Show AMUSEMENTS JERNCLIFF the latest addition to the Grismer repertoIre reper-toire possesses many elements of strength while at the same time pervaded with one weakness Its tuations are strong the humorous and pathetic are blended to excellent proportions and the interest of tim hearer is kept in intense expectancy without any intimation of bow things will develop All these features are essential L to a good play The element of pervading weakness is the improbability of events which painfully impressed itself His ore H-is the skeleton of the plot Tom Hewins is a young man with wife and two children William Hilton is an old admirer of Hewins1 wife outwardly resigned to his fate but in fact secretly I nursing a determination to win back by foul means the fair one who was secured by Hewins in honorable suit The civil war arises and Howius obtains an influential influ-ential position in the provost marshals ofllee Ho has Tom Hewins drafted ofce Toms younger brother volunteers in his pie co and Hiltons game is blocked After a few months Hilton reports the younger brother deserter surmising in away only the author can conceive that this would load Tom to efface the disgrace by going to the front himself Tom goes leaving u helpess wife and the scheming rogue together to-gether The rogue reports tho husband dead secures the homeplace and wins tho consent of the relict and widow to marriage mar-riage Both brothers leturn by a coinci deuce the same night and by another coincidence coin-cidence the very night of the weddin By another coincidence the wife faints i I at the altar and finally is i saved by her own truly loved husband A very strong feature of Ferncllit is that while dealing with war incidents it is devoid of sectional color and of exciting eXcting battle scenes Nothing that can in the remotest re-motest dogree wound the sensibilities of the northern or the southern soldiers is present Neither is there any attempt to balance patriotism by letting a gen Union ton t-on one side stand against a sentiment on the other Jsseph Grismer Phoebe Dales and Arthur Ar-thur Livingston were the bright lights of the evening Miss Macquaid Mrs Stevens and Scott Cooper made able Sctt mae seconds sec-onds Little Laura Crews Litte Laur who acted so charmingly the part of Editha in The Burglar was equally pleasing as the little boy in Ferncliff lttle THE BURGLAR will be given for matinee today Beacon Lights tonight THE DEVILS AUCTION The sale of seats for The Doviln Auc tion begins today |