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"BUNTY PULLS THE STRINGS" COMES INTO
NEW YORK AND TAKES WHOLE TOWN BY STORM
Quaint Scotch Dialect Play Imported Trom London Makes Great Hit Billie Burke Scores Fresh Triumphs in "The Runaways" George Beban's
Enlarged "The Sign of the Bose" rails Short.
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lyfEW" YOKK. Oct. Si. itiperlaD
V A quaint llttl play drifted Into
' .Vw fork without any prelim
inary advertising- and captured the
by storm. This was "Bunty Pulls
te Strtns. by Graham Moffat, which
1 '!!! enjoylns; a successful run In
I.mdon. nut London runs often mean
lusty American exits, a many man.
asers have found to their rorrow.
This (gueerly named attraction Is
reilly rerond company, the original
car fn- nr!!l in Lon-lon. hut the act
In was rissrlens. and the usually
Jaded flrst-nlirht audience waa sur
prlned out of Itaelf Into sheer dllht
at lie slniDlo Utile story of these I
Scotch country people, speaklnc their I
own language and seemlncly exprejs-
itia- themselves from their own point
or view.
"W hy. It isn't a play at all. It seems
natural. remarked one well-known
man about town In an Interval between
acts.
"Baoty'e" f aararters Caaat
"Bunty" Is a three-act play of char
alters. It Is the characters that count
and each stands out In bold relief. It
was soothing and restful to listen to
them, but It gave one the uneasy feel
ng of being an eavesdropper. In fact,
it was almost i:Ke akulklns; Into a
backyard and listening at an open ln-
- on to a family s conversation.
Miss Molly f'earson la the only mem
ber of the cast who ever appeared In
New York before. In "The rasalog of
i no Third Floor Back she gave a de
lightful performance) aa the little be
draggled alave. Here as Bunty she la
winsome, charming and pleasing to
look at.
It la Tarn mas Blgaar. a Bunty'a
ranny father, with his two elderly
spinster sweethearta. ' who- supplies
whatever atory tne play posse.se.
Misle blmpson. the "ugliest woman that
filasgow ran produce." discovers that
Tjmma has misappropriated some of
ber funds and Insists that he shall
marry her or go to Jail. Thirty yean
before Tammaa has deserted Miss
l.tleen Dunlop oa her wedding day. and
3 years after that event the fair
Ktleen. still buxom and womanly, ateps
into nia lire again, lie certainly Is In
bd. bat little Bunty geta busy with
her strings and straightens things out
atisrartorily.
Ilasaer aaa Pat bee Alleraate.
Utile epiaodes of humor and even of
pathos crop up all t he time. It la
novelty, this Scotch play, and everyone
l going to seei It. But It Is the flaw
less acting that carries It through. One
wonders what It would be, like In the
isnij ef an ordinary stock company.
There Is only one sad thought con
norte.l with this success. Managers are
.l:ke sheen: when an attraction of
.rtaln kind "gets over." they all rush
. f'r it ' are Just getting over the
Viennese opera erase, and It Is to be
btped that we are not to have an In
vaaion of Ht Srotch dramas, for a
steady diet of Scotch dialect would un
. doubtedly get upon our nervea.
But "Bunty fulls tho firings" la In
cla.s by Itself. Tou will enlov It If
ou like Kcotrh dialect, and you will
enjoy it if you do not care for the
burr, and no higher pralee ran be
given than thft.
A cast without a flaw, a perform
ance which by Its novelty and -charm
gave only unmitigated delight. Is the
ay one usually bored critic describes
It. Yes. "Bunty" certainly "pulls the
airings.' so far as success la concerned.
Blllle Berke eere agate.
Miss Blllle Burke, always charming,
has scored another sucresa In a light-
ealsted little play. "The Runaways."
' an adaptation or u Qamlne. which
was produced In Farla last bummer.
The play la very, very light. A little
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the country, runs away because they
v.m f .-. wt m .niinlpv Innt
j "files" to the borne of an artist, re
mains there In dflance of the pro
prieties, and In the end marries the
man she loves.
