The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-11-11
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TWIN BEDS ACTORS
give SHOW AT Pen

f3tArtlf anu Ne lohk - iAAhk III tAt
game lie accepted Il with a shoul-
dershrug lie will pay the penal.
~. and play his cards more care
fully next time
The yegg matched his savage
strength against the strength OF
the law. and blew one country safe
too many. Not being a philosopher,
he rebels against prison authority.
and longs TO return to the road"
and the Jungle"
The dip has nimhle fingers and a
/ fox-iike cunning. but he il. never
theless. little thick In tho head.
I He pines TO see again the bright
lights. 10 feel again the asphalt be.
meath his feet. and 10 shove again
his narrow shoulders thru a city
crowd.
HellIshly dreary years have
passed since the lifer In drunken
jealousy slew his iight-o' love. lie
was young man when he entered
the prison. He must stay there un-
III he dies. You cannot fathom his
despair.
The boy Is homesick.
These were typical OF the audi.
ence. They came from the jute
mill. from the shops. from the farm
outside the walls--men and women,
young and old. flrsttermers and
"habituals" wearing the uni
form OF shame which II Is a part OF
their punishment to wear. the
/ prison number stamped large uDon
every back.
Guards. armed with Winchesters
ushered them into the prison the
atre. They went to their seats
Save for the shuffling of feet, the
great room was still. No gather
Ting Of humans anywhere Is colder
than a prison crowd
Then the curtain rose.
The effect was almost magical
The men in the audience might
have been wearing evening
clothes. The women might have
been beautifully. fashionably gown.
ed. The theatre might have been
anywhere.
The audience forgot the crashing
looms in the jute mill. the silence
Of the cells. the rigorous. perhaps
sometimes cruel. discipline.
The performers forgot they we're
in prison and that the audience
tout in front" was not a paying
crowd"
The plays the thing"
The audIence-the easiest.to.
laugh Observation-Disclosures the
Isushsble situations while the
actors were working them up, and
laughed ahead OF time.
The performers responded. and
laughed. too. Never were audience
and performers more en- rapport.
The forger's esthetle features
were humsnized by hunor, and he
grinned eenlalIy. The yegg seem.
ed less bestisl as he laughed and
slapped his knee and Jsbbed an el
bow into the forger's ribs. The dig
was not the furtlve little animal he
had been. He was a stsunch pa
,fron Of the drama before he began
his term.
The ilfer forgot for an hour or so
that he must stay In prison until
he dies. He threw back his head
ard reared with nirth, like any 9th.
er good fellow whose sense OF
humor has been tiekIed.
The boy forgot the mistake he
made. forgot his bitter shame. for
got he was honeslck for his moth.
er. and laughed as only youth can
laugh.
The Twin Beds" company after
ward made tour OF the prison
and we're the guests Of Warden
Drum at dinner. Gov. Lister wired
the warden: Express my appre
citation To the members OF the com
pany who are kindly furnishing on.
tertainment today 10 the inmates
Of the penitentiary by presenting
their comedy. Twin Beds In the
penitentiary theatre"
Mayor Gil telegraphed Miss
Jnliette Day. the star: "ConRratu
latlons 10 YOU and company for
your kind efforts VIII see your
performance at the Moore
Twin Beds" will open at the
=. Moore theatre, Seattle, a week
<U from SUNDAY