The Washington times., 1922-02-21
BY HAROLD PHILLIPS.

" HAT there can be no conflict
nor clash of will. however
firmly justice may be perched
on an oppressed defender, with
out all hands eventually sinking
into the quagmire, Of unholy aims
and immoral effort, aptly con.
denses the definition of Gals
worthy's THE Skin Came" woven
Into drama and presented by an Inn
ported cast Of not above ordinary
ability.
Though 1t may take Gals
worthy to adequately portray it
through, the ink-pot, it requires
only an unsteady Pickering Of
memory on our own modest part
torecall that all our life we have
been cognizant of the wicked
hab is Of the powerful in Cypress
ing the weak. Were we to forget.
Il there are always stacks Of con-
temporaneous preachments on
the subject to be consulted.
But this is no indictment. Other
plays have essayed primer plots
to find themselves appraised as
pathblazers in the forest of orig
inalN thought. The Skin Game"
has been roundly praised and
cord. ally damned and it is en-
titled to an uncommon lot of
both.
into the placid atmosphere OF
IN English estate and its environs,
there busters a discordant per.
sonality n the form of one Horn
blower who has gone in for
pounds sterling, by any means,
rather than for Libraries, porce.
Ian and the resultant soc al con-
tact. The H.llcr.sts, tn. n .nosed
ar strocrats, are chosen for the
prey" by reason of a property
.. tuate ideally for factory pur-
DOSES and because, also, they
seem TO be appropr .ately staunch
rungs upon which Hornblower' s
daughter-In-law can climb to So
cal recognition. Hillcr.st and
Hornblower have negotiated a
realty deal. The latter breaks
his word and disposseses some
tenants Of long standing. War
is declared.
STRIFE OF bitter waging not
above raking the ashes OF an I'M
fortunate woman's past-who hap
pens to be the daughter.iflaw-
follows and the descent of the
Ailicrists to demeaning levels is
no swifter than the tumble of the
Conclusive Hornblower from the
heights of near.victory, ohce he
AZ confronted with that awful
uage from the past of his sons
wife. The Hornblowers are routed
from Deepwater Estate, but only
after both sides have been en-
quilted in the muck of scandal and
character killing.
Matthew Boulton, as Horn.
blower, is an audible person. An
American prototype might have a
little more suravity and finesse.
Jane Grey, as the puppet of fate
about whom the storm revolves,
meets the dimensions of her part
TO a niceety, but Audrey Cameron,
as Jill, a sophisticated, hoydenish
lass. declaims her lines with the
mechanism OF a lance corporal re-
porting his squad. Aileen Wyse,
as Mrs. Hillcrist, is effective as
the undoer of Hornblower's aims.
Arthur Crosby. as Dawker,, was
finished and natural. A word for
the auctioneer, j. Lister Williams,
with the countenance of a cab.
driver who works nights, and the
guile OF true auctioneer.
You can visit The Skin Game"
with profit IL you have several
hours for entertaining investment.
Lacking energy to do this and be-
Ing pressed for time, you can re-
call the once popular cartoons of
a ponderous person in top.hat and
dollar incrusted vest, standing on
the neck Of a dried up wisp, Ia.
beled The Poor but Honest
Peep''l." and ct the same effect