Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-04-11
'oHAN's CLENERE.T COMEDY
At ACADEMY 'uNSn >IfIXt.


AZ ACADEMY TWO NIGHTS
Seven Keys TO Balipat.." which is
- he the attraction at the Academy az
Music tomorrow ana Tuesday. is "a
comedy ny George VI. Conan. founded
anon Earl Dcrr nirgers's siory OF that
name. Things happen in this comedy
Win mechanical precision ana rabbit,
from The moment mat A!appe the
novelist. arrives ~ the inn on Baidpat.
Mountain 10 carry out his boast that lie
ne can write one 81 his best sellers"
IN EXACTLY twentN.foUr hours
MaEcc has made a bet To this ercc,
Win his friend. the owner OF Baldpat4.
Inn. and. upon tn. theory that q sum
Ber hote! i the most dcsolntc plac. on
earth IN winter, and that in such :,
mace he Is certain 10 be free from inter
iuHtlcu. he repairs to Eaidpate 10 write
Ms roNei. arriving IN howl3ne storm.
i:efore leaving him 20 his !aDors. the
ceretakcr who has prepared the place
fni i'is occupancy assures him that tn.
hry he mas turned over Ia him is the
only Key 10 Raidpatc, and upon this
statement, II develops suharuuentiy the
novelist BULLS MS plot;
Ne the clock strikes -, AIagat dis
appears into his bitroprn and the crisp
click of a., typewriter informs the au-
Gl.uCe ,nat The nos eI is undo. wa. This
: An unusUally clever idea The big,
nriy office "f the hotel In darkness
4 Tve for The lreiieht, the line Of light
Etark.ne the slightly open door Of Ma
80 : room amd The familiar sound OF
Ehc rapidly Operated writing machine
are the elements ot . singularly tense
scene. one rich ~ suggestion. Every
person in the audience is on the alert.
Tn. race between time and IN. author
las begun Things are going IN hap
pen There is cXc!,emer; in the air
The pOsScssors oc the other sin keys
TO Baldpat" now begin to arrive. ana
a. a iStr uS.f ah nj l,nr- l.,L
in which love and graft play the usua.
part. II is apparent that he has lost all
chance OF winning the Sa.10o wager
since he is busy living his mclodrama.
and 1t Is not until he has disposed
of MS various visitors and the care.
,aker-.who was TO receive the manu-
script from him on the stroke OF l2-
once more arrives on the scene that the
audience begins to suspect that II has
been following a false scent.
Again there is the shadowy. deserted
office. then the clicking OF the type
writer, the narrow line OF light from
the bedroom above. The clock begins
to strike midnight. and the noise of the
machine ceases abruptly. moment
later MaRee appears with the completed
manuscript He has won the wager and
all the complications that the audience
has witnessed were but the fiction that
Nc was Keeling off behind the half
closed door.
SAUCE For GRACE GEORGE
SAUCE FOR GRNYCE SCOTT
lust suppose. Mrs Married w oman,
that you and your husband. owing to
slightly different tastes. or rather.
owing to lack OF understanding OF
one another's tastes, had drifted apart,
suppose that you dearly loved your
husband, and felt that deep down with
in he loved YOU. and yet you saw the
breach between YOU slowly widening.
Suppose that at the same time the
inevitable other woman" had happened
along and was occupying almost too
much OF your husbands time,
What would you do?
What would he the right thing 10
DO? Would YOU resign yourself to fol-
low the advice OF your friends, or
would you oppose them in their wishes
and try 20 hold fast to the man you
loved, trusting that things would come
out right in the end:
Now. Kitty Constable was very much
in love with her husband. and she was
quite sure that her husband was very
much in love with her. John Constab
was n literary man. and was very busily
engaged writing n book that was bound
to startle the world and TO assist
him In his task he had called upon
a Mrs. Alloway, widow. Mrs. Allo-
way had succeeded in helping John
very much. at least to spend lot OF
time, and Kitty did not like 1T. She
was not jealous, but she resented the
consideration that was shown TO the
''other woman"
Not until John had forgotten that
the day was their wedding Anniversary
however: not until he had forgotten
"a keep an appointment to take her to
the opera and to dinner afterwards
and had gone on to little supper
with Mrs. Alloway, did Kitty rebel. She
was Arm in her belief that what was
sauce for the gander should be sauce
for the goose and she WAS not to ba
done out OF her evening at the opera
or the dinner after.
re her husband would not take her.
she was quite sure some one else
would Harry Travers was the man:
with Harry Travers she went to the
opera and to the bachelor apartment OF
Harry Travers she went after the per-
Torrance
Avery indiscreet thing to do? Well.
she left O. note TOR dear John. telling
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