El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-15

None Of the talk required binders
/ on the part Of the audience. nor was
I there anything about the play TO
[ make its contemplation dangerous for
/ those with a tendency 10 high blood
] pressure But it was all agreea bic
7 and had the literary touch which diff
! ferentiated IL so pleasantly from most
J of the plays that seek TO represent
American life in any phase. Il is not
/ alone for the sake of watching the
T vasrer. nov changed man. departing
for Plattsburg that makes The
Country Cousin play that must be
seen
sslIasuuerHder'' g. FnscinntiuE-
BY one of those rare occurrences
these chances that seem too wild for
real life, and yet belong 70 no other
sphere, the two faces so strangely
hidden and strangely revealed. were
Identical. feature for feature It
seemed 10 each man that he looked
not at the face Of another. but at
his own face, rejected in a flaWless
looking glass"
This was the theme OF Katherine
Cecil Thurston's novel. The Mas
qUerader," that was one Of the big
sellers some years ago, and this
was the theme Of the play founded
upon that story by John Booth Hunter
and produced by Richard Walton
FULLY at the Lyric theater- II was
a case OF the two DrOmios. done into
AAA-AEH % NAA E1s anu SCI Gu a. AAl anna
instead Of comedy And those rare
condolences have always been pop
ular with the owners Of imaginatous-
Mr- Hunter mas accomplished his
work with a nice sense Of the theater
and Of the requirements. While there
seemed TO be a sort of psychological
interest in Mrs Thurston's novel. there
was surely nothing of that Ink in the
play at the Lyric The playwright
had no more abstruse aim than 10 en-
terrain his audience. and in the three
acts OF The Nasquerader' he Just un-
An English Plot.
The two men, John Chilcote and
John Loder- as you may remember
met in London fog. The former was
a morphine eating profligate- the
latter a. writer OF serious import
They merely change places in the
world. ChilcOte gives over every
thing to Loder. and that gentleman
assumes the identity of Chilcote.
And the love interest" be quite sure,
is not forgotten Chilcote has wife
whom he has neglected; LOder falls
in love with her the moment he meets
her She had lived apart from her
husband, Of course. so that al least
one ineEplicable complication was
bridged over.
The play followed the story-and I
closely and reverentiv enough for all /
PRODUCED for dramatic flavoring. and ]
] am bound to say that they were, I
If anything improvements The ]
story was brought up TO those rel
ligerent days-to the moment OF Bel
GUMS invasiOn-nOt that 10 mat ]
tered particularly. It. however. i'm /
parted a semblance Of novelty
The weird fascination Of the two ]
resemblances was never lost. and i
however improbable and Tar fetched I
D. n W. " a
Tt has the SAVIOR Of romance; II Is re
moved from the cut and dried prob
abilities Of modern plays; II belongs
to the old times when we went TO the
theater to be actually amused. and
best Of ALT has no axes to grind,
and is foreign TO propaganda
Lucky O'sheas Is Clever.
Luck O'Shea-" which has opened at
the Thirty-ninth Street theater. is an
immigrant from Australia New York
took to il, however, for il is some
thing OF a real novelty these days
Lucky O'Shea" is genuine old fash
toned. melodramatic, roaring, salop-
ing Irish comedy
Allen Doone. who presented the play
some 800 times in Australia. has made
himself popular with Broadway As
Larry O'Shea he is the polly. good
natured Irishman whom everyone
loves The play is laid in the days OF
and the prolog is cast in
the wake of the Little CorporaHs"
army. The subsequent scenes are laid
I'm Dublin and are prolific with gor-
geous costumes and uniforms Of the
period Allen DOone has justified the
reputation that preceded him from the
Antipodes.
aAida- Draws Opera Lovers.
The san Carlo Opera company IS
presenting Aida" at the 18Th Street
theater. and nightly drawing big au-
diences Of music lovers and persons
in the musical world
The san Carlo Opera company is new
to New York. but It is by no means
a new organization. It is famous
from Montreal TO san Francisco. and
from New Orleans to Ottawa Il was
the parent organization OF the de-
runct Boston Opera company and has
again taken up the thread OF its ac-
Invites. interrupted by a brief career
In the New England metropolis The
initial production OF Nerdfs MASTER
piece was very creditable. The san
Carlo is especially strong in mans
voices, and the four leading male