Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-02-23
"Where Women Count" Matinee
Today

This afternoon at the Opera house
the Chicago Stock Co. will present the
famous Harvard prize play. Where
Women Count" This delightful four
act comedy originally produced in Bos-
ton under the title of Believe Me,
Xantippe" reveals new way in which
women really count and the author Of
the play. Frederick Ballard. believes
his argument, which, by the way. is a
very strong one in favor of the femin-
inc sex. has never before been used in
any play. or motion picture film. 1t is
absolutely new and the New York crit
les styled the play as huge joke on
the men," Don't miss Where Women
Count" this afternoon, the admission
is 90 cents for adults; children 10 cents.
1.-THE Dummy" Tonight
Tie best way to enjoy a thief chase
on the stage is to discard altogether
the probabilities in the case. If you are
the possessor of this happy faculty, if
you are able to convince yourself that
the possessor of an eye that never
sleeps can hire an office boy one min
ute and turn him into Juvenile King
of the Hawkshaws" the next, there's
bound to be fur in The Dummy" for
you.
The miscreants in ''The Dummy" are
a band of kidnappers. The stealing of
Charlie Ross wasn't circumstance to
the cruel purloining of little Beryl from
her not very happy home-Beryls pa
rents being estranged, to make the
case a little harder for the crafty gum
show, Walter Babbing.
Little Beryl might never have been
found if it hadn't been for Barney
Cook the messenger, who applies for
a job to be office boy to what he calls
a real "detectuff' He gets the Job. too,
and an hour later, dressed as an Elton
collar kid" and primed to pretend he
is deaf and dumb he himself is kid
mapped in the Grand Central station by
the Williams who suppose they are act
! ing on orders sent by code letter
from one of their pals.
From the moment he is stolen. Bar
ney is on the job. Being himself, for
the sake of poetic and pursuing JUS
/ tice, a kidnapped kid, little Beryl is
never out of reach of his strong right
arm. You are sure that he will rescue
the little girl in the gambling house,
where both are confined in the second
act, but there is a slip and the great
Babbing himself is caught instead by
the kidnappers.
Next you-that is, the audience
trail them to the kidnappers' bunga-
low in the Catskils. Here it is that
Barney the boy detective, slips up.
If only he hadn't talked in his sleep.
Two or three tired mumbles and he
gives the elaborate deaf and dumb
dodge away
After many of the most startling
complications he manages to bring the
| kidnapped child back and win a re-
ward of 10000
Saturday Matinee, Charlie Chaplin
The matinee Saturday afternoon is a
! roaring comedy entitled Charlie
Chaplin's Jitney Joy Ride" between
acts Of which clever singing and dane
! ing specialties will be introduced
Saturday Evening, "Why Girls Leave
Home"
The soul-stirring drama why Girls
Leave Home" in five acts and eight
wonderful scenes, will be produced.
This is play that every mother
should take her daughter to see, every
brother should take his sister, in fact,
it is a play that the whole family
should see, for it pictures exactly how
white slavery is practised in the large
cities and even the smaller ones. Seats
are now selling and Judging from the
already large advance sale a capacity
audience will be present-Advt.