The evening world. Newspaper, February 26, 1920, Page 28

HE NEW PLAYS. “Jane Clegg” Lifelike and Interesting BY CHARLES DARNTON is the fascination of reality that St. John G Ervine has given to com- people doing commonplace things in his play, “Jane Clegé,” the Theatre Guild at the Garrick with such a clear sense it @ truly fine achievement. find that the author has made no attempt to bring | | | | the title of the play might lead one to.suppose. [agi nce that distinguishes Ervine’s work, Jane is kept in until almost the last moment, her husband meanwhi rst attention by sheer claim of his despicable qualities, She while he is actively evil, indiptriousily mean. Villain ig too good or him. He is a worthless cut cringing one moment and snaring who lies to his wife and begs her for money, and when he can't his employer so that he will be able to run off with a woman When all his contemptible tricks are brought ne sends him away to his “fancy woman,”. who to have a \” and hears in the slamming of the door the end of her le married existence. it all this is not without humor—the humor that grows naturally out r. Henry is rich in it because of his duplicity, his smugness and Then there is his sharp-tongued old mother, quick to find excuses for him, yet finally aiding in the exposure of his dishonesty by zeal to protect him. A bookmaker demanding payment for betes y has placed through him also lends a certain gaiety to the that goes on jn the dismai sitting room of the Cleggs. & word is wasted in the unfolding of this sordid domestic drama, % does seem as though Henry might refrain from saying to the is leaving, when she asks him about the other woman: “She's prettier than you are.” Yet there is never violence of speech. Even when Jane comes back into the room after going to the door with a visitor ‘Whe bas opened her eyes to the tragedy in store for her and her two little @ldzen, she covers the iciness of her heart with the casual remark: “It's taming colder, I ¢hink.” Tt is with simple touches of this kind that Prvine draws you close te bis play and makes you feel as though you were in the room with these people who are painfully working out their wretched scheme of life. Although “Jane Clegg” has none of the dramatic power of “John Fer- ” it is singularly human, lifelfke and interesting. | As the unspeakable husband, Dudley Diggs gives a performance wholly untike his unforgetable portrayal of the snivelling coward in “John Fer-| guson,” yet just as true. In every touch he gives to this flashy travelling | salesman, he marks the fellow as cheap, shoddy and rotten. Margaret) ‘Wycherly holds the wife steadily in hand with admirable patience, sug- | gesting always the thoughts in her mind and the fears in her heart, until at.the end there is the poignancy of silent grief and despair that changes the soul into a grave. Helen Westley does the best work of her career as the mother, Henry Travers is capital as the desperate bookmaker, and @rskine Sanford wins a good opinion for the sedulous cashier who tells! dane of the missing check. The acting is as fine as the play—and that's saying a great deal, About Plays and Players By BIDE DUDLEY HEDA BARA wil make her GOSSIP. initial appearance in the spok- en drama in New York at the Shubert Theatre on Monday evening, March 15, in A. H. Woods's production of the melodrama, “The Blue Flame,” by George V. Hobart and John Will- ard, founded on a play by Leta Vance Micholson. In Miss Bara's support! ‘will be Atlan Dinehart, Donald Gal- Jaher, Kenneth Hill, Harry Minturn, Henry Herbert, Helen Curry and ‘Tessié Lawrence, A JOKE THAT FAILED. The “upstage” half of the Hippo- @rome stage is a: elevator. While Several internal revenue men were g@eated on it yesterday, assisting “Happy Days” performers in making | out their income tax statements, It We=t up ten feet. It frightened the re. visito: "" yelled one, “you can’t ex- t lower your income tax by Setting the experts up in the air.” ‘There was no laughter. Everybody ‘was thinking of his income tax. ’ MA“DEL TO MARRY. Frank Mandel, playwright, has de- cided to leave the single life. flat many days have Yecome the husband of Alice Absentmindedly he wai ed Cohan & Harris ‘Theatre to KEEP IT UP, FOLKS! From cultured Providence, R. 1, comes the suggestion, made ‘by one TRighanet chymee! moins. or offers the following: A's for Appendix, The surgeon's delight, Cosis more whey f's damaged Than when it’ right. B's for Bacillus, A Bad little germ, Bome shaped like a corkscrew, And some like a worm. A GOOD CAST. In thle support of Wiiliam Collier in) ¢ Hottentot,” at the George M. Gohan Theatre ‘Monday, will be Ann Andrews, Helen Wolcott, Fr 3 m, Dorie Sawyer, Donald Gath’ ‘Thomax. Claude | Co Arthur Howard, Frederick Edwin Taylor and Howard Gibson. HERE'S A HARD ONE. To-day's puxzie rhyme is fu by Elae 1 talent + this limerick dowbly attre going A0 permit contes eH ua, in addition to the usual $200, a nice oyster stew. By the home-fires nestling cuddicly, Worn out with the day's tasks +0 muddiely, Rea] smiles you will find That bring ease to the mind, In te lines of our handsome friend —— TO TEACH PRESS AGENTS. Dorothy Richardson, press agent, hhas been approached by an emissary from the Columbia School of Journ Hull fem with the suggestion that she 0 | here and teach the young iiea to shoot press matter into the |; . It is predicted that goon we'll be calling her Pro- Dorothy, A TEMPERAMENTAL DOG. Joe Fynn, press agent of “Always Tom” at the Lyric, says the show's Q tor, Fido, refused to go on mgmt beeause the clectrician had to ‘trn on the spotlight. muzzled, passed he | Lew Morton is conducting the re- hearsals for the revival of “Flora- dora.” Rachel Crothers of “He and She" will address some school teachers at the Hotel Astor to-morrow afternoon on “The Feminist Movement.” The principals of “The Passing | Show of 1919" now have a ball H | It will lose tts first game to the Friars | nine 0: | _E, Ray Goetz, producer of “As You Were,” will gail for Burope March 6 in search of theatrical material. Seventy-six Tufts College Alumni sw “Shavings” last night and then took their former classmates, James Bradbugy and Charles Dow Clark, out jand fed them | Wallie Decker, press agent for H |H. Frazee’s comedy, “My Ledy Friends,” will go @head ‘of the Red nd Giants on their exhibition with Nance promis to be the the Belmont Theatre ever had. It should be at the Lel- mont far into the summer, | ANSWERS TO INQUIRIES. | Helen of Troy—-You might send photograph Welfe and 8 film authority Miams | “Arizona.” | A. K.—Consult some | | Augustus Thomas wrote | A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY. | Speaking of revivals, Eliott E. | Fisher of Morsemere, N. J., suggests | that somebody revive “John Barley- | corn, " Would it be a success? FOOLISHMENT. A girl nancd Mary Ann MceCatt Would sit all duy and groan and squat, | “I'm sad,” said she, | “Because, you see, | My love ain't got no sense at ail.” | | FROM THE CHESTNUT TREE. “Food may be higher, but writing aper isn't.” t isn't?" “No. Writing paper is stationery.” | Know?|| | serie, ie ie Tania om | | 1 Who invented thesgas mantle? | 2. In the manufagture of what is according to the nursery jr ymes? 5. Who were driven out of the tem- ple by Christ? 6, What was the name of the great gun manufacturing plant of Germany? Who is the manager of Jack Dempsey? 8. 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