rishtened by the storm that he didn't
lry to hunt for the shelter he had planned
lot himself in the tree. That's the way
sl'h woods creatures as with people.
you know. They plan so carefully just
shat they will do then when something
Hsppehs they are so surprised they don't
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Laughs Without Bushes

II "P,nafore" could he subtitled THE
Lass Who Loved a Sailor 1t would
surely not be unfairly or unfully de-
scriptlve of The Neomen of the Guard"
10 label it "The Lass Who Loved a
Cavalier Condemned to the Fate of Nanki
Poo" Not that "The Yeomen" is reminis-
cent of "Pnarore" or THE Mikado": for
Il Isn't any more semblable than the town
Of Titipu. say, is like London town on the
Tower Green of which the Gilbert fable
and the Sullivan music run their course.
The Tower Green. set on the stage of
the Metropolitan last night, in the cur
rent series of revivals by the Gilbert and
Sullivan Opera Company. was illusively
and imaginatively romantic. securing an
effect, scenic, a least. lacking in some
others OF the repertory.
The yeomen, habited i'm their bril-
lant-hued, medieval-cut garb and brand
lshng the trusty partisans which
have been their distinction since their
foundation IN the fifteenth century with
martial tread and resonant voice. fur
nished a military and vocal back
Eound for the scenes at first sicklied
Der with the gloomy cast of pending
tragedy, later pierced with the beams of
sunny humor. They looked for all the
world like procession of Raleighs, Fro
bishers, brakes and other ruffed worthless
y
beth as they paraded Colonel Fairfax, the
sdeyil-may-care, gay limb, sentenced to de-
gapitatlon within the hour, back and forth
between the Tower and the Green until
their sergeant's wheedlesome daughter ef-
fected the prisoners escape by coZening
the Assistant Tormentor. who would
a-Woong go and who in the ardor of his
somewhat saturnine courtship never
missed his distracted keys. Plot aplenty
persists in the "Yeomen of the Guard"
for is not the Don Cesar de Bazan motif
ol wedlock prior to execution grated on
tAat Of an escaped prisoners submcrgence
oi self In the personality of another will
Ing TO run the risk, both familiar themes
q theatrical development, and are there
not piquant, mysterious strolling singer
and wistful, sacrihcial maid to divide
ne interest OF the herolne's role and COM
.pleate the action, and does not a madcap
any frolic through the scenes and add
ms share TO the complexities?
Every twist in the plot, every quirk of
character last night seemed to bring
q reminiscent glow to n great proportion
q the exceedingly large audience, for
the confirmed Gilbertians were out in
Iofee, and so were their sisters and their
cousins and their aunts. not to mention
petter halves and members of their
Younger generation, all of whom, young
ser and oldster, took obvious joy in the
proceedings.
For the plot, naive, simple, conventional
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Walnut" "MilestOnes"

Not frequently do coworSers achieve
their purpose so successfully as did
Arnold Bennett and Edward knoblauch
in their play. "Milestones." which paid
another visit to Philadelphia at the Wal
nut Street Theatre last night. The play
is a footlight tale of three generations.
in which the literary flavor seldom is
missing.
The essence of the play lies in its con-
trast between youth and old age, the
radical impetuous tendency of the first
and the conservative mania of the other.
The bitted inner core of conflict continues
to near the last, when a bit of sentiment
softens the final curtain.
Miss Florence Born, playing this year
ms Gertrude Rhead. surpassed her col
leagues In her representations. The entire
cast. however, cleverly represents the ad-
vances of time from act to act and does
itself credit in the presentation.
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ADEL.PHI-"Pego O. Ny Heart" with an sx.
ceent cast Hartley Manners popular and
amusing comedy Of the impetuous young
English family. First-rate amusement. :s:l5
BROAD.-''The Blue Envelope" with w, J.
Ferguson. new farce recording the adveh-
plantations In Cuba and ends up in the
society of THE Clinging Vine" See re
FGo,RRREsf.fhe EIfSiIG' 'iiEDGEai's Mot on
Pictures OF the War, 1900 feet OF battle, with
the Kaiser well to the fore The news o. the
great war ~ action; q , q ~ ana s5O
Cohan's mastery dramatization OF the story
OF the young author who went up to
deserted inn In winter TO write novel The
much humor The principal SUCCESS OF last
LifTsTs1IHF..;;fhe' piper with Edith Wynns
phine Preston Peabody's stTatfoTd prize play.
which deals skllfnlly a blank verse Wisana
version Of the pied Piper $50
repertory. Second week, tonight ,UOihell9
evening The Merchant Of Of, Eenife Thssf- ssS
urday matinee and evening Julius Caesar 3
METRoPoLITAN-De Wolf Hopper and Gll-
bert sullivan Opera COMPANY ~ . feperIoTy,
matinee. The Mikado''; Wednesday night
The soreereE and Trial rial by i4 IHry I dhssf- ssf
wAiNuT.-' Aillsstones'' me English comedy
In which the adventures OF family OF chip
buiiders are traced through three generations.
company OF English actors play the
piece. SEe review. '.'.''''''''-''''''
Vaudeville
KEITH SHINE Nazlmoya IN War Brides
Paul Conchas; Claudius and Scarlet In The
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CHILDREN'S CORNER
Timmy Graytail Decides to Help the Spring

