| Show NEW NE R PLAYS PLA YS By Charles Darnton I II I I THE f UP f B TEMPERAMENTAL J JOURNEY JOURNEY- TAKES TAXES ANEW At A NEW ANGLE t i I B S I rOX DAH Lr You 1 Sept ht 13 Moro 13 More than thanN Eli r NE N welcome aCt after r tho tiro generally poor 1001 1 of oC plays Dials weve we've keen been hat ln hn having Ing The I F r ni Journey has sot not only k fo with interest at thea tho the cofo theatre but hut it Is watched more stUcCO B a i co ft at f e every I turn turn than an any play too Ji York In used In Inow Now New many a aIr Ir oi t t. t There Wa was a special i reason canon fOll for fOl l tj Hf k In the tho audience familiar Be Bennetts Bennett's nov novel l Buried it or nr dramatisation The hc 1 he Great l ini i which Is shortly to be bo pro- pro J U Was as on the thc alert to i d c a Tere j I. I i hi 1 The T T. i IlIJ iii a sar re to Mr dr Ir Jt h story Ul U UR J Is inevitable v table attitude altitude c was sas equivalent R challenge c bat It II s r ml cna hanged changed to I la rl one OIK- of or undivided Interest in Leo co j adaptation of a n French H Vivre comedy called Pour re which the tho pro program was ions careful careful toI toI to I state slate had Its production In III I 1 Paris arts aris as 14 I long Jong ago as u January Januar 16 1912 It Is that th the barer baltI barely possible of course FI authors ha had road read Curled Burled Alive e and perhaps found In It a go d 1 i for Cut n a pla play similarities are arc to tob tobe tobe b be noted nole the tho treatment of the idea ine-i Iii ea inthis Inthis in inthis this Instance I lm la so 0 different rent from Mr l Bonnetts Bonnett's that The Temperamental tourney Journey which tak takes s a new au angle s miles away uway from The fie Great on Ad Lure ture re In these da s Jaya s of lIf sharp tharp competition It would seem eem m merely that I D Belasco Delasco lends fig again To pain gain that lead I he te may have ha moved 1111 1 a trifle faster stel than I j is his hils wont yet wet t the production l he offend of- of offered of 0 fend d certainly bt betrayed c no signs sl of lu haste st Th The rime first act net setting an 1111 Italian Inn in n on uh r rt Lr ot Island Sound I t was waN l II r rl What hal Is Ig 8 o of more ml Importance It Il came 1 a n surprise surprise sur sur- prise to those of us who were out with an eye ep to The Gr Great Groat at Adventure lo To I I I character be sure here W wa tM an aP artist as the chief r bUt unlike the all genius h ly Bennett in this painter not only Painter was unknown wn but already dy not no t married lei to a a. good sll simple Pe ma make malce M him soul who could coul a ll former Cormel comfortable hut but to lo Delphine sn spilt rit m made model wh whose hOMe MC vulgar vular nl him most uncomfortable comfortable Sho lie ho w wAa m quite ute wl wish h himself enough enouch to make an any uny man elan dead lead But Bul Jacques Dupont I wanted It didn't to get et out of or the u world bec ec sa saw sari w appreciate him 1111 1 bo 50 0 wo Wj V at thy the of or time the first act beach Imis Coat oat and heading for the I Bennett's Bennetts all fU cal hero was wa not at attn Hd I to tn lift hi New until Jacques 5 sot got ot ha back I j t h hv liv watching York lork a audo u and discovered ered co I lid did funeral from a window the tho m- m come ro In hl kin honor that he had boro ho- ho tremendously w watched famous He lIe al also o I from from rom br behind I a curtain the thc consolation con con- that hl iris his widow found arms of of r. R a popular r In I COli-I the thc I also listened d Painter r mill antl he to her and 1 si a picture dealer haggling over O the prices of or his hl- canvas e es AS Is for or Ol I been ou OUI Ourselves i selves wo WI might have haY ht spared red the tho sl sight ht o of t he the the I I woe woe-s s into hor her room tn to i only in ito help tier ner er dress dres This was US not questionable tal taste te but quite I unnecessary I B fly t this I time e Jacques had 1111 explained lo to hl his I foo good Crl friend nd Billy Shepherd that n 11 M f- f lh ii e. e LA 1 t i t. t I I alm forgotten ron otten h ho could swim i l Then i un t re- re e- e in ing he had done clone a ridiculous lye hu io yelled thing for fOl help was as picked up by bv a 0 i yacht acht and ld taken to Halifax And Anil there he hc w was M none lOne the worse for Ol his two we weeks weeks' ks' ks outing o This act was amus- amus ling ling- ing but It would have proved more moro i enlivening if It we had hac not been so fre- fre frequently reminded that tho the bod body of ot the r i man Identified d as ns Jacques was lying In the room below At times Umes tho the comedy was waN a bit some gruesome t to fame fortuno wa was the tive tivo order of the thc program program Fortune fo i ml Jacques three years cars later l in Shepherds Shepherd's house hut but he kept his Identity a n secret from all 1111 hut but his dei de- de i voted friends until oh oh oh oh- oh trotted dotted in with her hel now new husband who waR wan prospering lJ by pu putting JacqUes JacqUe's name nunc on hl his cheap daubs In the course couise of his skillful finished I performance Leo did 1 jils pis is best work when Marie raised Jacques Jacque from th-onh the depths to the heights In Inthe the tho first act h hy by telling him that a stranger I had happened along and bought one ono of ot 1 I his pictures for SO But ho soon Roon discovered dis dis- covered red that time the girl was not only giving him her sympathy but trying to togie togie gi e Ie him her hel monc money money- as well This was not so 80 strange as the tho fact tact that she left lett the tho picture in her room where where he could coul see It tt by looking through h the I window Mr air n was theatric lea lc only when he staggered toward the time beach too heavily Miss Josephine Victor gave gate a performance as aN Marie but It was Wa Ml Miss s Isabel 1 Irving who was first last an and all ull the thc time at al the tho head of or tho the feminine ft procession She wa was capital av as But in a n handing her hor a bou- bou I 1 must say 59 she might have ha got more out of ot that floral tribute to Jacques b by not repeating several times that to th the words words Rest In peace she 1 lid ad a added dl tl Until I come It would be ad here to avoid old the obvious 0 Richie Ling LinK dl did the b best gt acting of h i hs life as the friend of or Jacques s He Ile was er very good though much too tearful lear lear- fol ful in the second act which became become nothing le less s than soggy songy T For a man to ton n tl p Is Ls and Gallic and Dill Billy Shepherd Sh Isn't Ii I douard douar Durand A wac excellent as tho the dealer and anti Lee Millar came into notice as a newspaper reporter who seemed to be he dragged In for tor the eake sake of amus amusement ment Here were two t characters to remind us again of Burled Alive e Still Comparisons comparisons COmparisons com COm- ma may be made a bit unfair In discussing this play clay la Although The rhe Temperamental Journey Journey Journey Jour Jour- ney halts at times and has Its Us drawbacks draw draw- backs It I Is worth while |
