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THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1910: LAYS AND PLAYERS WEEK'S. NE 3 LJ Observations from tho Viewpoint of the" Critic. Plays and Players in Theaters of New York. 10 WS OF THE I' ci us pe'leve that Chakeepear as' himself ajjumber of people that be we Bacon; and very select few are quit sore tJjj he wit the ik of Rutland. ranlc Harris, who Wo 5c, The lUn dealt boldly With tho per a I po frlt'liUe of the poet, draw a I re that reminds on cf Frank ia.rr's fax In bis writings, a rd at the "i matinee in the Ixrdo uif pfar menvoMal theater Ternard 'i i i i p.ay, "Tie Dark Lady of th ro'.

i.s." als with Qween Elizabeth, fc i irp a.ri and Mary J'ltten. 1 autlmc Suffer from undue mo4 eny ceiore tne puuoc, inougn miu r.iifn Trry ore decrid O. B. H. a a "shy, creature." pre! irrj nary remark rf playwrights, aa 'hey axe eet forth a writer la t.

Wc kty, svre rather causing. Mr. Harris a'd; fn or wrm rear sro wrote my ptsy, to la action th Mia 6fcakper that 1 fcari recovered from tha prefeaaore rub Mii ti lJert.ohia Tre agreed to pre It. Mrs. fr atrVk CaaapUeU waa willing arytaiog and gl anything to act I'arr toa.

Jiat Tre ceuiCa'f. a'oraacti iifc.pars. "Hs too weak subsides," be (a "man him heroic" "Br beaven. I eld; TH take oat anything jou like, but put In a Una taat isn't tru fcr.Hkwpeer I won't." Then I ml fchaw In tho street, and ha said. Tr read your play, Harris; but you jrik ghakeapaar too aa.

Ho ever was sad; ha was a rollicking fellow. Though at lrt yry given his gantus. and that's extraordinary. Nobody also arer did that" Mr. Shaw deals, generously with the erpitlon, even asserting that "to only writer who baa really grasped tiitu irt of f4hakMnar'a mtarr Is llr.

i'rhnk ifarrts; but Frank sympathises wltjj Bhakspar." But the real crellt tor the that has rise to the two plays and the controversy feelon, it Pftars, to another. Bay Mary Fit ton was suesatod end worked out rtikr by itarrls nor by bt by tho lata Thomas Tylar. Id tbo eirbtlao TyW and I workAd orary day In tho raadinar room of tho tntjjMrum. 11a was Interacted In the fmnrlt; sad bo oftan broosht bio a paaaaro. a nl aakad mo what I UBQrstood by It.

Us a convinced that Mr. W. H.t the "on lis trr" of tho aonnae. was tho earl of Pm hroka; and this put him en tbo track of Mi. tre FUton.

1'ylar was a hettr arholar than elthor of as; srvl, ss ha ihrod and dif without har1n as miK'h rtibllo notire In fifty raara as wa two have oftce la a woak, ws are aouos to n.lr It i1 that la In fclm hat WA wtll owe the diacorerr of Marr Fltton. Ana upon ner mstory trie wnoie matter turns, Jtary Fltton waa the seroml dauchter 'Of Sir Edward Fltton. of. Cswsworth, Cheshire, In 1K5 she was ne of Ui maids of honor to Queen' fclisabth, at wfioce court she made a great stir. In Inrd Herbert, son of the earl of Worcester, married another maid of non or.

The queen attended the ceremony, and Mary Kit ton took part In the masque that followed, and also led the Her relationship with William earl of Pembroke. Is well known. Her life st court" wa wfiat we should describe as di'solute; she and "Kr nobleman lover had a narrow esx pe "yn Imprisonment. does it aptear thai she was faithful even to htm Tlierefore. the iriumrnt that liary rould n3t ba the object of liskeNpfsre'a lyrics I "passion does not linhl good.

Indeed. In I6U7 she married Captain William Holwhele. and she Is also mmionea in contemporary reooras as tne wife of Captain Ltougher. 'Neither of theao, it would seem, was more Important in hta day. than Nhakespeare.

who prob shly moved In a Itoliemian wiv amona? alt srades of society, from the lowest to the Iiirheat. tier own" Interest In tetlnx would, no iloubt. brlliir her Into direct coolaot with litm. And If. as seems like ly.

the Mr. If. to whom fthtkespeare dedicated the sonnets was William Herbert, It Is quite conceivable that he was In love with hepand sought this strange means of matins; his paenlon known wtthojtf undue offence tohis friend. see Mr. Sidney Iee, the Shakespearean scholar, has described the theory as "fan and there are oertalnly anomalteA.

