The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-23

wifely devotion. There is a good deal more in the play than shows on it's sur face. Between its lines Is much food for thought.
 The company surrounding Miss Adams is one of strength and balance. Arthur Byron plays the part of John Shand. Character parts are in the keeping of R. Peyton Carter, David Terrence and Fred Tyler. Others in the cast are Lumsden Hare, W. H. Gilmore, Wallace Jackson, J. l.. Carhart, Miss Dorothy Dorr, Miss Lillias Waldegrave and Miss Lillian Spen- cer. The play is in four acts and is staged with MT. Frohman's usual care and lavishness in the perfection of de- tails.
 The seat sale for Miss Adams engage ment opens at the Jefferson box office at o'clock tomorrow morning.
 Margaret AngIin's Great Play
 With record of over 100 nights at the Savoy theatre in New York city, and an immense hit at Powers theatre, Chicago, Margaret Anglin will bring "The Awak- ening of Helena Richie" to the Jeffer- son theatre Saturday matinee and night.
 The engagement has twofold interest from the fact of the stars popularity and also that it is a dramatization of Margaret Deland's widely read novel of tflt Sdilit uetilc. iiC Pioy ID ny SH6ii iiObtC Thompson, Young Californian dramat- ist, who has already several successful plays to her credit.
 Mrs. Deland, whose first serious effort, John Ward, Preacher" brought her prominence and fame more than 20 years ago, has in later years endeared her self to readers by her various tales that deal with the concerns of the folks of Old Chester, which Is a thinly disguised name for Manchester, an erstwhile rural village that nestled under the shadow of while it was yet surrounded by old world communities, and before it took its pres ent proud position of one of America s mightiest cities.
 Manchester, like the rest of Pittsburg' s hamlets, was long ago swallowed up the steel giant, and yet some folks still live who remember the primitiveness that Mrs. Deland delights to record-peopled with figures of a quaint but sharply hu- mane Individuality, and it's shady streets, its sunny gardens and its cool, dim par lors, breathing an atmosphere of ease and graceful leisure that pervades an old and genteel town. Old Chester, as Mrs. Deland has made it known, was a very special place. It had way of thinking as a town and it's people had way of speaking their thoughts. and a way of acting on their resolutions which refers back to sharply individual traits. "The Awakening of Helena Richie," which perhaps is Mrs. Deland's most successful story of Old Chester, uses the people thereof as the background of drama of quite intensity with Helena Richie, and that splendid creation of her inventive genius, Dr.. Lavendar, as the central figures. One must not, however, forget the little lad, David Allison, who was the unconscious and innocent means of restoring to Helena her sense of duty and who supported her better resolution.
 These three have won for Mrs. De- land a glorious fame throughout the length and breadth of the land and be- yond the seas.
 In the role of Helena, Miss Anglin Is said to be doing the best work of her career, and she is furthermore credited with an admirable company of players in her support.
 The play. as in the book, is laid in Old Chester. about the year 1860, and relates to the most important episode in the life of Helena Richie. who lives quietly there supposedly widow, though her husband, from whom she is separated, is in France. Brutally treated by him., she left him, and is associated with Lloyd Pryor. who visits her at Old Cheeter ostensibly. as her brother. The cuyio5i<y of the gossip-