Chicago.—There is no handsomer
woman on the stage than Maxine
Elliot. There is no better player of
comedy than Nat Goodwin. And yet
this seems hardly fair to Maxine El
liot, who, as time goes on, loses none
of her beauty, but does become more
and more distinguished for some
thing else than beauty. Last evening
as we watched her in the play, we
almost forgot her beauty, so charmed
were we with her artistic rendering
of her part.
“The Altar of Friendship” is a so
ciety affair, the time the present, the
country England. Mr. Goodwin and
his charming wife Maxine Elliot have
spent so much time on the other side
that their ha'pennies and other En
glishisms come quite natural-dike.
The cast is a very good one, as a
whole remarkably good. The dra
raiins personae consists of ten men,
five women and a dog, the latter well
drilled in his part. There is the hero,
Richard Arbuthnot (Nat Goodwin, of
course), a London literary worker;
his friend and sharer of his chambers,
Arnold Winnifrith, engaged to Rich
ard’s sister; Lord Algernon Flexmore,
a sweet, smooth-faced, red-cheeked
chappie; Col. Sartoris, an American,
father of a beautiful daughter; Jo
seph Pinner, an ex-convict, and mem
ber of the class that drop th«ir h’s;
Mr. Spender, by profession a society
man, by occupation a professional
gambler; Edward Beech Horton, an
aesthete put in to fill in; the Bishop
of Wereford, uncle to Arnold; Gib
son and Marner, servants; Sally Sar
toris, the heroine (Maxine Elliot, of
course); Florence Arbuthnot, Rich
ard’s sister before mentioned; Lady
Chalmers, a fashionable elderly dame
Dick. Col. Sartoris at once jumps to
the conclusion that he is none other
than the Dick before him, and with
ardor receives him in the role of Sal
ly’s fiance.
Imagine the situation. The young
people are given no chance to ex
plain, the father is all smiles and
complacence, and wants to tell ev
erybody at once. They bind him to
secrecy, and agree together to pre
tend an engagement until someone
can be found to take Dick’s place.
The pretending grows very inter
esting, the play at lovemaking is
pretty and clever, and all the time to
know each is in love with the other.
They talk of the carpets they will
buy, the coal scuttles, the kind of
windows they will have, and all the
time they pretend to be looking out
for the other fellow. Presently, on
the night of Flo’s wedding, very soon
after the ceremony, the play at love
making and domestic preparations is
interrupted in a tragic manner, and
thereafter the atmosphere is murky
for a considerable time. Joseph Pin
ner thrusts his way into the house
and demands an interview with the
bridegroom. Arnold and Arbuthnot,
who mi to this time had suspected
nothing of the former’s relations
with Mary Pinner, receive him in a
room apart from the guests.
Joseph, who has intercepted a let
ter containing a check from Arnold,
but which is made out in Arbuthnot’s
name, comes to face the man he be
lieves has wronged his unprotected
girl, and to warn him that if he at
tempts to marry another women he
will do him violence. He does not in
sist on the man marrying his Mary,
but swears he shall marry no other
MAXINE ELLIOT.
with a distaste for respectability;
Mary Pinner, daughter of Joseph l’in
ner and secretary to Richard; Mrs.
lieech Horton, also put in to till in;
Louis Phillipe, the dog, as ugly look
ing a beast as ever was pampered
and worshiped.
In the first scene we see the secre
tary at her typewriter, a meek, sad
faced little thing. We learn that she
ami Arnold have had some sweet
lmirting in the past, but that, to
morrow being his wedding day, all
that must end. Arnold extracts a
solemn promise from Mary'that she
will never disclose anything concern
ing their past intimacy. Richard,
Florence and Sally, too take part in
the first scene, and talk of the com
ing wedding as folk do when such an
event is imminent. Richard is pre
paring for the bachelor supper, and
in the intervals of preparation lis
tens to confidences from Sally, a
cousin and lifelong friend of his.
It seems that Miss Sally has reached
the advanced age of 28,' and that her
father is getting very anxious to have
her married off, has sworn if she
passes another season without be
coming engaged he will cut her off
with a paltry sum. In desperation
she has written him that she is en
gaged, and now he is hastening to join
her and meet her betrothed. What is
she to do? She turns to Richard for
advice.
He promises to help her obtain a
victim before the fatal day in June
that has been set by the impatient
father as the limit, and they chaffer
awhile as to what name to call the
imaginary betrothed when her father
shall appear on the scene and ask for
his prospective son-in-law. He look*
through a memorandum book at a
list of acquaintances, and they de
cide that none of them exactly suits.
After considerable funning he sug
gests that Mrs. Richard Turpin
sounds pretty well, and they agree
on that. At this moment enters the
father, eager for word concerning
the to-be bridegroom. Not having
time for second thought, Arbutbnot
tells him the name of the man ia
woman. Arbuthnot stands there and
takes alt the outraged father’s wrath
upon himself, takes it for the sake of
the sister but just bound in marriage
to the fellow before him. He listens
in silence to the crimes laid upon
him, who really had been Mary’s ben
efactor whilst her father was serv
ing his term in prison, and lets Ar
nold go free; but be gives him no
tice that if ever the time comes when
it seems necessary that the truth be
known he will demand that Arnold
tell the truth.
The bride and groom go off on their
honeymoon, the bride an innocent,
trusting young thing. While they
are gone the scandal about Arbuth
not and Mary grows, it is whispered
far and wide, and, of course, comes to
Sally’s ears. Sally had begun to be
I very fond of her pro-tern fiance, and
is slow to believe the story. She asks
Richard at last, and, although he
does not like her lack of faith in him
he decides the time has come to have
his name cleared. In the meantime
Mary comes to Lady Chalmer s coun
try house, where all are staying, ant
after an interview with Richard, ii
which lie begs her to tell the trutl
and she refuses, she is discovered b;
Sally. Sally questions her; the girl
confused and unhappy, half tells lie
story, and tells it in such a way tha
poor Dick is still further inerimi
nated.
Snllv is forced to believe the worst
and rails at men’s sins in general am
poor Dick's in particular, to Dick
face. She returns the play-engage
ment ring, and the curtain goes dowi
on Arbuthnot sitting alone in th
room, the ring in his hand, a lonely
pathetic figure.
The last act clears things up fo
most of the people, but shows poo
Pin the stuff of which her lord an
j
ring back on her finger and eneoui
ages him to go on talking about cos
scuttles and carpets.
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