Blllle Burke U probably tha one
irlfls. She made a very attractive pic.
ture with her flaming red hair and her
girlish figure, and did not look a day
older than the role. If. She was at
hr best In the scenrl In the artist's
studio, where she coaxes him to let her
remain aa hta boarder. She had reluc
tance, diffidence and her baby voice,
(me waa Interested and pleased all
through the play, but never undu'gr ex
cited. Doctors should recommend it
to patients who have weak hearts but
must still be entertained. Miss Burke
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made a great deal of tha rola and Is
well worth seeing. Her supporting
company ia adequate, especially con
sidering that they have little or noth
ing to do.
If the "Runaways" had been turned
In by one of those "unknown American
playwrights" that managers alwaya
talk about so affectionately. It would
never have been produced. But "adapt
ed from the French" covers a multi
tude of sins and shortcomings. Per
haps some day this condition will not
exist.
tieerge Bceaa Branches Oat.
George Beban, having achieved sue
resa In a vaudeville sketch, baa had
It rewritten Into a four-art play, which
la now on tha boards at the Oarrlck
Theater. It la billed aa "The Sign of
me Kose.
Mr. Beban. being both author and
star, has committed the usual error of
giving himself a too fat part. As the
poor Italian ha la good, but there la
rather too much of him. Still outalde
of what ha baa to do, there Is very
little to tha play, so perhaps he can
be excused.
Tha story of the drama revolves
around a non-exlstant Black Hand. A
protiigate American. In need of money,
Kidnaps tils brother a child, and then
rues oim a uiacK Hand latter, da
mending a ransom of I10.S00. An Ital
ian who delivers a Christmas tree to
tha rich house la suspected, and trailed
by headquarters men. His own child
has been run over by the auto of the
k'dnaped kid s father. The real vll
lain la to reveal himself by wearing a
rose, eieutns rouow tne Italian and
aee him buy a rose. Then they arrest
him. laughing at his story that ha was
buying a flower to place on his dead
child a casket. Following which wa
have the third degree In approved style.
accusational tearful denials and final
happiness for everyone concerned.
A pleasing feature of the play Is tha
way tha children are whlaked off the
atage before they bad time to become
too boring. One la kidnaped, while the
other la autotnobtied. There were other
children, but they only had "bits." for
Which alao many thanks.
Mr. Beban la an excellent character
actor, and his portrayal of a loving,
distraught , simple-minded Italian la
borer was admirable. He held the In.
tereat ef his auditors to a great ex
tent, but there la nothing else to tha
play. You fsel sorry for the poor man.
but In time you weary of his continual
woe. and wish for aomethlng else to
happen. It does not. In "The Sign of ,
.w
the Rose," Pietro. the laborer, and his
troubles are alwaya with you.
As a vaudeville sketch. "The Sign of
tne Rose" was great. As a four-act
play It does not fill the bill. All of
which leada to the suspicion that In
dramatic writing It .la far easier to
boll down' than It la to pad out.
The Black Hand should indorse this
play. It alms to prove that the black
mailing aoclety of which wa bear ao
much doea not exist.
A sere Theater la Navel.
Wlnthrop Ames, formerly director of
tha New Theater, has made nubile aoma
of tha details of tha playhouse which
he Is having built on West Forty-fourth
street. Just off Broadway. This theater
will have aeatlng accommodatlona for
under 500 persons, and tha announce
ment Is made that there will be no
boxes or balcony. All spectators will
be In the orchestra, the Idea being to
make It aomethlng like a drawing-
room entertainment Instead of an ordi
nary theatrical performance.
There waa an interesting time at the
century (formerly the New Theater)
the other night, when the first re-
nearsai or Tni oaraen or Allah" was
held. In addition to the actors, the
stage was filled with camels, goats.
Barbary sheep, dogs, Arabs, sandstorms,
kabyles. diviners and dervishes. Leibler
aV Company are certainly sparing no
expense to make thia play quaintly re
alistic. Beulah Blnford. who gained notoriety
In the Beattle murder case In Rich
mond, ia appearing In vaudeville at tha
Garden Theater. City officials and pro
fessional reformers almost advocated
lynching when there was a rumor that
she might appear In moving pictures.
Now no protest whatever has been
made. Apparently the motion olcture
makers, although they have fortunes
Invested In their business, are regarded
aa theatrical "goats."
