The sun., 1916-02-28
"PAY DAY" SEEN AS
DRAMATIC MYSTERY
Offering at COrt Theatre a
Mixture Of Movies and the
Spoken Play.
CAUSES MUCH LAUGHTER
Pay Day"-At the Cort Theatre.

The audience at the Cort Theatre on
saturday night roared with laughter
r.. through the varied scenes OF a curl.
olS composition called "Pay Day" and
then discovered at the end of the work.
hN otvcr Bailey and l.ottie Meaney.
shortly before 10 80, that nothing else
had probably been expected Of 1T all
the tine.
the piccc rested on the good old
vheezc about actors playing moving
picture drama before the audience and
'lsnahzihg what the scenario contained
They did this not only by means OF the
Genera but through the efforts o.
PLAYERS with the aid OF speech to helm
them through their Nonsense. such AZ
murder. robbery and the rest OF the
moving picture stock in tvlde.
new talking motion picture
pay was the description OF the piece
on tho programme. It is not altogether
conceivable that tho authors intended
OIL the accumulation of absurdties &c
he Laughed at. They only seemed funny
20 the glggling spectators because the,
were unintentional. To create actua
fhn the playwrights would have worked
somewhat more adroitly.
mere were two characters IN tn.
Introduction to the play--two young
actors She wanted to go into the
movies because the salaries were sc
high. She happened to he Irene Fen.
WICK, who Is by way Of knowing some
thing about that pathway OF art he
was Vincent Serrano who. being as We,
unregistered on the film. was opposed to
the plan. She had the scenario. how.
ever. and started to read
simultaneously began ''the talking
motion picture play Horrors on hor.
Fors soon began To accumulate II,
made her steal $1,000. lie deserted hei
and She went to prison for two years
Will" lie married an opulcnt and for.
giving lady who did not rebel unit
iic took a too conspicuous substitute for
her conjugal rights. For Her prison
poverty. threats of vengeance "A la Mort
TW1icr and then move trouble She wa.
much more sinnrd against than usual
liut He flour.shed like "a green bay tree
Whcn She called for help He murdered
his wife. put the deced.nt's pearls into
tho pocket of his old love and had Hei
sent off to prison for murder.
Telephone Kept Busy.
Between the momentary clutches fol
tha telephone. which was realty III.
proiagonist Of Pay bay" ther. wer.
legends of the moving picture li'erar,
>iNl" thrown on the scre.n. Picture,
II the characters united the ,hangin.
scenes. In the first act there wer.
four of these flashes. IN the second ac
me showing Him and his conpla innl
ond wife, who was murdered for hel
recalc,rancy. and in the third two.
The iirst Of these was the private Of
POO" OF physician to which She. dis
cuiscd as a boy. fled after her escap.
rom prison. The second showed Hin
with wife No. wisely leaving Him {,
attend "a meeting of her lodge. II Wal
when She came to his apartment in
Ronderful .rock of blue and silver
dtossmahers name on the programme
and through an Iud-scrbably intinat,
method succeeded in leaving Him in pos
session of a gift lie little expected from
Her Here simple nth obtrud, d from
th. amateur gunplay which had mad
ago tn. greater part OF the scene and th'
La; destination of Him ana Her Wa
th. lcper colony of Molak..
Here the plain drama as opposed Il
'h. moving pictures asserted itself an,
tn humor ceased. II was made plaii
that the two actors would go into III,
camera plays since the manager Offered
such larg. sum--aiSo communicate,
utcr the telephone.
Whatever may have rcen the purpos
ut the authors, the dudi.nc. had "A heart!
.augh at the melodraml of the scene
such genuine merIimen, has not Sourde,
90 a New York theatre in years. Whethe
he authors meant their play to he tn
source of such innocent mCrriment o
whether its dramatic scenes We're mean
10 Ice taken seriousl: is not especall
Important, Perhaps the audience woul