The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-21

girl; he is a sentimental william in thu
 one case and a mercernary scoundre
 Tn the other: and when he risks his Tiff,
 In joint effort with the true lover O. the city girl to save the life of the true
 lover of the country girl. the audience
 instinctively wishes that he may
 drown and the other fellows swim out
 That is the only upshot that will clea,
 the way to two happy weddings As i Tn tho novel. so In the play. the prob
 lem Of the plot Is solved by the death
 or the false wooer in the storm, and the safe return to shore of the fond
 and honest two Cape Cod fishermen
 The moving picture of storm on
 the Newfoundland coast Is very vivid
 Earlier in the act the painting of the
 scene. with its atmospheric portents 1 of furious storm, looks unnatural to l landlubbers' gaze, and when the Cape | Cod folks cast their eyes to wind ard
 and tho weather -wisest old cod -salter 1 among them says he nain't seed sech
 an alarmin' sky sence '69. the weather prediction-if you will Kindly excuse the expression-should read: Cape Cod fishermen will have a hell of a | time getting to heaven through the | storm that Satan Is blowing up while l the Lord isn't watching out" But 1t l is the third act of the drama and SOhClHIuS must pc uOHe to I1II 'CaDe Cod Folks" above the level of ordinary
 rural plays. So the stagecraft of the producer Is focused on that storm. The psychological value. let me repeat, lies in the bad lover putting out to sea to save the good lover of the girl he | has mistreated. accompanied by her brother, who loves the other girl whom he. the bad lover, wants to marry for | a sordid purpose. When once you get right. you can understand how eager the spectators are to see the two float
 back to their sweetnearts and the one
 sink out of sight. to plague them no more There Is tremendous sloshing of water, a vivid flashing of lightning. a reverberation of thunder, momentary glimpses of oarsmen in a boat pulling to and from founoering schooner. and vociterous applause when the cur tain falls.
 Earle Brown and Charles Mackey are the pleasurable :"c:ors Of the worthy lovers; yet probably I wouldn't mention them but that I wish to make paragraph about Edward J. Ratcline. the actor of the lover who isn't worthy until he gives up his life in atonement for his evil conduct. Radcliffe was once a favorite actor in the then ia nous but now by-gone company of the Lyceum Theatre. He was matinee idol, and one of his worshippers was the young daughter of professional gambler. He married ner against her fathers desire. and the romance of their wedding soon ended with prosy life in a small flat. for he was dis missed from the Lyceum, and she was disowned by her father. One day they quarreled and fought over the cooking of a dinner. for they mad no servant He was strong and brutal. she was weak but exasperating, and she got cruelty hurt. Then the gambler spent money freely to prosecute the wife heater, and he was sent to peniten- tiary He deserved the three months Imprisonment. I don't doubt 1t, but In addition to that he has been punished by years and years of punishment from Broadway. Managers wouldn't engage him to play heroes ana he couldn't bear to figure as villain before peo- pie who had applauded nIm for mimic virtues. Not till now has he ventured into New York in the role of rascal who redeems himself by dying brave ly. But he won't come before the cur tain with the others arter the scene of