4 on ^ a the Greatest - Where Plays* M&iHJ i ¦¦.Stages, Blazed Trail Sporting Coodt 'Cosi Fan Tutti' and Some Cros»e$ Store Modern Plays Compared the Boulevard in the World Theory of the Theater That Comedy Should Not Be Madison Avenue and Forty-fifth Street , Injected Into Scenes Which Are of Dramatic In- 1 tent Dispelled by Present Day Playwrights. By LAWRENCE REAMER. The Dress of Sportsmen AFTER all, the present age is less exacting than it might seem. The public of Vienna, which late in the eighteenth century was called upon to admire Mozart's music to "Cosi fan Tutti," one of the notable triumphs of the season at the Metropolitan Opera House, listened In delight to the measures of the composer, but was frankly scornful of the text which Lorenzo da Ponte had supplied. Learned commentators have told of the various efforts to eliminate this libretto which excited the Impresarios of every country and nearly every period of operatic history since Vienna heard the work. Yet unsatisfactory as it may have. been to the critics, Da Ponte's play suited the music better than any other. So it has survived down to our own day. Joseph II. is said to have commanded the Viennese librettist to use the story, which is also said to have been the event of an actual flirtation of that day. Nowadays the sophisticated sneer at the naive view of a librettist who started out with the hypothesis that two women would fall to recognize their betrothed when they return to court them. Both have gone to the wars. Both have returned to prove that fickleness is the way of all women. Both lay siege to the hearts of the two ladles. Neither is recognized. They succeed in establishing the almost invariable weakness of woman under a vigorous courtship. Terribly old fashioned, eh? Just as bad as all the critics say? Possibly only of course In such a rococo period of the theater as the eighteenth century! Are all these observations really founded on fact? How about Franz Molnar and his successful play called In its European form "The Life Guardsman"? Harrison Grey Fiske produced it here at the Lyceum Theater with Miss Rita Jolivet and William Courtleigh in the leading roles. The drama called "Where Ignorance Is Bliss" was given on a sultry night before an audience of bored routineers at such occasions. a in It made no Impression and was soon withdrawn. It did not meet with HERE is shop New York favor in England, but swept triumphantly over the Continent. a town man MISS where outfits for the Its story is concerned with a jealous husband, who comes back to DOROTH his wife disguised as a soldier for the purpose of establishing her fidelity. TETLEy IN country as he would in London. She does uot recognize him with the uniform and the in his "BULLDOG- changes DRUMMON It is the natural of the uppearance. ane is inacea quite as KNICKERBOCKER.! development lacking in acuteness as the two young men's department of the Abercrombie ladles of Venice are in Da Ponte s text. She ought to have been su¬ & Fitch store. perior to them after a quarter of a century In which to improve. She 4'Where the Blazed Trail Crosses the remains, however, just the same, has become also the which Is an observation that may MtSS IRENE Boulevard" spot truthfully be made of the useful dra¬ BORDONI. "Where London's West End Meets the at all times. IN " The FRENCH matic legends DOLL'.'..- LYCEUM Town and Needs of New .T.iivvfnl Larceny'*' Time Schedalc. Country Samuel Shlpman has made "Lawful York Men." larceny." which seems to keep the Republic Theater constantly flUed. a ,-otcnt factor In such a happy mana- Wrlal result by alternating comedy Tweeds, Shetlands and Saxonies una serious emotion with unfailing effectiveness. One example »f the method which keeps the Found at No Other Place nately engrossed and amusedpublic,alIn¬P vide* by the conflict between Miss rjall Kane and Miss Margaret^aw- Men's Suits and Topcoatt rence. Miss Lawrence is in the play for Both deserted wife who obtains employ¬ Country and Town ment in the homo of Miss Kane. a Exclusive Patterns More or less unconventional resident Limited to a Few of Park avenue.dramatists have or Very s.iken Riverside drive as the lair of Yards Each ? he vamp-in order to revenge her- Made for <olf on the destroyer of her happi- Designs Only 11 ess. She 'begins by affec- Abercrombie &. Fitch t ion IiOwell Sherman.gaining^theHe is. foi MISS Their of M A. R.V by llie purposes of the a NASH Scotch and English lover of Miss Kane. She^ayw-rlghtis at