Show j C Ui MA eli Ji J t A tw r w IF Ill hy y BY 41 FYLES x f YV V t VIV V y SLet if ttY v v w u 1 J T T 1 T TN N York Jan Jin 9 The prize for su superiority U in the class of ot plays plaY for f r 13 4 may as well waHoo be awarded to J S JM JM SM M M Barries ts Mary without waiting tar for any competition more re singular will wm be bo put on exhibition tion tie That is sure even though we are in the first week weak of the new De year y r What Wt do d you jOU ou think the tha th title means l iau tJ road read r it in accounts from London Andon last spring ng you will get et it ft fr f Mn m me because you DU gue guen i iU it U fit hia times tint trying Little Mary iary a dear little nor any kind of a s She is the Human Thare re is no y in inthe Inthe the Ute same name It Iti is no more laore than i Big Jennie wouRl be But It Is Barries Banies 1 Joke aDd he p It on the tile audience till the curtain IB 1 about to 18 fall fait Then he ha explains ft that his Little Mary Alar fre tie frequently I que UY mentioned by the principal young you woman in the comedy Is his purely arbitrary and fanciful term for tor forthe forthe 1 the stomach st oma of the English gourmand g urmand nd The reel real r heroine of this freakish piece of or lotion fiction is a 8 genial Irish creature who learns from fr m her aged grandfather an observant druggist that the Eng English lish Ush aristocracy has been overfed and andu u until ut tJI its digestion n and consequently in Its disposition has be become become come e bad baa After the death de th of her grandparent she keeps the secret of his discovery while using it curatively Thus she sh becomes known as a mys mysterious health giver gher using no medicines and variously v surmised d to be bt a Spirit Spiritualistic medium a Christian S and a witch while her only method is to induce indu l 1 Ies sg sating eating and nR mote mot activity The Tile entertainment yielded by this c m dy y with its ite Ironical travesty and satirical burlesque and with ife Ith eth ethical ethical ical purpose mixed in with the absurd absurdities absurdIties absurdIties is especially e enjoyable by people keen for theatrical novelty but not at atU alt U Wr r tHose t e e who prefer pr ler usual things 0 tb t Barrie has nas gone gene further r from rom rOIl UI lk normal shall I say ay sane of or mod modern orb ern society than he le did in his other remarkable play Tile Admirable in whick which a rises su superior sup p to his employers family of ot dul In Little r it Is an hum humble humble humble ble Meira Loney Lone who by introducing ln the stomach cure into the household of ot a high and mighty Countess of an aristocratic circle She Site is brought there to oper operate ate at at oit ed OI the tha invalid daughter of or the hus who ho after being trundled about 11 l a Ii Wheel chair for months leaps Out of ot it and anti dana dan s in lit the joy of ot good health he Ith Besides that an indolent lord ling hag s Industrious s a matrons dl disappears in buoyancy two I mi mated sweethearts break their be betrothal betrothal I amicably and an estranged fa ft father f titer thor and son JO get to be chums all be bf because cause c se Moire has Induced them to mod moderate crate erate their voracity When they are well and aDd happy clamor cmor for the secret of the change which she has wrought without any an tangible medium Thereupon she speaks the moral meral of the play the lesson of ot tern tem temperance perance pe anee at the table and simultaneously Barele gives a final gibe to one cite lipe of English En unreasonable prejudices dices It is ie considered vulgar over there to mention the stomach They The Theare are as 8 shy te to name that organ of dl Ion as we are the belly lly So when wh n Loney Lousy says mys right out loud that thet t little Mary y is a synonym for stomach tile the countess and her bar relatives are are shocked dreadfully S Pretty sentiment has hae ha not been ex eK excluded j by Barrie a from hie fantastic play r Ja Motra Mafra 1 fra Loney Is S such a winsome IrI rI of twelve tw in lii the first act a enu em em embodied bodied by Je I fe BUsley that it Its Is easy east to t li 1 lne she ie Ii the Little Mary MaI She is s 6 the housekeeper for her grandfather and at the same sa e time the care taker I of three orphan O ti n who 1 ho range from fro m four fOU r month to four years in age When I the t curtain rices two of th them m show i their heads head over the box shelves which are 5 their belle beSa white while she mothers them j affectionately and lulls mUg an infant to top elvoit p in her arms with mu h cooing IMI l nd ud g The Earl of f f Carl Carlton CarIton ton Impersonated by Henry Hen E comas eo 10 to the shop with a pvC pre prescription pr and waits in tb living fIl room while it is being compounded He is charmed by the of the girl in her open opert a of ot him Six years later When ben she goes to tit the house bouse they meet again and nd one of the Hie results of her ministrations there Is that the earl eul with his bin aUff social s ideas limbered by y improvement I lOVes and Tt marries her i n And An 1 Moira Po ia 1 I I I I n Po PoM M 9 engaging with her Irish accent and clipped d tord that you yen o dont ont think t of ofu i the u match as unsuitable or that she will never be congenially cong nl ny