The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-26

i drdit iof pdlflb-c puipoSeSt TUT Ns+Nit- ever or wherever there has been
 scrap 'thc name of some Irishman will
 be amongst the greatest of the heroes Of
 that affair."
 Then again his nature lends itself to
 celebration, whether religious. social. pa
 trotio OF political, and the lrishrnan chimes equally at one as at the other.
 This is merely preliminary and has "iothing to do with the case, as Gilbert
 might say.
 1 Yesterday afternoon, when everybody
 was happy, either after good dinner or l from bringing joy to some one, one of
 the members of tho official family of Jeff ferson county took a stroll down town.
 
 able for the work entrusted to it's ten
 der merces, Miss Thurston. who has lost none of the charm of ''her infinite variety" was the whole show. Her every l appearance was greeted with applause, and last night at the proper climax, she 1 was called to the front for a curtain
 chat. With deal of grace and an ap- 1 preciable amount of studied embarrass- ment, she complied, repeatedly in her speech wishing for her audience merry 1 Christmas and 8 happy New Year. 'The Love Affair was not intended to ! be taken seriously. It is frothy and 1t
 does not scintillate. But 1t will cause @ l laugh if the audience desires 10 laugh, and inasmuch aS~fhe lesson it would teach is easily discerned and wholesome, the fact that il got off on a lame les must in all justice he overlooked. That there was noticeable signs of dragging in the first act is probably due to tho fact that in the play there are two many | villains and too few of those m whese 1 breasts beat hearts attuned to She more generous impulses of mankind. But in l the conclusion, when each of the men and women who had previously schemed l for fortune squirmed under the neat l of the proverbial "coals of fire on the
 head" and after squirming, repented i and promised to do better in thefuture' | in sense of sympathy 10 each of Una actors and the play, itself.
 l The story evolves itself around a for tune which was left by New York l broker to the members of a family or | distant and impecunious relatives. By 1 the terms of the will, Mary Bishop the l adopted daughter of the deceased, was 1 empowered to give to each of the rela- tives that sum which she, after having l investigated might think was deserved, For the purpose of finding out the facts in the case, Miss Bishop, impersonated by Miss Thurston appeared on the scene as the niece of the lawyer of the de+ ceased. the family, in the meanwhile, having been given the impression that Mary Bishop. a maiden lady of many years and an attenuated neck, would ar rive at any date following a lengthy tour of Europe.
 The family prepares for the expected arrival of the lady from whose bounty it expects to receive it's reward In course of the preparation, there is laughable display of that hypocrisy with which, 1t is said, the world Is sadly afflicted. And other things happen. among the number being 8 sensational elopement on the part ol the daughter of the austere head of the Savage family, who selected for husband, with the approval of Mss Bishop, new acquaintance rather tran
 an elderly and family approved individ- ual whose habits, despite the fact that he was given no opportunity to display them, were unquestionably of the most seandaous character.
 At the conclusion, the Identity of Miss Bishop is revealed. and when each mem Der of the Savage family is richly re-
 warded despite tho fact that few were deserving of more than figurative bone, everybody made up with everybody else in perfect accord with the gentle spirit of Christmas and the prospective New Year.
 w. A. Whitecar played the part of John Bishop Savage we'll while Sarah Enrich, as tho suspicious cousin and general trouble maker got away easily with her work. Sidney Blair as Frank Chandler, 1 the lover, was acceptable througHeut, although conditions might have been im- proved had the coat of black suit fitted
 him as closely as the coat of John Drew l fits that prince of modern day fashion. i li.