Show 1 j 1 11 I I I T HE NEW P LA Y S By Charles Chades ay es Darnton I I I 1 I 1 t t f UNWRITTEN LAW NOT A HU HUMAN rAN DOCUMENT JW YORK YORE Feb cb li To To To know where whereto N NEW Ng to tU place your at nt the Fulton theatre is 18 the tho greatest problem presented by 11 The Unwritten La Law w. w The author Mflton Milton Moyle seems ms Jop lo In t be lie equally in doubt douht After fter filling tilling the hard drinking husband of or a poor worl hard working ln woman with m maudlin maudlin maud mull ull lin 1111 pra prayers rs and lamentations he lie repeatedly repeat repeat- repeatedly edly coils calls our attention to the fact Ilet that the old mans man's drunk again asam Sympathy fur for the wire wife ehan changes ls l.'s to impatience when she rails calls him hilll my dear Instead I of or calling him s good anal ami lard hard as a 10 suffering long woman would 1 do In real life Her ller gentleness Is astonishing in rum that v would warrant her throwinG a u flatiron at ut him lIe Ho once his head liend high as fiS prosecuting attorney attorney at- at torne torney of or the county I ln Ha uttered d this glimpse se Into tho the unhappy home of or John Wilson and his wife Mary who ha have two too children children- Su Su who Is la good to her mother and willIng willIng willIng will- will Ing to put dad lall to be bed beJ and amI Va Dan Dnn n an tut brat the brat the author introduces intro intro- duces leg hl his ono one really human character J Larry arry McCarthy Larry knows the drunkard for tor what hes he's worth north for ho he hes s f. f keeps the saloon across the street buthis but buthis buthis his heart seeing bl big bis enough to hold Mrs 1 Wilson IIRon when the time comes For Forthe Fortine the tine present he Is IR merely her lan landlord llord 1 and h he tells her not to worry worn about the three months' months back hack rent All ho hp wants J is s to b become come her boarder and when Wilson l on comes back without ut the monc money who she has earned over oer the an and ironing board boar Mr Mrs Wilson decides that th the only way to keep the 0 wolf from ruin thedoor the thedoor door Is IN to open it to the saloonkeeper Full 1111 of or alcohol and anger an er Wilson then deserts her Good Goo riddance and so I forth q It t Is ix not surprising however toW C that f the neighbors begin to 0 ta talk Co for Lan far Larry y Is in ui and out of or tin the house a a. dozen n times u t da lay sold and an ax soon suon aa as Mrs Irs Wilson Is well 11 c enough cHough to leave lea her hll bed after the tho breakdown she has suffered she goes out In Ills his automobile without even cn stopping to put on a hat Then Larry Sets gets rid rill of Su b by sending her hel to boardIng boarding board- board Ing illg school Its It's enough to know that Larry to marry mairy Mrs In Wilson Nilson as r soon as ol she die can get act ct a divorce Frank Sheridan herldan makes Larry Larn such a a good likable chap at first that you ou l believe be- be lieve in him In Jn fact Mr 11 Sheridan Ilo dues doos s the tho hest best work of his career In this role lole The Jhc pity of oC It Is that the author sudden suddenly changes the character com com- I ROMANCE CE HAS HAS GLAMOUR OF OPERA SINGER I CARD D was probably TID r even o oun younger er than ho hr looks today when he he wrote Hon Romance ance the play Ia Hint t worked its spell between et a prologue pro- pro logue ogue an and an epilogue J llo ue at Maxine El- El Holts Holt's theatre Thero is a time for all things things and and sometimes youth triumphs over O experience The late Clyde Fitch wrote Cal Captain Jinks Jinks' Just as hl his fingers rs c-rs were r lj l j r y y 1 y tic M AS CV l. l J ning to bo be with wi h Ink and Hk that delightful Romance Is a captivating study of an in opera singer H It has the th of r f un artist who ho brings the world u in her feet with Um tin magic power newer of her voice The whim of such a woman ut is a la laty laIn In itself whether sings or talks w we listen H It you vou dont don't belle believe it ask Mary Gar Car den The opening night we hail had to listen to a prologue before the nightingale fang An it aged bishop recalled his youth n ht eh n hIS hip grandson