Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-07
Fun, in Most Frolicsome
Mood, Seen on Stages Here
Joy Sits Enthroned at Shu-
bert's While "Bunty Pulls
the Strings"

IL you want 10 ENJOY two and
half hours of laughter drop into the
Shubert Theatre some evening this
week and sit through Graham Mof-
fats splendid comedy of Scottish life,
"Bunty Pulls the Strings And you
will not be tired out from laughing
when the performance is over, for
"Bunty'' does not make you laugh
that way. Instead, the dainty little
Scotch comedy just tickles your risi-
bilities and keeps you chucl1llng all
| the time.
AS chuckle producer "Bunty" is
in class by itself, for the keen and
sparkling comedy lines that abound
in 1t cannot help but keep the most
determined Crouch" in. a constant
session of joy all the time the show
| is on. All the characters in the
show are Scotch and are played by
real natives of the land of heather
and thistle.
Although the characters all talk
with the real Scottish burr the
dialect is so broad that you need not
have to know the Scottish tongue to
understand every word the actors
say. The dialogue is fairly filled
with true Scottish humor and YOU
have to laugh whether you want to
or not. You just cannot help it.
The show is not new here, having
been produced at the Shubert Theatre
last season but the welcome given 1t
last night BODIES well for a success
full return engagement. The company
Is practically the same that first
produced it in this country a couple
of years ago, when, coming unher-
aided to Broadway, the Scottish ac-
tors made such a distinct hit that
1t ran for more than a year.
MISS Molly Mcintyre replaced Miss
Molly Pearson as Bunty Biggar last
night, Miss Pearson being i'll in a
New York hospital. The leading role
lost nothing through the substitu-
ton, as Miss Mcintyre proved lust as
capable as Miss Pearson did last
year in the role. In fact many of
the audience liked her better and she
certainly was winsome and pleas
ing figure as the dainty little Scotch
girl who by her wit and resourceful-
ness pulled the strings that made
everybody else happy.
Love is the theme that abounds in
'Bunty Pulls the Strings" there be-
ing no less than three sets of lovers
of varying ages in it. As a foil to
Bunty, William Lennox as "Weelum
Sprunt." who is alternately raised to
the highest pinnacle of lovers hopes
by Bunty, only to be dashed to earth
the next moment, was splendid and
got many a deserved round of laugh
ter for his capable work. George In
gleton. as Tammas Biggar, the hard
headed and equally hard-hearted and
stern father of Bunty, played the role
TO perfection, but, like the others in
the play, love was a victor over him
at the end.
Another true to nature portrayal
was that of Miss Eugene Magnus, as
Susie Simpson, the old maid in love
with Tammas, but who, when scorned
by him. causes all sorts of trouble for
all the three sets of love-makers.
Equally good work was done by
James Finlayson. as Rab Biggar, the
son who is always in the bad graces
of his stern father by his boyish
capers. Miss Mabel Stanton, as Ellen
Dunlop, and Hudson Liston, as Jeems
Gibbs, the old church sexton, were
characters SO well acted that it was
hard to believe one was not listening
to the Scots on their native heath.
The action of the play takes place
| on sunday morning ana AFTERNOON
and the following morning, the first
and third act being laid in the living
room of the Biggar home, while thn
second act shows the exterior of an
old and typical Scottish church in the
heart of the Highlands. In this scene
all the characters, as well as a num-
Der of extra ones, are shown on their
way to and entering the church, and
some splendid comedy work takes
place when the minister fails to ar
rive to hold the services. The guam
Diary that the church-loying Scots
find themselves in, with their minister
missing, gives scope for some deli
ciously funny situations.
For next week the Shubert has a
new play by Philip Bartholomew, au-
thor of Little Miss Brown and
"Over Night" The new Bartholomew
vehicle is called when Dreams Come
True" and unlike the other produc-
lions by the same author, has a mu-
steal score by Silvio Helm. 1t is pro-
duced by a company headed by Jo-
seph Santley and May Vokes and
comes here direct from New York
city, where it has had runs at the
Lyric and Lew Ffelds's Forty-fourth
street theatres.