The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-11

lover staggers by on his way into the street. Just why she should not have immediately secured more comfortable lodging on the value of any one of the jewels the unsophisticated does not ask at that moment. It Is enough to see Mrs. Carter in picturesqueness of attire and pose And the curtain brings applause in plenty.
 Once again the pure air of the country is the potent moral agent Jeanine, from being a woman who has never gone to bed until the sun has risen, now rises in time to milk the COW and delight in bucolic pastlmes; to buy neckties and hose for the painter and she shows exc crable taste. For one who dresses well herself she seems to have remarkably hamboyant ideas of mems attire. But thus the comic moment is assured. Meanwhile the spark of love is kindled. and she begs the artist to link his fate with hers. But, though inclined to be generous, he reverts to his love for the dead wife, tells her that to him she is only model and sees her mad with jealousy about to knife the canvas which he treasures. Then, ready to take up her old life, if need be. she goes back to Paris, subsequently, repents, and when her lover comes to see her, holds him off, threatening to drink poison if he | touches her. This moment Mrs. Carter handles most powerfully.
 l Ultimately she is rewarded with the knowledge that the painter has since | come to love her. They agree to go away together, and there Is as may | be expected, the intrusion of the lover, with a quarrel between the two men, a duel, and an hour of agony for the woman,' who finds the artist unwilling to believe that she has been faithful to her better self, and him.
 l Mrs, Garter bears the burden of the whole performance on her shoulders, in | fact the other members of the cast have very few opportunities. In her serond role as Jeanine Bartet, she Is decidedly better than in the part of Jeannette Mo reau, the quiet little housewife.
 l Her company is very capable one, in cluding Robert Warwick. Hanison Hun
 ter, Frances Finlay, Jeanette Clark,
 Ethel Conrad, and dozen others. | We are glad to have Mrs. Carter with IFS again, and wish that her vehicle were | little more substantial
 l "ITl Be Hanged If I Do" l The 'hodoo," which has lowered over l the Comedy theatre since the carry part l of the season seems to have vanished
 with the changins of the name of this
 playhouse to William Golfers Comedy | 'Ill be Hanged If I Do,' with MT. Col
 Her in the leading role. The new piece which is the joint work of Edgar Sei- lwyn and MT. Collier will probably nave
 long run, but it's success will not be due to any great extent to the authors Ihe story is very inconsistent and sometimes
 absurd. Fortunately. MT. Collier IS pro vided with most of the work, and ne rolls out a continuous line of bright witty, talk that keeps the audience in an uproar and makes them forget the glar-
 ing faults of the play. Mir Collier Is undoubtedly one of the cleverest come dians on the American stage, and he lives
 up to his reputation in the new piece.
 His success in the new piece may pc | due to the fact that the presence or ms | family acts as an inspiration; for the cast | not only contains Paula MaT, his Wife. and Helen Collier Garrick, his sister, put also William Collier IT.. his youngster' who plays the role of BinlSs in promis- | ing manner
 Golfers part this time is that of a young son of a rich father who has a
 ways cdone the thinking for both So not having to think for himself the young J man forgets an engagement to get mar
 ried, thereby upsetting one of his par