Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1920-12-17
FIVE O'CLOCK

With Miss Ada Daniels and the
Rotation Stock Company at the Gem
theatre Thursday, December 23rd.
Five O'Clock" tells unique story
entirely original and thoroughly
worth while.
Five O'Clock" is a pathological
play that deals with the science of
treating disease in it's nature, causes
manifestations and results. It is just
full Of the study of human passions
and emotions that awaken feelings
Of pity, sympathy and sorrow. Blen-
ded with these pathological condi-
tions we find certain characters loan
ing to the play the other side CT the
mind that is warped. And we call
this "ethos."
These characters laugh, love, play
and talk in travesty of their home
town lounge. They are influenced in
their words and actions by the peo-
pie where they live, rather than on
the restricted or realistic situations
that surround them on the stage.
The ''ethos' of this play gives evil
dence of the authors rich endow-
ment as a close student of the spirit
of each part.
There is something intangible in
teresting and instructive, something
down deep, in Five O'Clock" that
cannot be explained.
There is something in the subject
Of the play that stirs the soul of
thoughts worth while. When a play
has for it's foundation the mind of
man it has a fundamental and not
a set of follies. It has thoughts that
man can take home with him and
work out in his own way for his own
good, and for the betterment of his
community.
In the story Of Five O'Cock"
there are many good mental lessons
moral observations and material eYi-
dence of a thinker.
The author puts into the light a
rich man who spends his time col
lecting postage stamps; q sister-in-
law who believes in sailing after a
chart of the stars. And 1t was the
rich relatives that sent their brother
to an insane asylum because he had
the temerity to tell them that buying
old postage stamps was not SO pro-
fitable as investing in War Saving
Stamps.
OF course. there is beautiful love
story that winds its way into the
petals of your heart, but this thought
of love is as far from the analysis of
Five O'Clock" as the peace confer
ence at the Hague was from the
peace arrangement to be found at
Reno.
In the play the stackwoods of Bos-
ton, represent q family suffering
from dry rot or ingrowing intellect.
They condemn brother for being
a ENTHUSIASTICALLY a kid that is
hungry in his heart for companion
ship-a little lad that brings home
broken legged pups and hungry stray
cats instead Of cracked china and
cancelled postage stamps.
But before this great play is over
that soul of man that loves children
glides over the rainbow bridge Of
fancy and holds the hearts of us old
er ones high above the sordid things
of life. 0ryille staekwood is sun
posed to be suffering from a manis-
a maniato be human and useful. But
the idea was beyond the mental
range of the aristocracy of the old
Back Bay family of financial re-
sources and mental recesses. They
put the sane brother in an institu-
tion because they were actually in
sane themselves.
Miss Ada Daniels viii be seen as
the daughter OF the old designing
DIR. Gould, but with a sense Of ius-
tice far different from that of her
father who falls in love and finally
proves Oryille sane. Frank Jonas
SON will be seen in a new and novel
character, that of Percival stack
wood. a comedy-villian.