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The Shadow Stage
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his adorning of her room with roses; h i-~ piteous glances .it the telephone even as not .it all according to the programme ol Mrs. Machiavelli Wharton-ho plans an elopement to give Florence her freedom, were the very essence of poignancy. The part of Florence Wharton established beau tit'ul Dorothy Kelly as an emotional actress. Hobby Connelly was just such a kid as every father is sure his is. Louise Beaudel was so good a Mrs. Wharton that, somehow, l can't disassociate her from this character. Only Donald Hall, playing Wharton, seemed at times very trite and stagey.
"OUSAN Rocks the Boat."
^ \ crite whose opinions I generally respect lias described this piece and the one I've just discussed as "wishy-washy," and "colorless." Why? He says of "The law Decides": "Not good drama, but nevertheless an interesting depiction of a situation that might occur in actual life." Enough! And of "Susan": "at times it has a thrill, but is in the main quite colorless."
Yes. "Susan' was colorless, judged from the excitement standpoint and the thick plot peekhole.
It was a storv about
Susan Johnstone, who had read of rub girls resi uing the worth) poor, and of settle men! work, until she fancied herself a sorl "i Wilson administration Joan of Vrc. Right lute author Bernard McConville knocked his own plot down to show how
silly all such plots have been. I he things that Susan planned didn't happen. Not at all! Site couldn't make bums into furious ions of effort with psalms and hot coffee. All she got from I. any O'Neill was derisive laughter and love in spite of himself, and — poor, pretty, pinheaded little Susan!-just as she thought she had con verted Jim Cardigan, saloonkeeper and ward boss, she discovered in terror that Cardigan was merely hungry lor her velvet face as pasturage for bis coarse mouth. The rescue by Larry and the ensuing prophylactic romance is aside from our main contemplation, which is gently satiric.
This play was a Triangular affair, with Dorothy Ciish as Susan, Owen Moore as Larry, Fred Hutler as the bulldike Cardigan, and James O'Shea as a noble "stew.'' The littlest of the little dishes is setting a pace for her next-size-larger sister.
[nee at his best has a ring of iron. "The
Beggar of
Why"— in "The Floortvalker," Chaplin's first Mutual release — "the almost total eclipse of Purviance, the loveliest blonde in speechless comedy ?"
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