Arizona republican., 1914-03-30
YEARLY
 PLAY COMING
Maitland Davies Directing Local Stars in Spectac- ular Presentation of Gil let's Masterpiece, "Secret Service,' for Bills"

tickets for Secret Service" which will be produced by the Phoenix Eiks' lodge at the Elks' theater or Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. April IA, 15 and 16, by caste of forty local young people under the direction of Maitland Davies, who last year gave Phoenix Brown of Harvard" and established for him. self q lasting reputation as an adept in amateur theatricals. With Chair man Whitney on the ticket commit tee are George A. Mintz, exalted ruler elect. Henry Feldman, esquire. and Al Rosenberg.
 Secret Service" is by many rated as the greatest war drama on the American stage. In it Wm. Gillette made himself doubly famous as the playwright and actor in the prin- cipal role. In three swiftly moving acts there are numerous tense situa- tions, in which the spy" outwts time after time those who suspect and seek to corner him.
 Prices for Secret Service" will be S1.50 for the first fifteen rows down stairs, S1,00 for the next two rows and D cents for the last two. For the first two rows in the balcony, seats will be $50, for the next two rows $1.00 and 75 cents for the last two. Seats in the gallery will be % cents.
 On the morning of April 18th, those holding tickets will have an opportunity to exchange them for reserved seats. No one person will be allowed to reserve more than six seats. It has been found in previous years when every seat in the house Was sold for $1.0O, and people invited to stand in line to secure seats there was both confusion and dissatisfac- ton. People were forced to take the last row downstairs for the same price as the first row
 Frank HilderbIan, chairman, Celora Stoddard, Frank Connelley and A. E. Cater, exalted ruler. have been given complete charge of the arrangements for this years show. Already q number of subcommittees have been named to look after details
 In the cast will be several well known local performers As vet the rarts have not all been assigned. Among those who have begun re- hearsing are Misses Bernice Warren Egelston, Ruth Griffin and Joy Grey. and Messrs Frank Hilderbran, A. R. Cater, James Patton, George A Crowder Leslie Hardy, Keith Pick | rell, Ingram T. Sparks, Leon Tolle- son, Sidney P. Osborn, James Daw- son. Wm. Simpson and Fly Page. Hllderbran, Cater, Crowder, Pick rell and Tolleson are already well known to local audiences, but this will be the first public appearance behind the footlights for Secretary ol state Osborn. Assistant AttorneS General Hardy, Ingram Sparks ant Fly Page. Director Davies insists that each is a star, and will make those with regulations already es. tablished look well to their laurels.
 The scenery for each of the thre, acts is essentially military, and ar engagements are being made for uni forms, swords and guns, some O which are historical. Already a mum
 Ter, who have priceless civil wa
 relics in their possession, have of
 fered to loan them for the pla,
 There will be arms and uniform
 which saw service in the great con
 flict and might easily have figure
 in scenes similar to those portraye
 in Gillettes Secret Service
 Special orders have been place
 with the dressmaker for the gown to be worn by the ladies in the cas-
 Honesty of detail in each gown wi
 be insisted upon. Incidentally
 might be found that some of tn
 styles of that period were not ia
 from some of the dresses of tn present day
 Following the last production Secret Service" will come the stat
 reunion of the Arizona Elks in th
 city, together with the state COT
 vention of the Odd Fellows and
 session of the Knights of Columbu
 Added to this will be the natior
 famous Aztec Sun Fete In selectir the dates for the show, the commit tee had all this in mind in ordt that the Elks. who will be here frol
 all parts of Arizona, might come
 day earlier and see the last pei formance
 In past years the Elks' annu
 show has been one of the big soc
 and histrionic events in this sectio
 Each succeeding show commit, 3 tries to do something different ar just little better than its pred y cessor. and to set mark that W l be difficult for the next committ [ to excel. Though early for predi
 tiens, the preliminaries for Seer s Service have advanced far enough t justify the promise that it will : the best thing the Phoenix Elks ha, f yet given the local public
 n Had Gillette tried to give the stay e a play designed for amateurs. |. could not have done better han "S n cret Service Thrilling situation e which grip the audience and W e their sympathy for the hero or di : approval for the villain, lines whi, t are at once intensely patriotic a, e loyal. action with the swing of z : army going into battle and of wor : ans sacrifice of her convictions f
 love of one whose aim is to thwa
 and defeat the soldiers of her peor e make Gillette's masterpiece a tru il great play.
 s In the production of this play a,
 it's success, Phoenix Elks' lodge, N
 335 asks at this time the assistan # and cO-nneratian of tho phaenix no