The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1911-02-11
"JIST OUT OF COLLEGE-

There was a play al the Temple
Theater last night and a rafting good
one. Every member of the company
made good and several did double duty
in amusing and giving the big au-
dience present their moneys worth. 1t
was one Of George AIDES best. They
are all good. The piece was entitled.
Just Out of College and contained in
it all that that phrase implies TO the
youth Of the land in their hay. dreamy
ideas of life. clothed to the full in the
innocent and vaporizing amusementS
in which they live during the college
years. II was clean. bright. refreshing
and eXhileratinE and the spontaneous
and unrestrained smiles produced in
the audience attested the excellent
Interpretation of the authors lines.
OF course il was deeply fringed with
a love story; no play nowadays i
without one-that youthful kind that
comes in like a touch of electricity and
is as true and undying as the music
of the spheres, with a few minor mis-
understandings and discordS.
Ezra Mathews as c. w. Swinger.
a youth fresh from college. is the hero
and eventually picks the peach in the
person of Caroline Pickering, daughter
OF Septimus Pickering. head OF the
Pickering Pickle Company. His wife
is a blooming bounder who has out
grown domestic cares and has risen TO
Grander and more noble heights, with
Prof II. Dalrymple Bliss as the ex-
ponent of all that~is modern for the
uplift of the downtrodden sex, who, is
facial expression and two-step antics
was sure enough high class COM
edian. Frances Hitler. as chickering's
Stenographer. tall. 1.-the. willowly
maiden, carried herself with an air Of
royalty that made the office boys fall
down and worship her. She sure did
act her part to perfection. Swinger,
the lover. is gall personified in the es-
timation of old Pickering when ne. just
fresh from college. asks for that
venerable persons daughters hand.
without sane idea in his head as TO
now he will maintain her.
The old pickle king raves and snorts
and says he will have none of it. but
after a look at the other candidate his
wife presents in the person of Prof
Bliss, decides to give the young man a
chance. and so offers him $4,000 TO go
and make a show for himself, but the
youth laughs and tells him the sum
wouldn't pay cab fare. Then Pickering
asks Swinger to name his price, which
is $4,000
| Then Mrs. II. W. Jones appears and
offers the old pickle king opportun-
! ity to buy her process of home made
! picking. He declines. She goes away
| and falls in with her old friend Swing
| er. who invests his $4,000 in the
| Bingo Pickle Co. which Pickering is
forced to pay a handsome sum TO get
! control of.
| The schedule of Swinger's assets as
demanded by old pickles was a scream
| er. Sammy Roman as Silvers Mason
was extremely good; the unfeigned ad-
mirer of Swinger and a good fellow
with all the college boys and girls and
a loyal and devoted friend OF Aunt
Julia. a relatives of Swingsr's. and the
admirer of Genevieve Chizzle. the close
| friend Of Caroline.
| Harry Dressed. the life insurance so.
licitor. was a corker. There We're 9th.
ers. but time and space will not per.
NIT us to say more. II was a rar,
treat. full of genuine humor and lef
a pleasant impression in the mind.