Miss Barry plays a chambermaid who having read a romance novel, is waiting for her hero. The scene is in the apartment of Lieut. Harry Montrose. The chambermaid delcares her love for him and he strings her along until he is summoned to meet his fiance. This “joke” leaves the chambermaid in tears. Mr.Wilson took advantage of comedy opportunities and Mr.Alden presented a manly looking officer.
Too many entrances and exits. The play is drawn out past it’s logical conclusion.
West plays the part of an injured jockey. He is built right and is handome with clean cut features and good eyes. The dummy horses were well manipulated. Henry B. Kellogg as “The pluger” is the best supporting actor. Edith Winters as “Flossie” and Florance Linclon as the nurse were both good.
Two scene tragedy. Mr Davis play Donald Deveries and Harrison King plays Forrest Forbes. Deveries has won the love of Forbes fiancee and the two end up in a duel. Forbes loses and it is not clear if Deveries gets arrested. There is opportunity for some really good acting. Davis gives a strong impression of repressed passion in reading his lines
The male portion of the team occupies centre stage and asks questions to dummies around the stage which answer and are manipulated by the females
A melodrama taken from her legitimate days. Not a great deal of action and considerable pathos.
Plot is of the experinces of a husband and his too solicitous wife. He brings home a skeleton and tries to keep this knowledge from his wife
deals with a bride left at the altar who decides she will marry the first man she sees who happens to be a messanger from a millinery, played by Willard Hutchinson who calls to deliever a new bonnet. Scene where Miss Dupont crawls on the floor an clings to the messengers legs.
Takes place in the office of the Arizona Blade where Miss Keene is the editor, came to start a newspaper because he parents were trying to get her to marry a preacher.
“Miss Hall’s double chance as the real wife and the sporty dream-wife who is her exact opposite, stamps her a really clever woman.”