Alary Is described as having "a long nose, and narrow iace. and a weak, rounded, retiring chin." and to be moreover fair. Now It Is Just poealble that Shakespeare tlHed the terma Mark" or blaok" with regard to her reputation, which at on lime was both. Thla symbolism, too, would have made It easier for Mm to dedicate the Bonnets to her lover; white Msry herself would understand. The fol lowing sonnet xsrs this interpretation.

th6ugti ha would )e a bold man to In slt unduly iiwm any theory In a matter that has so little evidence to show: 'In'lh eld age black waa not If it were. It bora not beauty aside; list now la black beauty's ayeceaaUe heir, Asd beauty, slandefd with a bastard shamai or stnrs each tsnd hath put nature pomc. Fsirtng iha'ejrt with art's false borrow faeo. TV Fweet beauty hat fNtve name, no ioly bower, It profan'd. If not lives In dlsgraee.

1 herefore my mtatreaaeyes are rsven black. Jlr ayes eo suited, end. they mourners seem Ai amrh. wlvo, tr, no beauty lack, tianderlna erestloa witb a falao'eateem: yl so tliey mourn, becoming of their woe, That every tongue says, beauty should look so, As. soon as.

Mr. Bhaw's play waa announced production, Mr. Harris rushed hts through the press, ThoUgh. the latter denounce O. B.

S. va a there would seem be no einitlsrity save In the subject. Mr. Shaw viiKkes hHkeepeare ccntcrnl a he ha already clone himself on more than on tccsion that the Public prefer "At You Like, It" and "Much Ado About Nothing" to more serious v. although thinks theee two plays "damnHbi nohwiM." lie aver th iropl will tiotaK3t to see any thiif of higher purpose, and that even the rhnrches are enipticJ''though ad mieaion He aks Queen I.IIsa itHtionai theater, but she fears that she ran do nothing without her treasurer, whoee aststence.

Shakespeare j. a. is "wore than Then Qieeo "Klisabeth launches forth tnto a Utile outburst of rheteri Shakespeare lead lug her tiewn to the footlights for the purpose, "It will be three hundred veers an nvore," quoth she, "before the I'rlttslr publio will do thl tldng. wilt tnt do it Vintil It the f.ihlon. They wilt not do un ttl everv other netum ha done it.

that they will one dar shall te ny prrt.v er to posterity. JPray thou to In the Harrir erfion we have tn oM theme of "Th Man Shakespeare. The toet 1s bidden to court, and in sn have a saving In. my country." sh tells Mm: "Quick Ham, soon cola." "Ah, tiiai's not true In love; proverb ere never true; they are all made by dullards for dull' replies, Iasionate rorn between the "dsrte lal' and siiAke5rer draw from licy a. hint of the roeta earlier love, and Mary gives beed'to th wooinjr of lrd WUHam tler bcrt.

thoujrh she declares that she loves boi't men. Hhakeapeare is In despair, but hi frienvitshlr stands the test, when lovers are banished from court and Herbert thrown into prison he pleads with Queen Oisabclh for his false friend. Such Is the metlve of th play. In which the dramatist figures as a devout lover very different from ShaWa diamond hearted hero. The action moves through many famous scenes.

At the Mermaid and "the Mtter the poets, th playwrights, the tmk er and th actors of th day forgather Francis rare Hen Jon koii, jnhn Selden. Fietcher, Dekker. Chet tie. and there are glimpse of CMieen illuaheth, with Iord Eurghley, Sir Walter Itaieljrh and other courtier, and tiirtr intneus In the throne room, th anie chaiTi(MMind at a masque In the siountls of StTJVme' palace, Curious." ffiyn 1.1n to 1'Ietcher, when Flacon and sis ttWrare meet, "the two masters can wri stl nor embraces liaeon'a on earth. Shik.

itr the wrrer air." there characteristic picture he neen. loos. of llerlxrt'a atten to the "drk Is'lyT" wilh Kluiin he I Ja ncir.c taklne him By the ear that l.o fay inr.i tv ith her. Arter thee i there is a i'i house at Stratford. Ikt on hts be speaks of bis i 've.

'I nf rrforf. it will be seen that Mr. th firamat as a puppet t'. London Memorial the r. iiarris proftj ts to record 5 l.

c. I i KEITH'S VHAT MAKES GOOD DRAMATIC CRITICISM sgessSwasBjsswSSwa B. aa Man Gaastt. i Th aaentlal characteristic of all good crltlcUm ar knowledf gym pattoy and honesty, and. In th best work of th present day the flour Jab aa healthy as ver they did.

All auch writing li Inrplrlns; to th public aud helpful to th theater, and If srer th day were to com in which dramatic criticism wer universally to dt generate Into commercialism, logroll log And mer flippancy, th newspapers would suffer from It, bo leas than th beautiful art of th theater, which In all ares bag charmed civilised mankind and helped to form th character of 1 Biblical Drama K. T. P. la Boston Transcript.) ONO sine In the chance saying of an Interview, Mr. Forbes Robert son suggested that playwrights of large imaginings could find many a drama ready to their nands In the history and the.

legend of the Old Testament. There have been Judith Indeed almost since the writing of plays began; Saul and David were uot unfamiliar personage In eighteenth century tragedy; and some of us have read, young eyed and with many a thrill, the tale of Joshua and Judges, of the books of the Kings and of th Chronicles, and seen In fmcy as though they were plays in th flesh and speech, upon the. stage. The playwrights of the hour are not of Mr. Hobertson's or of this boyish mind.

