The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-09-12

prehensive resume of the wrongs of
 the Jewish people. Al a feat of en-
 duranee the speech compares fayorably
 with some Senatorial talks against
 time. It completely overwhelms the
 wicked old baron. who leans heavily
 arainst q mantiepiecs and eurtB his
 head in his hands His daughter--per- haps becauss fmbued with American rrft--listens to 1t all and writhes
 upon the floor at the speakers feet imploring him to merry her just the same. Possibly she thinks she can stop him talking then. The girl hay ing left the room. the Jewish young man turns his talk directly upon the villain of Kischeneff. The old man comes silently forward. his head bow ed in shame or something. Lifting the revolver with which he has purposed defending himself. he hands It to the vioiinist, indicating clearly. as he does Nso, that that Marathon talker may shoot
 him dead. The youth does not. Ex- changing the nrearm Tor ms violin ne obeys with quiet intensity that 1t needs | a new string. As he calmly walks off to get one the curtain falls upon . vibrant silence.
 He who talks and walks away
 Lives to talk another day.
 The start of drama of capital ver-
 sus labor. "The Bridge" is at an af- ternoon tea. The hostess and some of her guests bear the names of old New by the ways of wealth that her father decides to retire her to . simple life, She meets an embodiment of rural sim plicity. He is our good old friend of the stage, the rough Diamond. so ups polished that. under the gaze of high iifers at the opposite side of the room he can't swallow tea. and thirsts for an alcoholic bracer. By chance tho belle of wealth checks her ennui and wardrobe on the same train with him to a place where he is bossing the building of a railway bridge. and her father Is financing the job The biz steel cantilever Is shown with impress slve realism. The workmen go on strike, too, same as in actual life. Don't ask me to be an arbiter. Let me shirk that onto Author Hughes. And
 he is bent on dramatic situation. The
 workmen are phrenized. The gover- nor of the state responds to the rail- way magnets call for help. Militia Is sent to the place of riot. The hero strives to bring about peace honer- able to both sides. His sweetheart you see. Is 'twixt the two fires. Con- ventionality Is under taboo in the cli- max. for the father accepts the terms of peace on condition that his dauEh- ter anu utE AofCE bLO&R tNOih becSs VI wedlock, and vow never to husband and wive each other. Don't we all know
 the filimsiness of such an agreement as that7
 This play is tbsenian. That Is to say
 the literal bridge that 1t builds Is sym
 bolic of bridging of the chasm be-
 tween brain and brawn. pockets and
 palms. capital and labor. Guy Bates
 Post enacts its hero. It resembles | ha Er,fl in xrrhtrh Marian Fair.
 fax took up the same subject; but
 there isn't any plagiarism. and if the
 allegorical intention doesn't get to all
 of it's audiences, It still is an interest
 ing melodrama. To such unperceivtng
 people Rupert Hughes may not seem
 wiser that his work purports to be at
 glance. His characters are very,
 very good, except that when they are
 bad they are horrid. All are labelled
 virtuous or vicious in big letters. None
 are betwixt and between. like most of
 us in real life. The right exclamation
 seems to be: 'I love Henrik Ibsen. but
 oh, you Bartley ampbelClm
 oh, you Bartley Campbell!"
 The title of "The Fortune Hunter" in quest of a native heiress. To be sure
 Yet 1t isn't so. The hunter as well as
 the hunted Is American. He is set on- ts -tirc x aIne Dy a cra4tg cAufn. "You are down and out" Is the gist of what the chum says, "but can tell you how to make fortune in year. l Go to some smallish town. Stop smok- ing, drinking. swearing and all other habits of you life in New York. Tell 'em you're . studious co1legian in quesI
 of business employment and congeniai social simplicity. Attend church ser- [ vices and functions. Create the belief | that you are an exemplary young man. l Be sure, though, to outdress the vit- lage's young fellows. Pick out the richest residents daughter--preferabi l an only child. Woo her. marry her and l there you are.
 The adviser backs the enterprise | with a thousand dollars. The fortune | hunter gives his word and hand- shake of honor that he will carry out the scheme to the utmost Of his aoiiity. And the wife seeker Is John Barrymore. You may not know Jack but you are well aware of his grandma. the late Mrs John Drew, his uncle, the present John Drew, his parents Maurice Barrymore | and Georgie Drew; and his sister Ethel l Barrymore. How could he help being | a facile actor. Yet on the opening
 night his fondly anxious sister sat in | the third row having spasms of ner- vous dread until the; audience gave
 The heir to the SDrew-Barrymore
 
 knack of expression without visible | effort dosen.t have to- act hard in "The | Fortune Hunter" He needs to be like
 no one else than hismself in personat-
 ing the polite yet careless, slangy yet
 grammatical, lazy yet arosuable fel- l low whom the author Wtnchell smith | sends to seek for Q wife the richest girl in a Pennsylvania village. One | can keep ahead of tbe story by a min | ute to an hour all the way throughi | nothing is suspensory or unexpected.
 yet all is so clean aud naive. though
 keen knowing, that Broadway likes its novelty. The fortune hunter follows his friends rules of conduct obediently and within the year is betrothed to l rich skinfiint miser's only child & for ward girl who takes the initiative in 1 the courtship. Also. he has by work and thrift lifted good old mans bank rupt drugstore into prosperity, The evolution of this business gives orlgi- nality to the comedy: It is . poverty
 stricken store, with bottles mostly
 empty on it's few shelves. when Jack hires out as a clerk. dependent for wages on his ability to bring some
 money in. The first sale Of soda water
 to village bells, who want cream in if when there isn't any, and chocolate when the only syrup left is vanilla, ts
 as funny as anything of the kind In the quarter century between Dixey at soda fountain in "Adonis" and Fields
 in "The Girl Behind the Counter" A
 second view shows . handsome place.