The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-10
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

! don, which greeted Guy Bates Post in the Masquerader." at the Jefferson on Monday night
 The house was completely sold out, and the audience one of the most rep | resentative which has gathered this season to witness a play in which real acting was to be featured instead of showing costumes, perfect ss's, rollick- ing laughter. and catchy airs. { I said in my Sunday article that was anxious to see how Post in his character acting in playing the double role of John Chilcote and John Loder would measure up to the standard set by Mansfield in the difficult parts. of pr. JekyIl and MT. Hyde, and now that I have seen the former am more than willing to give him credit for making good.
 Now, personally, I am not overfond of such plays as 'eDr. Jekyll and Mir. Hyde" and the ''Masquerader," for they both show up certain things in life which make it easy for us to see power | of darkness in conflict with the power of light. and the sad part is that the devil gets his innings. and we see the | tragedy of lost soul
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 There is no more fascinating psycho- Logical study than that of dual person ality, and alas! we do not have to go la for we only have to look within our own hearts, for there is constant war between good and evil going on, for hone of us are perfect, for as Falstaff said q quote from memory): '.If Adam fell in state of innocency, what should poor old Jack Falstaff do in these days of villainy?"
 In the 'Masquerader- there is a case of mistaken identity, another curious but fascinating study, and thing which has brought much trouble to Il some people, as it is a well established fact that there are cases where a man of position and character has living resemblance in the person of one who takes pleasure in putting his feet through the Ten Commandments. I lam sorry for any man who has double that brings him into disrepute.
 I congratulate John Hunter for the remarkable way in which he made a play out of the novel of Katharine Cecil Thurston. for it grips one from the opening act in the fog until the curtain lcloses when John Loder holds Eve Chill cote in his arms. There isn't a dull moment in the eight scenes and three acts. The audience is held spell bound from start to finish.
 | am not astonished that Guy Bates Post is constantly obsessed by the characters of the two men he has to take from night to night and that he is constantly on the watch for some new gesture or word to better delin- cate the personalities of Chilcote and Loder, for in spite of the degradation Iof the member of Parliament and the uplifting of the journalist, there is much in both of them to call for sym pathetic treatment
 
 Morphia makes some minds keen and alert, in the first stages of it's use, and other minds are affected oppo- sitely. Of course, the ultimate result l is the same, but what will any mind do in the preliminary stages of the drug? When play Chilcote" says MT. Post ! ata in fa c,r,a fa1 I,trr notism permits, and the same applies to Loder Shakespeare must have Lived countless lives to have written the innumerable personalities he so faith fully depicted. He knew all men bet ter than most of us know ourselves, and women tell me he knew them bet ter than they know each other"
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 have studied the drug habit from many angles I have been called in to give counsel in homes where some loved one in the power of the dope" habit twas being sheltered and moral suasion was desired to bolster if possible the medical treat, but the sad part about it is that when it gets it's fangs in it's . NlCllIiS IL SetiuS tO uedutH COnSCicuCt and there is small chance to effect a cure by an appeal to the better nature of the victim.
 have seen the miserable ones who have come into the hands of the law. I
 have seen them huddled up in prisons 1T recall case where a man here in Birmingham was arrested for murder and in those days was reporter, and one of my assignments was the jail was the first man who got to him from the outside world He said tc me: T am a dope fiend; if you'll gel
 some one to give me a shot, that's all
 want or care anything about" He iwasn't exercised about the grave charge
 against him, and the only thing which f mattered was the miserable stuff he k craved. I have seen them in the public
 hospitals, in the private sanitariums and in the asylums.
 The acting of Post is most realistic
 and it's a great sermon against tho t evil genius of Morphia which seems tG . get the souls of men and women into such confusion that all their moral na- 9 tllre is twisted and deadened. One wht f sees him first in his own study ant t notes the cunning with which he hide:
 Ghe vials. will get an idea of how ever
 great men are caught in the snare be- ! fore they know it. His alternate bully