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AUTHOR OF "OFFICER 666" COMES BACK WITH
NEW, IMPROBABLE PLAY "WHAT WOULD YOU DO?"
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NEW YORK. March 14. (Special.)
Augustus MacHugh wrote "Offl-
cer 666," a play that at first
seemed destined to be a failure, but
which afterwards turned into a re
markable moneymaker. Mr. MacHugh
has now come back with a drama deal
ing with more serious matters bearing
the strange title, "What Would You
Do?" Like some other plays we "have
had with us this season. It brings up
the perplexing question of living be
yond one's means. The title seemed to
refer to the necessity of raising enough
money to meet the bills of wives who
would spend more for their chiffons
than their husbands could afford, who
played auction for higher stakes than
they could meet, and otherwise sought
to shine by what they spent rather than
by their womanly virtues.
The mother of the heroine of "What
Would You Do?" did not hesitate in
minutes of financial stringency to re
proach her daughter for having mar
ried a poor man. Then she encouraged
as much as possible the attentions of a
rich admirer, who took the precaution
of cloaking his affection for the wife
Tinder the appearance of an affection
for her unmarried sister. But it is his
ability to "tip" the young husband that
enables this unhappy individual at first
to make money enough to meet the ris
ing wave of his wife's demands. There
follows, of course, more speculation.
Finally the husband, - having used
enough of his bank's funds to insure
him 10 years in prison. Is about to com
mit suicide. But his resourceful friend,
a magazine muckraker of Wall street,
suggests that he take enough more to
play a tip he has overheard in the bank
and pay back everything. The young
cashier contrives to gain possession of
more than half a million, restores the
securities to the bank and contrives to
earn in addition some $300,000 for him
self. He resigns from the bank, but
recognizes that he is quite as much of a
thief as if he had been apprehended.
Three scenes of speculation occupied
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the second and third acts. There was a
certain dramatic interest in them, al
though the improbability of the Inci
dents and the excessive number of them
robbed the episodes of the necessary
plausibility.
Mr. MacHufrh's views of New York
life, even in the cheap set he was de
picting, are strangely naive. His hero
ine was selfish and heartless, because
that was her nature, and It would have
surprised none of the spectators if she
had accepted the proposal of the rich
man to divorce her husband and marry
him. Her husband started his dishon
esty because he wanted to enjoy more
of life in New York than $3000 a year
made possible. It was for his dramatic
scenes rather than his ethics that the
spectators were patient with Mr. Mac
Hugh. Louise Drew played very charm
ingly the part of the natural young sis
ter of the heroine who was intended to
attract the eye of the man of wealth
but fell in love with his chauffeur In
stead. Then the school teacher sister
of the weak husband, an attractive
character, was acted wlnningly by
Grace Wynne.
Bessie Barnscalle has an adorable
profile and Milton Sills represented one
of the types of middle-class American
manhood, in which he excels. Byron
Beasley and Richie Ling were plausible
in two wholly conventional roles.
George Scarborough, once a newspa
per man. later a secret service agent,
but now a most industrious playwright,
is trying his luck for the third time this
season. He is the author of "The Last
Resort," now at the Long Acre Theater,
and which is very much on the muck
raking order. The subject of Mr. Scar
borough's play is the . corruption of
courts and he treats it in a fearful and
wonderful way.
Law Melodrama Amulng.
There is a great deal of law In "The
Last Resort," which, it may well be
said in the beginning. Is neither the
court nor the Judge, nor even the boss
himself, but the good old pee-pul. The
action is carried on in judge's cham
bers, in a courtroom and even in a
prison cell; the characters represented
e, for the most part, connected with
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courts, and the talk is full of legal
verbiage. But do not get the idea that
it is uninteresting for that reason. On
the contrary. It Is such amazing law
and is expounded in such an extraordi
nary manner that it is quite interest
ing to see Just what can be done with
laws and legal procedure when an en
terprising playwright starts out to
write a melodrama about them.
The play tells the story of the at
tempt of a powerful corporation, -represented
by a Senator, to crush a rising
young lawyer who was fighting it. To
accomplish the purpose, the lawyer
was thrown into prison, the girl he
loved was sentenced to the penitentiary
and the judges of the highest court
in the state were corrupted, not how
ever, it should be added, for the first
time. Bit the young man had a few
cards up his sleeve and there was an
honest Chief Justice, if no one else.
From his prison cell the young law
yer was elected Governor, by a clever
coup saved the girl from humiliation.
end by the aid of the Chief Justice
popped his enemies into jail.
George Fawcett as the Senator gave
a representation of a boss such as he
has frequently done before and done
better. George Backus and B. R. Gra
ham gave clear and well-drawn
sketches of two of the corrupt trinity
judges, while A. G. Andrews as the
third, failed to measure up to their
standard.
The heroine of the dragged in "love
interest" was played by Oliver Wynd
ham, who looked charmingly simple
and made the utterly impossible news
paper writer almost real.
Cyril Maude Will Tour.
Others in the cast who played their
parts capably were Mark Price as the
Chief Justice, Wilson Melrose as Holt,
the lawyer, and Ruth Ftndlay as a
court stenographer.
Notwithstanding the success of
"Grumpy" at Wallack's Theater, Cyril
Maude has decided to end his engage
ment on April 25. He will spend a
week or two in Canada before return
ing to London. Mr. Maude will bring
his company here in September for a
road tour with "Grumpy."
