The evening world. Newspaper, March 25, 1919, Page 24

COMIC PAGE Tuesday; March 25, 1919 ,| LITTLE MARY MIXUP It Suits the Occasion, the Conventions, and Towser ww f ® THE NEW PLAYS | s T Guess EverYaovy =>, AS “TS WEAR BATHING: } / mg Nadel AG re ig ere Towser \ (5 f f me Maeterlinck’s “Burgomaster” The Heart of Belgium WELL , TOWSER, ‘ss Gor His ¢ ER SS has done in “A Burgomaster of Belgium,” acted last night at the y _ _ Belmont Theatre. ‘This doosn't mean, necessarily, that the play Is tremendously dramat We have had similar plays, most of them shoddy contraptions designed money-making purposes, Here, at least, is a play of the soll, sincere and real. Even though it comes at a late day it may help us to remember the brutal invasion of Belgium. In transforming himself from a poct to a realist Macterfinck has used the simple tongue of a simple people, with mo attempt to put them in the light of martyrs, ae the old burgomaster says, but to show how decent folk live. dba put itito a day the tragedy of a lifetime is what Maurice Macterlinck ‘The burgomaster is a patriot of the ~~ Purest blood, willing to stand against @ wall and be shot rather than let H ig gardener face a German firing|his wife announce ther intention of lp ing to the wall with the burgomas- equad or permit a dying Belgian sol- | c0l0g ter, the play takes a spiritual turn dier to ney peed gern that raises it to something approach- . ‘The fact that a German officer, hated | ing sublime heights, Moreov he r > ‘ . Ww , by his men and presumably shot by | burgomaster ix enabled to turn he! THE BIG LITTLE F AMILY one of them, js found dead in the woods gives the play its sinister tern, The burgomaster is held re- wponsle for the deed against al! common sense, and he goes to his death after the gardener he has saved and the wounded soldier he has cared for have done their utmost to give up their lives for him. It is a fine, simple thing that the ster should have lived for the flowers and grapes he cultivated, < but it is @ finer and simpler thing | that he ie willing to die for the coun- he loves. This much Maoterlinck to the heart and the under- Bot bis drama carries suspense. In spite of their in- toward self-Bacrifice, the er and the wounded soldier ht QETCERT. Ceeta eEE Nee ee gives the play its one really dramatic situntion. When the Lieutenant re- fuses to obey his Major, and he and Lyeutenant and bis daughter and them that their love for each other is greater than his life and that he will not permit them to commit sui- cide, As for the acting, tt was for most part very good of its kind, though I cannot say it was th H both the Belgian and ters were given a accent, 1. Lyall 8 was kindly and simple as the burgomaster except when he indulged in unnecessary ont- bursts of high-powered emotion, Px- cellent performances were Malcolm Moffat as the oid and by Walter Kingsford as ter, clear-eyod Belgian soldier, Ir Marshall played the burgomaster’s daughter in an earnest though some what conventional manner, and Mas- BouGHT ME @BOME, CIGARS 2 YES DEAR-T Got 'EM AT A BARGAIN ! “@IK FoR A. (L. QUARTER’ ‘ « Y'SAY™ You \ ai ~ an hy HM-M I 'S'VERY SWEET / OF You DEAR — BUT yp ID RATHER BUY MY Ge OWN CIGARS — 6 For 26 ep, I KNow 1TS CHEAP M'Love! 19 A LIL Too CHEAP BUT TI THOUGHT AT .LEAST-ONE OF TH’ SIX WouLDd ter Alan Willey was a bh noisy as the old fellow’s little son, “A Burgomaster of Belgium” may not stir new emotions, nor will tt add to the famo of Macterlinck, but it is gure to win sympathy and command respect. wort of thing you expect them eh more interesting in the speculation is the German s6n-tn-law of the burgomaster, who ‘by his Major to command squad, Will he obey the fg the question that About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY $ \ oe CCMA 'UST before Lieut. 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