Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-21
ADJUSTMENTS

dpiomat-as he himself confessed i'm a
curtain speech-last evening al the Ne@
National Theaier. he did prove a most
! effective envoy extraordinary of droll
| situations and wholesome humor. The
| play is by George AIDE. and is replete
with his characteristic whimsicalities and
cpigrams. With the snot and shell of
sizzling South American revolution
| hyins, bursting around him. the min
/, lister struggle through four acts to be
neutral and Yet stand by his insursent
friends. And through it all Mr.. Crane
never once deSccndS to horSeplay, nor,
in fact. is a single member of the COM
pany wounded. The revolution is as
bloodlesS as the lines of the play are
humorous.
Jackson Bedloe. a citizen of Spring
| leld-any one of the thirty on the map
you prefer-hnds his work politician
. ana editor of 4 daily paper has won Tor
MN the appointment as minister TO Carl
pay Mrs. Bedloe, naturally. is delisnted,
Wthi" his 1elloW-toWnSulen express their
admiration via the bra administrations
of-respect route. Apparently there Is but
one individual who lamcnts this sudden
elevation into the councils of nations
young Robert. in love with the daughter
OF the new diplomat But he. too. joins
in the festivities when his college chum,
Juan Lautaro. Caribayan. secretly en-
lists him in the army OF the revolution
80 WHO purpose 10 ild taiibaA "a Us
dictator.
\ month later the Bcdloes are installed
in the United States embassy at San
Quito But the glory OF being minis
ter plenipotent;ary has begun to pail
unon Springield's big man. The antici-
lnandol1nS. etc, arc all there, to be sure,
but that is all there is TO the place. Even
Mrs Bedloe, who has never been warm
enough in her life before. admits that
no i.
perature. The United States minister
sticks it out while longer and then
cables his resignation to the State De-
partment.
Suddenly. things begin to happen. Lau-
taro and Robert arrive on the scene
bringing with them on the quiet 1900
rifles. Minister Bedloe himself is kid
naped by mistake ty the dictator's
chfef lieutenant. one Miguel CABRERA,
minister of foreign affairs of carihay.
long since in love with Miss Redloc Rec
osnlzing young Robert as his rival in
love as well as in war. this worthy also
taxes him captive. Robert escapes. The
ne" american minister arrives, and at
ne neutral suggestion of RedIoe, is
taken prisoner by the revoutionists. The
town Is bombarded and the cannon hall
peslh 70 ny. Young Robert surrenders
TO the dictator-foT diplomatic reasons.
ne rehrl cause seems all hut lost when
I ;. Minister Bedloe again comes TO
the rescue in the same strictly ..neutral.'
fashion. He shows Iautaro how to lead
an attack upon the city from an unpro-
tected quarter. The sortie proves q mas
terl'ece worthy of Napoleon. The city
Is CAPTURED, the dictator deposed. Cabrera
gets his congo. both politically and SEN
tlmentally. and, of course, Robert wins
the girl. More than that, however. little
old Springfield looks better to L. S. Min
,ster bedioe than any or all possible dip
lomatic honors.
Ihe cast is Il thoroughly efficient one.
Mrs. Thomas Whiffen, as Mrs Bedloe,
scored her customary success in such
roles. and Henry Miller. ir., as Cabrera,
was IN every way convincing. Dan Col
lyer, as the secretary of legation: Harri-
son Ford. as Robert Deane: MiIlicent
Evans. as katherine Bedloe; Louis Mas
sen, as Cranky of the State Department;
Carr Sauerman, as the German minister
to Caribay. and E. H. Kelly, as the Eng.
lsn diplomat, gave satisfactory renditions
of their respective parts