The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-22
LADY FREDERICK. !"
Ethel Barrymore Seen In New
Vaughan Play.
A sPENDTHRIFT IRISH GIRL.

Jessie MiIIward and Bruce MeRas
Seen In Support of the Talented
Star, Who Plays Character Of
Young Woman Gambler at Monte
carIo-outIine of Story.
from Our New York Dramatic Core
spondentl
Miss Ethel Barrymore has come to
the Hudson theater with Lady Fred
erick," a comedy by W. Somerset
Vaughan. author of Jack Straw"
Lady Frederick, with only her Irish
wit and charm to keep her head above
water. is Il spendthrift living ut Monte
Carlo. where she borrows money right
and left. be most persistent of three
lovers WI 'ause her no end Of trou-
bic Is W. Lord Mereston, whose
mother al ,ncle do everything in
their powesN dissuade him from his
infatuation.SS is greatly maligned,
but finally ~ herself to be much
better than Ii uemies. Meanwhile
Lord Mereston devotion is mistaken.
Bruce McRae is again seen as Miss
Barrymore's leading man, and other
members of her company are Jessie
Millward, Charles Hammond, Arthur
Elliot, Norman Thorp. Vira Stowe and
Anita Roth.
The bracing quality of Miss Jessie
Millward's work as Lady Mereston.
the mother of the youth infatuated
| with Lady Frederick, served as tonic
by comparison and led one into the
temptation of thinking what she might
hn ha6
the title role.
1t was the clash between the two
women that brought the first spark
and for a moment put stop to the
somewhat laboriously smart" say
ings Lady Mereston was determined
that her son should not be ensnared.
and she was prepared to bring letter
out of the past to show that Lady
Frederick's reputation should be sent
to the cleaners. Lady Frederick
calmly explained that she had written
the letter to save her sister-inlaN
from the consequences OF an early in
| discretion. and both Lord Mereston
and his Uncle Fouldes promptly an
nounced that they believed her.
This scene reused some of the sup
posed Irish in Miss Barrymore and
caused her eyes to fash for a change.
| 1t was victory without a vengeance
| for Lady Frederick, for she had with
| held a bundle of letters that proved
| Lady Mereston's late revered husband
| to have been the adoring .'Chickadee-
| dec of a little dancer whose reputa-
| ton was still very much alive. Fouldes
had of q M N
| of her debts for these letters, only to
| have her decline to get out Of debt by
| that route. When Lady Mereston's
evidence" was ruled out of reason
| the enamored youth asked Lady Fred
| erick to marry him right before his
| mother and was told to come for his
answer at 10 o'clock in the morning.
Why the young mans fond illusions
should have been destroyed by what
| he saw in Lady Frederick's dressing
! room was more than the average man
| i'm the audience could see Miss Bar
| rymore, in q pretty kimono and with
only n few locks of her hair stringing
| down her face. looked anything but a
fright" and when she made up" her
| face and her maid pinned a few
harmless ''puffs' to her hair any sen.
sible man would have sat back and
! applauded. But Lord Mereston was
| dreadfully shocked and completely
| cured Then Fouldes came to the
rescue of the lady by paying the gam
bling debts of her brother. This &C
| count was held by the ambitious scion
of a money lender. who wanted to
settle it by marriage. and the dis
agreeable part was neatly played by
Mr.. Orlando DAILY.
ROBERT BUTLER.