The evening world. Newspaper, April 12, 1917, Page 11

THE NEW PLAYS “Bosom Friends” By CHARLES DARNTON E may atill be grateful to Lew Fields for the fact that he can make us laugh honestly and heartily. He does this in “Bosom Friends” at the Liberty Theatre by gheor force of his personality, But, like other comedians of his type, Mr. Fields yearns to be taken geriously, David Warfield set an ex-| ample that former associates have tried to follow. But Lew Fields, like » Louis Mann, remains a comedian. Ho fa such @ natural comedian that he seeceeds in giving a humorous touch te “Bosom Friends.” Frank Wardel is so conventional that Qt suggests the so-called comedy~ @rama of bygone days. It may find friends on “the road,” but it ts not the sort of play to win ite way to the Beart of New York. 1 don’t mean te eay that New York has « finer wense of human nature than the rest @ the country—but tt sees more than {ts neighbors, near or far, accordingly learns by experience it to accept and what to reject. Léfe in this mettopolis ts both too @ort and too fast for an old-fash- foned play, lacking in originality, to make an impression, As a kindly schoolmaster who sus- gests the Dutch of Pennsylvania, Mr, Fields gives a mellow quality to his fol, In this character he plays pi-| flochle with his bosom-friend, an old | @octor who not only shares his roof but ts half-owner of the house that| | helters both of them. The echoo!- master has a daughter, the doctor has a son—and you may bo sure tho} Tomance of youth finds Its way across the threshold. But the doctor’s son, who sees himself as a great inventor, is Qured to the wicked city In which ‘we live by 4 siren who has learned about his invention from her pro- jo mother, with a gift for letter- iting. Certain bonds worth $8,000 A between the young inventor prison, while the doctor Is trying “raise the wind” and the school- Master {s doing his best to keep his} Gaughter from crying her eyes out. R all comes right, as you may guess, t not until the doctor has flung the Word “Judas” into the face of the Schoolmaster, simply because Krug has decided that {t ts his duty to hold his little fortune for his daughter. The extravagance of the play may be reckoned in that one word— “Judas.” Mr. Fields spreads sweetness and) light as the schoolmaster in his scene with the children and laughter in encgunters with a housekeeping sl heart. As this consclentlous, the nagging, creature Mathilde Cott ‘Ot second ald to the perfor: There is rich humor, too, in the of Willis P. Sw gardener. Joh the part of t! Bennett ts a bit tufully angelic as the rash youth's swectheart; Helen ‘Ware is obviously wicked as the de- signing woman who has lr ned a trick or two in bad old New York, and} Helen Loweil cuts a grotesque ficure as tho anxious mother of the enter- prising adventures, | “The play is staged with a great deal of furniture. 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