New Britain herald., 1914-04-07
Reviews of Weeks
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Clyde Fitch's Girls
 Is We'll Presented
 By Lyceum Company

Girls" by Clyde Fitch, which is being produced at the Lyceum this week, and which had it's first presen- tation by the Players there last even ing, is one of those charming com edies that one loves to see, which leaves a pleasant impression long after the last curtain has gone down and the Players present it in all its beauty and naturalness as to detail It is not heavy, just a doinest piece in which three girls, Pamela Gordon, Violet Landsdowne and Kate West live to- gether in bachelor quarters and VOW to never encourage the attentions of man, and, of course, never to marry. When the curtain rises their studio is shown, nicely furnished, although the sleeping accommodations are more adapted to one than three, there being but one bed, in which the girls sleep in their turn, at other times one occupying a divan and the other an easy chair. They are perfectly free in the studio and in due time they prepare to retire and had donned their nighties and removed their slippers and stockings when Edgar Holt. who had been visiting friends wife ill another apartment, holted into the studio to the intense modification of the girls, who ordered him out. He, however, refused to go and didn't go either until he was ready, his exit then being made on a plank which enabled him to crawl through a window to an adjoining flat, which, by the way, was occupied by Lucille Purcelle, an elocutionist. Holt proves to be the man in the case, falls in love with Pamela, Violet with Frank Loot clerk in the law office of Sprague and Holt, and Miss West with another, who did not appear in the play except by refer ence.
 It would be difficult to find a more pleasant entertainment than that fur nished by the Players in this piece. The female parts are pretty evenly distributed and it is seldom that as attractive a trio as the occupants of the studio is found anywhere. Miss Skirvin played Pam Gordon, who seemed to be the leader in the move ment against man. She showed dig nif1ed spunk, but with just enough hollowness in her dignity to suggest underneath the real nature of the woman. She moved about with ease, her work all through being brimful of character. Miss Hamilton as Violet looked as nice as any girl could She could get into a chair or one end of the divan in the studio and curl up like a kitten. There was 8 de- cidedly pleasant mosphere about her scenes and some of them were So humorous that she joined in the general laughter. Miss Perry played Miss West, who was a free lance writer, who developed an ambition to go on the stage and in time gently yielded to the sentimental influence of the opposite sex. Mrs. Hubbard was Lucille, who kept the adjoining fiat and to whom the girls in. the studio owed money for rent. She had none of the anti-matrimonial notions of her tenants, but when she found that Edgar Holt was not going to board with her and was going to wed Pam Gordon instead, she became angry and wept. The character was well taken MT. Blackmore played Edgar Holt with skill and good eff feet, and Mr. Birch made a good clerk in the law office, where MT. Locke was the senior partner as MT. Sprague, and who wanted to take Pam" Cor don out to "Shanley's" for dinner, while John Mullin, the. janitor, brought down the house when upon being ordered out of the studio called the girls lot of skinny old maids. The settings were splendid.