The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-01-07
TULIA MARLOWE DELIGHTS
IN 18TH CENTURY COMEDY.
EDESON IN VIRILE DRAMA.
The Cast in aGloria.n

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Again Julia Marlowe returns 20 Wash
ington interpreting with charming
naivete the role OF a spoiled, self-wiHed
child. Miss Marlowe is becoming almost
as confirmed an exponent OF dis type
OF stage character as is Mrs. Fislze Of
the Ibsen cult.
Two seasons ago We reveled in Miss
Marlowe's delightful Interpretation Of
Kate in -"The Tanning OF TIE Shrew."
Last year We saw the not less petulant
and shrewish Salome. and new comes
Gloria, a blending of the two characters.
Miss MarIowe's new heroine is an i'm
perious. thoughtlessly cruel, domineer-
ing, and untamed young Italian girl OF
the sixteenth century, who, though she
has many suitors, has never realized
that she has & heart because all her
lovers have yielded to her will Finally
the girls master arrives IN the person
Of an English nobleman. After having
been the victim OF a particularly heart
less Joke, this Englishman, filled with
Indignation, seizes q switch OF gOOdly
proportions and administers to the
spoiled Gloria a sound whipping The
punishment, the dramatist would have
Us believe, softens the pride OF Gloria
and wins her heart for the man who
has had the courage and the VIII 70
master her.
The author. James B. Pagan. has fol-
lowed closely Shakespearean standards
for middle ages comedy. His Gloria IS
strongly reminiscent Of the Shrew.
while the method Of mastering the
what Petruchio might have done had
ne not had time TO starve his KATE INTO
submission Neither Is the broadly
farclcaI role OF Bambazone new 10 US
Both his gIrth and hts courage are
Falstafflan, while his appetite. both
liquid and solid. might have belonged
10 dozen or more Eltzabethan stage
persOnages-
The Englishman, who is the victim Of
the italian girls cruel hoax, has no
counterpart for stupidity I'm Shake
speareau characters unless we trePhine
a Romeo and insert the brain OF a
ClOten. The ease with which Gloria
hOOdWinks her lover takes the Joke
little too far even on an Engli5Bman.
The absurdity Of this portion Of the
plot, however, does not mar the enter
tainment. provided one is willing 20
accept without analysis the charming
whimsical petulHnt. vivaCiOus Ca1Olery
OF the enchanting Gloria. Perhaps we,
too, would have believed whatever alb
surditfes Gloria might have uttered had
Julia Marlowe. with her wonderfully
meiOdious voice, flashing eyes. turbulent
pillows OF hair, and tempting mouth,
oeen that Gloria.
An attempt TO give an adequate ap-
probation OF Miss MaTlowe's convincing
art invariably leads one into the pit
falls Of redundancy and eXrravagant
superlatives. It were better, therefore,
merely 70 say that as Gloria, as in all
of her Characterization of more recent
years, she inteTpTets the role with rare
discretion and Y hO9esOme hImor. Her
personality and technique give 20 the
role a WBmanly charm which tire aUrnOT
has not supplied.
White TVhittIesey. as Sir Phillip Lilly,
was a strikingly handsome stage figure.
his courtly bearing and pleasing elOCu-
ton developing the full possibilities Of
the part. His solGierly bearing and
grace, especially in the second act,
caused one 10 imagine that Sir Philip
Sidney had stepped rom some canvas
and was again strutGng his brief hour
upon the stage of life.
Frederic Lewis. as Count Silvio Spini,
4 character borrowed from the Prince
OF ArraEon, in The Merchant Of Ven
had he not interpreted the role so
broadly.
John c. Dixon was amusing IN the
grotesque role OF BambaZone. The au-
thor has given to him the cleverest
lines in The play.
Gloria has been staged with such
rare good taste and with such COM
pleteness in detail that one cannot but
wonder whether as much credit should
not 20 TO Miss MarlOwe as TO J. G.
Huffman, who Is given on the program
as the producer.
While Miss MaTlOWe's new play is
sufficiently entertaining TO De well worth
seeing her admirers viii be glad 20
learn that she will appear in at least
one Shakespearean play while IN Wash
fngton. Romeo and Juliet viii be pre-
scented at the Saturday matinee. Mr.
Whittlesey Will be the Mercutio and
Mr.. Lewis the Romeo