The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-05-16
THE STAGE


I DkThOlT OPGNS HSS
The lure TO a man or soft-intec
chiffons, prettily dressed hair an.
ffivolity as opposed to frowsiness AM
heavy sense OF duty, Is the rgu
inent put up I'm the little domesu'
laneie. women In and out or The Pea
cock and the Goose" which MISS nen
rietta Crosman presented Mona'
evening, IN the Detroit opera mus.
AS q bit of craftsmanship ior ~
stage, the play has about as nue. :,
weight as the aforesaid chinohs.
IS q "goosey" play dressed IN the NM
+ feathers OF the strutting, shriiiVoiceu
bird named In It's title
Miss Crosman Is delightful actress
NO matter what her surroundings. She
a. attractive TO look upon, with .
gracious and lovely womanhod tha'
embodies beauty Of face and torm'
grace of movement. musical VolSe
and n thorough command or the teen
mic OF the stage. Miss Crosman 10
ripened player whose natural gnts
have been developed TO highest per-
fection through brains and experience
She has a charming comedy touch
and knows lust what and how to ex-
ercise those essentially feminine at
tributes that appeal TO the puoip'
over and above all the nnesse Oh inc
artistic. >,
~The Peacock and the Goose, was
written by a woman, its principal char-
acters are two women, and II Is COM
pletely woman's play. An amusing
incident of its progress was the atteh'
tion and outbursts OF applause that
came from a mtddle-aged woman In an
upper box who loudly applauded the
-goose" and did not at all approve
OF the perfidious utterances OF the
..peacock," anent the value OF good
clothes and wholesale supply OF
good palship' In the game OF hoidlng
n husband. When the Goose declared
she would never forsake her two chill
dren and her housekeeping to run
after her husband with her best frock
on and a tennis racket In her manu-
he was a tennis enthusiast-the lauy
IN the box clapped her approval Win
might and main, while the rest OF the
audience laughed immoderately.
The Peacock and the Goose, mas
another feminine attribute In that IL
talks too much. Ii talks and talks
without saving very much after all.
Where are two small children OF len
fant terrible class, and, like the talk,
thcre Is altogether too much OF TIE
Youngsters in the three acts OF me
play. or course, their presence gives
opportunity for several pretty pic
lures on sofas and in the middle OF
fhe floor, and for the utterance OF
much precocious patter, but even
with doting papas and mammas and
pheasant old parties who love chii-
dren, there comes a limit to the en-
'durance of their childish presence.
II II were not for the joyousness
with which Miss Crosman enacts the
bart OF the Peacock 1t is likely dis
aster would have o'ertaken both
birds early in their stage career. She
plays the role of wealthy widow
who comes to visit younger sister
whom she has not seen in seven
years. She finds this sister deyot-
ted wife and mother but one who no
klonger cares for her pretty frocks,
her tennis or anything in fact out
side OF humdrum domesticity. Hub
by likes all sorts of amusements, es-
fpecially tennis and pretty girls, so
goes philandering with sweet young
thing who lives In the next house.
Sister Jess learns OF the situation a
few minutes after her arrival and as
she is nothing II not "bossy" and re.
4 sourceful, and starts right in TO
bring her sister to her senses. She
certainly accomplishes this and also
finds herself second husband in an
lold sweetheart who bobs up at the
right time again.
" Throughout the three acts OF the
&play there is much to amuse, II not
Ito stimulate, and, despite the pres
'ence of "the other woman" or in this
instance called 'the understudy."
there Is not the slightest deviation
from the path of domestic rectitude
1t Is all clean and pure II somewhat
dull and uninteresting.
In her support Miss Crosman has
the services of Miss Claire Colwel
las the goose; Miss Fay Wheeler, al
the 'understudy;" .Wedgwood Novel
tns the husband. Albert Brown as thu
Told beau" Mac Macomber and Al
<lene Morrison, as the children.
The engagement Is for the week
with q matinee, Wednesday and Sat
<urday. This Miss Crosman's engage
|ment will close the regular season
In the Detroit opera house. Member
bf the Friars' club of New York VII
i've one performance in the theate
Hrly in June.
ELLA MAE HAWTHORNE.