Show Amusements Amus s I Mystery Tale At Playhouse Eerie Drama The Monster a three-act three mystery play with plenty of thrills Is this weeks week's bill at the Playhouse Disappearing bodies ghostly hands shrouded figures In grisly gestures accompaniment of unearthly unearthly- shrieks moans and cries and anti misbehaving furniture serve to keep the audience In suspense During the unfolding of the eerie talc tale excitement in the audience brought forth shouts from keyed up men and screams from nervous nero ncr women Electrical apparatus of oC sinister appearance appearance ap ap- ap mechanical effects and Unusual unusual unusual un un- usual lighting served to give the settings settings settings set set- tings the finishing touch to the mysterious mysterious mys mys- plot Howard MacNear ran away with the show as a hobo who dr drifted ted into the uncanny house where the action takes place To tell just how he finishes finishes fin fin- finishes up his part would spoil the play for Cor those thos who have not s seen n it It is sufficient to say that he provides a most unexpected ending that brings to a fiend his just dues Mr MacNear does docs the best acting he has done here His dialog does much to enliven the story and relieve its moments of ot sus pense George Barnes does very well in I the part of a mad scientist who pursues pursues pursues pur pur- sues his experiment to find Und the source of life Ufe by vivisection He has no soul or conscience when finally after many years he ho has the opportunity to operate on the daughter of a man who unmasked him and brought disgrace disgrace dis dis- disgrace grace t to him in his younger years Al Ai Stephens Is a speechless Martinique Martinique Mar Mar- negro servant to Dr Ziska the mad physician He makes himself him self a very disagreeable person and serves to chill the th spines of the audience audience audi audi- ence throughout the progress of the piece Art Loft Lott as a newspaper reporter assigned to uncover the secrets of the house of ot mystery and find the cause of at many mysterious automobile accidents accidents acci ned dents near the place after the disappearance disappearance of the victims does docs a serious part with his usual ability There is very little demand for real acting on the part of the women in inthe inthe inthe the cast Hazel Whitmore acquits herself elt creditably however as a girl who whose e car skidded of off the bridge bride o of mystery near the doctors doctor's house and who passes through a series eries of or hair raising adventures ad in consequence The highly decorative Marie Gray ison is ison ison on the stage for only a few minutes in an entirely unes unessential part p Richard Rich Richard ard Tracy stalks about without sayIng sayin sayIng say- say in Ing a word or showing his face The Monster runs through the week with matinees Thursday and Saturday |