The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-21

each surprise grows more arresistibly funny than the preceding one It is a new Comedy of Errors with modern Fal- staffs and Pucks thrown in higgledy- piggledy, pell-mell, each of them a sep arate laugh.
 In this play Clyde Fitch has drawn one of the truest and most likable types of the chorus girl that ever found her way on the stage. She speaks slang and is ready to flirt with every man who comes her way, and made up half of sentimen- taity half of shrewdness. But, as she herself puts it. she is all right whom 1t comes to the bedrock things. The part is played by Miss Milicent Evans, who is so pleasantly remembered for her as- socation with the Giffen Stock company here last summer. Miss Evans does the character charmingly and effectively. Her personality and appearance are in her favor to begin with and to these she adds an incisive understanding of the role One of the most attractive features of the performance were her gowns. They were of the latest directoire with out the sheath, and ran the octave of fetching blues. Miss Evans is undoubted- ly on the threshold of a brilliant future.
 Goodwin and Goodrich Engagement. Nat c. Goodwin and Edna Goodrich are to be seen at the Jefferson theatre Wednesday matinee and night in "The Master Hand.' Sir Henry Irving is quoted as remarling to group of friends that he regarded MT. Goodwin as the ablest of the American actors. However sound or unsound this judgment, it is certain that MT. Goodwin long ago estab- lished reputation as a comedian the business of which has been proved by time. He is known and admired from coast to coast as the prince of comedians. Edna Goodrich, to whom Goodwin was married in November, Is perhaps the most beautiful woman on the American stage She portrays with effectiveness the part of a young New York girl into whose life there comes a shadow which is finally dispelled by the common sense efforts of the man from Wall street, which part is played by Mir. Goodwin.
 The gowns worn by Miss Goodrich are many and elaborate and have no dupli- cates anywhere, as they were designed and made especially for her use in this play by the most famous Parisian mod istes. The performance which MT. Good win and Miss Goodrich give is best de- scribed by the Spartanburg (S. CD Her aid of recent date as follows
 Nat Goodwin and Edna Goodrich de- lighted the largest house of the season at the theatre last night in ''The Master Hand" MT. Goodwin as John Bigelow, the Wall street financier and persistent suitor won the audience from the start and well did he depict the character of the Wall street speculator and master of finance.
 Edna Goodrich, winsome and attractive, carried away the hearts of the audience in her depletion of the character of Jean Rallston. Her gowns were by far the most beautiful seen here this season-each one a masterpiece.
 Carl Anthony did well as James Rails ton, the unfortunate stock speculator, who lost his daughters fortune. after having placed her mother and his wife in a sanitarium in order to avoid the pos sbility of her interference. Kitty Traver, as played by Anna Heritage, was good. Tn fact there Is not weak spot in the whole cast.
 The play was filled with epigrammatfc sayings, most of them issuing from the mouth of John Bigelow. The scenery was handsome, especially in the fourth act, which depicts the drawing room of tho Rallston home on Fifth avenue. New York The play was well received the bursts of applause of each act showing the appreciation of the audience.