Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-25
FIVE STARS in
, SPARKLING PLAY
Story of Stock Exchange, With
Love and Intrigue interviewer,
Pleases Orpheum Goers

The presence of William II. Crane.
Thomas w. Rose, Maclyn Arbucllle,
Amelia Bingham and Edith Taliaferro
(order of succession, be it emphatic
ally said, being not in precisely the
same ratio as to popular reception last
evening" in THE New Henrietta" at
the Orpheum made for the presen-
tation of a four-act comedy richer in
clever situations and more sparkling
with clean-cut wit and humor than
has been seen in Harrisburg for many
q day. Founded on Bronson Howard s
famous comedy, THE New Henrietta
by reason of the aggregation of stars
who make up the cast, must be a vast
improvement over THE Henrietta"
from which it was adapted; must be,
] say, because ii is hard to imagine
wherein the famous old comedy can
possibly have been better than the new
one.
The beauty of the play was in its
wonderful sense of balance. One was
was not compelled to riVet ones atten-
tion exclusively upon particular indi-
Nidual, and the large and enthusiastic
audience was ever on the qui vive to
discover some coup that would enable
the palm of superiority to be handed
10 one or another of the five stars. 1t
is absolutely impossible to sit down
and cold -bloodedly try to figure out
who carried off the individual honors.
il simply can't be done. William II.
Crane. as the genial old millionaire
broker with a keen mind but tender
and susceptible heart, was unsur-
passed. Thomas w. Ross as BERTHE,
the headless. coat-model type of indi-
Nidual who, in spite of his Intellectual
efforts to take his seat on the stock
exchange, has the real stuff hidden
away beneath Il veneer of simplicity
and cheerful vapidity, won the heart
of every single individual in the audi
cnce by the beautiful, inimitible, unin-
fIected way in which he pronounced
the name of his beloved Agnes. Mac
lyn Arbuckle breezed in as the Rev.
Murray Hilton. a fashionable clergy
man. a cigaret- smoking, willtng-to-
talIe-a-chance on - flier-on-the-eN-
change, altogether human sort of
clergyman, whose delightfully."- mincinE
step and winning ways somehow lacked
the dignity of the clergy but detracted
not whit from the truenesS TO life
which characterized the entire pro
duction.
Now that the men have received
some attention. it is the turn of the
fairer members of the cast. Here |
pause for want of adequate words TO
describe the dainty petiteness of little
Edith Taliaferro, whose acting was the
acme of charm and simplicity; and
the mature, nonchalant, but wholly
capable way in which Amelia Bingham
Nndled the part of the fashionable
widow, Cornelia Opdyke, one to cause
the hearts of the old dog of a broker
Und the portly but clipper clergyman
30 hutter as with the trembling of the
first call of love.
The "villain." too. came in for his
share of praise, although to his credit
he il said that he received very little
applause. 1t is strange that an audi
ence will not applaud the man who
commits the crime. although it is
rather roundRoout but emphatic assur-
anCe that he us carrying out his part
10 perfection. Arthur S. Hull as DR..
Wainwright. Malcolm Bradley as Mus
grave. the old mans private secre-
tary. and the others. rounded out the
ca ST i'm a way that left the best sort OF
taste i'm the mouths of those who went
10 the Orpheum to be entertained and
who were decidedly not disappointed.
MAX ROBERTSON.