El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-11-06

profitable business, on the old lines.
with the two always quarreling but
always mutually admiring partners
both in it again
In a dramatization Of Edna Ferber's
popular magazine stories with George
V. Hobart furnishing the stage techni-
Que Ethel Barrymore adds new laurels
to her crown as Our Mrs McChesney,"
at the Lyceum theater.
She plays the role Of the big-heaTted
saIeswoman who made T. a. Bucks
HeatherbIoom petticoats a household
word throughout the United States and
then triumnhantly carried them TO
South America
Miss Barrymore not only acts Emma
AIcChesney. but looks the PARTICLES It.
She makes one realize that the inter
esting American business woman. whom
we have known and loved so well, is
an actual reality Mrs McChesney. as
we all know. has passed that time IN
life that might be referred TO as girl
ish- She has a son who is married
Miss Barrymore probably made her
a younger Mrs McChesney than Edna
Ferber intended the character to be.
She was handsome, slender, almost
girlish.
But EnaL only duue0 10 uEl EAldll
although one did have TO close ones
eyes at times to imagine her as the
mother OF the big, strong, manly, Jock
Her Interpretation Of the character was
50 enthusiastically received that at the
close Of the second act she was forced
to respond to almost a dozen curtain
calls.
The story OF Emma AIcChesney is too
well known TO be retOld- Miss ferber
and Mr.. Hobart have merely picked out
H.nr- Of Interesting scenes
of the magazine stories, and woven
. them together into play
Naturally. the action OF the play
opens ION the road where Mrs Nc
introducing the T A. Buck Heather
/ bloom articles Of wearing apparel lot
| women. The first act is laid IN Motel
in Sandusl1y. O.; the second shows the
/ salesroon OF the T. A. Buck Heather
bloom company. while the third IS d.
vided into two scenes-the private Of
flee Of T. A. Buck. head Of the firm,
and the COY apartment on Riverside
| Drive, of which Mrs. McChesney always
! dreamed and which became reality
after she married Mr. Buck. her Dusl-
ness llrtner-
Miss Barrymore has been surrounded
with a supporting cast~ OF unusual
merit. William BOYD was most delight
fully cast as T. A Buck, jr-. while Don
aid Gallagher. as Jock, Mrs McChes-
ney's big son. who went into the al
D
the start, was manly and real W. H.
st. James and Hugh Dtlman. as Irav-
cling saIesmen- Lola Fisher as JOCK s
wife: GwendOlyn Piers. as the slangy
stenographer. and a. Romaine Callen-
der. as the business rival Of the T. A.
Buck concern, were all capital
Christine Norman. who played so
long in Peg o. Ny Heart and is now
making a success in The Unchastened
Sc Iarrnhfnw of the North
land and her tall, blonde beauty shows
Miss Norman had that background OF
careful general education that is deslr-
able in all the arts; the more me per
ter of il. Born in Cincinnati OF
Scandinavian father and an American
mother. she was taken early 10 farls
for Continental education She gained
it not only in school but in travel She
did an art museum week ana sa"
four good plays a fortnight.
in Paris I met a great American
star" she said Somehow II seemed
that in my chats with him ali that
had been learning and thinking ana
living converged to the one point
expressed it in a sentence, ] want TO
20 on the stage He did not seem
terminedly. but I don't know how /
know absolutely nothing about the
theater except that love it
Since you know nothing about It it
would be better to go back to America
and go to one Of the dramatic schools
Il wonder how often you have heard
the remark. Ny parents were opposed
TO my going on the stage Mine were
1 wrote my father Of my wish The
reply was discouraging but not suffi-
GENTLY discouraging. Father was OF
the usual parental opinion that should
marry. I wasn't ] wrote him that his
view was dictated by my being a girl
If I were a boy / wrote him, YOU
would give me every opportunity You
would send me TO college and give me
a start in a business on profession
He wrote me, In that case I'll see
you through I came to New York and
took a course in the Sargent American
Academy Of Dramatic Arts Mr.. Be
lasco's late stage manager, VIII Dean.
saw me in a commencement OF the
school He suggested me- to head
road company Of The Darling Of the
Gods"
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