New-York tribune., 1910-12-20
THE DRAMA
Mrs. Patrick Campbell in "The
Foolish Virgin" KniCker-
booker Theatre.

Now, Mrs Campbell plays the injured
woman rather than the woman who In
jures. It must be said that in the roles of
her first style she is more effective, more
convincing than in this role of her second
style unsatisfactory as her first style was
to some exacting observers A. matter Of
fact there is not much difference between
her styles If there is any difference. The
dramatists may ring the changes but Mrs
Patrick Campbell does not express them.
Some of US who have seen her play not
only Mrs. Tanqueray but Juliet, Opheia.
Dulcie Larondie and the leading (woman's)
part in Michael and His Lost Angel
could save for the words. scarcely tell one
part from the other. alike were they to
as nlany peas in pod Her injured Nine
Arrnaurv in The Foolish Virgin" differs
little from the other ladies, injured or in
furious. in her repertory. And the play
alasr rhe NAV is as far fetched as theatr1-
cal lin the worst sense) a contrivance as
ANYTHING that has been seen in these re
gions in a long, long time. while the acuns
of every character was far from bearing
any close resemblance TO anything the
elran1atist had been trying TO present Inc
characters were French on the programme
h+ y, the stage we'll, the Due de
| Cbarance gave no one any reason 10 sup
nose that he had ever been east or sanoy
Hook. the AODe 1lOuA vas hiiN'''
u,as not scotch: the Dues daughter was
- 1=rancb whatever she may have been,
rd in like measure of verisimiItude up
and down the list One act was supposed
90 +aLa Mace in "a restaurant near hoh
don Through the windows or the restau
rant YOU saw the Thames, and on the oth.i ee
side of the river Immediately oppo0i.o'
Pa1rI's Cathedral. Where on the So -
varlz or Rermondsey shore OF the
any one. even producer OF plays can lns -
q faebionable restaurant only the tho@' ,
caI mind can tell. But with such -
.iros at truthfulness is foreign ati,ioe
"' -o,+od IN tha too tolerant play
goers of a city that is big enough ~
better .Ta Scau-
ALL :. was produced in Paris carry -
1909 the affair was. by some "',,t
enthusiasts. proclaimed as al
pa+ai1Ie. they said, had taken HIS -
among tie great playwrlghts- Ne" ,+
1,,o;r+oroa with The Scandal las'
oo+obar was far less impressive.
,,os+ of the parts were miscast, the Iiiouii>
ing was poor the translation lee'i9
y.laces even silly. Notwithstaiiu1Hs -
nv no means uncommon deIecls 4Li
,7i-orl- the result was failure 1t h--~9
$50 q,aen that Fatalities meaning '1i'
,ra # were blunderingly hidden pg u'e
- f,,,, tbe Roulevards to Broadway
f,,1t the damage was done peA 0I -,
y7-,,o- n distant GramaIist may DO IN sto4t
q case short Of relying upon s"oi" ~
,-,,, = ,o4 easily seen or said, put SUING
means for protection against assau
Now York may some day be taken ps Not4
rinenral writer's OF plays IN oroer -
srra flat their plots and lines anu cii0i
acters shall not be altered oeyoiiU
,itiou deprived Of all sense. anu liz
INTO the hands Of actors Who'
.~tf+a5 rhev NAV be in other directions are
- touch with the requirements
in a given case. roe
IN THE Foolish Virgin" NJ Batalle ares
,-orsA than he did in .'The Scandal, for IN
~ coorda1., some parts were well
,,a,-ed and in The Foolish Virgin none IL
-Ia1,ad annroximately well. OF course tIle
york suffers in translation. And. py the
-rav nobodv has thought IL worth ~hlle
ro publish the transiators name But oe-
sides all deprivations of that kind Is the
weakness of the play, the dreary duIness
of It the hollow artiiciality Of IL anu th7
long, yawn-breeding weariness-
Somebody has said that no playwright Oh
o,,, time IN France has anything like
Fatalities knowledge of the human hearl-
Somebody else has also said that American
audiences will not understand The FOOLISH
virgin 1t is rather tiresome TO be tod
continually that American audiences VIII
NOT understand this or that in play OF
foreign origin when the emotions con-
cerned have a common origin. American
audiences may not like this or that, but in
these matters there is some distance be
tween liking and understanding You may
VIII liking
her in the least And you will have very
little acquaintance with the human heart
which Henri Bataile is said 10 know so
well il YOU do not understand Nine.
Arr1aury's heroic efforts to shield her hus-
band who has run away with a girl OF
eighteen. There are natures in which de-
voted tenderness and pride prevail over
jealousy, and hers IS one of these. Diane,
the young daughter of the Due de Charauce,
is her rival. VIII the wife win, or the girl?
The girl is already the mans mistress Her
parents and a priest have plan for de-
taching her from the man. Marcel Armaury.
and sending her to a convent. Her brother
CASTOR arrives, suspicious, angry, buster
ing He mentions bullets. Nine. Armaury
rushes TO the defence. Tids him Of his sus-
picions and aids Diane and Marcel to
escape Not only does she save their lives,
she enables them to indulge their loves
They run away to England.
You perceive that even in France the
carefully guarded daughter Of a duke may
fall in love with a married lawyer. You
may call her foolish, you may call him
anything you choose. In the play they call
him very hard names, which of course
mend nothing. The man is selfish and he
loves the girl The girl is selfish and she
loves the man. The girls family play
upon this fact; they first plead for. then
demand from the wife a divorce so that
Marcel may marry Diane In the stupid
way of the world this will put everything
right Nine. Armaury looks little deeper
than they do She reminds them Of
truth usually forgotten by the moralizers
over circumstances of this kind: a man
does not carry off a girl without her con-
sent Diane. she says has fished for Mar
eel and has caught him. This is perfectly
true and being true il angers the duCai
family CASTOR, the brother, is again intent
on killing The belongs to the school which
| thinks and teaches. that killing wipes out
upon both ladies fling themselves before
| his revolver IN the hope of saving the
! threatened life of Marcel. They succeed.
| But the girl, Diane. moved by the exalted
| seif-sacrif1ce of Nine. Armaury, kills her
| self in despair of ever retaining Marcels