Show Forbidden Fruit Is impossible to imagine the Theatre The-atre packed more densely than on New Years night at the first performance per-formance of Forbidden Fruit by the Home Dramatic Club Forbidden bidden Fruit is a comedy of a type which the prudish might term naughty but the way it was performed per-formed last evening there was nothing in jt to shock the modesty of the most sensative indeed rather than shock them the tendency ten-dency was to put every person in the most delightful humor All through the evening the laughter and applause ap-plause were immoderate and while the plot is by no means an intricate one the situations are generally gen-erally funuy and in any sense are provocative of the utmost mirth The dialogue is of the brightest and raciest kind and the whole piece in every way suited to a holiday entertainment entertain-ment It is a twin production to Pink Dominoes and ns inferior It is as much more difficult to give as great satisfaction with comedies than with dramas for the reason that as a successful repartee must come off at the momentso must the dialogue and business of a comedy be pat There is in the II comedy no sentiment which the i mind retains independent of the action ot the play the point to be made at all must be made at the instant stant and its flavor depends on the manner of delivery It is therefore unjust to compare without the ad misslcns of these considerations a comedy with a drama In last nights performance there was but one faultan atsence of that glibness glib-ness of speech absolutely neces L TTTHL sary to penecuon viin one or two more rehearsals and individual study the Home Club will be prepared pre-pared to play Forbidden Fruit in a manner which will retain all its flavor and make every point a telling tell-ing one Mr Spencer eclipsed himself him-self Monday night and bore off the honors of the evening against able competition Mr H M Wells the partner in the joys and sorrows of Mr Perkins was not a whit behind be-hind his accustomed ability and produced roar after roar of laughter laugh-ter Mr B S Young was exceptionally excep-tionally happy in his part and is a very promising young actor Of the ladies Mrs Henry Snell acquitted ac-quitted herself with the greatest ease and credit There is little room for improvement The same is true of Miss Claridge the innocent inno-cent loving and confiding wife Miss Ada Dwyer appeared to less advantage in her part than any of the othersnot from a lack of ability abil-ity not because of a failure to study not because of an absence of confidence nor because it is a line I of business foreign to her talents I but for the reason that it is a character which Miss Dwyer did not conceive and while it may not have been fortunate for her in a dramatic sense it was flattering to her otherwise Lulu Piincess of the Bounding Board is one of the flashiest and loosest of semidecent characters and wit1out the brazen air and assumption of her class she is a useless piece of furniture We are confident that Miss Dwyers ability as an actress would enable her to play the character successfully if she cares to after once conceining its nature Mr Cummings make up and acting was all that could be desired the only fault with him was a lack of fluency in his words The other I characters were well sustained I The piece was ably presented asa V as-a whole dressed in good taste and i the stage effects appropriate and I handsome It was another success I for the club and its reproduction I which should be at an early date will be a matter of pleasure to the public |