The New Testament, and hot the Old, prompts thein. and. thus they mske either play like "The Passing of the Third Floor Hack" or "The Servant In the House" th one current, tho other recently acted here or like "Mary Magdalen" and "La amaritalne which New York is now seeing. Not the Ag urea of Jewish history and legend, but the figure of Christ himself stirs them. Mr.

Jerome and Mr. Kennedy attempt a ort of symbolic realism. They conceive their Christ in a household of the hour; they give him human and contemporary, if by no means common guise, and then "leave It to the players e.rtu nat they have been in Mr, Robertson and Mr. Hampden to make htm a mysterious. bnignant.

puissant presence. Audiences, without demur, have accepted1 these Chrisiltkfl figures. and even the clery hss applauded their presence la the theater. Maeterlinck, advancing a step further, like Heyee before him, nils "Mary Magdalen" with th voire of the Saviour. Th audience receives wonderous report of Its mystery, Its power.

Its music: then it bears th voice itself and see th change that It works ir; them that hear: ami by all account from th New theater. It is a th swift and penetrating thrill of a remote and strange puissance, In "La Samarltalne." as Mine. nrnhardv act it. th Christ actually walks the stage beside the woman of Samaria, and, as it hss been already told In this the beauty of Rostand's veree, th flneese of Imagery and the remoteness of atmosphere that pervade the play. Its aerated poetry of mingled humanity and splritualrty, glamour the figure into a benignant, mysterious end searching beauty.

Yesterday In New York an audience heard and saw, enrapt even as had Similar audiences In Chicago; Seem, ingty in to beauty and not to power that the playwrights and the player, be they Rostands or Maeterlinck, Robert pons or Hampden, would bring their biblical, their ChristUke. figures to ths "1 QuaHfied for the Part. An anecdote relates how, on on occasion, when Barry Sullivan, the Irish tragedian, was playing Richard IH." at the lines, "A horse, horse! My kingdUmt f.vr a horser a wa In the pit called out," a iackass do as well for you?" "Sure!" retorted the actor, turning like a flash; come right around to the stage door." Ad Libitum. It was in the forest scene and the villain's memory had suddenly gone Vad. "I atn a msn after your own heart: cried he desperately, trying to fill in.

Whereupon the heroine gave one shriek and fled into the woods. For she had suddenly remembered that he waa a surgeon in the play! PRESENT the theater to be the one Institution from which Christmas is strictly barred. Every other modem art may express Itself on this sub ject. But in spit of th revival et the classic Greek drama, the morality play, the masque and the open air pastoral the ChrlstmA play contiuue to be neglected Of course, this is due mainly to the attitude of churchgoers toward the dramatic treatment of Scriptural themes. Thunks to that estimable person, S.

ReCford. the censor, even. aint Sens "Saimob et Dalila'" may not be presented In EneUnd save on; the concert, platform. The prejudice, inconsistent at all times, beveme ludicrous in this case. The story of Samson and Delilah is considered a "sacred subject why, nooouy seems able to say.

Naturally the church of Rome Is more liberal in this matter than any of the Protestant sects. The "Passion Flay" at Oberammergau. recently lb goal of thousands of tourists, th reverent and the merely curious, wouyi be Impossible In a non Cthoie country. But th Christinas play, itself the precursor of the "Passion Play." is confined to rural communities tu obscure prts of England and th continent Needless to say, it survives only In very THE CHRISTMAS If r. 1 "VlRGtlNIA.

13KKHE1 REALISM. Iy Charles Klein. Playwrights must remember that a photographic transcription of real events is not necessarily great drama. Incidents on the stage must be more than realistic: they must be Idealif Uc. The real Is true, but the ideal Is bemutifuL Truth appeats to the intellect, beauty to the emotion.

Every art, appealing to emotion. Is fundamentally a manifestation of beauty. Consequently, real drama" must be an Idealization of reality. Its crisis must take spectators out of themselves; this It does always arousing feeling, never) by arousing Everything In drama for the masses comes back to that one essential requirement, an appeal to the emotions. WOLF HOPPER, thus Inserts Dthe Corslcan pin prick into the vaunted of David War field's acting: 1 "Speaking of the tear the subtle Mr.

Hopper says, "I recall when Dave Warfield and I were together at Weber Fretds'. DaVe was. my guet at a Lambs banquet one night and he and I were dlcuslng what he should do. I'd heard him recite Riley's Oood By. Jim.

Take Kcer of Yourself. a dosen times, but every time, in ppite of myself. I'd choke up at the ftnlsU. He said It was purely perfunctory and didn't want to do but I Insisted because I knew it always had its effect. Well, he recited it before 350 wise fellows In evening clothe, alt of whom had reached the liquor stage.

