Arizona republican., 1913-11-23

stock, who comprise The Drury Lane
 Company of America"
 In Yourselves" which was prOduc
 eC at the Lyric theater last week, Mss Rachel Brothers seems to have
 Y ritten a sex problem play, which
 neither repels nor disgusts but holds
 enc in an iron grip from curtain to curtain and compels the most seri- ous thought and respectful attention. IL is a play which deals with the double standards of morals. one for the man and another for the woman The greater part of the action deals 1 with the struggle of a woman of the streets to redeem herself. An aItru- | istic young woman takes girl of 1 the streets out of house of refuge l nto her own beautiful home. There l the poor, lonely, summed creature ! makes her fight and is doing bravely when she comes under the eye of the l brother of her bentfactress. who is himself happily married. He wins her completely and of course trag- COY. grim, bitter and heatsearching comes into the home.
 Anyone who has had the good for tune to see Miss Crothers' delightful
  | imagine that she would handle a question of this kind in a manner | entirely different from the sensa-
 ttonalists of The Lure" and The | Fight" type. She brings the ques- ton right home where it belongs, to l ourselves. She has succeeded in
 making blase first night audience 1 gasp, not at the sensationalism of
 her theme; but at the bitterness and ] hcartbreak. the inhumanity and the 1 injustice there is in this vital ques-
 ton. She has painted picture which will burn itself uneffacably in
 to the minds of all who see it and l which cannot but be an immesnse l factor of bringing about a reform | which she not as m authoress: but 1 as a woman, believes is badly need ed.
 1 Miss Velaska Suratt has forsaken 1 musical comedy for vaudeville this | season and is appearing in a sketch l Black Crepe and Diamonds" in l which she displays un-numbered | gasp compelling gowns, a wonderful 1 pair of arms and shoulders and a 1 back which completely out-Kitty- l Gordonizes Kitty Gordon, in fact one | might describe Black Crepe and Dia- monds" and Miss Suratt as very decolette combination. Oh, yes, in deed.
 As a dresser at least Miss Suratt 1 is a revelation, in fact a great many
 would consider some of her revela- tions quite shocking but then as she 1 says What is the use of having good points if one cannot display Ith Tn clra ho 1 is sort of Carmen. The program says The Woman Loves Dance,' The Woman Loves Love-" Alan Dale says it should have added that "The Woman Eats Clothes" She is a sort of Winter Garden riot of dress, and un- dress, compressed into twenty minutes instead of two hours and a half On first appearance she is steeped in woe and is costumed in a flaring black that nIts one in the eye as violently as ever did frey red. Then Love comes and she dresses in costumes to suit Imagine her in a flame tomato cru shed gera nium" vel vet cloak with ermine and diamonds
 (Won't the society editress be wild when she finds us stealing her thun-
 der) also in black and silver and
 red violet" cIoaks which she casts,
 one InlB0J dlUlOSI Say CHuChS, non
 chalantly on the floor to reveal her
 self, or at least a small part of her
 self, gowned in the most eye blind -
 ing and ear-splitting raiment And
 then she dances. Yes, tangOes, in
 the most approved Surattian fashion
 in utter disregard of all her mag
 nificense and apparently without fear of losing even a thread of it, and in some costumes you know a thread covers a multitude of sins. Anyway she disregards all risks and even sings. Have you ever heard Miss Suratt sing? If you have you will understand the absolute fearlessness of the woman. Right out in public without any real knowledge of what weapons may be concealed on the | person or persons of that great and gasping audience she SINGS. Surely
 here is a case for a Carnegie medal;