grandson eager r to 1 marry many nn an argued argued that the rev rev- old had lived too long tory that ua was cent In our n test according to ih Unfortunately slew Mow caused 1 a hid had break li iw n thu s t r rand and Its dra dra- dramatic matic matle n. n o left in There is no warning beyond the remark r mall ot of one of oC Larrys Larry's earlier charmers charmers-a a sportive animal trainer nr no noless' noless that less 1 less less' that he will trill tiro lilo of or Mrs 11 Wilson just as a- ah h he has of oC her and other women If Mr 11 Ilo no Boyle J lo had stopped to think he lie would have hate m c realized that ilO iio no au audience lence could fluid be he expected to take seriously an anything anything any any- thin thing said by his Cal fetched far La Lady r of oC the ll Tigers for fOI the simple i reason cason that she she- rattles on In the rl ridiculous terms of or burlesque To 10 nave na Jarr Larry plan to run inn or off with the the- animal trainer however er I Is going Eoln too far Car In an instant his Irish charm changes to ugliness lInes his generosity to brutality Although Mrs Wilson ha has talked all ull along of or saving her children I fJ loin from om the thc blight hl of scandal sho she fur forgets them when whon site she discovers that Lan Larry Is going to leave lea h her r In the lurch and determines to loll kill him Like LUte Tosca fosea she he takes a knife from the table and then thon like Teas res Ile follows is tho tito man maim into another room loom where he Is packing hi his bag Thit This moment w Kith ith th th the stage darkened dark dark- Il darkened rk- rk ened and voices coming from Crom th the room loom where the quarrel is continued ha has its meal leal suspense suspense- The unseen It drama ram Is IR felt Cell lint But it Is robbed of oC Its strength when the thu lon long arm of or coincidence drags in the worthless husband who listens a moment then darts Into the room A A. scream tells tho the rest of or the story It II isa Isa is isa a foregone conclusion that thal the tile husband to lu save c his wife will declare he Ise killed kilk-d Lari Larry Mrs Ir Wilson's Wilsons mind Is 18 a blank limit hut a doctor hypnotizes cs her and before hore the district attorney and the grand jury Jun she relates the tho whole story of oC the tragedy tragedy trag trag- edy like a Mathias of oC The Tate Bells in skirts A tnt moment later tho the district at attorney at- at torney who Is In hove lovo with Su SUr silences Wilson lIson b by the statement that he knows Imo what whal the verdict of or the jur Jury Is to beTh beTin be h ho lie whispers You Tin Th unwritten law know Ow what that means means Whereupon hereupon Wilson smiles knowingly n ly and Su kisses her mother rhou Though h Mr 11 Sheridan is gone none bv by b this time his splendid performance is not nol forgotten Miss May ta Buckley y looking strangely beautiful is amazingly I calm calmas as the wife until th the tho quarrel with v 1 Larr Lar- Lar r I r Here she displays s 's unexpected power pow pow- er 1 that gains In ht quiet intensity during during- t the e h hypnotic scene cen Sho She may well be prowl proud of or nor herr work worl especially in 11 the la last t act George Farro Fan on t plays 4 Wilson with witha a a. vengeance c and Tommy Tobin should shul be e told for his own good that as Jan Dan he is a c. very bad ball little boy hoy ho actor darkness long enough to fall raB hack upon the lie unc uncertainties of or the stock market the high cost of or sting living and theto the tho to remember it it- Time The bishop began a alow alow alow low state of ot Mayor Ia or Gaynor's mind mint Thou Thon cane cam tho lights again and mind Miss liss Doris I Keane Bane In a role that gave O her herthe herthe the thc greatest opportunity of her life These There was was also William Courtenay Courtnay who has thrown aside c a gra gray wig to tu enable the thc venerable bl to renew his youth a as a rector Miss liss Keane radiated a ad as tho brilliant Mme Mine known fa far and amI wide wille for Cor her hel vocal accomplishments and to a orld ly h few us UtI the mistress of oC Cornelius Cornelius Cornelius Cor Cor- nelius Van Can Tuyl l a banker