The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1905-11-28
PROVIDENCE OPERA HOUSE.
Edward Worihington Swlnger..

huNdIu NOIlHluklou DWIGHT sssssssss
................ Joseph Wheelock, Jr
Septimus Pickering. ........ Eugene Jepson
'Slivers" Mason. ......... Charles Jackson
Prof. Bliss. ..........G George Henry Trader
Ernest Bradford ......,......Georg Irving
Rufus. Harry Frees
Collector OF Souvenirs. ........ Louis Egan
Solicitor OF Insurance ........ George Alryn
Subscription Book Agent. Howard Hull
Delegate from the Union.,...M. D. Pollock
Ticket Seller..""""......Tully Marshall
Jack Lindsey. .......... Albert w. Meyer
Harvey Hughes. Devereau
Tom Catln. .Paul Humphrey
Caroline Pickering ...... Katherine Gilman
n. w. Mabel Amber
Genevieve Chizzle. ........ George Mendum
Luella Jenkins Pickering. Louise Sydmeth
Bernice Mccormick. q. Blanche Stoddard
Aunt Julia Swinger.... Mrs. E. A. Eberle
Newsstand Elene Foster
Lonesome Lady Traveller .....,...."..
Franc Comstock
Busy Lady Traveller. ........M Maud Sinclair
Miss Darksun Lillian SeNllhe
Miss Byrd Louis Mcnamara
Miss Blythe. Myrtle Tannehill
Al the Providence opera House for the
week. with matinees tomorrow. Thanks
giving day and Saturday, Charles Froh-
man presents Joseph Wheelock. Jr., in
"Just Out OF College" in three acts. deal
ing with modern conditions. The scenes
arc laid In one OF the larger cities. II
doesn't matter which. by George AIDE.
This Is the newest OF Mr.. AIDES pro-
auctions for the stage. Lik the things
preceding. from the Sultan OF Sulu, "
through the County Chairman to this
skit OF the problem OF Il young man with
only a college education 10 support him
Mr.. AIDE gives us character and manner
mirthfully satired, without hitting very
deep or striking very hard at our national
or individual -idiosyncrasies. lie uses his
weapon Of gentle ridicule just 10 have fun
and not TO promote real reforms, so TO
sneak. Under such circumstances you
can go and laugh without feeling hurt in
event OF the startling discovery that you
may yourself be in Mr.. AIDES latest cast
OF characters some day.
AS THE College Widow had fun with
the much discussed college football ethics,
SO Just out OF College considers In any
thing but "A serious or even ~purposeful
vein the timely topic OF what Is the col
lese man worth after he has got his de-
gree and is facing the world. Every juno
the funny paragraphers deal with that
tonic thr -4fGhout the length and breadth
Of the land. Its discussion, more or less
vain. is as regular a feature OF the daily
newspaper and the comic press, once n
year, along in June. as Is the annual
Thanksgiving or Christmas editorial. IL
remained for Mr.. AIDE 10 make a play
OF II.
Mr.. Joseph Wheelock. Jr, the young
man lust out OF college. Is talented as was
his father. In figure and feeling ne Gre
ates your ideal OF what Mr.. AIDE evident
~ intended in the character OF EDWARD
Worthington Swinger. fresh from alma
mater. Thrown into the rude maelstrom
OF the world he is a hopeless proposition
and he doesn't realize II because the col
lege ego hasn't got rubbed of. Septimus
Pickering OF the pickle trust realizes II
though. while at the same time he Is
clear-headed enough 10 have "a little falth
that, despite a dubious exterior OF over
whelming confidence bred I'm the college
game. there may be something In tho
young man after all. 1t there Is II must
be got out for Caroline Pickering, his
daughter. Is I'm love with Young Swinger,
or Singer. or whatever his name is and
his daughters happiness is the only thing
old man Pickering cares for except
~pickles-pickles. as a business that IL,
for he hasn't been able to eat n pickle
for thirty years so distasteful have they
become TO him through constant associa-
tion. So Pickering takes the young man
whom he declares TO be Eat the damphool
period OF life and offers him $500 cash
and three months 10 show what ne can do
with II. with his daughters hand as the
prize OF success. The Observation-Disclosures
man shifts at the proposition and gently
suggests a trial advance OF 100000. They
compromise on s20.co and with this the
college man backs an old friend OF his
who used TO run a cillege boarding house
and who has got up a new pickle. Before
the money and the three months are all
gone, the Pickering pickles are so alarm
ed at the success OF the new pickle indus
try that negotiations are begun which
evidently result in buying i'm the new con
Germ so that the audience may infer that
Swlnger pays back the $4,000 and has
something left 10 start life with.
That's the story. II is more OF a story
in the first act than In the later. In the
last two acts n is about as much OF a
EtorY--as though Just out of College"
were n musical comedy. However. tho
story Is rather too serious anyway TO
Keep pace with Mr.. AIDES comedy OF char
acters and manners. and II Is Just as we'll
that II gets lost, or nearly so. Every
part in Just out OF College" IS a char
acter etching and they are all worth
while. Last nights big audience was
Just kept laughing. Even the incidental
characters like a megaphone-voiced sta
tion agent. n life Insurance solicitor. the
man az tho information bureau OF the
railroad. the news stand girl. the book
agent. were either funny OF themselves
or helped 10 make some OF the other
characters funny or both.
The list is n long one. as the cast above
shows. And not one Is a lay figure or
a time killer. but all contribute TO the
laughs. IL not Importantly to the plot.
which gets lost en- route. Mr. AIDE and
his audience nave a good laugh with and
nj a lot OF human everyday folks In Just
Out OF College and it's great fun.