The Washington herald., 1920-07-04

4 Miss Anne Morrison. the leading
woman OF the Garrick Players, has
rareiSa1playeds part in such perfect
character Is the role she assumed
last week in .Mary's. Ankle, the
farce hit by May Tully. in which
Miss Morrison had part that called
for practically total disability, so
far as ankles were concerned
through the entire three acts OF the
production.
Miss Morrison had the part OF a
tag-day girl who enters doctor 8
once, takes AWAY his last piece OF
change In a tag-day drive and leaves
the. once, only to stumble OUTSIDE
and sprain her ankle. From the Of
nee the young doctor Is immediateiy
summoned to give first aid 10 the
beautiful Miss Morrison, and from
that point on to the fnal curtain tne
tax-day girl and the young DOCTOR
find their destinies irrevocaply en-
twined.
when Miss Morrison was rehears,
ing for the part sne enoeu
nightly to attain Just tne propei
sort of a limp that would mt the IN
iury she sustains in make-believe'
director Forsberg toiled with her IN
poinr over a choice collection OF
iimns hut none seemed to be whouy
natnral. About the third day OF the
rehearsals of ''Mary's Ankle MISE
Morrison slipped on the GarricS
stage and gave her ankle q oso
wrench.
Nothing was thought OF the mat
To, ar the time but the injury con
stantly grew more painful uhtil .no
,Garricker,s leading woman nnany
found Il too painful to use. Sne
w.nt to see a real doctor at tnis
noi,t ana she discovered. twenty
four hours before ''Marys Ankle
vas due. to begin. that she had
,h,au1n a small bone in her ankle
conapfetely out OF place.
The regular physician immediate
ly prescribed a full weeks total
rest for the injured ankle but MISS
Morrison considered the accidental
characterization too good to miss
and she played nine performances
of rMary's Ankle" with yeracity
that not even a playwright could
cavil at. As a matter OF fact, her
FIRST act entrance was excruciating-
ly painful for she had to appear as
entirely unhurt for the first few
minutes OF the action. Fortunately.
the manuscript called for. the in
jured ankle early in the action and
from that time on Mr.. Bell. Mr..
Butterfield and Mr.. Fassett passed
their evenings by carrying Miss
Morrison wherever she went about
the stage.
With a story by a popular author,
acted by a favorite star, supported
by a cast of prominent players and
directed by a well-known director,
Dollars and Women" which will
be shown at Crandall's Metropolitan
and Knickerbocker Theaters, be-
ginning todly. should be the motion
picture event of the year. Alice
Joyce is the star, Albert Payson
Terhune the author. and George Ter
williger the director.
Every care was taken by Vita
graph, the producers, to make this
production one of merit. Great at
tention was paid to little details
many of which might escape the
hlm fan usnoticed, but go to show
the thoroughness with which Vita
graph made this production. For
Instance, in the banquet scene a
real dinner was served to the 200
persons in the episode. II was a
fun-course chicken dinner, and 1t is
needless to say that the partici-
pants were doing something other
than acting when filmed. The ac-
tion Is real
These are little things which
might easily have been dispensed
with, as far as the public is con-
earned. but they have a value in
Ffvns the production a realistic at