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Show mm i Hi I MAR MANNERING aprjl "GLORIOUS BETSY." U - I Principals. Wm "'. ? Botsy Patterson Mary Mannering i Eliza Monroo Holon Macbeth Miss Ellen Massenblrd Maud Turner Gordon i Captain Jerome Bonaparte Pranlc Gllmore ; j Napoleon Bonaparte John Webster ; J William Patterson Herbert Carr ; j1 Sir Henry Blake Edward Trevor ; j Henry Clay William Balfour ; I George Preston J. McHenry ; i St. Pierre Nicholas Judels r t If I could put in type the love, the laughs and f the pathos that lies in Mary Mannering's dark j ; oyos if i could .typo her handsome features, the saucy toss of her head, the graceful gestures of ' : hands and white arms, the suppleness of her move- f II ments and the art that radiates from every fiber ,f f of her body as sho lives, loves, plays and suffers J through Rida Johnson Young's play, I could tell i you in a way what manner woman she is and i what her Betsy Patterson is in Miss Young's i It is good to see her. I From out the weary waste of made-to-order if plays and made to order stars of which Salt, I Lake has had full share and then some this sea- son she brings the fascinating personality of a; I woman, who, to begin with is as charming, wo-, I manly and loveable as Is given to any of hdr sex, I ;i whoso temperament runs tumbling on, now shal-; I low, and now deep, swirling along tempestuously: I to Its outlet her power of expression and whoj ! t on this superstructure has bullded an art that is; j . matchless is Its compelling strength and finish. The Theater had not seen her in several sea- j i sons until Thursday night when at the head of 5 k her very excellent company she opened her en- t j gagement in "Glorious Betsy." She appears twice, ' i today this afternoon and tonight. ' She has grown older with the years, for the I work she does is first aid to Father Time, but with. ; I those succeeding years she has become more fin- '; ished in her acting, stronger and more womanly. ' C tt i..nn..r ta Tvinvi nnmnftlUnc t.ltnn If. hag 6VGr Mm ; ; been In the past there is an added realism to her fB . y, emotional work. MB , j Her play this season is remarkably good. W$& j Its story of the love of Jerome Bonaparte, Na- HH i ' poloon's brother, for Botsy Patterson, a beautiful jgjjfl Baltimore girl, of Napoleon's interference and of j the subsequent incidents, true to history in the Bfl main, is well told. Miss Mannering irons the B gamut of woman's emotion in the four acts of its action and her emotional work is unquestionably UB I the best of the characterization. As she works up mm I to the tragic heights of the piece she holds you Wm I with relentless grip and as the storm breuks, with SI I , the passion and suffering spent, she leaves you mjm 1 with thumping heart and dimmed eyes only to see n! n the sunshine of her smile break through and the flHI handsome face light up in another mood. flHi The first night audience Thursday paid her l tribute generously, for there were many there who knew the star personally. HB i One finds it almost impossible to say more of Hg i "Glorious Betsy" and Miss Mannering than that Hj 1 to see them is to see a wholesome big, wholesome, 9H 1 absorbing play and a star, in whom womaniless is iWI I first and art second, at her best. Wm ' The play is beautifully staged a Broadway MB t I production and the gowns of Miss Mannering and Bj I j her leading lady, Miss Macbeth, are very elaborate 98g and handsome. 9B It is a pleasure to watch the acting of Frank kUI Gllmore as Jerome Bonaparte. He is an actor fiBf! f to Ills finger tips, of splendid carriage and has a perfect conception of what is expected of him. The character is of course weak in places to make Betsy the dominant figure, but Mr. Gilmore gets through these passages in excellent shape. Did space permit there are others in the company com-pany who deserve mention. Suffice it, to say some that .the support Miss Mannering and Mr. Gilmore receive would be hard to better. as the answer. He's as big and broad-shouldered I as over and one could rather like him in spite of ill his impossible acting if it wasn't for what Lang- II don McCormick has saddled onto him in tire way ;j of the play. The particular piece in which the M former champion is "starring" this season is by M that author and entitled "The Burglar and the fl Lady." It couldn't be worse. A hodge podge of fl Billle Burke wllh John Drew In "My Wife." |