| Show WINS NEW HONORS Maude Adams Who Recently Returned Re-turned to the Stage Made a Tremendous Tre-mendous Hit East I New York Nov Ll 10C Maude Adams return to the stage after two years icst Franklin lyle a well known dramatic ciltlc writes Can you conceive of Miss Adams asa as-a capricious wilful passionate Spanish girl She Is that in The Pretty Sister ot Jose and 1C there Is any lingering doubt thai her leadership of American actresses has been gained as such by dramatic genius as by a bewitching personality it should he dismissed now She was praised qualifiedly for repie sentlng the Italian Juliet In her own way her French l MAIglon was not ad mired without reserve and In the 13n glish Babble alone did the minority goO go-O I to the majority In unanimous approval ap-proval Now again as the Spanish Peplta Jhe has put herself bravely Into contrast with conventionality has not Carmen become the sole recognizable recogniza-ble typo of the girl of Spuinbut not again is the question raised whether her unusuaJnesa Is an error In art The first audience WitS wild with enthusiasm en-thusiasm That J was say you an affectionate af-fectionate welcome to one who had been absent and ill two years OC tours there was outbreaking delimit on seeing see-ing her again In health and strength But the professional critics with their hearts under the control of their brains went to the extreme of discriminate discrim-inate praise In their publications next day So 1 am but one among ten thousand thou-sand who by the time this description Is In print will have agreed In the firm belief that Maude Adams is a great artist to admire coolly as well as to dote on warmly The Peplta here Maudeadamized is a country girl who goes to Madrid lighthearted yet with a head of mens passion born of her childhood memory of her fathers brutal perlldy to her mother She is resolved to love only her fond brother Jose and when the bullfighter Subnslinno ones her In honest ardor she teases and rebuffs him not alone through the fear which her fathers cruelties had implanted In her but for the further reason < that she has witnessed the pitiful sufferings oC a maiden who died of unrequited adoration ado-ration of this same arena idol of the hour Sebastinno withstands her disdain during halfof the play and resolutely urges his suit Convinced at length that she Is heartless he denounces her for a cruel coquette and quits Spain In his absence she llnds that she has a heart and that it Is breaking for him The end Is her agonized avowal of her love as he lies wounded nearly to death Neither while Miss Adams is depicting de-picting the earlier coquetries of Peplta nor when she Is In the stresses of deep emotion later do you think of Carmens affair with a matador You feel no inclination in-clination to measure this fascinatingly strange Spaniard with the familiar one This is an altogether new creature to forgive when she flouts her worthy suitor to pity when her conduct makes her deservedly miserable and to rejoice re-joice over when happiness 1 comes to hair She is thoroughly Spanish too though her hair is brown her face isnt l swarthy her manner isnt sensual I nor her dancing wanton and the fragrance of her loses Is not tainted In your imagination im-agination by the garlic which as a senorita she must be presumed to have eaten All the charm which she has over exerted on you Is In this performance perform-ance but you have neverseen her do the powerfully J passionate acting which makes her Pepita trJmphint |
