The age-herald., 1902-02-20
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Nat eoodwin-The Jefferson.


 Beresford Cruger . MT. N. C. Goodwin of Barbury, Brown & Crugar afterwards
 called Carew
 Peter Barbury.. .... MT. J. R. CraWford Egerton Brown q. .. MT. F. H. Tyler Sir Humprey Bum ....Mr. F. G. Bayly Willie Bunn.. .. ...... MT. Fred I1den Otto Stroble.. .. .. .... ....Mr. S. VI. Hall Lucas. ...... MT J. 1ates Sims .. .. coo. .... ..... MT. Neil O'Brien Servant .. .... MT. l.. F. Woodthorpe Corola Chapin .... Miss Alice lngr1m Lady Bum . Miss Florence Haverleigh Georgia Chapin .. Miss Gertrude Gheen Annette. .. .... Miss Suzanna Perry Mercury .... .. Master Willie Sheedy Beatrice Carey .. ....Miss Maxine Elliott
 Nat Goodwin and Maxine Elliott play ed at the Jefferson last night. The bill was An American Citizen" It is an original comedy and was prepared for Mr. Goodwin by one Madeline Lucette Ryley (she has been forgiven for having been given such name at her christening since the production of this play) It is as equally useless to say every seat in the house was filled and many persons stood up, as 1t is to say Nat Goodwin was the same actor Nat Goodwin was before he played in England. As a matter of fact last nights audience has been exceeded by less than three this season so far as size and brilIiance is concerned.
 The play, as given from the pen of the woman with the name suggestive of something not so good. deals with the love of kind hearted man of affairs who marries a girl from mere sympathy, and who realizes his sympathy is love when that wife casually bids him goodbye shortly after the marriage The girl had loved another man-one unworthy. In Nice she discovers her former lover. She plans to go away. While at the hotel her apartments are suddenly assigned to her husband. She thinks he loves another woman. They arrange to live apart The old lover appears and to the husband tells of a plan to get the wife and her fortune. The fortune is lost in a law suit. The lover is proven a coward. She goes to a woman friend and is supported by her husband who lives in poverty. She Is unaware of this. On a Christmas day she learns of her husbands love for her. and all ends happily.
 It is play full of strength clear-cut in it's delineations of character, and amusing in it's fullness of humor. The lines sparkle at times with wit subr tie yet apparent. Altogether it is clean, wholesome and of the kind both amusing and thoughtful.
 Mir. Goodwin played the part of the husband. His conception of what is re- quired to place in the minds and hearts of the audience his life and love is clear ly not to be excelled. His every sentence action and look beget sympathy. Long before the curtain falls upon him, happy he has been the possessor of the very heart wishes of the audience. At the same time, while those with strongly developed emotional temperaments feel like crying he makes them laugh at the little predcaments and trining troubles to which he is heir His work was un- questionably all one might ask.
 Miss Elliott was equally as strong in her part as MT. Goodwin in his.N She seems to have grown in strength within the past year and Is now playing better than when last here She has wonder fui capacity for doing all the little things of her character equally as well as the greater things, and each movement has