El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-13

breezy line of chat going on We were
not surprised when the wife turned
in and began flirting with the stranger
outrageously. She didn't do IL at once
oh nO-She was far too coy for that
But by the end OF the second act she
was in the filtration up to her eyes
and the husband had made out clear
case against his helpmeet-. But IN
the last act-ah, ha. Did she get her
self out of the mess? W ell, raIher.
She told him very SWeetly that she
had known him from the first OF
course it required whole act Tor her
to remove the conviction from his mind
that she had been deceived, but she
removed il and the curtain descendS
with the actor and his wife in each
others arms
William CourtIeigh, who had to get
up his part almost in a day. played his
role of husband with care and attention
to details, $ut he was not so very con-
vincinS. ThA wig and the clothes were
the only change we could see IN MIN,
SO we thought it rather stupid of his
wife not to have known him at once
but-did she know him? All, ha- that's
Miss FTorine Arnold. as the stage
mother, was delightful, IN fact the
brightest spot in the play. Frederic
De Belleville, as the critic was very
good indeed.
ssThe TemperamentaI Journey"
Mark up another triumph for David
BelascO and Leo Ditrichstein- The
/ latter. scored perhaps the biggest hit
| BeIasca theater in THE Temperamental
Journey" This piece was adopted by
/ Mr.. DiUrichstein from the French and
/ is one of the most delightful comedies
J seen in New York for a long time.
/ DitrichStein plays the role Of an ar
/ fist who knows within himself he is
! great, but the world of critics deny
! him praise of any sort He is failure.
! Even his wife, f->Shy and selfish, Stings
! him with reminders of his failure and
. in feeling Of despair he jumps in the
| river. But, as he explains later, he had
/ forgotten that he knew how to swim,
/ and as the water was very cold he
| simply had TO swim out Nevertheless
| a body is discovered which. the wife
I Identifies as that of her husband and
( preparations are made at once for the
! funeral Then the world suddenly
/ wakes up to a realization of the artists
| genius and the air is filled with his
| praise. In the meantime the wife
| prepares to marry the man whom
/ she had been flirting with from the
start The artist returns to the little
/ artists colony. but his best friend
keeps him from disclosing himself
There is the athletic figure of a little
I girl who had loved the artist quietly
and unselfishly- Some of the most
! appealing scenes IN the play are be-
I tween the artist and the little daughter
of an Italian inn keeper.
1t would be impossible to convey in
words the delicacy of this play-its
exquisite turns of light and shade-that
btOOding pathOs which underlies all
real comedy, and to achieve which none
but BelascO is capable. Mr.. Ditrich-
stein was never more fully in touch
with a character He projected every
phase of this complicated creation with
the absOlutiOn sureness of genuine art
In fact it confirmed him as the best
player of high comedy before the
American public today
Isabel Irving, as the artists wife
was deliciOus-it seemed to be a per
feet portrayal Richie Ling, as the
faithful friend, furnished two of the
/ most beautiful scenes we have Wit
J messed for a long time and Josephine
Victor as the tender, sincere little