The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-16
MISS LIPMAES PLEASING ART
RFI urn ~ "THE HiRRI iGE
az STIR"
comedy ADAPTED FrSm ". BI-ssn's Piay
Has Lost ssmr sf IT. Native Ps~er.
but Miss IIipmaN'> Artistic WSotl
Interpretation. Nakr o. NttTarihe.


Interpretations Nakr o. Nirarihe.
D To the reeCrd of last nights proCsed-
. ingz AZ the HaCkrtt Thra'rr balong the
facts that the playhou-" opened 80 doors
I for the first time this SEASON IN The
, Marriage uf "A star. translated from
/ French work of the sam" nam" hy Alex
andre BsSon. with Clara ldpman ia the
I role written originally for Jeanne GranIer,
thai Franklin Ritch". Albert Parker.
ConsuelO Bailey. Aida Iort"lyou and
clara SIDNEY were some of the actors
aSSoCiated with the leading actress IN the
/ performance aud that IA" new play, which
comes here with the renown II great
suC,S-s IA Paris and on III" Continent.
J ~ IN three acts
~ heroine ia the form ~ the play
used last night ~ an actress who has
Cpm, to New YORK. to study English after
having separated from her husband.
who seems top conventional ~ have
married an actress 20 any kind They
have "A daughter DID enough - he am
ancei and that of course makes u inn
peratIve for her mother - he th" usual
age Of all those women that Jeanne
Grani-r incarnat"s ~ "a" great delight
Of the boulsVarIs II seems rather due
- the eyigencie- NJ the story than 10
probability in this country that the
actress holds = rehearsal 81 her play In
order that the guests NAV help her learn
the sIeeches II her role
The folly % transrlanting such n harm
less Gallo pastime - New England soil
10 shown by the strange effects the re-
hear-al has on the young man hetrothed
TO tho daughter. In contrast 10 the per
functory reading 81 the rest of this party
he grows very dramatic. After the re-
hearsaI he CONTINUES in the frame 81 mind
which the play has aroused. He declares
tina, he much prefers the actress Ia her
daughter and bees the mother ~ his
fSnc.-e ~ hight out With hun then and
there. The sincerity ~ his passion
temporarily gives a serious color 10 the
play. which in the original progresses TO
this point in tho VEN of very light comedy
IN" PRAYER book says that no man may
marry his grandmother Everybody
knows that the dramatic creed would hold
Il lust ~ impossible for any youthful
hero to marry the mother of the Young
woman ~ whom he was engaged So
the actress tells the Young man en-
| phaticaIly that he has mistaken her artistic
| efforts for real feeling. CALI her daughter
20 her arms and de~ide~ that she will look
after her IN the future ends nv uniting
the young couple and incidentally starts
all over again with her own husband.
| kdaptins NJ BISANn = comedy ~ Ameri-
can conditions naturally deprived the
| original - all it, fnesa~ and lett only
some adnrahl" far"ical material there
was enough ~ this - prove entertaining
/ IN ,taslt but the best Servic" derived
/ from these dlsjsCta memhra was the OPP
purturity provided tor the actress CARA
/ tipman naturally reaped IN" greater
/ mart II this harvest She PLAYED the
| long r6le IT the capricIo'Is actress at.
| sorbad IN her own ahairS, then fatt"r"d
/ bv ths. seemingly harmless devotion ~
| her daughters hetrOthed ana nnsliy
| awakened "a her re@p'nS'hihty tnwaTd
| made % suffer she acted these different
moods with ,dmirahl" variety There
was no episode IN the Siirc''-SiN" -.'fsn"~
- which she iailei 20 CIV" ifS apprpprla'e
thsatriC value whether or not she was
tho brilliant and fascinating hgur"
throughout IN" evening that -uch a
prspoudcratinE character might y" :
wholly y matter ot personal last" ~
the technical facility and artistic sound
nsES - her PERFORMANCE" however. ther"
could h. no question And she was not
} lacking ~ phyz'cal ailur" i'at must
: have made IT. appeal - all
There was other good acting M IN" play
/ Albert Parker wa "A lover q -arnestn"s@
| personal distinction and a lr"po--s--Sing
youthful ardpr Ne has certainly Pr0mIs-
/ Ipg talent Aida Cortrlyuu IA role
| which had been WT~-tssi from m" French
/ play with such violence that II Was dls-
| figured h..yund all Identification with -
original scheme. was not only "n"rxetic
! but genuinely humorous a. an American
friend 70 the actress Then IonSuelo
Bailay a. the daughter Franklin Hitchie
a. her father and MAhsl shaw ~ the
! actress mothers cOHrtCH'T and maid
contributed valiant service to the artistic
-icc,.-- ~ the performance The greater
par' ~ that however. came from Miss
! lipman'I finished Interpretation 81 mo
heroIn.. IN What remained ~ VI Bison =
| COMEDY