The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-03

then on are done to just the proper tur,
 and each one turns a knife round il
 your insides. The idiot has got enougl
 sense to know that the Portugee's go
 a broken heart and they try to cook III
 a suicide, him wanting to see how it..
 done sos he can do it, too. He says
 something about not knowing the rules
 and my heart sort O stopped beating
 and then he pulled out knife and il
 glittered cold in the night light and
 my spine got crinkly."
 -..Them- two created a scene that was
 a toss up as to which was the better
 theirs or the lovers. One without the
 other, though, wouldn't done. Con-
 trast sometimes gets too much over.
 worked for me. This one was too we'll done to be nothing else but good. l want to see Mir. Rosenberger do some
 thing once standing up straight. If he can do so fine bent over and demented what can't he do in his own rights; up- rights to be low witted. I seen Mrs. Caldwell do Mrs. Muscat in "Liliom. and she hopped overnight from Aus trian to Portugee. There's a sort O un- trammeled duskiness that sticks out over her with her coloring and hair and bearing that sure do like
 Another thing that I liked in par tlcular was the characterizations O Aaron and Nathan. Mr. Robert Mes ser and MT. Paul Pim was them two. Aaron looked the spit and image O Adanirom Judson, preacher sort O type l used to be scared of when I was youngster. That long frock coat and stiff collar and black tie was perfect to me, but l don't know how they af- fected you. Without hardly a word di- rectly he made me see absolutely just the way he treated his women folk like his father before him. That's one O the best done things O the show to me.
 Paul Pim, shrewd and niggardly listed and voiced whined his way into my esteem. He even had the face to go with it all and for character work, I liked him the best O the whole cast.
 "Some blue and blond ingenuish miss named Miss Mary Collette Earle, warmed my old heart with herself alone. A long youngster named Rich ard Smith played just up to her. Temp estuous sort O young cub, he was, and raised all sorts O hob with her and the scenes yet couldn't succeed definitely in telling her he loved her. All his fiery verve O youthfulness and her own way O handling him was a beau tiful relief after Aaron's calm stepping on his women folk and Peter's spring wooing. Kept it from being lopsidded.
 And say, by the way, there was one little bit of role, Mrs. Kenneth Charl- ton as Cynthia, what slipped into the scenes every now and then, all dressed in her Sunday -go-to-meetin' clothes that flickered up all successful like and van ished. wish they'd had had more lines for her.
 And the children and the youngsters. We'll there was so many I felt like I vas at picnic once again. But shucks I'm too old for children and picnics and you young folks is young enough Tor me. I'm gettin' old and I got to preserve my health for something so I'm agoin' to say good night, right low"
 We stood and watched him pass out rom under street light and caught 'nce more the glimpse of his long. white mustachios disappearing like a title plume of stream streaking out nto nothingness in the cold December wind and his blue coat turning into the ,lue of the night