The Detroit times., 1910-12-27
Ei XXI. PLAY HOUSES

I pudding with plenty Of sauce She
| invites young man friend, Harry
Iravers, to 20 to the opera with her
and then goes with him 10 his apart
ments for "A tete-a-tete supper
The Travers' apartments are one
| floor below those of Mrs. Alloway
with whom John is philandering. Be-
fore leaving home for her evening
out Kitty writes her husband a note
| telling him where she has gone so
that when John returns from his din
ner party and reads the letter he Is
properly outraged and starts back 10
the fashionable apartment house to
Travers' fiat TO look for Kitty.
The scene in Travers' rooms is ex-
ceptionally good comedy. especially
between Kitty and Travers, over the
supper table. Travers is gilded
youth whose conQuests with the fair
sex are many and he proceeds 10
make violent love TO Kitty. She has
the time OF her life leading him on
and deftly parrying the advance
when made, so that at every turn OF
her woman's wit and with seeming
righteousness she puts the would-be
ardent lover in a ridiculous position.
When John arrives, the scene takes
on farcical trimmings and with
Trayers' shivering on the fire escape
and John locked in the kitchen, Kitty
goes of In high glee with her but
ler's borrowed latch key in her hand.
The latch key according to Johns and
Mrs. Alloway's theories is the real
badge OF feminine emancipation
The next morning. when Travers'
servant arrives, John gets out of the
kitchen and Travers returns to his
fiat with well-developed cold,
caught ON the fire escape. Arriving
home, John learns through the maid,
that his wife Is not in the house.
When Kitty comes in, as fresh as 4
peach, in the most honey looking
morning dress and acts as though her
night out had never happened at all,
John is so furious that he immediate
ly begins talking divorce.
When Kitty agrees to everything
he proposes he grows angrier than
ever and soon believes himself to be
the most wronged of all wronged
husbands. A scene, remindful of
some of the best of George Bernard
Slaw's comedies follows between
John, Kitty and Travers. In the end,
OF course, John repudiates any real
attachment for Mrs. Alloway much
TO that lady's chagrin, and when Kit
ty, with an air Of imparting the most
stupendous secret, finally consents to
disclosing her whereabouts during
the hours between midnight and 3
o'clock, in the morning. to tell which
here. would spoil not only the climax
OF the comedy but one of It's funniest
scenes-John forgives her for her
game and the curtain descends on a
supposedly re-adjusted domestic hap
piness.
Throughout the three acts there Is
scarcely a moment when laughter
does not reign supreme The lines
are unusually witty and the situations
are original enough to keep the spec
tator on the qui vive.
In the hands OF Miss George and
her associates the action is quick and
played with such delightful comedy
spirit that the playwright should feel
herself particularly fortunate in hav-
ing such excellent players to present
her effort, to the public. Miss George
Is one OF Americas most charming
actresses. She does everything WE'LL
but in comedy excels. Her work as
Kitty in Sauce for the Goose is SO
naive and delicate that one loses all
sense of watching acting" and gives
way to the fascination of believing
Kitty, a relaly, truly lovely, little
lady.
Frank Worthing, than whom there Is
no better equipped actor. plays the
role of John. the husband. with the
facility and ease OF long experience. In
the art of acting. or the other
members of the company the highest
excellence is their hall mark. Keith
Wakeman is seen as Mrs. Alloway;
Carolyn Kenyon as Edith Darch;
Louise Everts as Fanny, the maid;
Frederick Perry as Harry Travers;
K. ID. Cromwell as Hawkins. the butler
and Frank f. Denny as Moon, Trav-
ers' servant
The comedy is most attractitely
mounted. The gowns OF the women
are modish to a degree and are so
rich and handsome as we'll as fash
ionable, delighting the eye and pleas
ing the artistic sense to an unusual
degree.
Miss George will remain in the Gar
rick all week with matinees on We'd
nesday and Saturday.
ELLA NAE HAWTHORNE.