The evening world., 1904-01-27
ANNIE RUSSELL
HAS A WALKAWAY
"The Younger Mrs. Parling'
Walks Out of Intolerant Hus-
bands Life and Into Hearts
Of a Sympathetic Audience.

When poor, downtrod Mrs. Pairing
put on her hnt and. without a. word
walked out Of the door and out OF her
husbands life, at the Garriek Theatre
last night, an unconventional play
came to an unconventional end.
It was walkaway for Annie Rus
sell in a double sense and n credit to
c. Haddon Chambers, who found ex-
cellent material out of which to build
his play in Henri Bernstein's lie De-
tour"
Miss Russell. in role quite differ
ent from any she has played. was
splendid-sileptly so at times-though.
goodness knows, as the patient. tor
tured young wife she suffered enough
to make her shrek to Heaven. Be
fore I'd stand half she's put up with
there'd be an ambulance backed up in
front OF the house and most Of the
furniture would need repairing" re-
marked one woman in the audience
whose wrath rose with every curtain.
In the first place. staid James Parl-
ing shouldn't have married Jaqueline
Carstairs, and he shouldn't have been
recreating in the SECLUDED villa" Of
the unfortunate young woman's
shady" mamma. And in real life a
prosaic, Puritanical dufSer like him
would have been pretty apt to have
kept away from both temptations.
Only Insults and Sights.
1t was easy to understand how graft
tude and a craving for the bread-and-
molasses of respect moved the hungry
girl to gobble him up. Thanks to her
precious mother, whose one worry was
dressmakers' bills Jaquellne. UP to
this time had received hardly anything
but insults and slishts.
She saw in Parling's honorable Of.
fer n means of escape, and, as ninety
nine out of hundred girls in her
shoes would do II they had the chance.
she seized the opportunity.
In this play the woman hasn't a past,
but her mother has a present, and her
father appears to have been lost In the
shunie. She Is continually reminded
When she goes to live with her hus-
bands parents, her father-in-law, a
pompous, preachy old party" speaks
OF her. In spirit Of mistaken kind
bird with a trailing wing" and she is
finally driven from the house by the
blunt accusations of Susan, the preco- /
cious daughter OF the household, who
acknowledges she intends
to marry young man for whom she
cares nothing In order to make 1t easier I
for her to carry on an intrigue with |
q man already married.
Runs Away with Husband
Insulted by her selfish sister-in-law.
and snubbed by southsea society as
represented by two self-sufficient .
n "a m shxa w nytynv
and lives with her husband in u pretty /
little house by the sea until her mother I
comes TO see her and Is told in plainest /
While Pairing Ia away rejoicing his |
parents with news of his noble action. !
Cyril Martyr, young chap who has |
back and talks sense instead OF duty"
to her, and tells her that she Is going |
to London with him on the 1910 train. |
Jaqueline looks at her watch, after |
well as the hope-is that /
she catches the train. /
1t iB left for you to imagine whether |
they live happily Icy eyer ;S aftermand ,o, II
With winsome. pathetic charm. Miss
Russell played the part fse,Ia Of 1aa1sline
gret that you didn't have brick or !
two in your pockets to throw at her
tormentors. !
'IleaSe ucn u lTlpiOIeu IuLe oiu nhis'
Gilbe rt, raising her hands at the storm
OF applause which almost swent her
Off her feet when sne made her en-
trance Her heart must have been made
young again by that greeting OF sincere
affection, more marked than usual, per
haps. because of the knowledge OF her
recent accident AS the elder Mrs. Parl-
ing she was little more than corrobo-
rative testimony to the profound Mr.,
P;.rling-but 1t was enough Just to see
her able to be around" again.
Excellent performances were given by
John Mason as James Parting: Jeffreys
Lewis as Jaqueline's fiighty mother: Il.
A Eberle as Samuel Pairing; Oswald
Yorke as Cyril Martyr; John Glenden
ming as Sir Philip Mallaby. and by Olive
Murray. who. as young Susan Parting.
gave an amusing caricature of Ethel
Barrymore.
Mrs. Glendenning. equally excellent as
Mrs. Pringle, naughty "society
queen" nearly broke up the play by re-
health. mo, he has not bean at ali
well since ] had my last baby!"