Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1912 — Miss Margarett Illington Now Appearing In “Kindling.” [ARTICLE]

Miss Margarett Illington Now Appearing In “Kindling.”

Never ill the history of the stage in Chicago has been reported a more decisive hit than has been made at the Cort theatre by Miss Margaret Illington, in Charles . Kenyon's American play “Kindling.”'This play is an important addition to the literature of the stage as it deals witha very vital social theme, one that can not fail to be of interest to everyone. The hearty interest is intense for the play deals with the strongest of all love, that of a mother for her child. Maggie Schultz is a wife and about to become a mother. She lives with her husband: a hard-working longshoresman, in a tumbledown tenement house in the. center of New' York’s teemipg East Side. Before her eyes is constantly all the misery of the poor. Day after day' she sees the weakling children wither and die, almost before they have begun to live. On every hand she hears that a child horn in that atmosphere has no chance to be strong and healthy and even her husband in a fit of anger at conditions says that he would strangle a child of his own at birth rather than torture it with the only conditions it could hope to face. Maddened by all this misery Maggie decides that her own child shall have a chance, in the world at no matter what cost to her and she steals from the owner of a tenement in order that she and her husband may go to Wyoming and the child may be born where there are trees and- grass and health giving fresh air. But Maggie’s ignorance and innocence make her a bad deceiver and she goes through many troubles before her story is brought to a happy ending through the great human sympathy of a good woman. To Miss lllington’s truly masterly actibg in the role. M Maggie is, added -the Week afsuch players as Byron Beasley, Frank Campeau, Frank E. Camp, John Jax, A. 4S. Kanyon, Ruth Tomlinson, An* nie Mack Berlain and Helen Tracy. There are regular matinees on Saturdays and special popular priced matinees on Wednesdays.