The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-05-18
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pErRoIr OPERA HOUSE.

week. marrying the hero and, now
flaxen-haired typist winning, hands
down, the settled bachelor eligible of
"A Single Man." as portrayed by John
Drew, Thursday evening. II just goes
10 prove tkst the popular lady
novelist knows what she Is about
when she rings marriage bells for the
poor and tumble maiden with the rich
snd handsome ''lud." while the disap-
pointed proud and 'aughty Teddy"
gnashes her pearly-white teeth. So,
too, does the dramatist, who knows
better than to offer the public other
than a happy-ever-after denouement
II he wants to be In favor.
The playwrights who make the John
' Drew plays seem determined that he
shall always be "elevating a WIFE,"
In succession, he makes what his own
set" In the play would designate. a
mesalliance. Last year ne married
his housemaid, Smith, this war he
leads TO the altar his typist. Both
times all of the other women In the
play were just crazy about him" and
dying to stand in the bride-to-be's
shoes.
Also, q John Drew play would not
be John Drew play II II did not give
this popular actor an opportunity to
display his best table manners. There
is always breakfast. dinner. a
luncheon or a supper In a John Drew
May. You know when you buy your
ticket at the box office window that
you are going to see John Drew crack
an egg, as every good breakfasting
Britisher has been doing from time i'm
memorial. or that you will be present
at the feast TO see Mr.. Drew peel a
near or an apple as only he can do 1t.
II Is the apple In "A Single Man"
Despite the above thrilling handi-
caps, Henry Hubert Davies. has writ
/. ten lot of good fun into "A Single
Man" II Is an English Countrywide
comedy with Mr.. Drew. In a typical
Drew part. as Robin Worthington, a
well-to-do author, the quiet of whose
charming country home has been in.
aded by his brother, Henry, Henry's
wife, Isabella. and their infant. 1t Is
. the spring time. Between the infiu-
ence OF that critical season OF the
year about which the poet says such
queer things, and the marital happi-
ness OF brother and brothers wife.
Robins settled bachelorhood Is seri-
,cusly disturbed by thoughts OF matri-
mony. The upshot OF II Is that Mag
Gle Cottrell, a hoydenish young per-
son who lives nearby. having talked Il
all over with her mother and decided
that Robin would be good catch for
her, Robin Is made to swallow the
whole bait at the first dangling and
almost before he realizes II he Is en-
Gagged to Maggie. That lively tomboy
leads him such life of hlde-and-seek
and tennis and countrywide romping
shat he is reduced 20 near-collapse In
short order, and is mighty glad when
Maggie tires OF her side of the bar
cain and releases him. although, at
the game time, he had gone to her
father to ask permission to withdraw
on account OF the disparity in their
ages which three weeks Of boy-and-
girl games had shown him TO be con-
adorable.
All this time the typist, Celia Hes
seitine, prettily acted by Mary Boland,
has been wearing her heart out over
Robin II takes glimpse OF Celia,
IN a pretty, white, party frock with
her faxen hair done up in puffs, to
.open Robins eyes to lot OF things
he didn't know before about his feel
ings for her, and in an impromptu
supper scene, in which Celia takes
few sips OF champagne for the nrst
lime In her respectable young life,
her tongue betrays her into several
admissions.
The play Is delightfully."- staged and
! DELIGHTFULLY."- acted by Mr.. Drew and
Miss Boland and the capable company,
which includes Louise Drew, MT
Drew's daughter. as the brothers
wife: ivan Simpson as brother Hen
~: That's Lawton, as Louise Parker,
a Young woman of some summers
with designs on Robin; Carroll Nc
Cdmas. as Maggie; Clara Brace, as
lady Cottrell. and Helen Bolte, Eva
Condor. Cecilia Radcliffe and Thomas
Kelly, in minor roles.
Mr. Drew will remain until Satuv-
6ay evening, giving the usual Satur-
Gaya matinee. Monday evening, the
Sheehan English Opera company will
begin a three weeks season of opera
with Faust"
ELLA MAE HAWTHORNE.
They're coming back, those mon.
keys that mace such MI IL Sho
Miles a month ago, In the Monkey
hippodrome." They will be the head
line attraction In the Miles, next
week. the early return engagement
having been arranged for by the man
agement In response to numerous re-
quests from patrons of the house. and
this will be the last opportunity TO
see them this year, in all probability.
A Laughing feature of the same bill
will be the Watermelon Trust a
quartet OF colored singers, dancers
,and comedians, who will return after
4 years absence with brand new ma.
terial. May Ward, dainty singing
coincidence and former musical COM
edy star, will make her initial APP
pearance in the Miles In round OF
bright new songs. Othor acts Will be
the Flying Fishers, serial comedians;
Mr.. and Mrs Roy Edstrom. In The
Paper Hanger" and the Gaumont
weekly.
The delightful Scotch comedy by
Graham Moffat, Beauty Pulls the
Strings" which has kept New York
laughing all season has been cleverly
trayestied under the title "Bunty
Bulls and Strings" for the Weber
Field Jubilee company to appear, In