Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-04-28
Columbia.

''Rosemary,' I'll. Victorian comedy pre-
scented by the Columbia Players at the
Columbia Theater last night. adds an
other success to the annals of that the
alter and-to borrow the symbol OF the
piay-will serve as a remembrance of
the splendid work done by Earle Brown.
AS Sir Jasper Thorndyke. the middle
aged bachelor whose love for Dorothy
Cruickshank is a hidden fire which
flames. sgnolders and. after many years.
fares W again remniscenty in the mus
iuSs Of lonely old man. Mr. Brown
-aye to his portrayal sense of realism
Which only genuine talent can achieve.
The story opens on stormy night with
& broken-doWn chaise outside the park
gates OF Sir .IaSper's home. An clipping
couple. yeun& Dorothy Cruickshank and
hcr exceedingly disa ereeable lover. are
huddled Under an umbrella in a truly vet
rain. when Sir Jasper happens along and
invites them to his house The same in
vitation is extended later to Dorothys
pursuing parents. and the entire party
meet Unexpectedly next morning at
breakfast which ends in forgiveness and
general trip to town for conventional
marriage and to see the coronation of
England'S girl queen. Sir Jasper is en-
tranCed by Dorothy fresh lovelineSS and
her pretty way Of decorating his bachelor
breakfast room with flowers from the
Garden. and the girl rs so interested that
She writes beautiful things about him in
her diary as was the way of girls in the
old days when the world was young. In
their final parting she tears out the leaf
and gives il to him with a sprig Of the
rosemary she has gathered from his gar
den for a corsa&;e bouquet
TIL. third act finds the party at a
au1int old inn which Sir Jasper buys for
its one day of tender association with
the girl he loves. and in one panel of
which he secretes the torn leaf, Fifty
years later he is back in the old inn
alone London is celebrating Victoria s
golden jubilee. and the outside excite
ment drifting through the window re-
minds Sir Jasepr of that long ago corona
ton when ne and Dorothy stood AT the
window together. He pulls bell rope
and the old panel falls and reveals bit
Of time ellowcd paper, And when he has
read the eirlish sCrawl he takes from his
pocket a Inumfaied spris of blossoms and
rlunbles 10 the past that is dead or per-
haps to i future that i To come. Rose
ftlary- that's for RENE mDrarct."
The mere telling Is nothing Ii is the
romance viviiied by the Columbia Players
INTO very real lfc that gives the play its
thfill George ". Barber as Prof. jog
fam. who has written 4 book. and John
NJ Kline as Capt. CrutCkshauk. Il. n.
who objects to the professors theories,
Tandy arguments with q uip-aud-turN
.crociousness which keeps AIRS. Cruick-
shank-JuIi4 Blanc busy pouring oil on
i~oubled waters and furnishes the i,u-
lnorous high lights Of the play. Willard
robertson was artistic in his conception
~ quaint old George Minitie. and Everett
Eutterfield did his duiy to William West
wood whose suspicious jealousy uf his
tfauCee of Sir Jasper afforded no Uhanc"
.or the display OF the character WORK
+. which Mr.. Rutterfieid eXceis. Violet
fleming invested the portrayal of Doro-
tuv with her own Sirltsh charm. Jessie
5ifendeHniu@ Was WInSome maid, and
carrie Thatcher w;ts convincing a. Mrs
NiEItie If Tire lnn.