Evening Star Newspaper, September 27, 1927, Page 19

e T T TR EVENING A e S SN “OPENING ATTRACTIONS IN WASHINGTON THEATERS NATIONAL~“The Spring Board.” As a matter of -custom. {like most of the buttons on a coat) there ave a humber of other people In the cast of “The Spring Board” besides Madge Kennedy and Sidney Blackmer. There are scenes in which Walter Connolly seems almost essential, for he could be eliminated and the play reduced to a sort of “tea for two” demonstration And very pleasant tea it proves—a oup that cheers with sentiment, but does not inebriate with emotion. The author is Alice Duer Miller, who has written smartly for maga’ zines and who shows the effect of the training. The story might have been taken from any one of the faddistic publications which flourish the gr tesque in art, while the type revels in human domesticity. It is about a woman who does her best to stop lov- ing a trivial and selfish husband, but whose heart keeps ing time to the old song, “I Je 't Help K'um a Lovin' Dat Man." i its occasional cynic ant study in human constancy ming to point no moral and to aid to injured heart * " The first act, like so many first appears a little pallid, until thé clos ing scene gives what there is of a story its real, start. Here Sidney Rlackmer—the fictitious names of the characters are of no consequence—re- | veals himself to Madge Kennedy as a suitor as inexorable as Richard III himself. There is no somber back ground, but the mastery of a wheedling tongue is displayed with startling dis dain of all the traditions of feminine self-command. Mad with a career gets for Sidne ‘And hope of | career is surel much an ohject of | jealous solicitude to the modern wom an as the memory of a deccased hus- band was to the ancient ! | The title, “The Spring Board, " is| cryptic. The clue to its interpreta- | tion is given in one of the speeches | which refers to the use of a woman's mecure affections as a secure point from which to splash into flirtatious explorations. Friends protest against the imposi- | tions she endures even more patic than the wife in “What Every Woman The audience waits to see v of Katherine and Petruchio rewritten to bring the unreasonable man humbly responsive to beck and call. But in this modern contest there is no quarrel. The expected flare-up | of justifiable resentment is only a mild demonstration, after all. The play ends exactly where it be- gan with the selfish male in full com- mand of the situation; as disdainful even of his wife's divorce, he appeals to her sympathies (with the aid of a STAR. WASHT (.T“" Not a hectic one, but one rather rose- the wife of a more or less unscrupu- lous Englishman. She left him: and then came the war, with his name in the casualty list. Believing him dead, she marries the doctor. Her erstwhile | typhoid attack) that she lets him sleep ( hushand reappears as another patient with his head on her shoulder and calls him “husband.” It is domestic drama of the most uncompromising kind. It be commonplace. The pla it with revelations of human under- standing, and here and there with delicate touches of artistic trickery. It is a very tall y. The| ‘mu\ s sprightly, frequently epigram- | matic, sometimes, only Jocose. It is |an agreeable demonstration of the |amount of entertainment that may be jerived without the use of emotional dynamite in plot and .verbal bludgeons {in dialogue. | PHILANDER JOHNSON. SHUBERT-BELASCO—"Interference" Gilbert Miller presents this week at the Belasco Theater an excellent | Plav ealled “Interference,” written by toland Pertwee and Harold Dearden. It is a very English affair, exception- ally well done. The story has to do with a famous and wealth urgeon of London who|act. Kathleen MagDonell, in the has married a beautiful and charming | part of the blackmailing lady, has a Mhis voung lady has had a past. difficult role, which she handled most mer discovers that one of his old mistresses is blackmailing the phy- y | sician’s wife. To make a long story very short, he poisons the obnoxious girl, saves the reputation and caveer of the famous surgeon and more or less atones for his carly sins. Blackmailing, murder and intrigue may give the idea that | this is a scarlet melodrama, but such is not the case. It is craftily written, splendidly acted and staged with con- summate art and beauty. Arthur Wontner, in the part of the eminent physician, is excellent, giving a fine and well restrained perform- ance. Thoebe Foster has the role of the beautiful wife, to which she brings intelligence and artistry. A. E. Matthews, in the part of the gentle- manly villain, just about takes first place. 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