Life — February 16, 1911 — page 21: what you’re looking at

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full Dus, THE APPOINTMENT “EIGHT O'CLOCK SHARP, SHE SAID.” never fails. Although The Piper is a man, there is so much more call in the character for joy and tenderness than for sternness or bravado, that in Miss Matthison’s rendering the question of sex never obtrudes itself. Miss Olive Oliver, as the mother of the crippled child who is The Piper’s special charge, plays the part with gentle pathos and in- lelligent delivery of the lines. In the other characters, numerous but not in- dividually of great importance, the New Theatre company shows that as an or- ganization it is being welded into smoothness and collective strength. “The Piper” is suited to the New Theatre and the resources of the New Theatre are suited to such works as “The Piper.” An accomplishment like the present one is a strong argument on the side of the idea for which the insti- tution is supposed to stand. os >=, >— HE New York public is which—long-suffer- ing or simply stupid? Both, judging by the way it permits its streets to be used for purposes of insult and brigandage by the gentry known as ticket-speculators. The only way the public can act in this matter is through the Legislature at Al- bany, or through the New York Board LIFE of Aldermen. The evil could be wiped out in an instant by making the license fee for peddlers of tickets five hundred or a thousand dollars a year, with strict provisions as to the character, account- ability and identification of the person licensed and provision for immediate forfeiture in case of bad conduct. The ticket-speculator exists for noth- ing save his own profit or that of his managerial employer. There is no claim that he serves the public in any way. In plying his trade he obstructs the side- walk, makes himself offensive, especially to unaccompanied women, whom he often reviles if they will not buy tickets for him or from him, and in other ways has become a public nuisance which should be entirely abolished. Unfortunately for the public this com- paratively small body of men has a very energetic association and a very consid- erable war-fund with which to fight threatening legislation cither here or in Albany. It also has a considerable po- litical “ pull,” which it knows how to use promptly and effectively. At Albany, with Tammany re the interests of New York hopeless to look for relief. The Board of Aldermen is too much interested in the issuing of permits for newspaper stands to the proper. persons andyin similar profitable functions to in- terfere with this obnoxious traffic. Its persistent inaction in this matter should be a good argument among many for the total abolition of the Board of Aldermen when the new. charter is adopted. As it has been constituted in late years it has been much worse than useless and should be wiped out. In this matter the public has no friends. A sharp message from Mayor Gaynor to the Aldermen might stir things up. It probably would not compel them to act unless some of our extra-official public bodies and the daily press should back up the Mayor. Is there enough public spirit in New York to make the effort—slight if united —to wipe out this nuisance once for all? Echo seems to answer “ No.” When some citizen whose wife has been insulted uses a magazine gun on a ticket-speculator, public attention may be turned in this ‘ection with sufficient force to make the Aldermen ignore cor- rupt “pull.” Metcalfe. resenting it is One ad BP | Prigi SUID (3 (og? a Astor—" The Boss,” don. Tough, politics Belasco — * The laughable treatmen! hero-worship. Very we > s and ‘of one form of women's staged. 353 Henry Miller in “The ly improbable matrimonial tri Interesting to those who like Bijou — Mr. Havoc." Hig angle play. that sort of thing. Broad:eay—" The Hen-Pecks,"” Itig_musi- cal show with Mr. Lew Fields's fun-making. Casino—" Marriage a la Carte.” Musical play of the Gaiety kind with some good songs, Miss Emmy Weblen and Mr. Harry Conor, Cohan’s Theatre ingford.” The co: able. Comedy—* I'll Be Hanged if I Do." Light American comedy giving ample scope for Mr. William Collier's brand Get Rich : Quick Wall fidence ga made laugh: fun. Criterion — Mr. Otis. Skinner in “ Sir Inconsequential play with Mr. Skinner's fin abilities wasted. Daly's—* The Faun.” Fantastic comedy with the modern social code as a target for satire. Interesting, Empire—" The Twelve Pound Look" and ice-Sit-by-the-Fire,” by Mr, J. M. Barrie, Notice later. Gaiety—* Excuse Me," by Mr. Rupert Hughes. Notice later. Garrick—" Our World.” Notice later. Globe—" The Slim*Princess.” A musical piece with the musical part subordinated to Its diverting qualities Hackett—" Over Night.” Elementary farce, a tride risk Herald Square —“ The Balkan Princess.” Notice later. Hippodrome—The full equivalent of the price of admission in spectacle, ballet and circus, Hudson —“ Nobody's Widow.” Pleasing light American comedy, very well acted. Knickerbocker —" Chantecler.” Rostand’s poetic drama, turned frre a spectacle. Lyceum— Suzanne.” Stupid Belgian com- edy with Miss Billie Burke. “The Deep Purple.” Absorbing Lyric — melodrama of tough life in New York. Well acted. Majestic—"'Way Down East.” The epic of rural-life in Yankee lan; Marine Elliott's—*.The Pres. ent-day banking methods in New York dra- matically presented. Nezimora—" Baby Mine.” Hearty laugh: ter at the dilemma of a neni marr pertory with “ Nobody's ter” and “ The Piper ” as the novelties. abovi Republic— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.” Clever and wholesome dramatic version of the well-known stories, well staged, with Edith Taliaferro as the little heroine," Wallack’s—"" Pomander Walk.” Charming staging of a pleasant little English romance of a century, ago. . Weber's—" Alma, Where Do You Live? Some catchy tunes ‘hitched up to a not espe- amusing farce. EXERCISE IN WALL STREET REFORE AND APTER TAKING