Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-26
SHUBERT

The ]. Hartley Mannerss comedy
of youth, peg o. My Heart" one Of
the pleasant surprises of the past two
years in New York, at the Court The
atre. will be the attraction at the
Shubert Theatre for week COM
mencing Monday, September 2S.
The action of the play takes place
in an old provincial town in England.
This is the home of a suddenly i'm
poverished family, composed of the
relatives of young girl of eighteen
born in New York and reared there
by her father. The family Is an ultra
fashionable one consisting of the
mother, Mrs. Chichester, an aunt on
. Pegs mothers side of the house. and
| her two grown children; Alric, the
son, a silly type of a man, and
very naughty and unnatural daughter,
Ethel.
Peg comes to England to enjoy a
| fortune left by a wealthy uncle. 1t
is necessary for her to have a guar
| dian during the period of her educa-
| ton. according to the demands OF her
| uncle's will, for which a sum of o
| thousand pounds is set aside as re-
enumeration. The relatives agree to
| undertake the training of Peg for this
sum- AS they had hoped to be re-
membered in the will of this same
| uncle, the leaving OF his entire Tor
| tune to Peg was a very unpleasant
surprise to the Chichesters, and they
proceed to take it out on her in her
education. They see none Of her good
qualities of heart and mind and set to
work to reform her by vigorous APP
plication of code of etiquette.
Peg is the daughter of an aristo-
cratic mother, who was a sister to the
now Mrs. Chichester, as well as to the
uncle who has left Peg his money
and his estate, but due to an early
| marriage to O'Connell, an Irish So
| cialist, she had long since been con-
sidered out of the family. At the
| birth of Peg in New York the mother
| had passed away and the unfortunate
| father. in dire poverty, had reared
| his daughter as best he could, giving
| her the best of counsel as to moral
ethics and endowed her with world
| ly wisdom that is seldom found in
child. 1t is this wisdom that tells her
that there is something going on In
| this new home that Is not entirely
right. and. the ultimate finding out,
that Ethel, the daughter, In whom she
is supposed to find her model. is about
to elope with a married man. Brent
| The Illustration of this plan, however,
brings her into better light with
the household-that is all for appear
ances-and in the end Peg is found
in the arms of the man she has
learned to love, and the final curtain
descends on Tom Moore's beautiful
poem, of which Mr.. Manners's piece
is the perfect epitome ooh. there's
| nothing half so sweet in life as loves
young dream"
oliver Morosco, the producer. has
assembled what he considers the best
cast that has yet appeared In this
charming comedy, with Elsa Ryan as
Peg. Miss Ryan has appeared over
$50 times in this role. Thomas Hold
ing, as Jerry. the man who falls In
love and In the end wins Peg; Robert
Forsythe, as Hanks, the solicitor,
who informs the Chichesters of the
willis contents; Sydney Mather. as
Brent, in love with Ethel; Agnes Her.
on Miller, as Ethel; Mrs. Chichester,
enacted by Alice Butler; Vivian Gill
bert plays the son, Alric; Herbert
Ashton is Jarvis, the butler, and
Marie Merlau takes the role of the
maid.