1 knew all his tools and mechanical equipmentthe tremble of his lip. the break in his voices but I couldn't resist him. The mnn had a tone of grief la each hand, ami when he got through the tears were streaming down the cheeks of every one In the room, including myself. Then do you know what be did? Ho turned deliberately to me and winked!" Sweet Simplicity. A printer once brought to Booth for Inspection the proof of a new poster, which, after the manner of Its kind, announced the actor as "the eminent tra ereiian.

Edwin Booth." Mr. Booth did ixt fully approve It. Wish you'd leave out that 'eminent tragedian business. I'd much rather have it simple jSdwia Booth he said. "Very good, sir.

The next week the actor saw the first of hi new bills in position. His request had been carried out to tne letter. The poster announced the coming engagement of "cUrapie Edwin Booth." I crude form That ft will ever attain the popularity of the Oberammergau festival seems doubtful. It is preserved In such English peasant communities aa Thomas Hardy excels in painting. Until quit recently it formed an important part of th Christmas celebration at St.

Kenoit sur Loire, Limoges. Besancon and I leu en. although In modined form. With the expulsion of Catholic orders from France th expense and elaborate preparation nad its continuation. Impracticable, i At Freioergi, In Switzerland, the adoration of the magi la performed every year with much pomp and ceremony.

Baltha sar. Melchicr and Caspar ax represented by three priests, who are selected with great care. "Rehearsals" are begun six weeks before the great day. The performers consider their roies a signal honor. Kach king has an escort of 1T4 persons who.

In turn, are awarded this distinction aa a reward for merit. Of the English Christmas play only very corrupt versions surviv toiay. Tlev hav become mixed op with the ignd of tJU Georg and th dragon. Such texts as have been preserved in museums and Uhrarie ar badly mutilated. Th origin of this institution Is till the object of careful research and manv a dreary treatise.

In' the early djvs it was held in" high hnor by the fathers of the church themselves. St. Gregory Naxianxen la supposed to have been the author of Only Acting J. i 1M it i 1 i 4. tr m.Sm' awV hekMMB.e DOROTHY 'v i 'i rt with: call's im UNWRITTEN LAWS OF VAUDEVILLE I By Will M.

Creasy. WONDER how many vaudeville players have ever stopped to think that we have a regular code of ethics and rules of etiquette in our profession? I will wager that there la not one out of twenty who ever thought of such a thtng; and yet we one and all observe these rules strictly. A From the moment we enter the stage door on a Monday morning we begin to observe these unwritten laws. We unpack our musio and walk down to the" footlights and lay our music down upon the floor; the first arrival lays his, or her. music Just in front of the reader's music stand; and did you ever see another artist come along and lay his or her music on top of that first pile? No.

sir; not in a hundred years; It is laid Just beside it; and then when the rehearsal starts each one rehearses In the order that these books lie, When the different players who constitute the week's bill begin to congregate on the stage on Monday morning it is a regular reunion: old acquaintance and friendships sre renewed; absent friends are inquired for and the latest news and gossip are discussed. But no new acquaintances are made. Kverybody is ss prim and proper as at a Methodist church socibL But wait until the first show is over, and everything is alt right; for ome unknown reason, that first show constitute a sort of general all around introduction in vaudeville circles, Another quaint law of vaudeville is that the ent who billed above you is supposed to speak first; It is an unprinted and unmentioned duty of Headliner" to hunt up and get acquainted with every other player on the bill. And in eleven years esperjenc in vauoeviiie hav never met but Ave "stars" who overlooked this rule. And la every single one of these five case th "star" was of the variety known as gold brick.

The real people, the leading lights of the legitimate and operatic field, travelers, scientists, writers, lecturers, society men and women, sll have "quickly recognlxed and obeyed this unwritten law. Another peculiar law I hav observed Is In th way you should speak of another act that you played with at some other time: whether to say "So and so was pa the bill, with me." or "I was on the bill with So and so." This all depends on how th billing read on that certain week. If you wer billed above Mr. So and so ahiMiM ev Kwanl aA waa am vou should the hill with. me.

but if he had been billed above you. then you should say, "1 was on the bill with Mr. So and so. I think you can find more characters and more peculiar characteristics in one several such dramas. In act.

It was by the Christmas play. performed by monks, that the drama was kept alive, at ail during the early Christian era. and the middle age. It had a sanction of the second council of Kicaea, and i was. needles to say.

treated with the utmost aeriousneas. being considered an adjunct of the ritnaL Trac of it, in fact, can be found In Ut same ritual as It exists' today. Its origin was the miracle play, which. In the beginning, was performed in Laun At first the annunciation to the siiepherd and the adoration of the magi were the mot popular subject. Subsequently the slaughter of the Innocent, the tragedy of Herod, the burial aud resurrection and th coaversion ef St, Paul were added, and eventuailv the authors had recoursr to the Old Testament.

