The Washington times., 1922-07-23
With Alan Dale
At N. Y. TheateYS
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him think that. rather than tell
him that Reginald, in . moment Of
impulse, had kissed her on the fore
head. Yes, she would suffer. She
would suffer q martyrdom, and she
deserved to do 80, Tor she had been
kissed, How could she marry
Lubin and become the mother OF
his enormous family when another
had kissed her? y
THIS went on until the .last act.
It simply had to! AL the plot
rsvolved around 1t, There were
cross-purposss and contretemps.
and the path OF true, love was OBJ
stinatsly obstaeled. At the end Of
the fourth act she was pale ami un-
like herself, She was listless, too.
She was always at the piano, her
fingers straying Ger the keys.
There was no ragtime in those
days. Think of Annie Russell and
Ida Conquest immersed In ragtime.
II is absolutely unthinkable. occa'
sionaIly she had an illness--brain
fever or some dainty Of that ilk.
The playwright was very fond of
feeding her brain fever. though
goodness knows that brain was the
last OF her possessions. Sometimes
she just faded.
Pepper and mommer had confer.
snces and decided that poor Ange.
lima was fading away--in her white
muslin. with the baby blue sash.
why did she fade? Usually toward
the middle Of the fifth act the
nauseating truth came out. Pop.
per and mommer realized that she
had been kissed. This occurred In
the plays that dealt with her Sc
orecy and selfrepressioh)
In q large and tumultuouslyI Ips.
thstic scene the sin was rfshted.
Lubin was told, and insisted that
he didn't mind. once--once. in the
long ago, ne had kissed q geil.
Positively he had. Oh, he knew
that he was q miserable wretch.
He realized that nothing but a life
Of renunciation could atone for his
misdemeanor. But she had tempted
him and he had fallen. II was the
merest kiss. His lips had just
brushed her hair, but he had never
ceased to reproach himself. And to
think that Angelina, too, had been
kissed. Dear little girl. She had
his complete forgiveness.
A NGELINA, looking like . dy-
ing duck ip a thunderstorm.
would cuddle into his arms and
promise that together they would
forget that such hideous things ~
kisses existed in this world of sin
and suffering. He would murmur
words to the effect that their chill
drep must never know Chow coyly
she would nestle on his well padded
shoulders). and the curtain would
fall slowly. The audience simply
ate this kind Of play greedily.
Annie Russell was so exquisite, the
personification of helpless girlhood.
Critics always used to say that she
stood with reluctant feet where the
brook and something meet. and %
on. And Agnes Miller-wasn't she
giriy-girly!
Another feature OF the "onjer.
moo" play was that she ALWAYS
had 30 many sweethearts that she
didn't know what to do with them.
They were always pestering her
for her hand. In real life gels plot
and scheme and plan and live for
just one sweetheart, but In these
old plays there were beaux to burn.
That always got" me. Angelina
couldn't turn around without some
base wretch proposing to her.
Wherever she went there he was.
pleading for her love with tears In
his voice and fervor in his tones.
I've seen plays in which every
member Of the cast. except per.
haps the butler and the comedy
plumber, offered Angelina mar.
riage. And she never said No" or
Nit" or anything that girls say
today. 1t was always II can hever
be yours" Which sounded 40
formal.
The "onjernoo" never talked bf
anything but love. There WAS
nothing else. sha arose from downy
couch, not to toy with scrambled
eggs or oatmeal, but to discuss love
and marriage. 1t took the "on'
jernoo" longer to hook one hus.
band than 1t takes the modsrn
flapper to annex three. She was q
slow worker.
MODERN audiences would -.
AVA gard the "onjernoo" as very
silly. I always thought her silly.
even in the old timea. She was an