Evening star., 1933-03-12

TN Both Your Houses" Walter Kelly
erstwhile "the Virginia judge" rep
resents one of the better type OF
i Congressman. He has a genial per-
sonality and his plundering is done
with humor and a sense OF the graceS.
HaiIing from Kentucky, I daresay. he
has a musical voice, gift of savory
metaphor and a quoting knowledge OF
the classics. A magnetic old buccaneer
of 60 or thereabouts, he exerts an in
fluence in the halls Of legislation. He
drinks liquor, chews tobacco and Is
addicted to poetic profanity. When he
tells us that he arrived in Washington
at an early age, determined to serve
his Nation faithfully. we believe his
statement to be true. And when he
sible to be q knight In such surround
ings, we accept that also as credible
excuse. After years Of experience In
law making he has come to the con-
clusion that the American people care
little about what their rules are, or how
or by whom they are made, so long as
they are allowed peacefully to slumbef.
So he proceeds upon his ways, q re-
spected, comfortable and prosperous
traitor, betraying his country every
time he gets chance. But you will
like him in case you meet him in Both
Your Houses" for, excepting the vir-
tuous hero he Is the most winning
member Of the Appropriation Com
mittee.
And what lot OF heels these fell
lows turn out to be! Even the woman
Representative Is q greedy recreant,
fastening herself on the lazy taxpayers.
The chairman Of the committee is q
sman-town politician who employs his
daughter rs his secretary and takes
good care Of the voters In his district.
He gives one the impression that If he
bred goats on his ranch, he would see
that there was protecting tariff on
goats milk. As the principal stock
holder in feeble bank, he strengthens
built in his community. With, Of
course, the aforesaid exception of Rep
resentative Allan McClean, a winged
schoolmaster from Nevada, who has
consecrated himself to the delivery of
his brethren from bondage.
In your drama going you may have
servant who comes to grips with the
powers OF darkness and fails, not
ignobly, to destroy them You will
hear OF him again in Both Your
Houses" where, as Is his custom, he IS
. little In love with the ingenue daugh-
ter Of his chief adversary. Evils cluster
around him and he does not know ex-
actly what to do. Once In the course
Of the Paris Peace Conference Presi-
dent Wilson, in human and pathetic
note to HerieTt Dayard Swope, ex-
claimed II am all alone!" That is the
dilemma In which Mr.. Mclean finds
himself in Both Your Houses'-a SOL
itary champion Of the right. II he
gains the world he VIII lose his soul.
Thanks to Mr.. Anderson, the author,
and . quick-witted stenographer, Mr..
MCLEAN is able, more or less, to do
both. while he sounds In no uncertain
terms . tocain awakening America to
arms. As the play ends he Is to be
heard In Q volcanic denunciatiou Of
both our houses Of Congress and warn
ing them that time win come.
Mr.. Anderson, IN. his interesting COM
plant about our governors, Is wise
enough to be both showman and evan
gelist. His play is . serious semi-soap-
box sermon tinted with the theater,s
artificial and al1uring huesNan alarm
clock with depepdable nlachinery and
rocco fittings. He gtves. .I'think both
eur houses. the best Of Il.