The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-02

 clined has a chance to- ride in automo- piles, and possess roodles of the coin of the realm in the metropolis, and Miss Foster, and Frizzie give Polly much ad- vice, which, if she would follow would secure means for. her sister to secure
 the much-needed change of climate, and allow herself the use of several automo- biles. Polly working on Wall street finds through a bit of small talk with her employer that the words of Frizzie and Miss Foster come from those who are
 wise to the game and by refusing to
 dine, tete-a-tete with her employer she
 surrenders her position.
 "She loves Ben Martin, a struggling
 civil engineer, who boards at Miss Eos
 ter's emporium but is given rather a
 rude shock when she hears Frizzie inquire
 solicitiously for her little Bennie.' Ben
 secures for Polly some insurance due her
 from the death of her father, and she
 decides to leave the gay metropolis for
 Arizona, where the air is purer not only
 for her invalid sister, but for herself, as
 well.'
 "She opens Temperance restaurant
 in Rawhide, Arizona. Brennan, a con- ceited sort of a good villain, owns the town, and she finds that he is the son of her former employer. Brennan cheats Martin, who, strange to say, has secured a Cld1m OH d DOllduZd III AIiZOId3 anu the theme of the play concerns how Polly outwits Brennan, and how she finally wins happiness for herself and her sis ter. "The omnipresent comedy of the piece is furnished by a quartet of suffragettes, and their husbands in the Arizona town, by the fourishing chorus girl and bur
 lesque queen, by a newspaper reporter who is a good samaritan, as are all stage reporters, and by whole-souled Englishman. heir to a lordship, who sticks to Polly and her sister through thick and thin.
 "All of the parts are capably handled,
 and, 1t is probably not just to discrimi-
 nate. Richard Purdon, as the English
 man of the old school. gives clean-cut lNportrayal of his. part, and Hal Claren- don, as the conceited young Brennan, Is very satisfying. Daisy Chapline as
 Frizzie Talbot, although she appears in but one act, Is one of the most capable members of the cast.
 "On the whole, The Adventures of Polly furnishes an evening of good, wholesome thrills and humor, and, at no time is the action inconsistent. No one gets killed Even Brennan gets off with
 whole, skin. It is doubtful if a more capable cast in a stronger melodrama will appear at the Bijou this season. Playhouse Gossip
 Margaret Anglin, who revived the Sophocles tragedy, "Antigone," at the
 California university the summer just ended, studied her role in the original Greek, of which language she is mis- tress. After she had familiarized her mind with the original text she turned Ito standard English translation, as it was necessary to give the tragedy in
 English because of the impossibility of finding actors sufficiently conversant with Greek to follow her example.
 The strongest drama produced in this country. in many years Is what critics of various cities have called "The Other Woman the play which Miss Blanche Walsh has chosen for her tour of this season. As the successor of "The Test" in which Miss Walsh appeared last year, it must indeed be la powerful vehicle for the display of
 Miss Walsh's wonderful abilities as an emotional actress, for that play was 9
 tremendous hit. Miss Walsh herself
 chose "The Other Woman from the great number of manuscripts submitted to her, regarding it as having more
 dramatic value than any drama in
 which she has appeared since the days of La Tosca." It is the work of Fred eric Arnold Hummer and will be given
 for the first time here at the Jeffer-
 son soon.
 "Beulah," the drama tized version of Augusta J. Evans novel of that name, | is announced for the Shubert theatre October Il and 12
 Klaw & Erlanger will star N. c. Goodwin in ''The Captain" by George
 Broadh urst and C.. T. Dazey, opening | in Indianapolis In October. MT. Good win will play the role of @ globe trot- ter and clubman who has been an of- fcer in the national guard He im-