The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-05
.Amusenaents
.sThe Wheel of Love.

In feather-weight comedy, pleas urably involved and put together with moderate skin. Paul Gilmore made his annual appearance in Montgomery last night. To a large audience in The Grand. MT. Gilmore played Jack Hart ley in "The Wheel of Love
 Mir. Gilmore's new role is different in name and setting, but not essentially different in inherent qualities from several that he has played before; and his rendition of it perhaps neither bet ter nor worse than his playing of his previous characters. His company is of uneven strength, some members of the cast acting with fine spirit and talent. and others displaying weak nes- even in the light parts assigned them.
 The Wheel of Love" Is called Ian up-t date comedy" It Is written by George V. Hobart. It's story is inter- esting and we'll told. Jack Hartley. son of a Texas ranchman who had been cheated as he believed by one Thomas Maxwell. goes to New York to avenge his father. Maxwell has died but Jack will visit the sins of the father upon the son if he can find that Maxwell has left one. To accomplish his plan. Jack takes the name of Horace Sim clair. a Texas friend.s By humorous mishap he meets Maxwell's daughter, who. having been adopted by Maxwel1s business partner, Samuel Grayson, is now named Eleanor Grayson.
 The ,mishap involves the purely for nal announcement that Eleanor, who then sees Jack for the first time, has been married to him They separate immediately, but meet later ani of course fall in love. Jack discovers that she Is the hated Maxwelrs daughter; she discovers him apparently drunk. wrrlx1 1sx yx te NAt~ @E..tx~ At1- k- trap Grayson. The discoveries make a very pretty climax to the second act
 The third act is played out upon a Texas ranch. Mysteries are cleared: Grayson not Maxwell was the villain. Sinclair Is not Jack Hartley, who in his own game claims the willing Eleanor. but ''Griz" a picturesque and quite probable person: his deeds to some ranches are false. to others true as steel; and the last curtain falls upon the proper osculatory denoument.
 'The Wheel of Love" is light and admirably so, but it Is too frequently facetious. The endeavor for maintain- ing flippant verbal effect is at times strained. and its humor, though com stant, is not brilliantly scintiilant, there being much ash upon the spark Its characters are little removed from the conventional property box of the playwright and there is lack of color throughout The play is beautifully staged as regards scenery and cos fumes, the scenic effects in the last act being especially admirable.
 MT. Gilmore has not grown any older in appearance or in ability. As Jack Hartley he has and effectively employ ed opportunities for the display of pleasing physique and for the ar tistic enunciation lines that seldom sur prised. never startled. but also never offended and often notably delighted his auditors. But he is still juvenile. The same deliberation of speech and behavior that suggests. so to. speak, a stammer in each marked his acting last night. He made of his role not a character but part composed of man. nerisms.
 But Mir. Gilmore pleased as he has heretofore pleased. His voice was good and finely used, his facial express sion sympathetic and his conception of Jack Hartley as strong as the charac- ter required. He was frequently ap- plauded and at the end of the second act had to answer curtain call when he made very apt speech. He opened the third act with the singing of a song written especially for him in the role of Jack Hartley.
 Willard Louis as Horace Sinclair dllaS 1iIzs was eXCeilcDt MT. bouls had conceived the role with admirable sympathy. In makeup he was pie turesoue. but with tasteful moderation; his behavior was marked with a wild ness that was finely tempered; his ex- pression of face and voice were strong; and the entire part. though not diff cult of conception or rendition, he played with high merit.
 I. K Applesbee, playing Arthur Glimmerdale. did character work which though not marked by special originality was consistently good Hal Newton Carlyle as Samuel Grayson played with moderate merit. Loudon Mccormack as Bill Burdock was meri- torious. Except for the overdoing of few lines he played the part as well as could be wished. George Bowen as Nathaniel Weatherby fell into over-- actipg. Paul Terhune as Professor Billings played slight part well as did Ricca Allen. in the role of Aunt Angelica.
 Phyllis Young. with the tleading feminine role made not great deal of it. Miss Young is pretty and grace full but her acting was uneven Strangely enough she displayed a bet tre talent in the climax of the second act--and she displayed very credit able talent indeed then-when the emotion was more nearly intense than in the lighter scenes of the comedy Maude Houte as Lillian Barker. played a light and sma" part very well.
 Robert Mantell in King Lear" Fri day night Is the neSt~attraction at the Grand.