The Detroit times., 1912-11-12
THEATERS
oARRick.

oARRlck.
The much-talked-abou "Bunty Pulls
the Strings" is playing in the Car
rick this week. II is worthy OF all
the good things that have been said
about IL, and OF some OF the ez
travRRant
The play owes its charm partly TO
the Scots dialect which keeps tle
audience guessing for several min
utes, until the ear becomes accustom-
ed to Il, partly TO the faithful por-
trayal of Scots dress and manners IN
the early SOS, partly TO admirably
adequate playing Honors must ID
divided between Graham Moffat, the
author and the company which In
terprcts his worn 30 skiifully
Bunty must be given place among
historic stage heroines. and unique
place. She does not go insane, OF
commit homicide, OF take poison. she
Is neither dark and deadly, nor a
femme incomprise," nor q victim OF
society" She 10 of a type decidedly
Iuninteresting to stage authors-a wo-
man with reasoning brain, Who
makes n situation instead OF yielding
to II. In q Presbyterian community
80 narrow that even John Knox would
have wondered at II and prayed for
II, Bunty, without revolving at her lot
quietly assumes command OF tradi-,
tion-riddcn family and when II gets
into difficultIes. calmly straig1teps
them out-and marrles Wecium
Sprunt!
We gods! That Is the one unfor-
givable thing In the whole play. TLat
an addle-pate like Weelum Sprunt
should get the Incompatible Bunty!
Weelum Sprunt, who looks like an ass,
and acts like al ass, End Is an ass
pure and simple 1t 10 not enough
that he needs woman like Bunty 10
keep him from his asiilinity. and to
teach him to blow his nose at the
right time. Bunty was made FOR
higher things. She should have mar
ried--well, the Duke Of Argyle, for i'll
stance. She should have become the
mother OF members OF parliament.
Bunty In the place of opportunity
could have changed tho history OF the
United Kingdom. Lloyd-George's pro-
gram Of reform might have carried in
1880, with Bunty pulling the strings.
But Bunty saw in Weelum Sprunt,
elder of the church at the youthful
age of 20, more than you and can
see In him. Doubtless Weelum was
the best the village Afforded, although
it would have been more satisfactory
II the town had produced another re-
bellious, good-hearted scamp like
Bunty's brother Rab, to win Bunty's
love and care.
How beautifully Bunty rules the
play-saving her father from dishonor
az an embezzler, shutting out vinLic,
tive Susie Simpson with one hit ana
no runs. investigating the character
OF Eelen Dunlop, whom her father
had deserted at the altar many years
before, and who had waited for him
ever since; saving brother Rab from
the slow life of he village and get
ting him into longed-for "Glesca"-'
not "Glasgie," by the way-and keep
ing Teenie Dunlop fl\m disagree
able Job In the unhealthy metropolis,
The company which plays "BInty'
IL fine. NJ IS MOLLY Mcintyre, as Bur.
~ Biggar. 10 just right. There a.e
times when Bunty might be played
with sob. A, less acute actress
might have ayaiind herself OF these
opportunities. and spoiled the con-
sistepcy OF the character. Hats OH
to Miss Mcintyre. Miss Jean BurneSt,
as STRIFE Simpson, is wonderful. both
In makeup and in acting. Miss Carrie
Lee Stoyle, as Eelen Dunlop, and Miss
Lenore Phelps, as her niece, Teenie,
are very good. Neil Mcneil Is a dc
light whenever, as Rab Biggar, he is
on the stage. Nelson Ramsay pays
Tamfnas Biggsr. the father, well, and
is we'll made up. William Lennox ls
great as the. solemn, sorrowful Woe
lum SpTunt. Everybody in the con-
gregation that wits the kirk In tn
secona act, wins laughter and APP
plause for his, clever appearance.
Blunt" is very carefully worked
out II might even be analysed as a
study In heredity.