Cresco plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1913-1945, 1916-03-24
Hyans and MeIntyre u Ny Ho.e
Town Girl.

Hyans and Mclntyre IN My Hone
I, Town Girl.
!; Hyams and Mcintyre in my Home
Town Girl'' Perry j. Kelly's latest
musical comedy offering, and said to be
the most striking musical success of the
present season, will be seen at ''The
Cresco," Wednesday, March 29th In
addition to notable New York cast, a
bevy of pretty singing and dancing
girls, bright, lifting tunes and costly
and elaborate scenery. The piece has
a real plot, something considered out of
the ordinary as musical comedies CO.
Book and lyrics are by Frank SIAM
mers who has penned what promises to
be the best effort of his career, COM
plete in humor and pathos and a fitting
vehicle for Hyams and Mcintyre in
which they will be seen at their best.
John Hyams, as Anthony Darling, a
New York society man, best known for
his pleasure seeking proclivities about
town, is heir to million on condition
of his gold behavior for a year and is
under espionage of an unreasonably
prejudiced aunt. Tony is summoned to
the bride shop of Madam Marie, on
Fifth Avenue by his best friend, Dud-
ley Van CORTLAND, who, on the eve of
his marriage to Eleanor Arlington, is
being pursued for blackmail by Lala
Larraine, a dancer of the "Follies, in
whose company he was arrested for
speeding while at college at New Haven,
giving his name as Tony Darling. He
confesses this circumstance to Tony and
implores him to produce the money to
keep Lala quiet.
Eleanor is expecting her supposedly
pious uncle, Peter Pettybone, from
Grand Rapids, with his adopted niece,
Dorothy miss McIntyre) to attend the
wedding They cause CONSERVATION by
appearing unexpectedly at the bride
shop where Tony is in hiding after in.
terviewing Dudley, and Eleanor and
Dudley are inspecting gowns. Madam
Marie recognizes Peter as her Ode
troit john who proposed to her when
she was in the chorus of Floradora and
they slyly renew the old romance.
Dorothy and Tony are attracted to
each other and Tony endeavors franti-
cally to keep her love and save his in
heritance by avoiding the discovery of
Dudley's predicament which he has
agreed to assume. Yet he is unable to
raise the money to quiet Lala. A news
paper article from New Haven describes I
he arrest of Tony Darling in company :
With Lala, leaving Tony branded and :
bringing his aunt upon the scene. Dor ,
THY, previously warned against Tony, =
oses faith in him. .
At Eleanor's home on the upper Hud- :,
on she and Dudley conspire to defeat =
4ala and prevent scandal until after i,
he wedding and, while Eleanor still be- :
ieves Tony the guilty one, she sug- +
tests that Dudley declare himself the
ulprit, Tony, meanwhile, promises
Dorothy tosclear up everything at 10
o'clock that night. At the same hour
4ala has demanded to receive the money
md Marie is to give her answer to
'eter whose proposal in Detroit years
go she still considering.
Lala is summoned to Eleanor's home
y Dorothy who wants to be dancer,
Dorothy, disguised as Lala, encounters
'ony who upbraids her and discloses
he true story of the trouble; and she
$ approached by her uncle who remem-
'ers Lala as another of his old sweet
earts from the stage. AS Eala, Dor
rtby extracts from him $1,000 to pay
or her dancing lessons. Dorothy buys
If Lala and Tony disposes of Marie and
tarts romance between Peter and his
unt. When Dudley makes his pre-
rranged confession, Tony qualities for
)orothy's love and his Inheritance and
here are to be three weddings and
General exodus home to Grand Rapids.
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