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THE WASHINGTON POST: JANUARY 13, 1907. Society Bred Girl and a Daughter of the Slums Open Simultaneously irrSlum and Society Plays BY FRANKLIN FYLES Bpelcal Correspondence of The Washington Post New York January 11 LARA BLOODGOOD and Blanche Walsh are actresses of lork birth and breeding, neither had theatrical parentage and both made the transit from so- ctetv to the stage but the portions of society from which they stepped out were "eparatc, and distinct Clara had grown, up In an overlook of Stuyvesant gquaie which used to be to Now York what Bei- gr.a\la still Is to London, a residence place for verj pretentious families Blanche had matured within sight ot the Five Points, until recently our Whlieehapel for vice and squalor Don't mistake me to mean that Blanche mental or moral culture was less pilnstaklng than Clara's, for her fathei Fattj Walsh, slum politician, educated his daughter thoroughly, but the fact that Blanche was a growth) of the Five Points, and Clara of Stuyve- Squire The, coincidences are curl- 0113 therefore that Clyde Fitch wrote The Truth for Clara BJooclgood, with polite Fifth avenue liar for her to personate and Tne Straight Head" for Blanche with an impolite Bowery drunkard for her to personate, and thatr the two new plass were presented at theaters dirtctlj across Broadwaj from each other on i evening The aptness of the title of Ihe Truth" Is In its impertinence The heroine Is such an habitual and impulsive liar that she can tell the truth even when sne means to Thus, you see, Fitch's pla is so singular that Charles Frohman couian been expected to think twice if at all of giving his prestige montj to 1 produciion of it If It haJ come fiom an unauthorltatHe author And Clira Bloodgood not acting for a living but foi artistic distinction, would 1: ave floute 1 the suggestion that she take up the role of a Sapphlra with an Ananias father but that It came from the F-itci ho is a member of her smart-set circle and enlisted to make a successful actress of her Happily thee conditions favored The Trutli and as a consequence we fett i plav that is out of the ordinary In subject tintl mitter, if not quite extraor- cllmrv a. a dramatic revelation bkip these, next sentences in dread that tho mn ie id Into a summarj of the plot I ih til write only that Clara Bloou- goocl as Fitch's peculiar heroine, by foolish I to her fond and trustful hus band com inces him that her really clean relations i an unclean admirer are foui iha fust half of the comedy is humorous with the woman impromptu I but the half Is pitiful with the con her falsehoods leaJ- up to her regeneration and the whole hT. i merit of newness in design and i in execution More Applauded than the Star. Foi vears have I observed fu- i audiences that I detect at unusual In their make-up The stilus of Mrs Bloodgood, anJ thi of the theater accounted for tlie est nee of extiemely fashionaoio peopU it the introduction of "Tlie Truth i i their gloved hands at the entrinti made no rude noise nor thilr polite piaise for the sake of ut interspersed with these molc-hh saj and nicelv mannered ones uore quite is in with aspects of coipmoneis Just as good as the r.eui me swells nd but not beaiin i i aC the mondame out of their customarj place tint i at a glance and I was foi a solution of the of tMeii presence when it 1 un I the eitrance of William i tin stage He was hailed i appl tu--e i louder and longer than nad il i actress 'ihat was be ruis liul been for several jeais tt 1 1 ns nun in a Ha lem stock eom- I tli igf idol of Harfem feminine populltlon in 1 his flitliful worshipers had down from that end of the town to tht to break their half-dollar theatiicil txppnence with a two-dollar oc islcm it theli own Billy KelH playej the In sluncl to the smart-set Mrs Blood good HOT ston Street Moll the character that Fitch conceived as suitable to the i nnche In writing 'the Strai-ht Roul for her swept Into first i in a drunken sidewalk fight She and another woman had been thrown out bv a bartender She was blear-ev ed from -drink her fiee white and bruised her toawled and her ragged dress dirt She ranmbkd protests to the interference beneath breath scowled at the gentle appro 01 a settlement orker and made vicious giabs at her antagonist This wis graphic ind lively realism and the i truthfulness aid not seem to i i i he Broadwav audience The fight 11 stalled were given to under etand I eciuse Lizv Liz accused Houston Street Moll of trvtng to steal her man Moll it was affirmed though ha- bltullh Clunk was invulnerably virtuous To keep her thus the wealths, joung settlement oiker took her to her heart, and ulvlsed i little soip and water the Inttei mllucnoe proving presentlj to be o' dubious value as "Moll when scrubbed, excit the importunities of the voung fortune hunter who was engaged to wed i philanthropist Kidicnle Was Unconcealed.

