The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1916-03-28

friends wonder IL ever she would be well
again.
But Poliyanna did get WELL Didn't
God promise 1t on the day of the Grip
pling accident by flooding John PEN
dleton's library with the tridescent
| lights OF a rainbow when the Glad
1 Girl sat all doubled UP In a big chair
with everybody fearful for her future?
When there seemed no hope of the
glad feet ever speeding on their err
/ rands OF lore again didn't John Pen
dleton just send her on to a great doc
I tor in Paris, and when she came home
with the little feet dancing once again
wasn't Jimmy Bean right on deck with
! his splendid school record, and his
nice line of newly discovered aristo-
cratic ancestors?
And weren't there DR.. Chiffon and
Aunt Polly with their autumn romance
Icuminated in Paris, and John Pendle-
ton as proud and happy as the strut
tingest cock of the whole barnyard?
Well, you can just bet your last dol
lar that nothing less than these. and
many similar happinesses, crowned
IPollyanna's radiant. tender young life,
and we went trailing out of the Ma
tional .Theater last evening with sall
sorts of determinations about eradi-
eating our own tendencies to whine,
and grumble, and growl.
And all the while we kept thinking
of what an exquisite creature Patricia
Collinge made of the Glad Girl.
Miss Collinse was a very lovely Youth
| In "Everywoman,'' a charming young
girl in The New Henrietta" and a
| pretty enough incentive for the stunts
Douglas Fairbanks accomplished in "A
Regular Business Man" when Miss
Collinge supported him in that efrerves-
cent sketch in her last appearance here
| at keith's, but upon none of these oc-
casions has she had such opportunity
as Is afforded her in Pollyanna for dis
playing the rich tonal qualities of her
voice or demonstrating the spirituelle
charm Of her personality. Her every &C
cent, every gesture, every expression
so impresses with the purpose of the
Polyanna books land the play that mere
ly transfers their message TO the stage)
that she becomes just the wonderful
embodiment of their bouysnt gladness-
a tender thought of God msterialized. /
have never seen anything more beauti-
| full, more natural, more appealing than
Miss Collinge az she stands before the
picture of her lovely young mother re-
vealed suddenly to her In John Pendle-
| tons librarys crying out from the depth
OF her soul the great. great yearning for
that mother-love which none other can
replace.
1t Is an enhancing. finely balanced,
| Joyous work which Miss Collinse achieves
In this beautiful little play of glAdness
and she is surrounded by an excellent
cast which includes Efie Shannon as
the lovely Aunt Polly; Herbert Kelley
as DR.. Chiffon: Arthur Forrest as John
| Pendleton; Master Bobby Tobin as
Jimmy Bean at IL summers. and Lorir
Raker impersonating him at II: Jessie
Busley as Nancy Harry Barfoot as Pen
dleton's butler, and Maude Hosford
Helen Weathersby and Maude Granger
visualizing the Ladies' Aiders"
| In the matter of scenic investiture Kla~
& Erlanger and George Tyler have
| given Pollyanna two attractive mount.
ings, the library of John Pendleton being
exceptionally artistic in its luxurious and
digniied atmosphere.