The Washington herald., 1914-09-20
The Current Week.
NatiOnaI-s-The Better Way"

NattonAl-The Better Way
When a new play is announced by Eu-
gene Walter, who has given our stage
SO many gripping dramas, with a favor
lite like Charlotte Walker as the star, II
is theatrical event OF more than usual
Importance.
The play in which Miss Walker will
be seen at the National Theater this week
was put on IN Philadelphia near the end
of last season under the title The Plain
Woman" and had an unusually long run
in that city.
As in Mr.. Walters former productions
this new play is thoroughly American.
II is described as a stirring drama of
life, the antithesis OF The Easiest Way
in that it depicts the ultimate victory of
good, true, primal woman. It paints
in vivid colors, with his characteristic
realism, the pitfalls which await the
man who, in the pursuit OF pleasure, for
gets the loving helpmate who was the
hrst cause OF his success. A prologue,
four acts and the epilogue show how
Mr.. Walter has broken away from the
single setting and gone to the other ex-
treme.
Charlotte Walker is to play the role
Of the Woman. This role is different from
anything she has hitherto essayed. For
three years she has appeared as June in
THE Trail of the Lonesome Pine" and
1t VIII be interesting to see her in an
entirely new phase Of her art.
In the company are Virginia Pearson.
who is remembered for her acting with
Robert Hilliard in "A Fool There Was" :"
The Divorce Question" Nearly Mar
ried" and more recently with the ia
nous players in screen work, and Byron
Beasley, former leading man with Mar
garet Ellington in Charles Kenyon's
'Kindling." Mr.. BeasIey will play the
role Of The Man. Others in the cast
are George Stuart Christie, David Bur
ton, Virginia Allen, Walter Wilson, ]. N.
Clayton, Veda McEvers, Frederick Back
u.s. Alan Foster, Dorothy Taylor, John
T Ward, Frank ]. Woods, John H Rob-
erts, Arthur Brams, w. H. Pendergast,
T. z. Jones. 7. G. Turnour. John Alex
ander, Albert James and others.
BeIasco-''The MOneymakeru."
The Moneymskers," a new play by
Charles Klein, will bid for the favor of
the patrons Of the Belasco Theater this
week.
Washington will see the drama after
it has had a weeks run in Buffalo, and
before it enters the lists in New York
City. The production has been staged by
Edgar Selwyn.
If for no other reason than that the
author OF The Gamblers" The Lion
and the Mouse THE Third Degree"
and THE Music Master" wrote 1t, the
production should enlist dignified atten-
ton. But there is a reason for still
further interest in the presence in the
cast Of Alexandra Carlisle, Miss Carlisle
will be recalled as the heroine Of that
study Of helpless femnlnity. The Mol
lusc," when produced by Charles Froh-
man in New York several seasons ago.
Mr.. Frohman had imported Miss Carlisle
especially for the role, and New York
indorsed his judgment at the time by
acclaiming the young woman one Of the
most accomplished players the city had
seen in the lists of alien visitors in some
time. The Marriage Game, a New York
production Of last season, saw Miss Car
Isle in contrasting role, different sort
Of spouse, which added to her metropoli-
tan popularity. In The Moneymakers'
she plays still another sort Of wife. The
new mate OF man that Miss Carlisle Of
ifers in The Moneymakers'' is described
as young, attractive and super-refined.
Some Of the excitement OF the play issues
from the incompatibiIities inevitable
with the union of this class Of woman
with an aggressive, INSCRIPTIONS fortune
builder, swept along by his ambition and
blind, deaf and dumb to the niceties of
life. Emmet Corrigan appears in the role
Of the fortune hunter. Dodson Mitchell
and Eva Condor are others Of a long
cast