Word: ediss
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...Ediss Breaks Into Headlines...
...Miss Ediss not only succeeds in being "charruming", but presents the most amazing resemblance to her predecessor in the role. Perhaps, as Alick Wylie said, it was the curls. How painful was the concern of the three brothers over their sister. Why could not Maggie marry? And how gleeful were they when the luckless John Shand, student at Edinburgh, fell into their cluches and was bound to wed Maggie in return for his schooling...
Though to Miss Ediss as Maggie Wylie belonged the honors of the evening, perhaps the best work was done by Mr. Clive, Mr. Mowbray and Mr. Hulse as the three brothers. Though slow in getting started, Mr. Buckler as the dunder-headed hero finished well. But Miss Standing, the noble damsel who enchanted Mr. Shand was not too enchanting. One wondered--but, Havers! Havers
...sacrifice he had made and of his own love for Sally was simple and effective. The very title of the play suggests that Cockney accents will be heard. And so they were, but not always clearly spoken or artfully enunciated on the first night at any rate. Miss Ediss was an offender on the score and so were Mrs. Belmore and Mrs. Day, particularly in the first scene. But on the whole the company was more than competent in an interesting and unaffected play, which mingled comedy and pathos...
...characters are well portrayed by the players, and, in spite of a Monday-night inaccuracy of lines, one feels that Mr. Jewett's actors have acquitted themselves well. May Ediss as "Dora" and Viola Roach as "Mrs. Knox," were particularly effective in the characterization of these two very essential parts. E. E. Clive cleverly played the henpecked husband, while Robert Noble did well in the delightful and familiar figure of the irate father, Mr. Gilbey. The only thing which one might wish for is less drawn-out speeches, which are difficult to speak and follow. Still, they are full...