Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1914-01-18
TUE sToY OF "EvEaYwoMANs

lne dramatlc spectacle, E. "Every- woman, which Henry w. Savage Will disclose at the Elks theatre Monday evening January 19 for one night only was written by Walter Browne, an active newspaper man employed by the New York Evening Telegram. MT Browne had led q most adventurous life and while a man of college education and breed ing had been successiveiy singer ar actor, q public speaker, a miner a banker and an editor. He had lived at various times in all parts of the globe and the play which was destined to make his name famous was not the work of 6 day but had bee n carefully thought out and de- vclopcd during his peculiar career. Hs had written other plays. some of tnem quite successful, but he set no store by them-they were merely "pot-boilers" to tide him along until tie production of "Everywoman" lie was always sure of its success and made many plans for the period which should succeed it's production "a time he did not live to see as he died on the morning of the very day upon which it was first produc- ed
 lr the construction of "Evefy- wtman" Mir. Savage followed the model of the ancient morality play, .sE.verywoman. In itself Every woman" is a morality play, but it is the first morality play i'll which weman has figured as character and woman is the essential character os "Everywoman." It is a tale of universal experience of women-but the incidents are all grouped around one woman-a woman whom MT. Browne took as his model and who bears the name, EveryWoman. Everywoman is young and beautiful. She is first shown in her home, the vlste of garden appearing behind a Creek portico, surrounded by her companions, Youth, Beauty and Mod esty With the employment of a sinele symbolism, these three figures all played by girls, represent the great virtues Everywomal possesses. Posing befcI~e her mirrow Every woman is astonished to find IL It's glassy surface the figure of man of conely appearance who addresses her. He tells her his name is Flat terv and that he comes to her as the herald of King Love the First, who IS waiting somewhere in the vast; world to claim her for his own and make her his Queen. He urges her to go seek King Love and then disappears.
 Evarywoman is mystified; she con suits her compaions and Youth and Beauty both urge her to do as Flat tery has bidden her, but Modesty trio s to. hold. her back. Shes de- cites to set forth upon pilgrimage but just as she is about to depart, Nobody, a strange prophetic charac- ter, appears and warns her that she Is rushing to her fate. She scorns hie counsel only to be later admon- ished by Truth, who appears as a cripple, to abandon her quest. But she sets forth and seeks Love first in a city playhouse where she hears love is conjured up from nothing at all, as the likely abode of her king.
 She adopts the stage and she is next shown at rehearsal with Youth, Beauty and 'Modesty, her com pa;nions, who become members of the chorus. She rises to stardom and tastes success. Her head is turned by the adulctic she receives ard she IS successively wooed by Wealth, multi millionaire, Witless Eobleman, heir to a dukedom, and Passion, an actor. One by one she finds that they are all pretenders ard that true Love is yet unfound 0l6 6lNC6 O. SWRpOA OC AASAAo AAA AASA sumptous apartments where she is fcted by the moths and bats of the social order whom her beauty has attracted. Modesty has deserted her upcn the stage of the theatre and now Beauty, unable to withstand the late hours and wine, laaguishes and dies. True she is left with Youth alone in the fourth act, her prestige gone, she is wandering the streets of New York sustained only by Youtf whose footsteps are growing feeble as roysterers celebrate the passing of the old year and the advent O the new. Time stays Youth. and with all three of her companions lost tt her Everywoman is yielding to de spair when homely Truth, whom il the first set she has scdrned, ap. pears to her and leads her back tt he own fireside where upon thu