The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-19

city. adventure. a taste of this and a taste
of that, which she INDUCED in her set
that free society that is as firmly restrained
from final happiness as is its antagOnistic
organization, conventional society.
When Aubrey Tanqueray marries Paula
and takes her to his country place. not so
far from London that the city is not visible
on a clear day and when the eye desires to
see it, Paula Immediately begins to chafe
against the Inconvenience that she should
have sense enough to accept and smile at.
Her husband is untroubled by them and
gives her every aid to establish herself
soundly. The sight of the chimneys of a
neighboring house that contains a woman
that will not call on her exasperates Paula.
The humdrum of the daily routine makes
her think-and gilds her thoughts-of easy
days. Her husbands daughter, the daugh-
ter of the first Mrs. Tanqueray. comes from
the convent where she has been educated
and is repealed by the manner that clings to
Paula from her former method Of living.
The older woman is Immediately envious of
the girls purity and wishes TO share il with
her. Forbidden this, her unreasoning anger
against her whole environment flares high
er To complete her irritating environment
II is made known to her that friends of her
husband and his daughter have planned TO
take the girl away so that she may get a
broader view Of things than her convent
experience afforded her. OF course, Paula
takes 1T that the purpose is to separate the
girl from Paula's communicating influence.
In desperation, Paula sends for two friends,
George Orreyed and his wife, the latter a
companion of Paula's when a change of
name and abode was not infrequent and not
a violent process.
This man, who has become a regular
drunkard, and this woman, who is doubiy
offensive now that she has taken on the
authority of matrimony, teach Paula that
unconsciously she has grown out of the old
habit, and that while she has been cOoped
up with Tanqueray she has localized her
set" Orreyed and his wife hardly have
arrived before Paula wishes them gone.
At his troublous period Tanqueray's daugh-
ter returns. Paula has assembled her fac
ulties and has determined to try again to
adjust herself to her husband and go on
with him calmly. At her fathers sug-
gestion the girl goes to Paula and kisses
her. and Paula is further braced for the
new effort. The last and crushing calamity
now falls on her. The girls fiance is pre-
scented and Paula recognizes him as one of
her mates of the past. She determines TO
tell her husband of this fearful cOmplica-
ton. 1t is so bizarre that IL c~onvinceS her
that there IS no chance for escape, and she
loses her balance. Dazzled and cOrnered,
she gives up. To her husband she makes a
long. vivid statement of what she sees in
the future-an oppressive sense of their
dilemma that will always be with them.
Then she leaves him and slips away to her
room and kills herself. That defect has
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XXX
The elaboration Of this theme is intricate
and Illuminating. Each of the characters
OF the drama accomplishes it's purpose ex-
actly, and each was acted last evening per-
fectly, with slight exception. The intensity
that Mrs. Campbell fired Paula with was
irresistible, and there was no deviation
from the truth. The coarseness of the
woman was present in voice. gesture, car
rage. and glance. Her insatiate desire TO
feed her emotion burned in every moment
Of her presence, and her desperate demand
for understanding of the puzzle that it
was beyond her power to grasp, the slow
coming on of insanity which she was
helpless TO combat-these facts were i'm
pressed on the beholder by the actress with
unfalterfng sureness OF aim and bOundless
skill.
Herbert Warning acted Aubrey Tanqueray
with admirable appreciation Of the inten-
ton of the character, though with some
lack of depth. George Arliss gave a fine
performance of Cayley Drummle. a some
what withered man of the world that does
the best he can for Aubrey and Paula,
though he himself has a weak hold on af-
fairs in general. Miss Lucy Miner played
TanQueray'S daughter accurately, portray
ing the typical ~incapability of the young
woman that is without any sort of compre-
hension of the world she is called to live in.
L lie OlneT players were MISS Lillian llSle
as the gaudy Lady Orreyed. Mrs. Theodore
Wright as Mrs. Cortelyou, who cOnspires
with Drummle to take Miss Tanqueray into
safer society; Charles +. Bryant as Hugh
Ardale. the usual young man that loves in
two very different ways; Gilbert Trent and
Daniel Mccarthy as two friends of Tan
queray's single days, and Scott Craven as
George Orreyed. who is too scottish to know
whether his wife is right of wrong.
The performance, on the part of both
Mrs. Campbell and her supporters, was in
fine tone. Mrs. Campbell purposes to make
regular visits TO this country in the future
and no doubt she will be seen in many other
plays in this city. She is the leader of
English-speaking actresses and the PLAYS
that she uses are of the greatest impor-
lance that the drama is capable Of now. The
effect that her high success and prosperity
in this country this winter will have on ma
tive players and their managers Will be
extensive and beneficial.