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"ABIE'S IRISH ROSE."
THE WILBUR PLAYERS SUCCESS,
A FINE COMEDY OF JEWISH LIFE.
Abie's Irish Rose has been successful wherever it has been played, and, the audience at the Star last night made it quite plain that they were of the same mind as the rest of the workl. Thr
was packed, extra chairs were placed wherever pasaille and there were people standing in the
gays,
The construction of Air's Irish Rose" is far better than that of the last two plays porn- sented by the Wilbur Players.
The seamy side is alike every- where, but in rioviet Russia it is t In the carly hours of yesterday patlas-unrelieved by an iota of monding a farmer nolired a two- humour. The enses heard in the senior motor stafing well up ini Poogle's Courts at Moseriw are the chesty Crow of a lonely road in chiety of a social emracter," and love ploturesque Chevreuse valley, a while preordure differs from that of little over twenty miles to the south fall other similar courts throughout) of Paris. The automobile contain
He world, the tairs told are in pained the bundles of two Americans, Triply the same,
¦ Auhan Moredith and Marion Ros of the man with eight | Fats, who were engaged to be mar- The mase, having wives-rack of when led a ried. Both were well-known figures legitimite "chdim for alimony age in the Latin Quarter. Meredith, where action was too slow for the .. before the court, recently and aged 21, the people's judgès were perplexed. | family occupying a gom The law of Soviet Russin permits, position. in Bifalo the dissolution of marriages on the jaevu staying singing in Paris cesty elements, surprise 'and rudition that alimony is paid by for several years
Miss past. the erring spouse The censed had į Rediets, aged 9, a native of: | married right times and divoverd¦ Chicago, was a brilliant pianist seven of his wives. Unfortunately, and har studied here under the theer was a chilì in each case and Frenete munster, Coral, The place in the women in question were not which the lovers were found is one able to earn their own living. The of the beauty spots in the environs! wages of the much-married and of Paris divorced mua nveraged 30s, a werk. The decision of the court has been
reserved.
The loose morals of which the Bolsheviks are so proud because
1
member of mi
social
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taste of an English audience. Here there is no unnecessary repetition:
had very little padding, and those verz
į suspense come early in the first act, and are continued till the final faB
of the curtain.
As for the players they were as usual excellent and we thought that Mr. Baker was at his best as Holo non Levy. He gives a very charm- ing rendering, of the typical Jew of fiction, in turn mean and gearrous.
Julian Meredith was grandson edith, of Civil War fase, and but ever cringing. of Brigadier-tieneval Sullivan: obstinate sentimental and proud,
3 was a cousin of Miss Patricia Meredith Mohun, who crossed the Sahara Desert on a bicycle. During
wedanth.
The pretty young actress-Miss Tove Linden, we believe whe
the Great War Meredith served in scored such a big success as the _they_negate all bourgeois murde Amsican Air fore on the trusting wife in Do Foolish Wires ality, provide the courts with French front; and soon after be thousands of affiliation enses. Even settled down in Paris to study sing. Play" found once more a congenial here it is noticed that many of the ng he married a young Americnt part as Rosemary Murphy. She There was one child of plays in a very charming and uni defendants Eve a collection of sum- the marriage. The wife obtained uotises against. them. Pathetic divarey on the ground of deser ffected manner and makes ou
tion, and it became known in Paris realise the attraction of the aather- stories are told to the judges by
some time ago that Meredith was brainless fittip girls who delighted The responsible male relatives of jaffected to Miss Hoberts. The two
our-grandfathers in their youth. the defendants. Fathers, brothers, lad med on board ship about two unels and even grandfathers are the Faited States to France, and American cousins call "Sophistica- years ago when on a voyage from There is something besides that our
summoned to appear, sinee in law; a warm affection sprang up between tion," and it is a refreshing change -
Miss Roberts studied the they are responsible for the sins of then. their relatives.
Grandfather Must Pay.
* the Ecole Normals to have a heroine who is all sit Sagiriwuro-ali-Musique here, and pees and coos instead of Jigarettes. Meerdith and she were constantly and cocktails.
in each other's company in the Latin Quarter,
A grandfather, nearly 90 years
All those who enjoyed the play old, pencied recently that he cannot prevent his grandson's follies since
Sme months ago Miss Huberty last night, and, judging from the he is physically unable to generee for ill, and had to return to her applause, that means all who heard hin Citizen judge," he pleaded, home in Chiengo la recuperate.it, owe i ded to Miss Florener "I have begged him to leave the There was a regular correspondence women alone: I spoke to him as an between the lovers, who had be Underhill who gave such an exce! She old man with experience, but he com engaged before the girl's de lent rendering of Mrs. Cohen. threatens to knock me down if I
parture. She returned to France, wore her right arm in a sling, not, try to advise him, and yet I am and Meredith went to Havre to
as she said in the play, as a result After a pause, sive her. He had, according to en elled to pay. l attempted in explain to the the testimony of feinds, anticipat of putting her burley Isaac in his julges that as long as he is com- el fore return with great excitement, proper place, but owing to a hat fled to pas so long will his grand and had bought a new ear with fall yesterday morning. It needed bom montinue to sin, and that i] which he intended, he said, to take would be better to change the law her on country' exeursions. The courage to play kind-hearted vulgar humeliately. The judges smiled, comple set off in this motor after Mrs. Cohen under such conditions.
