The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-14
THREE FACES EAST
BATTLING MYSTERY
War Play by Anthony P.
Kelly, Scenario Writer, Opens
at Cohan and Harris.
SHOWS GERMAN SPY HUNT
Everybody in Play Is Sus-
pected Except the Out
rageous Villain.

Betting instincts Of such gentlemen
a. desire to lay a little wager now and
then were satiated last night II they
were at the Cohan & Harris Theatre
to see the premier of Three Faces
East"
From tho beginning until the last
few minutes 1t was n question as to
who IL BoeIcke, the head of the German
spy system. sought by the British In
telligence Department. Sometimes II
was one person and sometimes It was
smother. and every time the audience
became convinced It had at last discov-
cred who was he. they Just as quickly
found that this man was not the one
they were after.
1t was q merry chase and II required
the mental agility of q Rocky Mountain
goat to keep abreast of the changes.
Now he's here and now he isn't. The
formula that worked out excellently was
simply to keep everybody open to sus-
picion. And that formula, Of course. Is
based on the unassaiiable logic that
folks in general and New Workers. espe-
eially would suspect the universe Of
vronEdoins were they but given slight
opportunity.
Working on that basis. Anthony Paul
Kelly, who wrote the piece. has sue
ceeded In making everybody keep guess
ing right up to the last minute, and 1t
even drove some folks into such a men,
tai frenzy that they suspected the Brit
ish Cabinet Minister himself
Tho story concerns itself with Helene,
q girl operative OF the German Intelli-
gence Department, who Is sent to Eng
land to aid in a master coup by which
the noted Boelcke plans to end the war.
Right hero Is where the interest starts.
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with such vividness as to his atrocities
that everybody would at least like to see
him aud pass judgment upon the impor-
taAt question whether he would look
natural as he was being laid to rest in
pieces.
Under which Shell IL Peat
In order to give the stvs proper entree
into England the German Intelligence
Department has an informed English girl
shot and gives Helene her credentials
and valuables. which is not too much to
ask any one to believe after the au-
amusement. After her arrival In Eng
land the girl lives at the home Of the
Cabinet Minister. and from then
series Of shifts causes everybody to
wonder what shell the pea Is under.
The first man under suspicion Is the
butler In the Rouse. who tells Helene
that the stenogra pher in the Office of the
minister Is also an agent OF the German
Government There Is suspense and
then comes the startling, though anus
Ing revelation. that the stenographer is
in the British secret service. Anott err
man under suspicion, who was thought
to have been drowned, turns out to be
very much alive.
The butlar fnn anne n 10 worli n y
under the direction OF the British secret
service and yet there is never a certainty
as to whether any OF them are really
English or German. And then Boelcko
Is caught lit really wouldn't be fair to
tell who he was) and the girl operative
OF the German Intelligencs Department
proves that she is trustee agent of the
British Government It's really as
founding.
Author Is scenario Writer.
far fetched to De convincing. but that Is
certainly not tho case, To those Of
course who speak well only OF those
entertainments with the Made in Lon
don" trade mark and who inquired II
the piece had not been done in London.
II came as quito shock to ind out that
Mr.. Kelly Is successful author Of
scenrios in lowly, artless and much de-
sp'sed cinenras and that the piece had
never been done at all in London.
There Is an admirable cast with
Violet Heming and Emmett Corrigan
sharing the honors. Miss Heming was
charming, both soothing to gaze upon
and hear AS Helene she scored a per-
sonal success. Mr. Corrigan was ex-
cellent In the role of Valdar, the butler,
always composed always restrained, al
ways master of the situations.
Frank Sheridan Interpreted the role
Of Yeats, head Of the British Intelli-
sence Department. with sympathy and
technique. while others worthy of men
ton were Cora Witherspoon, in tho
small but amusing role of the stenog-
rapher. Herbert Evans, Charles Harbury
and Frank Westerton. The production