Evening star., 1914-07-14
Columbia.

medium this week In The Girl In
IWaiting." and they fairly reveled with
the audience last night in the count
less absurdities and ridiculous situa-
tions of ]. Hartley Manners comedy.
A. H. Van Buren, adapts himself well
to the role of the serious minded
youth, given to the study of sociology,
4 whose great ambition it is to marry a
thief that he may reform her. He
plays the part consistently in the love-
making scenes. strengthens the imper-
! Sonation in the more manly climaxes
| and wins over the audience so that
everybody is willing to let him finally
marry the heroine. He won applause
for his pronouncement of the aphor-
| isms of the piece.
| Miss Dorothy Bernard seems quite at
| home as the Girl in Waiting. girl
! self reared, who. she herself says,
! has been waiting in London for tnat
one great event every true woman IN
her heart is waiting for. She Is VIII
full vivacious and joke loving. Snc al
lows the hero to think her TIMER 10
arouse his interest. and then assumes
the role of girl In waiting In tea
house at a summer resort because nc.
ouirks of misunderstanding and iapy-
rinth of circumstancial evidence the
plot all works out to q happy hnaie'
where the last lines OF MISS oesnaaai; .ei
suiter, II love-him." send the audi
ence home happy.
Joshua Turner, a bibulous member OF
parliament father of the heroine, one
of whose early morning re'eis - .nd .a5
occasion for the misunderstanding ana
mistaken identity on which the piot IS
built. is we'll portrayed by Everett Fut-
terfield. He appears, first, as ~eak *.
ling father, complaining tna' nn e
daughter is not firm enough to keep
him in hand. Then he falls under the
dominance of a strong-minded "oH'an'
VIII. proposes to rule him ana 90 re-
nc del his daughter. but Jus. teho,n a,e
| the ceremony. when he comes 10 an
arreement with her that he is to oe
master. he rises to the occasion In such
way that the audience entnuslasticai-
\ ly applauds his masterful Vle0I.
willard Robertson, as the UBIQUITOUS
scotIand Yard detective. whose first ef-
| fort is to let every one know "no ne ~.
and whom the heroine accuses OF oeint
disguised as an undertahel' -.
many laughs to the productio. inuehiv anu
| ed the part as tnoueh he
George W. Barber was d1enN.eui
member of parliament ana a ssHsia.
smoother out of the misunuerstSan 11;,,a q
de,irhtful entertainment were: DAVID
Chase, John NJ. Kline. George parrsm' hii
walter Gilman: George ls;a Thafcher. Marshaa.
Frank Collins. Miss Carrie ina.UnI' iRns.slI
Il
Mss Mss Bessie Maxwell. Miss Jessie
GIendening and Miss Blanche sperry.
Polls.
IF there was any way of getting at
things of this life, Ready Money
things of life, Ready Money would
would, doubtless-like Abou Ben Ad-
hem's name-lead all the rest.
It must have been his knowledge OF
This dormant interest in every mans
ufe-and every woman's (allowing for
the exceptions that make the ruie)-
that inspired James Montgomery 20
write one of the most captlvatlng
comedies seen at Polrs So sincem6ue 6uct;ons mms
Ready Money" is what the drama
calls a mans play. And the man. last
night. was Robert Wayne ,;us
with a dubious mine on his hands ana
his engagement ring on lovely young
woman's finger, was as delightfully."- de-
moralized a lover as ever got ine3 et
trouble without knowing how to get
out. But his very honesty made MIN
a foil for the picturesaueness OF me
crook-no, call him an artlst-wno
came to his assistance with coan,er,et aad
on the principle that 1T takes money
to make money" causes the young
mine owner to flash bad bills to en-
tice good stock to his venture
For three acts this chase of investors
with good money to bury stock IN a du-
bious mine because of the golden ga
.mor of counterfeit yellowbacks that
stood for success, was excitingly hu-
morous from start to finish. And while
the ultra-cultured moralist might OBJ
ject to the Ives method of hoodwinking
detective into his freedom. as
triumph of vice over virtue. he was
obviously not in the audience last
night Mr. Wayne emphasized his role
of IAN international character" by CIV
ing to it the old world elegance of the
diplomat; a spice of Bret Harte's John
Oakb,lrst. gambler: the conventionality
of the modern society man and a COM
pelling personality entirely his own.
Russell Fillmore. Stanley James. Frank
Shannon and Henry Hull. as the owners
of good checks bent on exchanging them
for stock that the classics call ''phony,'