The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1913-04-01
BEN GREET PLAYERS
SATURDAY night

The "Comedy of Errors'' will be
presented at the Nixon opera house
Saturday evening of this week by the
Ben Greet Players. The production
of this company is said to equal in
every respect that of Robson & Crane.
who were seen by the American public
IN this great comedy, as the 1.-Two
Dromios,' for more than a quarter Of
a century.
The following press notice is taken
from the Tucson (Arizona) Morning
Star of March 1S:
The Ben Greet Players presented
the Comedy of Errors' at the opera
house last night, and that the immor-
tai Shakespeare is appreciated in Tue
son was fully evinced by every chair
IN the theatre being occupied. From
university circles and down town cir
cies the people were drawn by the
magic of the great writer and dramat
ist who is old and always new; who is
the master of tragedy and comedy.
who knew his world as the American
boy of the streets knows slang who
wrote of everything from the gran
deur of the heavens to the rags Of an
urchin and who with trick of words
immortalized both.
The "Comedy of Errorsv is one
of the most clever of Shakespsare's s
comedies and one of the best known.
Who has not heard of the two Dromics
who were as like as two peas in a pod.
and their masters, who were also the
image of one another? Who has not
heard of the funny situations involv-
ed when the master and servant of
Syracuse invaded Ephesus and there
meet their twin brothers after a long
separations Who has not heard Of
the wife who believed her husband
Indifferent and demented when all the
time it was the husband IS brother who
disclaimed relationships Who has not
heard of the pleasing ending when the
who's who' and the "why's why''
is finally happily settled and the
greatest family reunion known in the
world takes place? All this is famil
lar to nearly every one, but what was
only conjecture with most of those
Tectiveness, or lack of it when a
Shakesperian comedy should be pre-
sented without scenery.
The Ben Greet PLAYERS have moth
ing to assist them in enhancing the
effect of their acting There are no
painted trees, no babbling brooks, no
architecture, no swaying palms-noth-
ing except blank screen, no scenery
of any kind, the idea of the place is
suggested in the program, perhaps, or
by what one may know of the scene
as painted by the great dramatist,
but on the stage there is nothing ex-
cept the actors, perfectly costumed in
keeping with the characters as por-
trayed in the play. However, the
Ben Greet Players need nothing to
assist them. They produced the "Com-
edy of Errors' last night without a
flaw and Shakespeare must have been
delighted could he have heard their
splendid Interpretation of his lines and
seen their clever acting. Without ex-
ception, every character in the comedy
was perfect, the two Dromios being of
course, especially funny, and their
lines and acting furnished the spice
necessary in the complicated situations.
There were a number of names on the
program which have attracted atten-
tion by their acting of Shakespearian
roles, for instance, the English actor,
Leonard Shepherd, as the merchant of
Syracuse, Pereival Vivian, one of the
Dromios, Grace Halsey Mills, as the
wife of Antipholus, and others.
A noticeable feature in connection
with the comedy was the costuming,
the women wearing gowns quite SINH
lar to the present modes, the drapings
being almost exactly the same as the
fashions for the spring and summer,
the materials were also quite similar
to the present weave, the effect of
the various gowns being almost up to
date.
Those who attended last night will
not soon forget the musical voices and
splendid acting of the Ben Greet
Players in the "Comedy of Errors