Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-01-22
NE Tempest in One
of the Old Ones

OF the Old OneS
.,i old "Divorconsp and "The Mar
= 1x,,ty"-no comedienne is COM
~ -it,out them. Grace George pre-
arst. Marie Tempest turns up
4. other. Nobody can accuse 'Di-
of not holding its place Justly;
,Aes has never been better done.
4. THE Marriage Of Kitty" with a
"a who falls in love with his wife
haa married her only to get n
,he snme idea has been worked
wv over again and just about MS
~ good deal Of puzzle why an old
,,ss the one that Miss Tempest acted
"A Lyric last night gets such an
X hoid on our stage. "The Marriage
.s,s, "a amusing enough and not at
& ,-s,. usorked out. But even American
h,.,lghts have done just as well-"No-
N. widow" and "A Woman's Way"
4 ,..,ance. Possibly 1.-THE Marriage of
8 ...,.s, vas 80 astonishingly good in its
,hst n won what might be called a
4 N.srant ''stccess de surprise" Perhaps
tc..noh oomedienne carried 1t to unend-
q !. s.me by her impersonation of that
s.,..irg link in the matrimonial chain"
I s.,ia tempest did something like that
z. .,ght In spite of the fact that the
s y N the company insisted on spelling
n. enod points by taking a lot of 1t
~ bid. id.fashioned farce-emphasis, 1t was
s J. smuslng performance by reason of the
Il n, n ,he case Miss Tempest was her
- sn,nslng self, wore some ducks" of
4 ..r, and raised the Billie Burke prob
+ M again
p.rs were giggles and squeals and kit
e-.h ways. Just like In Burke's. And
! n Now different. Somehow Miss Tenn
4 y, avets away with It," She seems to
4 [. song all that sort of thing out of
=, Illness Of bubblinE spirits. She isn't
.S,,ls girl showing off. She Is a mature
-.msn full of priceless vitality and not
,b,N TO show It in the cheerfullest of
rpnslbe ways.
vim 'The Marriage of Kitty" went as
enolete contrast In curtain-raiser as
,ruA be Imagined, dour little realistic
hntasy by Harold Chaplin called "The
nnsst and the Blind" Realistic because
dsalt frankly, unvarnishedly with the
rscr of slum London. A fantasy because
trw out of the harsh. pickering talk
x mud-bargee and his wife a strange
tuth Of the philosophical.
no bullying husband, who has origin
NJ been away all but ono night week,
announces that he has new job to keep
Nm q home, and the wife. whom we
lhould expect to find n good deal dis
biased at this new opportunity for nag
tng falls to praying in half-hearted,
mwiAlng sort Of way to God that has
rgm her little more of her man. The
Eomtnt when this stirs the husband and
VI friend to puzzle over this rum
void" Is curlously poignant with the con-
tndctlon Of what the life of some people
les been made and what 1t might be.
The piece is hardly dramatic or swift
b movement, but 1t Is thoroughly sound
h pOrtraiture, stimulating in conception
ird mighty well acted by Mr.. Browne as
ha husband.
lAcmpson, Specialist in Preachers
IN this age or personalities" on the
Iaga and specialization In industry Il Is
" q much OF a surprise to encounter a
gtaallst In preachers like William II.
lhompson, who plays the Patriarch in |
Tao Miracle Man" The real surprise !
: ne lengths to which he has pushed his |
ihaness for ecclesiastical parts
DO you know" he says, that l have |
sAysd every church character on the |
Nase With the single exception of His |
Holiness the Pope? 1 played the Able |
2 1he Pearl of Savoy the minister in |
tEed and Twenty Friar Lawrence in /!
AQneo and juliet the chief elder in |
ihs Little Minister with Maude Adams; |
tne cardinal In Tine Royal Family the |
laaop In The Bishops Move, the Rabbi |
\ ne Wise Rabbi and now am playing |
ne Rtriarch in The Miracle Man.
Ethel Barrymore's New Play
Atlantic City has lately seen n play
|. la.ansplanted from Paris by the method |
a,l gave us "The Prodigal Husband"
~ WIN happier results. 1t is a version |
4 paro Niccodemis "L'Ombre," made |
Michael Morton and entitled THE |
sladow." Easily the most important |
YEN &oout II is that Ethel Barrymore, |
!. part which Nine. Rejane played In |
'ahA has returned to drama of serious |
mort.
Ine Shadow" tells of a long sickness
'len keeps Berthe Tregnier a bedridden |
"a ai best, chair-ridden-invalld for |
'.lI years. In the interval her hus-
-lqs love wanders away from her and |
.,tshs upon her best friend. In the sec /
"a "a oi the three acts, Berthe, played by |
we Barrymore. learns that her friend |
y. nqrne child to her husband So far,
.tss.laper \. accounts veil the outcome of
Ess Notes
1sswoFth. Inoorporated's, impressive
junction Of the film version of 1.-The
y wolf" seems to have convinced three
..aota' Guy Bolton, Robert Milton and
.,spa Noel, as we'll as one manager,
~ sssrn, that there is a profitable play
'ase London's novel.
(. n pad season for the regular theatres,
= 'AuaeYllle houses have one very Inn