The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-02-06
ADJUSTMENTS.


The Third Degree Charles klein's
latest play which comes to the Grand
on Monday night treats OF certain
conditions that exist in social life in
New York, together with the assum-
ing of powers by the police that have
never been conferred by law.
Howard Jeffries, Jr., found on the
premises where death under strange
circum stances occurs, is arrested by
the police, and after being compelled
to undergo a sweating process, term
ed the third degree, confesses that
he is guilty of murder His wife, of
all the world, believes in his inno-
cence, and unaided and alone, sets
out to clear him from the stigma of
the crime. Be reason of young Jeff
ries having married beneath him, his
father disowns him. Through the
persistence Of the young wife and her
earnestness, she enlists the aid of
Richard Brewster, lawyer of inter
national fame. Notwithstanding that
this connection with the defense will
visit on him the loss. of certain veal
thy and influential clients, curtailing
as it does an enormous income, he
takes UP the gage of battle more in
behalf of the young wife, than her
unfortunate husband, and through the
ingenuity and cunning of the woman,
plans a defense that establishes clear
ly beyond doubt, the innocence of the
accused.
The play has certain marked me-
taphysical features combined with the
explosion of hypnotism produced by
physical force instead of mental sug-
gestion. In the end young Jeffries is
cleared and his wife earns for herself
the social recognition that has here
tofore been denied her
Quite the best thing that indefatiga-
BILE trio, Hough, Adams and Howard,
have done in the musical play. THE
Time. the Pace and the Girl which
will be offered at the Grand opera
house Wednesday, February 8. This
play must be placed in class by it.
self, story with music, fairly bub-
bling and sparkling with witty lines, a
clever plot and many popular and
catchy airs.
The scene is laid in a sanitarium in
Virginia, where Johnny Hicks and his
pal Tom Cunningham, are forced to
flee, having gotten into trouble the
night before in Boston gambling
house, where Cunningham, while in
n argument, struck one of the in
mates on the head with wine bottle
! Tie police are getting after them and
4 before the officers can make any ar
rest the sanitarium is placed under
/ quarantine for smallpox.
Tom Cunningham, rich mans son,
wants to marry Margaret Simpson,
"the girl of the title, farmer s
daughter, who is also at the sanitari-
UNI with ner father and brothers and
others, After the smallpox quaran-
4 tine is declared, the servants of the
hotel and sanitarium desert and the
4 guests are forced to look after their
own wants. Cunningham being chos-
en- dictator of the place, assigns a GER
tain task to each of the guests. The
fun grows fast and furious when John
ny Hicks, the slangy young gambler,
is made head cook and Margaret Simp-
son, who has quarreled with Cunning
ham and rejected his suit, is ordered
to do scrubbing. She refuses and her
meals are summarily cut off The
guests go on strike and refuse to
MT ,rI,, hive he hn CT, ilyr
jerking off lis coat and offering tc
meet them one at a time. Hicks falls
in love with Molly Kelly, the head
nurse.
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