South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-09-29
Margaret AngIin
Displays Genuine
Artistry In Role
Noted Actress Scores One
More Success in The
Woman of Bronze"


loves. sees her younger rival taking
away the man who is hers. sac feels
+ only primitive instincts. she has only
the primitive emotions of love and
/ hate"
This bit of philosophy was given
/ by Margaret Angl.n TO a great aud
/ fence that witnessed the first per-
/ Torrance Of her visit TO the Oliver
/ theater last evening.
/ And she then proceeded TO deny
I the philosophy by her triumph over
1 those emotions, watched the hus-
} band leave with the girl who had at
tracted his fancy, and found solace
in the sufferings or the world. and
when he came back. repentent, Gag
er. held by the memories OF their
/ early happiness. calmly pointed 20
his unfinished work as his sentence
for life. For In the nnish. after the
great storms Of emotion. she has
! neither love nor hate but has enter
! ed upon the calm seas Of duty and
active ninistration 70 others as a
substitute for the hurricanes OF pas
sion which have spent their force
and left her-lonely.
Displays Real Artistry.
To say that Miss Anglin has no
super.ors and a few equals in those
I intense roles which signal 10 furtive
handkerchief. surreptitious tears
! is but 70 repeat what has been said
OF her for a decade. To hold that
! place OF prominence for so long a
U ID L. fs-fre q
! forever places her among the illus
trious Of the American stage.
1t IS in The Bronze Woman E"
which she presents upon this visit
that she finds an opportunity for the
real artistry that has made her
place so secure IN the admiration
and respect Of those who incline 10
the serious drama.
| The chief character is a woman
who has reached the early autumn
Of life. somewhere in the late Sep
J TENDER, childless and burying that
disappointment in most intense de-
votion TO the genius of her husband
and in her efforts TO inspire him TO
the heights OF which he is capable.
The husband happens to be a
sculptor He might have been a
/ business or professional genius with
out change of character, for this
play deals with the emotions of a
woman, and her reactions 10 situa-
tons which are not as uncommon as
to be beyond the realm of proba-
/ bility.
Lacks One Inspiration
The prize Is almost his. Lacking
/ is but that one inspiration, one vision
and one dream which eludes until
/ there enters Youth And the hus-
band, who has retained more OF the
summer and who still remembers
springtime falls again in love with
| Youth as represented by the girl who
/ arouses in him his fervent days and
/ hopes.
| The wife witnesses their first en-
! brace. their first ardent kiss, almost
an Involuntary one as the man yields
TO his new passion and the girl 10 her
alteration Of his genius
She hides that knowledge. hoping
that the husband Will reach hts ul-
innate success and achieve a master
piece She hides her own ache OF
follows him 10 a clandestine meeting,
and even then, despising herself. dis
Stimulates until the husband and the
girl reveal their infatuation and their
intention 70 go away together.
She lets them gO-and waits. A
year passes and the day Of springtime
illusion has passed and the husband
wishes only for the work he has
abandoned. only for the devotion
which he sacrificed 70 his mad mo-
ment OF passion and infatuation.
He returns 10 his work. For when
he comes he finds that the devotion
which had been strong enough 10
protect in the other days has been
supplanted by a triumph over those
primitive passions OF love and hate
and that the wife, now in much
later autumn. has so reformed her
life as 20 be impervious to either
appeal or memory.
Left 10 her IS but the satisfaction
OF furnishing. in an hour Of self alb
negation. the elusive inspiration for
the great statue Of victory which he
sought
Audience Pays Tribute
Sketchily this IS the background
for the problem play which Miss An
glin presented. leaving in the minds
OF an audience something OF doubt
AZ 10 whether such a woman would
refuse 20 paw the price Of forgiveness
and forgetfulness for some chance OF
haDptpess whether a. the start she
would not have been more primitive
and fought more savagely and with
all her powers 70 hold her husband
AGAINST the temptations OF her young
er rival.
IN .he action and in the lines the
greatest opportunities are given for
-he DISPLAY OF those emotional pow
ers for which this actress IS FAMOUS
The audience paid that greater
tribute than applause. the tribute OF
tense silence and indrawn breath as
Miss Anglin held the stage IN her
climaxes.
], IS safe 10 prophesy that few
plavs this season, or any season, VIII .
leave 2 deere- impression or more
s4.r- one than The Woman Of
Bronze"
r-.5u-es might be paid 20 the eI-
ce-lence OF the supporting cast The I
-oen,hers are most happily placed I
osoaofall,y fortunate being the nm
ished performance Of Fred Eric The
ban5sorne. artistic husband whose
performance closely matched that OF
Miss Angin.
Miss Argl.n appears again tonight. /
The curtain rising promptly az eight /
o,c1ocl, IN order 20 permit her leav- |
trg FOR her next enEa cement a. the |
close OF the performance.
On motion OF the Plaintiff, the suit