Rock Island Argus., 1915-02-11
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tions prevail. but the auditor cares
I nothing for that. He has been prom
| ised clean amusement. He has paid
| for IL and he gets II in fun measure in
I the comedies mentioned The Mis-
leading Lady gets its title from the
false iove-making of a young woman
who is to be given the role of the
siren in a play pending production in
the event she wins a wager TO force
certain young man 10 propose to
her. She wins and then is obliged to
make explanations to the one she has
lured. AT first he is heart-broken.
then he RECEIVERS himself and gives a
rreachment on the wiles practiced by
women to appeal TO men. laying par
ticular stress upon the incompleteness
OF their bodily apparel-exposure of
the ankle. breast, shoulders. etc. II
Is all unfair. he asserts. The actress
disagrees with him and says he does
not understand woman. He should
study her. He decides to do that very
thing. The actress is kidnapped and
whisked away TO a lodge in the noun
tains TO be denied the luxurious sur
roundings she has been accustomed to
and to be given opportunity to see the
mere primitive in life. The man had
lately returned from Patagonia, where
he had associated for several years
with the cannibals. There idea of love
was different than in America. IL was
brutal. though intense. and lasting.
The siren Is treated 10 the Patagonian
style OF affection. For instance. she
is chained to a chair in the cabin so
she can not run away. She weeps and /
pleads to be released. but in vain. I
When the owner of the lodge and his /
captive have been in the cabin for 4
some hours they hear strange voice. /
II proves TO be that CT a lunatic who .
has escaped from a nearby asylum.
He imagines himself Napoleon. Will
liam Lawrence makes this one OF the
strongest characters of the play-al-
ternately funny and pathetic, and with
out offensiveness.
OF course. another man is engaged
to the misleading lady. He follows
the kidneper in an automobile. threat
ening to kill him on sight. When he
arrives at the lodge the girl has flown
after she has assaulted her captor
with a telephone. infiicting a cash in
his head and rendering him insensi-
BILE. She wanders in the woods bare
foot. and finally returns, half exhaust
ed. as her lover (who makes the claim
TO the kidnaper that the girl is his
wife) Is about 10 start in search for
her. To be sure. the girl is not in
love with the pursuing admirer ,
Neither is she his wife. She never
the sincerity and manliness !
OF the proposal she received under false :
pretenses. and OF course she marries the ,
man who treated her like cannibal, !
but she knows in her heart all the
time that he does not mean to wound ,
her feelings: that he was simply try !
ing TO prove his love for her.
The company was well balanced and r
the staging adequate. Among the per- J
formers those deserving OF special /
mention are F. B. Hersome and Eileen I
O'Malley. who had the roles of the l
xidnaper and the misleading lady. and I
MFR. Lawrence. who essayed the role I
Of the lunatic. I
Otto Hauerbach. who made the Ii /
bretto of High Jinks,' which Arthur d
will present at the Illi-
nois Saturday. is the author of "The s
Attorney" Bright Eyes, e
Three Twins" Madame Sherry" O
Dr. de Luxe "The Fascinating Wild g
,w." "The Girl of Ny Dreams" and n
The Crinoline Girl" Z