Arizona republican., 1909-05-08

hundred people. to the girl ~ou used to make eyes at in your algebra class? [? And the additional fact that nearly everybody in the audience calls you by your front name and everyhodv is are from Missouri. makes the situa- tion trifle embarrassing
 In the cast last night there were but few who escaped this awful inuui- sition. Some of them took their medi- cine like little men, while others were coy and simply held hands. which they hadn't intended to do at all. while the audience howled.
 Herschen Smith. who played Tom Morton. the young husband. couldn't help making love to his wife because the instruction book said so. Every body knew il was Herschell though his upper lip was decorated with a bit of excelsior. You can't bluff HerscheII. whether it is a one-hundred-y yard dash or scrap with Cupid. He kissed his wife right before every one. and then one end of the mustache pointed to the gallery and the other to his wife's tootsies.
 
 though nobody was carried out on stretchers when the thunderstorm broke. Preston Jones. who played the star part of Willoughby Peyton. and did it right well. too, was lying in bed with a broken head and a broken leg: also a broken heart that the doctor couldn't set in splints. Elizabeth Ben nett, the girl with the blue eyes. who played Betty, sat over in the corner The lightning flashed and the thunder machine worked over time, and Betty was strangely overcome Suddenly she went over and kneeled beside the in- valid because the invalid could hardly get out of bed with all those people looking on and come to her. Preston knew his little book and didn't take water. He put his arms around the girl and didn't care who saw it.
 Arthur Viault, who played Bud Al ling, was satisfied with holding hands, and he is not to be criticised for lack of nerve, because nobody knows what the instruction book says about it. He got just as much applause for holding hands as the others did for going just a bit further.
 There never was an amateur per formance where every one in the cast felt perfectly at ease Several of the young men walked about like Hons fin a cage, waiting for the keeper to bring their dinners, and some of the young women showed an irresistible desire to sit down whenever there was a chair handy, but altogether, the play went off very smoothly without any exhibi- tions of temporary aphasia. There was little prompting and few unneces- sary pauses.
 Perhaps Preston Jones' reading of the lines was the best of any His voice and delivery were good When he made love to Betty. he talked as though he really meant it, and not as if he were reciting a piece His per formance would have been a credit to many of the professional companies that visit Phoenix, and so also would the acting of little Miss Veil Tn her Buster Brown suit and her tight curls and bare legs, she was carefully cute. She knew her lines, too, and, what is more, she, this little actress, played her boy part just as sincerely as if she were playing house"
 George Shipp, who had a comedy part. wore a makeup that would de- ceive village constable. Nena Shaw yer was an excellent cook, and Roy Kirkland and Wesley Knorp were well equipped doctors. Blanche Hughes just acted like herself. and that always counts. Harriet Hurley was the pretty nurse, with her white apron and cap the kind of nurse that always makes a man wish he might meet with an accident so that he could have her