| Show I A WS Of Or Jilt mt L S 1 4 G I I I I I Special I U DUN Feb leb 7 Arthur Wing PI PIn LUNDoN L n ro T ought to be In a cheerful frame frante ot of mind mot nine for tor HI Ills In Order played llaO I for rorI or l tHu no time on any un stage stege e at the St Bt Jaine In host InH it night won a it success that was WAIl as sensational And the best of ot It Il U Its I that the triumph ass AUS not due hue to nay nn one situation a for tor or instance In rite Jay Gay OR Lord but to 10 the uniform excellence of ot what lint I almost certainly a masterpiece e U Jl has baa b in maintained that tint Tn Tite econ Mra Mr ray cut Ut the top notch latch In to th the r of ot modern atone rl I but at III Oral first sight the new dream C even tn nul BO so strong IMI tul litter lIner r anti and more maru who This new nen 11 PInero aero piny Is In a 11 1 comp mon piON to Mrs lr T y oi iL J i a t ascend wife unhappy with th the first wife Ie IMmer Ut at o parliament nud aide alo alon at I n I 1 pug pili firstly a II MUd I daughter of a I stuffy self eMmade class ela knight Sir y After tr her hor In iii a nl of human f feeling hiLtS bai married the s of ot the sun iou of ot tho tie house hou e and the play on the e eve of nf the third thirl lilt of or the tue Ih of th the Oral Mr Mrs 1 Jes Jesson son In Iii the th first few tew moments ve we are aro arod d left I that the tite hat hal ha b bun it an on orderly tidy tILl con t I after h her r own onn heart h ft und and that the lie Mrs Mra lt in wInK being Site tho th child and auth chum china of oC a hoh Is n nil nc itt lC ad 54 She Bhe knuts naught of ot tidiness an alit linn has alas aIM a n tempera lemper temperament ment A sIster Inter of f the Iho tint lice ho be been n In m to 10 U keep p the tile house hous In or order der 1st and tn to tue unreal ami n brother of ot UK th Mrs J 0 11 are also alo on haum hanl to p o cheery the lie which Is to ba bo celebrated by ly i Ll a park In mem ment memory memory ory cry of ot th the Mrs tho Ito older ohler brother of ot Kilmer Jesson Je ln M 1 V 1 In Inthe Inthe inthe the person of ot George Alexander Vho hia the Ih and adviser adl u r of ot the tha theA second A Mr Mrs Jo Joson on us as th lie support of ot the second Mr Mrs Iu It would take more mere space than can ran be accorded hire here to show chow with what lull Inti alto skill the tortures of ot the t Mrs Irs Jesson mire are increased to the limit of or hu hat human man All of af her hr efforts to do dt doher d her best belt are turn to tn grill gall anti and hItter bitter ne niece AM i phe hie reaches reach th the breaking point paint th Ih sits Utters letters proving Unit thins the thc first fint Mm was nut mil what the she had hd scented and an 00 that th heir ot of tin thi th I hence haute hou e of or J e n It is tho child of or another man lemon t at lit last Th Time The hll idI II b Th n rome come th great scene c ne Hilary th lh its kindly v lbs tM Mrs r Jesson to tD give glo I uy Ul the th letters letter anti and sacrifice her hut in the flOat final act the situation be becomes comp comes to so tense tetuo that lint Hilary Jesson himself shows show a the letters to 10 the tho ae do husband 1 and the thu second Mrs Irs Jesson comes comoa Into her on own onNo N No Oc account of ot tho the play In such brief form torm can even the tho blow on blow blew bID IV by which the second Mrs Iu Jemon Jesson Is made mado to suffer or the poignancy of ot other her bet sacrifices sacrifice Guillen It to say any ny that thal at ni the tile end ot of lie ho third act the brilliant and blast blasts first night audience was aaa as In Inno nn no uproar of ot applause and cheers aol and that nt lit tho Iho end cu of ot the tho play the author was nl forced to break his hi rule rulo and anti bow boll tile hit hl acknowledgments As A Nina the lie second wife wire of ot Flimer Filmer Irene Increased the tho reputation she ahe made as liS Sophie Full ull Carney In The Gay Oay Ga Lord Qu x Her lIer performance was wag beyond praiM George Alexander too WhO was carried to perhaps greater lter heights than thin he has hu ever achieved before A t mark marked ed cd feature of at the tho piny plc was the terrific lashing Kit given Ilven en to the lie re to respectable conventional public as personified by tile the snug fled lle The laughter and nil with which this lashing was wal re received received on tho tint purl part of ot the tha audience was noteworthy Indeed 4 S I erstwhile chief rival Henry Arthur Jones Jon preceded hIm by a n week wook and auth had the tho advantage too loa of ot reopen In lag Ing n II famous theater th tinier new man management Terrys theater thea ler In the tha Strand Is ft II cody cosy co place ce anti and ha hll has bum been I decorated anti rinO beautified b to become tile the I home homo of James Jomes Welch a comedian of ot the hIghest rank a little man with a big brain for or whom London lendoll has hall an abiding Affection If Jt It 1 had not lot been for tor Welch ami anil for rM or time the part provided for foi him In The Tho Heroic Stubbs Stubbo tho tha play would oulI have hae lae to be sent down on the tile list of ot the Mr lIr Jones Stubbs Is la an all explore lovable loable who has risen from the tho Ih humble estate mate of ot half hall starved to proprietor of ot a I arich II arich I rich and fashionable establishment all nil through devotion to an Ideal Tho The I Hermione had captured his heart henrt by a Il chance kind hint I word to him when he was I ft a ragged urchin When Vho hn he lie and antI she chic grew up nod got gol go Into the first act ot of Mr Ir hr Jones play h lie he stIll adored adM h her r from a It respectful distance of ot course I and ana nd Insisted on giving h her lter r boots beets hi hll t personal attention d his prosper Ity aff affection being Idyllic an aol and spiritual It matter to him that the Lime Lady Hermione had n husband hut but It did matter very ery much to him when he ht discovered that she sho purposed to that husband and ond hBo have din n ncr r on a n t yacht with a 11 roue rotto The Time lady thought she he was ivas going to have ban some soma but comparatively harmless fun Stubbs knew that the tho villain i 1 would make off ott with her If It possible Ko 80 Kohe o ohe he takes Inkes n IL special train and arul arrives first t at the U Jl mill all for tor forthe the liveliest tt Interest through h two tWi t WI acts Then through thu other two to acts act It Is lii gradually divulged to us un that thai the lady tady managed manag 1 tu to got get her dinner chimer after aCter alt all al nod to set et away without further dam darn damage age than an nn accidental ducking which had nothing to do with the tory story tOT All thu heroic Stubbs could coull do 0 WIll wui to lo help her keep the adventure In Iii spite of ot the questions of ot her husband and n a newspaper reporter and acid then to 10 per persuade persuade suade suede h hEr r to make a clean breast of ot It for tor a curtain effect Welch as lie Stubbs was u a joy throughout ani the dialogue and other phases of ut stagecraft were a n joy too but the thu general genera effect of ot tha Its play pIa was not al altogether altogether together to happy CURTIS |
