The Alaska citizen., 1915-04-19
WHAT HAPPENED ID )OKES" IS 4
 B|C LOCAL HIT
LOCAL THEATRICAL FALLEN Wi1IS NUCA POPULAR
 FAVOR.
Gee. that was swell play"

Gee, tha, was swell play i This was tie remark made by a
 small boy al the close of the com
 edy, What Happened to Jones'" al
 the Auditorium Friday night, and i the same sentiment. though in other , language. was heard on every side, as the appTeciatiye audience filed
 out of the building and distributed itself on the streets outside. i Undoubtedly tEere has never been icn amateur effort witnessed in In teriOr Alaska. and probably not in any other place in the country, l that made greater hit with the people witnessing il than did this comedy There was not notice able hitch or error to mar the in ! teasely interesting production. l The play Was promoted and pro duced under the direction of Gene i Huckins. Frank Hall and Mrs. Gas 1 key. Tlere were IA people in the cast, and each one of them received ! his CT her share of applause and compliments from the audience. l Mr. Hau appeared in the title role. and as Jones the drummer who | tiltl lb dSS ultf lilt tiltl dNlPI tl q 1 bishop. he kept the audience in a constant uproar. His bubbling good nature and sense of umOr seemed to be natural and spontaneous, and was shared by the big audience. Mr Huekins' best friends assert ed after the play that he had never fitted better into Q part than he did in the character of EbeGeZCr Good | ,J loI been induced to attend a prize fight and tfen felt the disgrace of hay ing had to run from the police His makeup was suitable to the learned profession that he represented, and he seemed never to forget the tenn peramental traits of his character, Mrs. Caskey. as the profess sCr's wife was typical of tie woman who rules her husband with an iron hand, though she bore herself with the grace and dignity that one expects from an educated. refined lady. She
 was perfectly natural ih every move
 ment, and it was this ability seem ingly to think and feel her part, so typical Of all her acting tat won
 the good will and appreciation that the audience awarded her,
 "o ObHti HI lCi ttllIt i'.ll to NNl- those of the Bishop of Ballarat, so creditably sustained by Stanley Hess, and Cissy, the up-to-date young woman who fell in love with Jones. as represented by Miss Els telle Fitts. Undoubtedly MT. Hess out-did his previous creditable eff forts. and Miss Fitts won for her self [, e local reputation of having , .I, of Crnll
 actress"
 Miss Jane Anderson and Miss Laura Lewis appeared respectively
 as Marjorie and Minerva, two daugh- ters of Professor and Mrs. Goodly. They both posed eyceLently as win some young ladies fashiOnably gcwnea and well bred.
 But after all. the play would have been lacking two of its most impor tant features had it not been for
 the splendidly acted characters of Helma, t' @ Swedish domestic who always Was looking for a bribe, and Ayina Starlight tte old maid who
 was in love with the bishop, Miss
 Helen Bentley appeared as the
 Swedish girl, and her dialect and
 cqrired uneainliness at times over
 shadowed the other funny features of the play. The character of the old maid was taken by Mrs. Fred Douse, and tough it was her first appearance on the stage she main tained it eXcellently.
 William ?. Hemenway had the
 role of Richard Heatherly, a fash
 ionable young man engaged to Mar j0rie The part did not give oppOr-
 tunity fer exhibiting any special tai ent, but il was well represented. Other minor parts, which were also we'll acted, were those of Thomas Holder, 9 policeman, taken by c. W. Landwe r; William Bigbee, an in
 mate of 2 sanatorium, by Charles Deinert, and Henry Fuller, superin- tendent of the sanatorium, by Fred Truches.
 The stage setting called fort prolonged applause when the cur
 tain raised on the opening act The handsome tugs. furniture, pie lures. and beautiful electric lamps made charming picture. and the 1 scene was artistically and attract ! ively arranged to represent the home
 of a refined family.
 1 The beautiful gowns worn in the zecoud and third acts were of the latest styles. being among the lat lest fashions to find their way into 1 Interior Alaska, and caused much 1 favorable comment.