Taft Wins Friends World Over .
By His "Hallo" Smile and Nod
Willi am F. renton. Who Was With Nation's Chief When He Governed
the Philippines, Writes of Pleasing Characteristics of President.
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BT WILLIAM F. FEWOJ.
late William E. Curtis, dls.
tlnrulshed correspondent and po-
Ical forecaster, once said to the
writer at the Kimball House. Atlanta,
In the banquet to President McK'nley
there, "The Major baa mora friends
triends than any other man on earth.
He makes them by his kindly smiles.
gracious nods and warm handshakes.
He keep them by hla loving disposition."
Ia Ilk manner Prealdent Taft makea
friends wherever ha gees, though he
Is aa different In many respects from
McKlnley as ona man might ba from
nothar. His smiles ar not what Mr.
Curtis called "kindly:" they are. in
deed, generous and very catching. His
nods are not gracious, but well ac
centuated bows full of good nature
and meant to ba seen. Ills handshakea
are hot; and while he makes no at
tempt to wring your fingers away from
you Ilk hla Illustrious predecessor.
Colonel Roosevelt, he evidently Intends
to let you know that a atrong hand Is
laid upon you.
Per naps, however, it is the Presi
dent's splendid "Hello!" which has won
and kept for him so many thousanda of
"personal friends" how nice to be a
personal friend of a President! In
many parts of the world. Milton surely
would not have Included "Hello" among
his splendid or msgniflrent words; but
Milton never had the pleasure of meeting-Mr.
Taft nor of hearing that fear
fully-abused telephone greeting hurled
forth Ilk a controlled cyclone behind
which waa a subterranean rumble of
the best good nature on earth. If ha
had, he would have known that tha
ejaculation was aa big and generous
and whole-souled ss the man who sent
It forth.
Hello" la Comforting.
It has been the writer's pleasure
to hear that wondrous "hello" at the
National Capital, down In the palace
of the captains-general In Cuba and In
the far-away Philippines. And It has
always sounded the same like a com
forting blast of mountain air rushing
to tell one that the summit had been
reached and It was time to sit down
and look around.
It is no wonder the newspaper boys
In a hundred parts of the globe, from
Shanghai to Beverly, stand around and
with thumbs in armholes tell how "Mr.
Taft Is a personal friend of mine!"
Why, even the writer Is a personal
friend of the President's.
Way. down In Cuba they try to do
things very much after the Madrid
fashion all but the clothes, and those
are French.. But In speech. In gesture.
In awe-inspiring ceremonial and flip
flaps they are "very much" Madrid.
Of course they hated Spain, the Span
lards and everything Spanish at least
so they said; but they vowed that the
Old Country had no exclusive copy
right upon long-drawn-out salutations
and never-ending adlos-es and they
added a yard or two of resonant Cas
tlllian whenever It seemed as If a void
needed filling.
Taft Surprises Cnbana.
And so they were prepared to hedge
Governor-General Ma goon around with
beautiful phrases. But Mr. Magoon
waa a business mat) and he used busi
ness language. He s,ald what he meant
and meant what he said. So the gen
teel Cubans were shocked.
Then came a time when the Ameri
can Secretary of War had an urgent
call to Havana. He came In a warship
landed with a smile and said "Hello!'
with such force to the first delegation
of patriots to call upon him at the pal.
ce thai, some of them wondered if the
Maine had re-exploded. ,
And Just then Mr. Taft got down to
sub-soil. He told the Cubans a few
things they knew and more they did
not. Some of his words were harsh
nd the big clenched hand of the big
War Secretary seemed ready to back
up his English. The smile, though
was ever ready to break forth;
and at tjie end of the conference
It did actually play upon the face
of each Individual Cuban there: and
when the good-bys were said the
patriots filed out of the palace
knowing that a friend, a renA friend of
tneir country s. naa tola mem a. lew
unpleasant truths, given them to
understand that a spanking might be
their portion If they were not good.
and had then smiled an Idleu with as
murh warmth in It as Weyler's wrath
used to have.
Filipinos Also Jarred.
I was In the Philippines when Mr.
Taft came there to superintend things
for Uncle Sam. Conditions were most
unsatisfactory on all hands, and native
leaders fromDagupan to Ilo-llo were
vowing vengeance upon the new ad
ministration-.