The first nlshters In the parquet did not coneeil their ridicule of this slum tlran a although those In the gallerj ac- cheers So there prob- abh is a prosperous future for it in the proper pi ice Molls trick to be discovered with the bridegroom-elect bj his fiancee is to be expected brought down wealthv angels scorn upon her while it brought down more thump- Ing of the huskv bartender fists on the The fight caused the smash- Ing Into bits of a lamp the mussing up of verv sood looking joung actor, and ot) i mishaps It was a right Hiely scrap. Straight Road certalnlj Is cne of the most active of pugilistic dramas Moll having been cursed by half the cast declares there is no use in being virtuous and announces her devotion to a life of crime The pugilistic spirit her when she Is without even a purchlng bag to work it off on she begins landing upper cuts to chiffoniers and knock out blows to well-meaning Morns chaiis In her outbreak of violence she rips a mdow shade Jrom Us roller, whereupon blue moonllghtQhreams upon a picture of the Virgin and Child and Moll Is bathed in religious virtue--to stay so, Bo far as Fitch lets us know The tikmg' st title that I have yet seen Is Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model saw it In electric letters on a theater In a street of stores, and I said to ray- self that here was a play that would draw women In like a bargain sale It one of those many clouded afternoons which In the vagaries of New Tork aqueous climate lose their sunlight and become tw night So the astute manager had Illuminated the signboard ot Ne-llie the Beautiful Cloak marked dow to 30 cents for a matinee, to Jure the mob of shoppers la out of the rain I was one of the perhaps one hundred men In an audience otherwise feminine 1 tried to imbue myself with the prevailing feminine expectano as to Nellie the beautiful cloak model I almost added my ow Ah to the hushed hum when Nellie came Into view A Reata Wlnfleld had been chosen for the cloak model, not because she had any ability as an actress nor because her face was beautiful for It was no more than pretty, but because she had such a shape as would get her a Job in a cloak manufacturer establishment to boom the sale of garments to buying merchants The overwhelmingly feminine assemblage looked her over crltlcallv and decided to admire her figure She wasn't so exceptional that most ot the younger spectators mightn say to themselves 4 Perhaps I look as well as that." Therefore when she got Into melodramatic difficulties, thej further as sured themselves 'That sort of thing might happen to me, If I were a cloak Hence the undoubted money sue cess ot an undoubtedly bum plaj Yes b-u-m, that the word for this -winner Gave Comedian Stage Center. Let me tell vou what you don't know, unless you go to see the cheap melodramas, that the heroic lover In them the fellow played by the leading map of the cost. Is nowadays compellea to give up the center of the stage to the eccentric comedian in most of the climaxes In this example the ratio was four to one. Nellie, the beautiful cloak model, was a foundling heiress to a fortune, and a murderous scoundrel wlto.

