The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-12-03
Dolly and Miss Katherine Day Have An lnnocuous Little Bit of q Chat About Twin Beds
 Which May Raise Reperberdtine Cdchnndtion
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

XV7 HEN I was in New York last A{ spring I came to the conclusion " that the drama had gone to bed; yes, literally for out of the 2S or 90 plays I saw, nearly every one of them n- vaded the sanctity of the boudoir
 A few years ago, as we all know, our grandmothers regarded the bed as a shameful article of furniture, to be men, tioned in mixed company with bated breath, like corsets or stockings, and to have seen bed on the stage-angels and ministers of grace defend us!-it would have been like seeing q bathroom, but now the modern equivalent of the good, old fashioned, artistocratfc ''four-postert not only gets into the drama, but even gets into titles, as, observe Twin Beds"
 There was perfectly gorgeous bed in 'The Song of Songs." and a wonderful bedroom scene; same way in "A Pair of Silk Stockingsi" That Sort" opened in my lady's chamber, and even the re- doubtable MT. Shaw couldn't resist en- ploying this situation, years ago. for his Arms and the Man" begins in bed while somebody else's more modern comedy, She's In Again" ends in it.
 People died in bed others were found concealed in bed; some emerged from under beds, and as one clever critics said. while I don't recall anybody being born on the stage frequent references have been made to Twilight Sleep during the season.
 The most attractive situation concerning beds was in ''Nobody's Home," when a soporific scene was suggested merely through song which Lawrence Gros- smith did adorably:
 Bed, bed, heavenly bed,
 Pull it right over your head.
 Wrap up your heels in it;
 Have all your meals in it.
 Make an hotel of your bed
 Puzzle your brain in it;
 Yes, entertain in it;
 ~ Don't mind if it's harder than lead Hop in it, flop in It.
 Drop in it, stop in it.
 Beautiful, beautiful bed.
 Entertain in it." yes; that seems to have been the one submarined rule of the playwright's idea of dramatic con- struction during the past year.
 Even Billie Burke in Jerry tumbled in and out of bed in her little pink pa- jamas, and Lou Tellegen and Ivy Trout man in the bedroom scene in Taking Chances" hullabaloo'd even gay New York
 Hallie Erminie Rives once said that most of the trouble in the world sprang from beds, and Miss Rives is quite right about the importance in human affairs of l this especial article of furniture and it 1 may be supposed that the dramatists | have decided with her that whatever is of importance in human affairs, must be | important on the stage.
 Now as a matter of fact there are al- | ways lots of people who are looking for something that isn't there: and to a 1 large proportion of the population of this Dig country or ours there| |continues to be something delightfully."- bad, delectably spicy, and deliciousy naughty about bed | room scenes when as a matter of fact the demurest and daintiest of comedies las been drawn by Miss Margaret Mayo and Mr Salisbury Field in their ''Twii, Beds" ("Twin Beds,'' written by them. not occupied by them, please understand; far he it from me to talk about these two | perfectly nice people in any such manner). l
 For three acts these celiciously clever l people keep up a roaring, hilarious dia | leg during their struggles to put their | children (dear me, there I go again. I | don't seem to be able to avoid innuendo; 1 mean their brain children, of course) l to bedi
 Anyway, Twin Beds was nice sub ject to talk about to little Miss Katherine l Daly yesterday, who is the star of this | unique comedy, because you know some l people like twin beds' and and others er-er-still very old-fastlioned, and when- | ever there is anything 70 argue about there is usually fun a-plenty going on.
 Little Miss Daly is as pretty as a pie l ture all that is lovely and dainty, charm ing and alluring; hers is the kind of pret- tiness that reminds one of the thistle l down; the foam on the crest of wave; !