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Show Deffry Show ty New Critic ' Miss Josephine Dellry with her com- pany Is this week playing her third or i fourth annual engagement, in Logan. f The emotional adtresses of the Amer- lean 'stage are leglrfn and range ali the ' way from Miss Deffry thrbugh Blanche , Walsh and Florence Roberts to Mar- 9 garet Anglln and Mrs. Leslie Carter. One has many good reasons for placing Miss Deffry rather low on the emotional emo-tional ladder. She has the heaving bosom (who that has seen her will not testify to its amplitude?), the rolling eye, the nervous lingers and the hoarse voice that we associate usually with feminine emotions of the stronger variety, va-riety, but her acting Is totally lacking In ease, grace, and finesse. In tliu virginal whiteness of a wedding gown her ponderous proportions arc simply ridiculous and fall to exclto any Illusions. Of all her emotional emotion-al sisters she most resembles Blanche Walsh, but a Blanche Walsh minus talent and plus inllnltc flesh. ' , The engagement opened Monday evening with "The Empire Against a Woman," a translation of a French melb-drama. In It Miss Deffry played the part of a Spanish adventuress at the court of Napoleon III. Though , her past is evil she is redeemed by love and to save her lover's fortune she bulls the stock market with her own fortune, and to save him from being falsely accused of treason she plunges apapercutter In the back of the base accuser. Both these meritorious actions ac-tions atonofor her preliminary lack of vlrtueand the last curtain leaves her In the arms of a' forgiving husband. MJss DefTry's violent, conventional methods appeared to best advantage In the scene In the stockbroker's office. of-fice. Good lungs are so useful In bidding bid-ding for stock. But In the more dell-cite dell-cite love and passion scenes her robust proportions stood in her way and sle was very inadequate. The leading man of the company, Mr. Graves, has a Semitic profile that would warrant vfft one to suppose that his name In real life might be Gravestcln Hlsactlng lacks force and conviction Some good ' comedy work was done by Miss Royal I and Mr. Hawkins. The rest of the j company are about the usual thing. : On Tuesday night "Article47" was given, the plav In which Clara Morris won so much distinction. 'Tonight will be given that I he name of which is'notathand. On tho whole, In spite of much poor, uneven work the engagement Is an interesting one, for the plays are exj cedent from an emotional standpoint and should be seen by all students and lovers of the theatre, and thMctlng of the company has now and 'then refreshing re-freshing flashes of naturalness. Go and see the company. Your time will not be wasted. . A. |
