Evening Star Newspaper, September 15, 1925, Page 23

AMUSEMENTS SHUBERT-BELASCO—"Accused.” Surpassing beauty, tremendous pow- er and stately dignity—these are the attributes of the three-act play “Ac- cused,” presented for the first time in America at the Shubert Belasco Theater last night. Two incompara- bles, one immortelle—David Belasco, 1. H. Sothern and F pool their talents and umph that must be outstanding in ca reers whose every step has been tri- - glowing word begets an other still more vivid,” says Sothern in the third act of “Accused,” and one could wish that it were true in at tempting an appraisal of the manifold merit of the production An audience of the type that would be drawn to a Bel Sothern pro duction could ordinarily be assumed 1o repress its ecstasy over artistic achievement, yet last nigh ecrowd i ed house was swept away and tu-| multuous applause during the entire intermission between the second and | third acts continued unabated until Mr. Belasco made the speech for Which the throng was clamoring. One cannot accord honors to any one of the great trio that gave “Ac- cused” to the American stage. Brieux, Belasco and Sothern share them evenly. One can treat it only chion- ologically. In that treatment, M. Brieux, its creator, comes first. The playwright, one of the 40 tmmortelles of France, has fashioned a glorious play of Flaubertian pre cision around a theme of mystery v he has woven, as only problem of pro- One may see and find it en- one may see in it an i ater theme and find it art est. It is to the credit of last ht's audience that it found the 1 theme underlying the mystery the piay joyable ¢ Brieux has taken occasion in bose some of system of jus- tice that society has created. cused™ dwells on the ethical perspect- fve of the legal profession. It does not use ridicule as a bludgeon. M. Brieux is far too deft. He contents himself v aying open as a master on the circumstances that beget rtion of which he complains. achievement adds another pter to the story of his lustrous career, He has given to M. Brieux's work, the avmosphere and the interpretation that it demands. That is a task for the Belasco gen and its accomplishment is typically Belasco. Sothern has been saved for the last. He is the interpretor, the extraordi- nary Sothern who deals with an emo- tional role the touch of a Deserting Shakespeare, in which he the greatest stage conquest of es, he mak greater conquest. he story of ““Accused ' is old, made new in the hands of threc ma A French woman of the upper « is accused of murdering her husband. In the face of almost certain convic- tion, she girds herself in an impreg- nable silence and refuses to affirm or deny any of the circumstances that point to her as the murderess. Soth- ern, as de Verron, her attorney, and mad with an unvoiced love for her, tries to wring from her some admis- sion that will aid him in convineing a jury of her innocence, of which he is She stonily refuses. Honor is fym if it must pay with life. De Verron's professional record, built on honor and rewarded with national recognition that brings to his clients an assumption of innocence in the face of French law that guilt until innocence is proved, bright ¢ Before the t of her guilt, but not her motive, z his professional integrity impels him & the case. His love for the girl and his grandfather's lecture on duty drive him on and he is left with apparently no weapon— he cannot in honor use his_profes- sional standing to free a woman who is_guflty. In a terrific emotional battle, love routs honor and he saves the girl's life. After the trial the woman's motive is revealed ¢o him. It was for the love she bore him that she killed - | her bestial husband. The cast of *“Accused,” by ai ard, is perfect. Notable in this are Ann Davis, as the woman who' killed; Henry Herbert, Verron's grandfather; Lester Lone- gran, as the father of the slain hus- band; Moffat Johnston, as the father of the girl, and Mabel Bert, as De Verron's moth NATIONAL~"Gunpowder.” Gunpowder, dynamite, excelsior, { gasoline and other explosive or com- bustible materfals have been used metaphorically for so long that t choice of the first-named commodl as a title for the new play by J. C. and Elliott Nugent, opening last night at the National Theater, is only too natural. Gunpowder, as every one knows, can be stored away in_tins, kegs, paper bags or old cigar boxes and kept safely for indefinite periods of time. But once the match is ap- plied the whole thing goes “Puff!” and vanishes into thin air with various possibilities for damaging those in the immediate vicinity. Emetional and physical love of men and women, if allowed-no natural ex- pression, may do the same thing, which {s the theme of the play. Not a new theme, but when presented as a psychological experiment made know- | ingly by an old man and a beautiful voung girl to prove that a love of the spirit and the intellect transcends all other love, it takes on freshened in- terest. The elder Nugent, who finds as De! himself in the leading role, is said to have worked for years in the proper development of his experiment. He has certainly succeeded in maintaining an_undiminished suspense until the last words are spoken, and has done it with charming naturalness which car- ries it through. 5 The cholce of Miss Mary Duncan for the part of Bess Flanders, ihe in- nocent young girl, is a fortunate one. She is lovely in every way. 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