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Show " ; ANQEnOU8 AQE AT. JHE ROYAL Tho "dangorous ago" begins when a girl Is in short skirts and pigtails, and ontf In a-"woodon overcoat" ordcrod by tho undertaker. Such Is tho sago philosophy propounded pro-pounded by Bovcnty-two to forty-two In "Tho Dangorous Ago," 'a sclntllat-Ing sclntllat-Ing comedy. "Tho Dangerous A.go" Is a riot ot fun. With Its swift moving action, sit-uatlons sit-uatlons of susponso and Its astounding astound-ing truo to llfo thomo, tho play Is In tho scopo of onch player's ability. Three lovo themes, roprosontlng as many generations, run concurrently In "Thol)angerous Age." Thoro Is sweet 17 nn, its cotorio dot followors; thon thoro Is mlddlo ago, represented by a husband trying tp wring money and auccoss from writing, and his wife whoso time is ovonly divided between worry ovor hor children. 17 und 19, whom sho cpnsldors nt a dangerous ago, and grieving ovor her husband's negloct. Tho third lovo thomo. do-splto do-splto tho fact that It la developed dur-Ing dur-Ing socond childhood, between tho mothor of tho mlddlo aged-wife and an old doctor, gives grontor weight to tho doctor's belief that tho dangerous ago for lovomaklng ceases only at tho gravo. l " Tho peculiar situation ot a h ...band and wlfo falling In -lovo lh each ' other through a Borles of lettc, ench1 not knowing tho other's Identic, bu both finding m tho othor tMr Boul mates, la developod In "Tha Danger cuj Ago" and constitutor -he chief themo of the play. Tho denotement conijjB when the wife and husband 0 ho brink of estrnugnmo.it, find thdt tho persons with whom they BrQ In lovo nro thomsolvos. q The moin thomo develops when tho ' middle nged, husband. Stephen Hnr" rani, nssmuea tho nom d olume ot Vormnn Halo and writes a book which sjMMWWW'i-mf,L?'"' ' ' - " boTomM popular over night. Tho char actor Jf tj book brings thousands of letters frcm female admire. 3 nil over 'the woriJ Uut thoro Is only ono that appeals t3 him. That Is the letter from bis on wlfo, Roso Harvard, but ho 0 e t know this, for sho also uses u flcdtioaa namo. "'Ihe only fellows who over tried to get 1 til v'th me woro those that I hnw ktmn all my llfo," was ono ot tho -nuct. iRurtcd, at lines of Ruth Han an), daughter oftho llnrvnrds. While mli'dle ago thinks that Its wise! m i ncroBsftry to 'ne proper Wlu.ive o : outh, so In turn doos old ago 'isllpvo n Its superior wisdom over mid Me- ago. Uut In "Tho Dangorous Dangor-ous vuf' a io-rth generation would bo We3Vjr, 10 keob old ago front indulging indulg-ing )n '"'le-s of tha heart, for, llko ,yooth an J mlddlo ago, It Is not. too Vlo c u tue gravd to Jove. As Dr Roiilnaon ago 72,g.ies a pleasing nnd hum.-roiis Interpretation. ' Grandma Wash! urn, also 72 -and not too old 'to lo;e Tho nbbfe play will bo tho nffirmg by the Rotation Stock Co. at Ihe Royal, Saturday. ndv |