a fiendish mistress, was bent on destroying her All that, of course She had a devoted lover eager to take any risk for her, Jjut the play was almost over before the author gave him a chance Nellie was put out of a window of her boarding-house on an elevated railway to be run over, but It was the comic young comedian, not the leading- man, who hauled her out of danger Nellie was placed In the pit of a freight elevator, in the store where she worked, to be smashed by the descending car, and the leading man was hanging around, but the funny comedian was assigned to her rescue Nellie wandered into a dance hall, was drugged by the villain, and the faithful hero was on the spot to her, but he was bellttllngly battered by the bouncers and It was the lud'crous fellow who pulled pistol and got the applause Nellie was abducted to her pursuer a yacht, and her lover was an enviable and desirous pco- tector but the author let the funny fel- Jow hide In a box to be wheeled and pop out, with a pistol cocked, wnen Nellie was about to be killed for giving the villain a smack with her hand, instead of her lips However, the third-act climax was at hand, the comedian had hogged four situations, and at last a hurrah curtain was given to the leading man An automobile containing him and Nellie w.as blown off an East River bridge by the villain's bomb, and the author grudgingly permitted the leading man--not to spout a braye speech, nor a deed of desperate danger--but to float as a dumb kind ot human cork and keep Nell from drowning Why is the sentimental "leading man downed In a melodrama made for the multitude, and the ludicrous low couledian uplifted' Because the sensational sodes like those In "Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model," are so worn out, so old that the people laugh at them uproariouslv So, if the people won't be thrilled, why mak- them merrv But oh, there money waiting for the playwright who can give a brand new sensation to the dlme-to-dollar audiences A Study of Merriment. The phenomena of audiences are pd- culiar, especially as to laughter. I studied the merriment at "Matilda," because three-fourths of the people didn't laugh at all, while the other quarter laughed Inces-, santlv Of the row of twelve whete I sat, nine regarded the farce with faint smiles, and once In a while a snicker, but never with a laugh Of the three others, a boy gave out a succession of guffaws, a man roared boisterously, and became so hysterical with her glee that her companion had to take her out. This uneven effect of I Norrls' farce la due to the fact that some of us think "Charley's Aunt" used up all the fun possible in a man disguised as a woman, nnd others find It as funny as ever In the new play, a fellow and a girl swap era and skirts, and fool the master of i yacht and his guests They sing aul dance, too, for this is a musical farce, although there Is no chorus, ballet, or extravaganza sights. The actor )f tu6 bogus woman Isn't a grotesque comedian, like Etlenne Girardot In "Charley's but the good-looking young Al- freT Hlckman, who was Blanche Walsh's husband, with none but themselves know- Ing a untll Blanche showed the marriage certificate along with a decree of divorce, Camllle d'Arville and Paula have come Into New York with comic- operas, "The Belle of London Town" aid The Princess The curtai i had hardly more than risen on 2 Belle of London Town" before I saw that It was "The School for Husbands," which Alice Fischer had used a year as a plain comedy, and that play had been put on the stage still earlier aa "Belinda," wth Sarah Cowell Lemoyne To Stanislaus Stange's prose he has added verses, set to music by Julfan Edwards, thus evolving- a Very good comic opera wltii a dashy sort of role for the spectacular Miss IJ'Arvllle.

But tsn Stange a lucky chap be able to save a plaj from af failure under Its first title when It was rather serious, and carry it along through very moderate success under a second title, when It was made altogether Jocular, to larM It with considerable triumph under third title, when It has become comic- opera. WherS Is the Incentive to the writing original librettos for comic operas, when thar old plots and characters ara easier to sell' The t'tle of "The Princess Besrgar 1 all In its three words, that' the daughter "of a king Is stolen In Infancy and brought up by outcast wanderers, to be finally Identified and to get her birthright You are almost as sure, before, the curtain, goes up, that the scene will he In a. mythical kingdom, whoss monarch: hard; np, whose court ofHeers are grotesque-, and whose son falls in love with the rl while he and she sllll believe she Is beggar born Then, too, the name of Paula Kdwardes informs you at sight-that the foundling princess 19 a handsome hovden, who sings and dances Jolllly, "-and practices cleverly all the tricks 4n the trade of the soubrette prlma Jdonna Paula's ancestry may be vague for a while In the pla, but I am iure that professionally she Is a granddaugn- of Lotta Grabtree, a daughter of Marian Manola, andtoster of Lulu Glaser AMUSEMENTS. AMUSEMENTS. Eva Vincent Crowds the Galleries with Irish Queens of the Kitchen HEN the curtain goes up and discloses the first stage picture of "The Three of Us it Is asserted by those who have maA? a life study of gallery audiences that never was there a Queerer crowd gathered in that land of the fres and home of the brave at all, at all, than is seen in the upper seats of the Madison Square Theater The reason for this is not the trimmings to the play furnished bj hero heroine, villain, and other concomitants No, it is none of these It 13 Maggie Maggie, the wonderful, the irrepressible, the joy-ghing, who is as Lillian Bussell remarked after viewing the third performance, "the embodiment of all the Irish cooks that ever were All through the play you are conscious of Maggie even in the most pathetic an 1 the most emotional moments between hero and heroine You could not be unaware of her any more than you could be unaware of a tornado a baby, or a post in the house Maggie, without her ostrich plume is Mrs Eva Vincent She was discovered bv a persistent interviewer.

