The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-11-25
PROVIDENCE OPERA HOUSE.

hugh Graeme. ............ Lawrence ~ orsay
|rvant. ....,,............s...fr ..frhnh bro"hieV,
bdy Milanor Sir Harrys mother.
...................M Mrs. Thomas Whinen
khel Glydon, his cousin. ..........,,,
........................ Lillian Thurgst-
hdy Pawson. .............M Mrs. w. q. Jones
RS Buckley Weston. n.................,...
....................K Kate Pattison-Se
abel Vaughan, her daughter.
........................ Margaret Anglin
hith Cadogan. Ethel Hornick
lss Anstruther. Etheis aunt. ........,.
.....'.'''''''''' -, '''''''. N'".. Ia.."'''
hrold. ............. Master Donald Gallaher
arjorie. e....................ki Kitty Barriscale
aid d.......................... Amy Meers
AT the Providence Opera House for the
eek with matinees Thanksgiving Day
Id Saturday, Charles Frohmans Empire
heatre company in a comedy by II. ".
smond, entitled THE Wilderness"
The wilderness is the world of fash
nable lfe-specincslly London, With
e wilderness" is contrssted the light"
getting back TO nature specifically in
spect to human activities and impulses
young Englishman with, say 10000
year, escapes ma trimony up 20 the age
IS. when the comedy opens. He II
red OF social frivolity. OF the wilderness,
nd he is especially tired OF having caps
kt for his fortune He has, however.
bme to long for wife and a home,
II he cannot bring himself 10 feel that
by of the eligible young women In his
4 would care for him except were l.
bt for the 10000 a year.
Mabel Vaughan Is poor, by contrast
he is well ienough to-do TO move In the
gh circles represented but she Must
seds marry rich and by her ambitious
I'd ingenious mother Is set about captur-
the young Englishman OF f3o.oO0 In
bme. She IL not out OF her teens. but
be IN a shrewd young person herself, as
product OF the wilderness society She
ks found out that the way TO make
man consider a girl Is for the girl 10
Aaps her department and tune her ac-
pms TO what the particular mSN likss
Rst Accordingly when the young En-
Iishman shows her a pronounced lean
g toward a more simple life and get
ng back to the light" from out the
ilderness. she promptly falls in with
bis mood with the result that the fellow
klieves her the rare exception to the
ddy things he In trying 10 escape from
'ld promptly falls In love with her.
$50 the scene shifts from tea lights in
|ond street 10 a woodland that Rosa
nd might have been glad 10 get lost in.
THE girl In by no means as conscience
SIS as this scheming would seem 10 In
cate. Another fellow loves her and she
|ves him. They meet in the woodland
hd make love and she would have mar
led him and given over her big catch.
Dor as her sweetheart is. but he showed
weakness at the critical moment that
kstroyed her ideal and strengthened her
Iirpose 10 go ahead after the main
hance and not bother with love and IL
jsons In the woodland the fellow with
be $4,000 wooed and won her happily.
|it upon the success OF her wiles. she evil
fnced a redeeming shame for the part
be had played and discovered that her
accomplishment promised no happiness.
I'm the third act OF the comedy they
re married and the girl has come to love
pr lord and master pessionately for his
|wn sake. She In correspondingly tor
)ented with the recollection OF how she
hd used deception TO win him and is re-
blved upon a confession. hazardous as
|ich step In as threatening 10 destroy
be happiness that has como Of II. His
)scovery of her little scheme by the me-
um OF an discriminating letter which she
lad written the other man at the time
hnouncing her capture, is made at
bout the same time that she Is beginning
Ter confession.
The third act is the big act OF this Es-
bond comedy. The two acts leading UP to
have been mildly entertaining, often
right In dialogue. with little action and
lot much to indicate the Significance OF
he trend OF events. But In the third act
hatters come to head with a rush. 1t
fine, strong appealing scene that Is
developed between husband and wife. a
rene that demonstrates that his earlier
|rotestations were not mere sentiment
|ut on the contrary, are susceptible OF
hr broader application than the matter
II getting a wife 10 love him for himself
Ind not his thirty thousand pounds. For,
promptly upon discovering the circum-
|tances OF his entrapping. he feels no an
Ter with the wife but gives himself up TO
|emorse because no fancies she must
bsths him and is unhappy with him. II
+ only OF her he thinks, not OF himself
|s a basely deceived man. IL is an amaz-
hgly good emotional scene that wife and
husband. playing at cross purposes, de-
|elop before each discovers the real senti-
hents of the other.
Indeed. few scenes are capable OF gen.
|inely moving an audience as that scene
I'D last evening. The situation. so far as
he audience was concerned, came aston
Fhingly close to literally fulfilling the fa-
|niliar observation there was not dry
I've In the house."
II was very damp audience. as to
yes. the while that scene developed In
despite the fact that II was an
bsolute certainty that the curtain
Would fall on a happy elimination. The
hing was so deftly and delicately and
naturally worked out and so capitally
lone by Mr.. Rlchman and Miss Anglin
hat II stirred the Monday night house.
the paper In the back seats. as
ew houses are ever stirred In the course
~ a season. AS heart puller that third
'ct Of the Wilderness will easily stand
comparison with the classic things OF the
'motional drama. The strain was unmls-
akable and. generally speaking. the au-
Hence came pretty close to crying out
oud IL was n tribute to playwright and
% players OF an unusually genuine kind
II the playwright has massed his
strength In this third act OF the Wilder
less." IL is the second act that the scene
PAINTER and stage carpenter have magni-
led gloriously.
The lonely spot In the Bormcabe
Woods" is a dream OF scene and at
he same time. wonderful bit OF stage
'ealism.
The Empire Theatre stock company on
IL 18th annual tour r. n large aggrega-
ion. although the Esmond comedy does
rot begin 20 utilize 10 all 90 anything
Ike It's limits except In the principle