The evening world. Newspaper, January 14, 1920, Page 22

De. wes 4) ees COMIC PAGE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1920 GUGM SCC laiila) ® THE NEW PLAYS | — AND THEY SLEPT, HAPPILY EVER Nance O'Neil Flares lr ; B-2-Z-Z-Z in “The Passion Flower” | eer BY CHARLES DARNTON _| wae THE ONLY » Theatre last night—a voice TELL YUH ab ay trains a play of VOICE wa dint that at times drow intermittent rumbling Nance O'Neil wa 5 there “The Passion } Spanish pedsant life by Jacinto Benavente According to a note in the mme, the nature of the land, which parehe: © inhabitants partake of austere, They are a proud, God-fearing people whose speech is the gravest and most sonorous of modern tongues.” So far as voice went, then, Miss O'Neil was within the | rights of the play . | As for the play, it has primitive power, dealing as it does with people | flercely alive to the ons and thoroughly honest about them, A man| goes mad about the iter of the woman he has married, His aberra- | Uon leads him to hire a servant to kill the youth who is about to marry | Acacia. A fe of the girl is tried for murder and acquitted, leav- | ing @ thirst ance strong in the father of the sjain lad. Little by! Ketle the wife learns the truth and scourges Esteban with her wrath. sneaks away into the mountains, then slinks back and, when he has mado| his confession, is forgiven by his wife, for she loves him in spite of the shame and disgrace he has put upon the house. But in her exalted state| of mind she makes the greatest mistake of her life by asking her daughter to go td the arms of Esteban and for once call him “father.” ‘The tragedy ie all in the kiss that the girl gives the . a long kiss that tells its own| story. Hatred rushes upon the wife, who cries out for the hunters of the murderer to take her husband He fires, and she ts killed There is truth in this play, and with it the ¢ that is part and parce! of animal impulse. The husband is merely the vietim of jan irresistible pasion, not a bad m The girl had got into his veins like a poison, and he felt he could not go on without having her near him, She, too, while Professing hatred, was under the epell of the man, as she let every one know when she kissed him. hat is the play, and the final act has the strength of conviction Miss O'Neil, austerely thin, flared vividly as the wife and mother. Occasionally, she seemed somewhat th for a peasant, yet she acted with moving power, Charles Waldron played the husband with deep feeling and praiseworthy restraint, though he hardly suggested a Spaniard. It would be gilding the lily to say that Edna Walton was a perfect “passion | flower.” But Robert Fischer was excellent as the father of the dead lad, and Clara T. Bracey, Mrs. Charles G. Craig, J. Harper Macaulay and Harold Hartshell were other aid@ to an interesting performance, | r veng LETS Ki9S AN MaKe UP!WE SHOULD NT BATTLE"LIKE THIS OVER A LIL) THING Like TH' CoLtoR oF A’CAR’ DEAR! KNOW Love —BUT IT 16 WK 7 Now You: NoNoPHONEY == KNOW WELL — Love —T NOTICED ( LUNLES YOURE LARLY COLOR BLIND'=, AN To BLACK’ ) (THAT (1 BLUE"! AN DAWGONTT "| =I GAY (TS “BLACK About Plays and Players | By BIDE DUDLEY ¥. Bu DE has arranged) “LITTLE MISS CHARITY.” ’ With Charles Cochran, the| Edward Clark is to do some mi prom London theatre manager and| Producing. He will place in rehe jsoon his newest musical comedy, “Little Miss Charity.” It will open gomedy, “Miss Millions,” now at the {out of town about the middle of Feb- Punch and Judy Theatre, to London | ruary. a@ week from Saturday on the Cedric. % ‘The entire chorus will go, as will most Ploieidas tha "” Mdrenalcd ‘a of the principals. The piece will close Arita ibe teal at the “Punch and Judy” Saturday | dent, will its fifth anniver- night of this week and open at the|#ary at the Hotel Astor Friday after- noon. Among the honored guests will Gxtord Theatre; London, on or about ho ‘baniel Erohman, Mary Ryan, Feb. 2 Channing Pollock, | Sam Forest, : Thomas Broadhurst and the Stuart “G. V. FOLLIES” TO TOUR, | Sisters from ‘Phe Litue Whopper.” “The Greenwich Village Follies” will | ay vee : NUTT’S DOPE. oy Sno Nore Bayes ‘Theatre Web: 1] Jefe Nutt, who went up to Albany So on tour in a fine, special train. | to report the story of the ousting of| It will bo in the nature of a whirlwind the Socialist members of the Legisla- tetp, on which so: f the woek-stand ture, writes us he is getting the facts ceeds: rae caylee “one-night. | S10Wly but surely, He sends in this era” The company will return to| Dud--Well, it looks as though New York in June to begin rehearsals velalist Aldermen who were ousted by the Legisiature will get a se git new edition of the show. fair trial up at Saranac Lake. Mor- joter of sports, to take his musical Now. 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