The sacrifice el Isaac was th theme of several auch works, some of them really poetic and in pi rlne. At his altar In the forest. St Francis of Assisl utwtxtsl th drarr.ti method of teaching the story the nativity with real "prop, live cost and ei.ee At first, however, they were acted in the churches, during the Intervals between services. A they became transferred to the open air. the vernacular of the different counu ie replaced the tongue.

Co rue scenes were 'nterspersed For instance, in the of.tii innocents the soldiers ffl vaudeville show than you can in twenty legitimate companies: In the first place every player in a legitimate company is. to a certain extent, under orders; there Is the manager, the atage manager and the musical director to order you about and give directions. In vaudeville every Player is a star; he Is his own manager, his own stage manager and his own musical director. And this naturally Instills into him a certain Independence and self reliance, strengthens bis character and brings out his personality. When we first went Into vaudeville we used to get many a quiet laugh over the way the different players would 'come off the atage quarreling about their acts, each blaming the other for things gone wrong.

Our third week something went wrong during the progress of our act, and as soon we reached our dressing room we began an argument aa to whose fault it was. We sputtered for a few minutes, looked at each other and began to laugh. "I guess we are real vaudevilllans now, all right," said my wife. Another thing that used to tickle us immensely waa to watch the different ones go down to the footlights to rehearse their music on an opening morning. The way they would crawl down Jnto the footlights and the positions thev would get into.

Squatting down on their heels stooping mer and trying In everv way to get out closer to the leader. We could not understand why they could not stand up stralt nt and do their explaining. And Inside of a month I was out on top of the pisno myself. i Another unwritten Taw of vaudeville seems to be that each and every player on the bilf ha got to in tht theater when the curtain goes up. He may be clooing the show, but he will be ther at Just the aame.

No one know what he is there for; there Isn't anything for him to do; there is no comfortable place for him to loaf, but he la there fourteen time a week. Just the same. The Reason DRAMATIC critic was talking with A IL B. Irving one evening after a performance of "The Bells. "How did you like me tonight Inquired the actor.

"You were Im mense. was the reply. on scene you were quite the equatl of your great father. "What scene was that?" Irving asked eagerly. The scene Just before Matthias tell his horrible drem.

Irvine' frowned. "But," he protested. "I wasn't on the stase then." Neither, sad the critic, was your father." who went to slay the infants were attacked by the mothers with distaffs, the entire episode being staged so as to make It as ludicrous as possible Some totally Irreverent and irrelevant busineas waa interpolated In some of the representations of the annunciation of the shepherds in order to afford a comic relief. In an old Coventry play a piece of ethical reasoning was presented which Is worthy of modern Jingoism. Herod summons his two kcignts.

Giimbald and Sir Lanscler. and orders them to slay the children. The former demurs, protesting that it were unknightly for him to wield his sword on Infants. Herod reassures him. saying that he does not want to kill one or two babies, "but a thousand and yet more Oh.

that Is another matter, says the knight. In a Chester play, one of Herod's eons is among the infants slaughtered. In th middle ages (he' performance sometimes took place on the iU. pe green. In many place the actors, played their role on wagon, which were drawn to different parts of th town.

It is recorded that at York spectator took their place at sunrise and witnessed no leas than forty eleht different represanta Ur before nightfall. With th abandonment of Latin, the characters were given native name. The scene were local and popu5ar "gags" were freely employed, la one of the Chester plays. tUe three are made IN "THEV RED JILl." iTTH IN 'THE. Program For The Weel ENGLISH'S ''The Climax Monday, Tuesday und Wednesday.

"Jumping Jupiter" Friday and Saturday. MURAT "The Woman He Married Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, PARK "The Montana Limited" Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Tb Red MM" Thursday, Friday and B. F. KEITH'S GRAND Vaudeville All the week.

MAJESTIC "Brown of Harvard" All the week. COLONIAL Tauderille All the week. WEEK IN THE LOCAL PLAYHOUSES AT THE THEATERS TODAY, Park Th Millionaire Kid" At and IV F. Keith's Orand Vaudeville At I and Majestic "Rip Van Winkle" and Colonial Vaudevlll At and 1.V English Dark Mural Dark CLIMAX." Toy Edward Locke, with music by Joseph Carl Brell, made familiar to Indianapolis theatergoers during its successful engagement" at English's last season, will return to the same theater for an engagement of three days, beginning with a special matlneee performance Monday. i It will be recalled that the plot has to do with a promising young woman singer, who, to correct a small throat defect, undergoes an operation.

A young doctor who Is In love witih her wishes to keep her from a stage career. His suggestion that the operation has been a failure, together with attendant nervous shock, temporarily deprlvea the singer of her voice. The discovery, that alia ha regained It. ami the knowledge of the physician's deception provide th incidents of the story. With three of the four characters professional musicians, th play! is temperamental to a degree, rejecting the moods and tenses of Bohemian life with marked fidaaty.