at home in an gr mi as she e was wits in tier her grand grandpas grandpas pas back room mothering those chil Nary Mary Mannering appears as a bride bricle m In El honeymoon Hone a farce newly transformed from the German by Leo DIetrichstein He Ke has bas made live five of the character American Amerie AJl but has left the scenes in Germay Germa There ThereIn IB In an aa element of t ailment tt and ute cute in fete b tao t as iha Ut niece ulace is at a Health r f sort and rome ome obese women go alK out ut drinking mineral spring water it tt through glum tubes from frOIn mugs strapped to their persons in the hope of tv washing ashing away a some of their fat Bryan Is there as se a lire bo boher ker her from Wall Vall Street treet on hin wedding tour and he be has boa not left his business cares canes behind His new wife thinks he I should have lye nothing but birt her hE en on his mind and she ehe he lores her temper because UH he cant or wont ont Thus laus Mise 11 Manner Lanner hg lug has he to put both aid acid and sugar u r into hir Wv to be alternately aUer loving and hateful h These TheM capricious us are aggravated by the dilemma ef f the couple when the man I I I I I I I I I lee W letter leUer of credit and is distrusted by b bin bis h landlord The M broker brok r to for forget foret get Rt et that remittances nc cap can be made by byc cable c bi Instead of tales for fOl money moy he be pretends that hm his wife Ife te in a pv vocalist and hires her hel to ton sing ahi n r at a concert A maze of perplex perplexes bM es e ese etl e e e all aU farcical and ami most of ol them funny But none of oC a grade to let Jet et Miss Mia 11 Mannering be proud 1 of her herself herself self But they are clean and harmless and they ther the permit her ber to be g gani One oui ani of tit o her a achievements is Ia to I Magni si 81 silently bath lY That happen ha pe 1 at the concert 11 stat staf Act Works work h bee own mouth while R a woman in beet dramatic f are often otten tan ble to tune tun Matilda Heron H r Ip lp 1 her bee great Ce An ja i mast mastI ua U If to warble Thin You member H er Me pathetically by proxy ro roI Augustus Thomas new nev comedy V The he Other Girl was Wa produced too late Iste to t be described in bt last Jut Sundays t letter Jet Iatt r rI r U 14 aft he A parson panon and an a fUt U t are the principals ls Two heroines heroine M re In Interest inter t by b the two fighting n And an admiring friend friendship friendship ship eR sues between the one who strikes prote elor l blows at sinners in the pulpit tt and aBd the one who knocks knock them out Ih lb the ring Their piety and muscular tty lw t 1 tuek tto not II only dUb but g got t to t tether gether ether in wrestling and nd iid boxing as well wella a as in Ia of or brain and brawn This singular r affinity between mind nInd nd d matter comes about through the champion of ot Christianity who needs n ds physical culture engaging the middle weight champion of or the Uati bearers bes rs to exercise e him at ills his parish perish residence ence The consequence co are bad at a and good at last The Rev He Dr Clifton Cliften Bradford Is In oon so expert in that when his insolent butler arabs him he ha throws tha fellow deaf eat o over r R a table ta le ha r a r rI I conduct n human 0 TT TO r s I t J J i JJ j J yet forbidden to a man p an e coat coa c at h Ia always black b and an nook tie tle always white get gt him hi into unpleasant t publicity luy Con Concurrently Concurrently currently currentI Kid KI develops a ato dete to become a gentleman se eman and b I highest aspiration In fit that tha eUon IS ISto S Sto to elope wIth with a young Jady td whom his 11 I has bas fascinated The model l after whom Mr tr Thomas his hIB McGarvey is KiJ McCoy McCO the tile real middleweight i sUgg st SIgger r whose boM oh rm for far women is P i potent that tb t one of or them has marri married 1 him ban ami three times Umes with wilk divorce Intervals the The ail ami t Lionel rr the th tb actor tor of tha l oi character h se seem m to have hae studied McCoy j closely as his is slang of the i ring ing and his 1116 wanner er of the bar room room are j with the utmost precision Bar ryr ore ImItation ion in speech eli and move mOe movement ment is faithful very cleverly so but j Thomas Thom wit and a d humor are of course cours far and away above that Mc McCoy McCO McCoy Coy CO is capable ca of There Thero Db r i ip no ao reason t doubt that the theRe Rev Dr Bradford in inthe inthe Inthe the play pley had bad a progenitor in the Rev Re ReD D Rainford rector res rec r r of or St George church and wen well known sometimes criticised too for his of ot gymnastic sUc culture for tor himself arsi frU rd till the young men of or his parish pati J with boxing gloves s and refitting st nR mattresses not barred be Ted Thus invited by the author of The TheOther Other OUter Girl tt to t look beyond Ond the he mimicry and see actual personality per er it is ex excusable exe sable e to write something am t l about th the Buyers who represent nt th the two girls of the melly one of ot their th and you bU are left to decide which Is meant r thea n t to be designated deag ted as the other The ac actresses actresses actresses tresses are Elsie Be De Wolfe who was born Into the proud old New York family fInally