The San Francisco call., 1909-01-13
SWEET KITTY HAS
GOOD INTERPRETER
BeIascO's DramatizatiOn OF ''The
Bath Comedy" Full OF Sem
timental Scenes
Alcazar Theater Production
Proves Almost Without a
DiScOrdant Note

There are duels and dances. scandals
and midnight meetings; there is a rem
devious in Lord verney's apartments
between the delicious Kitty and the
hero himself: there is a scene as
piquant as that in the school for
Scandal" and finally there is the repa-
ration of a good woman's reputation
and the restoration of the honor of a
soldier and gentleman.
HEROINE BRAVE AND GOOD
Indeed, the play is up in the air all
the time and you are in the balloon,
too-at least you are if you like a
good story. where the heroine is Irish
and brave and good, and Ernest Glen
dinning is the juvenile hero defeated
only by the greater claims of the regu-
lar Aleazar hero, Bertram Lytell.
Should a travelling company come
with the scenic settings which the AL
cazar management has given to sweet
Kitty BelIairs" we would pay, prob
ably, 50 per seat and be glad Of the
chance.
1T takes two for kiss and but one
for a sigh; we marry ins pairs but we
die alone" Those are simple senti-
ments, but 1 guess they strike a COM
mon chord in all of us. They are tonic
/
Bellairs,'' at the Alcazar theater this
week Though the cadence which
brings. the Bath comedy to a close may
lack conclusiveness, the production is
otherwise without discordant note.
The settings are beautiful and rich.
David Belasco's dramatization of Eyer
ton Castles novel. The Bath Comedy,
is nothing if not sentimental. A lock
of hair and an impassioned note start
in X mo
time.
HUSBAND MADE JEALOUS
Kitty gives the love letter and the
curl to Lady Standish, who employs the
amatory evidences TO her wifely advan-
tage and gets her husband jealous. Sir
Jasper Standish thereupon challenges
everybody in sight whose hair has the
CLINT of red to match the curl. That's
how Lord Verney, lieutenant of the Fiji
ty-f1rst regiment, who loves sweet Kitty,
is involved. He refuses, properly. to
back away from the engagement, even
though his hair is virtuously black.
man as the Irish widow, and so can
not compare the heroine of the two
years run of the play at the Belasco
in New York with Evelyn Vaughan
but do not regret the lapse in my ex-
perience, for the leading woman at
the Alcazar is a picture in the part
and reads her Celtic lines with all that
indescribable charm that is in the Irish
eye. Miss Vaughan is in the best role
of her engagement at the Alcazar and
is equal to every line and look.
MARRIED BY RAINsTORM
1 would not be accused of being over
enthusiastic, so leave the production To
your Judgment. Personally I would like
to see ii again any night, and that is
saying much for one who has to go tC
the theater whether he has had dinner
or not. Only the last actor las
scene-is eliminated from this enthu-
siasm. 1t lacks conclusiveness
! After all the duels which the here
! has dared and after all the fine self.
sacrifice which the heroine has en-
dared. the two should be left in each
| Others arms. There should be no rain
while Lord Verny marches away to the
wars and leaves sweet Kitty Bellairs
unhappy and without an umbrella.
VIII r. Walling, as Colonel Villiers
! does a fine bit of character work and
| includes a drunken scene in his
! achievement which is without vulgar
ity, but realistic. il the statement can
be made without self-incrimination. A
| Burt Wesner, Ernest Glendinnine-
! Howard Hickman. Walter WhippIe and
! Louise Brownell support the PRINCIPALS
we'll George Webb does good work
as Captain Spicer. and all the minor
| characters are well taken care of The
production is credit to the AIcazar
management.