hanker In whoso lower Fifth avenue home she figured HS liS the star of or the evening With ith un till n Italian accent am and l a manner not born to the drawing room Miss liso Kean Keane threw herself too easily into the situation Judging Cavallini Ca b by thu the com company pan sho shu was wa keeping for ono one night on only she Bho seemed a bit common But TInt the thc virtuous rector lector soon wun burled an any misgivings h ne he nema ma have had hal under tinder her white violets It was not until the opera singer hn had brought ht hc her pet pct monkey to the tho 1 rector clor that the plot hC began to tel het et in Its Us deadly h work worl The Ilse 1 lC monkey was called I b because Cl It looked like 1110 Patti in Ira Ira- data It shocked the rectors rector's mother uther but the tho clergyman himself clr accepted nC fI toll ilas it il I as nn on of oC genius lIe He lo lost t sight of it In n gazing at Ca lIe lIeH H asked kell he her to n ear on ou the good book hi his hail had given I cn him hint that hot hor hori i relations nations with lh the banker had hall been strictly orthodox She did het ha best t and Van Tu 1 1 acted like 1 a gentleman man manIn In but hut their theil responses responds didn't t result In n a Sunday school l lesson lison to tu put It mildly To 10 mal make mitake lS l'S worse the the rc rector tor carte came to her ul nt the tile olt Dlee house after aller her triumph at al the MIC hc Acau- Acau em only emy of or Music In a fanatical hood While AC We carried back forty frt 1 v years eal as lIS well MS liS to Captain s IJ by till this ol old familiar scene the rector J i ll to In In i going round lound in ht circles lie looked wild enough to scare an any r ope-r singer r out uC of a seasons season's e alai the moment ho lie ai arrived rived und and when b hI e I learned that Van Can Tuyl TU hall had been and amI more before him there there- was was worse of it H. H His desire to 10 save sate Cf mothers mother's o 1 to whom hum t h In- In o had bind given p pearls Ch changed suddenly to more human and 1 thon then the poor pOOl help holp- INri opera oper zo hw i iff T r hUll hall im l all ull slie L could ll i J Io I II to III save u hI sJ Ir r. r Tire Tin singing ln of lC His II dun H cho s' s h In III time the street hills hini l left ft WI hbo bolt t t to his duty ditty send and h ho ri lc 1 Ja too tho A fI Clr t I wishes wll for tor the tile New Sa net t h lu III had said aid I nm nn Ltd I l that m my rf ls is you I few v wr u hf hlll C to to U tile tile- e TIIt t fury few flues only I I I I I I Y 09 I 0 r Ji 1 aJ WILLIAM CO S AS S t It G. G difficulty of Mr Ur Courtenay ho Imo went vent oil to the collogue to tell tho the rest of tho the bishops bishop's romance lomance Tho Thu least Mr 11 Sheldon can an do Is 18 to cut them out of or his play pIa Slow enunciation together with a rheumatic limp was teas all that Mr 11 Courtenay could do for fOl tho the bishop b by byway wa way of or characterization an and as the oung young r rector he was Bas wa often merel merely time the victim of or his own emotions Miss 5 Keane on tho Limo oth other r hand han grew rew to be delightful especially especial In her hor come comedy com cont- e edy touches Interest centered in her role and she nC never l' l allowed It to flag She he has cr c every reason to take the feather feath tenth er cr out of tho the monkeys monkey's cap and put It In her hel own 11 After a rather doubtful be beginning beginning be- be ginning sh slue she achieved a A A. 15 L. Anson acted time the part of or the hanker banker with a admirable self control and dignity dignity dig dig- an and a threw herself elf body bOlh and soul Into the Ilse role of the opera singers singer's devoted slave slate taking a slap or a C l kiss hH with equal fortitude She he deserves es particular praise for the fact that at a moments moment's notice she filled the tho part left vacant by the sud- sud tn tn illness of or Miss Jennie I As the bishops granddaughter g r Miss 1188 Lou I so Seymour acted with girlish c hn I norm I c norm has the charm of oC old New NewYork Ne cw I York and above IlbO all Mss Miss Keane's fascinating fascinating fas fas- as- as I performance |