The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-17

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Ita NOW play \ Grand Army Man by
Pauline Phelps and Marian Short. rewritten
srf shaped ny Mr. Belesco. j. u radical
change Ia Scene from Nsrfeld's previous
--amas exploiting. indeed. a phase ~
American life practically new 10 the stage.
Nar'cll plays the part Of Wes Bipeiow.
& Il tost commander in an Indiana
village Though why Indiana any more
tran New YORK. or Vermont the plays does
rp' make quite cleorl and the bulk of The
Characters are his fellow veterans in tire
Io~' one act takes place in the q 4. X
hal, he tattered battle flag is tenderiy
removed from it's case. stories are told
Nos narrttes for the t.7Spth time how he
Yai q "s,aaking acquaintance" with Grant.
and everybody listens as il the story were
few he Noman's Relief Corps ia there
and The visiting post.
NoN. any one who was reared in a small
town ~ the North since sbe wal knows
the reality ~ this material. knows how for
the-" veterans odd veterans" we chill
Cren usei 10 call them. a. their dwindling
blue Inc marched every recurring May 30
W from their hail to the cemetery behind
the white church with baskets of flowers
IN their hands how for them half the in
terest> If life are BOUND up in their post.
ant how that results in a Tathos cross shot
with humor curiously poignant and unique.
Those Of us SO reared will probably find
IN the new play. quite apart from the acting
o. the story Of Wt's Bigcl ar and his boy"
an interest which wells up from the deep
springs Of memory and we shall be grateful
N he play wrig hts and star for putting the
Nidish ppdler and The German music
master on the shelf and setting forth char
actors 50 entirely American. For cos,no-
1oltan New York A. large perhaps the
mere interest of the play and players will be
insisted on, hut this public, too, will he
amply satisfied.
Nsrfiald's aims As an actor are well
known: his art Ia minetic. he is a realis,.
a sentimental ~realist. and simplicity in
acting is his gospel. And simplicity has
accordingly been made the keynote Of
the new play, II is a story reduced TO the
lowest terms. This story is embellished
With pictorial detail. such as the meeting
of the post and the dedication OF the hall.
- much embeliished hat the action may
seem thin TO many theatregoers accus-
toned 10 the melodramatic vigor OF some
q the Belasco plays. And il Is q story by
~ mans =, fresh as the setting and char
''tors, which will not he a surprise. perhaps,
20 anybody.
J. els how Mrs. Bigeion adopted the
IN OF his old sweetheart after his father
vas Killed in he war and his mother died
200. and shows us this boy nineteen odd
wears later. restless. ambitions. high
spr;ed. a~ppropriating 81 1000 OF the q. A. II.
money IN the belief hat he will get IL back
Tour fold che lad was in love and wished
10 re. married, before the theft would he
ce'ec,ed. The ain il represented IA venial.
ana 90 William Eliot plays the hoy you
readily forgive it. But Mrs. Bioeiou has an |
enemy. n Judge. and he ferrets out tho theft. |
'Hr of course the poor lad was swindled by
a hncke' -hop man. and Rober, is put on
tnal ,
The third act show the court room. with
W" pleading ~piteously for his boy" But
INC hard Judge sentences him to one year J
~ The pcnItcntiary. and in the tense silenoe |
hsh'le sweetheart goes sobbing out OF the
court while handkerchiefs are applied liber-
ahyalI over The theatre. AZ the court room |
GEARS WCs' is left behind ~denouncing the
'1dee and Justice while the curtain falls.
Need We add that in the Nat act the lad
comes back, pardoned after six months, TO
q" embraced by his father and his sweet
heaH HoHie, who was none other (had you
guessed ~ = than the wicked Judges daugh-
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