Kitty Gordon and Co. (3).

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23 Mins.; Full Stage (Special Set). Kitty Gordon’s name! Evan at that it is best that this beauty have some sort of vehicle for her talents, of whatsoever sort they may be. She has chosen to return to vaudeville in a comedietta, called “The Pink Nightgown,” written by Kinsey Piele. It does not call for any great acting on the part of any of the trio who participate, and comedy is conspicuously its absence. Miss Gordon has opportunity for displaying her beauty in a handsome gown-one consolation. The tale is of Gabrielle (Miss Gordon), who enters the house of Lord Arthur Tollenbach (Harrison Hunter), her former husband, at midnight and discovers the gentlemen’s room filled with photographs of a woman who signs herself “Ducky.” This stirs the old flame of love in the heart of the fair divorce, and she confronts her former liege lord with some little tempest of anger when he finally comes home. Later on, when the woman finds a pink nightgown and bedroom slippers in one of the rooms, the green-eyed monster is much further aroused. Then the woman turns the tables, and the man grows jealous one more. There are several wordy encounters, when the man finally owns that “Ducky” is his own sister from far away somewhere, and a reconciliation takes place. There is a little side incident, in which the woman is accused of being an accomplice of a pickpocket, as she has hired a “dip” to get her former husband’s keys so she may enter his house. A Mr. Harvey, who is seen as the Scotland Yard man, is a blemish on the act. The meagre comedy might be better if put over with more emphasis. As it ism the act is well staged and produced, but is rather dry fare. Miss Gordon’s fame may carry it some little way on big time, but that is about all.

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