Th cast is a capable one, and include such players of reputation a Juliette Atkinson, Walter Dale. Theodore Kehrwald and Waller JU lber mann. "Jumping Jupiter." with Richard Carle and Edna Wallace Hooper in the leading roles, will be seeu at KngUsh's net Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday matinee. The piece Is a musical comedy by Sidney Rosenfeld aud Mr, Carle and the plot has to do with a certain Professor Oood willie. who.

while his wife la ill, accepts an Invitation to attend th wedding of his friend, Robert Winthrop. at Winthrop' studio Wlnthrjp Is a painter the professor, to reliv host of an embarrassing situation, is Induced to pose as the husband of one of the artist's models. The arrival of Mrs. Goodwiille. who unexpectedly recovers, gives rise to numerous amusing situations.

The musical comedy Is notable, it is saJi. for It music, and especially for its chorus. Will Phllbrlck and Ina Clair are other principals in the cast. Seats will be placed on sale Monday. Julian Eltinge, well known for his "female Impersonations." will be seen at Fnglish's In a musical comedy, "The Fascinating Widow," January and 4.

Th engagement begins with a special matinee January t. For the reat of that week th attraction will be "Th Happiest Night of His Life," with Victor Moore In the leading role. Murat 'The Woman Ha Married. Beginning with a special matinee performance Monday afternoon, Virginia Harned will play a three days engagement at the Murat including a second matinee Wednesday In "The Woman He Married." a new drama by Herbert Bash ford. The play concern Jack Harding, son of a rich merchant, who.

In hi father's absence, marries a chorus girl. Cut off without any th boy. who is writing a play, finds be will be compelled to drop his work to earn hi bread and butter. In th meantime his wife, to assist her huiband, poses secretly for an artist and. on the night of the pisy's first presentation and the author's triumph.

Harding learn hi wife ha been engage. Suspicion arises as a consequence, but in the end the wife wins beck her husband. William Faversham will appear at the Murat January 2. and 4 In a nw niay by Edward Knoblaucn known as "The Mr. Faversham will be seen in the title role.

The faun, as the piece is outlined in advance, appear at th country bom of a rich TL'nac ntir0 tA fofivent lone rif anv sort, his advent In society is attended by some unusual auu amuauii vircvu stancee, The Park Two Attractions. "The Montana Limited," a stirring melodrama, will be seen at the Park the first three days of th wek. Cowboy. Indians, Mexican, the typical western "bad roan" and other western characters ap to speak French, although Norman French had long ceased to be the language of the Knr'iab court. In Cornwall, where the English were much disliked, the devil wa made to speak English, while' all the other characters declaimed in Cornish.

Item In mediaeval account books how that the actors were carefully pieked and trained and well paid and fed. Much money wa spent on costumes. God was invariably represented in a coat of white leather Anna and Caipha wore hoods "rochets" of scarlet and blue. pedal care was taken with the devil's makeup. It 1 recorded that in 111 a cycle of the plays wa performed before King Henry and the Emperor Siglsmund.

In V'A there was a festival at Bassing bourne in Cambridgeshire to which twenty seven parishioners contributed. a borate cycles were fostered by English guilds, comprising the religious history of man from the beginning of the world down to the day of Judgment In the library of the University" of Cracow are four texts of Christmas plays written and performed In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by students. It appears that they were wont to travel about the country at Christmas time giving performane. One of these rep resents the hardships of Mary and Joseph la trying to mid lodgings ia Bethlehem. ra CLMAX: EHGLLlSH 5 9 pear In the piece.

The hero finds himself in the midst of exciting adventures through his attempt to save a wayward twin brother. A movinar freight tram la one of the scenic spectacles of the play. "The Red Mill." a clean, wholesome amusing musical comedy, will be the attraction at the Park the last three days of the week. Its plot concerns two Americans who encounter various adventures while abroad in Holland. There Is a large chorus with the production and it is elaborately staged.

The Park has established a new scale of prices beginning next week. The night prices will be 10, 20 and 30 cents with a lew seats at 60, for all attractions, and the lower floor seats will sell at 22 cent ana the balcony at cents every afternoon, except holidays. B. F. Keith's Grand Vaudeville.

The Operatic Festival, one of the most elaborate musical acts in vaudeville, will be the headline feature of the special holiday bill at B. F. Keith's Grand next week. It is under the direction of Charles Lovenberg. who baa produced several notable vaudevlll successes.

The company Is mad: up of fifteen soloists of recognized ability who present two musical "episodes' entitled "Gypsy Life" ami "The Carnival of Venice." Ashley and Lee, comedian and parodists, appear In an act called "Chinatown." Cath erine naves ana tsanei jonnson. self atvlod "fh 1 lfBwa'lrht ('nm lam will present an "A Dream of Baby Days." Fred DunreSt a Jolly tponologist with some new stories anci songs, me iown ana tne Human Doll" Is the title of an act performed by jacg norion ana Mil. La Triska. This clever coupl come here, direct from Europe, wher th ct was one of the successful novelties in th London vaudeville theaters last season. Mile.

