The Washington times., 1911-11-01
Piece Has Strange Story,
and Deals With
Hypnotism. "
MISS STARR UNDER
.FATHER'S' INFLUENCE
Scenes Laid at Sanitarium, Where
She Is Under OBJ .
servation.

ceeds in hypnotizIng Ralzanio and gain.
ing from him a confession OF the crime
OF which he ls guilty after which he
is sent on his way like ccwed ana
whipped cur. while the Young girl. now
delivered from her bondage remains
with her true fatheR who gives her
into the arms Of her lover a. the nnal
eo1aSn The play h.' Is one that ..srips," II one
may be pardoned for using that trtte
and threadbare expression. II . play
OF the Gort that makes men In the audi
makes women clcnch their fists tightly,
There are times when every man aud
woman In the audiences long for oppor-
tupity to choke Balzanic To- death other
times when there IL q lump In the
throat, caused by the seemingly utter
hopelessness of Dorothy's situation ,in-
der the baleful influence Of her fiendish
foster father. rhare & are s. some a pare re
covered with action before the play can
be called perfect enc. but every mo-
ment OF the time II holds the attention
Of the audience nv reason OF its theme
story Ia treated:
The Dorothy of Miss Starr IL beauti-
fully interpreted. Sweet. naive. and
helpless little girl against thu back
grouEi of the awful affitctior that fol-
lows her like {, shadow. DIRE wing her
more tightly day By day aas. into into =. 4.
makes. a fight 20 poignant Ia It's pathos
| as TO make every one IN the audience
wish they might help. As the mfschiev-
s'eSy sapsy s prosas sern At q 1 s
street. Miss Starr gives a realistic pic
| ture Of the mentally unsound typo she
represents. Hidden deep beneath Sotn
Is an undercurrent of sadness. feeling
| Of hopeless sorrow, which Miss Starr
| suggests. rather than acts.
Charles Dalton
Good As Hypnot.st.
Charles Dalton is the professional
| hypnotist, an out-and-out charlatan,
bomba siic, sensual. horrible. He brings
| to his part an intelligent conception that
J makes It on artistic triumph Of dramatic
| art. In the role OF DR.. Emcrs IN, Al
bert Bruning PLAYS with ease and
repression. He Is especially fine in the
laboratory scene. As hospital nurse.
| Miss Law Mary Lawton 10 effective,
and Harry c. Browne as Peters, q
young assistant doctor and member Of
the household OF DIR. Emerson, Is excel
/ lent. He is the possessor OF one OF the
most spontaneous laughs on the Amert-
Arnold. and John p. Drawn as q hos
pital assistant complete the cast OF
seven persons. ist. EqF-. " 4.
OF course, it could not have been a
Belasco premiere unless the wizard him-
self had been present. At the close
OF the second act, when applause was
most tuln,llruous, and after Miss Starr
had been recalled at least tsn times,
coaxing and insisting. dragged David
Belasco upon the stage. where. with a
characteristic caress of the famous Be-
lasco iron-gray curl. he made little
he was Of 'this little girl"
And proud he must have been. for II
was Frances STAIRS night, and In the
short space OF three hours the little
woman had mounted another rung In
TIE laeder that leads to the lofty
heights CT fame.
Tomorrow Miss Murdock will review
"The Cfallange," in which Guy Bates
Pest is appearing In the Colurbia Thea
! ter. 81