The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1905-02-04
UNDER SOUTHERN SKIES"
One of the Most Beautiful PLAYS
on the American Stage to be
Seen at Capital Theatre
Monday Evening,
February 6.

1t has been said by those who
have made careful study of dra-
matte literature that no play can
make a popular success that has
not good love story at it's found
alton. Dramatists have found
this so true, that whatever themes
may appeal to their artistic sense
as novel or instructive material
for the basis of a play, it is put
aside as not likely to meet the
taste of the majority of theatre
gOers and some variation of the
old, but never worn out theme of
love, is again and again written
for that public which is always
demanding it. 1t is, no doubt,
the strength and interest of the
love story in Under Southern
Skies" that has given it its strong
hold upon the public. Under
Southern Skies" is now in it's
fourth year of uninterrupted sue
cess, playing to crowded houses
wherever it has appeared. The
strong story showing the broken
life and hearts of man and a
woman, and the almost wrecked
happiness of a young girl has
never failed to hold an audience
fascinated and deeply interested
from the opening of the play to
the fall of the final curtain.
In bringing out this absorbing
story, the author, Lottie Blair
Parker, who also wrote Way
Down East" has followed the
same method of work which made
Way Down East" so delightful.
She has made each one of the
twenty-seven characters in Under
Southern Skies" a distinct type
of individual life as found in the
South. The impulsive colonel"
of flowery speech; the cool. inn
pressive colonel, y who is quick
on the trigger, -" Notwithstanding
his calm demeanor; the courtlv
major, who covers sad heart
with smiles of cordial hospitality ;
J the young hot-headed suitors for
the love of the heroine-these are
all the men Of the south in the
years following closely upon the
great rebellion. The women too.
dainty, airy, full of lighted
hearted gayety, are the women of
the south, not yet ingrained with
the stern lesson of work and neces-
sity which is the very birthright
of the New England woman.
These characters, set against a
background of beautiful scenery
+ and stated y old southern homes
move lightly and gaily through
the succeeding scenes of the play.
, the thread of the story, the trag-
edy underlying it all growing
stronger and stronger until the
climax of the third act finds the
audience tense and breathless.
Curtain call after curtain call fol-
lows this act, ten and twelve calls
sometimes being taken.
\ novel scene introduced in the
play is Il Hallowe ZEN celebration,
the like of which has never before
been done upon the stage-Hal-
lowe 'en tricks are performed and
Il pumpkin dance follows. The
diversion is SO natural and is en-
tered into with So much spirit
that it rouses the audience to the
highest pitch of laughter and en-
joyment Taken in its entirety
Under Southern Skies" has
truthfully been said to be the most
original. diverting and unhack-
neyed play of Southern life ever
written. Our theatre patrons are
to be congratulated upon the fact
that they will have an oppor-
tunity of seeing this highly sue
cesstul play. Under Southern
Skies" is TO appear at Capital
Theatre Monday evering, Febru-
airy &.
Seats now ON sale at Barret's.
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