The Washington times., 1902-09-09
MINNIE DUPREE seen As A star
Appears as Heroine in "a
Rose O Plymouth Town
at Columbia.
AUDIENCE LIKES HER WORK
The New Play Makes Very Favorable
Impression. Although 1t Is Not Par
ticularly Strong Dramatic Compost
tion-Shows,Up Full of Comedy.

ucularly Strong Dramatic Compost
tion-Shows,Up Full of Comedy.
THE C0LUMRIA-"A Rose O. Plymouth
Town. a new romantic comedy il
four acts, by Beulah Marie Dix ant
Evelyn Greenieaf Sutherland. TIL.
cast:
John MargesoA ......-........ Bennett Sturgis
ihlilippe De La Ncye. Douglas Fairbanks
S.irett -...-.-----Guy Bates Post
Miles Standish. Augustus Cooh
Miriam Chillinssley.. Miss Edith Wright
Barbara StandiSl. ........ Miss Cornelia Bedford
Rose De La Noye. Miss Minnie Dupree
A sweet little play, full of delicate
sentiment, refined comedy, and with
just dash of heroics thrown in toward
the end, delightful performance given
by new star, company much better
than the average, and a production that
whilo not exactly elaborate, is first
class in every particular-there. you
have "A Rose O. Plymouth Town.
The play was given its first important
night, and an audience that completely
filled the house showered a good deal
of genuine praise upon the star, Miss
Minnie Dupree, and her associates. So,
if the verdict of the first night audience
may be taken as any sort of criterion,
"A Rose o. Plymouth Town is very
much OF a success, and its chief inter
prefer is a valuable addition to the list
of feminine stage luminaries.
"A Rose O. Plymouth Town is a
story OF the Pilgrim colony. One would
hardly suppose a dramatist, or even a
pair of them. could find material for a
modern play in the undramatic, common
place. uneventful, and colorless doings
of the early settlers, but the authors of
Miss Dupree's play, while they have
not evolved anything that will startle
the theatrical world or cause people to
rush to the box office, have devised a
very pleasing play, and have given Miss
Dupree a chance to demonstrate her
right to see her name in large type and
her pictures in the newspapers and on
the sbillboards.
Star Is Well Fitted.
II they deliberately set about FASH
fonfng dramatic garment for this very
delightful actress, and with no other
thought in their minds, they succeeded
admirably. They have fitted her almost
perfectly, and have enabled her to dis
play her histrionism to better advan- |
tage than ever before.
Almost everybody remembers Miss Du-
pree's Clara in The Climbers s"-that |
minx-like, pert little miss that perched |
herself up on a sofa during the family |
council. Immediately after the funeral of
her father, and while her sisters were
discussing ways and means for the fu-
ture. exclaimed that she was going in for
the stage like Anna Held.
All the sprightliness and coquetry that
Miss Dupree showed in her work in Miss
Binghams play are to be found in "A
Rose O. Plymouth Town. but, in addi-
lion, she discioses a new phase of her
art-she demonstrates that she is capa-
BILE of rising to heights hitherto unsus-
pected, her work in the second act when |,
she Stimulates hysteria, being as good a
bit of fine emotional acting as one might
ask for.
In her comedy scenes Miss Dupree is
her own inimitable self, and in this
class of stage work there is no one that
quite approaches the star of "A Rose
o. Plymouth Town" Is
Miss Dupree Dominates All.
1t is no difficult matter 10 imagine !,
what would happen TO Misses Dix and
play were it intrusted to a !
less talented actress, for whatever sue
cess it may attain will be wholly due !
10 the personality and art of Miss Du- =
pree. True, she has the aid of com {
pany of players of excellent repute. and !,
n the matter of the Interpretation of !,
he piece there is precious little to be i
iesired, but 1t is Miss Dupree that dom II
mates the entire performance; il is her Il
,irlish figure, her vivaciousness, her ca
her daintiness, and her
heroism that linger in the "
after the footlights are left +
behind, and it is, indeed, a most pleas
mt remembrance, too. a
At Miles Standish's Home. h
The scene of the first act is Miles In
;tandish's home. The picture is an Ia
xcellent one, even If there is more liz
tilted talk than one can find in a pack d.
ge OF Quaker oats. q
The heroine Of the piece is Rose de
a Noye. member of Standishs house o.
old; the hero. Garrett Foster: the viii ltt
ain-if he may be called a william II
ohm Margeson; there are half a dozen =,
ther personages, but most of them. ~
18th the exception OF Standish himself. OF
re unimportant to the telling of the NJ
tory. h,
Foster has stolen some corn and finds CO
sfuge from his pursuers in Standish's :,
ouse. where he is hidden by Rose The =. "
ousehold is at dinner when Standisb II
scoyers the corn. Rose saws she stole RI
herself, but her sacrifice is too much n
,r Foster, and he emerges from his hid ..1
lg place and acknowledges the corn.
His punishment is that he shall sit by al
ose's side until she has roasted the
,rn and he has eaten it.
Rivals Have Duel. Gi
In the next act Foster and Margeson tn
I'VE duel, wounding the Roses broth tn
Philip. who has interfered in the Gu
fair. Simply because Dame Rumor or sc,
me other fussy old person said that be