The St. Louis Republic., 1903-09-29

Your first impression OF Miss Davis as
Julie LIE Breton, otherwise Lady Roses
unfortunate daughter, Is decidedly disap-
| pointing. You have been looking at How
ard Chandler Christy's picture of the girl
and you have been picturing some on your
| own account.
So. when you see her in the center Of
| the stage, talking to an Old and Trusted
Servant. you think. for the instant, that
she is one Of the maids. Then she mounts
chair and places some flowers in a vase
and says something that tells you who
she is.
Miss Davis is little thing, with a good
deal of thinness, out of which shine two
glorious dimples and a pair of eyes that
sparkle like any well-known wine that
costs 81 a quart.
She isn't bit like the leading ladies that
belong to the school in which Hilda SponS
and Maxine Elliott are the star pupils.
She isn't as large as Olga Nethersole, and
she has none of the grand manners of
any of these ladies.
She is catlike in her movements and In
sinuating in her manner. She seems. after
awhile, to be very like Lady Roses
Daughter. fact that proves that she Is
she is, as you know. a disappointment TO
all OF US who have seen the girl made by
Christy or by our own true minds eye.
This newly built drama is as full of the
scaffolding as the Agriculture building out
on Skinker road. You can see all OF the
braces and stays, and here and there the
staff is not on.
This trouble is present almost at the
beginning, when the talk runs riot. Tie
Lords and ladies and Dukes and things
chase themselves in and out in most un-
lion
tice Lady Henry's party assemblies. only
to scatter with the speed of a touring car
on Lindell boulevard, These Difficult les
will disappear with pruning, but the pres
ton and arrangement
What is much, more important. the in
esTef eaca6f Of tine Is by the
portant. the Interpretation of the spirit of
the chief figure of the drama. seems to be
yet fresh from the mold; It. isn't COM
sure of what she is about when she pauses
in the difficult scenes with Warkworth,
the impossible. and Delaheld, the heroic
server. Lady Roses daughter herself
doesn't know, say you?
Perhaps not. but Miss Davis goes even
so far that the audience fails in its sym
pahty and turns from Deiafield as a gem
tieman who has gone just bit too far
in his well-intentioned aid.
This is not as ii should be- of course
and, in the end. you get at rights with
the piece and the characters: nut. for n
few minutes. Miss Davis takes you peril
with the who'e mess.
Mr.. Guy Standing makes his first bow to
as as gentleman who means we'll We
as person well deserving of the gal
lorys frequent hiss. Last night he was
50 coed that we forgaye him all OF, the
there when he climbed out of a harm win
dow and made love to poor. little. married
Sue who didn't know any better. AIR.
Standing is a very handsome Delafie'd.
just as Courtleigh is a handsome Wark-
worth. part that is so badly written at
this time that II takes a knowledge of
the printed book to know whether he is
Lord Lackington is admirably played by
Mr.. Crompton, who does all things well.
and Miss Ida Vernon is a most excellent
Lady Henry, Henry q. Lady ,os Blanche y he Nc 1Meffatt
would be able to see something further
of the dear Maggie Holloway Fisher, who
is literally suppressed in trifiing part.
too fiippant person for the serious
speeches that are set down TO Evelyn, the
Duchess of Crowborough.
But the piece Is so new that IL isn't
quite fair to say much of principals who
are working with dramatic medium that
is almost. as yet: raw material.
The sketch from "oliver Twist given
by Charles J. Ross and Mabel Fenton at
the Columbia Is one of those grewsome
but artistic touches OF nature that we get
only occasionally In vaudeville The scene
shown is that OF Bill Sykess murder of
Nancy. Ross impersonates old Pagan and
then Sykes Miss Fenton is Nancy.
On darkened stage picturing Sykes's
saualid quarters in tenement. Pagan en-