The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-02-06
lEY HAS A RAISON D'ETRE

sity " located at Sandusky. Ohio,
enters. Mrs. McChesncp. to continue
with the plot. cries. why. Jack! I'd
never know you!" One can blame
the mother for her exclamation be-
cause Jack doesn't frame up by at
least four and one-half feet to the
height Jack has been depicted BY
Howard Chandler Christy, Clarence
Underwood, John Alonzo Williams
and the other illustrators who have
Illustrated him in the "Emma Nc
Chesney'' stories in the various maya
| zines in which Emma" has been APP
pearing.
Young Donald Gallaher, who is the
Jack McChesney Of the play. almost
yesterday was a curly locked. knicker-
bockered child actor with Dusty
| Farnum in Newt y. Tarkington's
| Cameo Kirby and with Hen War
ner in alias Jimmy Valentine" As
ISOLATION with gamblers like Cameo
and a crook such as Jimmy Vdlen-
tine evidently have spoiled Donald
for life. For now, for the first time
in long pants on any stage. Donald
Gallaher as Jack starts right in
marrying a chorus girl and kiting
checks. He's clever, though; for he
raises a check for $50 to $500 and
gets away with II. Just between
ourselves. I've tried to do it myself
and never have got beyond adding an
additional cypher to the 20. That part
IL easy. but when I've tried to change
the spelled out word Twenty" to
1.-TWO hundred" without making the
check look messy I've always fallen
down on the job.
Jack McChesney, however. manages
70 change the word Twenty" to
1.-Two hundred In some manner un-
known to at least one other who has
tried IL and failed. and 90. to get
back TO the plot again. Abe Fromkin
dts tho second act now comes in
and makes a fiat offer of $4,000 for
a skirt. This is without a doubt the
highest offer ever made any place
for a skirt.
Nothing mt Of the offer and
therefore Miss Ferber of Appleton
wis. and George V. Hobart. associate
dramatist, Of tho Lambs Club nov
raise the curtain on Act III. Fdl
Ed Meyers is now back in the New
York office Of the T. A. Buck Com
pany, but he still IL sporting the clare,
Icoiored handkerchief he had been carry.
ing out around the Sloane House In
Sandusky. So far the Papers have not
appeared IN the play, but they are
mentioned in this last act when Mrs
McChesney tells Donald Gallaher that
she has lifted the mortgage on the
old home.
Undoubtedly the rarest stroke OF
u..i,. t., .Ial;,btf.,I ,Dp,od, han
pens in his last act. a bit OF realism
: however. which might be developed
,even further effectively. Dan Froh-
man. boss of the Lyceum Theatre. in
a way il responsible for the idea. Dan
u personally saw to ii that our little
group OF serious thinkers had two
n seats on the aisle in the front. or A
u row. and running along the theatre
floor a foot or two in front Of the
front row seats and raised about hall
u :, a foot from the carpet is a brass rail
Without starting out consciously &c
y do Il. ones foot finds the brass raj
and rests upon it comfortably. rs
! peciallv welcome is the brass rail il
: the last act. which is divided into TIVE
scenes. There IL an intermission q,
only one minute between these scenes
OF the third act. or too short a tim.
10 get up and 60 out for a breath o.
air and everything. But with a bras.
n rail near the hoor to rest ones foo
Ie upon one feels as II one really were
a outside AZ Gilligan's place meeting IN,
d air.
What Dan and every other man
X aver from coast to coast ought "a d.
right away Is to place a similar brass