The evening world., 1902-11-18

Broadway and Fortieth street las,
night.
Such is the irony of theatrical des-
tiny!
Has q "FrlRt" Past.
AS Lady Duncan Miss spong has a
fiat" past, which Is inflated during the
proceedings until she is carried high
into the cir Of suspicion and threat
ened with g disastrous drop into the
outer world OF social oblivion.
Happily. however. q signed confession
Of her indiscretion her a fateful
finish and she Is permitted to go in
peace n marry a trusting old codger
who a more h enough money to
pay the rent Tor the rest of their days.
There wouldn't have been SO much
trouble II Lady Duncan hadn't cast GOO
goo eyes at Jack Frere, otherwise Mr..
Faversham. and helped a trio OF ham
mer-swinging old women to try to
make it appear that innocent Miss
MARI was the-ahem!-lady who shared
the historical fiat with naughty Jim
Greaves before he married the large
lady who has to wait for the sporting
extra to find out just what a "cut-up"
he used to be-
some sentimental Letters.
When Mrs, Greaves gets wind of the
g~oings-on before she took a hand in
the game she rummages through jim
mics desk inc int a bundle OF SEN
timental letters from Wang to
Goodies" .....-....
These letters are connected with Miss
MARI, who in time confesses that she
was wang and that Jimmie used 10
be her "roodles.F Then-i 1t is discovered
she formerly lived in Victoria
street, where this self-same nat was
Miss MARI is ct"
All this threatens TO do serious dam
age to the engagement OF MISS Marr
the day and his sweetheart by learning
from Jlmmie's former valet that Lady
Duncan was the companion OF Jim
miss Idh flat days. nSr thus sqgsri ans M ms i MaFs
lady in particular. 1t is disclosed, That
Miss MARI lived in the neighborhood.
but with her mother.
Miss Lewis Scores.
Jeffreys Lewis was the large. lady
Mrs. Jim Greaves-and h was likewise
the hit Of the piece" Her comic anger,
best part OF the doings. She has grown
out OF all proportion to her former self:
n has developed. hitherto u~nsuspected
ldltHlb as u NOlhSdlt lit AANSi tAAihiy
years she gives promise OF coming into
her own on Broadway.
william Faversham was rather swept
into the background by feminine skirts.
At first he was as serious as a boy going
to the dentists to have a tooth pulled,
but later he frightened up and put ION
spirit Into his work. He took
all the curtain calls unto himself and
Miss Davis until the audience plainly
they wanted Miss Lewis to
understand the favor In which she was
hcld.
Miss Davis. the new leading woman
who has come over from England. in
tamil won her way into all hearts as
Miss Mari. She Is rather tall and
slender. with a refreshing, girlish charm
which impresses one as wholly un-
A DisaEFeenble Part.
Miss Spong did all that could be done
with the disagreeable role OF Lady Dun
Others who helped score on the
feminine side of the ledger, were Mrs.
Sol Smith, Mrs. George Dickson Annie
Adams and Helen LoweIl.
The comedy. though 1t has many
lines n some ingenious sltuh-
Is a bit too inconsequential In
plot. and hardly what might be eX-
nected from the author OF when We
Were Twenty-one.' Its moral seems
..Be careful what neighborhood you
move i~nto-especially II you happen to
n woman"