Defaulting officials form a large Tequation of the defendants.
In
thus majority of cases these are victims of the systren, more sinned
gainst than sinning.
lunch on Friday- the anniversary! Aine's Irish Rose" is a good of their engagement-when both
were in the gayest of Jumours. Just play and a very amusing one. The before ten o'clock they arrived at story of the young Jew who mar- a little restaurant in Cornay-la-ries an Irish girl and gives his Ville, some ten miles from Ver-
The ease of Bradyanko is a typical ; sailles, and after a meal Meredith father to understand that she is a example. Brodyanku worked at the asked the proprietor to direct. in Jowees, was bound to be full of com bench before the revolution. II to Paris. What took place after plications, especially as her father was, according to the testimony their departure from this restaur had proper medieval ideas about given on his behalf, a sober and ant no one is likely ever to know.
the Chosen People. The young industrious worker. Then came the revolution. and Brodyanko. WIN eleted to various official posts in
Shot Dead In The Car.
About six o'clock in the morning couple are determined that no irre- his factory. In the discharge of à farmer saw the war parked slightly guiarity shall cule either father his duties he attracted the atten-
the highway under the shade to annul the marriage, and get the
little-frequent-
tion of his superior offers, and they of the towering trees which extend ceremony performed three times- advanced him to a managerial post, their branches over with control of finance.
For the first time in his life Brodyanks entered the circles of officiklom, and his salary was in sufficient to pay for refreshments for the large number of comrades who came to congratulate him on his promotion." He then borrow rd" a few roubles and unfortunate
repentel the process until the sum grew into thousands and ten thousands. Brodyanko became a drunkard and a thief.
1 Gang: 13 Murders.
41
nd stretch of rond between Chev by a Methodist Minister, a Rubbi reuse and Cernay-la-Ville. It runs and a Catholic pricat. Both fathers through the pictureque hamlet of are equally angry when they dis- La Barre, and not far from the cover that the legality of the mar get where the ear was found is the ringe is indisputabe, and the recon- Château of La Barre, with its gently illation is only finally reached with sloping roofs and its ancient walls the arrival of Patrick John" and buried under misses of is. When Rebecca Rachel," There is a ridiculous scene where the proud the couple left the restaurant Mere-
quarrel over the dith was at the wheel, but when the grandfathers farmer found them the girl was totally unsuitable Christmas pre there. The couple were leaning aents which they have bought for back with their heads together, and the month old twine, but the cur to the farmer it appeared at first tuin falls on the two old men hung. sight as though they were asleeping over the babies and agreeing
Blood was Another group of nerused are But they were dead.
that they are equally lovely, while young hooligans. The hearing of trickling from the car, and the the young parents embrace in the these eases reveals a tragic picture girl's face was covered with blood. background.
Mr. Richard Wilbur and Mr. of Russia under the Soviets. Gangs Still clutched in the hand of the of youths none of them older than man was a revolver of large calibre Edgar Cartwright deserve special 20-apparently find an outlet for with four discharged and twe lond mention for their playing of Isane their energies by waylaying their cartridges. The girl had receiv-Cohen and Patrick Murphy, and for fellow citizens and by butchering cl three shots in the hend and the actistic zea! which enabled them them in cold blood for the sake of face, while Meredith had a single to wear heavy overcoats, and muf
The Bers on such a stifling night!. rouble or two. In one case con wound above the temple. cerning a gang of hooligans the bodies were taken to a barn attach a Public Prosecutor had to admit that ed to the Château de la Barre. it was impossible in ageertain the actual uber of their victims and that for the purpose of the case thirteen definite murders were es. and seven thousand frances, while in Miss Bnburt's bag was a very Beablished.
Pickpockets, barglars, thieves of valuable ring, assumed to be the all kinds, swindlers, confidence engagement, token. This ring, it is said, was bought for the girl by tricksters, and numerous
Meredith soon after he had been
Can a widow legally marry the lin Inspectors" (swindlers más-
divorced. querading as officials), and even
The cause of this terrible ending of her first husband's sister? bribe-taking indges follow one an
This question arose in a wife other into the prisoner's box. Ne. to an automobile promenade that maintenance case at Birmingham cessity in the general plea, and only had started in joyousness is as yet and Mr. Willison, a solicitor, stat the boldest among them argue that unknown-it may never be knowned that the relationship came with- the accusation is based on the and it is futile to indulge in con in the "prohibited degrees" of hourgeois standard of private, Piercumstances of the night's tragedy; the tables, and the prohibition ap- jectures on the precise naturn and
He had gone through marriage. which they fought
Meredith'a friends state that he had peared to bos established. porty. Abolish.
Another seamy side in seen in the looked forward to settling in Paris The court had to decide whether complaints lodged by young girls after bis murringe with Mins Ro- the woman making the application against their immediate superiora in berts, and it is n fact of interest was married or not. Government officca, either for "un- that he recently applied for a phai- desirable attention or for serious tion on the editorial staff in Paris
of the New York Herald.
crimes against them.
Gogo-
Amoug the contents of More dill's pockets was a sum of between six
E. M. D
A MARRIAGE PROBLEM. MAGISTRATE TAKES FOUR- TEEN DAYS TO DECIDE IT.
A long legal argument onsued, and the stipendiary said he would give his decision in fourteen days.
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