WILLOUGHBY DRAMATIC CO.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2161, 29 May 1914, Page 10

WILLOUGHBY DRAMATIC CO.

"THE BAD GIRL OF THE FAMILY." . "The . Bad Girl -ef the.Family,".- a i melodrama .in four, nets, Uγ Froderieli | jMelville. Cas-t :—...■ r : Lieutenant Marsh, R'.if. ... Me Cyril. Mackuy Harry.Gordon Mr. Vivian fcdwfthis ', Lorct.Erskinc ; ilt". Herbert l,ei.sn Jlu'rricy Gordon .; ~..:. Alt'. J. P. O-\bil.l ■ Jerry Holmes : ;...-, iiiv Frank Kell Ilispector biiMc-itt-e Mr. Kolond fiimy Kttmmy.Sijozz.ie; Uα, Dnrcy kel.wey ■ John_ Jloore :... Mr.. Uavid JJobcrts Sally -Smithcw .; ijisij Kcll Uflttbyfl ttludys i Krskino -. .fes Pcari Smith Mrs. .iioora. .Hiss Hose TtJ-ry HonAr ilooro :•... -jjtife F?art HrfmrtOH Ucsa iloorc .Mis.; ifailie FergiifisW Of. course, the-girl is hat at all a bad girl, but rather a good, in (.lie . end- abo con.ics-w,.t of shocking ti-oublc triumphant, or, at JtaSt, a -ftinner. Tho story gets ■ the haif-doWii people ivho arc chiefly eftiicetiied iisto a hopeless taugk, from which t-key could never be cxtffcftteil even tin tus,;»reladrama stage without somes kj.«d of * denouohient, ravelving the • dispatch- of one or tn;o of thorn, in this rosjseet tlic endinp; sen-<fs.. Bess Moote, the allegedly bad girl,, is the itotfglrter of a worthless old follow, who has s-ton tetter days, and a snci'ly-strkfen, inrt ilevoted mother. .She keeps ).ver -. raiting. shiftless father in money, and he hoKins to speculate..as to fioiv she ceme-s----by it. ' Presently, a jea&ins.. slsfer, whose lover Bess has appropriated, denounces her as a wMiton s and Bess goes out. into the eoH world, " Her worthless lover, tho son of si Jewish lender, has aniateji made for him bv

his clever,.old 'parent, and Bess happens on to the stage in time to find oitt about it. This scheme of tho old father was that his son Harry should marry the daughter of a' poor bnt dignified old Earl, so poor that he has n.othinpj- left hut las daughfer. ■ The fonr of poverty impels this fine jioblcffliin to consent to tlift. match, and also to pless it upon his daiiglvtet. ■ There was njiother aspirant for■-Gladys , Ersldns's hand, but he was poctfj w-horeforo he was i forbidden tlje house, end he, went away on a long cruise... So it hnppeha that , Gladys Erakint?, sisk-in bwdy aiid soul, agrees, after long entreaties,- to marry the Snamp BTatry Gordori, but before the Pess eomos. along to make the we-dding-fracks, and .successfully carries out- a Jilart to capture, her false, love* hy taking the place of Gladys. Presently a burglar ..Mines alone about the tsiine time as Bichaf4 Marsh, the .sailor ..sweetlie-art; arid- in tho scuffle with tlie burglar I<fl:rd 15f skinc is shot. M'/iJ-eh is aocrjsetl of i\\fi crime, but Gladys wiarrids liiin in the. naol-yard,- an-d ktcr lie is reli>ase : tl, and young. Gordon . J3esA. niakes her peace with her , family, and is again happy. .. ~ .' ■•■ .- . There were seise really-Irrislit patclies' in tlie. acting of fte, pJAy. Miss I'Vrjiussqn {ravj.a satisfactory, jsoi'f.r'a.va] of-, the downrijfjit, .jhoiipst, ..".bad J?H"1." 3[r. Cyril Maeftay as Meu:tni : Bttt. Jlflr§h, Mr. Vivian':.!<}ffjrfe,as Marty Gb.rflcii, Mr. Herbert Leigh asliOrti.. .Krskjno, Miss Pearl SoJiUi as -iSlstht.s-Erskj.M. and Miss Rose.T«'ry ai.iij : 5..-M*i6rt'.al] ulayetl conventional pa.rts. in ine cen'rcritioiial manner,, wliicii meajvS ..t]«i;t,' tfwjf anted, ai?• Wll as.-tJie pW.V nviiiici-permit Mi. J. P.",D'Noi]l. .was it epwiftning, if rather. ejrejsiSus.-.^STSirf...jJoriJsij, .and Mr. Frank Neil showed thd a-ijiiicnee a. burglar -with good , peinh, Tfie best, work in the. piefc wa%.%e' eawedy inl Mr. Dafcy Kcl-Way. Miss Neil H*slroyd. two very clever pbo.p-1-e. Mr., K.rfwav has to play tile part of .Sa-niipj* Snoz/.le, the' "harfesS sfirvarifc oi Sliy- , hick, on whom, t)iE! clfcii,itj,.()l l '«teh" sits awry. ' Miss ttofeyd "i>la : ys- as. Salty Rmithers. a aiid Sally Mid Sammv meet, in ■ tho Etskiiie Mahsifin : and elsewhere, efijciy themselves ntibly, and make poot] fan* . .... "The .Rid Gitl of tl»n Family" wfflhe shown for the rest of 'tlie week.