New-York tribune., 1910-12-21
THE DRAMA
Mrs. Patrick Campbell in "The
Foolish Virgin" Knicker-
booker Theatre.

convincing than in this role or her second
stvie. unsatisfactory as her first style was
% some exacting observers Ae matter OK
f.c. there is not much difference between
her STYLES. If there is any difference. The
draulatists may ring the changes, but Mrs
patrick Campbell does not express them
some of us who have seen her play not
oniv Mrs Tanqueray but Juliet. Opheiia-
Ie,flcie I,arondie and the leading twoman 50
,srf in Michael and His Lost Anger
,co,id- save for the words. scarcely tell one
- from, the other so alike were they TO
az many peas in g pod. Her injured NINE
,--,a,,rv in The Foolish Virgin diners
Ti,+Is from the other ladies, injured or IN
.-.,,,s in her repertory. And the play
LAS. the play is as far fetched, as theAei'
al dn the worst sense) contrivance as
-.h.,- +bst has been seen in these re-
.o,s in = long. long time. while the acting
= e,-e7-,- character was far from peaTins
- close resemblance TO anything the
s-sr1afist had been trE-ins to present
.,..-s-+e-s were French on The programme
81. e+.ee we'll the Due dc
,-bar=nce gave no one any reason W
osa hat n, had ever been east oi COL"
f5oolz. the Abbs Roux was lTish "'''i
- scotch. the Dues daughter "as
-o+ French whatever she may nav -
- IN like measure of verlsirnintuoe "p
-, -fe ,isr one act was s1lpposen
THH
= - -,lsca in "a restaurant near L'
=, = Through the windows of the res'a
-, --,., cav, the Thames. and on tue oei
,5e NJ the river immediately oppOo
rs cathedral Where on tlS 1..-
--l or Rermondsey shore OF '''0 "a
- ono even a producer OF ptas9 .1+-;
1sehsonatle restaurant only lile sr
-, mind can tell. But with sun ..o+r,oe-
= +r7,1F1fulness IS foreign
he
.-osrs of a city that is Dis
better. 4.,- .'Ia Scan
,,roduced in Paris eeiiS
81 -+a affair was by Soi"" ,,t
5's' - Y,-oclair7ed as an even
.Lo, said, had taken MS PC
80, Great playwTiehts- New ''
.;r-.7oe with The Scallu"- -
1,,a ,.as far less impTesslNe
- ~ ,l,e nsrts were nliscast' 'ii1 -, j.,
-oe moor. ti7e translation leepie
- exar silly. Notwitns'ai'ui'e -
means uncommon defec'S IA -.
,5;-,rl. the result was ia'tuAe- -
- 7,een that Batailles rlies''' %
-. -,-are I,lun4ieringly hlddeh %
L-s fror1 the Boulevaros [" Di
-. - ,laiuaCe was done peSOliN -,
u-.s- = distant drau7atist may u0 - -
caee short Of relying upon ~
-,,, = not easily seen or sai'' :;
-,esr. Tor protection against
-. nay some day be taken py S'i'-
e" - of 1,lavs. n order 10 Ia
- ,f.z- their plots and lines ana cn01
.,o+ he altered beyond recos-
-t.:.-, ,Je-7-ized Of all sense. ana tnio u
-'i'-O--, -. IF actors. who. however
ss..7 -f,.z- rr,a-- be n other directions al :
. - AZ +o,,cii with the requirements
IN Z given case.
= THO Eoolfsl, Virgin VI. Batallle faFes
rss than re did in The Scandal, ior IN m
---le Scandal some parts were "e"
-,1sz-ed and In The Foolish Virgin none Il
-,lsxe3 approximately well VI coul -
--ork suffers in translation. And, oy the
-s-av noboov has thought II worth "liiie
IN publish the translator's name But De
! sides al 7cprivations of that KIND Is 'he
weakness of the play the dresry ollness
Of II the hollow artthciality OF It, ana ,he
long. --az-n-breeding wesriness
Somebody has said that no playwright Vi
cur time in France has anything hh-
p.+si,le,s knowledge of the human heart
Somebody else has also said that American
,,,5iencex VIII not understand THE Foolish
Virgin It Is rather tresoTle 10 ne TOTO
.-onrtnualiv that American audiences viii
foreign origin when the emotions con-
oerned have a common origin American
audiences NAV not like this or that, but In
-7aSe matters there is some distance be-
tween liking and understanding. You may
understand Mrs. TanQueray without liking
her in the least. And you VIII have TeTE
lit-Ie acquaintance with the human heart
which Henri BataiIIe Is said TO know Sc
well Il you do not understand Nine
A-rrs,Iry-s heroic efforts to shield her hus-
hand who has run away with girl OF
eighteen There are natures III which de
voted tenderness and pride prevail over
jealousy and hers is Of these Diane.
the Young daughter Of the Due de, Charauce
Is her rival. Will the wife win, or the gtrl
The girl is already the mans mistress. Her
parents and a priest have plan for de-
racfing her from the man. Marcel Ar1naury
and sending her to a convent. Her brother
Castor arrives. suspicious, angry. buster
ing He mentions bullets. Nine Arrnaury
rusifes 10 the defence rfds him Of his sus
picions and aids Diane and Marcel to
escape. Not only does she save their lives
( she enables them 10 indulge their loves
s They run away 10 England.
d You perceive that even IN France the
carefully guarded daughter of duke may
fail in love with married lawyer. You
may call her foolish. you may call hin
anything you choose. In the play they cal
him very hard names. which, of course
mend nothing. The man IS selfish and be
loves the girl. The girl is selfish and she
loves the man. The girls family play
upon this fact; they first plead for. ther
demand from the wife q divorce so thai
Marcel may marry Diane. In the stupid
.yav OF the world this Will put everything
right Nine Armaury looks little deepe,
than they do. She reminds them Of
truth usually forgotten by the u1oralizer:
over circumstances Of this kind: a mar
Goes not carry off q girl without her con
sent Diane. she SAYS has 1shed for Mar
Gel and has caught him This is perfectly
true and being true il angers the duca
family Castor the brother. is again inten
on killing the belongs to the school Whlcf
thinks and teaches. that killing wipes on
these stains on family 'scutcheons(, where
upon both ladies fling themselves before
hts revolver in the hope Of saving th'
threatened life of Marcel They succeed
Rut the girl Diane, moved by the exalted
self-sacrifce of Nine. ATma pTy, Kills her
self in despair OF ever retaining Marcel
loze after his wife's noble self-revelation
That is what the playwright means tha'
,r something like IT But that is not wha
rhe actors express and Mrs Patrick Camp
hell least of all The nobility of Fam,
arrrarr,,.s character her deep tenderness
,za-,otsou pafieuce under at