New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-23
Press MarveIs Sh0,Un
In ''Mask of Hamlet
Ario Flnnm0's Ne,o Play at
the Princess Pays Compli-
naent to Our Ne,cs Purpevors
THE CAST
THE CAST

Whatever Ario Flamma's merits are
as a dramatist. in the production Of
THE Mask of Hamlet" at the Princess
Iheater last night they were COM
pletely overshadowed by his abilities
as a newspaper man. Within fifteen
minutes after Police Headquarters
men telephoned the slip to their Offices
on the bomb explosion in Wall Street
Paschensco, Trofn, Katia and Marx
Marvin had the fve-star finals and
even the ninth-inning sporting finals
in their Greenwich Village apartment
and were reading complete lists of cas-
ualties, details Of the disaster, inter
views with the governors of the Stock
Exchange and clerks on the tenth floor
OF the Bankers Trust Building, and
even the racing entries for the follow
ing day.
1t was pretty fair piece of work
1or an evening publisher. But it was
bitter disappointment that the action
OF the play did not extend into the
Following day: The morning papers
would surely have given the complete
findings of the Meyer committee, the
result Of next autumns election and
the winner of the baseball pennant.
But these revelations were nothing
compared to Mr.. Flamma's demonstra-
lions in the ocular science.
"Hark!" cried Katia rushing to the
streetward window looking somewhere
into Greenwich Village. II see tho
crowd rushing toward Wall Street!
The people are rising They will raise
the barricades!"
Calm YOURSELF" says Paschensko.
THAT is what is known as morbid
cxaltation!"
1t was Marx Marvin who fired the
bomb He left his wife and lisping
daughter to languish on the princely
Long Island estate of Papa Marvin.
where they had all been, ooh, 50 happy
for twenty -four years." MS Mamma
MARVIN says, until Marx became a So
cialist and went off with Katia and
the comrades" Then Katia had
breath her hot attachment down
Marks back and told him all was over
between them if he dared bring that
bomb home again. That settled it,
Let Marx tell wha. happened.
after the terrific detonation," he
says, II walked down broadway toward
the scene Of the disaster. Mountains
Of debris were scattered about. When
arrived the streets were filled with
firemen and ambulances and Gordon
of police was thrown about the
scene -
Marx Marvin was telling this when
the afternoon papers arrived and he
saw the name of Marvin in the casualty
list. "Marvin, sixty years old, about
$50 pounds" the paper said. Marx
jumped to the conclusion that he had
killed his father, though the audience
could have told him that Marvin senior
weighed at least 21O standing in his
stockings
In the third act Katia and Paschen-
ko and Marx were all down at the old
home on Long Island. "1 hate YOU!
Go away" said Marx, pushing Kntia
urgently upon the chest and showing
signs of states evidence and reconcil
iation With his family. So Katia fol-
lowed him out on the lawn and put
knife into his back.
Then Marvin sr., who was asleep on
the top floor all the while, came down
stairs and put Katia and Paschenko
out of the house.
An ambulance from Kings COUNTY
Hospital responded and the homicide
bureau pronounced it g. suicide.
Laura Walker wastes good acting IN
this last scene, but her reference to the
mask of Hamlet is not lost "You wear
the mask of Hamlet" she Kisses at
Marx Martin. "Your face is so pale
and undecided"