Arizona republican., 1921-09-26
JOUR LITTLE WIFE"
 1T ELKS PROVES ID BE SPLENDID COMEDY

When a young and beautiful wife has a string of tame cats.'' in the persons of dozen ardent wooers. stumbling under her husbands feet, and when their assaults upon her heart in the shape of poems and sonatas and nerve palliatiyes are fos- tered by her wayward love of playing with fire, trouble is bound to come in large packages. And when her husband attempts to find out just how far she will go by making a tame cat'' out of a friend who doesn't want the invidious distinction, only the Devil and the playwright know what the outcome will be.
 This is a shadowy outline of the theme of Our Little Wife" which started the week for the Bainbridge- Karns Stock company at the Elks theater yesterday. Filled with clever lines and rollicking situations, it is a worthy successor to Fair and Warmer" the speedy comedy which brought its author, Avery Hopwood, to the top of the list of writers of this kind of plays. The plot is consist ent, the characterizations are finely drawn and the denouement is natural while through it all runs a dancing humor and sparkling wit that makes the play a riot of continuous laughter But more than the play is the man. ner in which it is presented, and the presentation of "Our Little Wife las, evening was perfect Better stock companies than the Bainbridge- Karns people are seen only once iT a blue moon, and in this weeks play 1 they. show a smoothness of acting, { surehess of delivery, a fineness ol | touch that has not been offered 1T l Phoenix by any other stock company
 for years. The worth of the piece
 may be put in the single statemen
 that it could not have been presented
 better.
 In a cast as uniformly excellen
 as that of the Bainbridge -Karn
 company 1t is hard to distinguish an. one member of the company abov' the others, but the work of Rosco'
 Karns as "Bobo" Brown, who didn' | want to be a tame cat" and Rutl Saville as "Dodo" Warren, wh, | wanted "Bobo'' to be a wild cat ans
 who was disappointed in her antici pations. was almost flawless. Sher | man Bainbridge as Henry Warren
 "Dodo's" husband, proved an excel | lent foil for Miss Saville and Karns 1 and carried the story of the pla. | along easily and naturally.
 l Lloyd Corrigan played the part o
 an amatory nerve specialist, and
 later, of an outraged husband wh really hadn't thing to be peeve'
 about. with convincing ease, whil T Cleora Orden, in the part of Angelic
 Martin. "Bobo's" sweetheart, took
 good share of the credit for the sue , cess of the performance. Waite ) Corry, as Tommy Belden, a tam cat with a penchant for Russia music anu free verse, did a difficul l thing-he was sentimental withor ; being mushy, and highbrow withou
 being inhuman.
 And word about Fanny Trua, l As Fanny Elliott, a married woma who loves her husband without trust
 and her portrayal of her part wa ? as the English reviewers would pu it, quite alright" Hugh Metcalf r was a true to- -the-life Francois and his endeavors to serve privat l little dinner for two in a bachelor | apartment with due regard for T . belle amour" was carried out wit | real artistry. Leta Nelson was
 petite and lovely maid, and Al Mac t Donald, the last of the tame cats
 helped to bring the show to snapp
 ending.
 The Elks theater was filled to ca s pacity last evening, and indication Q are that the comedy will attra'
 heavily all week. Too much cannC
 be said for the manner in which tf . play is presented, for the thorough ness of preparation which is readil | apparent during the performance