Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-04
The EASIEST WAY
COMING TO The
NEWARK Mon JAY
BeIascO Will Present Miss Starr
in Eugene Walters
Great Play.
pROCTOR'S WILL HAVE A
REMARKABLY STRONG ACT
Laughter, Pretty Maids, Music
and Care-Killing C1mb-na-
tions at Other Houses.

1AvID BELAsCo will present
Frances starr IN THE Easiest
- Way the remarkable play by
Eugene Walter, the author Of PAID n
Full and The Wolf" at the Ne~arK
Theatre next week.
That this will be one Of the notable
events VI the season al hardly be
questioned. The combination Of such
a yirile writer as Eugene Waiter; such
a master in all that pertains TO tae art
OF stage production as David Belasco
and such an excellent artist as Miss
Starr should mean much to theatre
goers.
me Easiest Way" was played for
over d year at Mr.. Belasco's theatre,
in New York. The New York company
ana the elaborate and beautiful scenic
equipment will be identical here with
that provided by MIR. Belasco for the
long run in New York.
Naturally, Throughout the play in
Rerest is very largely centred in MSS
Starr. She assume the role of Laura
Murdoch, a representative of that large
class of women IN New York n other
large cities who love ease n pleasure
above all else. and are prepared to
SO erit &c ever ythins that they may live
In luxury.
b.t laura Murdoch Is Different.
But Laura Murdoch is different in
that when the play opens she fees that
an opportunity has come to leave her
lie of measure for one of married AMI
respectable happiness.
She has met a real man who is
n Gus to marry her If she will break
with her past, live an honest life, walt
ing until he has money enough to be-
gin life anew.
There is another man, whose friend
she has been, n he is made aware Of
the circumstances, but is skeptical of
her reform. From this point on the
play tells the story of the woman's
struggle, in the face of poverty and
Temptation. 10 return to q life of re-
spectability. The story of the play is
of engrossing interest and 3 disttn-
gushing feature of The Easiest Way"
is its directness and truth in dealing
with a certain phase of New 70 k lfe.
The faithfulness of the picture drawn
BY Mr.. Walter is made the more EN-
phatic by the realism of the scenes
which David Belasco has constructed
LOT the setting VI LiC GAOAJ' ~ AZ 49,
manner Mr. Belasco, under whose per-
sonal direction 1.-The Easiest Way"
was produced, has Iavished upon each
scene and situation the ripe knowledge
of stagecraft for which he has been so
long famous.
Intensely dramatic rs "The Easiest
Way is there is still an abundance
Of genuine humor in many of the
scenes The first act reveals an ex-
terror OF poetic beauty, a literal tran
script OF the glories of the Ute Pass in
Colorado.
Second Act Shows SquaiOr scene.
The second act is a realistic picture
Of the interior OF a squalid second
story back of the type frequented by
the hard-luck members of the theatre
cal profession in New York. The third
and fourth acts show the Interior of
an expensive apartment in a New York
hotel.
So remarkable a play calls FOR act
ing far above the average, and the in
depreciation given the leading role by
IS Starr ranks among the notable
creations Of recent stage history. The
company provided by Mr.. Belasco for
Miss Starts support includes Joseph
Kilgour Edward H. Robins, John p.
Drawn, Louise Randolph and Violet
Rand.