The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-14

was with Nat Goodwin at the Bijou
in the undertaken play, Turned Up"
and spent season with MIR. Barnes Of
New York" But his longest engage
ment was for two years as Perry Bas-
com. the hero in the saw mill meIo-
drama. Blue Jeans"
This ran for some six months at the
Fourteenth Street Theater. and every
night HilIiard stretched himself in front
Of the advancing saw and set the nerves
Of the gallery gods a-shiver with the
narrowness OF his escape from it's sharp
teeth.
little later he starred jointly with
Paul Arthur in The Nominee" ana
then alone in "Lost-Twenty- -four
Hours" After that Dan Frohman en-
gagged him for the bounder in r. G.
Wheels" done at the Madison Square.
and in this he made a big hit
Early i'm 1900 it was announced that
Mr.. billiard was to star in a dramati-
zation of Richard Harding Davis Van
Bibber'' stories. but nothing came OF it..
and for while billiard went back to
Wall Street.
His part in THAT Man and T. is alto
Q
new light He makes good in IT.
too. and whether the play be success
OF not the essay will probably mark a
turning point in his career billiard is
the a. of the affair. and THAT Man"
is done-and well done. toby H.
Reeves Smith. the English actor. who
came here first several years ago in "A
Brace OF Partridges." presented to light
houses at the Madison Square.
MaEde Fealy and Marion Abbott.
In fact. the entire cast IN the Savoy
play Is excellent. with the exception of
the heroine. the much overrated Maude
Fealy who for years has been persist
entity advertised as the Youngest Lead
ing Woman" and whom they have now
begun TO boom as The Youngest Star
on the American Stage.
In the prologue of the present play
she weeps all over the place as the
wronged woman, and for the three Is
OF the play proper appears as her own
daughter, marking the change by a
most unpleasant substitution Of a rising
information for q whine in her voice
She is pretty and attractive 10 look
at, and that Is the best one can say for
an actress who has played leading parts
Z
Holmes" both hero and in London: with
f. S. Willard with whom she was Fill
berta in The Cardinal last see SOM.
anG who was only prevented from doing
Roxane with Mansfield In "Cyrano' be-
/ cause she was too young to look the
| part.
| Miss Fealy was born in Memphis.
/ Tenn. her mother. Margaret. being an
| actress, who afte-ward founded the
/ Tabor Grand School Of Acting in Den
yer. in order that she might superintend
/ her daughter education. Maude is now
I twenty. and her first part IN town was
/ Eunice I'm Quo Vadis. at the New
/ York. Last autumn she was leading
woman with orrin Johnson in HIS lii
starred venture. Hearts Courageous. "
I al the Broadway.
Good work In THAT Man and T. is
: done by Marion Abbott who was last
season with Ezra Kendall in THE Vine
gar Buyer" and before that with wiuit
Collier in Mr.. Smooth" and ION the
Quiet" William Elliott. the admirs ble
Juvenile. was Oswald with Mary Shaw
| in Ghosts"
Of Other Players.
The penalty OF success is compa rison
Annie Russell touched high water mari
in Miss Hobbs and "A Royal Fam
uy," widely contrasted as her role:
In those two comedies were. The part.
that have fallen TO her since have al
suffered in the inevitable contrasting e
which they were subjected by her audi
ences. And IT is not Miss Russeili
fault. unless-can IL be that she ough
| always 20 play comedy?
Her role In Catherine" had no
much leaning toward the humorous. an,
last seasons Mice and Men trend
ed very considerably! toward pathos
And although her vogue is attracting
good-sized audiences 10 the Garrick 10
THE Younger Mrs. Parting" not evei
her most ardent admirers can CLAIM
that the part OF Jacqueline Carstair
shows Miss Russell at her best An
the play itself-adapted from TIA
French by Haddon Chambers. the au
thor OF The Tyranny OF Tears an
THE IdIer"-is a mighty unpleasant
one. the sort that leaves the Gors
possible taste IN ones mouth.
But then we all ought 10 realize b.
this time that there IS a terrible scram
BILE to get even possible plays nova