El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-09

I lar summer home at Rotton Point.
! Conn and staged at the Lyric thea
| ter. this play embodles all that makes
| for a winter, success. ITS action is
| swift. its heroes heroic; its scenes are
| placed in a summer fairyIand and its
roles are played by stars well fitted
to cope with its poignant situation
| Indeed. it brings to Broadway a
breath of adventure love and romance,
well calculated to garner the sheckles
of susceptible matinee girls and hard
worked" business men alike.
To those who have read the book,
reconciliation of the situations that
are brought prominently to the fore
front bv 1.-THE dramatist would be but
! reiteration. and would take up space
that could not well be spared in jus
tice to the other dramatic debutantes
Suffice If to say therefore, that Hale
Hamilton. who perfol med so well in the
part of Get Rich Quick Wallingford.'
in COhan's' play OF that name, assumes
the role of Kirk Anthony; that the
suicide of Stevens Garland after his
dramatic wife presentation to An
thony, the rescue of the hero by his
estranged father and the departure of
Mrs Cortland and kirk for the colder
climate of the north are all brought
before the audience in realistic form.
If there is one thing which may be
said to mar this, the best Sem1-melo-.
dramatic play seen on Broadway in
many years, it is the touch OF sensa-
tiOnaIism and unrealty lent to the
whole by the intimated purchase of
the president of Panama through the
millions of Anthony sr, and the
puerile display of United States
marines in front of the court room
where Kirk is being tried. This is
but a lame ending for series Of
strong situations and does justice
neither to the art of Charles Klein I
nor to every day probabilities
THE PerpIexed Husband" a comedy
in four acts by Alfred Sutro, at the
Empire theater, has also attracted the
attention of the veteran theater gOerS l
of the metropolis. This play serves !
as a worthy vehicle for the briliiancy I
of>JOhn Drew. showing him in his best (
role, that Aof gentlemanly though :
somewhat fatuous and always amusing /
gallant q
The perpIexed husband faces the not /
uncommon predicament Of one whose I
better half has been suddenly smitten 4
with ethical yearnings. In this case I
Mrs. Tom Polling, played by Nina /
Sevening, becomes a devOtee of Ibsen /
and incidentally of i fat pedantic who /
seeks to wean her from the common |
place through the paths of asceticism- /
Browning and SWinburne, Greek statu-
airy and beauty all dance to the
come by the negative humor and man
nerisms of Tom Polling, who, of l
course is the inimitaBle John Drew.
In cOntrOyersion to the personal
charm and the quiet action of the I
John Drew play Little Miss Brown"
playing at the Forty Eighth Street
theater. presents New Workers with
a rOllicking farce written in much
the same vein as that old favorite |
Are You a Mason?" Little Miss
Brown, who is Madge Kennedy off the
stage is presumably an innocent and
genuinely good girl, yet. through her
ld1osyncractes, she manages to -in- ]
VOlVe a perfectly respectable husband
in a peck of trouble.
This peck of trouble Involves
Little Miss Browns invasion of the
husbands apartment under an as
sumed name, the indignation of his
wife, the loss of an Inheritance and the
usual happy explanation that unravels
the tangled Skein just as the last cur I
tain falls The farce itself will prob
ably not be Of long life, for while the
roles are engaging and en-
tertaining, there are long stretches /
when humoT slumbers as peacefully as
1 tramp in box car
OF the HippOdrome, that fairyland |
or New Tork's children and adults,
'oiumes could be written, for again
las its astute management placed be-
ore the public panorama of beauty, |
novelty and interest that could wen
serve as an excuse for a lengthy !
study Of the English language for ad-
ectives of superlatiYe intent The I
presentation is glittering and glorious
beyond even past success and it is
he crowning feat of long list OF
stage productions.