The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-03-24
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Dates On Local Stage.

side in "Paid In Flull' by the hall
four acts with plain American ver-
nacular and lines as forceful as
mental sledgehammers to drive
deep the Thought; with climax
reached by the boldest daring, thai
sweeps the play out of the slough
and mire of dishcnor and despair,
into q triumphant vindication OF
goodness and mercy, and last
act clnches fast the moral by
denouement tragic with the newt
able.
"lEugene Walter, who first at
traeted attention with his play
Lorimer of HThe Shepard King
fine failed to find success, Is a re-
crult from the newspaper ranks to
the playrights, and there is in his
wCnll o. simplicity, a deadly cumu-
lative and tragic truth telling ma
turalism, Just now on the level OF
the life of the average man, that
grips fast and will not let go the
interest. He has boiled down, con-
densed. comlpacted and digested ali
the PHILOSOPHERS of egCtism from
Max Shrner and Nietsche and Carl
Marx, Schopenhauser and Bernard
Shaw, intD his Joe Brooks, the
young clerk who believed the world
owed him a living and had a
Crouch on life, because, forsook,
he did not get as much out of It
as the next man, and his best
friend got a raise in salary. He has
ioontrasted land pirates and sea pi-
rates and made a pirate bold OF
Cantain Williams Joe Brooks en-
Iployer aud the man OF evil repute),
to discount all tie Captain Kldds
in the rough nuggets and pure gold
CT character slowed away inside
his barnacleI timbers. He has made
Jimsy Smith, the general utility
Imam ard standby Of the Brooks
hovsehold siX-footer idyll of
faithful nove In a selfish world
land an exponent of optimism and
deliberate drcllery, to get down
heart of the puibhc and be reccgniz-
I'd as a man to tie to. His Emma
the wife OF joe Brooks, the good
girl, with her fathers fine sense oi
lhClor and her own courage and
Irheer 10 wholesome heroine tC
rinl i'm problem play and these
with the irritating mother-in-law
the plgenue small sister, and the
Jap9nese valetfwho is Captain Bits
family. makes up the persons In
the play.
I 1-ho at4fl,p toI,ae ,,toca In Chr
lBrc-rts' home In a Harlem flat in
the first a-t, with Joe Brooks chat
ing at Jimsy's raise of salary and
lfroutDg socialism and the down
ltrcdden masses. The second act
takes place in the Brooks apart.
iment in an uptown hotel, where
Emma has bloomed into new youth
land harpincss with Brooks sudden
IprospeIity, where the discovery OF
HIS theft Is made known and where
lhe reveals the full despicable mean
mess Of his nature by accusing his
wife Of having been the cause OF
lhis crime, and, as the climax Of his
lselfshness demanding Of her the
lpr'ce OF his safety through Cap
tain Bills fondness The third act
lis I'm CAPTAIN Bills apartment
rlgged up like ship, with port
and staiboamd lights, a pilot wheel
and souvenirs from all the world
over which Captains Bill has cruised,
an unforgetable stage picture and
piece of dramatic work to stand
| by itself, unique in dramatic val
ues And this despite the fact that
" is the same old hackneyed ex-
pedient of the woman's comprc-
missing visit alone at might TO thN
Williams apartments. The last act
ourtain Is as tragic as the finale OF
lIsben's "Ghosts"-the artistic, the
inevitable Altogether "Paid in
Full' is a play with a big future.