El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-01-17
Delightful Is
Mid, applied
To This Shoe
Country Cousin Is An
Effervescent Joy, Fea-
turing, Real Artists.

Contrasting the lives Of two dis
tinct classes Of people-''those who
carry wicker suit cases and those
who do not" as the semi-hero puts at;
those who wish to became ancestors
and those who are content TO be de-
scendents.r as the heroine aptly puts
it, The Country Cousin as a play.
is a gem in a literary and a dramatic
sense.
It is difficult to conceive the charm
Of the play from the title. Starting in
a small Ohio town, among the gentle
folk who hang in their parlors pic
lures Of Washington Crossing the
Delaware" and aspire from childhood
to senatorships. and shifting thence to
New York, where those composing
the stratum on the outer edge Of So
cfety ape those really in, it contrasts
the sturdy. patriotic. ambitious.
Worthwhile westerner with the idle,
vicious class Of fasteners who. hav-
ing secured a little money see moth
ing outside the run they can get in
the caharets or in initiating their
wealthy acQuaintances in seashore
amusements and are so absorbed IN
their own little sphere OF life that
they get all mi1od up over Idaho,
Ohio and Iowa"
The play is wholesome and it is so
brim fun Of comedy that il Just natur-
ally snaps and bubbles all the time.
II is Just ane continuous delightful
Joy. drawn out in four acts. with elan-
crate scenery and a cast that could
not be more Ideally selected.
The characters are real-they live
every DAY in the very environment
where Booth Harrington and Julian
Street have placed them-and in this
they are different from the stage char
actors we see so often One cannot just
recall when one has seen anything
ike il, anything quite so good as this
show; anything in which the CHAR
acters seemed quite so real Where
they lived and breathed and talked
quite so naturally and did Just the
things YOU thought they ought to do
While Miss Alexandra Carlisle is
starred in the cast, Alfred Lunt
shares the honors with her. in fact
one would be doing an injustice 10
both TO try TO pick the best II Miss
Carlisle is positively charming. and
she is. then Mr.. Lunt is positively
fascinating In a thankfess rOle-tnat
Of the caddish son Of a rich mamie
accomplshes the seemingly lmpos-
sible by making the audience Ike hin
almost from the very first and his
comedy is irresistible one expected
Miss Carlisle to he worth while, Tor
she came advertised as the star ana
having the o. X Of Woodrow Wilson
and Theodore Roosevelt. but there
were no four sheet posters tellins
shout Mr.. Lunt, and his delightful
Characterization made him all the
n fr
there is no other word for IL
Other members OF the company, all
OF them-Julia Stuart. GeneyieVe
Tobin. Jack Crosby. Phil Heege, Helen
Holcomb. Nina Herbert. Ralph New
man. Grace Hampton, Louis Ancker'
George SeybOlt and Albert Tayernler
deserve fun credit for their work
for there is not a character in the
play who is out Of place or not
thoroughly competent for the part. II
is well balanced organization
The Country Cousin tells the
story Of a little girl who has been
reared by a mother in a small town
after the separation Of her parents
Of her reunion with her father on
reaching her 18th birthday anniver-
sarv and inheritinE $500 COO from a
rich uncle. and Of her transition into
the false life Of the outer stratum OF
society in New York, where step
TnOLnEE ana a WEAK A4AAAEA H-A "a +A-A an
their worthless friends from her purse
untiI-weu. this is where Miss Car
Isle and Mr.. Lunt come in and II
would be spelling the pleasure lot
those who are going 10 see the per-
Torrance before IL leaves here, to say
more.
ANY lover OF clean. wholesome en-
tertainment who fails 10 see THE
Country Cousin is tossing away an
opportunity for one OF the most
pleasant evenings Of a lifetime There
is enough Of the dramatic 10 hold the
interest enough OF the spectacular TO
satisfy and enough comedy OF the de-
licious sort to keep you laughing
even after you 90 home
The world is better for such men
and women as Alfred Lunt and Alex
andra Carlisle; their art is making
men and women forget the sOruid al
fairs Of life. They ought 10 have the
D. S. C.. for keeping up the home
C. A. n.