Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-07
we're we'll played by Edward Finch. Harry
Penn. George Wright. jr.. Gretchen Lang,
Albert Goldberg and Frank Hand.
Belasco.

''Everywoman." the morality play writ
ten by Walter Browne and presented by
Henry W. Savage. returned to the Be-
last year.
Considered as stage production,
"Everywoman' is Queen of Sheba for
dramatic splendOr Trainloads Of special
scenery create environments of time and
place that range from the allegory Of by
gone centuries to the ragtime racket of
New Year eve on Broadway. An addi-
tional orchestra interprets the twenty
six symphonic numbers written for the
production by George Whitefield Chad
wick. scores OF notable players typify
virtue and vice-made Man. and a motley
of dancers, singers and spectacular &C.
centres give to the background a quick
silver motion and shine.
The play itself is exactly what an au-
dience makes of 1t. for Every woman"
is the uncharted soul Of all women.
Blinded by Flattery to King Love, who
stands beside her. Everywoman. with
her three companions, Modesty. Beauty
and Youth. goes in quest Of Love. AS
all the worlds a stage. she seeks the
playhouse and becomes a star. Modesty
is driven from the chorus. but Beauty
and Youth remain. She gives banquet
al q
of sins. and at the height of the clam
orous reveI Beauty dies. In the shock
of loss, EVerywoman crashes mirror
with a wine glass. but her noisy grief
is less poignant than the dumb despair
with which she watches the passing OF
her dead Youth. Every woman will know
why.
Everywoman. broken in spirit. but
still pilgrim in quest of Love is led
by the light Of Truth back to her girl
ind Ia =
ing where she had left him. and as
Love is Everywoman's aim, there is
nothing for the play to do but end. The
verse is metaphor. the songs are SYM
that measure passions sway. There is
the purest white of innocence. the scar
let of sin. the joy laughter of youth
and the palsied drivel of age. But the
play is not sermon. 1T Is the moving
picture Of a soul
That's Magrane, as Everywoman. ex-
presses the buoyancy of youth lavish
OF it's graces. and maturity bereft OF
most things that women hold dear. Her
costumes are flashes of gold, sparkles
of diamonds and snow-white muff1es OF
fur Even the gray robe OF repentance
is artistic in spite OF the envelOping
shawl that swathes curves too Ho-
garthian for Everywoman. with Youth
II. Cooper Cliffe's Nobody is the sec
ond dominating figure in the play Aloof
emOtionless. but erimly just he stalks
through the six canticles In monastlf
cowl and neverfaiiing spotlight OF
charnel house green. Like the chorus OF
an Athenian tragedy. he voices the
action of the play. warns Everywomat
of the dangers that thre2t ten Modest!
and of the transient comradeship OF
Beauty and Youth. These three are mxdt
POLITICALLY realistic by Patricia Coitinge
Pauline De Lorme and Lois Mereditn
| Norma Hark as Conscience. voices hel
pleadings in the small but sweetly cleal
| tones the character demands. The Trutf
| of Marie wainwright is a conspicuous Tea
| ture of the cast. and every other menoe,
| of the company was notably excellent
| in the character which he or she por
| trayed.
The audience. representing every phase
diplomatic and plain everyday. was OBJ
viously one in its spiritual attunenes'