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American physician. A score of other
players Of note contribute to the success
of the play.
COIumbIa-"The Girl of My Dreams"
At the Columbia this week Joseph NJ.
Gates will present John Hyams and Leila
Mcintyre and their company in the at
mOspheric musical play. The Girl OF
My Dreams The book is by Wilbur ID.
Nesbit, Of Chicago newspaperdOm, and
Otto Hauerbarh. with music by the IA
nous light opera composer. the late Kari
HOschna, who was responsible for the
haunting melodies of Madame Sherry"
Three Twins" Bright Eyes" and Doc
tor de Luxe"
No more pleasing an excursion can he
imagined than this little journey through
the fairyland of fancy with two. such ar
fists as Mr.. Hyams and Miss Mcintyre.
The story OF the play is simple, but en-
gaging and holds throughout a delicate
love interest 1t concerns the capture of
the leading member of a Bachelors Club
by demurc little Quaker girl from the
country.
Harry Swift"n CHyams) is the bachelor,
and it is his propensity for breaking the
speed limit in his automobile that leads
him into all the complications in which
the plot abounds He meets Lucy Med
ders Miss Mcintyre, through a smash
up in which he is injured. He is brought
TO the house of the girls Quaker father
and there she nurses him back TO health.
When the play opens Swifton has just had
another accident i'm which ne has ruined
a married womans hat. The woman and
her cavalier, a count, are calling on Swift
ton to see about having the hat restored,
when the wOman's husband, Swifton's
lawyer. arrives. The couple hide in the
rooms and are still hidden when the
Quaker lassie and her old father arrive
on an unexpected visit. In the end, of
course, Swifton explains everything, and
wins his sweetheart.
The supporting company includes such
well-known players as Neil Burns. Fran
els GailIard. Alice Hills. Frank McEwen,
Adele Boulais, and Irving Brooks.
Co! .Imbin-YnIe University Dramatic
Association.
The Yale University Dramatic AssOcia-
ton will present a farce comedy by Count
Leo Tolstoy, The Fruits of Culture" at
the Columbia Friday afternoon, December
q, at o'clock.
The play is not one whose interest de-
ponds chiefly on the fact that il is col
lege production. The piece itself pos
sesses great deal of real merit, none of
which is obscured by the translation
from the original In this amusing satire
upon the upper classes of Russian society
Tolstoy writes with considerable author
ity, for he possessed a keen and thor
ough knowledge Of the people whom he
reproduces ...
. Interest in the play lies not so much in
the action itself, as in the spoken words,
which contain some of Tolstoy's best sa-
tire and humor. IT..
Chase's-POIite Vaudeville.
Another premiere presentation will oc-
cur at Chase,s this week. when the popu-
lar musical comedy and comic opera
comedian, Digby Bell, will head brill
liant company in Joseph Harris produc-
ton of George Hobart's latest vaude-
Vile hit, 1T Happened in Topeka
Mr.. Bell is supported by Mignon Leris.
Marie Cecil, Eugene Redding. and Frank
Z. Jones. The extra added attraction will
be Germany's military Hercules, Paul
Conchas, far-famed as the Kaiser's choice
among all his armies, giving his sensa-
tional AT the Bivouac" i
The special stellar feature will be the
musical comedy entertainers, Horace
Wright and Rene Dietrich in their new
caprice. "A La Caruso.' Another fnclu-
sion VIII be the farceurs, ALI Grant and
Ethel Hoag, in their new farce a trayesty