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Show Hippodrome Play rilled With Mirth T F. a holiday season means' happiness, and if the latter includes the necessity neces-sity to,- many smiles to make it a good one, then the Hippodrome plavers are doing more than their share to supply the reciuisite holiday ingredient of fun with "The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown," which opened for a week's engagement en-gagement last night. It is a roaring farce that Ralph Clon- lnger and his associates are nirftin.r nn this week, with cornedv straight throuch trom beginning to end, and a comedv that includes farcical situations, character charac-ter acting and a lot of clever lines. The best acting is done bv James Cuy-rsher, Cuy-rsher, playing- the part of a Scotland Yard de'tective, who endeavors to break up a .-omance between $m army captain and an "inmate" of a fashionable girls' boarding school. The captain, plavcd by-Ralph by-Ralph Cloninger, is compelled to disguise himself as a girl and to enter the school, and the amazing adventures arising from his presence there and his attempted elopement with Angella Brightwell, played by Kit-nan King, give ample grounds for some most humorous situations. Seldy Roach was good as tile Irish major ma-jor who aids and abets the elopement plans. L. Victor Gillard. as the solicitor guardian of the sprightly Angella, was likewise applauded. Harold Hutchinson as the temperamental temperamen-tal music teacher gave the "audience many a good laugh. Mrs. O'Ciallagher, head of the Cicero House Academy, took her character part better than acceptably. The placing as a whole, can stand the finishing process which it will undoubtedly get by tonight. Other members of the cast were Stanley Stan-ley Jonasson, as Michael Dougherty, a private; Alay Roberts, as Miss Romney, a teachei' ol the academy7; Viola Hancs and Ethel Baker as school girls, and Claire Morrow as a maid. The play will run for tire remainder of tile week with a matinee Wednesday and a special performance per-formance New Year's afternoon. |