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DddrnSi'st!sinTwhat many people considered the strongest play in their repertoire Thusday night, to an audience that oveflowed into the aisles and sat on the edges. The play, as yet unnamed, was a four-ac, drama with a problem involving tne two standards of life, yet one so human and ordinary when the lives of the members of frenzied society are considered as to make it almost lt;leanin oonvpayison. The mix-up among five people, one whose interest was solely on account of his friendship for the other four, involved the life happiness of two young people, who. unknown to themselves, were brother and sister Charles Harrison in the role of Merril Stanley, the friend, was, as he expressed it, a mean, contemptible cur,” but an honest one. Dora St. Clair, who planned to elope with £ewis Phillips, the father of Koxie, was another honest sinner. Lewis Phillips was the hypocrLe, who acknowledged i his inner eontemptibilitv to his ; friend, but tried to hide it from the ! world. Frank Neville, as St. Clair, the husband of Dora and the fa'her i of Max Thurber, was what might be called a silent participant in the . mix-up, ignorant of the trouble or , what was involved, as he was ignorant of '.he identity of Roxie’s 1 mother, the wi.e of Lewis Phillips, who was also on the square” since her first early mistake years before j becoming the wife of Phillips. : Most of the characters played rn- p usually well. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison, c Frank Neville, and Mrp. St. t'lairjt] having the heavier parts. Roxie ’ ( ;\ was an attractive Hrl, who played jf a minor part with great credit, ai- t] pear ng in only hree scenes, but : fj vitally ■ oneerned in the oil'come.Worthy of special mention were I n the climaxes arranged by Mr. Mar- 5 rison, one especially^ being both , ^ unique and strong. Matters have (j to be explained to Roxie ‘to a cer- k tain extent, and her poor little . mother is unequal to the task o *i .elling her. she planning to leave on I k the night train with Stanley tor New York to prevent the elopement j-of her husband and Dora St. Clair. Harrison, in his slow, drawling way, jk walks past her as Roxie demands , jj 11o kuow why her mother is g*ng to New York, whispering as he H passes, Let me explain; I'm a|h natural born liar, you know!” j He strolls over to Roxie, and leaning negligently over the back of a chair which only Ills grasp can show the tension of his nerves, commences to explain. As the eur'.ain begins to drop he unwinds an easy yarn in his earless way ofhow, — Now, Roxie, your papais in New York, and we’re just—t—planning—to-. The curtain jtjdrops upon the finest climax of the ■ ff play, just as it dawns on the au- a dience that che conversation is not ; to be finished in the scene. j hiTonight the company presents a five act drama. The Signal Fire.an Indian drama. Saturday afternoon a matinee is billed for 3 o’clock.\Vira:O]kaMllkwtcsiit
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Record and Chronicle
Denton, Texas, US
Fri, Jun 20, 1913
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