in | Weavers . of IN billiard table with one EODlE " C APT the Same Weavers ,.)fl informal visitors to. h^thenu^;house APPLEJACK when Mies Lawrence summons her *&d CORT That Supply the Most 10 Iearn ^at she is to ,-T MISS^MaSip Exclusive of the ,ho one man of her nearu « "West End" Tailors Li (inaiiestfl are by way of business. Miss Kane enters to learn the rea- as revolutionary in his alteration of I*.he theater not sold out. and on that Men's Riding Breeches . nn why she has been called away the comic and the serious In his dra¬ night six seats were not bought. More of Materials her secretar> , w io matic values. It used to be one of the irom the game by than forty thousand standees were Equally Exclusive . center of the MISS .amisResolutely in the theories of the "theater that comedy admitted during the run. The only a billiard cue * not be into scenes M ARGtARET in the London Market stngc. She carries should injected change of cast from the first per- LAW IN -om. were in intent. Bad RJE.NCE. " sh, -rnes which dramatic forma nee was the substitution of Miss was one the made 'LAWFUl'FUL LARCEKV Maxwell Spurs, JbeJ. taste of charges Kathleen Martyn for Miss Mary Hay. PU&LIC, TERRY IN and Pushers 'Jlances^at it and shivers apprehen- against the playwrights who did this Miss Dickson Is the "FOR Crops u Law- of The sense a scene Dorothy playing GOODNESS S*KE. He is fearful of Miss sort thing. of title role In Liondon and the So »o should be homeganeous. It had to other for- LVRICv Orders Taken for S'. fate. cities to see will be th« > in one mood. Such at least were eign "Sally" Paris, Maxwell Boots nuzzled Amazon,adroitlyapologetic*!"J keep Berlin and Melbourne. The produc¬ Riding th. CM the theories of the mandarins of yes¬ *"1 teryear. tion at the New Amsterdam Theater ? Now the playwrights follow the ex¬ was put on by Edward Rojnce under Did You Hear »r£ isss. the direction of Mr. Theatrical Calendar. into lauehter. and the mood of the act reverse of this system of making Ziegfeld. b » comic. their scenes. To add a and for a minute altogether Jocund named. He mentioned the trick and (he All the Niceties of Attire these alt6ratio"" snappy fall to a dramatic dog Is the TO.^lOHT. English "trsext to Ingenious Sothern and Marlowe That Ed Wynn Is a Better name of his boat. effort of every playwright. Half the "I asked the next day." he wrote, "and FORTY-JJINTH STREET THEATER for , ... notMn. «, success of "The Bat." which seems a Appear in Newark Mind Reader Than He found thero was no mich name on the .Special performance of Nlklta Country Gentlemen j.l theater permanence now, is due to the passenger list. T never thought again of Balleffa Chauve Sourla for the l^rcen. late He Waa? one besin in the successful manner In which the pub¬ E. H. Sothern and Miss Julia Marlowe Thought the matter until I heard morning benefit of starving Russian artists The Unusual Colorings afternoon. Two or three oMho its nerves to the of will at the Broad that a passenger had been found dead lic, rasped point appear Street Theater in hla berth. I asked and It of the theater and their families. in Men's Neckwear <£ar- soothed the In Newark for one week to¬ the name, shrieking, is suddenly by beginning wan the fellow talked to that night IB^an^1ncewant ..(killed manipulation of the funny morrow night, with a mhtlnee on Satur¬ Hjr l.CCIEN CLITEH, you M05DAT. and Kerchiefs aXr? day only. Mr. Sothern and Mien Mar¬ In the theater. He had taken paesaRc for . Demanded, uctloi^jhich bone. There are other customs for lowe will ED WTN'N received the other day no late that hla name wan not on the VA3DERBILT THE ATER Oliver Country There -Probable other In not be seen in New York city T Wear in "jTnSKl days in every art, especially this spring, and as they will not act next a letter wMch interested the passenger list, and for that reason Morosco presents Miss Charlotte England ,n the continual find out he wan on board the noble art of the drama. season their engagement in Newark could not If Greenwood In a new musical com¬ household. Men comeva-.t-^ntoftheand go.at al comedian so much that he has when I asked about him flrst. I am of marks their laat appearance In this vi¬ edy entitled In Waistcoats, Sweaters, hours but then It is that sort of Tke Fait "tally." cinity until the autumn of 1923. Their so far forgotten to show it to his press writing to ask you If you really knew "Letty Pepper." Shirts there must be certain when you said he was her are Ray household.