AMUSEMENTS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12604, 21 September 1906, Page 9

AMUSEMENTS.

ANDERSON DEAMATIC COMPANY.

Strongly sensational as woe "The Face at tho Window," the now. piece staged last night at the Theatre, "Between Two Women," was infinitely more 60. The play is of the ordinary melodramatic . type, but the events were more within the range of 'possibility than is the case in many instances in this type of drama. Mise Helen© Burdette, as tho bad woman of the piece, gave a very powerful interpretation of tho character. Alice finrdette made the most of the strong dramatic situations -with which the play abounds, playing the part with a food deal of artistic force. Miss Maisii' Maxwell as Violet Thornton, tho unjustly persecuted heroine, was also vory good indeed, particularly in tho scenes with her husband, and eho succeeded most thoroughly in enlisting tho sympathies of the audience with her in the numerous troubles which always bedet tho path of heroines in melodrama. A. clever little character part W3S that of the jblind boy, excellently played by Miss £li- : s ; o ]*£?'sve , . Miss Georgio Leighford infueed a strain of ooineJy into the piece as Polly Pop, and rattled through the play with nu amount of jollity which was quite a relief '..to the atmosphere of crime. The unscrupulousness of tho villain of tne piece was well pourtrayod by Mr Dalg&eslh, who ran his successful career of orimo up to the fourth act. Mr Max Clifton was the easily-deluded Jiuebamd, whoso mistaken jealousy causes all the woes of the heroine, and he played tho part with, a good .deal of success. Mr Harry Diver, in the character whkih was a wonderful replica of tliat of John Storm, was somewhat uneven. He was very good in the scene in the fourth act where he confesses the crime of which another is wrongfully accused. The other parts were well filled. The piece was excellently mounted. To-night "Between Tiro Women" will be repeated. •