Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-16
LION AND MOUSSE
A Dit WEARY At
FIRST, IMPROVES
Splendid Acting Develops as
Play Progresses at the
Newark.
SOLDIER FIDDLERS WIN
ALL HEARTS AT PROCTOR'S
Bills at Other Theatres Arouse
Enthusiasm Of Laughter
Loving Audiences.

A S the balmy days grow balmier,
~ and the mud that blooms goes
to dusty seed, we find ourselves
more and more in debt to Corse Pay
ton for his kindness in bringing one OF
his companies of players out here and
giving us so much of entertainment in
the between-season. when there is lit
tie to satisfy the city amusement-seek-
ers. We would be in debt did he give
us ANYTHING at all with which to &C.
cupy ones mind and an evening, but
he makes 1t greater by presenting
plays of the first order and in first
class style.
And to show some little appreciation
of 1t, Newark has come to every per-
Torrance and packed the house.
1t is not charitable, knowing the
strain on the players, changing the
bill each week, and striving to do so
much in so brief a period, to criticise
too harshly a Mondays offering. AND
so, If the first act of The Liop and the
Mouse this weeks contribution to
the season, dragged, and the spirit or
it dropped in spots, let us stop and
wonder how well we would do in the
same circumstances. And besides this,
the first was the only n that did
show a tired feeling.
Bmt, to Begin With the story.
But to begin with the story. The
Lion and the Mouse (they are not es-
capped from Ringing Bros, and giving
a little side show of their OWN as a
plav is familiar to this city, having
visited here under the guidance OF
other parties.
The story Is Of a rich man, the rich
est ma in the country, whose god was
power. He did not even have in mind
a larger good. and he was bent on
acquiring futher power. To this
he was about to sacrifice the name, for
tune and position of an old and hon.
ored Judge. The fact that his only
son was in love with the judges only
daughter did not deter him, for he a
ordained that said son was to marry
the daughter Of his influential senator
friend.
He Figured without Dan Cupid.
But his reckoning fell short of the
cunning with which Cupid anoints his
arrow-tip instead of poison, and the
daughter, under a nom de plume, comes
to the house of the %financier to write
his biography, having gained his at
tention through a novel she has writ
ten with him, thinly yelled, as the CEN
trail figure. She wages her war in the
enemy's camp, proves herself the
stronger character, shows him his W
selfish heart and Inconsistent head
and wins out, aided and abetted by
her lover and incidentally by the sem
tors daughter who incontinently fled
with the private secretary.
Another leading woman was present.
ed for approval az Shirley Rossmore.
the Judges clever daughter. and so
emphatic was the stamp of it bestowed
by the audience that Miss Mabel
Brownell was obliged to come before
the curtain and bow her pretty head
a great many times. If she was at
times vehement she possessed ample
cause, and she brought the dramatic
third act to a forceful, vigorous climax.
She must divide honors with Eugene
Frazier, who enacted the role of John
b.. Ryder, the inancier, with spirit