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Show Frawley as Bobbie Burns. 'Twns a very mellow night for the un-mellow un-mellow Scot, this dramatization of "Nancy Stair." in which Miss Mary Mannerlng Man-nerlng appeared last night at tho Criterion Crite-rion theater, "'says the New York Telegram. Tele-gram. It started out as a ort of opera bouffe, turned down tho side street to be-como be-como a comedy of atmosphore, and wound up on tho broad avenue of not Ineffective In-effective melodramn. Tho Jumble, or rather play, will undoubtedly appeal to peoplo who llko to see "lots doing" on tho stage and aro not particular as to Its sequential value. Ono thing Is certain, and that Is that It Is worth the prico of admission to soo "Bobbie" Burns "reciting his own pootry." It hnn always seemed to us a very sail circumstance that "Bobble" should have drunk so much, but It was all explained last night. Evcrywhero "Bobble" "Bob-ble" went. It seems, ho was asked to speak a piece. At first It was all right, but after a whllo this thing was put up so strongly to "Bobble" that he revolted at least that was the explanation which was suggested last night. Every tlmo that Bobbie spoke last evening even-ing his utterance took the form of a little lit-tle recitation. Onco or twice he tried to shake the habit off, but ho would drop Into verso on the slightest encouragement. encourage-ment. To an outsider T. Daniel Fraw-ley's Fraw-ley's interpretation seemed rather harmless, harm-less, but such rabid Scots as James Mac-Arthur, Mac-Arthur, who sat In the audience and bit their nails all through tho play, said that tho Interpretation was a base libel on tKeir beloved poet and would havo nono of It. Every now and thon "Bobbie" would say that his heart was ."salr." but he was far from being tho "sairesf of the Scots in the house. |