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...Allan Mowbray, as the Italian grape grower eager for a wife to enjoy the sunset half of his life with him, is most realistically played. But Nan Marriett Watson as Amy, who comes from Frisco to wed him, runs her gamut of emotions with accuracy and some sweetness. Richard-Whorf, as Joe, the rolling stone, has a peculiarly slow-moving part; it is rather possible that he overdoes his shiftless speech and dawdling walk. But the spectator soon accepts him; and he makes an undeniably handsome swain...
...other players, only Katherine Standing, Richard Whorf, and Rose Gordon held parts of any considerable importance. Briggs of Scotland Yard was played by C. Wordley Huke, but the part was so typically that of a stage detective, that the importance of the role was hardly proportionate to the amount of time given it. Miss Standing was not quite successful in leaping the obstacle mentioned at the start of this article, and though the mechanics of her acting were effect, her personality was ill-suited to the portrayal of a daughter of a cheap London boarding house. Her Cockney accent left...
...small epitaph should be written for May Ediss, who used a Cockney accent and the leathern boots of a cattleman's daughter. Of course the West is a queer place and odd things happen out there, but not quite as bad as that. Richard Whorf in direct contrast to Miss Ediss was thoroughly in harmony with the setting. He has learned the clumsy rolling gait of a cowboy off his horse and the slow drawl of the Western plains. It's too bad, he wasn't given a bigger part. Mr. Clive, also, confined his undoubted talents...
...role of Mrs. Pampinelli. As Mrs. Ritter, the "born actress", May Ediss developed a laugh that was the leaven of the show. Francis Compton was her hyper-critical husband. Elspeth Dudgeon, as Nelly Fell, Philip Tonge, as Mr. Spindler, and Allen Mowbray, Katherine Standing. Victor Tandy, and Richard Whorf divide the honors in the amateur performance...
...title presages, the whole piece is very much be-lioned yet the conduct of the author's particular member of this terrible species is decidedly un-leonine. Like the lion in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", he is of very gentle conscience, and Richard Whorf, in playing the part, showed a very commendable interpretation of Mr. Shaw's conception...