The evening world. Newspaper, May 6, 1914, Page 17

“The Charm of Isabel” Largely Negative. BY CHARLES DARNTON. HOUGH Paris bus its surprises, no young American widow on the point of sailing for that happy shopping ground need fear to =| her rest broken by « proposal of murrlase made (o her over the foot- board of her bed by an importunate Frenchman. This could happen only in a French | === “sieeTheae tnt yar sess] WAG MISERABLE COULDN'T STAND) firat of all “The Charm of Isabel,” by Sydney Rosenfeld, is a farce after the French model. Why the author has | Testifies She Was Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable been pleased to call his play a comedy when {t really swings along between farce and burlesque is one of the! things be might have explained last | ‘night {f, as he announced, Manager Lackawanna, N. ‘After my firet child was born I felt very miserable and 1 m could not stand on try Lydia E. Pink- ham's Vegetable Compound and my nerves became firm, fealog That ‘wes six years ago and I have had three fine healthy children since. troublen 1 always tak i ui Marie Nordstrom. Brady's contract with bim had not forbidden a curtain speech. Occasion- ally a manager works wonders! ‘There was quite enough talking In the play to satisfy all demands, and much of it could easily have been heard in a theatre twice the size of Miss Elliott's. If Isabel couldn't say no—and herein lay her supposed charm—ehe certainly was not at @ lose for other words. She would prob- abl) have talked in her sleep if it had ot been out short by the enam- ered Frenchman who walked in| If you want special advice write to through the window after having fol- E. Pinkham Medici: lowed her home from a dance. (ecotieenal)) Lynn, history We were privileged to see Isabel cwsead by. opened, getting ready for bed, Isabel getting] strict confidence. into bed and Isabel sitting up in bed| ———_ when her determined admirer seemed in a fair way to wake the dead or the police with bis protestations. This @peonventional ecene, with Isabel covering her head with the bed clothes one moment and popping out indig- nantly the next, was funny without being vulgar, thanks largely to the capital work of Albert Brown as the impassioned Frenchman. First and Jest Mr. Brown was the joy of the evening. It was greatly to the disad- vantage of the play that he missed a ‘whole act by being a bit slow in fol- vege Compound, made from roots herbs, is unparalleled, It m ith perfect confidence ffer from displacemen| ulceration, tumors, irr be: ised ins, backache, Ness, or nervous prostration. lydia inkham's Vegetable Compound is the dard remedy for female ills. who suffer from those ig ills peculiar to their sex should be convinced of the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham's Nal ary Compound to re- store their health by the many genuine and truthful testimonials we are con- stantly publishing in the newspapers. of witchcraft on comparatively unin- teresting natives. ‘The change to New England was wot a happy one, and the fact that Isabel was obliged to slap the face ef en American who bad pursued her from Paris did not add to thecharm of the play. But I must confess that i¢ was rather interesting, for a @hange, to see a thoroughly decent, {€ ridiculous, Frenchman stand up against av American and take a black eye as though it were the least he} ould do for a lady. 00 4ROOMHO HOME OUTFITS val Brooklyn's Most Reliable Furniture and Carpet House 86-88-90 Myrtle Ave. Cor. Lawrence St, Open Saturdays 7 P.M. page 4s largely a actirs: though the play is amusing in spots. Tho only interesting characters are those ef Teabel and the Frenchman, and while Miss Marie Nordstrom by no 4 means suggested the charm of the widow, she did succeed in making her good-natured. This is the most 4 that can be sald for her performance. Not only was it obvious, but It suf- tered from faulty diction. Among other things, Miss Nordstrom should learn how to pronounce the word “wiseacre.” Miss Pauline Seymour played a French maid neatly, and Ned A. Sparks made a desperate at- t tt to be funny in an invalid's chair. 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