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Show "Nightie Night" to Stir Up Joy at Orpheum Theatre Tonight "Niprhtle Night," will be the attraction attrac-tion at the Urpheum theatre this evening, eve-ning, and It Is said to lm the season's hlpgest BUCOeSS That Is a matter a great many will deride after they have seen Adolph Klaubor'S rapid fire farce win. h mo i BO swiftly thai the fun in faster than the Pennsylvania Kaliroad where the first scene takes place In S chair car between Washington and X. w York, and while the train Is supposed sup-posed to In moving at the rate of sixty miles an hour. The comedy moves even faster, aa there are Blxt) laugha a minute and adieu we sa luughs we mean laughs not giggle- Denver thought a lot of "Nightie Night. ' one critic declared thai 'Nlghtb NlKbL" was a most welcome relish Read what he says Nightie Ntghr' Is a treat. After a week of Urab burlesque In the Broadway, Broad-way, this clever bit of farceur's handiwork, handi-work, crammed full of merry sensu-ousncsn sensu-ousncsn and- pleasantly free from Conventional Con-ventional sensuality, is a most welcome wel-come relish. The piece ) risque, but not fast the point where agreeable up lot dellciotialy humorous, f3lls over Into gross vulgarity. In styler and taste, "Nightie Nlcht" may be said to rink soxuiiuhAra aIojllk Him ievul ul BsanS bbbbbbbbbbbbbbI I "Palf and Warmer," but Is contrived, I Oil the whole, with a nicer delicacy of construction. When Martha M. Stanle nnd Adelaide Matthews con; Irllmted Ihe farce to last season's pa - trosis of the New York theater, their work was acclaimed as sterling, and last evening the play-goers of Denver Sunday nlghtera at that beheld It IS excellent I The secret of good farceinnking Is treating Involved and exaggerated stage situations in such a way that the audience i willing to accept them as plaUalbl) natural and this achieVO-ipenl achieVO-ipenl is notably apj.arcnt in "Nightie Xc hi ' Its seemingly logical spon-taiiptv, spon-taiiptv, itsnforeefl seipjenCU of real fun, ns graceful portrayal of laughable dilemma pluce It many laps ahead of I such unwholesome' contrivances an !' l"lln Mabel's Room ' or The Girl In t"e Limousine" The story deals chiofly with the misfortunes mis-fortunes of one Ullly M of fat. fc whoso attempt to reconcile ihe grievances of two parted ncwlyweds involve him not only in uncomfortably compromising-situations compromising-situations with the woman, but also almost make blm lose his own Wife. The ar. ssivenesa of his sister, a most .natural tormentor, in making bad jworse, la exceptionally entertaining fiarry 9tubba aa Billy Moffat scored Mlefiniteiv in the leading male role, while Aii. e Lowe as Brnestlne, his sisv iter; Th. Ima White as Mclll. . his wife, and Max Walzman as Jlmruv Blythe, I IS inl-se. king friend, were quite adu- IqUate Klrnan King as Tilxle lxr- 'ralne. feminine lead, gave an inter-esting inter-esting p. i t'ofmance. The Others were Helen N.imiii- as Norah. Harold Uutch- fJnson as Philip Burton Rederick Heane as Dr. Bentley and George Spel-vln Spel-vln us a porter The premie investi- Itura wan well In keeping, with the novelty nov-elty of the production. |