The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-12-08
DETROIT OPERA HOUSE.

.Everywoman," Walter Brownies
modernization OF the medieval moral,
ity play. delighted large audience
IN the Detroit opera, house, Monday
evening, opening a weeks engage
ment. "Everywoman" is generally ac-
counted one Of the few dramatic
works OF enduring merit produced
within the past decade. It's essential
~ human theme, the categorical story
OF the woman, who lured by Flattery
and attended by Youth, Beauty ana
Modesty, goes out into the world IN
quest OF King Love, has lasting APP
peal. "Everywoman" Is beset in turn
by Passion, who pretends he Is Love,
by Wealth, and by Witless, who typi'
fies the decadent aristocrat. She
plunges into a reckless career, only
10 find herself on New Years eve de-
serted by Beauty and Modesty and
with Youth long banished. Discon-
ISOLATE, she wanders among the New
Year jewellers OF Broadway, at last
returning broken and disheartened To
her own home where she finds Love
awaiting her in the garb Of toiler.
The scenic splendor OF "Everywom-
an would alone suffice 10 give the
production more than ordinary dis
tinction. The contrast afforded be-
tween the riotous abandon OF the New
Year jewellers and the church service
In the fourth act, in which the re-
pentant "Everyw oman" is attended By
Truth, is particularly impressive.
Alive Baxter, a Detroiter, who APP
pears in the name part, is an able
actress. She interpets the various
moods and contrasting situations in
which "Eeyrywoman" finds herself
with skill. Margaret Patterson, Ma
bel Harris and Hilda Peters as Youth,
Beauty and Modesty, the handmade
ems of "Everywoman" are charming.
John Mckee and Emmett Shackle-
ford as Bluff and Stun. theater man
ayers, are excellent character actors.
ElNer Grandin as Nobody made the
most of difficult part The other
characters, although less conspicu-
GUS, acted with intelligence and I'M
Outstanding.
Next week, Mrs. Patrick Campbell,
the famous English actress, will visit
the Detroit opera house, after many
years absence, presenting George
Il .
GARRick.
Delightful Peg o. Ny Heart" with
Elsa Ryan in the name part, began its
third engagement in the Garrick thea
ter. Monday evening, and large
audience seemed to have just as keen
an interest and just as much spon-
taneous applause for this wholesome
play of j. Hartley Manne&;, as on the
occasion OF its former presentations
In Detroit.
Peg o. My Heart" deserves long
theatrical life for its sweetness, its
humor, its picture of joyous, unspoil. |
ed youth. II may not be great play,
and to the critics eye il has its tricks !
and clap-trap and the little expedi- |
ents for catching the public, and It's
applause that the writer OF real drama
disdains with the secure loftiness of |
genius, but Peg o. Ny Heart and
its author have never tried to sail |
under any eofors but their own-those |
of pretty story, and q play that the
public wants.
Miss Ryan as Peg, and Peg as Miss |
Ryan, offer charming picture of UNI
sophisticated, mischievous, frank |
young girlhood No one who goes TO |
the theater could help loving pretty |
Peg. with her brogue, her fathers po- |
litical declarations which roll so |
globly from her tongue, her fresh |
point Of view, and-Miehael Who is
there who wants to resist the charm
of Peg, or to deny the raggedy-taggedy |
appeal Of Michael? That Irish ter
rier never fails to share the honors
with the star.
The company presenting the play
this week in the Garrick is an excep-
tionally able body OF players. There
Is Sydney Mather, for years one OF |
americas foremost Shakespearean &C.
tors, and associated, season after sea-
son, with E. H. Sothern, and the late
Richard Mansfield, and other we'll
known stars. Mr.. Mather has the |
task OF impersonating the unpleasant
christian Brent, whose attentions to
Ethel Chichester SO nearly wrecks the /
life or that young woman. Naturally. |
Mr.. Mather's presentation is unim-
peachable. Agnes Heron Miller, a |
daughter of Henry Miller. and young
woman who has spent much time in