The Irish standard., 1906-01-20
Each Has Made Hit Worthy of the Three
Generations of Catholic Players
For Which They Stand.
Marie Cahill and Nora O'Brien Have Made
For Themselves an Enviable Rep
utation Upon the Stage.

Catholics, especially in New Eng
land, are very fond and very proud
of the three Barrymores-Lionel Eth
el and John-this being their natural
order in respect to age. Lionel is
twenty-seven. Jack is twenty three,
and Ethel sandwiched somewhere in
between, says the Boston Republic.
why don't you three kids get to
xether and form a Barrymore trium-
uirate?" someone suggested to them a
year or SO ago.
This is what they have now done,
under the managerial tutelage of
Charles F,rohman. In New York since
Christmas Day this three-star blend
has ben tasted with manifest delight
by a brilliant succession of Manhat-
tanese audiences.
1T is case of the Barrymores and
more Barrie q. NJ, both the pieces,
soon to be seen in Boston having been
supplied by the delectable author of
Peter Pam who makes us believe in
fairies.
Lionel Barrymore plays the lean and
alippered "Pantaloon," and John Barry
more the agile Clown" in the little
&cmtain-raiser which is a pantomimic
plea for an ancient family of Drury
Lane, London. Then, in "Alice-S Sit-By-
dhe-Fire"-which is at one moment q
satirical dramatic criticism, and the
next a tender and fearful domestic
play, with happy ending a la mode
Ethel Barrymore takes her turn at be-
Ding old, impersonating the mother of
the grown-up children; while her
brother John is quietly artistic in the
straight role of Steve Rollo, an amiable
and gentlemanly young bachelor.
Eeach of the three has made a. dis
dinct and individual hit, worthy Of the
three generations of noted Catholic
players for which they stand.
For, as we all know, these bright
young Barrymores are the children OF
Maurice Barrymore and George Drew,
mephews and niece Of John Drew and
Sidney Drew, and grandchildren of the
tate Mrs. John Drew, of old comedy
fame, who directed a theater in Phil
zadelphia, and was the best Mrs. Mala-
prop of her time.
Miss Ethel was the first of the Bar
gymore kids" to attain social popular
dty and professional starhood. 1t seems
only yesterday that she was a school,
girl at the Notre Dame Convent in
Philadelphia, and her father, the
much-feted actor and wit, used to tell
how she always wound up her nightly
prayers with the petition: "Bless papa
and mamma, and make Uncle John
Drew a good actor"
At fifteen, Ethel went touring with
Grandpa Drew, and a year or two
later she Joined Uncle Johns company
playing maid in Rosemary" Her
next step was small part in "Secret
Service" with William Gillette. Then
followed a London season with Irving
4 fairly good opportunity with Annie
Russell in "Catharine;" and finally
only nve years ago. her first full
nedged star hit, as Mile. Trentoni, In
Clyde Fitch's neat comedy Of New Yorl
I'm the early seventies, entitled Gap.
tain Jinks of the Horse Marines
Since then, her more or less triumphant
SUCCESS in "A Country Mouse" "Car.
eots.- Cousin Kate" and Sunday
are familiar matters Of contemporane.
Gus stage history. Her most recent
and in some ways her most notable
achievement, previous to the presen:
engagement at the Criterion was hel
earnestly studied and temperamenta
Nora Helmer, in "A Dolls House," last
season.
Il guess that experiment has helped
me some now in sitting by the fire
as Mamma Alice" said Miss Barry
more, the other day. Anyway, it must
have helped to reconcile the public tx
accepting me as a matronly belle Of
forty something, with grown W