Agulnaido passed the word that
second Weyler had come to the arch!
pelago, the only difference being that
the second, a Tankee, was necessarily
worse than the first. It will be re
membered that Weyler was captain
general In the Philippines before he
received his commission to exterm!
nate the Cubans.
But It was not long till all this was
changed. The new ruler of the Isl
ands wore no uniform and carried no
word. He was not hedged about with
bayonets, but went among the people.
He held no midnight councils for the
weighing of traitors tales nor for the
entrapping of bona fide native leaders.
SmlllBg Wins Filipino.
Instead, he sent for tha leading pat
rlottc and Intellectual men of the Isl
ands, listened to their woes, told them
what they and their people might ex
pect from the Washington government
and smiled.
The smile caught the Filipinos. It
went In all directions from Manila.
and it brought many and many an am
bassador to the seat of immediate gov
ernment, to the council chamber of Mr.
Taft. There the real thing, the thing
about which they had beard and re
garding which most of them were
loath to believe, a smile from a gover
nor-general. Madre de Dlos! was be
stowed upon tnem ana tney were wen
on the road to thinking that perhaps
after all the Americana did not Intend
to garrote the whole nation behind the
walls of BUiDia.
It was th writer's privilege to hold
a volunteer commission in the Army at
that tima and for more than a year to
saa Mr. Taft almost daily. ' On several
occasions I had brief interviews with
him (representing as I was a New
York paper), and he always appeared
to me to be the most cheerfully optl
tlmlstlo man In all creation.
"When these poor people realize
what we mean to do for them." he said
one day, "they will link McKlnley's
name with Jose Rlzal's." Dr. Rizal, the
first real leader of the Filipino people,
and who was killed by the Spaniards,
holds the place in native love that
Robert Emmet does in the hearts of
the people ofIreland.
Taft Whole Goveroment.
On another occasion, when I had de
livered a news report of a skirmish in
which many insurrectos were killed,
the Governor-General remarked with
much feeling:
"It is regretable that our soldier
boys must do this."
Almost from the very day of his first
landing at Manila Mr. Taft grew In the
affection and esteem of every class in
the Philippines. The natives -knew
that absolute fairness was to be ex
pected from him In the consideration
and adjustment of their troubles. He
was easy of access, ready to listen,
nuick to reason and to pronounce Judg
ment. Army and Navy officers became
his foremost friends, officially and per
sonally, and friction In the civil de
partments was quite unknown. To use
the American expression of the editor
of the American, a Manila Journal, "Mr.
Taft Is the whole government here, an
a mighty strong and good-natured gov'
ernment at that!
"IRONSIDE TALES" TOLD
London Magazine Gives Sidelights on
Kitchener.
LONDON, Oct. 14. (Special.) Some
Interesting stories of Lord Kltchene
are told in Nash's Magazine by Sydney
Brooks. '
"Sunstroke! What the devil does h
mean by having sunstroke?" Is given
aa the classic Instance of Kitchener'
attitude towards the weaker vessels,
A favorite captain , of his was entrusted
with an Important commission. There
was a delay in executing it, through
his horse casting a shoe.
Very sorry," was Kitchener's com
ment, "but I cannot rest my plan of
camnaign on a horse's shoe or an of
fleer's carelessness.
He has a grim, laconic humor. "Keep
the gun." he la said to have wired to
the War Office authorities, who were
pressing a certain weapon upon him,
I can throw stones myseu.
To an officer who kept on reporting
that as a result of his various brushes
with the enemy, "several Boers were
seen to fall from their saddles,""Lord
Kitchener sent the police Inquiry:
hope when they fall they did not hurt
themselves. "What Is your taste In
hairpins " was the query with which
he annihilated a dandified officer.
He goes Instantly to the essentials.
"Sorry to report loss of five men
through explosion of dynamite," was
the gist of a telegram from the front
put into his hands one day. "Do you
want any more dynamite?" was his
immediate answer. Men do the lm
possible at a word from, him. "Twelve
hours In which to carry this -dispatch?
You must do It In six" and the offi
cer who had asked for tha 12 hours
did It in five.
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