The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-22

unsophisticated. 1t is one of those plays
that tells you in the first line just how and
why II will all end happily. and then di-
verts you with amusing incident till
proper time for that joyous conclusion has
is as innocent as-well, as Yvette, but for
the better reason that, protected by her
father. she has lived among gold diggers,
who respect her purity and love her dash
ing spirit and gay good humor Then. too,
the STAIRS have no hired help to advise
girls the most paying use for beauty. To
their home in a mountain settlement come
an English party, well planned for happy
and easily comprehended mating in the
last act noble Britisher loves Arizona,
is loved by her and weds her in the end:
angled for him, finally accepts the low
comedy Englishman. heir to a title; and
the chaperon turns out to be the mother
of Arizona-(the girl, not the whole State)
which comforting fact is revealed on old
Starts deathbed.
STAIRS girl went to just great trouble
to protect her virtue as Yvette, although
her battle was rather against the speech
of people" than the infamy of man. Starr,
having recognized his long lost wife,
cleared out for the night leaving Arizona
alone with her Englishman; then languidly
recovering from most romantic injury.
Twice hearing the word unconventional
ity," new thoughts came to 'Zona. thoughts
entirely strange to her nature and her sur
roundings But STAIRS girl was thorough
bred at heart father having been real
swell in New York, as he confessed on that
chatty deathbed of his. She first sang the
wounded man to sleep and then being such
a perfect lady, took her gun under one
arm and a bearskin under the other and
went out to sleep on the door step.
An added interest given to this part
of Arizona in that its actress was May
Edouin, a daughter of Willie of the
Edouins, for years a Hoyt comedian in
this country and now among the most pop
ular burlesquers in London. The late Mrs.
Edouin was none other than the brilliant
Alice Atherton, of Laughing Song" fame.
so if histrionic talent is hereditary, May
Edouin should be truly clever. She came
here first with her father and her husband
for the original American run of "Floro-
DORA" and her lord and master. who was in
the SeXtet of that play, presumably to be
near wife, is the English hero of STAIRS
Girl" Matrimony is not infrequently the
best helping hand for stage ability.
Two cabs dashed past each other on
Broadway Monday afternoon, and from be-
hind half-parted curtains two painted faces
smiled in friendly greeting at one another,
and then quickly withdrew from public
gaze. If they had not so speedily concealed
themselves the crowd of pedestrians might
have recognized, behind the paint, two Of
the most admired artists of our modern
stage hurrying to do four turns" a day
in vaudeville. Blanche Ring was hasten
ing in electric cab from the Central
Park Circle, in Manhattan, to Brooklyn to
sing at theater in each place in the after
noon and in the evening, while Charles
Hawtrey, making his debut in the con
pose, but only from Twenty-eighth street
to Fifty-eighth. IT was all awfuly like
ing from all to ALL only there Mr..
Hawtrey. "of the Kings set" never shared
honors with moving pictures and acrobats-
Any member of that rather large section
n
vaudeville as little better than a house of
refuge for the Legitimate actor would
have received a pretty severe jolt in his
exclusiveness had he seen the attitude of
the Proctor habitues toward Mr. Hawtrey.
After all, we must accept the very talented
Charles (''awfully good family the Haw-
treyS, don't you know-brother in the army
and all that sort of thing'O as the London
equivalent of our John Drew. 1t is mere
matter of locality; Mr.. Hawtrey dimes with
King Edward and Mr.. Drew with Standard
Oil magnates. But were the Proctorites
awed? Well. / guess notl Even the bill
board wagons driven around the streets.
picturing the genial Hawtrey face, aroused
no more than a McIntyre-and-Heath en-
thusiasm. Mr.. Hawtrey is an excellent en-
tertainer in his line, as are the Russell
brothers in theirs. and in that spirit an
audience that completely filled the theater
assembled Monday afternoon to greet
the newcomer in vaudeville with all good
will. The pacards announcing Charles
Hawtrey in Time Is Money greeted,
when placed on either side of the stage,
with much applause. as was the bearer of
the name on his appearance. He emerged
undisguised as a smart young Londoner.
He looked the part. not strange TO say, and
acted the little role with dash, a quiet
easy humor and complete mastery of the
technique of comedy acting. again not
strange to say. Time Is Money is some
thing like those old-time afterpieces with
which the grandfathers of our modern stage
were wont to soothe the lacerated feelings
of auditors who had wallowcd in five-and-
twenty scenes of their bloody Hamlets. In
il Mr.. Hawtrey appeared as an impecunious
sutton of a wealthy girl. his general poverty
being at the moment secondary to an i'm
mediate need of change to pay cabman.
Thus the progress Of his courtship was