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Show B BARRYMORE FAMILY IN MATURE PARTS. B With Lionel Barrymore making a new hit as a B prize fighter in "The Other Girl," Ethel Barry- B more continuing her success in "Cousin Kate," B afld Jnn B&rrymore playing acceptably a small B Paft m "Glad f It," public interest is very natur- B aNy considerably taken up with the three children B cf Maurice Barrymore and Georgia Drey Barry- B mre- B There is no false sentiment in public curiosity B hi the three children just now. Play-goers have B rejoiced in the quality shown by Lionel and Ethel. B What heritage of talent Jack may possess is still B a mystery, for his part is too triflins to show B whether he has been wise in abandoning the B studio for the stage. In his drawings Jack has B shown a weird imagination, and if he develops fl the same gift as an actor he will attract more at- fl tention than his brother and sister. At present, B however, interest centers in Lionel. In a year H he has shown exceptional ability in three contrast- B ins parts. He has been a success as an Italian, a H Boer, and as an American prize fighter. All three H performance stamp him as a youth of great prom- fl ise. He is best as the pugilist. Excellent as were B his emotional outbursts as the organ grinder, his fl tongue rolls better around the slang phrases of H the fighter. He looks the part and acts it. Prob- B ably Mr. Thomas has given him many lessons in B gait and gestures. B && &v i(5 fl Mrs. Van Rennselaer Cruger and Charles fl Henry Meltzer have just completed a comedy and B New York City may soon see a play dealing with B "high society," treating that phase of life from B the viewpoint of one of its foremost figures. B Mrs. Cruger has given her friends and readers a surprise. She has frequently denied having the peculiar powers of a dramatist, and has never announced an-nounced that she would enter the playwright field. None but friends of the collaborators and, indeed few of these knew that the society woman and the adapter of "The Sunken Bell" were working over a play which they intended should be, not a distortion, but a reflection of society. A tentative name has been given th work, but this, the authors say, will doubtless be changed long before the piece is produced. In some manner unknown to the collaborators, several sev-eral managers became aware that the play was being written and made immediate offers for it, none of which has yet been accepted. Mrs. Cruger's novels, among them "A Puritan Pagan," "The Vampires," "Mile, Reseda" and "Mrs. Clyde," have been well received. Mr. Meltzer is the author of "The First Duchess of Marlborough," the adapter of "The Sunken Bell" and "Hannele." Mrs. Cruger declines to say whether she has placed in the work the figures of any persons we'll known in New York: society, but her opinion, expressed long ago, that "the best place to study human nature is the drawing room," seems to indicate in-dicate she has drawn upon that interesting realm for characters. Whether they will be readily recognizable remains to be seen. It has always heer Mrs. Cruger's avowed opinion that the majority of present day "society" plays are caricatures. They are either overdrawn or underdrawn, and do not adhere to hard facts. |