El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-10-14


| tisrv on account of a bad check, she told
| the manufacturer who had ruined her
| father that she now had her revenge,
| within the law
! Frederick Truesdell, as the manufac-
| turer- night Waterman. gives a fine per
| Torrance of a somewhat difficult part.
"His Majesty Bunker Bean"
| Lee Wilson Dodd's dramatization OF
! Harry Leon Wilson's story, His Ma
/ iesty Bunker Beam has captivated its
| first New York audience. Apparently
| almost everybody present had read the
book and was glad to see his old friends
| of the printed page in the flesh.
| The play follows Mr. Wilson's story
very closely, both in plot and character
+ drawing. Taylor Holmes Is the timid
/ Young stenographer who suddenly be
/ comes wealthy and successful by i'm
l agining himself the reincarnation of
| Napoleon and other notabIes Pretty
| Florence Shirley Is the Flapper. the girl
who speaks OF a fine automobile as "a
/ little old last years car.
Grandma the demon, the greatest
| pitcher the world has ever known, the
/ blatant Bulgar and the willy Balthazar
! are all there, and nobody will be dis
appointed who goes to see them
"Arms and the Girl"
The latest war play. arms and the
| Girl Is lust an amusing farce without
a trace of -'frightfulness" about it. The
|! scene Is laid in a ruined Belgian town
| Just as the invaders arrive. To save a
fellow countryman from being shot as
a spy an American girl says he Is her
! fiance-
The German general. Klaus. a believ-
er in welded bliss, Is delighted. RO
| nance right in the midst of grim war,
u On Tn# ma md
so it must be-
Then come the complications. due to
the married couples attempts to avoid
the over intimacy which the command
er and his lieutenants obliginglv offer
them. But everything Is in good taste,
even when general Klaus, gazing de-
! lightedly up from the moOnlit court
yard to the lighted window of the bridal
chamber whispers to a brother officer:
4 must send them a fine wedding
present. I'll get one as soon as we get
TO Paris next week
For all that is said, he is going to
buy the present.
Fay Banter endeared herself TO those
who saw the piece by her exquisite pOr-
travail of the bride. She viii probably
be seen by metropolitan audiences.
The cast as a whole is very good. The
general was Henry NOgel. who played
before, in Marie Odile" The husband
Is agreeable Cyril Scott a veteran, but
still youthful in stage appearance J.
Malcolm Dunn was a genial and gallant
lieutenant.
"Hushi" a Clever Play.
"Hushi" was found in the hands of
stock company in an English provincial
| city and rescued from oblivion by a
London manager and bv Winthrop
Ames, who presents 1t at the Little the
alter. We can Onlv hope that Miss NlO-
| let Pearn will write some more like 1t.
II Is a delightful, light, airy bit. which
loses little here by its English atmos-
phere The play opens in jim Grevllie's
apartment. where his parents have come
to meet his fiancee for the first time.
,Jim's divinity enters in brooches
Julie Laxton, It seems, believes in sex
/ liberty. She SAYS:
where others say hush We say
/ shout Where others say hldeH we
say 'lOokI"
But Julie herself seems to be hiding
| something from Jim and she makes
mention of a baby. Then Jim's parents
start for a play. The play is here in
! terpolated.
"A Girl from the wilds."
Lucilla. girl from the wilds, Is
/ brought by Keith Allisa as a bride TO
the house of his parents, an English
| country rectory, where everybody says
/ "hush" and often has reason to- The
women so impress upon the young wife
that her speech Is too free that after
her baby is born she is ashamed TO talk
I about It. Result. gossip. She finally
| orders the stomachs of the baby and OF
| her husband barred to show both have
| the same birthmark. This is the near
est to ANYTHING which might be hushed
I'D with propriety 10 be found IN the
play
The last act is back in Jim's apart
ment. The mystery Of the baby comes
I'd strongly upon the appearance Of a
| strange man. But jim stands by Julie,
SAYING:
4 believe IN the same sex liberty for
women as for men myself, but, hang 1t
all. men don't have babies"
But Jim doesn't have TO wOrry long.
| The baby is only the one IN the play
which had TO be fed and cared for Ju-
| lie, it seems, IS the playwright OF the
play within a play
Cathleen Nesbitt made q success OF
the role of Julie, while Robert Rendel
PLAYED jim. The cast was good through
out. Most of the persOnages are actors
in the play inside the play itself.
Some New Playlets.
The Washington Square Players have
opened their regular subscription sea-
son at the Comedy theater-
The new adventure completes a pill
grimage under a trinity OF mascot BIS,
for they began their playing as anna
teurs in a Greenwich village Barn,
worked their cooperative way up
through the BandbOx and have achieved
Broadway.
Four new one act playlets constituted
the program. The Players themselves
on being unusual in their dramatic
methods and material and a bill that in
cludes a Russian harliquinade ga Mer-
" Death'), a French comedietta
('LOvers' Luck''), New England trag-
edy ("The Sugar House, and a farce
based on the spocrypha c-Sisters Of
Susanna'l surely sustains the latter
part Of their claim.
''Ihe Sugar House" Is the sordid story
of a farmer who leaves a good wife
for a light o love, Sue Berry. Both
sinners would have been tarred and
feather in the maple sugar boiling house
by the virtuously angry neighbOrs had
not the wife begged forgiveness for the
erring ones for the sake of her unborn
child.