Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-10-10
THE THIEF, THE HUSBAND AND
 THE WIFE.

THE WIFE. | The New York Journal of recent is sue has the following comment, edi- torially, on "The Thief new play which was recently put on at New York theater by a we'll known pro. ducer:
 At the Lyceum Theater in New York City, Charles Frohman has produced play called, The Thief" translated from the French by Henri Bernstein. Margaret Ellington has made q great success in the principal role. But to the ideas of the playwr'g ght, not to the excellence of the actors. we would call your attention.
 "The Thief tells the story of a wo- man who steals in order to have money for clothes to win her hus- oand admlratlon. That, to begin with, is a change from the average play, in which we find husband or wife trying to get as far away as possible from the life partner, trying to drown past, polish up a present, or do something else along the lines of the divorce courts
 "The Thief is woman deaniv ia love with her husband, and tortured by his indifference. She notices that he nas no eyes for her in the simpl. clothes she can afford. She know. that she would be as attractive and as interesting as others if she possessed their various fancy trimmings, and she is determined that she WILL he trimmed and decorated as thc, are, to win her husbands attention Women whose husbands find a good deal of money to spend with others, and very little to spend on their wives, may we'll take their husbands to see this play. Many husbands might do well to go there on their own account; they might learn some things to their advantage.
 They might learn that a little at tention, a little inexpensive admira- t1on and praise, can help great deal with the bills, and perhaps save a lot of expenditure.
 It would do many husbands good to learn that it is idiotic to tie their own wives down to a small allow ance of money and to be forever ex- pressing admiration of those things which their own wives cannot possi- bly, have
 Richard is the husband in this play. When he hears how his wife has been bounded, how she has final ly stolen from their best friends to pay for the dresses that HE admired but wouldn't buy, he goes through many beautiful moral spasms. He might have saved himself the spasms, if he had done one of two things:
 Buy the handsomest things for his own wife,
 Or refrain from admiring those things on other women. Dresses and good looks seem trivial things, per haps. in world in which so much that is important goes wrong. But nobody knows what suffering women go through. yearning for the admira- tion of their husbands, and deprIyed Of those things which they feel would make them attractive.
 How different the man is from the
 woman! Women live with thin. scrawny, insignificant, BALD hus- bands. THEY PRAISE THOSE HUS- BANDS CONSTANTLY. If HE can't grow beard, then the wife hates boards. If he has a beard like the mane of roaring lion, then the wife thinks the beard is "so manly" If the husband is bald. the wife thinks that is sign of brains and refine- ment, or she says she thinks so. Sae even points out the fact that Zut.s | and burglars are never bald. If tae husband is thin-legged, narrow shouldered little person, the wife hates mere brute strength" I: the husband is as wide as Jeffries and as tall as Fairbanks. then the wife studies up on Hercules, and is always asking the husband in public to aoa-