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Show "Up in Mabel's Room" Laughable Laugh-able Farce at Orpheum Sunday "Up in Mabel's Room." tho farce) which kept all New York laughing for months will be the attraction at the e)rpheum theatre Sunday night. Dec, 12, under the direction of A. H Woods. Tho play has been described as a frivolous farce of feminine foibles and is the work of Wilson Colllson and Otto Harbach. It is in three acts and! the scenes arc laid in a county home on Long Island. The story of the play deals with the fnrclal adventures of Gary Alnaworth, a young benedict who is confronted on his honeymoon Willi tho evidence of an old indiscretion. The evidence In this ca.se is a pink chemise which he had unwittingly given to a beautiful and charming widow of whom he had been fond In his bachelor days. This chemise ws 1 unfortunately lnscrlbeel "Mabel from 'Gary" and the slightly Jealous and exceedingly ex-ceedingly m!?chevlous Mabel threaten-ed threaten-ed show it to Garry's wife. Garry I pleaded, coaxed and cajoled In an effort ef-fort to get the chemise hack, and lin-Inlly lin-Inlly decided to steal it. More difficulties diffi-culties arose- than he dream d of and in the course of his adventures, he found himself m Situation after sltua-1 sltua-1 Hon, painful to himself, but that furnished furn-ished the greatest delight to his audiences. audi-ences. How the fateful chemise was : finally captured and Carry's trolubles brought to an end. cannot be devulged without detracting from the Interesl 01 the pin "Up in Mabel's Boom" is 'as full of fun. as any farce in recent years. The production Is a costly and elaborato ono and the company includes in-cludes Johephlne Saxe. James Norval, Julie Bing. SuRcr MedaTley, Gertrude Webster. 1'rfd 1 Lewis. Wnv Dorbin, Eugenia Oemova and others. Seats on sale Thursday. |