The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-04-12


charges him with making this a pre-
! text 70 break their engagement Then
he learns tfat his own income is de-
rived from . mortgage upon the very
property Of which Mr. Sartorius is
tbs adlCrI. so he has 70 eapitulate
his views Of sharing blood money.
/ Then Blanche becomes Obdurate. and
refuses TO marry him. and for three
months both are miserable, until
chance brings them together, and
Blanche, like all OF Shaw's heroines,
makes the advances toward a recon
ciliation.
Leo Ditrichstein, known as writer
] of excellent farces, has in conjunction
with Percival Pollard, written his
first serious play. The Ambitious
Mrs. Alcott" II is drawing large aud
fences to the Astor Theatre, where its
chief characters are in such capable
hands as Mr.. Ditrichstein, William
, Hawtrey. Charles Cherry, Dorothy
Dorr and Julia Taylor Its theme is
/ the old and sadly true one that a wo-
mans straying from the path Of vir-
tue can be forgiven only by a noble
few. Mrs Alcott, beautiful, charming,
had married twice, the first time for
wealth. the second for position, and
is on the verge of contracting a third
marriage for love when the brother
! of her husband,elect appears upon
the scene and threatens to reveal
! scandal in which she had been involv-
! ed with a European monarch, II she
| does not break the engagement. Az
ter she has pleaded with him in vain
+ for her happiness, she announces her
/ intention TO outwit him, and she does.
! But her victory costs the life OF a man
who had loved her unsel6shly, and
! she voluntarily gives up the man she
loves to a Younger woman, whom she
feels will bring him truer happiness.
To derive as much pleasure from
/ Shakespeare acted as from Shakes
peare read one should hear Ben
Greet's players In the average COM
many that endeavors to present one
of the Immortal Williams dramas
there may be one or two who deliver
their lines intelligently, but the 9TH
ers rant and declaim, until you wish
that the ideals of Shakespeare's CHAR
acters that you had conceived in your
studv had never been shattered py
those living caricatures. With the
Rem Greet players it is different Each
role, even to the least Important
INTERPRETED with the naturalness tnat
ia the highest art. Their performance
of "As You Like It. will always be
pleasant memory to me. l also hearo
them in the morality play, Every
man ;, and a more impressive sermon
nm tho vanity of life / never listened
to.
On April IS, Grace George VIII APP
near at Wallack's Theatre IN MISS
Mavo,s version of Sardou's Divorces
and in matinee performance
hens Lady from the Sea-"
Eddie Foy, in a musical COMEDY en-
: titled "The Orchid will come to the
Herald Square Theatre on April ..
The public did not like Ethel Bar
rvmore in 1.-The Silver Box, 50 sue
cess OF several years ago, his M
ce,,ency. the Governor has been SUD
stituted therefor.
Encouraged by the stupendous sue
: cess of the production in Enghsh ol
.pucc,nrs Madam Butterfly" Henry
W. Savage will probably offer La
poheme," by the same composer IN
English next season.
The effects Of the late StanIoru
I, White. consisting of paintings tapee'
2 tries. rugs, carvings and other ar'i9-
: tic house furnishings VIII pe
< sold at auction at the 1amiis
: residence April 4, 5 ana o.
: To keep out the merely curious
, admission to the sale will be by cara
: tho nrice Of which will be one doiiar'
e This amount will be deducted from
any purchase made
a HENRIETTA LAZARUS.
New York, April 2, 1917.