The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-23
THEATRES

If realism Is art the third act of Blanche Waish's ''The Woman in the Case" has seI, dom. if ever. been exceeded in art in thu
 The largest audience of the 1906 theat- rical season in Montgomery was at that time and hy that realism for a brief hall | hour or less. thrown in spirit and practical | iy in fact. as willing witnesses to an axposi 1 tion of all tha$ is lowest in man or woman | It is true that those things which ar, noblest in man and woman were also exein- plified. but the noble things are common or sh sf the yns @aS ausenee bfeathess foI | the moment then wildly standardization
 Clyde Fitch took a bold step when he 1 wrote ''The Woman in the Case" Wagen- | hals and Kemper took a bold9r cne whU play has received since his first production
 'The woman in the Case'' Jhas been before zines have given too much space to discus sions of the play. for any member of the fRis tSo thiTd ae nE Fms re@oves ne ai possib tiles of that act being termed dubious"
 The members of the audience knew the third act Is the act that they came to see. After the first production and the first re- views of the play. the author. the mana gers. the players. were relieved of all liabil- fly of criticism for the startling broadness
 "The Woman in the Case teaches no great lesson save the great lesson of wo- mans willingness aud desire to sacrifice all
 
 This lesson has been taught many times on the stage but never In the history of the boards has the lesson beeng taught in more convincing. morbid, almost frightfully real- istie manner than that which Clyde Fitch has taught It. in the play that the tremen- dous Montgomery audience saw at the Mont goInory Theatre last night.
 Clyde Fitch Is a master of stage craft. He has done many things in his prosperous and prolific career to prove this. beyond theatre goer In ''The Woman In the Case f,o ole bat ba has foda a Ynn firm grip the nrt of pleasing, inspiring. terrifying for we love to be terrified-tho Amercan theatre Goer that any of our play
 In an all too brief two hours. he hurls a vast throng of people, de, Iron ron. a iight and and TOTS of the prison. the intricacies of law. takes a passing blow at our system of jus tice. depicts the life of the lowest. ending the act with the central thought of the play-the extent to which woman will
 He showed himself the master of the stage when he made the last act short one. No audience could be satiated after the third act with anything which even a master could produce The feelings of the mem bers of the Audience had been on too tense strain He showed his finesse when he closed the play with brief ''all ends well " No Q fitting tribute can be paid to the art of Miss Walsh as cxemplified in the play of last night For two hours she lives Mar garet Rolnh wife to Julian Rolph. untustly accused murderer In that time, she is the new and confidng bride. the terror striclS- en wife the determined woman. who feisns a life of shame for the man she loVes and al last, the woman hnppy and triumphant that tue work of exhOnQratinB her husband. has been accomplished and by her.
 Miss Walsh does not act during the play. It would be q misapplication of the term 10 say that she does Her work is 500 full Of realism to De a anp it is life
 For twenty miuu,s in the third act. with but two paople on ;he stage. she swaVed vast throng of people sileuced them, awed them. enthused them, taught them. No tnV Tt is useless fin wasting. space and printer & inl; 10 attempt any discussion of the work of Miss Walsh To do thla properly would require more ability than the writer pos aaeses and. sssnra Alma ahan. MaHiK Adttaana Ai-