Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-11-22
Tns suBLiMe AND Tna RlOsc
ulOUS.
Row We havs Il h Dsass - py-
thias 81 Psek's D. Boy.
By q. n. T.

By q. II. r.
-Peek's Bad Boy" will come to the
Grand next Monday evening. and the
house will be packed from the bald.
heads row in the pit to the back tier
in the Ethiopian heaven. A. least
Il has been so At previous appear.
anees Of that aggregation Of aSomin-
able parody on humos and -eute-
ness" Bu, the beautiful aud strong
play Of Damon and Pythiss was pre-
sented last Monday to = beggasiy ar
ray Of empty beaches. Some folks
say Il was defect In advertising. So
IL may have been In part; but isn't Il
little remarkable how much more
advertising some things need than
others to get out the efowdf
"Peek's Bad Boy. u Il has any
moral effect Of any sort is vicious.
for il degrades the precious relation
ship that ought to be fostered be-
tween father and son. II was .
mighty low emincnce from which the
author OF those sketches stepped into
the govcTnofship OF his state. II
only shows however that politics is
often \ small respeetcr Of qualihea-
tons. Peek is dead. believe. but
the evil ,ha, men do often lives after
them. ''as Bill says" and sometimes
gets drama;ixed for the stage.
But that aside. What's the use oi
Esakg,na. ..x,u.s st. S,x. u~sa.~t ard
instructive order OF things. II Is only
by the smalles, degrees that the hu-
man species is pulled up out OF an
instructive Utilization OF the nerve een-
tres to point that is anything like
sublime In its apprehension OF joy.
The play OF Damon and Pythias
should tend TO that uplifi. II would
II il could get n large and frequent,
and apprehcnsivc hearing. Its ira
di,ion is the best foundation on which
TO build 4 iraicrnai society tha; the
literature OF the ages has given US.
The Knights of Pythias have finer
inspiration behind them than other OF
the secret orders. And they would
have gotten a fresh inspiration to
iormancc Of Monday evening.
Monday nights entertainment was,
to be sure. given out as perform
anec by amateurs. and the play Is ono
that certainly furnishes scope for pro-
fcssionals. II is flying rather high
when amateurs essay il. Truly, one
hates to hear good dialogue murder
cd in cold blood. and that may have
kept somebody away. But the per-
formancc of Monday night was very
capably done. Mr.. Holt, as Damon,
was by no means amateur. Neither
was Mr.. lsaacs as Pythias. Miss
Meyers made good Hcrmion and
Miss Montgomery good Calanthe,
as well as pretty ono. Mr.. Dris--
coll didn't do badly as the Tyrant OF
Syracuse. At least he might have
done worse. AS to Mr.. Meyers Da-
moclcs, well his being friend OF the
king was surely all that saved him
from execution. Everybody wonder
cd too. why, il Dionysius wanted to
behcad somebody he didn't execute
Miss Gordon, who was playing Pyth-
las prospective mothcr-in-law. He
could have charged her with being
accessory after the (Dact. The dance
of the Siciian maidens made very
pretty stage picture. 1t was 4 ballet
tnat nccu not nave snockcu even La
vid Harum's sister Polly. 1t was
just pretty and appropriate adjunct
of a Grccian wedding, where clothes
were cut somewhat dccollctte at the
bottom instead of at the top, as with
us.
But the. fine thing OF the play is the
patriotic appeal OF Damon to the
Senate to save the republican insti-
tutions OF his native city from the
hands of designing politicians. The
senate was composed mainly of some
local members OF the Pythian broth
erhood, and they did their part mag
nificcntly. They are no actors but all
they had to do was to hold their
seats and vote with the conspirators,
and they did it heroically, While Da-
mon was making his appeal they re-