The Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 19, 1925

Mrs. Partridge Presents. The managing mother who manages to misfire completely in the last act is the portrait around which a number of smaller portraits are tastefully distributed. The smaller portraits are mostly her children and their friends. The misfire is the pardonable reluctance of her children to tread the pathways of artistic life which she has broken for them.

An artist and an actress her boy and girl shall be. Years of toil go into the proper nourishing of their temperaments. The boy prefers engineering; the girl, matrimony. Mother loses.

Blanche Bates offered her...

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