The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-12-20

ORPIIEUM--Sun-M Murray Vaudeville.
The Bill-postcr says: "Wcll, If
Jack Frost sticks around worllin'
heavy as this Eliza can cross real
ice tomorrow night"
The local manager has a menu
this season that contains many theat-
rical delicacies which will meet with
the appreciation of those fussy and
critical. perhaps the most palatable
being Al. W. Martins grand revival
of "Uncle Toms Cabin" which will
be seen at the Grand. Tuesday, De-
cember 21. No doubt many who
have witnessed minor productions of
the play, and have been successfully
buncoed by transforming aggrega-
tions, will be n trlne timid, having
formed an idea that because once de-
ceived II must be so always That
would be poor answer to n question.
Because you happened to be a lover
of the canvass back, until some in.
capable chef prepared the bird in
an unwholesome manner, should you
imagine that you would receive the
same at Delmonicos? Theatrical
managers and chefs might be classed
under the same heading-they serve
public fancy and palate, and must be
careful scholars of the art If they
choose to hold patrons "Uncle Toms
Cabin has been done" in museums
at the rate OF ten times n day. and
on one night stands In an house and
half by five or six people. Being
public property anyone who thought
they could make a few dollars out Of
IL, has produced" the play, and this
city as well as the country at large has
suffered from the inniction. on the
other hand it has been brought to a
scale of magnihcence by Al W. Mar
tin that has caused press, public and
pulpit to sing loud its praises. Taking
the piece as IL was originally, Mr..
Martin gives It a dressing of COM
plete and realistic scenery, put the
principal roles in the hands of COM
petent actors, engaged a number of
negroes to add to the pictures and
sing and dance I'm the levee scenes
in fact, has done everything to make
the performance acceptable to the
public.
There are two ways by which plays
reach the rlsque route. One Is by
suggestion and its resultant inference
and the other by plain, unadulterat-
ed out-and-out indecency. '"rhe Girl
From Rector's" takes the latter tack,
and II goes the route a triile faster
and more furiously than the majority
OF it's kind. There are stage stories
dealing with doubtful phases of lie
and unsavory people and places
which have excuse for the telling be-
cause they are built around some-
thing big, q vital principle, problem
I'm sociology, the eventuality of sin
and the infallibility OF retribution for
the sinner who cannot for long out
wit the Eternal Balance. The PAU
potter story tells none of these things
what IL does tell is of the deceit ana
lghtness OF two persons held IN es-
teem and love In their home town
while the major portion of their Gays
are devoted to acquiring the tinsel
pleasures of the bubble portion OF
Rohemia In New York. The decep-
lion is carefully glded, to make II a
matter for emulation perhaps, but II
IL 10 DC tuIlcplly hNo'''N Ns'
or clean minded person would pe-
come obfuscated by the airiness ana
seeming inconsequence Of smashing
every law Of society and decency
with a champagne bottle. No doupt
such, conditions do exist in everyday
life. (for whatever may be said dele
terlously. there are convincing mo-
ments of farce which Is seldom WITH
in the realm Of possibility, but there
IL small excuse for exploiting them
under the guise OF amusement ana
giving them place upon tho stage
y here they may be served with garn-
ishins. The slang CRATES, the run
with a few exceptions is only funny
TO the prevented, and there are lines
TOO daring for repetition In polite
circles. Perhaps 1t isn't so much IN
the lines themselves as the genera
atmospheric conditions, highly re-
dolent OF spirits both liquid and
otherwise.
Joseph Daley contributed a real
comedy vein as professor Aubrey
Maboon," his work Being worthy of
higher class performance, other-
wise, "rhe Girl FroIn Rectors' could