The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-27
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M.-s~cmery Theatre-"Ann LaMont.'

-.~o,,.vx Thestre--SAnn LaMOnt.'
 recause Ann LaMont" is not play of the first rank, the performance siNeh by Miss Florence Roberts and her eA celfent company at the Mohts Theatre last night fell short or oerne an entertainment of the first rahk. me cornuany did its best with detectiNe rIsv hr,t even so fine a stage organi- vation as that of Miss Roberts ana the company which surrounds her couia not make the entertainment one oi laS'e kind that clings to the memory ol theatre-gocr. ,,o,.,,
 AS 1t was. the audience passed very satisfactory evening. For the eAce' lent work of Miss Roberts and her sup, ,,rt mas well worth watching and well worth the curtain call they received. The audience was generous m us prafse. but no more generous Inah .he intelligent. effective work Of the piay- CTS deserved. A,ta
 If is not necessary that play shoulu be plausible, but it is necessary tnat nIay should seem plausible A Boou rias, can he discussed on the outside and the fault of exaggeration ana lln- nossibfiity be brought against 1t, put II, whan If Is worked out on the stage pJ couneteut hands and seems plausipie' if is successful. if it satisfies the pup lie. There was nothing so uhusu%i about the plot of Ann LaMont wnlcn in itself made the play impossioIe' pus aa,rshnu inc audience got the idea that such things could not happen ex- cent on the stage or in one of Bertha Nj Ciay's novels. .
 Tbe audience didn't mind all the characters being moved m pooy M Aloiai one studio in New York to anothe. studio in London between the nrst anu inc second acts. And she audience
 
 Characters being moved from Lonaoh to inc leper colony in the Hawaiian islands. but the audience thought MT Armstrong was asking too mucn "heh it was requested to believe that young woman refused to marry tue man she loved because there was an other old flame of hers who oelieseu s,a.. that she loved him, anu eheioi'
 life was spoiled.
 Paul Armstrong, the author of Ann Ia Mont is also the author Of ihe Heir to the Hoorah." successtui piay but which has not yet been produceo th Montgomery. It's safe pet that MI Armstrong in writing The .so ,sv the Hoorah" did not build the play around the queer proposition Mnich Is tbe plot of Ann La Mont The aV- craze man is quite willing to believe that the average woman IS an uhla.n- omable, inexplicable creature put tns motives Wnlcn nONeu <AAaA AA ~.o through four acts of mourntuiness akc quite beyond him.
 The heroine of the play Is young woman artist of New York who mas every charm and who has every virtue but one. In her youth she believed Tn 9 single standard of morals for ooth sexes and she put her belief into prac- tice. The other party to the affair was a cowardly and caddish young artist Leon Richmond, whom she nev- CT loved. Ann La Mont came to love desperately Gordon Curtis high minded young millionaire and Rich mond married another young woman for money Ann permitted the memo ry of her thoughtless ad reckless as- sociation with Richmond to make ev- cry member of the cast unhappy for four acts.
 After two years or at the close of the second act she brought herself to tell Gordon Curtis of her misfortune He suffered deeply at the revelation, but responded to his unselfsh love and was quite willing to forget the past before the altar. Under the circum- stances a wedding would have been the natural thing, but on the stage that would never do in the world. The play would have been only two acts long.
 Therefore Ann La Mont had to keep the play going and everybody on the stage unhappy by reaching and living up to the remarkable conclusion that because Leon Richmond still believed she loved him she could never marry any body until she had proved Slat he