South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-04
TWIN BEDS" is
HIT AT OLIVER
Farce Has Many Laughs for Liberal
Audience Which Enjoys
Show.

Margaret MaySwho with Salisbury
Yield wrote Twin Beds" which play
ed to an almost capacity house at the
Oliver last night, remarked that the
reason she wrote clean farces was be-
cause she was good business woman
and likes long runs and large auoi-
ences
She might have added also that
Twin Beds Is all this and has an
other appealing side 10 the business
part OF the author insofar that ii act
ually takes seven people 10 enact
Twin Beds"
And with only these seven working
three OF them, two especially. spent
much of their time behind the scenes.
But the four others work hard. They
are kept talking and acting all the
time and last night were well re-
Warded.
A farce, labelled comic is Of course
supposed 70 be funny. Sometimes
they are. but often they are not. few
laughs being sufficient 20 keep the
audience in the theater until the cur
tain drops. But iE Twin Beds there
are laughs galore In fact Twin
Beds" could be described as a con
tinuous smoker"
When the two authors started writ
ing Twin Beds they must have set
one goal: Get the laughs" There
is no question but what they got
them. Quite a. lot OF old familiar
scenes were introduced such as the
lady looking underneath the bed a
comical drunk, ice water pitcher,
handy laundry basket and a few
others.
There is a plot TO the show, but the
success II 1t depends on the series OF
incidents. r. M. D'AngelO, as Signor
Mont. who by mistake gets into the
wrong apartment, slid his coat and
shirt sleeves beautifully over the UNI
brella he clutched In his hand. He
proved himself a contortiOnist by don
ming paJamas with the audience look
ing on. Then, too, he handled his
trousers In the approved intoxicated
style. Mr.. D'Angelo got the laughs.
That was what he was there for and
he more than made good.
The story deals with three families,
sentenced to life in the same apart
ment building. Blanche Hawkings, "a
perfectly good woman" becomes too
friendly with SignOre Mont and An
drew Iarkin, her neigh bors and the
result is her husband is warned by
Signora Mont. and all three families
decide TO move. But all three move
10 the same apartment.
wife, who was not anxious TO move,
agrees to twin beds. Signore Monti
moves 20 the new fiat under the name
OF Silas Jones He lives on the floor
above the Hawkins, with the I-arkins
on the floor below.
With Hawkins out, Monti comes
home in the wee small hours and gets
in the wrong fiat. The entire build
ing seems to have been fitted out with
the same color scheme so he was un-
aware that he was on the wrong floor.
He proceeds to put on his paiamas
and climbs into bed. Mrs Hawkins
awakes some hours later and finds
him there. In the meantime Signora
Monti had become suspicious and
hired q detective to trace her hus-
band.
The entire third act is devoted TO
schemes to get Mont home safe. But
he is traced by the detective. then
comes the denouement, but things are
finally settled, although I.arlxin adds
TO the problem by chasing a burglar
and being captured by the Hawkins
maid. II ends with the destruction
of two pairs OF twin beds, practically
good as new.
Virginia Fairfax as the wife of
Month, singer, accompanied by the
usual temperament, is good. The
lady's language would puzzle a die
tionary, but what she says goes home
She is in love with her husband but
handles him without gloves.
Hamilton Mott as Harry Hawkins
the loving husband: katherine DAILY
as Blanche Hawkins, and Kathryn
Mills as Norah, with Mr. D'Angelo as
MOnu, are the other busy people in
the play. Margaret Allen PLAYS the
part Of Amanda Davis. and Thomas
n Manning appeared as Andrew
Larkin.
All IN all Twin Beds" is a farce
that amuses. 1t scored not only often
but almost continuously. While q few
references were made to twin beds
they were the exception. and the play
cannot be cuassed rs anything but a
clean farce.