Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-06
THE MAN INSIDE" GIVES NEW
VIEWPOINT ON CRIME L ORE

broken in health and spirit, still Trays
and longs for his little girl to marry
the right sort of man, and have a
good, straight home, with happy chill
dren.
But Annie is truly feminine. In
stead Of trying to live UP to her faith
er' ideal of her. she falls in love with
his partner, Big Frank, and elects to
marry him. Red Mike consents, be-
cause there is nothing else to do.
Then the police come and he and Big
Frank are led away.
Following their exit Gordon crawls
out of his bunk and proceeds to ask
each derelict in the room Just how he
sank so low and why he "stavs
sunk" Annie hears Gordon's offer
to aid them and Immediately rushes
to him and pleads for help He tells
her to call at his office. Then he
leaves. Annie Immediately plans to
lie to him; to throw her lamps ss
him." to quote Pop Olds, and set her
father free.
she carries out her plan most Sue
'cessfully, not minding in the least the
discriminating of Gordon who is ali
too sincere in his efforts to help.
The tell-tale check is in the district
attorneys safe. l won't tell Won how,
Annie got it. You'll be interested IN
watching. Suffice to say that she did
then broke her word to Gordon NOT 70
destroy it, and promptly swallowed
| it. y"
They searched her, and If what
| happened is in any degree true of q nv
district-attorney' Office, then shema
upon it,
Naturally. they couldn't find. tho
cmecK. hidden as II was in Armies
| aiimencary canal. So they let her go
home. and then arrested her and
| Gordon, too. when he followed har
to her home. still afire with his am
bltion to help those he was convinced
We're not really criminals, but only
| warped by wrong thinking.
| And here is where the nJav,s
strength peters out: p'S
After 1--WE minutes of Gordon's logic.
coupled with Annie's plea to ems ke
good, Big Frank suddenly veers from
pau man with an intense desire to
hlii 10 a sood one who elects to go to
| jail Tor twelve years and some
months, and think right" during oil
that time in order that the others
may go free.
1t might be done, think we, this
altering OF viewpoint in g. man who
mas known no respect for law; but
not in five minutes, and not by a III
tle sernonette. 1t would take some
thing bigger, something more spec
tacular, to get to- man like that.
OF a certainty Roland Burnham
Molineux has had time enough to
think out way to save criminals, or
rather to avoid the making of them.
His dream, as conveyed by 1.-THE Mar
Inside" (Which, as you must know
now, refers to the inner mani is a
Court Of Rehabilitation, where men
may be tried before a jury, to prove
that they have had change of heart
and want to be good.
1.-THE Man Inside" is staged with
all o. Belasco's attention to detail
and Il has cast that ought to carry
it successfully along the theatrical
road. A. e. Anson's work as Red
Mike is highly commendable, and Mil
ton Stills, who will be remembered as
an important member of 1.-THE Gov
ernor's Lady" cast, gives conviction
to the role of the young district attor-
ney though his enunciation is not
always as clear as could be desired.
} A splendid character portrayal Is
! that of Pop Odds, as presented by
John Cope. Helen Freeman is ade-
quate as Annie, Red Mikes daughter
and displays emotional power in the
scene in the district attorneys office
Next week will find Annie Russell
and her own company in the Newark
i Theatre