of De Dc Wolfe and anti Drina De Dc DeWolfe Wolfe who married into it U They The ae Me or were before divorce sundered und red the Ule relationship but it was Tas as a matter of n at the time lime of it at Mrs Ms 8 peculiarly interesting UIg playhouse that Elsie would not te Drina social socially ly b But in the present play pla they are brought together professionally il as the th most moet affectionate of chums Drina is the Impulsive maiden malden who wh consent to torun torun torun run away with the pugilist and Elsie is 1st the considerate one averts a erts tIle tle misfortune Caresses embraces and kisses are prescribed by b the author and the two De Dc Wolfes give gi them with no show sho of dislike Those Thoe in the audi audience ence who know of the family affair which bleh has bas been a town see noth nothing nothIng ing unreasonable ble in Drina kiting off to marry whimsically or 01 In Elsie Elle laverIl locking king up u the U other girl who would elope and making of ot herself the th other girl who veils ells herself to surprise and confound c the tIle pugilist when they gel to the clergyman who iho Is expected to per perform perform form orm the ceremony But Bitt there here is won wonder wonder der tier and there is guessing when the De Dc former ormer assume the manner of fond cronies Have they made up Or O r 40 q to O they thOy th hate hat each cach other while simulating mutual love Of or coure course it i 1 is i none none of or the Ute audiences a a busi bust business bustness ness Yet the amused curiosity Is man Another actress extraneously In Interesting InI Is Ma Ida daugh augh daughter I ter of Nicholas Smith and grand granddaughter grandI granddaughter I daughter of Horace HOJa e Greeley Gr She ap appears appears pears neatly in the small part of et a maid maidservant servant ser t Twe Tw women antagonistic in w Syd Sydney Sydney I ney Grundys Gypsy Gps of itself is not on oddity Again Ajain an as a usual they are Who 9 is fl in Jn h Jy hc love and andone andone andone one who alto Is not But It Y does what no writer of or less vogue ogue could do doand doand doand and still find a manager manag r to produce th the I play In it was i s done He ex cx these Ulese heroines contrasting sin sinless in inless less 1858 and sinful as equally deserving des of oi oiB sympathy B pathy In their trouble over oer the theman theman man mal with ith whom both mate nate te It is true thai th In ln the single afternoon aft rn perform performance ance tb th innately 1 sweet s et Fay Davis the mans mains para pam paramour paramour mour white while a sour and harsh actress was assigned to the role of the circum circumspect s wife which was an unfair handi handicap h cap p for virtue itt in the race with vice Ice to tol l win n an n audiences favor In the corn com complication devised by b Grundy Grun h a Lon Lan London LandeR don deR lawyer law er takes a girl to a theatrical chorus and would marry marr her as she is worthy worth of his bis love 10 but uch an act of honor hO or is not consonant with his hie social l station For tea tn years e rs she is a wife to him in all 11 loyalty Joy lQ At the end of that decade of disgraceful happiness she finds linda out that he lie had bad shifted his heart from her ller to a woman eligible for matri matrimony matrimony mony and a highly l helpful bride for him IB iR his political career She makes make mak no difficulty for him In his Ms selfish in inconstancy inconstancy constancy const cy but alit b t fondly tricks tr him to be believe believe lieve v that she too is js tired of oC their re me relationship After she ale he has ban made it easy for Cor hm to discard di her h she puts her Tier herself self seit still further out of ot f his way with witha a aw 11 Mow of laudanum lau That is ispa pa pathetic and most or ill us uk who saw it had hatI to use handkerchiefs There T re was wag no no moisture to wipe up for tor the bride brIdes a blameless creature though she amia amiably amiably amiably bly forgave the euter woman and re me remained remained faithful to the faithless mall mae Thle Th drama of o pS has a curious history Grundy wrote It first In two sets nets and i 1 tb that brevity bret it was vas s p Per i by Ri R Yoke und and her com corn company compan pony pan in the time when hen they th mads nado d tours of this country with a r 18 m perlor of short plays lays mainly merry melT ones onea It was called In Honor Bound i and nd was a comedy that did not come conic anywhere near to t being bel gL a tragedy Last t tyer year yer the present version was In London ondon nUll a l Grundy was accused d of having 11 nC borrowed from t orn the French I j without acknowledgment the material with which to lengthen his bis original 1 composition c Another r contention arose aroe from the exclusion aon by agreement be between between tween the author aut POI and the a trw George Geerge Alexander of the London Time T e l critic from the open I I ing inh performance on the tho plea that ite he hail haC prejudged the th e wo work rk Titers Thore was f far niece more ado over that ht than would have hare h Te resulted in such auch ft tc case casein in New NewYork NewYork York Just possibly Fay FI Davis may m ma I take ta e Sy on her het tour tot r with 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