The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-01-31

D s with West End types. of unfortunate humanity. She talks with the accents and idions of the East End: she Is . 1ery scrappsr when her temper fs tried: bat she interests Sir Oliver in her doc- trine of "awskin' an awsixin's fr wot you ouhgter have an you'ii git it'; ai- 60. tn efforts to better the condition of his souaiid neighbors; and to his arnaxement his own maiady disappears. So Mrs. Burnett's play. is cheerfully optfmistic in contrast with the grim pessimism of Mir. Walters, and Eleanor Robson's tatters covering purity are in wholesome opposition to Frances starr's fine clothes adorning sdepravity.
 There Is no call for comparison. how ever; for the mans drama is robust with hard truths and the woman's gen. tic with softer ones :rand one will ap- peal to one set of people and the other to another. Mrs. Burnett has written again in the manner of 'sThe Little Princess" and Miss Robson has . part not unlike the one she had in "oniy Mary Ann"
 4 showgiri is . disturbant In Kitty Grey. singing and dancing comedy her name was in the first English ver- sion of the French farce which. enti- tied s'Rounders;r made some of our people ashamed of our stage: but re- call that she. was an outright bad one and glad of it. That was ten years ago. and we have advanced theatricaiiy both upward and downward. Kitty now. as then. is an actress with enough charm left over from public use for private deviltry; and the principal place of piquancy still is her dressing, room; but what happens isn't shocking. partly because such plays as -The Easiest Way" have relieved our bash fuiness and partly because in kitty Grey. the incidents are not indecent. though immodest. A giriish wife comes to the actress for help to get her hus- band back from q Jezebels The actress, unaware that she 10 herself the siren. advises the wife to compete for the husband's admiration and invites her to take an object lesson from behind . screen. The example fs the husband. In the old play the actress Is wanton play they are an insistenf wooer and a tantalizing coauette who won't let him Kiss her, but accepts his gifts of jewelry and gives fond promises in return.
 The London caricaturrst Of dawdilng. drawling fops c. P. Huntiey. a coun- terpart of our Joseph coyne. has been is the iordling idier type of actress chaser. siliier than pernicious and ir. resistabIy droll as . Don Juan In in- tention and Don Qnixote in execu- tion. The showgirl Is the real thing embodied beautifully as Julia Sander son. lately divorced from transient yedlock with Tod Sloane, the jockey. She Is so dainty creature that her shucking of . gown in q rapid change of. stage costume hardly looks inde- corous and when she swings a foot and leg instead of e hand and arm. fin conventional gesticulation. it seems quite casual. The play is Of the kSnd with which London commonly beats New York in making politely and per- forming smoothly. A supper given at Duplay's In London. with a table filled clear across the stage by the aFisto- cratic Johnnie's, modishly dressed girls from the stage choruses and rounders who look like gentlemen. is extremely different from ire current stage imita- tons of carouBals at Pariss and New York's er.the-theatre restaurants.
 Franklyn Fyles.