Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-02-24
Barrie Is Thin
But Volatile IN
New Whimsy
Maude A d a ms Charms
New York in Kiss for
Cinderella

THIN or airy? It Just depends on your
L fondness for Barrie which word you ap.
ply to his new comedy "a Kiss for Cinde-.
rella," in which Maude Adams is now ap-
pearing at the Empire Theatre in New York
No Barrie play OF filmer texture has ever
crossed the Atlantic Yet II Barrie is Bar
rie. what higher commentator could kiss
for Cinderella" receive? Here Is the fam
tasla OF continent raised TO the nth degree.
For action, we have II polcemans grave
suspicious OF little Miss Thing sick little
slavy on the edge of feverlsh deirum, and
forever talking Of the nah at the palace
and how she can get in his invasion, heav-
iy disguised Of her penny shop" where
everything from tailoring and hair cuts to
medicine is the Same modest price; his
discovery that she is only little nerve
wrecked girl who goes TO sleep In the snow
waiting for the BALI the marvellous mad
ball Of her delirlous dream, and finally a
very difficult proposal between "bobbie" and
Cinderella over the counterpane OF her hos
pital bed
But that ball, CAnd. Of course. the bits
of Barrie-isms that MI the other three
acts). Ravshngly beautiful Ia the great
white and gold ballroom which Miss Adams
has made out Of a MaXheld Parrish paint
ing and beautiful IL Cinderella when she
and queen, sittug in their gilt rocking
chairs the policeman all rugged up in the
lovely white kniCkers OF the prince, but
quite unable to keep awake during the
selecting of n beauty to we'd him the four
or five famous beauties that Cinderella's s
restless brain has translated from famous
| paintings to serve as her rivals for the
| prince tho Censor in skintiEht black with
| his executioners AK and Lord Times. be-
| fore whom every one quailsi ana then the
| test by the thermometer t99 degrees of
! CourSe) to see II the ladies have Just the
| proper proprietv for n princess a test he
! it added, which cinderella. madly wooed
| by the once sleepy prince, now irreYocably
| insists must be applied-eugenic-w -wise-to
prince as well as princess-to-be
Good fun, all this, thin fun; but Barrie
| fun.
| There will soon be Masks and Wigs on
| the green, The Forrest announces the an
nual students show for Easter week This
year it is "Mr. Rip Van Wrinkle"
with the Mask and Wig habit firmly
| affixed the Forrest Is going to break all
| ordinary booking habits by bringing back
| Miss Springtime" after the New York run
which followed its production here in the
| fall.
Good news and bad comes from the
| Knickerbocker Theatre. Eugenie Blair.
long a Philadelphia favorite will join the
stock company March 5. but only because
of the enforced wlthdrawal-for health =
sake, after a long and trying seasou-of
the present leading lady Anna Doherty
| Miss Dohcrty, as many Knlckerbockerites
know. is the wife of the manager of the
theater, Carl Wolf Miller
+. Zegfeld; Jr,, is planning, according
to the New York Telegraph, to produce
"the kind OF drama that wears clothes -
He admits he is looking for plays to pro-
duce Maybe it's n reaction from recent
court decision that Gus Hill may use the
words "Folles Of 1917" in the title of a
musical show IL he features his own name
just as prominently
The Frohman company is to produce
new play by that prolific writer of English
successes and American failures Horace
Annesley Vachel. II is called "The case
of Lady Gambler" and the cast includes
I.yn Harding Mary Boland Sydney Shields
H. e. Herbert. w, L. Abingdon, Kate Ser
geantson, Louie Emery, Shirley Aubert and
Henry Dornton
| Brooklyn is so worked up over the pres
ent state of the drama that it is insttutng
no fewer than two local companies to Civ,
it the sort of plays 1t thinks it wants. one
is called the Brooklyn Repertory Theatre
and the other the Brooklyn Community
| Theatre X. NJ.