Sir James M. Barrie's fantastic
sketch, "Pantaloon." will be given at
the Palace Theater tomorrow. Mile.
Dazic will appear as Columbine.
A new four-act play by Evelyn
Blanchard and Adelaide Stedman called
"What Every Minister Knows" will b
produced by B. F. Keith on March 23
at the Crescent Theater, Brooklyn.
The play deals with the low salaries
paid to clergymen as compared with
the earnings of other men. Homer
Lind will play the role of the under
paid minister. The rest of the cast
will be made up of Crescent players.
Douglas G. Wood will produce by ar
rangement with the Shuberts a new
drama called "Love and the Law," by
Charlotte E. Wells, for a single per
formance on the afternoon of March 27
at one of the Shubert theaters.
EXPERT ON HOME MANAGEMENT
SAYS MARRIAGE ON $750 UNSAFE
California Girls Receive Instruction on How to Spread Small Salaries Out Over Wide Household Expense Area.
Paderewski Buys $200,000 Ranch in South Luella Clay Carson Loses Place at Mills College.
SAN ikanuisuo, Aiarcn 14. (.spe
cial.) Housekeeping as the basis
of. domes tic haPDiness. the man-
ement of family affairs on a scien
tific basis, absolute financial partner
ship between man and wife and a def
inite home budget, are some of the
items Miss Lucile Hewitt, of Alameda,
teaches in her course in household eco
nomics. This course has been so suc
cessful that Miss Hewitt has received
Inquiries from educational institutions
all over the land, has been asked to
SDeak before innumerable civic and
mothers' clubs, and upon urgent re
quest will establish a course for house
wives In Alameda.
The course Instituted by her In the
high school of Alameda, and which has
proved an unqualified success, deals
primarily with the problems of the
every-day American.
According to Government statistics.
the minimum Income on which the av
erage family of five can exist in Amer
ica is $720 a year, but she advises her
pupils that it is not wise to marry on
so small an income, unless the man Is
of unusual ability, with a fixed posi
tion and an almost immediate outlook
for advancement. Even then, the
household expenses must be kept down
to such amounts as $20 a month for
food, $12 for rent, $3 for fuel and
lights, $8 for clothing, $1 for insurance,
$1 for physician's fees and $5 for sun
dries. Even under the most favorable
circumstances, families with an Income
of $720 a year must depend on churches.
friends and charities for part ot tneir
clothing.
The average basic income Is taken as
$1230 a year.
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Speaking of the report from Paso
Robles to the effect that Paderewski,
the pianist, had, through certain repre
sentatives, closed negotiations for pur
chasing 2500 acres of land in that vi
cinity, including the Merritt Springs
property of 1000 acres, a leading realty
broker says tne artist is to pay in tne
neighborhood of $200,000 for his property.
The broker considers the deal a good
one for Paderewski, and says this
makes the sixth land purchase in four
American states that the Polish gen
tleman has consummated. The broker.
as a part of his business and because
he considers it one of his hobbies,
keeps what he Bays is a fairly accurate
record of California farm sales to peo
ple from other states and counties from
year . to year, iast year his record
showed 2,000,000 such sales were made.
Three years ago the record ran up to
6,000,000. All these transactions were;
north ot Bakersfleld and Santa Bar
bara. The Twin Peaks tunnel is assured
and assessments on property in the
tunnel district are now due and must
be paid before the middle of April.
More than $3,000,000 will be required
o put through the tunnel that will
bring a large outlying portion of the
residential district within easy com
munication of Third and Market streets
and this money is to be raised by as
sessing the district that it is estimated
will be benefited.
It is estimated that 85 per cent of
the cost will be paid by the property
west of the tunnel or on the other side
of the city, while 15 per cent is to be
levied on a district that extends as
far down Into the business section as
Powell street.
However, the property owners and
particularly those who own business
lots west of Twin Peaks are willing
to pay the money as they are Inclined
to the belief that the property hold
ings will double in value. According
to the plan laid down by the city, these
assessments can be paid in ten yearly
payments If desired, or altogether in
one parcel.
Luella Clay Carson, once dean of wo
men and professor of rhetoric at the
University of Oregon, and for the past
five years president of Mills College,
is no longer with that institution. Her
resignation, which has been in the
hands of the board of trustees for two
months, was accepted this week. While
all of the trustees and members of
the faculty speak in the highest terms
of Miss Carson, there has been a fal
ling off in attendance which has seri
ously affected the finances of the col
lege and for this reason the trustees
have for some time been considering
the advisability of a change.
Neither the trustees nor faculty
members would discuss the resignation.
The decline In attendance, which this
year was less than 100 girls, is at
tributed to certain policies of the presi
dent which have resulted in driving
the girls to other schools. ?
"Miss Carson was not wholly in sym
pathy with the boisterous fun that
goes with college athletics," said one
member of the faculty, "and as a re
sult there have been no college yells
for two or three years."
DIET TO AID THEIR FIGURES
Newport Society AVomen Will Train
to Reduce Hips and Xecks.
NEWPORT, R. I, March 8. Society
women and Army and Navy officers'
wives will begin four months of stren
uous Swedish physical training. They
will meet three times a week, and af
ter classes take long walks, at the
same time observing strict diet for the
purpose of reducing hips and necks.
Mrs. Morrison, a. leading woman ath
lete, will be the model for the class.
Please Don't.
(New Orleans Picayune.)
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words.
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