The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1906-10-30

the savoy theater last night. II was
the acting OF Albert Bruenlng In the
role of Simon Resemble, the Jew.
His portrayal OF the money worship
ping. yet faithful friend of Lily Bart
the one real friend left to her
among all the mal who had been at
her feet before she fell from soclety's
fayor-aroused the ouly genuine en-
thuslasm from an audience evidently
predlspoEed to give the play a send
off. The greeting extended to the
star. Miss Fay Davis aud to the 9TH
.ers, was merely formal.
when the third act ended, after
dismissal lapses. punctuated by occas-
ional faint laughter, over some clever
line, enough applause was generated
In tho rear rows of the orchestra cir
Gle to send up the curtain three or
four times for NJ, Davis; and. final
IS, Mr.. Fitch. whose name appeared
On the program as the assistant of
Mrs. Wharton in dramatizing her
novel, led the authoress before the
footlights, but the hand clapplng Ia
their honor was that of sympathetic
admirers. and abbreviated. The pop
ular playwright. after a second bow
in company with the star. was per-
mltted to withdraw without making
the usual first-night speech.
AS for Miss Davis-the fate Of a
RI ing star with her first success still.
to- come, had elung to her m 1.-THE
House of Mfr.h.r With no chance
to display the charm that had made
friends for her when she undertook
a lighter vein as Robert Lorraine's
supporter in MAN and Superman,"
she filed the part of Lily Bart only
at intervals. Apparently she had
been acquiring a stock OF affectations
for the occasion, and her energetic
eccentricities OF speech so monopo-
liked ones attention that II was hard
to look beyond them.
She was made mp" too, for q Lily
Bart older than the heroine OF Mrs.
Wharton. AT any rate, the intervals
In which she made one feel that Lily
Bart was a reality were the times
when the mentally distraught heroine
was in the throes Of terrific strain.
Then she was young enough, or old
enough: and at the end When the Gus
tain fell upon an overdose OF ch.orsl.
Just beginning to do its dread WORK.
her age might have been thousand !.
The dying Lilly Bart was. for the
first time, all that was wanted OF her.
While the plot for the most part,
followed that Of the novel, there was
less of the problematical about the
play. The Lawrence seldom of the
drama was at no time silent lover.
but showed his feelings on his first
appearance. although until tho end
he was swayed by the doubts that
We're not to be dispelled even by
Lily's death. The Augustus Trenor'
of the stage version was never a dis
interested lender of funds, but from
the start he "speculated' for her and
paid her profits out of his own peck
ct for the purpose of exercising his
power to accomplish her downfall.
That there were bright lines in the
piece was rot to be disputed.
''My mother" said the Inflated
young woman. wasn't rich enough
TO give me money so she gave me ex-
penslye tastes instead"
Thea. when Mrs. Trevor, the mat
ron of many loves, had been advised
By her latest admirer to compose"
herself, the response was: "Oh, you
talk like husband" To which he
answered. How can you say such
cruel things to me?"
There was. to be sure. plenty OF
dialogue to rejoice him who delights
in clever eynicism; but three hours
of that sort of amusement must have
been a bit wearing even on the most
cynical.