Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-02-02
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"EVERYWOMAN,"

Monday, Feb. 9th, is an absolutely new idea in theatricals and is diffi-
 cult of classification. It is not
 properly speaking, drama, although , it contains the elements of drama
 tense situations with powerful dra-
 matic scenes; it is not opera, though ], in its texture there are twenty-six
 musical numbers of serious and
 dignified character, and 1t is not l wholly spectacle, though in recent
 years no production has been mount
 ed so lavishly with such utter disre-
 gard for cost. It has been largely a
 labor of love on the part of Henry
 w. Savage, the producer, for astute ! managers could not see during the long months of preparation preced- 1 ing the first performance, how one
 with such clear judgement could risk
 an outlay of upward of Sixty Thou
 sand Dollars on an experiment., for
 'Everywoman' was entirely without precedent. That MT. Savage's judge
 ment was correct has been proven by the enormous success which has
 greeted "Everywoman.' It is safe to assert that no other production
 within the memory of the present day theatregoer has aroused such in-
 terest or has earned so much written
 and spoken approval. The pages of
 the magazines have for months been
 filled with reviews and critical esti-
 mates of the work; ministers, priests and rabbis have chosen it as
 the subject of their discourses, and
 the theatres where it has been play
 ed have been simply engulfed by rush.
 ing to see the extraordinary play.
 Walter Browne, the author, whose
 untimely death on the day of the first performance of the work upon which he had labored for ten years, added it's tragic feature to "Everywoman,' found his inspiration in "Everyman' the ancient morality, which was per formed throughout America a few years ago by band of English play CTS That play, which was pro- duct of the sixteenth century, before the time of newspapers and the free dissemination of thought, was in the nature of serious tract. It told in suited and ornate style, with scholarly diction and we'll rounded periods, the fultility of human ef- fort and the certain fate that awaits every man. It was gloomy morose and morbid.
 "Everywoman" on the other hand. is entertainment. It has a deep un- dercurrent of philosophy and con- veys message, biting at times with it's grim satire, but it amuses while it instructs. The idea is whims1- cal; at times almost playful. Every woman, it's central figure, whe<H life story is the motif of the; play, is a concrete example of beautiful, re- fined, accomplished woman of this period. She is of our day-one of us :, and the yearnings which fill her soul are of the average young woman Of the time. An unsatisfied longing in her heart for love, great, mighty, over whelming love, is the mission which sends her own fireside out | into the world. Her mirror tells her that she is beautiful, and Flattery. a personified dandy, whispers to her of great King Love who is await ing somewhere in the vast mystery of things to claim her and make her his own. Accompanied by her three Youth, Beauty and Modesty, she sets out upon her pll- grimage. In her quest she visits strange places; great City play house where she is wood by Passlon' m actor; Wealth, magnate; and WStless. an aristocrat. She plunges nto the gayeties of the world, burns ife,s candle at both ends, and Tn
 
 he third act is banqueted at m1d- night in her luxurious apartment oy he mothe and bats her beauty has attracted. One after another her I- usions are shattered until in che ourth act, upon Broadway, New York on New Years Eve, in the riot md carnival of the mad Holiday, for- 'aken by Youth. Beauty and Modesty' he wanders alone. Back to ner ,wn fireside she comes in the last lct to find King Love waiting upon Ter hearth, garbed not as kind as he expected, but as simple pea ant. The cast is remarkable one nd includes Frederich Warde, Marie Jane Oaker and loo 'thers.