The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1924-10-14
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Chosen In Rol-
los Wild

Charming People is the best thing he's
done and his last one forced note of
the same strain, while the log-rollers
have it just the other way round. And
say, young folks, that reminds me. Why
the divvile do all the buffers who grow
the most snobbish sjdeburns. and all
the Wallets who are the most deft diplo-
matists have to be imported from Eng
land? Do you suppose they're indigen-
Gus? Are they a gentry like the landed
proprietors and Arlen's George Tar
lyon'sf 1t sure is reflection on our
lack Of caste in these states. Now you
take the valet in "Rollo's Wild Oatr
they are putting on at the Little thea
ter. Blimme me he's English Wish
/ knew that mans name. I'd like to
thank him for giving me some of the
best laughs I've enjoyed in blue moon
why. know his name," said Mrs.
Irons; "I've been out there so much
that I. know them all. He's Hewston
in the play and his name is Clifton
Brewer"
do you know any of the others?
The one that plays Mrs. Park Gales?"
"She's Mrs. Jack Walton. Don't you
remember her in "Yapping Wharf,
"Sure. Say, she's good. She was
the ugly looking shrew in the tavern
wasn't she? like her because she's
playing both parts and you couldn't
tell it was the sameSwoman, could you :?
That's something you don't see so often
among the ones who aren't profession
ais. She sure does get off some hot
shots in the locker in this here play.
Upstagyi Whew! She takes off the
part of the Jealous, sorter down-at-heels-
Observation-Disclosures to turn. She
does tricks with her voice that just graf
flied me all over. You womenfolk sure
have got lots o. tricks that you must a.
inherited or worked up on your own
predatory initiative help! but I've just
been reading Schopenhaur's essay on
woman) but they amt any o. them that
can equal your voice when you come
to deal with oldsters like me. Only
reason can see why that hairy-shirted
saint in the desert didn't fall for Balkis
was that she must a had a peacock
voice. Anyway, Mrs Park-Gales pulls
this upstagy sounding stuff what the
darkies in my days used TO call uppity.
who isss this perrrson? and you get
all set for a snub. And she handles
her shoulders just to fit in with that
voice, and she acts the airs O. one o.
the high caste housekeepers down in the
servants hall wondering how the scul-
lery maid happened to have on pair
o silk stockings"
Captain, did yon know she's the
daughter of Mr.. Frank White, who plays
! the part of Skitterling. He plays the
King later on. Remember?"
"Oh. yes. he's the one who acts so
well the part O. one O. the old school
o. actors, very bowling Mt the waist like
and looks like he's ready at any minute
to catch o. Sir Henry irving and wear
ii stiffly, formally, but sort o. grace
fully with flourish. And remem-
5 Der his voice when hH'sra playing the
1 King: finely modulated deep baritone
! that goes rolling out and over YOU,
What wouldat thou, Laertes, that shall
be my offer, not thy askingY I'd like
to hear him do some Of the old silver
tongued orator stuff from the farrr
breaches o. the rock-bound coast o.
Maine to where the gulf leaves the
golden sands o AlnbaaaTna. And no
disrespect meant. He'd make fine
bos'un for me"
"And odd enough Captain, there is
another pair of fathers and daughters
in the same cast. Mr.. Hard, who is
RoIIo's grandfather, Is the father Of Mrs.
Mary H. Willis.
ais he? Well, / raved about Mr..
Hard to your young Teller last night.
But say, amt giggly sort O. middle
aged female FUNNY That's the part
she has to play, amt it? Aunt Lane,
as / remember. Cad She just about
gets RoIlo's goat How the dickens she
can giggle and laugh and palaver all
over people like she does is beyond me,
And she acts hanging about Rollo's neck
SOS Rollo wants to choke her and then
she tells his manager how weak q little
Teller he is and not to let him work too
hard and all that and what n lovely
baby he was in his little perambulator
She did the thing so good, and giggled
in that high pitched laugh females o
that age do SO well, that was just
about to get up in my seat and yell
to Rollo to choke her off. Women first.
'aThat there manager, Mr.. Stein, that
Aunt Lane tells all about Rollo. Who's
"A Mr.. Robert Ware. 1 like him
very much in his scene when he comes
in running all out of breath and scared
RoIlo had laid down on him. His
name doesn't jibe with his accent which
must make the part harder for him. And
he's very funny in the first where he
comes looking for soft snap to pro
duce for somebody"
''Sure, that's where he identifies
Hamlet by asking if it's the one that
has to be or not to be in it. And ht
does his part fine where he oi-yoi's al
Bella, the maid. Poor Bella. She's
got hard part and, as Hugh Wiley''
Wildcat says, she 'sho is noble In it
She's got to put up with that old crat
that's RoIlo's grandad, and between hin
and the emergencies that rise up in thu
last act, she's between the horns o thu
dilemma, If a dilemma has really got
horns. I wouldn't even want to ac
the maid for an old devil like old mar
Webster, much less be one. But ther
] couldn't anyway. I'd look out o
place with lacy tidy on my forehead.
''She is Miss Clara Coplan. TIT
other young woman is Miss Florence
Jordan"
'Oh,. she's the one that plays Pro
logue. amt she? She's Rollo's sister
Amt she lovely? I'd like to have
young sister with eyes like here. bu
then if I'd a been Rollo I'm skeere'
I'd a blackened one O. them the way sh
came buttin' into his most sacred pri