St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 21, 1912

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VOL; 64. NO. 245. ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1912.

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By RIPLEY D. SAUNDERS. ITH the theatrical season of I911- 1912 now nearing its close, hav- ing established a record of play- failures and dull business that has made the gooseflesh stand out in great welts on the cuticle of every important pro- ducing manager in this country, there fe still to be noted the premiere presen- tation of a few straggling plays in New York and its vicinity. The week just ended witnessed two American first-night events. One of these was the performance at the Max- ine Elliott Theater in the metropolis of “Dear Old Charlie,” an adaptatien by Charles Brookfield, now one of the En- glish drama-censors, from a French far@-comedy that scored a success. in Paris a season or so ago. Charles Haw- trey appeared in the title-role, but, aside from the fact that the new play im- pressed its audience as being distinctly ‘“yisque" in story and situations, justi- fying the London protest against its dapter being appointed to a dramatic censorship, the premiere was rather

Royle, which has as its two leading figures a husband who couldn't break himself of the drink habit and a wife who came to love another man as the result of the husband's weakness. The play is said to have a big and nove! climax in the fourth act. Amelia Gard- ner and Frank Sheridan led the company engaged in its presentation. Tomorrow evening, at the Casine in New York, “Two Little Brides,”’ the new musical comedy for James T. Pow- ers’ starring, will receive its premiere production. Frances Cameron and Leila Hughes will play the name. parts. Quite appropriately in the 4isma) dusk of so doleful a season there comes from the Great White Way a seasoned theatrical veteran's protest against the still prevalent metropolitan craze for the building of new theaters. The veteran in question ig William Harris, Sr., father of Henry B. Harris, one of the passengers on the ill-fated Titanic, and the Charles Darnten of the Evening World that New York's theatrical managers are surely theater-mad. “In the past >

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either planned or building. This means | that New York by next year will tmve 45 first-class theaters. And there isn’t an owner of a theater in New York to- day who could get for his house 65 per cent of what it cest him. I don’t know how it’s going to end, but I can make a fair guess.’’ It is reasonable to believe that Mr. Harris’ guess would be very likely to increase the gooseflesh welts now fig- uratively adorning managerial skins. “Wise men run theaters, and fools build them,” says this old-timer. And, plainly, the Feol-Killer of New York has not been on his job lately. Lendon is now indulging a vogue for Japanese plays, and this latest develop- ment is sald to be due to the great Con- tinental success of “The Typhoon,” in

jan English version which Waiker Whiteside is now siieiliaat big New ¥ork success after having given the play its premiere production in St. Louis. The leading Japanese hit on the Lon- don stage is a comedy by Gerald Dunn entitled “A Dear Little Wife,”’ which is described as being almost Parisian in the sophisticated shrewdness of its fun and the piquancy of Its situations. Its story concerns a Japanese lady, one Sujihanna-San, who is not as loyally devoted to her husband as she should be, and who just barely manages to conceal her lover under a huge clothes- basket in time to prevent his discovery by her unexpectedly returning spouse. Even then, however, one of the lover’s sandals is left on the matting, and the husband, naturally, is curious concern- ing it. Whereupon the audacious Suji- hanna San, laughing at his jealous sus- picion, tells the story of a wife who conceaied her lover under a clothes- basket, and then explained to her hus- band that the slipper left in evidence was brought fn by the family dog. Suji- hanna Ban even induces her husband to get on his knees and look for the foot- prints of the dog in his own case—and then she turns the big clothes-basket over him, enabling her lover to escape. It's a fine joke, the husband declares— “but there might have been a man under that basket after all!” ‘There was,”’ retorts Sujihanna-San. “It was ybdur- self'"' And then the tricked husband laughs louder than ever, embracing Sufihanna.- San, and saying, tenderly, “My dear little wife!’’ In Paris, however, with such a very | Parisian farce running iq Lenden, the

playgoing public is reveling tw the creeps and thrills provoked by a new Barot-Forliere melodrama entitled ‘Le Sentence,” its story dealing with a Ni- hilist conspiracy. General Ivan de Kirchmoff its notified anonymously that he has been sen- tenced to death by the Russian revyolu- tionary tribunal: A spy named Danilo is detailed to guard him against attack. The cruel General sentences an old peasant woman to the torture to make her confess where her son, a dangerous Nihilist, is hidden. Danilo, the spy, while applying the thumb- screws to the old mother, whispers to her that he, too, is a Nihilist and that she will be avenged. In the second act the ruthless old General suddenly dis- covers that he has been locked in his study and that the telephone wires have been cut. Then enter Danilo and a priest, and Ivan realizes that it is these two men who are to execute the sen- tence of death passed upon him A scene of shuddering horror follows, the horror of mortal fear striking at the soul of a cruel and cowardly man, and the play ends with the appalled Gen- eral, insanely drunk on whiskey hast- ily gulped down, falling dead in an apoplectic fit. There you have “melodrama as its melodrama.” What would we do for thrills and creeps if it were not for the familiar old Nihilist conspiracy, cruel Russian general and the mock-apy

STAGE SEASON CLOSING, NEW YORK STILL SEES PREMIE This Week’s Playbills at St. Louis in Tr of “Th Pine.” GARRICK—Lyman H. Travel Festival pictures, : AMERICAN—“Pald in Full” 7 h oar gg Vau ille, | . ea ne ree ee company, j “The Beit Volos? = a IMPERIAL — hardt ia 7 “Camille,” and nm “Mme. Sans-Gene” photo-p STANDARD—The Lady caneers. GAYETY—The Bowery But 5 So ae bed . - we & lesquers. : Fg Ww

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