Evening star., 1915-11-23
New National.

Twin Beds" the three-act farce by
Salisbury Field and Margaret Mayo.
which drew a large and laughing audi
ence to the New National Theater last
evening. just as it is likely to do every
performance this week, is amusing en-
tertainment. Apart from its plot. which
Us based upon the fiirtatious proclivities
Of charming and artfuI young wife,
the bibulous tendencies of an Italian
tenor who has been made" by his
good-natured. but slangy. wife-a girl
OF the cabarets-and two beds for mar
ried couples to balance the scenic effect
OF the bed chamber. Twin Beds" is in
tertsting for its characters a hetero-
Seneous lot. each with its own uecuIia r
qutiihcatIonS IN an amusing sense and
when taken as a whole a combination
whose workings are Enthusiastically
iaughable. To those VINO can laugh at
and applaud French farces in the orig
NAL. or even made over there is moth
Ing IN Twin Beds" to demoralize or to
shock. unless one wishes to be a bit
hypercritical. The whole thing is farce.
amusing farce, and judged by the dem
onstrations of last nights audience. al
most II not entirely without exception.
pleasant entertainment-onIy this and
nothing more -
HARRY Hawkins has ma rried young
n.
VINO likes admiration and encoura ges
attentions from other gentlemen. hut
not improperly. One of her platonic
adorers is an Italian tenor, Of whom
hawkins Is justly jealous and whose
aria from Il Pagliacci'' is djstrs sctfpp
10 him. Monti, the tenor, has a habit
OF contracting adventures from which
ne Is regularly extracted without harm
by the ievel-headed il crude and slanpv
young woman whom he has married
h.g rk.f II
MN until he IS a g, ,000-a singer
Little Mrs. Hawkins also un!rltentiou
ally and quite by accident becomes tan
eled IN the suspicion of another young
woman amanda Davis. whose mar
rage tc Andrew I-arkin resulted in a
bridal present of twin beds
Ihc twin beds strike Mrs Hawkins as
bcinS perfectly lovely to balance the
io"ih' ana she invests in i pair for her
new apartments, to which she has been
literally dragged by her urbaru, hue
ba;iu TO get her away from the old sur-
toGad!ngs and 10 enjoy a few hours of
Domestic peace and quiet with her and
spart IRON the numerous other tenants
'"e nat ha"klTs simply has to &c
10 a stag dinner TO make a speech He
insists upon taking the KEY 10 bis
vines room so she will not lock il and
nave TO get up in the cold and let him
IN "nen he returns. Thus unprotected
ana according to his inAtructIons sbe
retires and turns her face TO the VII
10 sleep until morning, or until he re.
turns He does rot return until late
IN the morning. and in the rneantim.
Signor Monti. very much under the
weather, mistakes the Hawkins fiat for
his own. quietly enters and proceeds
70 90 20 occupy Hawkins bed which
IL on tAe opposite side % the room 10
MIS-. Hawkins, and there quietly sieeus
on the effects OF his dabauch Mrs
Nonti had locked him in the bathroom,
o. their fiat the early part of the even.
Ing, but he escaped down the fire es.
cape. arousing in young Larkin's minc
the thoughts of burglars, and his yafr
attempt TO catch and shoot Monti. hi.
burglar. is what got him into trouble
Hawkins comes home before AIonti car
get himself together and depart II
the meanwhile Monti hides himsel
alternately in the clothes baskee ant
under the bed
II is useless to attempt to describ.
what causes the laughter but it come:
in smiles. ripples. smokers and roa RS
and the final curtain falls with n,
harm done, except that rhe twin bed.
are abolished III the several apartment
as bad luck
Lois Bolton is bewitchingly charTnin:
as Blagche Hawkins; AuRuste Aramin
very realistic as the Italian tenor, ant
Clare Weldon one III the chief factor.
OF amusement as Signora Monti Johi
WEIGH makes good, if strenuous
Harry Hawkins: Susanne Morgan :
typical Nora, the maid. and Fred Ozal
and Helen Eddy acceptable as the re
naming couple with trouble on thei
hands