In the play called Mixed Marriage all the bigotry and religious stupidity is shown by the old Protestant father. The unselfishness, real patriotism, courage, and broad-minded humanity in this play are the possessions of the Catholics—as is, indeed, usually the case in Ireland.
It is interesting to observe how real merit wins and overcomes ignorant prejudice.
Many of the very men that hissed and hooted at the Irish plays on the first night without listening to them now attend the performances regularly.
Those that enjoy most thoroughly the wonderful wit and pathos of the Irish race, as shown in these plays, are those Irish men and women.
Sara Allgood, as the old patient wife and mother in Mixed Marriage, is a perfect picture of the womanhood that has created Ireland.
Lady Gregory and her friends have rendered a real service to this country and to Ireland by bringing the plays here.
Anonymous In Chicago “Daily Tribune”
February, 1912
TO LADY GREGORY
Long be it e’er to its last anchorage