Show Ralph Clo Cloninger inger Plays Only Son Son I Go Gotham ham Success i Tomorrow second week of ot night the the Hippodrome a new season reason will open with Ralph and his players InThe in inThe inThe The Only Son a successful drama by WInchell SmIth author of several of the great stage successes of the day closes which Johnny Get Your Gun a very successful week weel tonight gave Mr Cloninger and his company ample opportunity opportunity opportunity to show their capabilities as players players play play- ers era of comedy J lolO loles and the new play will vill give them an equal show at the delineation de delineation do- do lineation of character in a modern drama at the The play was originally produced Galety Gaiety in Ne New v York by Cohan i Harris with Wallace Vallace Eddinger Olive Wyndham Claude and andI I V Vivian ivian Martin in the principal roles Miss Martin is now one of ot the best known motIon motion motion mo mo- mo- mo tion picture stars In Jn The Only Son Mr Smith has written a play with a a. punch red blood and human appeal and with all the other things that plays nowadays are supposed supposed sup sup- posed to possess I It t is a play full of humanity and human nature some of It hard and sophisticated to be sure but butI all of it real a play that takes hold of ot I its audience and moves them to tears and laughter does it all with the simple stor story of a boy who stands by his mother The counterpart of the Brainerd family family fam fam- ily fly featured in this play is not hard to find in any large city The absorbed absorbed absorbed ab ab- ab- ab in m the business that has mado madon him many m millions n leaves e his IS family to hf n themselves f The l son o derives ie his principal pal pat pleasure from courting ladles of the chorus the daughter is and pampered the mother still young and beautiful makes the mistake of forming an attachment nt for an artist When this is discovered the father orders I her out of the house and declares his i intention of securing a a. divorce The Tho dissipated dissipated dissipated dis dis- dis- dis son stands by his mother and with her goes gocs to Denver where he en engages engages engages en- en gages in business How the success of of- th the son finally causes the father to come to Denver where a reconciliation tion is effected Is told in three acts of tense scenes and amusIng amusing amus amus- ing lag and pathetic situations It is a play sure to score heavily with the audience I next week Mr w Cloninger r of course will be seen j to advantage In the role of the idling son 1 while Miss I hazel Hasel Z Baker ke will appear e as Anne t Lester t a young o artist rt w with r whom o I Ithe the junior Brainerd falls in love Other 1 l members s sf of f the supporting company willbe will willbe be bee vast i In congenial g roles The Only Son will continue throughout through through- I hw la uv out the week k with matinees Wednesday and Saturday I |