Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-11-24
AMUSEM ENTS.
"This Woman ard This Man."

'"This Woman and This Man which
will appear at the Opera House Nov
q, matinee and evening, was thus crit
icised by the Portland Press:
Minnie Victorson appeared at the
Jefferson theatre last evening in This
Woman and AThis Man, by Avery
Hapgood, with the following cast:
Thekla Muller. ......... Minnie Nickerson
Mrs. ware. :....... ..'.......... Afilne hines
Norris Townsend. Joseph De Stefani
Goddard Townsend ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
...............W Willard McKegney
David Townsend i;,.
Herman johnson. VIII Marsh
The Chauffeur ................. Henry Fisher
The t'ootman ..........GeorSe Witherbee
This Woman and This Man. tells
who wins the affections of the gov
erness of his brothers children who
loves him not wisely but too we'll.
Returning from abroad Qhe play be-
gins at this point the young man
has a stormy interview with mis-
father and both of them show entire
lack of consideration for the woman.
Thereupon, the woman, in an inter-
view with the young man, offers him
the alternative of marrying her or
meeting death at her hands. For the
purpose of carrying out the latter al
tentative she has provided herself
with a revolver. Through the in
fiuence of Mrs. Ware, a housekeeper,
the young man consents to the mar
riage. The second act shows the
young woman, after an in.1rval OF
six years, living in poverty and sup.
porting herself and her child by
teaching school in a country town.
Her husband in the meantime has
been living in New York with his
father, prosperous and successful, but
comes to the little town in search of
her and declares his intention OF
taking the boy away from it's mother.
She resists and finally he takes them
both, the woman conserving merely
for the sake of being with the child.
Finally, the couple are reconciled, the
child bringing the two together and
causing the complete regeneration of
the man.
1t is a play with many situations
which give Miss Victorson chance for
the display of her powers as an emo
tional actress and her capacity for
portraying motherly tenderness. In
her scenes with the child Miss
Victorson was particularly winning
and appealed strongly to the sympa-
thieS of the audience Her scOrn of
the weak and vacillating husband was
realistic and convincing and her
work in these eXacting situations was
in every way creditable. The sup
Joseph de Stefani as Norris Town
send, the husband, identified himself
with the spirit of the part and faith
fully portrayed the development of
the mans better nature under the in
fluence of the wife and child. Airline
Hines, as Mrs Ware, the housckeeper
had little to do but made of it a
pleasant bit of comedy Another char
acter part was that of Herman
Johnson, chairman of the school board
Of Shiloh, and Will Marsh was ex-
cellent as the honest and self Inn
portant town official. Joseph Hughes
played the part of the child in ma
tural and appealing manner.
THE play will be repeated this ar
ternoon and evening and deserves a
larger audience than that which saw it
last night"
The play will be at the Augusta OPP
era House Saturday afternoon and eve
ming, Nov. q. Prices %, so, 70 and
S10D. Seat sale opens Thursday morn
ing.