John Drew . llythe man of the world, he composedwith admirable skill the picture ofsenility in the last act or Jasper, in his middle years, fellin with a pair of eloping lovers,and presently gave his heart with-out the asking to the girl, who wasvery sweet and ingenuous and trustedhim implicitly. But, after a severestruggle with his passion, Jaspersaw her happily united with Ensign125 y O H N D R E PF Westwood, her young lover, andreturned to his bachelor ways, tolive many years after Westwoodand his wife had departed this life,and to find, by a strange accident,a souvenir of his
John Drew . llythe man of the world, he composedwith admirable skill the picture ofsenility in the last act or Jasper, in his middle years, fellin with a pair of eloping lovers,and presently gave his heart with-out the asking to the girl, who wasvery sweet and ingenuous and trustedhim implicitly. But, after a severestruggle with his passion, Jaspersaw her happily united with Ensign125 y O H N D R E PF Westwood, her young lover, andreturned to his bachelor ways, tolive many years after Westwoodand his wife had departed this life,and to find, by a strange accident,a souvenir of his little romance withDolly, the day of the Queens Jubi-lee, in that very inn whither he hadtaken her to see the Coronationprocession. Miss Adams, who wasthen in her last year as a memberof Drews company, had at thattime never appeared to better ad-vantage than in the role of DorothyCruickshank. In this play, too,Mr. Drews niece. Miss Ethel Barry-more, who had borne a thanklesspart in Mr. Carletons piece the126. MISS ETHEL BARRVMORE J O H N D R E fV year before, made her first littlehit in the character of a rusticserving-maid. In November, 1897, at the EmpireTheatre, Mr. Drew and his fellow-actors presented themselves in asword and periwig comedy called AMarriage of Convenience, adapted bySydney Grundy from Un Mariagesous Louis XV. The play turnedout to be fragile but pretty, andthe performance was adroit andgraceful. The scenic setting, com-prising a single interior, withpainted panels, and the ornategilding and furniture belongingto the epoch represented, themiddle of the eighteenth century,127 y O H N DREW could not have been surpassed. Inthe costuming no detail had beenomitted, from the cut of a brocadecoat to the fashion of a snuff-boxor the design of the silver embroi-dery on the back of a glove. Pow-der and patches, court swords andcocked hats, elegant manners witha hint of lamentable morals,—those were the important concomi-tants of A Marriage of was s
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