Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-04-16
THEATER
CLOSES SEASON
WITH DUE CREDIT
Final Offerings Please Large
Audience at Masonic
TempLe.

Little Theater players concluded thelr
sixth season in blaze Of glory last eve
ming with the presentation Of a splendid
four-sct bill in the Masonic Temple
which brought forth spontaneous sp-
plause and repeated curtain calls from
large audience.
Perhaps the incident, THE Confes-
sion" while an unhappy bit Of overseas
tragedy. was the most finished act
given. Offering opportunity for artistic
characterization. Robert WIds. az the
hrst-class private suffering from the
horrible secret knowledge that he has
killed hts lieutenant. gave startingly
realistic Interpretation Of his role The
climax Of the Plot comes when his buddy
taken by Ralph Thompson. tells him that
a good friend has been tried and con-
demued 10 be SHOT for the others crime
which knowledge causes the real muir
derer to rush out into the storm - get
10 Tours and clear the innocent victim
by his own confession. lie IS run over
by q truck. HIS buddy rushos TO the
camp some little distance away and,
while he IS gone, the lad frantoally tries
70 make tho French proprietrcss Of The
inn where they are spending the evening
understand his confession, but neither
madame nor her daughter can under
stand English and the lad dies before
his buddy returns.
Ralph T. Thompson, as the slangy
breezy buddy does excellent work
Margaret Gilmore. as the old woman. ana
Marguerite Dobey. who 10y the way IS
a French girl. ratified French in rapid
fire manner presenting their parts In
most natural style.
The Beauty Editor" Mrs Virginia g.
Schaffer's bright comedietta brought
forth many a laugh. Herman l.. Earnest.
as the editor of the small town paper
who incidentally runs beauty hint
column, was cleyerly amusing. The story
is built around the editors troubles
when some Of his beauty aids bring dire
results and the sufferers come to see
Madame The editor masquerades as
Madame and a series Of humorous in
cidcnts follows. ending in a romantic
final scene. Sarah Lauter with her
irrepress ible laugh, was attractive as the
girl. Mrs. T. y. Pierce, as The lirate
Seraphind Jones was most laughable. j.
Lloyd Wayne, as a subscriber, Charles
Williams. as the office boy, and Miss
Marie Karret and Miss Lydia Bates
stenogr3phers, gave excellent support
one-act social satire, sham" dealt
with a gentleman burglar caught in the
house by the young couple living there.
1t shows the turning of the tables when
the burglar tells the young people they
have nothing worth taking. everything be
ing an imitation. He tells them, however,
for the sake Of their social aspiration he
must take something, for if they should
be the only house passed up by the thief
In,
ruined socially. lie is persuaded to take
a picture. While the burglar is airing
his views a reporter comes in and the
young wife tells of the theft Of their
valuable family portrait, Introducing the
lnterlOper as a friend and art connoisseur
When the thief opens the well-wrapped
valuable family portrait" he finds it to
he a print of George Washington Mrs
ROmney Wilson as the wife was de-
lightfuL Robert NJ. Brewer made
highly polished convincing dress suit
"Rafles," Romney Wilson, as the out
spoken husband. and f. d. Munyan, as
the eager reporter, rounded out a good
cast.
As the finale a charming fantasy. 1.-THE
Lotion of Love" with riotous color eff
fects and dainty musicat> numbers, was
staged. The theme of the fanciful Incl
dent is that love cures love" showing
Columbine mourning over the fact that
her husband has lost interest in her, so
absorbed is he in his poetry writing.
DR. Punch prescribes a lotion which she
rubs on Pierrot's eyes, causing him 70
forget his poetry, but turns his mind 20
science and he finds flaws in everything
with the aid of his miscroscope even to
the features on Columbine's face, and
she is more distraught than ever, but
Pierrette, her maid, finds the real cure,
Harlequin, who pines for love Of Colum-
bine When Pierrot beholds his wife
hanging on the words of the young and
handsome youth he smashes his micro
scope, sees the beauty in his wife and
wins her back, while Harlequin, in the
manner of most disappointed SWANS,
consoles himself with other lips, namely,
those of the SaUcy maid. Sam Trotcky,
as Harlequin, sang a melodious song from
over the wall, and Alberta Yagerliue
laughed and wept through the joys and
sorrows Of COlumbine most artstically.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bogert Schofeld. the
quick witted Pierrot and Thomas Gala
CHER as the susceptible DR.. Punch, gave
nice interpretations of their various parts.
A clever little feature of the play was
the representation of the prologue by
Herman L. Earnest and Marjorie Chiles
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