Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-02-23
WHEN THE WORLD SLEEPS
Aubrey Stock COmpany's Fourth
Appearance Strong Play
Well Cast.


Aubrey Stock Company, playing q
weeks engagement at the Colonial
Theatre here, has grown in popular
favor Rightly. A large and certainly
a most appreciatiye audience if ap
| plause and shouts are indicative of
appreGl atom, greeted their fourth
nights appearance last night The
play Was When the World Sleeps, /"
a melo- drama of four acts, d ID seems
in action melo dramas run to fours),
full OF strong scenes and startling
and unexpected situations and thrill
ing climaxeE,
The cast Of characters was a little
different from the previous nights, in
asnluoh as there was no heavy woman
or gillianess. although the leading man
and woman aud the heavy man were
tile same impersonators as ON previous
| occasions. Miss Sadie Daley. whose
unpleasant duty il has been to fill the
heavy role was cast in less thank
less characteristic night as the loving,
tender, devoted and self.sacriiicing
mother OF presumably way ward son,
accused Of forgery and subsequently
Tor murder. Miss Daley acts capablv
in any role she assumes. She works
hard and deserves credit. She lis a
| valuable acquisition to the company s
personnel land.hol up lIer end of the
line with credit TO herself and tie
company. We were glad to see Miss
Daley cast in some other than the
heavy character. 1t gave her a chance
to show her capabilities.
Mr.. Harris. first, last and all the
time, plays the role of villain. 1t is
hard Oh Mr.. Harris, although he was
not slapped in the face last night and
only shot few times and called a
liar and murderer on an average OF
half dozen times each act The gal
lery has grown fond of Mr.. Harris
role as Che heavy man, which seems to
fit him to the queens taste, or he to
ht it, aud the gallery never Kissed a
single hiss last night during the en-
tire performance. Mr.. De Forrest
Dawley is still the hero and lover. He
is tall, handsome. graceful and fills
the bill as the leading man to perfect
| satisfaction. While he plays the part
| of a lover, experiencing many trials
and difficulties to win the hand of his
loved one, even going to Jail and be-
ing handcuffed, he always comes out
right side up with care, and never
| butter side down. His virtues con.
| quer the vices of others and he comes
into harbor with colors flying. Mr.
| DawleY sustains his role admirably
Miss Barney was a little more AMI
mated last night. Her even tones,
modulafed voice which no provoca.
| ton ever causes her To change, her
serenity and ioiness give one the
| shivers Even Mr. Rewley, the funny
man, said she chased cold ohills up
and down his spine. Miss Barney
| needs little more animation and less
| refrigeration. Mr.. Stanley was we'll
cast as Diok Hardy, and he made the
best OF the part. Miss Beebe and Mr.
Bewley were, as usual. cast in the
lighter vein. Mr. Bewley has become
prime favorite. He is very capable
not to repeat that threadbare qualiier.
'Nersatile. " AS the grave digger
and man looking for fourth wife,
he was irresistibly funny and his spec
laulies were the hit of the evening
Henry Jowan, the boy, impersonated
the character of "a half. witted child
with elevernesss far beyond his years.
He is capable little actor aud has in
him the stuff that actors are made of.
The CHI Id promises to be a greater
success before tie footlights later on.
The story of the play is full of thrill
ing scenes from start to finish. and
pistols and knives are used frequent
ly and with telling effect. In the first
act two brothers quarrel and one is
killed, but not by his brother or his
brother S friend, but by the villain.
This complicates matters and the in.
noneenb man is accused of the murder
In passing we might say the killed
man plays another character very ac-
cepatbly after this fact as thesvillaiu's
accessory, In the second act the hero
end heroine are imprisoned in mill.
which Is burned to kill the girl and
cover I'D murder that was committed
before she play began. The situations
In this scene are very startling aud
unique, The third act shows the
sheriff E quarters in the county Jail
where che hero is confined for muir
der he doesn't commit and where the
sheriff S son, who has been a fcrger,
is concealed by his mother whom the
father insults aud the son calamity
protects. The son gives himself mp to
his sheriff father and the sheriff says
he VIII resign his job, but doesn't
have to, as the half witted.child comes
to the rescue with a knife that did
the killing, bot does not belong to the
sheriff s son, who is the self accused
criminal.
In tbs last act the villain, after
being SHOT six or seven times, gives up
the chase Tor vengeance aud the hero,
ines hand and incidentally gives
his bad life, but before doing so he
acknowledges the half witted boy to
be his child, ard the child says Il
shall not be as bad when / grow up to
be "a man as you, my father, have
been, and the curtain falls on wrongs
righted. lovers reunited and happy
ending 10 a scene that has been, with
its knives and pistols and its gore
flowing freely, a regular hog killing
time. Tonight the company will play
"A Prisoner of War;" one of the