The evening world. Newspaper, April 1, 1919, Page 24

——— % oY ave * COMIC PAGE Tuesday, April 1, | “39 East” A Heart-Warming Comedy By CHARLES DARNTON NCE again, with “39 East,” capitally acted at the Broadhurst Theatre last night, Rachel Crothers has written a play 8o true im ite obser- vation of life and #0 sympathetic in treatment that it ts the best romantic comedy of youth our stage has offered since “The Cinderella Man.” Cut of very diender material Miss Crothers has made a heart-warming comedy. The story of the girl who comes to New York from a small town to win fame and dig up the abekele that are generally supposed to Me just beneath the surface of Broadway ts such an ol one that, nine times out of ten, it would prob- ably be thrown into the waste bas- ket. Yet youth is ever new. This is what Ailes Crothers has realized, and with her customary okfil she has ut the idea into the form of @ rain- bow. At the same time she has had the good sense—an uncommon qual- ity in the theatre—to keep all her characters solidly planted on the earth. Penelope is only one of thousands of girls who venture to New York with their eye and their hopes fixed upon the stage. Yet, for one act she keeps the audience guessing. isting in @ boarding house Mast” na it's cailed—she refuses to) tell the affluent youth who adores her even breakfast why she will not #0 to a “show” with him, The cour- ago of the author in not “giving the whole show away” in the first act is tv be admired. Miss Crothers takes 4 aporting chance with her audience, byt she is so clever in making all her eracters simple human beings that they are interesting in themsalves It is in Central Park—and t 38 rather large order for you!—that the tory comes out into the open, as it were. Here Penelope meets her ad- mirer, and while he goes away to buy something to eat and drink, sho dances to the straius of a hand-organ |her aafe in her boarding: |implores her to may to bim “Napoleon, |insists. It would b dame from the boarding- house pass jatong a path close to the 59th Street entrance, and still more odd that the hand-organ ehould cease from troub- |ling sensitive cars the moment Pene- |lope’s dance stops before a policeman & bit of bad stage management. fut when the moregr less gilded youth returns and learns from Penelope that she has gone into the chorus of a mu sical comedy in order to pay her board bill, the play tak sudden and tn- teresting turn. After the youth has kissed the simple maiden and warned her against taking money from her theatricnl manager that she has not earned, he forgeta that he has offered her what Is politely called financial assistance, and she puts him in his| place. Then he realizes he ts no better |than the Broadway fellow, but he also knows that he loves her. She has said that the chorus is a stepping stone, and he has reminded her to watch her step. But in a flash she is gone, and {t is not until midnight that he finds He I love you,” but she puts her head on his shoulder and gimply replies: “I can't say it.” “Why can’t y only 1 her to respond in a choked v can't say ‘Napoleon’.” ‘This would bring down the final curtain with a sympathetic laugh. Anyway, you may be sure the play ends happily. As T have said, the acting was ex- cellent. Constance Binney played the simple heroine delightfully. She ts pretty, apparently unspoiled, and graceful. Henry Hull was altogether likeable and straightforward as the determined lover, and amusing board- ing-house types were hit off to the fo by Alison Skipworth, Lucia M Frankly, the play runs a dangerous | Victor Sutherland and other members risk of being lost in the park. 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