New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-18
The New PLAY
BY Percy Hammond
''Noisody's Money Is Rather
a Sprightly Trife About
Journalists and Some
Outlaws


An cxpressman. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Dan Day
Francis r. Carey Frederick Raymond il.
Carl Russell ............... Robert Strange
Helen Carey. ................ jean Robertson
4 Federal agent. ....... Joseph p. Murphy
Grace Kendall ......... Regina Wallace
John W Hamilton .... Wallace Eddnger
Eddie Maioney. ....... VIII Dcming
Annette Riley. .............. Shirley De Nc
Henry Kendall. ............ Howard Gould
Bertram Miller. Philip Lord
The minutes recording MI lie Baron's
new play at the Lorigacre should chron-
icle with considerable emphasis pleas
ing deviation from the ritual of the
everyday characters, of comedy. SO set
in their prosperous ways are many of
the piaywriters' that they are loath to
experiment with roles untried, suspect
ing, perhaps, that even their most
frayed engravures are strange enough
to startle and amaze. But Mr.. lie Baron,
in "Nobody's Money" has hit upon and
developed rather dcftly a fresh type.
Not. on. second thought, of course, a
fresh type SO much as novel fashion
Of presenting an old one. At any rate
the character seemed undimmed by re-
cent usage, and it did much to in
fuence the approval Of the comedy by
those present last evening.
Mr.. viii Deming was the breezy i'm
personator of this humorous rascal, a
smiling cut-purse, thrown by circum-
stance into imposing lit'ry and polN
cal circles. He was hck second
story man, summoned by the dramatist
to pose as secretary to his more cul-
tured accompice, who was counterfeit
ing noted scribe, the supposed author
of articles in newspaper. Unlearned
in the spontaneous graces of polite
conversation, Mr.. Deming adopted a
unique subterfuge. AS a soldier of
fortune he had once been an actor in
He had unprecedented and he knew the
lines of all the dramas roles, from
sententious buffers to cavaliers on rope
ladders in purple tights and plumed
chapeauX.
So, when he was introduced to the
Governors pretty daughter, he recalled
and utilized with great effect a
nellifiuous salutation from "The Lady
of Lyons" or "The Henrietta" IL can
not greet you as I should, because my
hands are wet with these roses" When
iio was CdAeu upon ny MS hoHcS 1
though misguided heart to express his
passion for pretty servant he did so
in the burning polysyllables of Armand
reciting to Camille the details of his
admiration. He went through all the
drama from "Sonya" to the cart of
Thespis, and he found it's festooned
rhetoric efficient = for 70. every social crisis.
| Otherwise the comedy was amusing
tomfoolery of spirited sort, in
genious, as such things go. and ad-
mirably acted by Mr.. Wallace Eddnger.
in the principal role, and by all of HIS
associates Mr.. Frederick Raymond jr.
and MIR. Robert Strange played two
plausible penmcn, who, to outwit their
greedy publishers, invented mythical
muckraker, under whose name they
could hide their less prudent illusions
When it became necessary to produce
this author they persuaded Mr.. Edd
niger supposed book agent, to i'm
personate him. Mr.. Eddinger really
was a gentleman and scholar who
had taken to the road with Mr.. Dem
ing because he needed adventure. He
saved the Governor from the grating
Vaccinations Of the lumber trust, and
at the end he was bethrothed to that
executives persenable and attractive
offspring, Miss Regina Wallace. You
will find Mr.. Eddinger in this role a
better comedian, one thinks, than you
have hitherto suspected him to be. The
play was slipshod and thoughtless in.
its stage management, at heavy cost
to credibility, especially in that episode
wherein the safe was robbed and the
money and the pearl nckleace pur-