The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1915-09-25
SINNERS SEASONS BEST
DRAMA, DRAWS POORLY

While Winnemucca theatre-goers are
noted for their almost unerring advance
judgment of the merits of plays, and
govern their patronage accordingly,
they missed fire last evening Although
" Sinners is without doubt the best
attraction of its kind ever offered by
the Nixon, the house was rather disap-
pointing.
The plot is woven around an unso-
phisticated country girl, who goes to
New York to earn money for an inva-
lid mother. Failing to secure employ
ment, she is discovered and assisted by
young girl from her native town,
who arrived in New York some five or
six years previously, on the same er-
rand. But this girl was not so fortu-
nate as to find a lady friend to help
her out of her difficulties, but made up
with Willie Morgan, a typical old
rounder Of considerable means. At the
house of her friend, Hilda Newton,
Mary Horton, the tenderfoot, is intro
dueed to another couple, Polly Cary
and Joe Garfield, who have failed to
60 through the formality of a marriage
for the principal reason that Garfield
is already a married man with a fam
lily of children. Bob Merriek, youlg
miner from the Canadian Northwest,
with newly-made money, completes the
company into which the heroine is
thrown
After weeks of unsuccessful quest
for honest employment, Mary Horton
comes TO her friends home one even
irg, and after considerable urging, de
cides to ego the route As she is
di essing to go out with the party for
night $ entertainment, she is called
unon by a man from her own home,
Horace Worth, who tells her that her
mother is dying, and Mary returns to
her country home.
Some little time afterwards, in max.
ing an automobile trip, the "push T"
passes through the village and calls
M on Mary at her home. While there
Hllda is recognized by her first flame,
the village doctor, who forgives and
afterwards marries her Incidentally
II may be mentioned that before Hilda
consents to this arrangement the doe
tor informs her that he has been left
large fortune, which of course makes
il easy for Hilda to give up her old
associations. In the end Bob Merrlek
marries Mary Horton.
While Mary Horton is the supposed
heroine, all ten members of the com.
panv are stars. and if there is any
choice among the lady artists, the title
of leading lady should be given 20
Polly Cary, who graduated from an or
phan asylum to become the mistress OF
rich Young New Yorker. She is en-
dowed with that keen precoeiousness
seen in newsbOys and other "gutter-
spipes' of the city, and while ont for
The money! has a tender spot for the
unfortunate. Her conception of the
part she plays is perfect and she was
easily the favorite with the audience,
dividing honors with Willie Morgan,
the unrepentant ~ojnder, who is GLAD
q. il and too ol a - switch.
The strongest scenes of the play are
enacted at the village home of Mar
Horton. Particularly striking is the
situation where home services are held
o.. Sunday evening, and all the visit
ors are given h. IN books to sing to
the organ accompaniment of Polly
Cary, who no doubt is exhibiting her
single accomplish ment provided by tae
orphan asylum. This homely scene
brings back TO average patrons in
cidents of the days of their youth, and
ADDS greatly to the popularity of the
play
II is probable that this drama, writ
ten by Owen Davis and presented bv
William A. Brady, viii run for years
In many respects il is modernization
of the "Old Homestead" in which
Denman Thompson played the leading
rcle of "Josh Whiteomb" for more
than a quarter of a century.