Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-11
,Kitty MacKay' Is 'Bunty'
I'D Half a Dozen Others

'klJJy M MdSAN''J
and Half a Dozen Others
,cxAy comedy by Catherine
KITil.as Nous cushing. Adelph Theatre ,,,,o.
sT1sneNab .... Miss blanche M MoHlton Soi1to
III MscSPsbo SPbsrsor, Miss Estelle MCCULLOUGH
lssn hafetigor aMfetiTegor John f. ,G,laancy
sasdy MseNao.......Nis Miss Eleanor Daniels
Ey David Graham Of the ,islqS GSldstTsap s Power
rSG H,5dsi sirayson Mr. B9nys southern 2uiysr,
ginge gersyson MiIf Mr N2sfsrSs Waiisce ErsEIns kHi
Lord Inslehar'' .....,... Mr.. robert ireland
T5s@'i '46e Home q the MncNaGs Ss q prs pT9 wing
eehg og ~ lord ingeharts House n Lond9ni ,..
Room ,,,er' ~ " Act itI,-The MacNabs' Sttins
,.,,,,, herself is at a good deal OF pains
n,oir ber resemblance to Cinderella;
.,ncb in fact that Miss Gushing gives
Tho impression that she is trying to
,,, vou off the track about the real
..,,,sdents and close relatives OF kitty
s,..xoy" But the ancestry of the jolly
niov at the Adelph isn't half so
,.h IN doubt as that of Kitty herself.
o,n,t miss its various parents-all
,onr or five Of them.
iouI ~ ;, NJ course. to start with. There.
~ scottish dialect and the Scottish
s,.n,or Picking out the day when Mac
n.nnsor was sober" it goes on to explain
~. CORY blight of Kitty, for whom Sab
tne . eeInol is the one dissipation And
psi .r. /, ulinpcs into the sad tale of her
,,latlyes' il-treatment of her 1t remem-
NE IN salt the pathos with such delecta-
sls Scottish notions as remouldlng the
.,,.,s nearer to the Presbyterian hearts
'tha hrnZnn hpRntg
acr ,i,le we learn the Scotsman's opin-
2. es n the English. II may not be the
s.aros, mystery of kitty's life that her
sss5nle was enga ged to an Engllshman.
~, a is very good to learn that she had
~ racioi self-respeCt not to sleep for a
seek after she heard OF 1t.
Tbere is more still of "Bunty" In the
,oively melodramatic hints at the dark
sss, "Think If the truth should come
pn," ", saws the uncle who lives off the
roney willed for Kitty's upkeep. while he
i"aves her in rags. "Ah," says his friend
md conspirator, "only you an me an
Inc old un knows
part of the secret-one of them, Tor
Ki,tv s loaded down with ancestral mys-
,sres-comes out quite promptly ana
,,na tho affair once for all into femi-
nine version of "The Good Little Devil"
We sort of suspected 1t from the beat
,ngs and cuttings and general devilishness
N uncle and aunt. What clinches 1t, is
10 learn from a handsome young officer
that Kitty is the niece or ward or some
thing Of Lord lnglehart
Next London and Scottish Peg
Nv Heart" But neither lasts very long.
For though Kitty is quite evidently close
hin TO the ructous Irish lass, she finds
that the poor are cruel and the rich
hind Which is not according to the
pergian gospel: but. then, Ingleharts are
naturally where the hooks come from.
As for the rapid disappearance of Lon
don Kitty runs back TO her very abom-
Inabe Scottish home for the more trench
ant Of reasons. 1t involves the entry or
The Continental drama into this evening of
comparison and reminscence. The par
tlcular European play is one "kinder.
BY Hermann Bahr, in which a young man
Tread the handsome young officer and son
Of Lord Gnglehart finds that his sweet
heart Tread Kitty is really his sister, as
the result of an early affair of his
fathers. Bahr solved the difficulty in still
more Continental fashion by having the
boy also turn out to have different par
snts from those he imagined. Miss Cush-
Ing Just rakes up another mystery OF
kltty's past via that mysterious remark:
Think II the truth should come OUT"
The real daughter died long ago and the
Uncle palmed off an orphan in order to
keep the allowance going.
Now It is quite evident that the humor
makes "Kitty MacKay" good entertain
tlent for the sophisticated while the sem
tlment and even the mysteries help out
the fun with more old-fashioned play
goers. Add 1860 costumes, which for some
unknown reason always accompany any
Scottish dialect. and the result is sure
FIRE success II the acting Is good
The acting undoubtedly was good last
night. II We concentrate on a few of the
principal parts. Eleanor Daniels, with
the best Scots In the cast, Mayme David
son a close second, John f. Clancy and
Jock Grau as dour old men, and Margaret
Calvert and Wallace Erskine as the very
best that mere English people could be.
made up for many shortcomings else
where As for Kitty herself, in the person
OF Irene Haisman. she was n creature OF
rare charm. Youth, spirit, fun and good
Scottish accent-she had them all.