The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-27
ADJUSTMENTS
Metropolitan-EtheI Barrymore In "Sun.


Metropolltan-EtheI Barrymore In "sun-
HI day." 49,
Ethel Barrymore has a most charming
personality. It Is strong enough to hold
together the threads Of the rather loosely
woven play Of Sunday; compelling
enough to make the camp-bred girl
possibility and clever enough to show
the dawning womanhood in the girl Sun;
day, and later leave traces Of the child
Sunday, the woman. e.
Miss Barrymore's Sunday Is a most
1ovable character, boyishly frank, as a
girl would be when reared by four rough
men, but gentle, honest, faithful, with.
a heart full of love and sunshine and
with a sense of hunor that dimpies the
eyes and lips. Sunday is not at all a
plausible girl, but Miss Barrymore makes
her magically possible. Her refinement
seems rare and beautiful, but quite
credible thing, her loyalty to her boys
as natural as it is charming. Her face
is very expressive, the eyes brighten with
laughter or grow tense and strained with
fear and anguish. Her strange, husky
voice Is almost a monotone, but it is the
more effective when broken in the SUI
preme moments of the role. Miss Barry
more's Sunday Is far in advance Of her
Cousin Kate, in which she was seen here
last. - r..
The play Is rather mild melodrama,
but it gives every member OF the cast an
opportunity. It's humor Is spontaneous,
not epigrammatic, and the interest is not
allowed to flag. The underlying problem
whether it is ever justifiable to kill man
Is never lost sight OF, and yet it intrudes
itself only at crucial moments.
Sunday is a young orphan who has
been brought up In the western mining
camp by the four rough miners. To the
rude cabin comes a nun to ask the girl
to go with her to a convent to finish the
education "the boys" have begun. Unable
to come to any decision as to whether it
will be best for the girl to go or stay
they resort to cutting the cards" The
nun is persuaded to make the final test
Of fortune and wins the, right to take
Sunday away. But q young Englishman
the scapegrace son of an old family, has
fallen in love with Sundays pretty face
and her growing interest, that only needs
the right touch to ripen it into love, is
very innocent and very natural. She is
slow to understand when he asks her
to go to England with him, but not as
| his wife. and when she does understand
her cold scorn Of him and of his love
| maddens him. Jacky, the youngest of
| ''the boys" rescues her and kills the
Englishman. Scarcely a word is spoken,
but in the drawn face and the wide eyes
of Sunday there is all of horror and fear,
as she slips shudderingly away to obey
Jacky and go with the nun.
A year later she is woman grown, but
she has still the radiant joy. the frank.
sensitive nature Of the child Sunday. She
is on visit to her aunt in England, and
chance takes her to Brinthorp Abbey, the
| home OF the brother Of the man Jacky
shot. Nothing is prettier than Sundays
loyalty to her boys in her aristocratic
surroundings. There Is something very
| genuine and sweet in her reading of the
quaint letter from Lively" and in her
certainty that anyone who was inter-
ested in her would be interested in her
boys and in all the homely incidents
| Of their life, into which she enters with
such sincerity and enjoyment. She avows
her love for Colonel Brinthorp in the
same frankly honest way, but when she
| realizes that his dead brother must stand
between them she returns to America
| Her reconciliation is made to shield Jacky
! the thought Of her own self-sacriflce r
put resolutely behind her and she goes
bravely back to the poor little western
j cabin. Colonel Brinthorp follows her. an6
i when the mystery is cleared away, she
i slips into his arms with q strange little
moan that has as much of sorrow as o.
i JOY in it.
Miss Barrymore is supported by 6
strong cast The four boys JOSEPH
Brennon as Towser. Harrison Armstrong
as Davy, William Sampson as Lively, and
| John Barrymore as Jacky, are splendid
i types of native Americans. rough kindly
/ and just, each is a distinct portrait. The
Il picture Of Lively is a fawless bit o.
character representation. Jacky as the
youngest of 1.-THE boys, . is drawn by Miss
4 Barryn1ore's brother, who has much o.
4 the talent Of this famous family. Tor
mented by his conscience. he is still sure
u that he did the only thing that mar
could do under the circumstances il
shooting Brinthorp. There was humor
but more pathos in his scene with his
kindly fellows who have read the medica
u book in their efforts to discover his NAL
II ady, make out their own cure and strive
to enforce 1t. The Tom Oxley Of Charles
i Harbury is particularly good. quiet ane