Show PERCY AMMONDS AMMOND'S Copyright 1923 Tork Trib Tribune Trib- Trib Tribune une NEW YORK April 14 You You mo ma manot ir not recall poor Sikes In If It lf Comes Just rust before the ough battalion went out Slices harangued his fellow officers on the necessity of oC haIng ha Ing plenty of oC socks In kits I 1 m going coins to t nothing but socks said be heIni Im going to tuff my pack absolutely bung full ful of ot socks matters except socks A short time later Mark Sab Sabie Sabre e hear that Slices Sikes took tool out ol el olen elen en pairs Ot socks and was killed hilled at Mona Ions In Inthe Inthe Inthe the pair he landed In la r I mention Sikes mer merely Iy as one of the tho myriad of oC similar atoms In Inthe Inthe Inthe the book necessarily omitted from the tho dramatization Minutiae th t charm the tho Interest lot toi a moment and then though forgotten halt persist remotely and cause you to tor think of the no cl as so much more than a stor To many minds th I t 0 or three pages pases In Mr Hutchinson tells of ot th the thui death of oC oW 1 Mrs Irs Perch contain the most mem mem- memorable memorable passages in the book Yet they are useless In the theatre arll arid thus tation adal-tation are but Buss suggested sled In the for tor the stage I ew tasks more difficult ha c ha e La dramatist 1st than the lighting foot of or If H I Winter Comes The The only ad advantage van van- tage its editor bas has I is to popularity a popularity which al o has its disadvantages Cut Dut It Is al- al almost al almost most as Interesting In what It bea le cs ca c out a it Is In hat hat It eave u n In At least ten tOn of the mst most Im- Im impOrtAnt im important characters arc aro preserved J-d J MC s Maude Mauda and an Ii com corn company company The Galet j pany any present the play at the Galeti Galet The bar Ty-bar gallant philanderer Lord Ty- Ty bar Is d and and so 50 Is the R v Boom The Perches au ani Ule tho are known only by hearsay Cut But tho the Jinks are arc HI and Low Bright Mr For For- Fortune Fortune or tune the pontifical hypocrite the tho Mr and tho thi th forthrIght Non Noni t of the happy end end- endIng end ending ing All of oC them aro are rather as you them to bo be from your read read- r ln Ing of the book The Tho reproduction however Is that of o r Mabel Sabre who In the tho Impersonation impersonation alien by S Habel Terry Lewis Terry I lb I Ir e cri r thing and more than ou c ha hae e that me in n and hu- hu humorless humorless hu humorless morless lady to 10 beThe beThe be beThe The play picks pick Up Mark Sabre at al althe atthe atthe the moment of ot his enlIstment In the army This in the book oil page The dramatist t therefore I is confronted nith It It a s mighty task of oe I II Inference I and conden conden- condensation condensation I hallon hi UP must explain In a see seG- sen sentence tence or t 0 hat hal It li has liken t I conden-I Mr I Hutchinson pages to put before OU At first ou are a 0 bit tilt sut- sut sui by Mr Maudes Maude's jolly olly Mark MarkI I Sabre You e ha pictured Sabre abras as a genial soul but a a little sui- sui sug of oC melancholy and suspicIous suspicious ious bus that the game Is not worth candle But Dut hero here he Is 15 jovial and anda anda a hall hail a gusty chap forget forget- forgetting forgetting ting his domestic confusion contusion in tit glorious enterprise ot of battling for forKIn forKing KIn King and Country lie He Is the tho Mo Mak Sabre ol of If If Winter Comes Comel 1 Ils the merry charm of Cyril Maud 1 and minus the charm of Marl Mark Sabre S S The plays play's high theatrical spots are the suicide of oC Bright Ertle th the coroner a B inquest at which Sabre Is s held responsible for tor her destruction sI I and the last act M heroin Sabre seeking to murder the evil cUt I li stopped from so BO doing by the new news that 1 W boy has beon killed In battle batlle Mr B Macdonald the adaptor has in cob col- collaboration col collaboration with Ith Mi Mt Hutchinson so- so se selected heeled h with con those portions of the novel bet beet suited to 10 