Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-02-03
PLAYS AND PLAYERS
By BERNARD CONAN

"A message of love. commissioned to instruct the community that loNe is mot altogether q laseiHioHs# and sensual natter" but really d good thing. This. obviously js a great day for the plal-soing puh}i.. winch, of course, is public of lost and wandering sheep greatly r-- quirin% to be enfolded and in&truef- ed, and made to understand w'ia love" k, and what Il bloesed p.j ilege it enjoys in having Ml. Sud ,1= nam, Mr. Sotncrn and Miss Mar lowe to tell it that "love k moi altogether sensual. Seldom has there been such an opportunity as is now afforded of public advance 1 ment in religions growth. The aeo= pie surely ought to improve t.
 "Ctptain Bi:,ssbound'S Conversion
 Possibly the chief feature in Miss | Ellen Terry's appearance in Der nard Shaw's three-aet play. Cap tain Brassbound's Conversion,' in | he Empire theatcr this week was l the evidence of the actress pOpn- | larity which the occasion afforded. l Indeed, it is possible to use q 1 stronger term than popularity the affection in which she is held hy | American audiences.
 | N;-. ,ra.,x- pooo;,a1 tbn O,o,l1,
 est kind of a greeting, finally she came forward and said: ssI don't want to make a speech. I'd rather inst say Thank you, then kissed her hands to her admirers and van lshed into the wings.
 These tributes of applause and curtain calls were the more mark
 edly an individual triumph for this
 actress, because 'Captain Brass
 bounds Conversion will hardly De
 considered as an acting play, one
 of Mr. Shaw's happiest efforts
 It has many pretty long speeches
 without quite the same proportion
 of bright lines to liven them III
 as in some of his other plays, ant
 it wants the briskness and vivaci' }
 of You Never Can Tell" or "Ma1
 and Superman" It's satire lie:
 more in apparently intentiona
 stumbling up of high comedy, fare
 and melodrama than in an abun
 dance of clever speeches, althouSf there are some hits at lawyers judges and at civilization Sen erally.
 What the play does accomplish is to give Miss Terry, as Lad Cecily Wayeflete, role ir whic she has an opportunity to emplc
 her highest comedy touch with
 deftness that charmed her audi ence. There also is a good 1o1 | comedy cockney part for an impis
 young sailor, Felix Drinkwater, an'
 is cleverly acted by MT. Georg Elton. Mir. James Carew, as th hero, was handsome and melodra matic; while Messrs. Rudge Hard
 ing, George 1ngleton and w. T Lowell did good work in their re spective roles Miss Terry's is th' only woman's character in thu
 play.
 Rosenfeld's "Aero Club."
 A farical play called 'The Aero
 Club" made by Mir. Sidney Rosen
 field, was produced at the Criterion theater, and Miss Lulu Blasel hitherto comic opera singer, ap peared in it as an actress. Tn .. piece displays frolic in and abou a balloon, and it will attract am
 amuse not only persons who are in
 terested in aerOstratiOn, but thos who relish frivolity and the coarse
 forms of mirth The story relate
 to balloon adventure by a gen
 erous girl, who, by subterfuge an ! 1ntrepidity, discomforts the un scrupulous wooer of another wOm an. Her name is Myrtle Webb She has observed that a rich youn fellow, named Jack Chandler, ha paid assiduous attention to he friend, Mrs. Vanderwater, and sh