Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-09-25
4 MODERN LADY GODIVA
MISS BIEGHAM'S FINE WORK
on COLONIAL THEATRE
STAGE
4 Good Play Wei Sisged-Eia Elaborate
Sce8ery-BezBfifa Stage Seifiaz
stroug cIimsxes
A WBIFF or MEDIAEVsL HIS
TORY IN THEATRE
ROMANCE

Miss Amelia Bingham. The star IN
- 4 Modern LAZY eodfya produced
here AZ fbe eolon5ai Theatre laat sight
gave an exhibIflOn ~ sneb tFue ar
tistic aeting - it ~ seldom ihs pleas
ure d = local audience 10 witness
and enjoy. While Miss bingham Is
supported ~ an excellent company,
she alone siiiues' ~ tire bright aud
sciatiIlating star 81 ths east, and heT
work throughout j. most capable and
always the stage artist she Is repre-
sented % be.
slr. Abingdon, ~ Sir Charles. - q
little stin and formal and At times
awkward and -3iT. Keiierd, - liar
rigaH, fs tie cool, calculating villain
Nbym he depicts with care and clever
ness. Tho cast - an unusually lDuZ
ore sUd tbe scenery very elaborate.
rOfiIing being spared IN detail save =
frw boDely looking wooden csIairs
Ouf ~ keeping altogether with sueh
GORGEOUS and elaborate environment.
The stony Is the old, Old Ors, WO-
man sacric6ing her love FOR Der bBs-
band and lIe ~ turn tanning that sac
rifice 70 shame and Tidfcuie % the
presence ~ large gathering. The
play - s0meWb bat ~ q nejO-dFaua.
Sir Charles fuIt0n's country home
near London. and with tire guests ~
their red coats. the iivcried servants.
and the rest. fbc scene - animated
enough. Miss Bingham - Lady Mary.
makes yisid fOz-hgufiDg speech,
which - sufficiently effective and
presently ~ learn that Michael BaT-
rigau, the secretary ~ Sir Charles. 50
in love with bis employer wife and
~ plotting 10 ruin him. The ruin
comes ~ a dinner scene, where ali -
gafety and Lady Mary, trying 10 hide
her misery. gives q toast and nearly
fafBts.
The second act opens ~ cheap Lon
don lodgings, where Lady Mary and
Sir ChaFles-veTy poor and the iatez ~
~ beaItb~-bave gone to make iiyeli-
hood a. best they can. The curtain
rises upon a long and somewhat IA
figuing scene between a cOstermOHger
and servant maid. The garrett is
not far from q church, ard, At apprO-
pirate intervals, We hear sOfteDed
choir music and tho 8iiveTy peaIiHg
Of the chimes. Sir Charles viii die IL
money cannot DO raised to send him
10 q health resort, and bis wife agrees
to pose IN ths nude 10 an artist IN the
character Of Lady Godiya, for which
she is 10 be paid considerable sum.
The third act comprises q club scene
IN pink, with abundant lights and
moving figures. and at the back the
famous painting Of Lady GOdiya GOV
cred with a cloth. Lady Fulton and
her husband, restored to fortune,
enter, and deliberately cut Harrigan,
who was the author Of their unhappi-
ness II was he, who cOntTived that
Lady Mary should sit TO the artist,
and the painting is now 10 beunyeiI-
ed before all the guests. Harrigan
will relent if Lady Mary will give
him her love. but she refuses, and
the picture is shown. Sir Charles
shrinks in horror from his wife, and
she, in a passionate outburst, tells
him that her sacrifice wag made for
his sake.
The most striking feature Of the
lasi act is the beautiful stage setting.
Here, at the sound Of the chimes,
the vilIainous Harrigan is stricken
with remorse and offers TO make
amends to Lady Mary and her hus-
band by turning over to them his
whole fortune. While this is a little
oyerdrawn, villains seldom hearing
chimes or relenting either, for that
matter, in real life, it all goes to make
an affecting curtain and to help the
act end happily. The play has no
connection aside from the name with
the interesting medialval story, but it
breatbes Whit Of eleventh century
history in which tho real Lady Go
diva played an important part.
IL is safe to say no actress on the
Colonial Theatre stage bas ever won
such enthusiastic or tumuItOus ap-
plause as Miss Bingham, and her
treatment Of the character she imper-
sonated was most praiseworhy.