Show COM COMEDY DY AIM AIMED ED EDAT AT CHRISTIAN CI SCIENCE BELIEF w V W W WW Chicago en KO American And now Christian Science has hns been dramatized M. M I. I M M. Mangasarian has written a pIn play entitled Christian Science Sd- Sd ence nce a Comedy in Four Act Acts in which he presents the tenets of ot Mary Baker Eddys Eddy's faith in as s ludicrous a light as possible The drama arraigns the claims of oC the American cult In situations portraying the he failure of a healer to work vork wonders won- won ders ers with the ailing persons of the cast The work Is polemic rather than humorous hu hu- Incidentally Mr Mangasarian pays his respects to Dowle DowIe though admitting admitting admitting ad ad- that ho prefers the tenets of ot Dowie to those of ot certain other to up-to- date prophets I It Is not a problem play unless you OU should hould Insist on knowing where the laugh augh comes in But there is the playwrights playwrights playwright's play play- wrights wright's authority for tor that Somewhere In n the drama there is at least one laugh augh for or Mr Ir Mangasarian l announces on the title page The light Is IJ kno known n to ha have e failed tailed against folly tolly the laugh nc never cr Anyway the stor story is of ot a a. Mr Be Berly Simmons who wants to marr marry Miss Helen Rose alleged to have been cured of ot consumption b by a Christian Science healer Barbour b by name Mrs Irs H. H B. B Simmons a n widow and the he mother of the young oung man aforesaid views with horror the marriage of at Beverley Bev- Bev erley to a 1 consumptive and a appeals to o Dr Alexander Alexandcr Ic a registered physician to help frustrate the plans Dr Henry Henn being In love with the wIdow widow wid- wid ow w consents He convinces Beverley that hat he Is ill and in need of ot an operation on his head and finally Inveigles him Into nto a hos hospital That tal takes es you about half hair wa way through the comedy during which time you OU have had a glimpse of Mr Ir Barbour giving absent abent treatment curIng a a. newsboy of ot a head broken In a runaway runa- runa Wa way ond and lt at other times convincing Miss Rose ROe that her tuberculosis is only a figment of the Imagination When Helen hears of ot Bevel leys ley's d disappear ance sh she rushes a away wa from tram Harbour's Harbours ensuIng care H right to th the thc h hospital and in her excItement over her fiance nance e faints In a Paroxysm of cou coughing So Dr McHenry now has them both under his medical treatment Barboul trIes to rescue 1 his Is Patient from the man n of ot drugs drues' but Is ls arrested at n t the hospital to for I allowing a child to die last without act medical attention In the Helen has g recovered and is goIng going go- go Ing to marr marry Beverley Beverle Mrs Mrs- Simmons Is engaged to Dr McHenry the butler Is plighted to the maid as a direct result of at Barbours Barbour's treatment eit and Barbour Balbour himself has ed |