The San Francisco call., 1904-07-19
CARROTS WOES
BRING NO TEARS
Miss Barrymore Plays Boy
in Naive and Graceful
Fairy Tale of the Stage
ADDS TO HER LAURELS
"The Prisoner of Zenda"
Wins Applause for Whittle-
Sey and Company at Alcazar

To the error of imagining that Gar
rots" preceded Cousin Kate" last
night at the Columbia, had the pleas
ure of seeing through again Mr.. Davis
fascinating comedy-this just to say
that enjoyable as was ones first even
ing with Cousin Kate only second
gives one the full value of the wit,
grace and abounding fancy of the play.
I And the contrast is one to be CRATE
full for. Miss Barrymore, charming
woman of the world, as the curtain
rings down on Cousin Kate" reap
pears as a slim, red-headed youth in
Carrots" Carrots" too, is different.
1t is a little French playlet by Jules
Renard, produced first at Antoine's s
Theater in Paris, and transplanted
here last season with amiable success
by Miss Barrymore. AS Miss Barry
more herself says, nothing happens"
in the play.
child's desperate unhappiness-an
unloving mother the cause, the fathers
discovery of his sorrow, with the
fathers confession to the boy of his
own grief and of the mothers unhap-
piness, is all of it. But how charm
ingly the little story is told, with all
the delicacies,i subtle reserves, lumin-
Gus suggestions of a De Maupassant.
a new maid arrives at the Lepics.
Carrots" is wedding in the garden.
His father has invited him to go shoot
ing, to his deep delight. His naive
directions to the maid put one then
en- rapport with the neglected boys
position. Everybody cannot be an
orphan" he laments. The mother,
nagging and self-tormented, then ap-
pears, explaining further the situation.
She wants Carrots" to do things, run
errands-anything to prevent his going
shooting with his father She further
compels him to say that he does not
wish to go. But the maid, a witness
of both scenes, explains the boys ap-
parent caprice to the father. Then the
boy timidly unfoIds his sorrows-how
he has twice tried TO commit suicide,
how he wishes to run away from home.
The fathers explanations follow and
how the two decide to bear the thing
together is then most gracefully told.
Perhaps Miss Barrymore does not
altogether realize Carrots" for one.
AS a picture, gray -bioused and au-
burn-haired, she is perfect. the Boutei
de Monvel sort of thing. All, yes! 1t
is something of the Boutel de Monvel
sort oe thing one gets in the acting
the fat tint, the simple line, the deco
rative quality. One is not impressed
by Carrots sorrows as living sorrows,
but rather as by a lovely tale of sor-
row. One gets almost a Yeats sense
Of aloofness from every day life in the
play 1t IS as a fairy tale read, and ex-
quisitely illustrated, that it impresses,
and Miss Barrymore's elusive and p6-
cite handling of the part enforces the
illusion In the same carefully un-
emotional vein is the rest of the acting.
Fanny Addison Pitt is the mother, and
a very stepmother Of fairy tale in her
conception of acting. Bruce McCrae
in his acting of the father is quietly
sufficient, and Miss Agnew is a charm
ing little maid. Those who do not see
Carrots will miss very much a pc
culiar and delightful pastel
BLANCHE PARTINGTON.