Life — May 8, 1919 — page 26: what you’re looking at

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Nearing the Season’s End LEER things happen in the theatre, so we Mee Q‘. not be surprised when we find on Mr. a Helasco’s stage sitch a play as “ Dark Rosaleen.” as That it is an Trish comedy is not. surprisi ‘i for Mr. Relasco is catholic in his tastes, and we me never know from which of the four corners soing to draw his material she he is » Belasco was going to produce an Iris comedy, precedent in his case would lead us to er expect it would be a surpassingly good or Baxte Sou. WRLIEY 18. S0CUTEN?” mrs at least markedly original Irish comedy. Instead Whoot dseee rice a that the authors the present work have ih simply thrown the Trish atmosphere about a rather The cast is well chosen, with Eileen Huban in virtually dow commonplace collection of material, st it on a stellar role. As Moya McKillop she is thoroughly Irish, a \oic plot which might he the product of a dramatic kinder sh Northern, and charmingly Irish even in her Mullins garten. qual s The cast is well chosen, with Beryl Merc: ie The fortunes of the hero and heroine depend the out ind Mr. Dodson Mitchell the only members familiar in. Ne . come of a race which from the early part of the first York playbills. “Dark Rosaleen” is not exactly the kind \ everyone knew the beloved horse of the heroine was box play one expects to find on Mr. Belasco’s stage, but it holds B to win. Incidentally this permits her very artificially to in tel Be Wicesimiehl (GF whe bid cenloy . clude a bit of racing clocution, palpably sugxested by the ‘nadine side of Ieislicharacter, s similar stunt of Lady Gay Sponker. Three characters who a recall the elders in “The Little Minister,” in this play as in ms that, supply much of the fun, Of course we have the Sasse ~~nt@inan nach, without which no Irish play would he complete, and as ; { usual he has up his sleeve some kind of eviction possibili HERE, is considerable grip in “ Our { which are foiled in the end Pleasant Sins,” due to the story, the method of telling it and the manner of C o~ -O> phy Oy-2 its acting. There are only four cha —_ CNS" = C - ute ters, but they are drawn in artistic contrast, heir interpreters are well chosen for "+ HE Sinn Fein allusions throughout the play are doubtless purpose. Belafiv: thavtare ieyenne huss be xood for box-office purposes. and are more horesome than who gocs wrong, the tempter present ' offensive, since Sinn Fei is no longer so st of Ger ef monient, the wife who. in her helpless: itegeert man propaganda. The Irish fun is present in generous quan 10 yields to temptation he sensible tity, and is of an unusually genial and brand. Mr ieintive whose: horse-xen . happy u Belasco has given the one set showing the interior of a villa: the predicament grocery with bar attachiment his usual attention to detail © characters are acted sincerely, nattrally and convineir ly. On the female side Henrietta Crosr ' finds ample play for her breezy come! t methods, and Pauline Lord gives a cur | ous and quiet but most attractive apy eI a wife who comes sainst ciret p stances too powerful for a entle wom. 1 Neither of the men a he but M Serrano keeps his villainy within reason ¥ ; able hounds of expression, and Mr, Wir i ant makes entirely credible the first err f ing and then repentant ye hush: ' “Our Pleasant Sins" is a triany as play, but its morals are in the right place ete In these days when there are no longer 4s babes and suckli to be warned fro: M too early knowledge and we all posses us adult knowledge from our earliest, there i THE VOYAGES OF AN EMINENT AMERICAN is perhaps more good than harm to be Ccomicbooks.com