In a purple lloweied kimono in a Central Parlc West apartment Although early in the morning, the place is spick and span Maggie admits that she has just run the carpet through it and that she is just as thorough in her work at home as she is on the stage If you want to do houses ork in the theater that will make every woman in the audience up and take notice," says she, "jou don want to spend your time when off duty eating chocolates and leading modern fiction "It's Always Waiting for You "I supplement my housework at the theater with that at home I seeia to run out of material for the supple mentary proceedings, eithei That's one beauty of housework You can go away and leave it without a word of apologv, never even saying your leave and when you come back there it is waiting for you, just as persistent as a husband absolutely unchanged in its patient wait- ins on your little whims Those who have had the delight of seeirg Maggie sift the ashes on the er- v-d step, shafce the base burner until the ed flame dies and then, after a period of waiting, rises again, blow on the frosty pane to look out into the blanketed world and perform half a hundred other mental mules in toe little Western cottage will appreciate the fact that her own home looks like a ca.refullv arranged interior, all i oady for the bell to ring, and that it is as tenderly looked after as is the home of Rhrj-, Clem, and Sonnv Maggie brogue as the is interviewed, peeps out with fascinating, furth syl a- bles now and then When she hears it, she pazes at the Interviewer with a half pologetic wholly humorous expression like a rhild caught in mischief, foi the trouble or the joy of a brogue is that it ill not at the stage door It sticks like a burr, and when you think jou ha-ve got rid of it, you find that ou hav after all The Irish Roar Means "Right." Do I really think that 'The Three of Vs Js as popular as claimed with the culinary crowd that Chauncej Olcott lias at found a rival 7 Why me, me dear, there ain't the ghost of a question about It I know it 1 ain because I read about it in the papers 01 that tlie box office man renorts so manny Biddies more than last night or because some of my woman friends tell me that they sent their Delias and Marys, to see it, but because I know the Hibernian laugh "You can fool me on many things, but riot on the Irish roar When I hear that who's woiking up in the Seventies, West so hke her that if they changed clothe 1 tell 'em apart "Andy in the orchestra seats tae women i nudge each other and say 'She's the per' tect image of a woman mother used to have come in by the day--such a character 1 There a certain gesture that I make that never fails to bring a cackle fora up aloft The people in the auditorium "No Sons for MoKKlet No Breakfast for Dickey." come r-r-rolling down from the upper tier, I sav 'Hurrah ior Ireland! Maggie will get the glad hand to-night' I know that there are several hundreds sitting on of the seats that will say, like Miss Russell cook did when she saw it 'Oh, it ain't a bit like me sorry a bit, but it the dead picture of me sister over Jnrspv' "Tnat It They all see a startling re- semblnnce to some one of their friends and the friend hears about Maggie and comes to see her, wh she wonders how could ever think it was a bit like her, but there's another friend of her 3 estlj, I do try to be cheerful behind the scenes and at no matter what goes wrong You can train ourself to It if you try Some people don't lle to have children around, they say they make them nervous Nervous' Of course they do, if you let them I've trained mjself so that when I go to sleep a couple ot children can get up on the bed and -dance They wouldn't disturb me in the leas'. It they THE CDP I'M GFVIN' YE, AND NOT THE CWF." usually laugh at the accompanying lines and the little bit of stage business, but there are mishty few of them that realize tlie full significance of It A Meaning Gesture When an Irish girl wants to express the most complete indifference your wishes and your opinions she does this gesture Sometimes she saj? with It, 'The back of me ban' to and that is equivalent to remarking, You and yours can go right to the devil for all I care 'It isn say that to.the tiue Hibernian She knows All you've, got to do is to make the gesture, and you happened to live on tae East Side, and if yoa happened to have disagreed with ills Mulvaney in tne tinimint above on some vital question concerning the quality of a certain beer, or something like that and If you happened to make that gesture to her the probability is that Mrs Mulvaney will spring at you, and you -wouldn't be here In time to heai this explanation I ask "Where's Hhy' 1 and he says 'I dunno Say, Maggie, will you make the chocolate cake" and 1 respond as I go out of the room with tnat sweep of me arm and elbow, it does me good to hear that appreciative snlggllnff In the gallery "Letters' Heaps of 'em received one to day that begins 'Maggie, mo Duchess Maggie It smells of nice, clean, jellow soap, and it was so funny that 1 sent It to a friend to was Just like the, rest of them They all tell me that I am '1C or that I'm the wflole show, and they are all kindly and well meant After I read them I wonder why Mr Lawrence bothers about haying 1 Mies Nlllson and the rest of he doesn't Just have me alone in a four-act monologue Then I go down to the theater They Warm Her Heart "But zlgzaggy and ill spelled and soapy as they are, they stand for the real optimists of life--there are none like the true Hibernians for that, and the cockles of Maggie's heart get pretty nearly red hot reading them "Am I really optimistic off the stage aa well as on' Why, Lord love yer, me dear, that's me long suit "Grin and the world grins with yon, you know, but you must grin with your soul as well as with your lips That's the secret of. a long life and a merry one "Now. this is a flat too tea truth When I get off the car from the theater coming- home at night my tyusband, who is not enough to play this winter, always sais to whoever happens to be here' There Eva I hear her getting off the car at the end of the street' He says that when I come In the bouse trembles "I pretty apt to laugh when. I get near home and when I laugh the people In the block knon all about It.

