Imperial Valley press., 1933-02-17

| Greeted by the largest audience
of the club year. an adequate tes-
| timonial of the Ten Thousand
clubs enjoyment of her reading
last spring. Beatrice Edmonds en-
trenched herself more firmly than
ever in the high regard of the
members by her interpretative re-
view of Rose Franken's Another
Language.
In her opening remarks Miss Ed
monds pointed out that the play
has had a 10 months run on
Broadway. a remarkable feat in
itself in these times, anu has re-
ceived high praise from critics.
This particular play, as well as
many others, was witnessed by Miss
Edmonds on her recent visit 10
New York City.
another Language" is a play
concerned with the intimacies of
family life and while it affords
vivid entertainment and much am
usement, it is more than a comedy
since 1t has for its underlying
theme the tragedy which results
in the imposition of one set of be-
liefs and standards on everyone
regardless of personality.
Members of the Hallam family
compose the characters for The
play. Grandma and Grandpa Hall
am, their four sons and their wives,
and one grandson. The Hallam's
unite in a solid front against the
rest of the world, serene In their
insular belief that their standards
and conduct are unqueStionably
right and that the world in gen.
eral and the daughtersir-law III
particular, should live as the Hall
ans have always lived,
Three of the daughters-in-law, al
belt unwiliingily, have accepted the
standards of the family, but the
wife of the youngest son, Stella,
speaks another language and the
plot OF the play is concerned with
Stella's struggle TO keep her indi-
viduality and preserve her mar
riage. Grandma Hallam, in her
quiet, subtle way, dominates the
family. unperceived by her sons,
and seeks TO bend Stella to her
will so that Victor like all the
other sons. may be completely un-
der his mothers control.
Character Well Portrayed
In the struggle, Jerry, a grand
son who also speaks another Ian
guage," is involved. and the play
reaches a thrilling climax in which
Stella, out of the apparent ruins,
salvageS a new understanding for
herself and her husband, escaping
from the Hallam solidarity.
With IL characters to imperson-
ate by means of facial expression,
varying tone ranges and voice in
Elections, Miss Edmonds has diff
ticult task but one which she met
superbly, each character being
made real and vivid to the audi
once, a separate personality.
The similarity of the Hallam
men and yet their differences were
cleverly portrayed by Miss Ed
monds, while her Interpretation of
Grandma and Stella, the chief an
taeonists, was a bit of mastery
analysis Her comedy sketches are
always excellent and her imper-
sonation of the three sisters-in-law
was delightful. In her interpreta-
ton of Stella and the delicate and
beautiful relation between the aunt
and nephew, Miss Edmonds game
a particularly sensitive and SYM
pathetic delineation.
Adding a great deal TO the en-
jcyment of the afternoon were the
two violin solos played by Miss Jo-
sephine williams of San Diego, for
merly a resident of this city.
Since her study abroad Miss Will
liams has accomplished great
deal and this progress was marked
in her playing yesterday.
Her first number, the first move
ment of concerto No. 7, de Beriot,
was a difficult composition which