Omaha daily bee., 1909-02-12
At the Theaters
AZ b Boyd.

AZ the Boyd.
The womsn's Hour" at the Boyd. an
American comedy OF modern life; pro-
duced and staged under the direction OF
the author, Frederick Paulding. The
Hester Temple. the woman"
Mrs. Augusta ReveitOn-csrter her
Mrs. Xiinc Girsrd. the other ~omsn
Maggie Tsrby, Miss temples maid.
Rossr CAROLINE Neweomoe
Roger DaneSsy .tne Pan Pauidins
Jonathan Creadle. Jack" his man OF
Beverly Revelton. "rooiie. f his inensSs son
Donald Fo1aii. the boy. his ward.
stemson. ''his butler" u. Archibald Curtis
The elderly bachelor. previously i'm
p~ervious to feminine appeal. who finally
meets the right girl. is a favorite theme
with playwrights. Generally someone has
TO stick a pin in him in order to wake
him up to the fact thai he is at last
infatuated and his diffidence as q love
maker is Away wellnigh exasperating.
The young woman-the leading lady. OF
eourse-must help him along somewhat,
and she is more than apt to have an addi-
tional vexation in the person OF another
female by no means so charming as her
self, who also wishes TO nab the afore-
said elderly bachelor. But az a rule low,
exonerstes the proverb and finds a way.
although not until the last act-else there
would be no story and no play.
1t was thus in THE Professors Love
Story" likewise in "The Morals of Mar
Gus" and 90. too, The Bachelors Ro-
n Of beloved Sol Smith Russell mem
ory. So in a degree in "The woman's
Hour" played at the Boyd last evening
by Adelaide Thurston and company, In
GLIDING the author. Frederick Paulding.
Yet this is not to say that the ideas Of
Barrie or the other playwrights have been
filehed or that except In a broad way Mr..
Paulding's comedy resembles theirs, It's
treatment is different and the situations
are not the same except that the leading
man is somewhat elderly. the heroine young
and altogether winsome and the ,upshot
as happy as in the comedies named.
Miss Thurston 10 OF course the girl who
has to fight against a cabal and MIR.
Paulding is the man hitherto proof against
Amor's darts. With respect to the acting
Of these two Il may be said there were
Roger Daneway. whom Paulding imper-
sonates a real man IN real life, he must
inevitably succumb at once to the charm
with which Miss Thurston makes Hester
lemple seem a genuine girl anu IeNeTbeiy
Hester Temple would almost surely be-
come quickly and completely enamoured
OF the aforetime woman hater.
Miss Thurston has a facile technique and
evident temperament. she has also physi-
cal sttractiveness and charm the total in
surfing great success. Playing opposite her
is the author OF the drama, a ripe actor
prominent in the support OF innumerablc
stars and one OF the two or three men alive
admittedly competent to read Shake
spearean blank verse. He has played lead
ing roles with Irving and one OF his last
notable successes was his Cassius with
Mansfield when the latter staged Julius
Caesar. 1t is something of a jump from
this to his present part but the gap is
comprised without apparent strain and he
seems as much at home in the garb of a
wealthy New Yorker as in Roman tunic and
toga- One ventures to suspect. however.
that we're Mr.. Paulding not the author OF
the comedy he would not be found playing
the role good as 1t is OF its kind.
The company is well balanced through
out. Edmund Ford as a cynical worldly
wise. selfish and slightly caddish youth
stood well above the other actors Of minor
parts.