Word: macfarland
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...Seconds,--l.e., Anthony; l.t., Brownell; l.g., Macfarland; c., Rich; r.g., Kendall; r.t., Burnham; r.e., Morse; q.b., Bright; l.h.b., Hathaway; r.h.b., Strecker; f.b., Strawbridge...
...with a fertile imagination, but rather to the fact that he has failed to make the best of what he had in hand. The first act, for instance, is talky in the extreme. Before there can be a play the audience must know that the apartment of Mr. George MacFarland, wealthy New Yorker, has been robbed, that he is thoroughly disgusted with the stupidity of the police in allowing the burglars to escape and so, to prove how utterly dead is the arm of the law, he makes a wager with friends that he can commit a gross crime...
...third act, on the whole very much better than the first, MacFarland's cry of "Sing Sing!"--so tragically does Mr. Craig give the line--takes one out of the farcical atmosphere and brings the curtain down with a cold thud...
Despite its unevenness, the play is original and diverting, and it seems that with a little rewriting it should prove a "popular success." The second act in which MacFarland is captured by the daughter of the western sheriff,in turn captures a genuine desperado, then is put to bed with him while the young lady sits watching with a rifle in her hands, is farce of the best sort...
...Craig as George MacFarland, Miss Mary Young as Dolly Kamman, the sheriff's daughter,and Mr. Walter Walker as the sheriff have parts nicely fitted to their abilities. The play is adequately staged...