The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-05
Intimate Problems of Everyday
 Life Treated in Latest Of Plays

him by trapping the big lawyer and big client instead. Lord says nothing about the inactivity of Jerome and himself. He speaks vaguely of "an immunity bath" for insurance scoun- drels; and to that extent Jerome Is hit playfully with the tag. But that's all. Policemen from Jeromes office are at hand to arrest Hunt and Martin in stead of Brent if the suddenly domi- nant show girl gives the word.
 T never could bear to make beasts suner." she remarks, with a glance of scorn at the criminals; let them go.'
 Does Lord mean to assign that mo- tive to Jerome?
 Not Sardou's familiar comedy of
 Divorce,' but a serious play by an- other Frenchman. Paul Bouget, sets forth that social puzzle of a problem, the putting asunder of those whom God CD hath joined in holy(??) we'd lock, This Divorce" was performed last year by Ellen Terry's sister. Ma rian. and others, in Philadelphia, Washington. and Montreal discourag- ingly. If 1t was advertised in those cities, as 1t has been in New York. simply as "Divorce." with no expla- nation that 1t isn't the familiar piece. a week may have been half over be- fore the people got 1t into their heads from the newspaper reviews that it was dramatic novelty.
 This Divorce" as a book, 'tis said was written on the suggestion of the l Pope. to declare the evils of laxity in the bonds of marriage. Although ii Is an unprejudiced exposition of the 1 great subject. 1t lays stress on the Roman Catholic prohibition of divorce with accommodation for those whe marry again while a first wife or hus- | band Is alive. The management pays | Eben Plympton s350 a week to be the
 priest who expounds. in less than 50t
 words-or. say. a quarter of an aver age sermon-the church's doctrine | against divorce. Plympton is a queer
 old fellow. once he was a Romeo ana l an Ingomar to Mary Anderson's Juliet l and Parthenia Why. he was the Der l tram to Charlotte Cushman's Meg Mer- | rilees on that farewell night. when the 1 Lotus Club, with Whitelaw Reid ant | John Rrougham, Chauncey Depew ant Lester Wallack. with other celebrities
 too numerous to remember, drained hei l motor car of gasoline, sflenced its
 honk thorn with their hurrahs, and | but where am I? In 1909. That wa: | in 1875. Well, anyway, they unhitchet | the horses from her carriage at tho | theatre, dragged 1t with ropes to hei l hotel and hoarsed themselves so. IT l applauding the goodbye speech sht
 made from a balcony. that it required a copious treatment of champagne til l daylight to clear their husky throats l Plympton isn't averse to taking 2 1 short role; but nothing less than tho l call of three-fifty brings him out oi
 idleness: and so I am sure he gets a!
 much for being a make believe preach
 CT a week in a theatre as parist
 nriest costs his church in a year. How ! ever. the actor Is uncommonly elo
 ouent. Another artist hired to rescue 'Dlvorce" from its failure in the foui
 cities named is Mary shaw. She date'
 back awhile, 100, though still comclr
 Yet a woman by me exclaimed. "Oh
 the cheek of her" when the niatronl'
 Miss Shaw came on the stage. This i'm i pulsive critic. you see, thought Mis-
 Shaw was going to enact the frivilou'
 young wife whose tipsy antics Mrs
 Fiske and Miss George have giver l with feather-weight llghtness in Sar
 dou's .Divorce '" Miss shaw is purposeful actress-Ibsenism and that