Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-06
MILD MELODRAMA
PLEASES AT GRAND

I
as different from the usual ofrer-
\ ing at that theater as the mag
ination can paint ii. Those VINO VISIT
the Grand only to obtain short-range
pictures of murder and sudden death
may save their money this week, Tor
the play contains not so much as
manslaughter. Even the villain IS al
lowed to leave the stage vertically,
though he richly deserves to go rect
foremost.
Carolina" is the play, and III. Graf
ton Donnelly is the author. 1t would
be impossible to enumerate the south
ernisms" in Carolina" Judge Bull
string, who was Colonel Bulstring ,be-
fore he accepted a nomination as JUS
tice of the peace, bristles with them.
His every second sentence is after this
order:
"a book. maam. that caused SO
much trouble that we usually avolo
any reference to it," This. as may be
guessed, Of "Uncle Toms Cabin" And;
"In the south, sab, a man never does
anything that Niger can do Tor
him."
Arthur Hill is the judge. and makes
an excellent showing until he tries 70
express emotion. Emotion, with HILL
is indicated by turning on the lachry-
mails and the result is lugubrlousiy H.
diculous.
Nelson Leavitt is as much out of
place as old DIR. Duke of Carolina Pines
as he would be in the role or Pope
Leo XIII. He makes fair attempt
at the physical mannerisms or the
southerner, but his voice is that OF
street corner orator or a dime museum
barker.
Nose, an old time negro servant, is
traditionally presented by E. George
hi 4a M
Clancy's ability as a comedian. The
audience expects certain things OF
negro servant, and the author gratifes
them Clancy is there with the goods.
A forceful mountaineer is Lawrence
Underwood, whose chief business in the
play is to seek the man who mas
wronged the simple mountain girl
whom he had hoped to marry. jack
Durrell is his name, and he does not
consider "stilling" wrong, though he
draws the line at eounterfeiting.
Miss Hayward, comedienne
Lillian Hayward comes to the front
as Miss Priscilla Fillkin of uncertain
age and expectations. Hers is semi
comedy role, and she makes good use
of it's slender opportunities.
Florence Barker has role that puts
into the shade anything else she mas
ever played on a local stage. she Is
Carolina Tolliver, Sis Hopkinsy
mountain girl who falls in love with
the william of the play. Her love az
fair includes a mock marriage, and
when at last her eyes are opened to
the character of the ceremony, she still
clings heroically to her promise never
to tell the name of her husband until
he permits her to do so. only once
did Miss Barker fall below the high
standard that her friends believe her
capable of attaining-when she at
tempted to weep as heart-broken
woman should. But what can this
Young girl, still in her teens. know OF
a woman's agony? Her weeping was
the petulant sobbing of a school girl.
otherwise her Carolina was an artistic
attainment.
The villain is always the key to the
melodrama. This one is Dick Quigg
of carpet-bagger stock, played by Ken
dali Weston. He inherits a mortgage
and is about to foreclose, when the
heiress is rescued from her financial
straits by the hero. That the villain
has employed his leisure in making
love to and deserting simple girl.
counterfeiting. dealing in "moonshine'
whisky, and similar diversions, is only
to be expected. Uncle Sans secret
service men gather him in at the last,
! however, and thus save him from sum-
I mary JUSTICE WHtil Ills 6ullL 10 OlS~
covered by the men and women among
whom he has lived.
Harry Won Meter is juvenile lead
ing man whose heart is in danger of
an undeserved bullet through three
acts. and who develops into hero with
serviceable bank account In the
fourth.
Much of the success of this play is
] due to the clever work of Scenic Artist
Charles L. Wallace.
Miss Wynne Winslow, whose charm
| ing soprano has been a feature of
more than one program at the Or
pheum, has been for some time a resi-
dent of Los Angeles, under a strict
incognito. The wife of a prominent
physician, she has become q social
favorite here, and intimate friends who
know of her identity in private life
will be pleased to hear that she is to
return to the stage-not permanently,
but merely on flying visit, as it were.
Miss Winslow will be heard at the
Orpheum for one week only, COM
mencing with today's matinee. She
! takes the place of Della Fox.