El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-04-15
Many Old Time Successes
Being Revived; Some New
Broadway Shows.

JEW YORK, April ia flood Of
N interesting reTivals will mark
- the end Of the waning season
one Of the most, IL not the most pros
porous in the history Of the New York
stage
to the old time play lover who wishes
70 have the pleasure OF recollection of
Joys OF other days. and to the young
ster who likes to view the famous sue
cesses Of which he has read. With
these the playEoer may mingle just q
touch Of WEAKNESS OF present day fash
ions, initiative musical comedies, over
brisk comedies and III assorted impor-
tations.
The first Of these REVEALS we have
already with US. The Great Pursuit.
the revised version OF c. Haddon Cham
berss The Idler." has made many
friends at the shubert theater
Arnold DAILY promises TO appear soon
IN the title role OF Beau Brummel"
Richard Mansfields great vehicle. The
east viii be composed Of well known
players. This great comedy has not
been presented for many a year and the
public should welcome IL eagerly. for Il
has been identified with the stage Of
the new world.
An old time favorite, Edna Mayt
now retired from the stage a. the re-
suit OF her marriage 10 Oscar Lew
isohn, is brought to mind by the news
that preparations are being made TO
give The Belle OF New York In this
splendid musical comedy Miss May
found a way to the hearts Of both
Americans and Englishmen-
The Belle OF New York" will follow
The Blue Paradise" at the Casino the
alter. Attempts have been made TO in
duce Mrs. Lewisohn herself to appear
in it but so far these have been with
out result
fair ones Of the screen for the nonce.
may be induced TO fOrsake the studios
and take the place refused by Mrs
Lewisohn.
Early in May E. H. sOthern will re-
turn 70 Broadway in IF ] Were King"
one Of his great successes. the profits
10 80 TO the Actors fund. It 8 said
this i'll be his last appearance before
hs announced retirement from the
stage.
Continuing the shaxspere produc-
lions technically. I suppose they are
revivals) Sir Herbert Beerbohm will be
seen as Shylock in ''The Merchant OF
Venice" after King Henry VIII" IS
taken off the boards OF the New Am
sterdam. Elsie Ferguson will be the
Portia. II is TO be feared that James
x. Hackett and Viola Allen win be un-
able to give their promised "Othello' at
the Criterion on account OF Mt. Hack
etts poor health
John Barrymore. known as an actor
o. light comedy, has established him
self as a player OF substance in John
Galsworthy's sombre drama, Justice"
The play itself Is one OF the two or
three most notable productions Of the
present season
In the part Of the poor vveak-wilIed
clerk caught by the evermoving wheels
Of British criminal law, Mr.. Barrymore
gave remarkable exhibition OF dra-
matte power and intelligence. His
work is being widely praised and we
VIII undoubtedly see him in other Sc
rious roles soon.
The cast as a whole is remarkably
vel chosen and a credit TO the young
producers, the Corey-w illiams-Riter
company. The producers also had the
TO be honest with the pubHc
before the production OF the play and
no one came TO the Gambler Monday
night without knowing he was to see a
piece in which power and intensity
took the place Of humor.
The play tells the love Of the clerk
for the wife Of a drunken. hideously
brutal man. Driven 70 frenzy by the
young woman's plight, the clerk re-
solves TO flee with her and her two
To obtain money 10 leave England he
raises one OF his employers checks, is
taught, convicted and turned out OF
prison at the end OF a two-year term 4
~ solitary confinement a helpless
thing.
But Justice has not done with him. |
&c Is unable to hold several positions /
His old employers finally take him /
back. and at this point he Is rearrested !
Tor failing 20 report 10 the police at /
he proper time. Unable to bear the 1
thought Of a return to the prison and |
- awful inhabitants. he leaps 10 his !
Heath. his end made more bitter by the /
knowledge that the woman he had at
tempted 70 help has drifted through !
diversity into evil ways to support her /
In the deeply stirred audience were
Thomas Mott Osborne, exwarden. and /
5eorge W. Kirchway, present warden
n Sing Sing. There were many other /
prominent persons present.
Cathleen Neshitt gave n remarkable
portrayal Of Ruth HONEYWELL. the wom-
IN IN the play, while o. p. Heggis, as
collectors clerk. and Henry Stephenson. |
- the senior partner in the employing