Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-03-15
ISABEL IRVING IN COMEDY
Clever Star with Splendid Company al
RoJds Thester.
J-RoIE PLAY FULL OF QUAINT HuHOR
"susan in search of Husband" Light
in Every Respect, but written
CIeverly and Acted Per-
fectly BY Company.

Isabel Irving and company IN Susan in
Search OF a Husband" a comedy In three
acts By Jerome X. Jerome under direc-
tion Of Llebler & Co.; at the Boyd. The
cast:
Lord Rathbone .............. Hassard snort
Horace Greenleaf '..... Ernest Mainwaring
1N'The Doctor ............ Herbert Standing
'hDolove the village constable A. @. Andrews
Robina Penucuique ............ Jessie lett
Elizabeth Ranieton Marie Wainwright
Mrs. Mulberry ....s'........ Edlth Lemmert
Susan Gdmbett .................. Miss irving
susan in Search Of Husband" is a
splendid example OF what a really clever
writer can do with limited material. Its
story can easily be told in an hundred
words and its dramatic action might with
no violence be compressed into playlet
of not to exceed fifteen or twenty minutes
length. But Mr.. Jerome, with his faculty
for spinning words and inventing CONVEX
Bation has drawn It out through three acts
of interesting and at times delicious COM
edy. It is worthy product OF the man
who stands at the head OF English humor-
lists. He is plainly "spoofing' all the way,
but he does 80 that you like II.
Being a comedy of cleverness rather than
of "smartness," II requires very clever
people to handle It, and this equipment
has been furnished. Miss Irving Is the
bright particular star Of the constellation,
but she isn't so very much ahead of the
rest OF the organization.
Susan Gambett was 10 when she met and
married after three days acquaintance Jim
Rafheton, able-bodied seaman, on board a
British cruiser, she being the daughter OF a
hotel keeper at Portsmouth, N. II. He
sailed away, and for seven long years he
was missing. At the time the play opens
Susan is in search Of her missing husband,
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sailor lad, she takes job az chamberrnaid
in Welsh summer hotel Hither cometh
Robina Pennicuique, who had been known
70 Susan when the latter was yet a girl at
a Paris boarding school. prior to the Anan-
cial wreck and death OF her father. Robins
is an American heiress. Also cometh Lord
Rathbone who was Jim sRafieton but a
little while before. He is looking for
Susan, and for that reason follows Miss
Pennicuique from London to Wales, feel
ing sure II he can keep her In sight he
viii overtake his long lost wife. Also dur
ing the course Of the play come a maiden
sister Of his lordship and his solicitor. AZ
the hotel already are the landlady, her
factotum, and the inevitable constable.
Susan and Robina change places, and his
lordship falls in love with the fictitious
Robina, but finally admits that he is
welded to Susan and that duty and honor
bind him to her. He is put to a test and
stands II well, and all ends happily. In
the solicitor Robina meets the only man
she ever loved for three days at a time
and her romance, too, Is ended. The COM
edy naturally flows from the mistaken iden.
tity. but is contributed to by Robina's mis-
apprehension that Susan is trying to wir
his lordship. This is settled when It il
rnade DIain IN her that he IL the h,isha M
Susan so long has sought. The efforts OF
the spinster sister to get her brother back
into the way OF thinking she conceives Ia