Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-14
LITTLE WOMEN
WINS HUMAN
APPEAL
Excellent Cast Backed by Superb
Stage Management Seen in
AICott Production.
BY TARLETON COLLIER.

About this play, Little Women"
First of all, there was probably
never dramatist so conscientious as
he one who staged Louisa Alcotts
book. The conversation is the con-
yersation of the story. There are the
same gestures, the Identical caresses.
There was never a producer nor
rostumer so scrupulous, and the at
nosphere of the story is portrayed
truthfully. And with it all the play
as presented in the Atlanta Theater
Thursday evening, is surprisingly
we'll acted.
So that you see just what you had
Ioped and expected if you are one
Of the persons who have read the
story, and who go to the play to find
out what the stage people have done
with it. There is proper Meg, and
good-fellow, winning Jo, and little
Beth and artificial Amy. in the con-
vincing flesh, portrayed by young wo-
men who are most sympathetic.
Particularly 10 Now and then
here may be a bit of the ingenue
Weakness about the others. But al
ways there is the robust personality
of Miss Margery Taylor as 10,
very proper 10, to assure you that
things are all right
Lines of Book Used.
The play is in four acts, taking up
he arrival of the telegram to Mar
NEE, telling that Father March is i'll
IN Washington, John Brooks court
snip of Meg, Laiiries courtship of
10, the advent of Professor Bhaer,
the death of Beth, and the winning of
10 by the lovable German on Plum
tield Farm.
AS the book, the play is a chron-
icle of the March girls. You can
well imagine that the lines of the
book lend themselves well to sympa-
thetic laughs and tears. 1t is in all
very human sort of thing, over
which the women of the audience
may shamelessly, even proudly, cry.
Little Women" with the sub
stantial support of story that is
known and loved everywhere, is a
triumphant success, the exception
among these simple family chronicle
plays. 1t is a wholesome sort of NOR
al tonic, although, naturally, it has
g. sweetness that might be found
cloying after a while.
Even in Little Women" there is
an imperceptible sort of tagging to-
ward the end The first act superb,
merely with its. picture of the girls.
the second must depend on its love
story, the third on it's plaintive APP
peal in the death of Beth, and in the
fourth you catch the first Fremont
ton of the cloying. But it is merely
premonitiOn, and never is realized.
The play ends with a grand en-
semble, something after the manner
of the old, old plays
Cast Is Capable.
The cast is capable. Margaret
Oils as Mrs. March,, Eleanor Carey
as Aunt March, Gavin Harris as Mr.
Lawrence, Thel Cunningham as Han
nah Mullett are by turns pleasing,
admirable, excellent in the parts OF
the older folks.
Max Juergens is a convincing Pro-
fesscr BhaeT, and is true to the type
of loVable old scholar that Miss AL
colt drew, George NJ Clark is a
winsome Laurie, except when he is
100 serious, and c. c. Gwynne is good
as John Brook.
Lucy Cotton plays Meg, Nargery
Taylor is 10, Virginia Spr8gge is
Beth, and Elaine Benton is the Amy.
The charm of the play depends, natu-
rally, most upon the girls. and to say
that there is little wanting there is
to say much for their work, because
much is demanded of them.
An audience too small for the de-
serts of TIE play saw it Thursday
night. Matinees will be given Friday
and Saturday, and performances Fri
day and Saturday nights.