The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-29

the other way.
 Annie ls sure that her girlish in- genuousness is disadvantage, al- though 1t enables her at her present age to seem not much older than she
 tried to appear twenty-five years ago.
 The story isn't new. but 1t Is true
 .'Esmeraida" was to be presented. An actually young actress and no fake
 was wanted. Annie was sixteen butt
 looked childish and wore ankle-high
 frocks. She was rejected. Next day,
 with hair put up and skirt let down.
 she got the job. And here she issagain
 in 'rhe Stronger Sex" a seemingly
 ~irlish bride, in reality as we'll as pre-
 tence, of Oswald Yorke. Her entry to
 a brightly peopled drawing room. wear
 ing the veil and orange blossoms and
 just made the wife of a good-for-noth-
 ing, domineering. brutal cad suggests
 that the rite of marriage has been
 sacrificial this time, and that the of- fering has been a very iamblike dam sel.
 Some of the ferocity of tl9ress Is in this lamb of bride. though. as we see three weeks afterwards. Her
 husbands demands conjugality. anj is warned to keep his hands off. He ex- poets her to pay his personal bills. and Is told that she won't he bothered
 with them, but he may come to her monthly for a. check of $l,00o. He smashes a chair In his wrath, and she says all such breakage will be de- ducted from his allowance. Two Jew money lenders, Isaac Abrahams and Abraham Isaacs---to oaricature one Of whom for no more than five minutes | full salary Is paid to Dore David- someone to collect from her on notes | of his with usurious interest She | proffers the principal only and when l they insist on the extortion. she ae- | flies them to collect anything. The husband rages at the disgrace anu | demands the wife's promised obedi- ence. She won't let even her servants | take an order from him. Tn every | feasible way she humiliates and exas- | perates him. He goes out to take courage oe brandy returns to threaten 1 personal chaetisement and draws oack l hin fist to strike her. She whips out
 c pistol and aims it steadily at ms head.
 me" she says. ''even if loved him. l That Is a momentary plunge from l comedy into melodrama for the curtain of the middle act. The wife does love 1 the husband. as she confesses at the l plays end, after her punishment ot l his evil behaviour has made him re- pentant, atfectionate man. And that | pistol, she adds. wasn't loaded anyway. l Although the other comedy, "The | Patriot" was played in several west" | ern cities, some of 1t as presented in New York is brand new. The only l American comedian able to make jokes l for himself didn't die with Pete Daley. There ia one alive In Willie Collier. | ". aAa nA al I tersa roles, and didn't stop when the l piece was put on the stage. On his
 way eastward he kept working at them, and had c lot of stuff ready for the fIrat performance on Broadway. | Helena Collier Garriek's part Is en- l haneed considerably. Mrs. Garrick, 1 who has had eccentric breyfties with | him, is now at the fore as good natured creature at the mining camp,
 a quite respectable wife. but with l whiskey habit to both sharpen and | broaden her sense of humor. J. Hart I ley Manners. an English actor who | travels in this country. wrote the l story portions of the play, and kept l 1t for the first and last acts In Nevada. where he was aided much by Collier 1 no doubt, in an effectual endeavor to l force newness Into oldness; but for | Q wholly fresh and lauEhable middle | act he sent Willie and some of his
 friends to England to get the. inr herited fortune, Willie remembers nothing of English manners or cus4 toms. but Ia willing to learn them of
 valet: and the pupils domination by
 this solemnly impressive tutor be- comes terrorism that is screeching- ly comic The tipping woman Is quite as irresistible. At a family
 gathering, the English residents drink
 tea at one side of the room, the visi-
 tors from Nevada have at the op- posIte side, what the woman calls an l American bar at which she gets tipsy. and to which she invites pompous old dowager with slap on her fat back. I don't believe funnier use has been made of booze In play with out Vulgarity since Jefferson first
 drank schnapps in "Rip Van Wrinkle"
 The pictured figures of two beauti-
 ful women stood beside the doorway and between them a matinee throng aaN au1a IA