Mr. sun looked down on the world just
as smiling and pleasant as ever he had
Good morning, everybody he said by
way of greeting; this is a fine day"
Hear that!' exclaimed rimmy Gray
tail, jumping up from his sleep and look
ing around "the old sun says it's going
to be a fine day."
No answer
Now where is that friend of mine?"
asked Timmy Graytail, 'I do hope Billy
Robin wasn't hurt by that old storm
1 wonder If I'd better hunt for him?"
But before he could wonder any more.
Billy Robin himself called from nearby
tree. Ill there. Timmy Graytail! he
shouted, Its time you were up! This is
a fine day and we must get busy"
"I know it is fine day" replied Timmy
Graytail; "old Mr.. Sun told me about it,
and I was just trying to find YOU to tell
you it would be good But what do you
want us TO get to work at?'
"At the spring." replied Billy Robin,
tersely.
"At the spring." exclaimed Timmy
Graytail in surprise. what can we do
with the spring. I'd like TO know? Any
way! | don't believe the spring is as
near as we thought 1t was. I believe II
was only fooling us all the time"
1T wasn't fooling MEH' said Billy
ROBIN. mot DIT OF II! We seen springs
before. and l know what they do, What
this spring wants is helpers to encourage
IT."
Tlmmy Graytail gasped "Of all fool
ishness-" he began in disgust. "Billy
Robin, I'm ashamed of YOU! Talking
about the spring needing helpersl
thought you had some sense!" And
Timmy Graytail turned away.
"Oh, have sense. all right" said Billy
Robin, pleasantly. That's why / want
TO help the spring. If we woods creatures
talked about spring, and sang about
spring, I'm sure the spring would be en-
eouraged to stay"
Timmy Graytail hesitated. Sounds
reasonable" he said at last, "and 1 like
the idea of helping the spring"
Good for you" exclaimed Billy Robin.
Now come into the forest and I'll show
YOU how a spring Is made" So they Went
of into the forest determined 10 help the
season.
oopglfghf. 1915 Clara IHgraas Jadson.
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WHAT'S DOING TONIGHT

Sunday Revival, tabernacle, 18th and Vine
streets : 30 o'clock Free.
Northwest Business Men, 1896 Columbia
avenue; o'clock. Free
Fifty-scventh Street Improvement Associa-
ton, Stinsous Han, Girard avenue and Goth
street: y o'clock. Free
caster avenue; o clock. Free
FrankIord Board of Trade, Frankford: s
O'Clock Free
Concert Tor benefit OF earthquake sufferers
m.Italy. by II Crcoa Italiana. Musical Fund
Han: O'clock
4cGture on "Pennsyvana Forests" by
Irwin $. Williams. at Newman Catholic Club,
3W} North sd street; o'clock
Meeting Of Sisterhood of Rodeph shalom.
Hroad and Mt. Vernon streets; o'clock.
Free.
'Kansaroo Court" a inlay at the V NJ c.
~ OF the Philadelphia Navy Yard: s o'clock.
Musicale Equal T'ranchse Society, 1S2l
Pine street: S:l5 o'clock.
Lecture. ELECTRICITY and Sea Battles" II.
II Horuor, New Century Club; S O'Clock.
Philadelphia Safety Council, Franklin Inst-
tute: o'cloCk.
University extension lecture, Representative
Interpretation of Llfe-Eant, the Ethical In
terpretation,' Griffith Hall; o'clock.
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The Boston Symphony Orchestra last
night concluded it's series Of five con-
certs in Philadelphia. The work of this
organization, which adds annually so
much TO the pleasures of musical life in
this city. is too important to be summed
up in n scaut review. 1t will, therefore.
receive separate consideration. The pres
ent concert, at which Miss Beatrice Ilac-
rlson was sOloist and in the course of
which Doctor Muck conducted Brahms
first symphony, Wagner's Faust over
ture and Wcber's overture to Der Fret
schuetz," is matter enough for one re-
view
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Queen Thanks Women Here

The Daughters of the Empire, Of this
city, have received letter from Queen
Mary OF England, thanking them for the
donations of clothing and other articles
sent to the British, French and Belgian
soldiers. The letter was sent by Lady
Annie Hawley, the Queens secretary. to
Mrs. Wilfred Powell, wife of the British
Consul General at Philadelphia.