Rene is a beautiful woman and an accomplished musician, who presents a refined and pleasing musical act. and th Five Alphas are wonderful hoop manipulators, who do very amazing thing In the way of hoop rolling. Maxim' Models will supply an art fatur In the living reproduction of world famous painting. The color effects of the pictures are well brought out, it is said. The photoplan pictures will close the bill as usual.

Majestic "Brown of One of the successes of a season or two ago, "Brown of Harvard, will seen at the Majestie next week. The piece Is deserving of the popularity and success It attained, for it is a clean, wholenome. breezy farce comedy, vigorous in action and consistent in Its plot development. At times, too. It reaches some unusually dramatic climaxes.

The, piece depends for Its main Incident upon a boat race between a Harvard crew and a picked crew from England. At th moment when the Harvard men are ready to take their places fn the shell their stroke deserts them. Tom Brown, the substitute and hero, tskes his place and the. American crew wins Its race. The title role will played by Irving Cummlngs, the new leading man with the Arvine lienton players.

Martha Boucher, the new ingenue, will also be seen for the first time with the company." Th piece ha been produced under th direction of Eugene Moore, the new stage director with the company, Colonial Vaudeville. "Two ring" vaudeville will presented for the first time Iri this city at the Colonial next week. Two ring vaudeville means the appearance of two "dumb" acta on th stage at the earn time, each its own setting. There wHl alo be two headline feature on the bill. Emmet De try, aupported by a company of four.

win do eeen in air. ie vny one acr fare. "Th Baintjy Mr. Btlllnss and Arthur La Vine and company of eight will present a spectacular musical production. "From Coney Island to.

the North Pole In Twenty Minutes." Other acts on next week's program are Excella and Franks, "the physical culture Perry and White, comedy conversational vocalists; tne nan cmiiren. or this citv, in a new production; Flo Harriett, with illustrated songs, and holiday views by the coioniscope. Three Innkeepers turned them away roughly and rudely. Finally they came to a hostelry kept by a Pole, the only good natured host in Bethlehem, who permitted thera to sleep la the stable. Perhaps the best extant text Is that of the Spandau "Weihnachtssplel." recently published, written by on Christopher Lasius.

a rural parson. In the early part of the sixteenth century. Much of this is exceedingly potff though written In crude language. The adoration Of th shepherd and liachei a lament, in particular, are strong, pathetic and beautiful. The first act consists of the annunciation to the shepher.

ls. In the second the meetings between three klnen and Herod is shown. Then Herod summon the scho'ars of Jude end asks them con. cemir? the Messiah. The rse chanee end the thre kings are offi th.

gifts to the Child. CJabri cme on and warns Joseph to f.e to Egypt, The next cene takes plac in hell; vil are having a conference. wondennr how they can rid of the Infant of Bethlehem. They finally coTne to the conclusion that their only chance i to Induce Heryvi to kill him. Tl.en comes the slaughter of the a capital ri' of piny writing.

The la. act is iak ut with, th fate of Herod. Jut f.re ii Salon comes ou end you so," or or Us t. at erreut. PLAY SURVIVES ONLY IN CRUDE FORM AND IN OBSCURE PLACES IN ENGLAND AND EUROPE Special to The In Jlan News.) EW VOUK, Iecetnber It The Foolish Virgin." tranalated from a French play by Henry Rstaillc.

was produced by Charles 'roh mau at the lCnlckerbtx.kor theater Monday night with Mrs, 1 atru'k Campbell in one of its lending The play was fim acted at th tu nase theater, Paris, last season. Th ktory deals with the romance of Dime, dJLi.gh ter of the Duke of Charanco. Mine. Armaury hears of hvr hue band's love for Diane and tiiscovcr tho pair at tha moment they are to Ivave fjr England. Gaston, the girl's broth a'o ai nvea at this moment, having been wari.ei of tne attachment throuj.ii tu anoiiuuui letter, lustead ef re.io;c.:ig tho airial ot listcn st.e tlcplu.i'S lu coming.

she tears for tho live. of In mal an her husband, the rivals to tlnni. believing that It Is ir to let them fallow their hearts. Meantime the Abbe Kout iniorcv I to break up th afiection of Armaury end Uiaue, li3 have ed io iiu o. Fanny Armaury, the wlfo, rr malns val to her husband.

The at be rt turns fio.u London after finding It ImposMi to break off the associations' ot An ar.ry and Diane. Divorce 1 uiv utrvl arui tne wife urged tu Oblitm the tr.tliiTi li her husband to lessen the disgrace, but she declares that a man tlw not iriy off a girl without l.rr consent atvl fenrts her husband unlust the fury of Gaston. He co mlsunvlerstaiiis the wife and insults her. This occurs aft all persons concerned have returned to Pans, i Armaury overhears the insult, bursts into tne room and in his rase threatens Ctoo with a revolver. Tho women throw themselves between the men.

