The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1910-03-22
"THE GIRL HE COULDN'T LEAVE
BEHIND HIM." is A GREAT BIG
LIT

HIT.
"Mv Augoostus" is the newest
phrase that has taken Broadway. 1t
is a contribution from Hattie Williams
new farce. 1.-THE Girl He Couldn't Leave
Rehind Him." the latest and probably
the best of the seasons laugh makers.
The Germans are the acknowledged
masters today in the broad comedy
school and this spirited farce by Gus
tave Kandelburg is one of the best
that bears the Made in Germany
mark AS il has been produced by Will
liam Collier. none of its points have
been lost Miss Williams in the role OF
Lola Cornero," a Spanish dancer, new
err was more vivacious and delightful.
and Charles Frohman has provided her
with an all star cast consisting of VIM
cent Serrano, Grace Carlyle, Ernest
Lawford. Zelda Sears, Edwin Nicander,
George Trader, Eddie German, Anita
Rothe. Richard Gordon, Edgar Frank
lin. Grace Johnson, William Danforth
and George Mendum.
Opening at the Garrick theater, on
the ninth. 1.-The Girl He Couldn't Leave
Beh:ng Him" scored an instant sue
cess. 1t will be there the rest of the
season and probably most of the next.
AS Lola Cornero" Hattie Williams
plays the role of Spanish dancer,
one of whose admirers in the past has
been Mr.. Felix Pendleton. On the mar
riage of Felix to Miss lilly Dorking,
Lola. who has always been fond of him,
exacted the promise that he would
spend one day of each year with her.
The play opens on this fateful day.
The night before Felix and his papa
in-law, Mr.. Dorking, have been to the
theater and have seen Lola dance. She
recognizes Felix in the audience and
exclaims, MY Augoostus!' To Lola
this is nothing more than the pet name
which she applies to all her admirers.
nothing more personal But to old
Dorking, whose baptised name is Au-
gustus, the appeal comes only as
confession of a sudden but unquestion-
ably tender passion Dorking is COM
PEELED to admit that he is a fasc1naror
and something OF an old skeezicks. He
talks in his sleep about Loda and gets
in bad with Mrs D., who is a good
and forcible woman.
The next morning Felix gets a tele-
phone message from Lola saying to
day is the day" and calling upon him
to come at once. She also writes
note confirming the telephone message
in which she addresses him as her
tunately gets the "Augoostus" note and
home has no more charms for him. He
has some business in Schenectady ana
he announces that he must attend to it,
Privately he arranges for his son-in-
law Felix to attend to it, and Felix pri-
vately passes it on to his friend, Green
field Felix has no intention of spend
ing the day with Lola, but he just
drops in to say Good bye" He is still
saying au revoir at the end of the day,
when a foreign nobleman who has be-
come the main "Augoostus'' appears
and Felix is forced to flee. When Au-
gustus Dorking arrives, anxious only
to please he is treated with physical
rudeness by the Count and many are
the strange things that happen In the
meantime, the faithful Greenfield act
ually went to Schenectady, as did Mrs.
Felix, thinking she was going to meet
her husband there. Her meeting with
Greenfield in the hotel in the dark in
stad of her husband causes the tongue
of scandal to wag, and there is sadness
and suspicion and wrath all around UNI
til Lola appears and with good humOr
and tact Strengthens out these tangled
lives.
Hattie Williams never had a better
opportunity to display her great talents
as a coincidence and she has taken ad-
vantage of it to the full.