The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-13
THE TRUTH REVIVED
AT LITTLE THEATRE
Invited Audience Sees Excellent
Acting of Clyde Fitch's
Comedy.
THIRD ACT Is POWERFUL
Grace George Charming as
Becky, and Zelda Sears Also
Wins Praise.
THIRD ACT Is POWERFUL
Tn. rru,h"-At the Little Theatre.

Winthrop Ames has selected for the
Little Theatre at the close Of season de-
voted to two plays OF British origin The
TRUTH esteemed by EXPERTS to be the
work of Clyde Fitch most likely to endure.
The play was acted on Saturday night
before an invited audience and will be
accessible to the general public to-mor-
row and for as long as 1t invites with
sufficient appeal lovers Of good comedy
TO Mr.. Ames's playhouse.
Lovers of good acting may also be as
sured that their visit will be well worth
while. Possibly they will after all be
better rewarded than anybody else. since
the Interpretation on Saturday was rather
better than the drama itself. Mr.. Fitchs
comedy seems to have been thought worth
trial nowadays because II differed 90
much from the majority Of his plays II
IS not a merely smart transfer to the
stage OF some ephemeral externals of
social life. but 10 an attempt to present =
genuine character among the surround
ings in which II might be expected to show
every facet Of its nature Few Of the
Fitch plays were Of this kind.
New York did not learn much about
The Truth" when II was acted first at
the Criterion Theatre, because II refused
10 grow deeply interested in the subject
Mrs. Bloodgood. whose tragic death Is q
part OF the history of the play. some of
her friends and the partisans OF the author
were concerned about the success or THE
TRUTH which. so FAR as the public was
concerned aroused no discussion.
Play Succeeded Abroad.
n 10 said that Maria Temnes, ac,sa the
,nend.cious berolna Tor , ysar in I ondon
and that The MAY was received with fsvor
in 1:s,manv I,s horo,ra who s,stsr. ,ror,
a cons,i,u,iorai inah,i,,v 10 tall ,ha ,ru,h
.,hssnu.n,,v ravaoIad NJ. t.r,,Iv to-,
,rhsri,sd fror, har fa,har i,.. % h.r
trIends about Tbs ,,o.t ,r,,,a, ,n,,,.r. ~
nor busho nd ah,,,t tho n,oray OH. .nards
and the man whom shs meet. daily and
-. s.e '.s uS Gnu
~ saw tha, h,act IN whi,s I,, ,h,a !,
her only lack of perfection as wife.
She loves only her husband in spite of
her rendezvous and her evidences of in
ierest In another man. Since Rosina
Nokes's sailor with a wife In every port,
although his heart remained true to Poll
Ut home there has never been q greater
example of apparent promiscuousnes as but
really single hearted devotion than the
heroine OF The Truth" reveals.
Even her stupid husband discovers at
the end OF the second act out OF four the
extent OF her mendacity. He leaves her
md she returns to her discredited old
father in the Baltimore Hat ne shares on
somewhat indefinite terms with a harry
who wants to marry him Here the
author has written several scenes that
suggest the capacity he really possessed
or serious work had there existed in the
days OF his reckless productiyeness for the
American theatre any demand for the
'sults OF serious work The oolloouies
between the broken down and selfish old
aristocrat and the VULGAR woman who
wants to marry him because. his vices arc
n so "swen' and later between This
nrodigal father and his d.u1hter arc ,he
best minutes In the NAV II NOT in al, Tho
combined theatrical OUTPUT of this author
They have the simplicity and the hold
lines OF Angler
Suggests Work Of Aurier.
~ ,,
Ia V"' re'allne 10 their possible mar
humlliton. as disarreeable but as truth.
ful as any eplsodes that tho French nIay
wright put into the second act OF 81 a
Marriage GOlympe." which The sord,d
nature of this scene sup0es,ed yCh.r
20 his disgust this sam. father ia visited
by his daughter. whose husband has Iaf,
her because of her ineradcabIe tendenc,
10 lie. the philosophy of life that no rc.
yeals 10 her and the analysis NJ ,he cha =
acters of the two are Hne,v human ava
Ike the other serlous .ni<odas I'm On,
first three acts OF this NAV ,bev ors
nlled with heart II was moi often ,ha,
the plavs Of Clyde Fitch possesaod mi,
. rare quality. There was usually no mor.
Indication OF heart in the shirt VII,
which tho author annroacbed hi. ,asi
than there was in the punnc,. thar mad,
up the programme Ther, are however
feeling and a rare mower for reveo,,n,
the traits of neryer,ed human nature {,
the third act NJ ",rbs Truth +"
Otherwise the drama was rather tent,
In It's effect In the last ac, when IN
wife refuses 10 share In the ohy,iou.I,
'r,-or-'hia nre,erco th,t sha h,d heon +,
the poin, Of deaf, N.- hushn nd taka
her ia b,s breas, with tho Joclar,,;.
Mat the Qualities wives nnssess do No
make them loved hut 1, ia what the,
End Wcakcns the Drama.
A, all events ,yhothsr or M, ,hts nro
found utterance Ia corrsc,,y ,et dow
here II ia Gao, tha, H,cl,, f., ,aLa
ioinc b,. her p,iil,son ~, , hysha nd an
fy,N u ali nrohahittt, ia D., hJr, anin
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