There's nothing mean nor underhanded nor sly about my laugh, I'll soy that for It 'When I was -vounger and living at home, one of a big ou could hear me four blocks, so they said I suppose one gets subdued as one gets older I like to feel that If people aren't struck speechless by my beauty they are cheered up my inspiring qualities. Hon- didn mind my being there, I wouldn't mind them That's square, ain't It? "Felix, my husband, hates to take a little nephew we have downtown, because he walks backward all the way and dances I don't mind Another one al- vays winds me cuckoo clock when he's here and I not I could be aggravated, if I allowed meself to be, of course "Once, when I was under the management of Frederick Bond and was -pteiyln' in stock at Montreal I telegraphed to him in New York 'I've had a row with the company and am going to quit' I did not receive any reply, and after a few days I wired again, at his- expense this time- 'Haven't you got something for me to do in New York' Condition unchanged here' 1 I sent a third one in the course of the next week and then I got this sage 'Eva, behave yourself' That was all "I suppose some of who wear their artistic temueramentp outside of their clothes would have been- offended. Not little Eva. She laughed for a whole Say and finished her engagement according; to original intent "How do get the ideas for character parts' Well once I was walking along the street and happened to be studying out an Irish part, when rlgtit In front of me appeared suddenly a funny little old scuttling along at a great rate wrapped In Just the kind ot a shawl that I had pictured, and about which I had been wondering, not knowing where I could find one I started after; her, rny ayes glued Jo that greasy old garment for It was the zeal article, queer as It was A Hot Chase. "She turned and saw me chasing ner, with ipy eyes popping out of my head, and, catching her clothes In front of her, ahe tore along, keeping close to the house lines running like a hare In spite of her age and -rheumatism I was keen on the chase in those times and I wouldn't say die, so along we two went look back I wonder I wasn't arrested for being a thief or wanting to be one Finally I chased her into an alley and turned at bay, still grabbing her precious clothes and calling down on me the wrath of all the saints in the calendar and a few that aren't there "It took me a long time to explain.

