Show 1 1 Hilarious Comedy at the Wilkes J M r t rJ I A AI I I I I I I I I A I SIN 7 r o HII H- H II C lAI u T 1 ai r t ti A t ji i r r I I N h i y fi f- f I iI i- i r 1 R f d AF tl r f II i T t K Kd y d rh f Rf pERI r I GK BON I I I I 11 UJ I I I t u. u ps Four members of the Wilkes Players who will be seen in He Up Smiling Smiling Smil Smil- ing opening at that house tonight for a weeks week's engagement There is promise of rich wholesome delightful fun at the Wilkes for the I ensuing week eel beginning with tonight's engagement I The comedy selected for presentation I by the Wilkes Players is none other than the motor farce In four cylinders I Written by Byron and Emil I entitled He Comes Up Smil Smil- ing The story is based on the novel of the same name by Charles Sherman which attained so great a popularity with the reading public He Comes Up Smiling was originally originally nally produced at the Liberty theatre in New York with such people as WIllIam William Wil WIl- liam Morris and Douglas Fairbanks in inthe inthe the two leading male roles The Wilkes Players have been admirably admirably ad- ad i cast for He Comes Up Smiling Smiling Smil Smil- ing and this roily rolly polly laughable rollicking story of a h handsome young erstwhile tramp who by fate is thrown Into the role of a rich young millionaire millionaire million million- aire acre for a brief period and called caned upon to associate with the millionaires millionaire's friends without notice or chance of preparation bids fair to prove one of the choice comedy successes of the entire Wilkes season The leading role among the men of the show Is that of Martin otherwise known as The Th Watermelon a graceful good- good looking is attractive prepossessing prepossessing prepossessing and picturesque He is a lazy young dreamer too young to s show ow the marks of his tramp life liCe yet clever I Ia a witted quick-witted and wideawake to his own well being Ralph Cloninger leading man of the Wilkes Players will be seen in this role and nd it will give him one of the finest to do that I he has been favored with since j Join joining Ing the Wilkes Players Miss Nana Bryant leading woman of the Wilkes Players will have the leading feminine I Irole role and It is a part admirably suited I to her beauty her talent and her vi- vi vI-I vI The other members of the company company are splendidly cast and He Comes Up Smiling will be one of the most pretentious pretentious pretentious pre pre- productions in a scenic sense of the Wilkes for for the first few months of the season There isn't a dull dun moment in the comedy and the action ripples along with all the tumultuous whirlwind rapidity of a mountain stream with never a rest from the fast and furious fun making Yet there is a delightful love story that threads its way through the fun of the sketch and makes the play all the more likable The management of t the e Wilkes looks forward with confidence to one of the biggest weds of the year with He Comes Up Smiling and opening to tonight tonight tonight to- to night the play continues through the ensuing seven days with on Thursday and Saturday afternoons |