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A k) Jfc-afeakM CHARMING tcv et No .3 JATSCOVL'SREAL CHARM SHOVN IN 'SMILEf THROUGH' Excellent Support Given Star in Allan Langdon Martin's Success at Broadhnrst i By McELLIOTT. The obvious thin? to say on hearing the ru of Jane Cowl's new play. -Smilin' Through," at the Broadhurat, is that it Beginning: next Monday only eleven mora performances will be grven of "The Wayfarer" at Madison Square Garden. Pearl Regay and Evan Barrows Fontaine are to be the featured players in the new Capitol Theatre revue, scheduled to be presented next Sunday. On Tuesday January 13, Nance CNe3 will appear in "The Passion Flower," a drama by Jacinto Bene vent at the Greenwich Village Theatre.

Arthur Hammers tein's nlay. already ten aC i I if I r. V- probably provides the star with another op- tatirely titled "Joan of Arkansaw" and "Toinette," is to be known hereafter as porcunuy to Deautuuuy unhappy. We ourselves have never reveled in a -r IS- I -1 satisfactory theatre weep" since "Lilac "Always You," I'm told. Ex-President William H.

Taft will speak at the testimonial performance of the New York Count? American Lee-ion to be given Tin." in which Miss Cowl was the lovelv bv Elsie an is and "her jrane" Sunday eve ning at the George M. Cohan Theatre. Marguerite Zender, the mystery girl of 'Ane-el Face" at the Knickerbocker, has decided her own name wUl do very well for stace surDOses. Invitations to her re- christening have consequently been with drawn. VlUHall I dougaU's Barn on Fourteenth street for the i I i V.

im w- .1 and miserable Jeannine; but "Smilin' Through, though it's what the- veteran i matinee-goer will term 'awf 1y sad," with the- pleased sensation of having got her money's worth, is not entirely drenched with the salt drops of emotion. For one thing, it shows us a new Jsne Cowl, new to this reporter, at least. Her Kathleen Dungannon, Irish and twenty, is vivacious and unsubtle creature. If the brogue of her is occasionally a bit thick, if her, "Me, is it and her Uncle, darlin' are at moments reminiscent of the heroine-cf-the-parish play on the seventesnth of March, we forgive her freely. She is lovely shimmering as a poet's dream in her costumes of the long ago, and at all times utterly charming and appealing creature.

Beginning- with a dim and mysterious prologue, in which two slim wraiths stand on the wrong side of the garden wall and dis-cuss the problems of the loved ones sep- arated from them by death, the play tells the story of the young love of Kathleen for Kenneth Wayne and of her uncle's unswerving determination to keep them apart. He has the very best of reasons for his black bitterness aeainst the house of Wamo. a sw 7 1 eral months ago, will speak on -The Folic Theatre Movement" on Thursday, January 8, at the Church, of the Messiah. This will be the last week of "Carnival" at the Forty-fourth street Theatre; of "The Little Blue Devil" at the Central; "The Rose of China" at the Lyric, and "The Unknown Woman," at Maxine Elliott's Theatre. "The Frivolities of 1920" will open next Tuesday night at the Forty-fourth Street Theatre.

Newark and Brooklyn are this eelc seeing first performances of plays which will be given here shortly. "The Purple Mask," Leo Ditrichstein's new drama, which Is to come to the Booth next Monday nijrht, is being tried out in Newark, and "The Ruined Lady," with Grace George, is playing at the Majestic in Brooklyn. ALIMONY BOTIIERS ACTOR Uoon application of Ruth Black well. Su Fifty years before, in that very garden, with the same slim poplars limned against the same midsummer sky. Jeremiah Wavne shot and killed his John Carteret's bride.

Moonyeen Clare. No niece of his shall ally herself with that man's son. But his hate is so dark and bitter it shuts ut of his life the only thing which has justified his barren existence. The spirit of Moonyeen, which he had been wont to con- TIIEKE WAS A WITCHING IIOl'R when the writh bride in "Smilin' Through." at the Broadhurst Theatre, came drifting through the gate to comfort her sorrowing lover. Jane.

Cowl appears as Moonyeen in the new play, and she is lovely as a narcissus flower in her shimmering and ghostlike gown. preme Court Justice Greenbaum yesterday AMUSEMENTS. jure up on moonlight nights in the garden, comes to him no more. War comes, breaks Kenneth and sends him back maimed to his love. John Carteret is st'll what novelists a century ago used to call "adamant." It is only when the ice about his heart breaks that the wraith of Moonyeen comes smiling through the gar-dent irate to take him with her.

Miss Cowl PMPIR pB-wy 40th St. Evs. JO Mata Thur JUJ) ACD1KNCB HrKLLBOt)M." Tirora. ETHEL I Zo" alaV Play emyuoreIDECLASSEE is a very substantial, flesh-and-blood ghost bride in that scene. A fanciful little tale it is, with some very excellent acting by Henry Stephenson as John Carteret, by Ethelbert D.

Hales as Dr. Owen, Philip Tonge as the rejected suitor and Orme Caldara as the gallant wreck of the war. Its author, Allan Langdon Martin, is to be commended on having written some very smooth and pleasant dialogue. directed Carlyle Biacicweii, movie actor, to appear before him on January 6 to show cause why he should not be adjudged guilty of contempt of court for having failed to pay Mrs. Blackwell alimony allotted in separation action.

She says her husband is $1,300 in arrears. DE CROSIT APPEALS An appeal from a decision of Judge Augustus Hand, dismissing an action in the Federal District Court, instituted. against the Vitagraph Company, has been made by Francis De Crosit, author of "Arsene Lupin," the popular detective story. The author alleges that his copyright privileges were violated by the defendant in producing a motion picture version of his masterpiece. AMUSEMENTS.

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DOUGLAS Maxine Elliott's Jf JJ, 1 Marjorie Rambeau The Unknown Woman FAIRBANKS CRITERION B'way4ta Evl at ii Mats. Thnra. Sat. RIVOLI i "WbB th CIoimU Roll By" LSURETTE TAYLOR KDIM I ORCHtSTKA la J. n.lRTI.KY MINNKKI' Kn riay AMUSEMENTS.

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rneatrtral Htory "A Crashing Hit." Evening World. HOIJIIAT 1 KINFP.t T. THIIISIIAY I ANI SATfRt'AV AT 1 3 HAPPY PRICES SaU 8 Weeks Ahead. JUTINEES TMDAT and SATl'RDAT.