New-York tribune., 1918-01-29

Given fair start, "Succcss" ought
to spread out tcntaclcs like an octopus
and draw the residents from whole sec
tions on both sides of the town. within
certain limits. 1t will be appreciated
wherever human nature exists in q
natural, unspoiled state. "Succcss" is
made up Of n number Of tried and true
ingredients of theatrical fare, includ-
ing pathos and humor stirred in with
al, unsparing hand. To likcn it to "The
Two Orphans" or EAST Lynne is merely
to say that it has the "hcart stuff"
The theme Of the play is drink, or
rather regeneration following enamel
patton from the curse. A satire on the
theatrical producing business is thrown
in, and much intimate knowledge as re
CARDS the ways of Thcspians. man
ayers and stage angels. The canvas is
so wide. in fact. that the necessity may
readily be perceived of at least four acts
and the passage of some score of years
during the progress Of the drama.
The green room Of theatre, always
a milieu of piquant interest to the gen
cral public, was tho scene in which the
personagcs Of the play were quite
appropriately introduced TO the audi
ence. for they represented Il company
Of players holding 81 celebration. Barry
Carlton was engrosscd with pressing an
offer Of marriage on Jane Arlington,
which she as pcrsistently refused, with
an air Of mysterious agony. Although
it appeared twenty years later that she
was not to blame in any way. her man
ner tended at the time to raise the sus-
pensc and lend color to the warning Of
an old actor to Carlton that Miss
Arlington had had a "swectheart.'
Just rs Carlton was about convinced
that he didn't want to marry Jane
after all she came back and accepted
him, so he was doomed to life Of
doubt and drink and quarrclling, and
quarrclling and drink and doubt, until
finally he had to pretend that he had
died in Australia in order not to dis
grace his daughter.
Rose was twenty when she got her
chance to play Cordelia in a company
in which she found several compeers
Of her father, a strange coincidence.
but not so strange perhaps as the light
manner in which the fecting years
had touched them ali. The star, most
mother was firmly opposed to match
with an actor Thus arose the oppor-
tunity Of the very dishonorable person
who was putting up the money for
the show.
SO it befell that Rose exhibited the
inherited tendency to eccentric be-
havior as soon as the man she loved
popped the question, and The young
star betook himself to the saloon
across the the way. whore he partook
copiously Of drugs administered by
the "villain." 1t was the first per-
Torrance Of "Lcar," and the constcr-
nation of all hands was great, but the
broken down, self -cffacing old timer
who permitted every one to believe il
they would that his bones were rotting
in Australia, came to the fore and
, gave the greatest impcrsonaton of the
mad king since the last he had rivcn
in those parts.
BY this time there were numerous
odds and ends of drama lying around
loose that had to be cleared away by
methods of lingering indircction be-
: fore "Success" was achieved 1t would
not have done at all, for instance, if
anybody had happened to inform Rose
that her dear old friend who had saved
the whole show was her father. or that
her lover was lot drunkard at all
but had merely been poisoned bv the
man she pretended to prefer. THOUGH
she didn't
The role of Barry Carlton offered
Mr.. lyman unusual scope for depictinp
the various emotions of a sentiment.
character part, and he was at times
suggestive of Dave Warfeld in "'Thc
Music Master" A pretticr Cordelia
is rarely seen than Marion Coaklev,
Helen Holmes as Jane Arlington. Jess
Dandy as "Mikc" Lewis and Lionel
Glenister ably bore much Of the brunt
of the action ~