The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-06-12
THE STAGE


indecision, rage, humiliation. remorse,
and reconciliation. are q few OF tho
emotions which Fay Iourtenay por-
trays as The Girl with the Green
Eyes In the play Of that name pre-
sented by Vaughan CHASER and his
company In the Lyceum theater this
week. The girl with inherited jeal-
ousy, marring her honeymoon because
her husband cannot tell OF the stain
on her brothers character, is not a
part that would carry the sympathy or
the audience, and II Ii left to Miss
Courteney to bring out the strength
Of the play by her own art. In this
she succeeds, to the delight Of the
audience.
The play opens with the wedding Of
John Austin vaughan Glassrl 10
Jimmy Tillman. The guests are leav.
ing, and she Is giving her farewell
tokens and advice to her four brides
maids. One Of them, Ruth Chester,
has been secretly married month be-
fore to Godfrey Tillman. Jinny's
brother, who had had previous secret
marriage to Maggie. housemaid. Ruth
Chester, OBTAINING Austin to ask
him to keep an eye on Geonrey.
arouses Jinny's Jealousy, and as they
run into Ruth In Italy, and kilograms
are interchanged between her ana
Austin after the couples return, In an
effort to straightsn out the gradually
revealed mess, without jimmy and her
parents knowing It, there Is q fine ex-
hibition OF rising tide OF jealousy,
- tfxna nd
Ing higher on each occasion.
Then comes tense scene. when
Jimmy finds a seemingly compromising
letter. accuses Austin while he Is over
wrought, IL warned that her Jealousy
may result In separation. repenfs
and tries to divert him with an anus
ing imitation of Eliza crossing the ce.
Just as the janglng bells are about TO
get back In tune, Ruth Chester ap-
pears, and accusations force an ex-
PLANTATION Of the whole affair, but the
wife's remorse meets husband who
has suffered Just too much. and he
leaves the house declaring he VIII not
come back. Then comes pitiful
scene as the wife, after waiting for
hours for her husbands return. turns
on the gas and begs forgiveness from
his photograph His return, Of course.
Is timed so as to save her from total
asphy xiation, and the curtain drops as
he tells her: There Is one thing that
Is stronger than jealousy, and that 10
love"
While Vaughan CHASER IL given op
portunity for good acting In the play.
the honors are well scattered. Harri.
son Steadman has new role as the
big-hearted and whimsical father OF
Jimmy, while Miss Constance Kenyon
proves popular as the mother. Fred.
erick Kerby Ia the weak-charactered
and remorseful brother Godfrey. and
Miss Sue MacManamy Is Ruth Ches-
ter.
Miss Edna Ellsmere as Miss Gull
insham, an uncultured but big-hearted
newly-rich, IL best In the Vatican
scene in Rome, where she tells Of the
shock q nude statue Of Apollo Belvi-
dere would have caused back home n
Peoria where a merchant was COM
PEELED to remove figure wearing
union underwear.
I'D hate to have been in the tailor.
Ing business In Apollo's time" she re-
marks.
The Vatican scene Is enlivened by
the appearance Of a crowd OF green
tourists. Herschel Mayail is Miss
Cullingham's dyspeptic and equally
untutored brother. Miss Bessie Mac
Lane, Miss Belva Morrell and Miss
Elsa Ziegler are three OF the brides
maids. Miss Temperance Reid Is Mag
gle. the unfortunate housemaid, wife
Of Godfrey.
The CHASER. company will play "Sf
Elmo" next week. Il leaves soon for
season-end engagements In Cleveland,
Rochester and Toronto.
AVENUE.
Zallah, burlesque's most popular
and most capable dancer Of wriggley
dances. 10 with the Jolly Girls stock
company for a weeks engagement IN
the Avenue theater. Zallah has been
here many times before. and she al
ways places the show itself In very
secondary position, and this week,
she IL bringing good sized crowds 10
the Woodward-aYe. show house.
"A Trip to the Moon" is the title
OF the frst bufletta, and Il gives
Matt Kennedy a chance TO pull of
some Of his characteristic comedy, In
which he has the able assistance or
Charles Barrett and Charles Bragg.
Madam Ten" Is what they call the
last portion of the program, and IL
Is as good az the first, giving the
choruses plenty OF chance TO cavort
and Lena Mack and couple of other
young ladies' TO sing some. J,
In between, a four-number olio. call
ing for the services OF Florence zel.
lar. Mile. Bartoletti. John Bragg.
Charles willing, Fred Reese and
Kitty Mitchell. fills In the time. The
engagement includes the usual natl
neea