Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-11-16
HERE IS 'REDEcCA,'
WHO ENTERTAINS
At STARPARIY.

"Rebecca's occupation in the plot is
20 uplift social and moral depression
by the essence of sweet childhood,
tender independence which grows
without being told"
"Rebecca Is Peter Pan in home-
spun"
"She is a child who Is made brave
by necessity and made daring and
self-reliant by poverty. but she
smiles her way along, and We smile,
too, when she is triumphant glad"
Story of Rebeeca.
Sometimes In your life-perhaps 1t
was when you were 10, perhaps 20, or
perhaps past 30. but sometime, If you
were a real, live human being--you
knew a little girl of IA who. with her
very self, her sunny smiles and her
cheerful way of taking things, made
the world she and you lived in very
much better. II you did know such a
person ard have forgotten her for a
thousand other dazzling new attrac-
lions that age brings. you have only
to know Rebecca Rowena Randall
about three minutes and then you are
back again in the best days ever.
You've known sweet little girls just
the size of Rebecca. This Rebecca
wasn't a stage girl. though, and the
little town she went TO live In when
her own home got too big (she told
jeremiah Cobb, the stage driver, thai
the family was finished now. but
that mother always stuck to her pol
icies). The little town and others
around II weren't stage towns. Re-
becca vase a real girl and the towr
was just a town. such as grows to.
day in Maine. Prout's Neck anc
Wareham are distinctly and alb.
solutely correct, as you will know Il
you have ever been in Maine.
Mrs. Kate Douglas Wiggin, whit
first found Rebecca. has a way o.
making you remember the people sh'
writes about. No lad who ever reas
"Timothy's Quest or the Birds
| Christmas Carol" but could tell yo,
just what kind of a girl Rebeccs
might be by the rules Mrs, Wig
gin follows. Miss Charlotte Thomp
son, who devised the play, has pu
q set OF people into action so tina
IL there weren't any plot to the stor,
at all you'd wish you could see NOR
than three hours Of their life. Their
is a plot and one that makes a house
full of people go home very muci
happier than they came. That'i
what we really need In plays. ism
It? To be made really and trui'
happy, so that we believe in the PEG
pie we e and give them, too, ever
chance for happiness.
Another Human Play.
"Rebecca OF Sunnybrook Farm" |
one Of those plays of which there ar
only two or three now offered, bu
those two or three prove the wort
of American theatrical production
with a theme that is far away from
the tawdry stage effects. a them
that rings true In the hearts of tn
people who want to live In "love AM
charity with all their neighborsJ
"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm"
another human play.
There Is just one centre OF attrac
ton. 1t is Rebecca. She tells tn
children in the neighborhood fair
stories as if she were a grown-uT
and describes a prince as being s.
beautiful that Jumps come in you
throat when you look at him. Sh
works her own little problems out, s
that she makes her grabbed, old
maidish aunt, who wore her iron
hair in pins and hadn't n use 10
people who FUSED the front stairs a
common as back more human, an
she made a man out of Abner Simp
son, q typical Maine guide, who ma
slipped back in life to a place wher
he wanted to raise horses IN ken
lucky instead of chopping wood an
taking care of his wife n childre'
in Maine.
Rebecca made the farm Sunny
brook by her own sunny SELL eVen
II wasn't sunny before she came
She made ND a dainty fairy stor,
when she went to sell soap to a rea
Mr.. Aladdin-at least, not in the pla'
even though she was Through
creenleaf,s arithmetic" but Jere
miah Cobb hints at 1t, and you know
the story must turn out that way
Possibly you don't need more than
. hint, and, possibly. too, you are GA
II wasn't too much settled. for yol
get decidedly jealous of Mr.. Aiaddlf
Decentralization of the Book.
NThe dramatizat.on OF the book
which had perhaps the greatest sal
of the last decade, for everyone love
Rebecca and wants TO know all abou
her. was made by Kate Douglas wig
gin. author Of the book, and Chariot
Thompson. who has several stag
successes to her credit. The play
in four acts, and it's personnel IN
cludes all the people who were friend
i'm the reading of the book. Tn
dramatists have not confined them
selves to the earlier adventures o
Rebecca, but have taken what the
listed from the W "Chronieies @
Rebecca," in which further ncldent
in the career of that unconventiona
Young woman are related.
PLAYS taken from books are al
WAYS interesting, not only to peopl
who have read the book, but to otn
ers who have heard of them. TO ia
reader there is great satisfaction /
having visualized for them the char
acters of whom they have made
mental picture. and as it only hap
pens that books of great Interest ar
put on the stage, the person who ha
not read them has the satisfactio
OF getting the story and the char
acterization al first hand.
story Of the Play.
Rebecca is a New England miss 9
--a ...nn. -flalI nf He and mis-