the tho theatre That Thit they the theare are the most obvious of the book contents and the least worthy Is Indicative e of oC the difference bet beten bet en c literature and the drama Pinero In The Tho Enchanted Cot Cot- tage tago Cottage rattles around a little stiffly In Barries Barrie's magic shoes shoe Sir James steps slops softly among the fan fan- fan fantasies tables tules Sir Arthur treads ith hea heay y The Enchanted Cottage therefore Is a 0 n Barrio Barrie theme replete with dreams and but per per- per formed performed by an artist MUst addicted to IO more moro material Kinds of oC music It Iti t 10 1 ne an imposing table fable ing th tho a alom that love 13 blind and emphasizing lne It In a de dei p and 1 ly ty I suspect that Sl Arthur Arlhur has done better in Sir Jamess James's medium than Sir Jam s would do in Sir fair Arthur Arlhur b i Pinero and Jarrie Darrie I herl you might think would be a 0 knightly Pinero's sophistication and ind In- In InI Innocent Innocent In Innocent I disingenuous Barrios Barrio's cosmic observation applied Ilo to parochial tales lales of oC tho Iho ho episodic Jal Baire re bidding the t I hyacinths to 10 bloom and Pinero en- en engraftIng en engrafting grafting them with ith poison h Uy hy y The Tho T Js is something like a Barrie play rL itten by Fin Fin- Finero Pin cro Iro BS as an editor rather than as a tic confederate F F S I The Enchanted Cottage at the beginning ot of the play Ilay Is a for Oilier Bashford No Nol Noel 1 Tearle who a as ae a lIeuten tot nit In tile Ho floii 11 was made neurotic and misshapen by his mounds m in inthe inthe Ithe the ther r r lie He limps and his neck Is crooked ami his mans man shell sh-ne sh hl hie e caused him to 10 t-eek t eek a miser miser- miserable ablo able solitude lo Jo his cloister In the thO Cottage COllage one day there thero leS a tel tel- tellow fel fellow low victim r or of o patriotism Maid Murray c e Gilbert Dmu EmeryD D S 01 0 M 1 i C whose ees were welo shot out on n Vimy Imy JUdge the blind Major hither gh Ing him himan himan himan an arm across the park is Liuba Miss Katherine Cornell Cor- Cor nell the ugliest girl In the o or f She ho ho Is sallow and angular her soul is beautiful and she has n a tender th tho h hh- hh his historical re recluse reluse lust has lIas a a headache and so she aho Me bic cleS den to the thc to get him He Ito reque ts here therefore oie to marry him and sho docs does so HP Ito a frenzied erl cripple pl she a noble eyesore I The Barrie Influence enters here hereWith With fancies and ami Illusions No soon soon- sooner sooner sooner er arc are the th hideous twain made mado ore olle than they see soe the eyes 1 of oC love They become beautiful the one ono to the tire other ether The grows strong and an straIght to her hor and his uncomely bride assumes to him a as ho hay says th the e color and ind contour of oC a a ripe cherry cherr They laugh lauSh in III their new new- newfound new found found happiness and zid regard the transformation as a normal miracle sightless friend tire the he Major cannot see that it Is the of oC love that makes maltes them handsome lie He without e I is it as blind as al they are The Tha scene which shows them again to each other as the Iho world see them Is a cold and I expert Pin Pin- Pinero Pin ero cro revelation But the finish wherein the Iho disillusioned bride has of oC o maternity and a hatred d m elre climbs into he her arms as IlS the curtain falls is it may molY maybo maybo bo be an Indigestible Pinero Barrie Pinero caramel S S S The Tho Wasp is one ono of oC those th theatre tre nursery t stories lu in 1 which murder Is done donI and im- im immature Im Immature mature malure audiences are naked asked to fig fig- figure fig figure ure out which character among I lure many Is the homicide It Is la a long garrulous and amply-acted amply tale produced It Is said with of a prosperous future th movies Iho principal players a aru ai I Otto Kruger who Is good Miss 1 Emily Ann Wellman who nho Is not and Miss bliss Galino who Is somewhere between the two |