The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-27
ADJUSTMENTS
Metropolitan-EtheI Barrymore In "Sun
49,. - day." 80 =. q


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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 a
possibility and clever enough to show
the dawning womanhood in the girl Sun
day, and later leave traces of the child
Sunday, the woman. ...- ..-
Miss Barrymore's Sunday Is a most
lovable character, boyishly frank, as a
girl would be when reared by four rough
men, but gentle, honest, faithful, with:
! heart full of love and sunshine and
with a sense of humor 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 tboys
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 1t 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. ii. --....
The play Is q 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 justifable to kill a man
is never lost sight Of, and yet it intrudes
| itself only at crucial moments.
| Sunday is young orphan who has
been brought up In the western mining
! camp by the four rough miners. To the
r11de hin MIR To S1< 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 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 understa nc
| 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 ODE,
Jacky and go with the nun.
II A year later she is a woman grown, but
she has still the radiant joy the frank
sensitive nature Of the child Sunday. Sht
is on a visit to her aunt in England, ant
j chance takes her to Brinthorp Abbey, tn,
home Of the brother of the man Jack.
shot Nothing is prettier than Sunday.
!, loyalty to her boys in her aristocrati
!; surroundings. There Is something yer!
genuine and sweet in her reading Of tn,
quaint letter from Lively" and in he
!, certainty that anyone who was inter
ested in her would be interested in he
/ boys" and in all the homey incident
Of their life, into which she enters witt
: such sincerity and enjoyment. She avow
her love for Colonel Brinthorp in tn
same frankly honest way, but when sh
, realizes that his dead brother must stant
between them she returns to America
Her remuneration is made to shield Jacky
the thought of her own self-sacriflce Z
: put resolutely behind her and she goe
bravely back to the poor little western
cabin. Colonel Brinthorp follows her, an,
: when the mystery is cleared away, sh
9 slips into his arms with strange littl
moan that has as much of sorrow as O
joy in 1t.
Miss Barrymore is supported by
= strong cast The four boys JOSEF
Brennon as Towser, Harrison Armstron
as Davy, William Sampson as Lively, an
John Barrymore as Jacky, are splendf
al types of native Americans. rough, kindl
and just, each is distinct portrait. TIL
! picture Of Lively Is a flawless bit G
: character representation. Jacky as tn
: youngest of "the boys" is drawn by Mis-
4 Barrymore's brother, who has much &
v | the talent of this famous family Tor
j. mented by his conscience, he is still sur
$ that he did the only, thing that ma
: could do under the circumstances
n shooting Brinthorp. There was huno
q but more pathos in his scene with hi
f kindly fellows who have read the medics
e book in their efforts to discover his NAL
d | ady, make out their own cure and striv
: to enforce it. The Tom Oxley of Charlie
t Harbury is particularly good, quiet an