The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-01-27


straw" and Lady Frederick" AS
in "My Whether first part In Amer
ica with John Drew three years ago,
| Miss Burke acted young flancee,
in Love Watches a young Wife, II
is only natural sequence that in Mrs.
Dotu she acts a young widow. In
"Mrs. Dot" New York will have seen
the entire cycle of Vaughan comedies
TO date-sprightly little creations, like
perfectly blown bubbles, in which
cleverness of workmanship may over
Law weight of material, but where ev-
cry sentence is replete with sense and
satire one telling epigram following
another. A comedy by w. Somerset
Maugham is in fact an evening in
which the funniest things are said and
| the most amusing happen. In out
line this is the story of Mrs. Dot
Mrs. Dot has three hundred thous-
and dollars a year. She is widow
and she is in love. Her husband, who
could not take his money with him,
generously left it without restrictions,
so she is free to marry without hav-
ing to make the choice between love
and dollars. After finding this out
one expects to discover that Mrs. Dot
| is a very much sought after lady, es-
pecially as she is very pretty and
charming and exactly thirty-five, the
age at which a woman begins to be
bounded and the facts are somewhat
extraordinary Gerald Halstane, to
whom she gives every encouragement,
does not propose. She does not at
tempt to deceive herself with the fic
ton that after all she doesn't like
Gerald She knows that she does and
she decides to do what every cour-
ageous woman ought to do in like
J circumstances. If Gerald won't pro-
pose to her, she decides to propose
to him. Of course she suspects that
he is more interested in her than he
lets on, for she assumes that the loss
of his little fortune, which went in
playing stocks, is the thing which pre-
to be his wife. AT this juncture we
shall see Miss Billie Burke showing
| hny or uy1N ia
much in love can propose to a young
man without losing her self-respect or
being anything but more delightful
than ever. Of course one expects that
any young man who has given an at
. tractive woman enough encourage
ment to bring her to the point of
popping the question, would faint with
delight when she and her three hun
dred thousand dollars year are drop
ped into his arms. But Gerald doesn't
faint with delight. He is very polite
and behaves with great consideration
but none the less he plainly rejects
her His reason for this strange
course is brought out subsequently,
and is extremely interesting, and SO
are the things that Mrs. Dot does in
the last act. Mrs. Dot by the way
is really Mrs. Worthley," and Gerald
becomes peer through the death of
3 an uncle but this good luck proves
4 another trouble and does not explain
his strange conduct towards the fas
? cinating Mrs. Dot
= Following is the complete cast OF
V Mrs. Dot
: Mrs. Worthley, Mrs. Dot ......
4 .... ...... .....Billie Burke
4 Freddie Perkins. her cousin and
secretary. Basil Hallam
Miss Eliza Macgregor, her aunt. ..
.......... Kate Meek
James Bleekinsop ....... Fred Kerr
Lady Selenger -. Annie Esmond
Nellie Sellenger, her daughter.
... $3.50. Anne Meredith
Charles, Gerald's servant
.-.. ..........A. LiOnelHogarth
Mr.. Wright, tailor Edgar MacGregor
Mr.. Rixon, Gerald's solicitor
49,. Ernest Cossart
George, Blenkinsops man 80.
49,. ......... p. E. Mccoy
tarren, Mrs. Worthley's maid