The Washington herald., 1921-10-03
POLI'S.
.The Broken Wing,

The BROKEN Wing" new comedy
drama, was presented at Polls last night,
By Paul Dieksy and Charles ". Goddard,
under the. direction Of Sargent Aborn.
General Fanfile AEuiiar. Boris Keriin
5asiiio. .....s..........: harry Stanley
Sylvester Cross. Walter. G. feroiyal
ouiohita. a.................... Dorothes Nolan
me. vnle.s: :'.'''''-' s.Lssesse ~ s 1lsssr
Capt. Innecsacio Dos ssntos: Thursten Hall
Jerry Wsldron. walter Colhgan
Philip Marvin. n................ Eugene strong
Marco. -....................G George spelvin
Oeclna. .'.'.s....... .Anson Ao6am
Babe sundance. nce..................B By Himself
1t was quite evident when The
Broken Wing" was first shown here
in 1920 that it was bound for sue
cess, granted that the usual process
of polishing of was eficaciously
employed. That this was the case
was proved as a general PROPOSE
ton by one years run on the erst-
while Great White Way, and more
specifically to Washingtonians last
night, when the piece opened a re-
turn engagement of one week at
Polls.
Stage craft isn't the whole OF
Paul Dickey and Charles w. God
dard's comedy drama. by a long
way, though in advance announce
ments stress was laid upon the truly
marvellous episode in the first act.
from which the piece derives its
name-an honest-to- goodness air.
plane crashing into the wall of a
peaceful, though bandit-haunted.
Mexican dwelling amid motor roars
and wireless barkings. The cast Is
~ fna Al
and the action in the main pleas
| ingly rapid. 1t is easy to overlook
the dramatic license by which Capt.
Innocencio Dos Santos and Inez
Villera, presumably of Castilian ex-
traction, are made to couch their
usually stormy dialogues in broken
English. That was popularized in a
number of plays OF the war.
The plot finds two United States
aviators hurled to earth $50 miles
/ south of the border of "Gringo-
land" interrupting the love affair of
Inez, adopted daughter of former
American sea captain. Luther Far
ley. and Capt. (afterward generaD
Innocencio. an honest bandit in uni
form. One birdman Is killed. the
other, Philip Marvin, lives. his men,
ory temporarily wiped out. During
his amnesic sojourn in the land of
frijoIes he develops a warm love for
the chic Inez. who regards him as
sent from heaven.
| Dos Santos fortunes being de-
pleted. he holds the flyer for ran
som. ostensibly with the aid of Syl-
vester Cross, a peppy young Gringo.
whose exact business in Mexico no
one knows. The affair of the heart
seems doomed to end badly for IneZ,
especially when with returning
memory the gallant aviator pro-
ceeds to forget who his little
brown-eyed angel" is. But in the
end. as is foreordained in most
7 comedy dramas. everything comes
( mt right through the interposition
Of the United States Secret Service
| The lovers fly away with diminish
ing roars of the revivified airplane
motor
Thurston Hall. as Capt. Innocen
! clio. takes first honors. with Mar
Srerite Riser. a close second in the
role of Inez- Harry Stanley was a
perfect Mexican camp lounger. Ma
mana" and doleful song ever on his
lips. Eugene Strong's acting as
Philip Marvin in the scene where
he desperately cudgels his brain out
of shadowy forgetfulness. was nota-
Bile. And the crashing OF the
ship is vivid and cataclysmic. thanks
| to Sargent Aborn's direction.