Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-03-07

right here that Miss Renee Kelly is not
the only attractive girl in Mr.. Millers
present company: more winsome and at
| tractive maids are seldom seen on the
stage than the Misses Tomlinson and
Morrissey. who play the roles of Judy's
roommates at the girls college, and any
one who has ever paid visit to a soror-
ity house or a girls dormitory will reeog-
nize the realism they put into the scene.
| .
Henry Miller will give another per-
Torrance OF Daddy Long-Legs' at the
Brandeis theater tonight. 1t has been
many years since Mr.. Miller has offered
| to American audiences a play with so
tender an appeal to the heart, and it
Is not surprising that patrons of the
! Brandeis have requested an extra per
Torrance of the beautiful stage story
| Daddy. Long-Legs," is we'll being de-
| fined as a comedy of buoyant youth.
No one is too old or too blase to resist
the whimsicality. the tender sentiment
the appealing charm of this twentieth
century version OF Cinderella and Prince
Charming. There is an audience in every
corner of the land for a tale so thor
oughly refreshing.
Mr.. Miller has found in the title char
acter of Daddy Long-Legs." just the
sort of role in which his sincerest ad-
mirers like TO see him. His acting in
new romantic comedy, has all the vigor
and force he showed in many of his
greatest former successes, and IL also
| Is characterized by a tenderness and
simplicity that give tremendous added
value to the inherent worth OF Jean
Websters remarkable play. His own
| portrayal of Daddy Lorg-Legs" hassfor
a setting really remarkable ensemble
work by the superb cast which is sup
porting him during his engagement here.
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| Everyone who has read Daddy Long
| Legs will ne interested I'm knowing how
its author, Miss Jean Webster. adapted
her delightful story to the stage. Aside
/ from the tremendous success of the COM
edy, the fact that Henry Miller worked
with Miss Webster in the preparation of
the dramatization is a sufficient guaran-
tee to people who know Mr. Miliers
methods that the story loses nothing of
| its original charm in the stage version
AS a matter of fact. according to every
one who has read the book and seen
the play, the latter far surpasses the
| original narrative.
For example, the very title of the
story was only hurriedly explained in
Judy Abbott's letters to her dear Daddy
Long-Legs. In the comedy the audience
is given a very clear understanding Of
the mental processes that led up to the
selection OF this nickname for her bene-
factor by the grateful little girl.
When Judy is told by her one friend
at the John Grier home that a mysterl-
Gus benefactor has decided to send her 10
college, where she is to have pretty
clothes and a liberal spending allowance,
the amazed girl begs to know something
= about this unknown friend. She is told
, that she is never TO see him and never %
, know his name. There is Just one thing
however. which the kind-hearted woman
who tells her the good news can do. and
, she does IL
You cannot see him." she tells the
girl, but If you will look out of the
window at the wall across the way you
, can see his shadow cast by the search
|. lights Of the automobile"
The girl looks and eXclaims:
/, MY, what funny legs he has. And
that is my Daddy. The only Daddy
ever had. ! know what Ill call him. I'll
call him my Daddy Long-Legs'
It is hardly necessary 20 add that
coming as 1t does Immediately after thC
pathetic opening scene in the John GrieI
home this little episode tugs at the
heart-strings OF an audience. And the
gasp Of delight that comes at the be
ginning of the next act Is very genuine
j when the audience sees the former little
slave blossomed out into a happy col
lege girl, clothed In one OF the pretty
; frocks she had never expected 70 own IL
the long years she toiled as the drudg,
q Of the John GrieT home.
II Two stellar features scheduled for thi
week at the Orpheum are Emma CAru
i and the distinguish French actress
Nine. Yorska, who viii appear Il
the forceful one-act play called Day
y of War" YorEka II making this he