Show PERCY HAMMONDS HAMMOND'S LETTER Dy fly lE PEnCY CY U D NEW v YORK Doe Dec 27 Mrs 27 27 Phelps lit itt Sidney The Silver Cord Is tho the most baleful or of the tho season women Not since CraIgs Witt have Javo the drama drama- lovers lovers been boen amuseS amused by a lad lady so soo o The Th theatre has had to todeal todeal todeal deal with several of or late laic from to the tho un un- un SeNt peon ceil devil In The Tho Captive but Ibe they alt all aro as cherubin when compared to the Phelps person What hat you may my m or may not won wonder der 13 ts the vice Ice of or this Infernal hem being In lit which direction lion tion does dou sh shi twins swing the scaly horror of or her he- he tall tail Is she sho In Inclined dined to or lon tion or does docs shu sho combine combino both crimes with Other oilier bad bail habits not unknown to the tho gentler sex 1 The evil doer In The Sliver Silver Cord SUM Miss Lura Hope Crews Is IsI isa isa I a rich an and r respectable widow with two adult sons eons living decently In Inan inan Inan an eastern American city She Is thou h handsome om and the more ems sua ira are ab abhorrent to her ber nature Neither murder nor Interest her ut the I least and her tier character Is Isas Isas Isas as pure Dure as that of or a drop dow dow She regards sex cx as an Impertinence and ald not wIth IL a homo home life lite Her lier great fault is that she Is a pro pro pro mother Jealous to the point ot or wickedness or of o other worn worn- Len wora-Len en who como conic Into the lives of ot her hermala male progeny Unconsciously per perhaps haps of or the havoc she aha Is making she sho will allow no wire wife or sweet tweet heart heart to come between her and her big bo boys boy The Tho result Is die dis disastrous and entertaining and It emphaticallY proves the tho authors author's contention thatA that thai thaiA A womans woman's love Is mighty but a a mothers mother's heArt I Ij a weak And by Its lis weakness over ocr overcomes overcomes comes After Aller Mrs Mra Phelps has hu succeed succeeded ed ad In separating Robert Hobert nobert her youngest from his betrothed Miss lIn Margalo Gilmore she aho turns her destroyIng Influence on David who has Just been married to a pretty l t Miss Elizabeth Poor loor l Miss Gilmore makIng her from what she collis clIs this house fills Into an 1 Icy ky y pond ate ato at night The ThO boye bos hurry to her rescue bare bare- bareheaded headed bare headed and without their on It Is it zero ro or worse and they are unprotected from the cold save from that afforded by their evening clothes Dave Dave cries their mother as s she looks look out of the window at the drownIng drownIng- girl Come back and put on your our overcoats Just before betor tho the final curtain falls tolIs Miss Mias RIGdon as the tho tour four foursquare square scientist packs pack her bag and lion Is on hur her way back to the open air of or tho Rockefeller lab lab lab- laboratories laboratorio oratories But as she is about to exit Sir Mr Howard gives her ber an opportunity to speak her mind about Interesting law mothers For five he minutes or more Miss Risdon pour pours the tho vials of or her In In- In Indignation upon the guilty Miss Crews Crew and tell tells her that she che Is a centered devouring son canni- canni hal bal Whereupon Miss Ml s Crews To- To retorts re retorts torts In a Ion long II and eloquent In behalf of or the passions or of maternity It Jt Is la a II grand rand and glorious conflict Every ery one pres ent at the first performance was glad when Miss lIos won tile the exciting debate debato deba and Mr Eliot Ca Cabot hot bot bot as David snaps tho the cal cal apron his adoring mother and gore Kors to New York City with his brillIant bride there to toas assist let her In lo living her own on life Sprightlier reviewers than 1 X are perhaps In the tha streets In I celebration or of o tho the actors aclou In The Sliver Cord and of It Its dIrection by John Cromwell one of or the most actual of ot the rhe producers No matter how hot bot the tho bonfires s and I I how high the tha th hats hale are tossed toed the pia ers In Thu The Silver er Cord are worthy orthy of ot them Now and then thenon thenon thenon on Monday evening ev I was waa suspicious suspicious suspicious cious that Miss Crews stretched the tho silver cord to the well known breaking point exaggerating Mr Hoard Howards broader broader- moments moment wIth unnecessary br broadness Her sense lenso of humor seeMed now and nd then to doubt th t hit of or her audience and ad sho eho became at ot times n a n cari can can- caricaturist of or a a portrayal But Dut Miss Silas nl don Miss Gilmore Mr Cabot and md Mr were spotless and more in theIr nL na Donn House is spilt milk so far as a atho tho the theater t Is te concerned since Its by Willard Mack curled up ind md died after only tour perform performances It was Wall a pa- pa pathetic pa pathetic fate for a a seller best In the tho book shops hops Everything seemed to be in its Ita favor from Its popularity popularity larity liSI as liS a I novel no to the tho celebrity or of Its s cast east Much money was spent on Its production and hopes hopeR were vero high that it would please the Irish and nd their numerous friends But tho snickered at its most sacred mci- mci inci incidents dents humiliating the good act act- act actors ors ore with derisive cat catcalls Even when Dermott the tho hero announced that he be would ride the tho hors horn in the horse hono race they greeted that proclamation with ridicule And when In the tho steeplechase he be and the tho the Bard ot of magh went I over a four foot four hurdle and won on the contest from Anxious Expectations by several lengths tho the attitude of tho spec spec- spectator spectators was as scurrilous Miss Kath Kath Kath- Katherine Kath Kath-crine erine Alexander Joseph KIlgour Frank Shannon and Walter alter Abel bel were among the players player thrown to the tho polar bear 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