Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-22
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thanks. In it he gave credit for all that
is good in the play to his better half"
as he called Miss Walker, his wife. and
to the company, a judgment in which
the audience seemed to share, taking in
consideration the splendid work of BY
ron Beasley, Virginia Pearson. George
Stuart Christie, David Burton, Frank j.
Woods. Arthur BRAINS and Walter Will
son. 1t is not every week that the work
OF eight actors and actresses, in addi-
tlon to the star of the cast. engaged in
producing one play, stands out SO prom
lnentiy as to make all of them the SUBJ
ton.
Philadelphia at the end of last sea-
son under the title of 1.-The Plain Wom-
an Mr.. Walter has since made changes
IN II. and to all intents and purposes it
tell its story better, for the action re-
wolves around the life of plain woman
ana her struggle to hold the love of her
husband In the later years of their lives,
worldly success as result of her saw
ings and hardships during the early
years of their lives
Gripping and cohesive. there are
Inree acts, prologue and an epilogue
The latter is in thesnature of an anti
climax One may we'll understand that
IL is necessary to have punishment
meted out to those guilty of conspir-
woman in a divorce court, so that her
husband, who would be free might
we'd the Broadway vampire who has
attached sher tentacles to him. But
for the plain woman to be the princi-
pal in sending to prison the husband
she has loved and struggled for SO
many years is unconvincing. The reve-
lation in the epilogue that she has
done so is such a departure from her
consistently forgiving character that
! RI feffr ,pt nf CI
The play is filled with romance and
sentiment as refreshing as the songs
of robins in Il place that has been de-
filed. The crippled Bohemian coach
ment, and for this David Burton will
long be remembered. Some of the
speeches of George Stuart Christie,
the Polak boy whose invention gave
the plain woman her chance to elevate
her husband in the world. are little
short of blank verse, and delivered in
4 manner that makes their liquid SEN
fences a delight.
Virginia Pearson. as the Broadway
actress-vampire. who tries to steal the
plain woman's husband, contributes
scene of emotional intensity that
holds the audience tightly in its grip
Her work may not be better than II
was in "A Fool There Was" but last
night it was more than satisIElhSc 30
it was with the other members OF the
cast, particularly the eight mentioned
In the striking courtroom scene. with
its smashing finale, when the cohSPlr-
acy to divorce the plain womans nus
hand fails, Walter Wilson, as the
nudge. presented an Interpretation that
every one about MN, not
even excepting Miss Walker.
The opening of the play is IN Puts
burgh among the steel mills, at W.
light. No more remarkable settnS mas
ever been staged. in point of reaiism-
Polls.
1.-THE Squaw Man, with Carl Brlckert
in the title role, was revived last nlgnt
with an excellence which IN cast anu
stage setting measured up we'll Win
former productions of the play here and
gave a large audience first glimpse OF
several members of the Poll forces from
other cities who are here for this week
AS an officer in the English army who
assumes the dishonor of a cousins crime
and disappears to become lin Carston'
a cowboy of Wyoming, MIR. Brickert
gave to his Interpretation the honest nat
uralness of youth and. later, the nobility
of a man whe refuses to desert his In
dian wife to take the title which he H.
herits at his cousins death.
Jane Morgan gave very real I'M
preston of love and womauly sacr1nce IN
her portrayal of Diana. and Marie Car
roll, as the pathetic little squaw wife
who came and went like a brown shadow;
who killed one man to save another VINO
had befriended her, and then died by her |
own hand that her husband and son |
might be free to return to England, was |
a conspicuous factor in the play
The first act opens. with Il flash OF
army red and gold braid. on the even
ing of regimental ball in England,
but it is later on-first at the Long
Horn saloon and afterward at Jim
Carston's ranch house at Red Butte
that the plot takes on its exciting &C
ton and provides the evenings TO
mances and thrills. Stanley James, as
Big Bill, was breezily nonchalant in
his deIineation OF a type of cowboy
that fiction makes heroes of, and Har-
die Meak kin was humorously delightful
as Shorty Jim. William D. Corbett. in
red blanket and beads, was pictur-
esqueIy impressive as Chief of the
Utes, and Cecil Bowscr. as his inter
prefer, was as stolidly natural as if he
were the real thing. In the long
cast which mum bered thirty-odd char
acters, not counting English officers.
Wyoming cowboys, sheriff's posse,
one Chinaman and conductors and en-
gineers enough to run a train on the
siding-as seen through Long Horns
wide-open door-each member con-
tributed so far as parts allotted, to