Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-14
TILE WOMEN
WINS HUMAN
APPEAL
Excellent Cast Backed by Superb
Stage Management Seen in
AICott Production.
RH CARLETON COLLIER.


q About this play, Little Women"
&rirst of all, there was probably
&uever dramatist so conscientious as
<the one who staged Louisa Alcott's
Nbook The conversation is the con-
syersation of the story. There are the
same gestures, the identical caresses.
There was never a producer nor
costumer so scrupulous, and the at
7m0sphere of the story is portrayed
Etuthfully And with it all the play
ZThursday evening, is surprisingly
\ weu acted.
So that you see just what you had
8hoped and expected, if you are one
Of the persons who have read the
story, and who go to the play to find
out what the stage people have done
with it. There is proper Meg, and
good fellow, winning 10, and little
Beth and artificial Amy, in the con.
lyncing flesh, portrayed by young wo-
\ men who are most sympathetic.
Particularly 10. Now and then
4 there may be a bit of the ingenue
weakness about the others. But al
ways there is the robust personality
I Of Miss Margery Taylor, as 10, a
VERY proper 10, to assure you that
things are all right.
Lines of Book Used.
The play is in four acts, taking up
the arrival of the telegram to Mar
|mee, telling that Father March Is Ill
lin Washington, John Brooks court
|ship of Meg, Laurie's Courtship of
Jo the advent of Professor Bhaer
the death Of Beth, and the winning of
Jo by the lovable German on Plum
field Farm.
As the book, the play is a chron-
ice of the March girls. You can
well imagine that the lines of the
book lend themselves well to sympa-
thetic laughs and tears. 1t is in all
a very human sort of thing, over
which the women of the audience
may shamelessly, even proudly, cry.
Little Women" with the sub
stantial support of a story that is
Known and loved everywhere, is a
success, the exception
among these simple family chronicle
plays. 1t is wholesome sort of NOR
al tonic, although, naturally, it has
a sweetness that might be found
2loying after a while.
Even in Little Women" there is
an imperceptible sort of tagging to-
ward the end. The first act superb,
merely with it's picture of the girls,
the second must depend on It's love
story, the third on it's plaintive APP
peal in the death of Beth, and in the
fourth you catch the first Fremont
ton Of the cloying. But 1T is merely
e premOnition, and never is realized
The play ends with a grand en-
semble, something after the manner
of the old, old plays.
Cast Is Capable.
The cast is capable. Margaret
nills as Mrs. March, Eleanor Carey
as Aunt March, Gavin Harris as Mr.
Lawrence Thel Cunningham as Han
nah Mullett are by turns pleasing,
excellent in the parts OF
the older folks.
Max Juergens is convincing Pro-
lesser BhaeT, and is true to the type
Of lovable old scholar that Miss AL
colt drew. George NJ Clark is a
winsome Laurie, except when he is
100 serious, and C. c. Gwynne is good
as John Brook.
Lucy Cotton plays Meg, Margery
Taylor is 10, Virginia Spragge is
Beths and Elaine Benton is the Amy
The charm of the play depends, natu-
rally, most upon the girls, and to say
hat there is little wanting there is
to say much for their work, because
much is demanded of them.
An audience too small for the de-
serts of tie play saw it Thursday
night Natinees will be given Friday
ana Saturday, and performances Fri
lay and Saturday nights.