Judge — November 13, 1920 — page 22: what you’re looking at

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contest is what makes a ptay, there can be no doubt that “The 1. It is contest from Skin Ga is very much of a play inde beginning to end, not of a physical sort, but waged with the power of money and the power of position and wits as the weapons. On the one side is a long-established English family secking only to lead its life in well-bred ease and quiet in its ancestral home; on the other a newly rich member of the masses who secks to destroy that life because he finds his money will not buy for him and his the things that are to be had only by inheritance or personal culture. In author and actor creation this Hornblower is made a person who would not be grateful in any society so, if Mr. Galsworthy had the least intention of picturing a victim of the inequality of birth, he has failed, because the sympathy is entirely with the aristocrats even in he caddish means they use to defeat the intruder and nis plan to avenge his thwarted social ambition. Mr. Galsworthy is so constantly touted in professional liter- ary circles that his play may be unjustly handicapped by the efforts of his admirers to give to it some hidden meaning or message which was entirely remote from his intention. He has done quite enough in providing a fairly interesting dramatic of a type of rough story and in drawing a not inaccurate picture parvenu, envious in the beginning and vengeful when he fir that there are men and things that do not yield to the power of his money. The play is entirely Engl Josephine Victor, is the company. plain if the English intonation of some of the actors made quite a number of the lines unintelligible to American cars. “The Skin Game” has been so loudly heralded on account of its London run that it did not quite come up to expectation, and it seemed rather amateurish of the author to give all the emphasis f a final climax to the delivery of an irrelevant platitude. The play is not vastly important as literature or drama, but ina se: son of small things it is quite worth seeing, particularly as it is acted by a company well chosen with regard to their suitability h and so, with the exception of Therefore we may not com- to their roles. A CASE of telepathy is shown in “The Outrageous Mrs. + Palmer” which completely cclipses that in the Belasco- Knobloch play, “One.” Mary Young, the star, emphatically denies that she is giving anything in the nature of an imitation of Mrs. Patrick Campbell, and supports the denial with the statement that she has never had sufficient acquaintance with Mrs. Campbell, on or off the stage, to be able to give such an imitation, And yet every one familiar with the manners and mannerisms, especially the manners, of Mrs. Campbell, ex claims at the exactness of her reproduction in Mary Young's Mrs. North. The best reply to the charge of imitation is the lack of any reason for any one to try to imitate Mrs Campbell The only really logical and credible explanation is that, uncon JUDGE at the Play sciously to its owner, Mary Young's body is taken possession of by Mrs. Campbell. Sir Oliver Lodge, please write. If the object of Mary Young is to show the capriciousness the self-centredness and brutal rudeness of some actresses, she succeeds admirably. These things would make the part com pletely repulsive from which quality it is partially redeemed by i the brilliancy of some of the passages and the inclusion of br The accompli intervals of human fecling and tenderness. ment in this charactet piques curiosity in Mary Young’s powers and her ability to deal with material not quite so far removed from the normal. The acting in “The Outrageous Mrs Palmer” is excellent throughout, as might be expected from a cast including such names as Minna Gale Haynes, Eugenic Blair, and Mr. Henry E. Dixey The play is a mixture of comedy and melodrama. It handles the stage atmosphere with discretion and does not permit it te become a monopoly as is the case with most stage plays. The comedy is on an agrecable plane and the melodrama is not too strenuous. Altogether “The Outrageous Mrs. Palmer” is interesting entertainment with a marked strain of originality x CE MARY YOUNG WHO. EN THE TITLE PART IN “THE OUTRAGFOUS MRS. PALMER,” IS AN ACTRESS PLAYING AN ACTRESS 2?