Arizona republican., 1911-04-19
MAY ROBSON APPEARS | IN PHOENIX TONIGHT
THE REMUNERATION OF AUNT MARY TO BE PLAYED BY
 THE CLEVER coMEOIENNE.
Jack, the Hero, Rapscallion, But a
 Good Fellow in Spite of 1t.

On it's third seasons run, The Re
 juvenation of Aunt Mary has been brought to the west by Miss May Rob- | son, who made the play famous in New York and London. Under the di- rect management of Lewis :. Sire, who has given the comedy a most elaborate production, its success on the third tour has been no less successful than the former runs, and when it is pre- sented tonight at the Elks' theater Phoenix theater- -goers will have an opportunity of seeing the famous comedienne at her best. The charming ingenuOusness of the impractical and lovable Aunt Mary seems to have been made for Miss Robson's interpre- tation, for she eXcels nearly every oth- CT artist of the American stage in DOT
 traying the delicate sensitiveness, and the humorous confusion of the 'un-- worldly" and ''unrejuvenated" cid maid. The extraordinary genius of Miss Robson makes the leading role stand
 out lmpreSsively, as a distinct and
 original personality, funny and yet
 human to the degree of carrying an au-
 dience into the realm of her narrow life forgetting the theater. stage, and
 impersOnation of the actress, to live
 and think, and sympathize with her in
 her absurd prejudice and dislike to the
 everyday life of the metropolis, and her misunderstanding of the signifi- canoe of customs accepted by the re-
 mainder of the world, to be regarded by them as commonplace Aunt Mary"
 is a person for whom the surprise of
 life has not worn off, and the story of
 her rejuvenation makes one of the most interesting and amusing comedies
 imaginable.
 The play is divided into three acts, the first and last of which take place in the old colonial home of Aunt Mary, while the second act is laid in the apartments of a fashionable young New Yorker, her nephew, whose ideas are the antithesis of his elderly lelative's Jack Watkins is a young college fellow, who. while something over six feet in height, never grew up mentally until he met the girl. Although not pos sessed of an independent income for tunately for him his aunt has plenty of money, and she furnishes the amounts necessary from time to time lp BtA mn puN Ol liOubit Al tlt opening of the play Jack has shot somebody's cook in the arm, for which the injured party demands $500 in damages; he had also poundei a cab man sOundly. for which a suit for s5.00O had been brought; and the cup is filled to the brim when Aunt Mary learns that a fair young thing of Kalamazoo. who has gotten tangled up with Jack in some way or other, demands s15,00O for her lacerated feelings.
 The young man is a strapping fel- low who appears better qualified to saw wood than to live on the bounty of Aunt Mary. but his provider has stood for all his failings and accidents until the girl from Kalamazoo was heard from. She believes her nephew has gone a little too far this time, and tearfully destroys her will. Three weeks later she is lured to the home of Jacks friend, Burnett, in New York, by a pretext that he is i'll, and in danger of death. She finds him en- toying life hugely. and is taken in hand by the scamp, who asks his friends to help him with the 'rejuvena- tion." The play is a rich comedy, full of vivacity and charm, and it's entire freedom from the slightest suggestion of immortality, makes it one of the cleanest and most irreproachable come dies on the American stage.