El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-07

was the vixen Alice and Mary Servoss
her older sister.
Helps faded Theatergoer.
A season without at least one play
from the Hattons would take all the
paprika from the feast. For when the
faded playgoer wearles OF the flat and
tasteless dramatic menu spread before
him as an average sample of what New
York theaters afford, he can find a new
spice to life in the lines OF HattOn play.
There Is really nothing quite so naughty;
and Vet these brilliant authors never
actually offend. Often they skirt the
edge of danger and one gasps at some
perfectly shocking epigram or a situation
that stops Just this side of the hopeless
" improper. So the annual Hatton COM
edy has come TO be looked forward TO
as one of the genuine thrills Of the
year.
It was a willing and expectant audi
enee that filled the COrt theater to wit
ness Upstairs and Down. a play that
made a big hit in Los Angeles this sum-
mer. Brilliant Nanny HattOn was there
in a box, sweetly satisfied that even
blase New York would have something
to chatter about at the final curtain.
Frederick Hatton, the gentle, lured into
strange literary paths during these re-
cent years by his more daring collabo-
ratOT, hid himself shyly IN one of the
back rows. Between them they could
not fail to get a true angle on the eX-
act verdict. That this verdict was one
of success for these two clever drama
lists there was no reason to doubt
Modern Version of Old Play.
upstairs and Down Is a mOdernized
New York version of the older English
play High Life Below Stairs" Up
stairs" is the synonym for the group Of
idle rich gathered at this country home
during the English polo match. Down
stairs" represents a group of servants
and it must be said that of the two the
latter are infinitely the more interesting.
The cleverness of the verbal fancing
which makes every line of the plav a
sparkling gem of mere naughtiness, JUS
titles the remark OF Strang the prying
and sanctimOniOus butler. that up
stairs" in a fashionable Long Island
house is no place for an unsephisticated
Harlem maid. This Is the downstairs
point of view. And the upstairs" point
of view is scarcely different if we NAV
take the word Of hopeful young widow
in search of a thrill, who affirms that
it is as much as the reputation of wild
Ow is worth these DAYS to be found in
the company of 1916 model debutante
Into this surcharged atmosphere is in
the rollieking. philandering
Irish army officer with a reputation as
a heart breaker; and his French valet,
built on the same plan who. as the Irish
man explains, was a member Of the same
regiment; and then, when the regiment
broke up, the Frenchman came along as
servant and became finally a friend. So,
while the hero plays havoc with the mis-
tress and her guests upstairs, the valet
Is making mad love TO everything in
petticOats-
Upstairs and Down. to the everlast-
ing glory of Frederick and Fanny Hat
ton, must be written down a success,
though it can hardly hope for the long
careers on Broadway that awarded their .
Two former efforts. Years of Discretion I
and "The Great Lover"
New Midight Show.
For the visitors from out of town and J
he tiny minority Of New Workers who
AN afford the lack of sleep, the new
show starting at midnight on the roof
II the Forty-fourth Street theater offers
/ charming novelty
1t is called The Bull Ring" and a
pleasant Spanish atmosphere is impaired
10Th by the decorations and the enter
The costumes are dazzling and,
las, somewhat seanty. The whirling
performers pirouette on the stage, over
he big open dancing floor and up be-
ween the tables where the spectators
1T. The program is a tabloid review
fter the style which Mr. Ziegfield in
-ented for his Midnight Frolic.7
The best dancers of the evening Tex
use US, morningl are the Marvellous
'lillers. while two tumbling eau
with a brace of excellent
.Oodles, also draw applause.
Caroline"
Margaret Anglin doesn't have much
nance to cry in Caroline" the new play
" W. Somerset Vaughan at the En-
ire. Instead she laughs and laughs
veil.
For some minutes in the third act she |