The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-10-03

the heart-breaking clash between re- ligion and wedlock. Here the interest is concentrated and heightened by ac- tors harmoniously and effectually old-i fashioned In handling the old style ma terial.
 Viola Aliens nun believed she was starting for a leper colony to die in, the dreadful service of nursing doom ed exiles. William Farnum was the lover who had her brought to his own apartment instead. Intending to coerce her into signing a renunciation of her religious oath rather than suffer fn- fanny as a nun seemingly caught in illicit intimacy with a lover. Minna Gale. once Laurence Barrett's leading actress, who retired at his death to marry wealth, and now returns to the stage after fifteen years. was the Jeal, ously yicous countess who sent woro to the convent of the abduction tns' looked like an elopement. James Neill. forever and ever so lone pop- ular Counte of Monte Cristo, was .ne priest who responded to tne friends call to the rescue. Fanhy Au- dison Pitt was the nuns lay comloI.e.' Could you name five better Americah exnonents of the dramatic that were approyed before the new era Of nat uralism? They gave dignity to the suicide that ends the story.
 Yes. Crawford shirks an answer ps his heroine to the question what nun would do under the described CIT cumstances--whether to be spiritual bride of the church or a carnal orids of her human lover. Sne pIeaes ~, loyalty to the church. He pleads TOT her loyalty to the institution Of mar. riage. The action Is for quarter oi nlirDnSeS
 Then the distracted nun signs an ap-
 peal to the Pope to be set free. and says, as she hands it to the soldier that 1t means disgrace for her In lire with eternal punishment to follow hei death. That brings revulsion oi feeling in the man, and he tears up the document. What does he mean to do? Remove himself from her path of duty as she sees 1t? That is to say suicide. So the drama--although is has another act of suspense as to whether he will die of his wound or get well--ends with a pistol shot. She Is left presumably to go to slower and saintly though horrible suicide by leprosy. A harrowng climax, yet what better could the author do without of- fense to one or another part of an aud- ience7
 
 batch of young Drews and Drew-Bar- rymores, is showing them how to make farce look like comedy. And, too, their old Uncle Jack is giving an illustration, in Inconsistent George" q won't say a lesson, for that implies something to be learned, and I doubt if his facility can be acquired except by heritage) of an actor nearer sixty than fifty personating with effectual illusion a lady-killer near twenty than thirty. Do you recall good old Joe Jefferson's vain efforts to smear i of half his years as Rip Van Wrinkle and Bob Acres? Drew's youthful buoy. ancy as the inconstant George describ' ed as having dozen cravats on his neck to one idea in his head. Is wholly a matter of behavior. He dresses the fellow with the same nicety that makes him New York's model of mode off the stage as well as on; hair num- Der two lies straight and close be- tween numbers one and three; no line on his face is smoothed out; not hirsute trick of bang or moustache is played to lessen the apparent size of his nose; he uses no prettying or rejuvenatirS device of any sort: ye' all the sams he suggests by demeanor only a blithe beau with no more than sufficient age or brains to cast a first vote.
 The inconstancy of George is heed less, reckless, the foolery of a fellow
 who let's no willing woman lack his
 wooing-so far as time and place per
 init; but his trysts overlap. his love affairs get tangled. and before the play Is half through, four rarely mod
 ish are emeshed with him-a wife, a
 widow. maiden and vaudeville
 singer who doesn't care which oi
 those three kinds of women she is
 George gets into a funk of fright and
 runs away from his amours.
 Next comes the plays rare and rad
 iant disclosure. The maiden of the enthralled quartette chases Drew into his hiding place to take him fishing a ] daybreak. As he is still asleep, with
 his door locked. she comes In through window. The actress is c pretty Mary Roland. and for this escapade