The evening world. Newspaper, September 16, 1914, Page 13

BY CHARLES DARNTON. F our old Pickwickian friend Samuel Weller, who warns us to beware of ‘widows throughout the happiest pages of Dickens, had been present at Mr. Brady's Playhouse last night finger to his nose and triumphantly added: never occurred to Samuel that widowers could make family life a still wreater problem. This idea was brought out by “The Elder Son,” Bnglish by adoption. In tho theatre it had all the novelty of a new idea — and a new idea creeps into the theatre so seldom that the poor little stranger whould be welcomed, At the same time I am fully aware that generally, we do not share the fondness of the French for discussion, We prefer the ,“punch”—another word for sensation—or we look for the price of our ticket The Elder Son” An Interesting Family Problem. he doubtless would have put a wiee “I told you so!” Frenci b> birth and ‘in laughter, But the realization of this fact cannot atop me from putting in & good word for “The Eider Son.” The acting alone is worth going to see. It doeen’t matter so much that Lu- clenne Nepoly wrote the play for Paris and that Frederick Fenn piloted ft across the English Channel as that Mr. Brady had the enterprise to bring it here, together with a oom- pany that plays it admirably, “The Bider Bon” is a curiously individual a&@ discreetly searching study of family life that turns on the dimficulty of achieving s happy home when a widow with childron marries a wid- ower with children and a third fam- ity is started to add to the inhar- monious domestic symphony. It must former Go be granted that hore is an idea that may come home to any one who feels that romance is not buried at forty or th Lt thereabouts. ‘The struggle between &@ mother's affection for her son and her love for her second husband ren- ders the situation serious, and the slacerity of the author in dealing with @ Woman's right to @ second marriage ia worthy of even more consideration. Tt seemed, however, that the audience would have preferred to have the sub- fect treated farcically, judging by its {mclination to laugh in the wrong Dlace, Frankly, the play was so slow in @etting started that it jeft the au- dience at sixes and sevens, There ‘Was nothing but talk that couldn't Possibly interest any one outside the family circle until the eider son came Rome after eight years and discovered @ mere slip of a sister behind a chair fm the garden. He gave the first ®umar touch to the play as he @uessed her identity and caught her up in his arms, But she was such a tot that we could scarcely credit her with so much understanding when she stood alone after the family had be- come divided against itself and plain- tively piped: come of me?” ‘The play developed from a family far into an interesting family prob- lem. The elder son, Richard, whose “And me—what's to be- mother had not chosen to remain @ Widow, didn't cotton at all to the son of his stepfather, and we couldn't Blame him, for Hubert was an awful pill for any man to swallow. Then Richard found fault with the way in which his younger brother, George, was being educated, and forced his mother into the painful position of de- elding whether he or her husband was Fight in the mattor. It was all grow- mg rather trying when Richard ehanged from something of a prig imto a human being and told his mother how his love and longing for Ber had come back to bim as he was fying close to death's door in a far off land. He tried to make her feel she should not have married again, but slo reminded him that her heart had aot stopped beating with his fathe’s and did all a mother could do to make Aim understand. 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