The sun., 1919-04-22
HOPP DRAMATIZES
UNIVERSE'S HISTORY
White Hope of Footlights
Energies to Challenge Any
Who Tend to Scott.
MODERN ADAM AND EVE
Climax, the Brotherhood Of
Man, Delayed Too Long for
Impulsive Reporter.

Ever young and ever fair. orr old
friend Julius Hopp. the white hope OF
the drama. returned to public view last
night as beautiful as a butterfly newly
emerged from its chrysalis and pausipg
for n moment to dry Its wings before
soaring sunward. In the old days, as
everybody recalls, julius and his Peo-
Pies Free Stage Society dramatized
everything from buttonholes to free
lunch In the course of their job OF maxi
ing audible to deafened world the
ogre Capital grinding the bones Of the
proletariRt TO make his bread
Then came the war. and amid the null
titude OF tiny voices the bitter cry OF
julius was unheard. And now he has
MS revenge. In the hours OF his exile
from the forum he has written, printed
and copyrighted Cycle. several spokes
OF which were exhibited in rapid reyo-
luuon last night at the Chaltf Audito-
rum 1853 West Ftfty-seventh street. on
posite Carnegie Hall.
Mr. Hopp has set for himself this
time the simple task of dramatiz!ng the
history OF the universe from the Gre
alton to Judgment Day. Hts Adam and
Evo have the advantage over those IN
Genesis OF being clad In leopard skins
right from the start. He also saves
EVe a 10; Of trouble by having her
say Come. children" whereupon three,
or maybe 1t was four. children of as
sorted ages end sex prance out of the
bushes and join their parents in march.
Ing onward toward the light.
Cave Men With shiny Spears.
Later two tribes OF cave men armed
with nicxelplated spears endeavor to
eisenhower each other. and II begins
to dawn that Kaiser Wilhelm himself
figures in the allegorical dramas Of the
cycle The World Afame," for ,ne
loudest believing cave man, bent on
possessing himself Of the mines whence
came the nickelplated spears, is heard
to shout, Onward to the iron ore and
the glory OF God nit me and our father
land and then TO scream. Murder
Ceber Allies 20
There bursts into the vision then the
whole tribe OF Emperors and Kings -x-
actly as We saw them every day before
the war Julius himself Ia the Csor
OF Russia. with n golden sword with
which he almost decapitates Cousin
Willy of Germany. not on purpose. but
arising from the fact that the Ctar
has to sit down and those pesky swords
will flop about and make nulsances OF
themselves.
In the next scene no programme is
needed to assure the audience that a
hard faced man with a Cutaway coat Is
overseer Of the Baron's estate. for not
only does he wear Il Cutaway but Is
smoking a cigarette with nendish aban.
don. The Baron himself has a cigarette
too. and blows rings ard narrows his
eyes when in RESPONSE to the pie adings
OF his employees. including n brown
shawled woman. who says. we live IN
| chains the Baron sneers. Take them
| away and let them sta-a-a-rve."
I'VE are LOST cries the woman in the
| brown shawl
''Ha-ha. shall crush you" re.
marks the Baron.
smokes on as Woman Pleads.
May our corpses give YOU Joy Of tear,
and bod the woman retorts, but tho
baron blows more smoke rings with a
great clatter Of "Ha-ha's."
That brought one as far as the second
scene Of Part 2, The World Arraved
in tie Realm Of the Oppressors. Con
scientous reviewing would demand tina
the reporter stay through The Light
Beyond" the second and final scene o,
"Th" World Set Free" which was
scheduled 10 follow Parts J and 2 ot
The World Encha!ned." SO that h,
might find out what finally become OF
the KGiser, the Ctdr. the overseer, th'
Baron. tho Minister OF the Gospel. i've
first and second German officers. tbs
first and second pleb!ans, the cave men
Colombia, the gem Of the ocean, HuC
| other fascinating characters. But thu
staging difficulties. naturally Incidental