The Washington herald., 1913-09-30
AT ] IfIfIIz lIHbIzzlK KITIRIzS
BELASCO.
"whnt Happcned 10 Mary..


'whst Happened to Mary" was
a-plenty, and yet IL won't take long to
tell it. Owen Davis consumes four acts
in the telling, but then he had a lot of
| suggestions from stories in some la
dies journal, and those suggestions had
| 10 be properly Cnraveled. At any rate,
the audience at the Belasco Theater last
night seemed to be quite in harmony with
the author and Mary, and sc one may
just as well go on with the story. Mary
her other name is not divulged until the
very last-is the child of a very wealthy
| New York widow, and as a baby is
| spirited away by the rascally friend of
T, the dead husband and delivered into the
hands of an old curmudgeon on a little
island in Chesapeake Bay, Mary's father
\ having made a will to the effect that in
| case of the widows and baby's death
| all the money is to go to the rascally
| friends son, who turns out TO be about
| as good for nothing as his father, only
| in = different way. The rascally father
returns to New York and tells the widow
that the nurse and the baby have been
drowned.
Mary grows up to be a very sweet
young woman, but the man into whose
care she has been given tries 10 force
her into marriage with BOBBY on the
island, for the consummation OF which
feat he has been promised large sum
| of money by the aforesaid rascally faith
| eT. The latter's son happens to visit the
island, in company with Mary's mother
and his fathers partner The rascally
son, charmed with Mary's pretty face,
| urges her TO come to New York, and she,
upon his promise to get work for her and
being eager to escape from the fate which
threatens her on the island. goes to the
| big city. In the boarding house tc which
the young fellow has directed her, and
which, as it turns out later, is kept by
the very nurse to whom she had been
intrusted, she finds out that her would
be protector has ruined a girl who lives
in the same house. At the psychological
moment the good partner of the rascally
father comes upon the scene, discovers
the young rascafs game and rescues
Mary from his clutches by giving her
employment in his office.
Into 'he Office comes Mary's mother
and from her chatelaine the young scamp
steals S2,OOO. Mary is accused OF the
theft The money is found in the pocket
Of her Jacket, where il has been placed
by the scamp's mistress. Mary returns
to the island, whittier she is promptly
followed by her mother and the good
partner who meanwhile has fallen in love
with Mary and she with him. Every
thir~ is cleared up. Mary and the good
partner fall into each others arms; like
II.
Now, this is not IAN old-fashioned love
story as it is announced on the program,
but smaCks decidedly of 'mellowdram-
mer.' Besides. the play is loosely con-
structed, and the dialogue more than un-
interesting. There are two or three we'll
drawn comedy characters; all the others
are more than mediocre. The company.
however, to whom the Interpretation OF ,
the play is intrUsted is individually and
nFN11n a.. a,
Mary is pleasantly remembered here as
A very pleasing member of THE Rain
bow company She gave the part of
the simple little girl just the setting TO
make il natural, sympathetic and as in
teresting the author permitted. Alma
Kruger, also favorably remembered as a
member of the Columbia Stock Company.
was most engaging figure as Mrs. Win
throp (Mary's mother, while Charles
Miller as John Willis (the good partner.
proved convincingly how a woman-hater
may have a very tender heart and do al
sorts of kind things for a girl in distress,
even to the point OF marrying her.
Kate JOpsOn was admirable as Liza
Peart. a uper-phlegmatic hOusekeeper for
her brother. and continuously subject TO |
sitting spells" Edward NJ. Kimball pre- !
sented a fine character sketch as Capt. |
Jogifer Mary's best friend on the island !
Emile Collins as Billy Peart, the man |
who has undertaken to shape Mary's |
destiny for a consideration, gave a clear
cut picture of man whose conscience is |
measured by dollars and cents. Morris |
Foster as Henry Craig Cthe young scamp !
made that parsonage as unpleasant as
the author undoubtedly intended. and the
same may he said of Burr Caruth in the
part of Richard Craig Uhe rascally !
:sther). Rosemary Carlton acquitted her
al in, ba 90
Annie Welch. the girl betrayed by young
Craig, and Lottie Medley was very good
as the boarding house keeper. Mrs. Gibbs.
Jay c. Yorke made a great deal of the
comparatively unimpOrtant part of Tom
Little, and Edgar Nelson looked and
acted quite true to life the part of K
Tucker Wintergreen, the island BOBBY K
who was eager to take Mary to wife
And this is what happened to Mary.