When I did. she exclaimed 'Gawd I thought vou was a woman You looked it' "But I got the shawl "The gown I wear in 'The Three of Us Is an dld-fashloned barege that belonged to my father's mother It a great big plaid that you couldn't buy now for love nor money and it's so old and motheaten and patched and mended that I'm deadlv It won't last through the Reason. I don't know where I get another, and Maggie without her plaid gown, would be as incongruous as Dicky without his eftge up the face for Maggie' Not at all me dear Nature fixed me face all right for character parts Go 'long with You're blarneying me I know You don't have to a repertoire as I've done, ranging from Camilla to Topsy without finding your weak and your strong parts "Whom did I study for the part of Maggie" Copied a Friend. "A dear friend of mine, who lives on Fourth avenue and who has a delightful brogue, Just like Maggie's, for I stayed with her and copied It and practiced for many long days before I satisfied myself I used to get her to sing songs, and recite poetry and tell stories to me ''She kept a boarding house at one time and among the boarders were two young chaps who, whenever they had tot wait for their dinners used to sit at the table and sing that silly old song I give while I am setting the table It has that queer Irish lilt and curly-cued way of dropping from one note to the other, as if your voice was falling down the bannisters "You remember It' I believe that one of the comeall yes, as the Irish call some of their folk songs it goes this way What, didn't you get it' Well, let me try not that time' Well, well Again Marggie's audible smile breaks Out all over the little apartment. "I'll tell you the beauty of some of the comeall yes is that you can hear them for years at time, and you won know what they're about, they go so fast and they are near words, like Lewis and they'll drive you crazy "You think you'd like to get that song and you to the prlma donna, 'Just sing It and she keeps on singing and there's nothing doln' "But they never fail to get a laugh." AMUSEMENTS.

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SPECIAL MATINEE THURSDAY TO-MORROW NIGHT ONE WEEK ONLY Thursday and Saturday PRICES, SOe to $2.00. DAVID BELASCO PRESENTS WARFIELD IN THE MUSIC MASTER A Comedy in Three Acts. After His Engagement of Three SpccessifQ Seasons in Hew York. NOTE--The present engagement will afford the only opportunity to see Mr Wai-field In The Music Master" in Washington as he will appear in ft new play next season under the direction ot Mr BeLasco NEXT WEEK-Seats Thursday Sam and Lee Shubert (Inc and Leir OFPER LEW FIELDS AND HIS ALL-STAR COMPANY In the Musical Absurdity. ABOUT TOWN And a Travesty of David Warfleld'B The Music Master WITH Blanche Ring, Peter Ft Dalley, George Beban, Edna Wallace Hopper, Harry Fisher, Louise Dressier, Lawrence Crossmith.

LEW FIELDS And the entire company of nearly three score In both productions TO-NIGHT-2550C FASOUS FOREIGN AND AMERICAN Motion Pictures Hiss Lola Williams, Soloist. Chester R. Spencer. Illustrated Songl. Springsteen, Drum SoloUt, LYCEUM POPULABIM WITH THE PEOPLE DIRECTION CmcuJT fnatinee "Daily 'WEEK COMMENCING TO MORROW MATINEE.

Forever Foremost" The Dashing HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS Graduates of the Beauty Class, With special added features. HILDA CARLE And Her Famous Red Raven Cadets Offering 15 Beautiful Young Women In a Sensational Military Spectacle A Blazing Sunburst of Beauty. The Tiger Liiies GRAND OPERA ENC LN BELASCO THEATER. BEGINNING WEELi OP FEBKTJAKY 4, TJnaer the Direction at MRS KATIE WILSON-GREENE, HondaT and Tuesday Evenings-- jiomiaj "CARMEN." Wednesday and Thursday Evenings-- "RIGOtETTO." Friday and Sftturdy Evenlngc-- TROVATORE." Wednesday and Sa urday Mat in OF Prices--For evenings, J1.50 tl 00. 75c.

50c $12.00 'Matinees, popular prices--ILOO TSc. SOe and 23c- Orders for seats may now mailed to Mrs. Greene 16th st nw BmabUsdtcd 1S7O 314 NINTH STREET N. W. Money loaned on Watebeo.

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