The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-01-28
The National.

The National.
Nr Otis skinner win follow "The Red
MiIV' AZ the New National Theater. APP
pesring in The Honor % the Family.
his lest years success The privilege
81 seeing him again as Balzac's Colonel
Philippe Bridau viii be a welcome one
The Swashbuckling colonel has won for
Mr.. skinner the complete approval that
high and mighty arbiters OF theatrical
destiny in New York once grudgingly de-
MED him
Mr.. SINNERS organization this season
! Of unusually fine artistic csliber IL,
has ever been the policy of this brilliant
actor 10 surround himself with TIE best
available histri0nism that can be secured
Percy Haswe1. his leading woman IN
this play. was induced % relinguish the
stellar ranks 10 appear with him in
role OF most exacting and complex nature
Her conspicuous success in The Darl-
ing Of the Gods and a ROYAL Family
are achievements familiar 20 all habirual
theatrrEoers. Francis CARLYLE is we'll
known as handsome and magnetic ac-
tor in roles requiring picturesque and
roverful treatment. AIr Albert Garcia
Andrews was for fifteen years with Rich
ard Mansfield in his great successes.
( Actors like these are sure 20 give Otis
I skinner the needful auxiliar uplift, and
/ the mere mention Of the names OF Alfred
/ Hudson. IT.. Harry Burkhardt, Harry
Barfoot. Russell Crawford. jr.. Walter
SCOT. r. y. Ferguson and Sarah Padden.
! presages a performance worth seeing
/
salvation Nell the play in which
Mrs Fiske viii appear at the Belasco
/ Theater next week is the story Of II
/ tanic struggle beween sold and evil
fought in the very midst Of the under
world Of New York Nell Sanders, the
role which Mrs. Fiske creates is a scrub
woman in a Stun barroon7 Of the worst
+ type. She is the girl Of Jim Plate, a
lIoafer given to drink She loves him with
a dogged. pathetic affection, the more 50
since She IS. soon to become a mother. It
is Christmas Eve and the bar is crowded
with a motley array Of human wrecks.
Jim feIls a man IN fight over Nell The
police take Jim away and close up the
saloon. The barkeeper. infatuated at Nell
orders her out she has nowhere 10 go.
I A woman who has escaped from a disor-
derry house near by which was raided
extends her an invitation 10 join her. At
this juncture a salvation Army woman
offers her a refuge. some dim instinct
struggles I'D in Nell and she falls sobbing
on the shoulders Of HaUelUjah Maggie,
fcampaigner for the Salvationists-
The second act shows Nell's fat eight
years later There IS a little boy jim
now Nell herself is an officer in the
army The army major. man Of gen
tie birth. loves her. Her boys father.
Jim, however. who has been in Sing Sing
for eight years. comes back. He is the
same brute. but in the encounter Nell
finds that she stil loves him. She tries
to soften him by LEAKING him alone with
his son. This is effective for only a few
moments He still wants Nell. on the old.
loose terms. and be tells her Of rob
berry he is planning that evening 10 get
the money TO take them 20 De-.cr. She
tries to keep him from going. but he
sweeps her out Of the way with blow
Of the arm. whose effect frightens even
himself As he climbs out by way Of the
fire escape, apparently 10 the robbery,
she RECEIVERS consciousness, and the eur
tain descends on her agonized prayer for
, him.
The last act shows the Cherry street
I tenements- The time Is week iateT tha1
act two Jim hunts Nell out. and there
is a touching love scene. Jim. however
still demands that Nell should give W
her army work and sink back to his form
OF existence He Is as set untouched by
Nell's superior spiritual elevation, al
though some instinct kept him from tbs
robbery. The Salvation Army holds .
street meeting and Nell addresses it. jim
hanging on the outskirts Of the crowd
Nell IS moved TO wonderful although sim
? pie, efoquence. born Of her grief and trial:
: and love. Then as she passes jim for tn,
= collection he drops a coin into the tam
BOURNE and with a word iatimates tbai
. he viii try to climb UP TO her. that sh'
. has walked his soul She utteTs little
cry OF 10Y and the curtain descends Il
the biare or the Salvation band