The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-08
OLD STYLE COMEDY
AT THE GARRICK
n. V. EsmOnd and Eva Moore
Please in ELIZA Comes
to Stay"
COMPANY FROM LONDON
4 Play That Goes Back to the
First Principles Of the
Dramatist's Art.
COMPANY FROM LONDON
elise Com~s 20 stay"---At tho Garrick
Theatre.


Mrs. Allaway. ....... Constance Groves
Eliza. ....................Ev Eva Moore
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Critics OF that vintage which admired
Sarah Bernhardt TO the exclusion Of Eeo-
nora Duse. were sentimental enough to
fall to weeping at tho mention of i'm
pen)1ins death and cherished n taste for
horizons enjoyed the beginnings Of Eliza
Cofhes to Stay which Charles Froh-
NAB produced at the Garrick Theatre last
night. II was all so cheering to them.
It WAS moreover. such tried and true
~aaSerial and II was bound to turn out
stst as good as Il seemed II. V. Es-
motd wrote the play and acted its prin-
s!ptl part just as he had in London. and
.hefe were Eva Moore his wife, n charm
ingl coincidence. and the rest of the Lon
1on players acting the scenes just as well
As they did for six months in London and
a. well as any actors could IL they knew
low and tried little. for this is an ac-
Sorb play.
There was n bachelor, 70 begin WITH and
ne had been saved from death on the
craes of the Metterhorn by member OF
the Salvation Army. His gratitude
prompted the rescued man to offer any
thing In his power. The return was
ethion from the rescuer. who had died N
a workhouse. TO care Cor his little girl and
rear her as his own Here there is an
Immediate revelation of theatrical ma
teriel that has never failed In Its years OF
usage The little girl Is to come into the
chambers OF the smart bachelor and dwell
there. just as she did with a difference In
the Prince Chap and Where Love Is"
Preparations for the unaccustomed visitor
are under way. A doll. teddy bear and
q nurse wait for the child that Is 10 BE-
brought up to London by a friend of the
bachelor. an older friend who has under.
taken the task OF transporting the blue
eyed, golden haired" little stranger to her
new home.
- Elisa Rather a Surprise.
Be not deceived, gentle reader for Eliza
10 nothing OF the kind. Were you nave
enough to think she would be? or don't
YOU go much To the play? Have YOU seen
Peg O. My Heart? Well. then. YOU
ought at least to have had an inkling. She
is II. but not In the least like Eleanor
Drugmore in any other respect. even to
possessing dark Hover, and could not
therefore, have fascinated susceptible
Mark Lehman. or any other man OF IS.
Her plainness IL rather material than
otherwise. Else " would not be so easy
for her to get altogether over IT, One
suspects that the old fashioned frock the
queer little hat the spectacles not for
night. but safety" the white stockings
and the CATERS costing four and-six. were
put there for the purpose OF being shed
by the girl at the psychological moment.
There have been such things In the past.
Have We not had ALA Nazmova in THE
MaD.onettes"? Then Helen Lowell liz al
ways with us.
But the sight naturally has It's effect
IN the hero, on his beautiful betrothed--
an actress. to make the romantic con-
trast stronger stil---and his two relatives
who have been invited to share the erthu-
siasm he feels before the arrival of his
charge disappointment drives the hero
70 flight. hut he does not escape before
the new arrival has fallen altogether IN
love with him.
We don't know just how much time
In supposed to elapse between acts II,
and H., but the period was long enough
for the. ugly duckling to change her
plumage. She mas become mod!sh In dress
and rot only in name. Now She was
known as Dorothy. The guardian was
away, but his ambassador. who had first
brought her up TO London. was there and
in love with the now transformed hero
Inc. She aid not love him, but II was
made clear to her that IL would be bet
ter for the man she did love--the one still
absent from the painful sight 81 her If
she took the more than middle aged ana
ny no means attractive friend as n sub
s.itute
Again. gentle reader. even when the
and the tranquil waters are rui'ied into
ripples on the shiny surface Of this hand
made little play. You ought u know II all.
A dash of pathetic sslfsacrifce on the
part OF the innocent girl, the return Of the
wandering guardian. a photograph OF m"
new incarnation of Eliza, surprises; and
then right out OF clear sky, the appear
ance of ENed just as she looked at ner
arrival in order that in this guise she
may go out 20 lunch with the betrothed
she does not love--thc novelty OF this last
device almost upset even those critics who
had been growing fonder and fonder Of
the play as IT went smoothly on In the
grooves they love.
Accepts Bachelor Guardian.
But the shock to their feelings did not
continue. The heroine went back to her
sirlish frocks. Tho impression created
on the heart Of the bachelor guardian by
the photographs was to grow stronger,
The elde-l betrothed had broken OF his
engagent { at once when such mean
trick a. Eksa's return to her old looks
had been played on him. The actress
heartless wording in contrast with the
simple purity OF Eiisa-had selected the
hero's uncle. who already had his for
tune and did not have to wait for II.
The ugly duckling had become the epitome
Of the virtues. What more was left her hut
TO become then the wife of tho bachelor
guardian who had been frightened out OF
his home, away from the blue china. the
coppers and all the rest of 1t. by her
LONELINESS?
Mr.. Esmond has written other plays.
and some Of them we have seen here.
The programme mentioned THE Wilder
ness" which had a blind curate In It, and
the other was "One Summers Day" with
an awful boy in 1t, who first divulged