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Show "A MAN'S A MAN" PRESENTED FIRST TIME Special to The Tribune. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Jan. 3. Robert EdoHon's latest vehicle, "A Man's a Man." a now American play, by Anna Stoeso Richardson and Henry Leslie Frl-denberg, Frl-denberg, registered an emphatic success, both for actor and authors, upon the occasion oc-casion of Its first performance on any stage In the Wlstlng Opera house hero tonight. Telling an original and vitally Interesting story In a daring and convincing convinc-ing manner. "A Man's a Man" censures legislative corruption and the evils resulting re-sulting from dishonest divorce laws, the scenes being laid in New York City and a city in a western state In which marriage has become almost a mockery because of tho ease with which It Is posslblo to legally dissolve matrimonial bonds. Tho Idea of the drama Is said to have come from the recent experience of a prominent promi-nent Standard Oil millionaire, who succeeded suc-ceeded In having a legislature pass a bill making Insanity a ground for divorce, which law wa3 repealed immediately aftor this magnate had taken advantugo of It to- free himself from the wife of his youth, whom ho hnd come to regard us an obstacle to social ambitions in- I spired by his sudden entry to wealth and power. In the role of Townsend JIuwctt, a young Now York attorney, who nets n adviser to a nowly rich western mine owner, Mr. Edcsnn docs tho most effective effec-tive and appealing work of his entire career. Otliers In the strong supporting support-ing cilsI are Menifee Johnston, Josoph Rawloy, Howard Hall, Lawrence Wln-dom, Wln-dom, Josephine Lovett, Blanch Weaver, Helen M.-icBcth, Mogpio Colloway Fisher, and Cordelia McDonald. |