The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-03-27

son Buchanan form the only other combi-
nation that can be compared with that
means no little distinction for young
dramatist The matured art of the noted
author of What Every Woman Knows"
might be found wanting in "A WomaRs
Way by anyone attempting a searching
analysis, but its rapidity of action and
the compact cleverness of at least two
and q half Of the three acts provide SUI
ficient compensation.
"A Woman's Way" might be described
as a lesson for lady-killers, although 1t
has been more often viewed and reviewed
from the other angle. and called play
how to defeat the possible correspondent
at her own game.
1.-THE woman who gets my husband"
says Mrs. Stanton, will have to earn
him." The unfolding of the plot shows
how the alluring Mrs. Blakemore, a
widow from the Golden West" fails to
get him because Mrs. Stanton does not
rest upon her oars, and under her laureis
IL figure of speech should not be borrowed
from the theatre of Aquatic sports to
describe the endeavor of a fascinating
young woman to continue to be fascinat-
ing to the man who once fell at her feet
and subsequently arose, busted the knees
of his trousers and went about taking
notice Of other women.
In6re Is a real llle pIOUieii IA eiiC PioS
and a domestic problem worked out along
the lines of high comedy, with the stage
filed with persons one meets or OF the
stage is more pleasing than an unclean
dom estic problem introducing the morally
bankrupt and reaching climax in trag-
edy. 1t is also refreshing to spend two
and a half hours with stagefolk whose
conversation is different from what is
heard in smart drawing rooms only in
that it is upon a higher level Of bright
ness and represents the intelligent and
conscientious efforts of a playwright to
depict contemporary life accurately ana
create real comedy without resorting to
the cheap device of caricature, pictorial
or otherwise.
The interest of the audience is gripped
Immediately after the rise Of the curtain
No time Is spent tiresomely in explaining
the situation existing when the thread OF
the story is picked up. Some minutes
elapse before Miss George appears, but
the audience Is applauding before the star
arrives upon the scene. The home OF Mr.
Stanton is besieged by reporters, VINO
want to find out the identity OF mys-
terious woman, who figured with Mr..
Stanton in a joy ride ending in wreck
70 little amusement is caused by the at
empts of the press to get an audience'
nd diversion is created by the introduce
ion of a reporter-a real and resourceful
ne, and not the disheveled young man
/, With the notebook, who appears IN many
avs written by persons who know lit
Z about journalism.
\ Mrs. Stanton, who appears just after
le reporter has secured half of the de-
ired information, is. in the foreground
ntil the final curtain, busly engaged IN
BOWLING over the other woman, whom she
invites to dinner, to meet, as 1t happens.
7everal men aside from Mr. stanton. WITH
HON she has had affairs. The climax is
,lched when Mr.. Stanton is made TO
,alize that he is merely one OF many
es oe he widow, and that his wife
is the clever and more charming of the
20.
The lines assigned to Miss George con-
tain a great deal of real brightness, and
Va character created by her is one of
compelling fascination. There are num-
oer of other well drawn characters. The
minor parts have not been sighted In the
writing Of the play and a good cast has
5een selected to vitalize them.
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