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Show IS GRIPPING DRAMA BRUTALLY FRANK 'The Lure," Depleting Traffic In Girls 'liil Makes Audience at Moore Shudder IH At Times. Has Real Pll Value l IH ii lly Stephen Wentworth ) You lmvo henrd literary critics I ! sperjk of books Uiat grip you, bold ' l you mid bnng oti. That's what "Tho n Luro" does Uio sermon drnmn that ' en mo to tho Mooro last nlgbt nnd let I jjH us shudder for thco acts over tho t J horrors of Uio traffic in girls. r How it happonod that "Tho Luro" ! i1 was suppressed in Now York only can 1 f IH be understood by tho explanation that "H tho plaiy, as presented hero, Is nn ox- ! 'H purgatod edition. ' i It Is certain that "Tho Luro" will do thrco things: ' JH It will mako young girls moro caro- ''H ;! It will shamo a whole lot ot men )ill and mako them less bold nnd loss !' It will mako mothers of girls keep 1 H their eyes wldo open. - l In no way Is "Tho Luro" an objec- JJ tionablo play. It paints n tcrrlblo pic- turc a picture, that mafcs tho flesh i cringe. Whether it Is too strongly ' pnlnted- is n question to bo decided by . tho individual. Tho audlcnco nt Uto l Mooro last night did not think It jH Well Proportioned 'H Tho play Is well proportioned. Tho "t emotions nro tho natural omotlons. hI Too much emphasis Is laid upn ! ! neither ono nor tho other. Grief j Btalks In, but does not linger too i long. Poverty comes In, dwells In !.'! tho slnglo homo for awhile, but leaves ! beforo It leaves scars that won't hoal. ! jH Sacrlflco comes nnd goos. Sickness f i H(, speaks that Uio hurt ls lessened by 'H dovotlou nnd service nnd hope. The fc horrors n'o not brought to us In such I mensuro that they tnnugente, becauso iNl just as tho slckoning feeling begins ,H to creep over us and our nerves nro j 'H tenso, Uio sunshine Is turned on. It I H .. u woll constructed drama uud Ho ? 'l 3tngo cruft is worthy or Gillette. Tho 1 jH Hit o room of tho mother nnd tho ' iH daughter '8 Just ns such n rcom would iH be even to tho strip of oilcloth that 1 1 protects Uio wall behind tho stovo. Ill Wo do not know that tho employment lH ngrmcy sccno Is accurately pictured iH mid wo nro glr1 wo do not. I !1 Brutally True IH Rut most ot tho horrors nro off H stage, and for that wo nro thankful. ' UU Yet, wlthnl, tho dlnioguo is so frank- , i ly dcscrlptlvo that Httto Is left to our ' H Imagination. Our impulses Is to look ll upon tho rccltnl of tho methods used si by tho whlto slavers ns un oxfijggera- ' j l tlon which wo nro forced to tolerato HlH to allow the dramatist to add tho I M melodramatic touch ho seems to need. M Hut when wo remember the stories wo havo read, tho findings of com- !H iiiibsioiis In New York and Chicago, H wo aro compelled to rovlo our first M Verdict nnd admit that, horrlblo as It ' M muy seem, tho second bcciio moro th.(,n approaches realism. For thl3 Ut reason it is pardonable. i l Cast Is Splendid ( H It gives less offenso than might bo j M expected becauso of tho skill with. j M whch tho author Una distributed his ii Bavlng situations, fH Tho endet Is perhaps ono ot tho . fH most rupulslvo spectacles over press- j H ed Into humnii shape and sot on tho H stngo ns ho should bo. Tho girl, H played by Ilcatrlce Prentice, Is Just H as Ingenuous, ns Innocent, as sweetly i H confident svnd ns genuinely frank as j H such a g'.rl should bo. And Mrs. H Prentice gives to tho part all that H was Intended to bo given. The secrot H service ngeut Is ably Impersonated by H William J. Kolly .but by all odds tho UM cleverest acting Ib contributed by H Adolph Link, who takes tho rolo ot I B tho delightful old doctor. 4 Um Lastly tho dlaloguo In tho first and j H last acts Is worthy of an older dra- WM matlst than Gcorgo Scarborough. Tho j lines aro splendid. Soattlo Sun, !l!' |