Diane admires Mine. Ar maury'a sacrlilce and while efte realii" that she has won Armaury. this girl, who Is the foolish virgin, insists that he choose between her and. uU The choice is made and peace and litp plness are restored to the family. Mrs, Patrick Campbell pUvs the rl of the wife svl Robert Unmet Inj.er sonntes the hu.

'bsnd. a Monday night the New Theater revived' Wllhelm Forster'a romantic drams. "OH Heidelberg." with Prank Gillmore In the role of Prince Karl lleln rich and Miss Jeie Buylny In the part of Kathie. a a a "A' Comedy of Ilartincys" Is th way Louis Parker describes his new. play, "Pomander Walk, presented at Wal lark's theater Tuesday evening.

The play" consists of six little hnuxr till alirte. ni rangeil on a cre cent. and ha.i to do with the people who live in the houses. There no plot. The people In the six TTTTT house are respectively a widow who has hud an early UiiUippointnir nt In love, and her daughter, who in threatened with a slm Ilar misfortune; an old captain, a lady of means, who deslrea to annex tli an tain's heart and aMunie tho cii alu's name; two slrters, ono of whom lirses their ledger, and who In VHturn 1 loved 1 by the lodger, who yet fears te'l cf hs affection; a couple who have a fu.nilly of girls and want at TaiY one boy, ft a minister who doesn't do any luanyin.

but Wishes to. Htrides theie Is a f.J,i.Ci man who never catches any fish. Iu thend the widow Is united with her early love, her daughter and daiigh'fr's sweetheart triumph evalrnt opposition, the sea captain and the lady of. means get each other, the young Isly amriier lodger come to an umWbtaixiintr, boy arrives at th house of many girls, th minister gels a chance to perform the mart la 3 a ceremony, an.I tho flnhlgss fisherman makos a catch. Miss Annie Rull, who acted last sea sort at.

tho New treater, but has now returned to her old mnnoger, Charles Froh man, was presented by him at th Gar rick theater on Tuesday evenln.i In "The Impostor." a ple.y by Leonard Mrtick and Michael Morton, which, however, hns no bearing upon the novel by the aame The author hav attempted to show the dilemma ot: a young woman of reilne ment suddenly left, without friend and without means of support In a great city. Huch an unfortunate Is Mary Fenton. the character which Miss RuBKrll will Im pertionate. Half starved, she scco ts Charlie Owen, a young married man. In the street He Is of a chivalrous nature and takes her to his hotel room, where ha gives her food and then th story of br mlKfnrtun.

Interest develops tnto sympathy and then Into something he for affection. Her prr nc Is discovered by goshiping acquaintances and Introduce her as his wife's sister. For a time the suspicions of the others are silenced and th girl goes away. li'i when she returns to get a purse hss forgotten she meets some of Owen's friends and Is Invited to remain with thent as liietr guest. Her reluctance sgatn ex cites suspicion and she narrowly escspes arrest aa an Imposter, But Owen puis his hypocritical friends to rout end shows the superiority of th friendless girl over them.

Through his efforts is placed on the road to comfort and prosperity. a a "Drifting," a nrw comedy In three acts by Preston Gibson, was presented at Natl mova's Thirty ninth Street theater last Wednesday evening. The play Is Intended as a picture of fast society life at Newport. Henry Harrison and his wife, known as Ten. a rich pair from the we, ese a villa and set up housekeeping for the seaon.

Along comes Althea Anderson, divorced woman, who attempts to brea' up the couple hapriTU a. since i ambitious lo marry llartison and hi wealth to pay debts he has contracted lth a loan broker. H' njetl od of 1 operation is to lead Harrison's uifs Into bad hint, ana in tnis mra egy assisted by the wrecker of her own home. The goot sense or tne nusr.anu prevents the domestic disruption. Miss Grace Fllklns imerontes a eharscter In th new pUce.

Ot.Krs wO take part are Edith Luckett. iss Ann Arnlier, Miss Grace ViterV Hale, Frank Goldsmith, and Egtert Man roe. The Ineradicable Instinct. Mme. Alexandria Vlarda.

the FoM sh tragedienne, now tarrying la Chicago, propounds the following; "It Is a strange thing, but ssk a man lo mend a rip In his coat, "No, he is not a tailor. "Ak another to nop rom leaking. "No. he's not a plumber "Or another to do a bit of csblnetj work. I "No.

he Is not a csrpenter "But ak any one of the three or Sll r.f them to a htfie part in a lav Ar 1 each will smile in fatuous conndrnce ana lnstAntly acouiesce. "But watch him set. Alat, Poor Ycrick." Edwin Booth told some friend. i.t fore his death, the story of tha ekutl used when flaying HamM. "Tears ago," ha rf an was fenced to be hanyd f.

sonse iitv fene. My father felt that tr. i ri bwing unjustly punished, I tr i iu to get tuin pardonc'L condemned man a new it cf ion that he could st lok a man Ui the laM. 'J he I r. i will and reiuestd that be sert to tny 1 1 when he lio i'ct.

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