The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18
aEvery Woman" Comes This Week

| Every Woman the widely discussed | modern morality play. written by the late Walter Browne, who spent 10 years in the l creation of this, his master work, only | to die upon the morning of the day when | it was given it's first public performances reaches Birmingham to begin an engage ment of two nights and a matinee at the Jefferson on Friday and Saturday next, February 2S and 24-
 1 As well as morality play Every Wom- l an'' Is advertised a spectacle. Its scenic investiture is huge in size and sin l gularly intricate. The play is given Tn 1 five canticles or acts, and one of. these l takes place on Broadway, New York, mld- night. New Year eve. The company or
 nearly ITO persons appears in it's entirety | in this scene. Other scenes represent7the | home of Every Woman" before she starts upon her jourriey, a gorgeausly ap- pointed city apartment, and the stage O.
 the Metropolitan theatre. whenfit is dis-
 mantled between performances.
 l The incidents of the story,}o of Every l Woman might be called an admixture
 of the symbolic and the actual It may be
 considered an allegory, as modern drama. or both.i The story is dramatic Tn | the extreme The theme is Every Wom- | ans quest for love, and the princlpai | character is supposed to be typical of the
 sex She is composite woman, endowed with youth, beauty, grace and the other ] attributes of attractive young woman 1 hood. Her quest forSlove brings her into 1 contact with the pleasures and hardshlps 1 of romance and handicaps, of love. There | are represented as human beings who bear the names of the qualities and in- 1 fuences of which they are the symbols. Thus of almost equal importance with | Every Woman areekihg Love- Wealth. l Youth, Beauty. Modesty; Greed Vanity, n, Dog ,t.x,, . I a. host of others. Also there is Nobody, 1 who represents several things in one. | himself, public opinion and philosophy Through the play he treads as guide. friend and Greek chorus, speaking the
 hard truth into unwilling ears. having | his advice rejected. but always returning as persistently and inevitable as doom | Lured by Flattery Every Woman leaves her pleasant surroundings and
 home to seek King Love. Her travels take I her to the big city, where she becomes a l feted theatrical star. Tn return she mis- ] takes Passion and Wealth for Love, and 1 as a result is deserted by Modesty, and | sees her other hand maiden Beauty, died l at the conclusion of mad evenings revel. l Disillusioned she swends her way to Broad way upon New Years eve. Ins poverty l stricken. despair. she seeks the aid of Wealth but he will have none of her since Beauty is gone The climax to. her suffering comes with the assassination I of Youth by Time Then she is@left alcne and frendless. But to her comes Nobody and Truth. With her eyes opened by her mistakes she realizes that the latter ,i- | stead of being repellant is wondrously 1 beautiful, and choosing Trust as her coni- 1 pauon she returns to her home. There she finds that during all her journeylng Love has been seated by her freside, and bv her realization of this she achieves | happiness
 l Impressive interpretations of Every ! Woman" presupposed. cast of unusual 1 caliber and Mr. Savage has furnished -,--s. I'm addition to Miss Oaker, the leaders of 1.-the great company are Frederick N ar'le
 and. Marie Wainwright. both more than
 atiepelly famous r Xhsp fhsfssare Nss-