The evening world., 1903-09-29
She Has "Her Own Way" In New
Clyde Fitch Play to a Monopo-
Iistic Degree and PIeases
All. IL .',i-
GENEROUS WITH BEAUTY.
ehe Romps Through Four Situations
Smiling Almost to the Point
Of Overriding II, and Company
Supports Her Ably.

And a most m%onopolizlng way II was!
Even n lover Of the centre OF the stage
like Blanche Ring could not nave asked
for more right-of-way.
Clyde Fitch has been extremely gen.
erous to the new star. He did every
thing but tie his play with a dark red
ribbon Ito suit the Elliott style OF
beauty n wreath It with the kim OF
roses Mr.. Goodwin buys when he drops
In at the family florists.
In the first act Miss Elliott played
with a quartet OF most
amusing and hopelessly-mannered chil-
dren. and crawled under a table on all
Tours. Charmingly unconventional!
In the second act she babe good-by
to her soldier-lover who went away to
the Philippines loving her. stupidity bllnd
TO the fact that she loved him. The
minor chord of emotion tenderly
touched!
In the third act she let down her
v locks only to do them up again,
while q lady hair-dresser'' Ioafed on
M job. Glorious sight.
In the fourth act, when the soldier
lover was supposed to be dead. she sat
at the piano with a dark tapestry as a
becoming background and, wearing a
simple black gown which couldn't have
cost over two or three hundred dollars.
seftly played The Last Hope CEx-
cuse these tears.)
Thus a grateful audience had the Ell
lott beauty in all shades. from a steel
blue walking dress with stole and mum
ION which Arthur Byron accidentally
squatted) to a white ball gown. which
probably made every man in the au-
dience feel like begging for the frst
dance.
ProdiEnl In beauty.
Miss Elliott was really prodigal in the
bounty and variety of her beauty. To
see her let dow her inky tresses was
better h pictures which go with hair
tonic advertisements in barber shops
and elevated trains. and from the time
b played p~eek-a-boo under the table
until she played The Last Hope" on
the upright grand the lustre OF those
famou midnight eyes was shot i'm
partially from two-dollar orchestra
chairs to ffty-cent gallery seats.
Throughout changes of dress and for
tune Miss Elliott was gioriously and
wondrCusly cheerful. Even with a case
Of ive weeks false-alarm mourning on
her hands. she smiled and kept her
color. even going so far as to magnani-
mously aid in framing up a story about
the Louis XVI. furnishings of the Car
ley home for a Sunday paper.
AS Georgiana Carley she was fire.
pressibly buoyant. her entrances being
Invariably accompanied by a skip and a
smile. and, though somewhat prone to
overdo the gladstone act. her good
looks carried her safely over the thin
Ice of what more than once dangerously
verged on afrectation.
Her husband. Ma c. Goodwin, in an
upper box, Joined enthusiastically in the
general applause. Well he might, for
In Her own Way" Miss Elliott has
taken upon her own fair shoulders that
burden OF self-sacritlce which Mr.. Good
win has so long carried in his stage life.
Such u i%Ieroine!
When G~eorgiana's brother has spent
all the none round the house. in
Guiding the servants savings. In luck
less speculation. she generously invites
the family TO live on her. and when her
income. 100, is ~squandered in the same
way she accepts the situation without
n whimpo. - and takes her brothers
pistol away from him to prevent his
blowing out what few brains he mignt
be supposed to possess. The financial
%ruination OF the family is skilfully man
aged by a wealthy young Westerner.
who believes that by this means Geor-
giana will be made tc consent 10 marry
him and thus rescue the Carley honor
and fortunes.
It's ten To one that is what the audi
ence would have liked 10 see her DO, Tor
ter a curious contradiction of manliness
and duplicity-a chap who wanted Geor-
giana and didn't cure how he got her
or how much she might cost-full OF
ineieGant ''aint's" and plain cuss words.
but VINO finally took his medicine like u
man and gave her busted brother a good
job. He goes away from there. ana
sweetheart comes back from the Phil
ippines with both arms In a sling.
which condition necessitates Georgiana
doing all the hugging. Charles Cherry
was the lucky man who enjoyed his
The company IS n OF all.round ex-
eellence; Eva Vincent. who sounded as
II she had a mouthful of false teeth.
carried Oft first comedy honors as the
WORLDLY Mrs. Carley. admittedly aware
was well-though a trife too much-in
the race as the talkative. lady hair
dresser the steven. Carley of r. c.
Thorne, as the speculative Steven's
wife, distinguished herself by Q fine
burst OF fearful rage when h learned
sters-Donald Gallagher, Beryl Morse.
Mollie King and Marie Hirsch-made a
cleverly-conceived nursery party a real
Tbe play is the best Clyde Fitch has
written in years and Is charndngly
Manager Charles B. Dillingham; are to
be congratulated upon having secured
an unmistakahlS success. d.,
But some one should stop that hair
dressing LADY, in her vicarious ana ut
terly absurd occupation of getting ma
teriai for a newspaper story. Looks as
IL Mr.. Fitch were trying to get even
WITH the pap for what they said
about the ~friskless Mrs. Johnson.
OPENINGS ELSEWHERE.
Checkers" n dramatization by tho
author OF Henry g.. Blossoms story of