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Show 00 Theatres At the Orpheum. The mo-f d UclOUS comedy since "Peg o' My Heart, " and a play of een greateT Appeal to the sympathies of an audience. This will be said of "Daddy Long Legs," which was presented at tho Orpheum theatre last night, by a Henry Miller company. It was a matter mat-ter to regret thai this attraction, one of the best of the season, came so ,-oon after the drain upon local pocket-honks pocket-honks made by the three-night engagement engage-ment of "Experience," as this materi ally effected its success from a box-office box-office point oi view. Frequent and warm-hearted applause irom the fair-lied fair-lied audience, however, made up in a measure, 10 the fine company of play-ers, play-ers, for the absence of many of the City's regular road show patrons To the audience, "Daddy Long Legs" Berved as an appreciated mental rest utter the powerful sermon of "Experience," "Expe-rience," for It only played upon the heartstrlngi and the better sense of humor. "Judy ' the heroine of the plav, was an orphan almost from birth md her first eighteen years of life were passed In an orphan asylum of B type which, it Is sincerely hoped. Is passing out of existence. Being rally of unusual mental capacity, the little girl becomes useful to Mrs Lippett. the matron and thus loses iarlj opportunities for adoption. Intend In-tend she becomes as a slave to the matron, but ber sunny nature makes her the idol of the younger children in " The John Orier Home." Mrs. Prltchfird. a prototype of our own Martha society ladies, becomes Interested in Judy and. after supervisor, supervis-or, her education for several years, is Insi rumental in gaining for her the interest 01 a pniiantnropic oacnemr friend, Jervis Pendleton, who sends her to college, but keeps his identity from her. In the girl's fancy he becomes be-comes her "Daddy Long Legs" and hf pictures him as old. feeble and bald-headed. The bachelor, Jervis Pendleton, becomes enamoured of his protege as her higher education progresses pro-gresses in college and she of him, being be-ing unaware that he is her silent guardian. guar-dian. Being a man of high honor, though, he declares his love in a fine scene, he gives up hope of wedlock with her when she, fearing that to reveal re-veal her lark of blue-blooded ancestors, ances-tors, would cause a change of attitude, atti-tude, refuses a favorable answer to his suit. He thinks her refusal Is due to love for another man, but learn that such is not the case, when she writes to "Daddy Long Legs" and begs to "see him just once" and to get his advice Through Mrs. Pritchard, they are brought togethei and ail ends happily. hap-pily. The four acts of ihe play are in the John Oner home, the girls' study at college, at Lock Willow farm and In Jervla Pendleton's library, respective-ly, respective-ly, and all. as 6een last night at the Orpheum, are complete with regard to scenic, investiture and properties. Five clever children, in addition to Judy, cave the necessary local color to the scene, which assured the audience that the play was out of the ordinary. In this scene Nina Saille gave a natural impersonation of Mrs Lippett. the ma tron, as such a person has been novelized novel-ized and other older members of the company were introduced as trustees of the institution and served as objects of amusement as well as fear to the orphans. Frances Car6on. as Judy, early took hold of the audience and grew in it? favor as the play progressed. She was admirably selected for the role, possessing a winsome personalis and a delightfully naive manne. of reading read-ing her lines and acting. She also displayed emotional power in fulh suf-1 ficient measure in several dramatic moments in the play. An equally fine artist is George Allison, who was cas as .Jjri Pendleton. The scenes be tween these two were full of rare heart interest, seasoned with delicious humor. hu-mor. Eda Von Buelow, Bessie Lea Les-tina Les-tina and Ruth Tomlinson lived the lov able characters of Mrs. PTitchard, Mrs Semple (Pendleton's old nurse) and Ballj McBride, one of Judy's college friends. Their acting was one of the fine features of the play. Other members mem-bers of the cast, In which there wa; not a weak spot, were Gertrude Rivers, Gladys Wilson, Mary Stevens, Olive Moore. Donald Foster. Smith Davie;, B. T riark. John Anthony, J. C. Tre-mayne. Tre-mayne. Will Gregory, Mrs. A. McDonald McDon-ald and the children, Cecilia Seklir, elen McDonald, May Bradley, Mary Cook and Clarence Johnson. |