The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-03-27
Grace George Friday Night.

The story of. "A WOmanS Way,
the new play in which Grace George
will be seen at the opera house Fri
day, April 1st, in brief is as follows:
Howard Stanton and his wife, Ma,
Tion, are wealthy New Workers, such
as are commonly described as society
people. He is devoted to sport and
she to teas and cotillions, and their
few years of married life have been
productive of little save a final lack Of
sympathy. AT the beginning OF the
play Howard farcies himself in love
with Mrs. Elizabeth Blakmore, fasci-
mating young Southern widow. and
there has been an automobile accident
in which both he and Mrs. Blakmore
receive slight Injuries. They were
spirited away from. the scene OF the
accident by fri~lds, leaving the
wrecked motor by the roadside. The
machine was identified by its number
as the property of Santon; vague
rumors of the character Of the acct
dent and the occupants of the car are
circulated, the whole affair gets into
the newspapers, and there is a ire
mendous scandal. The parents CT Ma
ri0n insist that she shall return to
their home, and everyone anticipates
a divorce. But that isn't Marion S
idea Of the thing at all. She tells her
mother that the day when good wo-
men supinely allow women who are
net so good to steal away their hus-
bands is past, and she is going to
prove it. 1T is time for good women
to wake up" says this practical eX-
ponant OF the modern thought in
matrimony and divorce. We good
women have to fight to set cur hus-
rI,o IfC.+ to
them?" And to the establishment OF
her husband and all her relatives. she
invites Mrs. Blakmore to a family din
ner az the house Marion is a very
wise as well as a winsOme person.
She knows that a mans love for his
wife may lapse, through lack of sym
patty, but it needs only the shock of
contrast to be re-awakened into, great
err strength. She knows that women
Of the type Of Mrs, Blakmore, why try
TO steal away other womens bus
bands. have certain moral and social
deficiencies WHICH become glazing in
the eyes of the properly sensitive man
when he sees them contrasted with
the domestic virtue and social grace
of his women, who do not prey.
About Miss TaIiaferro.
MISS EqILn 1alla1GTrO, VINO mas
been playing the role of Rebecca Row
ena Randall in "Rebecca of Sunny
brook Farm is out of the cast owing
to illness. She was forced to retire
while the company was playing Proyi-
dence and is confined to her room in
hotel in that city Meantime, Miss
Lorraine Frost is playing the title role.
Miss Taliaferro was confirmed last
week in. the Church Of the Advent,
Boston, by Bishop Lawrence. The
pastor of the church, the Rev DR..
William Van Allen. is an old friend of
Miss Taliaferro. Writing of her in the
Living Church. the organ of the Epis-
copaI Church, DR.. Allen said:
L wonder if you would be interest
ed in a memory that has just been
brought back very vividly 70 me.
Thirteen years ago, l was travelling
west in q railway train. The other
occupants of the Pullman were mem
bers of a theatrical company, with
dear old Herne for their head, who
had been playing Shore Acres The
tiuiest member Of the troupe was q
little four-year-oId girl. whose import
ant dIty was. in the baTn-yard scene.
TO splash water up into the face of,