| Show 7VED noYLES FRIEDS What the Kansas City Star Critic Says of It Friends a play that increases steadily in interest from its beginning was produced at the Coates last evening eve-ning The audience was not large and yet not email But it was warm and actors like a warm audience The applause ap-plause that followed the third act must have been gratifying to the players play-ers on the stage for the curtain was drawn back and they came out smiling and bowing in twos Edwin Milton Royle came last and alone He happens hap-pens to have written the lines that were pleasing the people so and he came to bow his acknowledgments of their sincere applause His appearance caused tremendous applause and some men in the lower seats even allowed their enthusiasm to get the better of them and shouted Mr Royle has changed the lines a trifle since his play was first produced here last winter and he has even added some of those bright original ones that one wants to put down in black and white and carry away and keep The poem ascribed to Jack in the first act aroused much admiration last night wheait was recited by Marguerite Mar-guerite Otto Selena FetterRoyle In the bill of the play the announcement is made that the paem has found new claimants for its authorship in almost every city where Friends has been produced but the Critic settles the controversy in favor of Mrs Susan Marr Spaulding This poem is no doubt in many scrap books now and will be in many more It is a good companion piece for John J Ingalls famous Opportunity The musicale in the second act of Friends is one of its powerful features fea-tures Lucius Henderson is still playing play-ing Adrian Karje and when he goes to the piano he gives the audience a large portion of its pleasure He played last evening Joseffys arrangement of Gottschalks Pasquinade and Seel Ings Lorelei It is to be regretted that when Mr Royle revised the lines of his play he did not drop that line in the last act that reflects on the honor of his friends the newspaper men and revives re-vives for the instant that impression now happily disappearing that newspaper news-paper men are dishonorable spies liable at any moment to be lurking around with a ready ear or a camera to steal some mans words or acts and make use of them to his injury and disgrace Friends will be at the Coates the entire week with the usual matinee |
