Arizona republican., 1902-10-12
oBERLE STOCK co.
A Confidential Tip to Phoenix Thea
 ter Goers.

A reporter for The Republican hid in a hallway the other night and piped off a good part of a rehearsal of the OberIe Stock company. The bill was The Lost Paradise. the piece with which the com pany will open its engagement here on Monday night.
 It is not desirable at this time to say anything prematurely or to mention in public any of the little things the eavesdropper may have overheard, but he don't mind whispering confidentially to the readers of The Republican that The Lost Paradise is to be a great hit and that the Oberle Stock company is made up of people that know their busi- ness. They are neither amateurs nor prematures; they will not get scared at the footlights and if rehearsal deport- ment is an indication of what they will do with their stage clothes on, Phoenlx is to have a rare treat next week and the honor of launching in the southwest the first professional company organ ized exclusively for this circuit. And it may be confidently predicted that the capital city will never be ashamed of n.
 The story of The Lost Paradise is an interesting little comedy drama by Henry c. DeMille and it is particularly aprOpos at this time. It is founded on the woes of the laboring man. involves the clash between capital and labor and a resultant strike in a great iron mill. while woven through it is the influence of the deepest passion of both the high and the lowly, the rich and the poor The piece was first staged in London in 1891 by Thomas Oberle the head of the company, for Charles Frohman. of in- ternational fame in the theatrical world. Mir Oberle also played in its first presentation in New York and Arizona will no doubt be more than satisfied with what took the metropolis of the world by storm.
 Thomas Oberle plays the part of Reuben Warner, the hero of the play. while Miss Lucy Lowell, as leading lady, Margaret Knowlton. has won the highest approval of the few who have been permitted to see the rehearsals Mir. and Mrs. Louis Belmour as Mir and Mrs. Knowlton, are nicely fitted for their parts, the owner of the iron works and his wife; and Oral Humphreys as Ralph Standish makes a real gentle manly sort of a william. He isn't really a william either, but is almost made one by the old ironmaster who tries to make him the recipient of faVors he fancied he owed to the young mans father. who was accidentally killed. The young man. too. enthralled by the loveliness of the ironmaster's daughter, accepts everything and the girl too, or would do so if he could. But the daughter like any good girl would be, Is in love with Warner, who is made the hero by his defense of the laboring men in hls employers mill.
 There are several interesting parts in the support Fl. D. McAuliffe plays the role of Fletcher and Mss Della Buck ley appears as his niece. Polly Miss Alice Groff and Miss Virginia Cranna as Nell and Cinders are two little hero ines of the iron works. and Miss Ruth Russell is Julia, a maid. Joe Barrett, foreman in the mill, affords Warren Sawyer a chance to do things, and Ezra Norris has a comedy part as T mill employe in love with Cinders. Ed ward Hamilton, Walter Belasco, Rob- ert Hallowell and Frank Holme are four husky mill hands who are badly worn in the service of the old ironmas- ter but nevertheless have enough spunk left to back up a strike and their stage work in the Lost Paradise should be sufficient recommendation to President John Mitchell to get them life jobs as walking delegates In the Pennsylvania coal regions.
 The strikers win, of course, and Mar gllerite and Reuben who between them have really saved themselves and everybody else. including the poor workingmen, have nothing else to do but get married and live happy ever after. The villain submits gracefully and proves that after all he Is mot so, worse" and is entitled to sympathy rather than condemnation.