The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-06
"CiviIian
CIOfhes''
Cast OF Characters.

Cast OF Characters.
Billy Arkwright, late lieutenant
A. e. F. $500. Raymond Walburn
Nora, the maid ..... Venie Atherton
General McInery. o. S. A. $50.
....... ]. K. Murray
Jack Rutherford, late lieutenant
N. A. 80. Fred Trowbrtdge
Florence Lanham... Dorothy Dickinson
Mrs. Lanham. her mother. ......
........ Gilberta Faust
Elizabeth, her sister ;. Floy Murray
Mr.. Lanham, Florence's father.
.......... 80. John M. Sullivan
Sam McGinnis, late captain A. e.
L. and winner of D. s. Co..
William Courtenay
Mrs. Margaret Smith, a friend of
the Lanhams. Frances Underwood
Belle Henderson. Henrietta Dickinson
lack Hart ....... William Holden
McGinnis, Sr. .......... Lloyd Neal
Bell hop .............. Harold Grau
Attracted by the heroic figure Of
a captain in the A. e. F. and thrilled
with sentimental ideas which result
in her marriage to the dashing off
Ger after an acquaintance of but
few days, living in the glory OF this
love when she believes him dead, and
then regretting her hasty action when
he suddenly appears before her at
home dressed in a style OF "civles'
which seem to reflect more or less
boorisbness, are the central ideas of
| Civilian Clothes" a comedy in three
acts and four scenes, written by
Thompson Buchanan, which came to
the Grand last night.
The play met with considerable
success in New York, Chicago and
some of the other larger cities last
season, much of it's vogue no doubt
being attributable to certain amount
of curiosity as what might be expect
ed of some of the hasty marriages
| which resulted from the war. Civil
! ian Clothes" has several scintil-
lating comedy situations, but at
| times these are not clearly crys-
| tallized 1t serves to pass away
! a long two and half hours.
but it is not the best nor brightest
comedy yet offered, it's sole salvation
| being due to the admirable acting OF
! William Courtenay and the compe-
tent company of performers support
! ing him.
! Sam McGinnis was born and reared
in Racine, Wis. His father was a
manufactu of shoes, but his boy
referred to him as 'tcobbler." Dads
shoe business in Racine gave Sam q
fine education He aspired to be a
civil engineer, but the great war in
! tervened He enlisted like a thor
Tough bred American boy would al
ways do under the circumstances.
And he worked his way up to the
rank of a captaincy by the sheer
force of honest fighting effort.
In France he went after the enemy
in the same spirit in which he en-
gagged in gang fights in Racine. He
was decorated with the D. S. c. for
bravery and was martinez in en-
forcing military orders. So when
Florence Lanham, daughter of one OF
the first families of Louisville, at
tached to the Red Cross relief forces,
ventured up to the very front lines
in the st. Mihiel drive, Captain Sam
CURLY ordered her back to the safety
zone. She as CURLY refused to go
land the captain boxed her ears and
sent her back under escort. Flor
ence was not used to rough stuff, but
rather enjoyed it as coming from a
big, handsome officer, and when they
met soon afterward there was hur-
r1eQ COuTtSnlp, SeCIeL ludi llaSo' q
! week together and then the vicissi-
tudes of war separated them. When
they met again at her home in Louis
Vile, Sam was in civilian clothes. In
appearance and manners he was not
at all what loves young dream found
him to be in olive drab.
4 After her captain-hero appears be-
fore her, at which point the comedy
begins, the aristocratic, well-born
wife sees her idol broken to pieces
and hesitates to reveal his identity
to her folks" With full realiza-
ton of this fact, and wishing to hold
her, the captain obtains a position as
butler in her home and proceeds with
"the tanning of the shrew." To make
the audience satisfied, the author
brings the girl to her senses" al
though there really is not the slight
est reason for doing so.
William Courtenay as Captain Sam
McGinnis was satisfactory both in
physical appearance and portrayal OF
a product of the Clover class Doro'
! thv Dickinson, an exceptionally pref
ty woman, was charming as the re-
calcitrant wife. Frances Underwood
as the designing widow and Lloyd
Neal as McGinnis, senior, were others
whose work was particularly com