The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-01-28

Fellows, what would you do IL you
lost your four front teeth on the foot
ball field of glory, and then, just as
you were about to ask for the love of
THE girl. clumsy steward would
come along and accidently knock your
sub teeth out of finding distance.
Funny situation. isn't II. for the other
chap. Yet this Is exactly what hap
pened to BILLY Hargrave" in the
clever farce conceit Billy" at the
Grand last evening. And then, just
to add to your misery, your hated
rival, who had taken passage on the
same ship bound for Havana, would
malign you numerically, insult you
in the presence OF your prospective
mother-in-law, and finally make des-
perate love to the glrl-while you
stood by speechless. In such an ex-
treme. you would probably have fol-
lowed I'm the footsteps of BILLY" and
purloined a set of "tombstones" from
a glass, temptingly reposing in a near
by stateroom, especially If 1t happened
to be the room of the mother-in-law
who looked upon you with marked
disfayor. But wouldn't it put you past
the endurance point II the sister
whom you had taken with you as a
sort of guard, while you became ac-
quainted with the obstreperous tomb
stones, lowered constantly on the edge
Of giving them away?"
These situations, conceived by
George Cameron and exploited by a
cast of as keen playfolks as could be
concentrated on one production, made
the theatre one huge caldron of laugh
bubbles. From the entrance of Mrs
Sloan, the mother. until the final tri-
umphant Beatrice" uttered through
the restored teeth of billy" Il was a
constant appeal to the rlsibilities and
the apeal was never in vain.
Edgar Atchinson-E the Billy
of the story. has winning magnet
ism to reinforce his natural comedy
vein. These two qualifications. to-
gether with most pleasing stage APP
pearance and blithesomeness cal
culated to put the audience on imme-
date terms of acquaintanceshlp, COM
bine to make of Mr.. Atchinson- Ely
one of the most irresistible comed-
ians on the American stage. He Is
vigorous too in action, his lines never
ability is strkingly portrayed in the
lisping utterance made necessary by
the loss of the precious teeth. Truly
for this young man OF promise, the
success elevator is going up"
Jane Marbury as Alice Hargrave."
the sister. has manner all her own.
She is typically the young girl of the
debutante period. a trlhe awkward,
bit innocent. big of heart but care
les of action. pretty, dashing and al
together lovable. She invests the
part with great deal of her own
charming personality, and adds much
of merit to 1t thereby.
AS THE girl, torn between the in
cessant demands of her mother and
her love for Billy" Miss Marion
Chapman was altogether winsome
and pretty. An abiding naturalness
Is one of her salient charms. Frank
lin Jones as Sam Eustace" gave a
realistic bit of delineation In his sea-
sick scene. Mr.. Jones declares
when put to IT, that he has mot yet
gotten his "sea legs" and he surely
looks the part He has certain
dignity of carriage and speech to add
to his excellent presence. A convul-
sing minor note of comedy is extract-
ed from lines barren of this charge
In themselves by the character work
of spottiswoode Aitken. boatswain OF
the s. y. Florida. In any other hands
but those of real understanding. the
part would be mediocre. but Mr.. Ait
ken makes of II an Indispensable
tone in the general laughter sym
phony. Mrs. Stuart Robson as MRS.
sloan." and Miss Julia Blanc as the
"stewardess" appear advantAgeously
in the complications. Stuart Rob-
son Jr. Is also In the cast In the role
OF the Doctor"
There are two kinds OF comedies.
One constructed with malice afore-