Revivals

A Night With Barrie is really a night with Laurette Taylor, who is currently appearing in two Barrie plays, Alice Sit-by-the-Fire and The Old Lady Shows Her Medals, across the street from the theatre in which she made her first success 20 years ago as Peg o' My Heart.

Actress Taylor is very definitely qualified for Barrie work. Her heavy eyelids, fluttering hands and a manner of speaking as though she were slightly awed by the possibility of vocal communication, create about her an atmosphere of wistfulness and unreality. These qualities she puts to good advantage in Alice, the tale of a woman plagued by her children's bungling and over-zealous attentions. The Old Lady, which relates the adoption of a rowdy War hero by a pitiful charwoman, is cut a bit too rough to suit Actress Taylor's style. But many a Taylor and Barrie fan who goes to see this bill will come away well satisfied.

The Round-Up, "Hoover'll never serve another term," snarls the villain of this piece, referring not to the 31st President of the U. S. but to one "Slim" Hoover, the brave Arizona sheriff of a Wild Western melodrama, vintage 1907. Revived last week, The Round-Up could at least be sure that it was the noisiest play on Broadway. Its cast includes seven broncos. A rescue party of U. S. soldiers finally join in a pitched gun-battle between poisonous redskins and a pair of frontiersmen. At the conclusion of this affray, one soldier may be seen waving a victorious U. S. flag over the smoke-swathed battleground from a papier mache rock. To the enduring credit of the cast and its producers, who intend to present a series of hardy old-time melodramas, The Round-Up is played with sincerity and as much restraint as the lines allow. A seat for The Round-Up should be worth $1 (top price) to anybody who ever built a tepee in the back yard or wore a cowboy suit.

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