The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-24

caustic manner, scored me heavily for my
make up The role / enacted was as
usual the mother and my daughter, whose
stage name. by the way, is Jane Cor
coran--played the part of my daughter.
Mr. Dale remarked that in the third act
Miss Williams, who was gotten up To
kill as the mother, didn't look day
older In reality than her daughter OF
course, he had expected me to make up
with lines and patches to look like an
old woman, and all that sort of thing,
but then-oh, well, 1 suppose 1 got off
lightly with Mr.. Dale for he can't make
a criticism without some adverse COM
ment, and many times afterward-for he
and | are very good friends-I chatted
with him about the play, but never men
toned his review of it."
"A Man Game has been compared
so often by the critics with Madame X,
remarked, "and the role of the mother
in each play is SO similar"
1T is against all convention, | know,
to say So Miss Williams asseverated,
because Madame X stands today as one
of the great modern successes, but /
think Owen Davis in A Mans Game
has written a better play-yes, a stronger
play-tahn the French story. The
mother in A Mans Game isn't anything
of the dissolute character Madame x
was. She isn't an absnthe fiend; she
doesn't smoke cigarettes. She is a way
ward, incredible. poor, misguided crea-
ture, but think of the character she mani
tests when she finally returns to her hus-
bands roof and sees her beautiful daugh-
teri Her pride, her womanhood. all the
fineness of her nature is wrought up &c
the highest pitch and with self control
that is inexplicable. even in motherhood
she leaves without ever making her iden-
tity known oher child. The mother In
Madame X breaks down and confesses
The mother in "A Mans Game keeps her
misery and suffering and repentance alb
solutely from her child. 1t is one of the
most dramatic situations | have even seer
on the stage. She seems to realize not
only the old aphorism that one mans
gain is another mans loss, but to pa ra.
phrase it, one mans game is another
mans loss Really, the play is fai
more dramatic than Madame X, which
would never have been the great success
it is except for Madame Bernhardts SUI
perb presentation of it
Queer about Mr.. Davis play" Mis-
Williams went on 1T was refused b,
several managers, Mr. Davis had dram
atized such farces as Going Some an,
| had made play out of string of storie
| that appeared in one of the curren
| magazines and called it, What Hap
penened to Mary, but when he wrot,
| this big melodrama. "A Mans Game tn.
managers were afraid of 1t. When it wa,
| brought to me, I was greatly impressed
| with it, and my husband, Mr. Aiston. VIII,
| has been my manager for the past 1
| years, asked me If I'd like to play tn,
| part. | told him yes. He immediatel,
| began preparations for it's production
with the most fiattering results I grow
| very much attached to role, once | hav,
played it successfully, and I believe yol
will agree with me when | say that | an
rather unique in the fact that for TIN
past IL years | have played only fiv
parts"
You've been verv lucky" / ventured
Yes, had lucky birthday-the TWEEN
ty-third of April That, you know
Shakespeares birthday" Miss william
smilingly said, $50 that started me of
| auspiciously.'
1.-THE modern drama" suggested
| Seems to have a peculiar tendency s
that when you find q clean, wholesom
play it is very much appreciated and en-
| joyed'
Modern audiences demand sensational
plays" was the reply Take The Lure
The Fight and one of the latest sue
cesses in New York The Family C,lp
board by the author of the play I ar
doing now-they all deal with a deep emo
| tional side of life. So with Within tn
Law The Deep Purple. The Argyll
| Case and a season or two back, ALA
Jimmy Valentine Each reveals differ
ent side of life. each has its own mora
| and I believe In a play with a moral,'