The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-11-14

Metropolitans in the Bishops Carriage

Metropoli tan-ain the Bishops Carriage
TN the Bishops Carriage with BRET
ty, pert resourceful Nance Olden as it's
herpine, makes quite as good a play as it
does Book. There is@a wide difference
betWsen thc&t two, for Charming Pollock
wrote his own Story, using only Miriam
Mlchelson's characters and a few pages
or conversation, but his tale is quite as
breezy and as melodramatic as that Of
Miss Nicholson! = You can easily under
stand why the book, with it's story of
struggle with ,y:1he theatrical syndicate,
Would. not, be wholly. acceptable on a syn
dictate stage. So Mr. Pollock conferred
his play about the girl thief and her ref
o"mation, uslr Latimer as the hero in
stead Of Fred sOtermuller,:: the theatrical
manager: Iatimcr is a student of Grim
1nology, but when he realizes his wish to
meet. O. real live thief his interest in the
burglar is promptly. lost in his love. foN
the woman There are. a number of
strong situations, a generous sprinkling
or clever dia!og- and an. excellent COM
pany4 to make the most Of BOTH -
Mabel Taliaferro is very, saucy: very
daring as the girl burglar, altho she has
not an inch Of chfncfilla on her long, red
coat That close fitting garment with its
tant part in the book and on the billboards
that Miss. Taliaferro's substitution of a
loose affair trimmed with white lace is
rather startling. But the coat only APP
pears In; the first act, while Miss ITALIA
! ZERO holds attention in all four. She
| seems like a child playing at burglary,
When she is caught red handed by Lati-
| rnere after the bishop has brought her to
the Ramsay home, and not until Latimer
| in hoy, ~.
and she turns her back on. the old life to
\ win fame and fortune as a vaudeville act
ress. does Nance really live. The struggle
/ between her loyalty to Tom Dorgan, her
| OLD pal, and her unconscious love for
4 Laumer, the, man who made it possible
for her. to be something: more than a
1 thief. are splendidly portrayed. So is the
quick revulsion, the horror of Tom, when
he: comes creeping thru the window, with
| the prison faint on face and mind. AT
once she knows that she has idealized a
| man unworthy of her. Her love for Lat
| inner is too great to allow her to go tC
! him sollcd by Toms SANDER and when
4 Tom at last confesses his lie her happi-
l ness In being free to accept Latimer's
i love is tempered with sorrow as she
! watches Tom go out of her life into the
blackness Of his own future. 20"
Arthur Byron takes the part Of Lati-
mer-' With manly sincerity and a sense
of fumor. T. E.: J. Radcliffe as Tom Dorgan
is a most Unpleasant burglar and you
wonder nov Nance put up with him fol
i q moment. He does not show trace oil
feeling that would excuse her loyalty and
is the repulsive bully from first to last
Grant Stewart as the always thirsty ant
ever tipsy Edward Ramsay Is very funny
Il The part Of Obermuller, what there is OF
it, is well handled by Samuel Reed an6
i George CASTOR is a proper picture Of
bishop. Mary Hampton makes much o.
i the fragmentary sketch Of Mag Mono
$ han. while Katheryne Keyes has the par
of the Jealous and spiteful Nellie Ram
:, say who, would have married Latinle]
hSfSelI. Z -. -7f-:' T@E
y; 5sThe play has not the strength of Zeal
lAesch11a, >: with which it must inevitabl,
: be compared, nor Is it at all times con,
Vlnclng. But it is interesting, skillfull,
built and breezy, and leaves one con
: fronted with the same question in re
! gard to what can be done with girls Xix
l. Nance-for they cannot all be marriet
into our best society. F. R. Sterrett.