Show I I Southern Play at atI I Hippodrome Is Big Success Clean clean wholesome humor and spontaneous spontaneous ou ous because the players enjoy their parts marks The Sweetest Girl In Dixie which opened last night last nIght at the Hippodrome theatre with Ralph Cloninger and Miss 1 Gertrude Bondhill In the leading roles A Southern beauty and a a. Northern lover furnish a charming love theme while the old negro servants servants who stay after on and serve serve the colonel long they ther have been freed furnish furnish most of ot the humor Miss Gertrude Bondhill as as Babby the Southern belle portrays her part In a sweet and charming manner doing exceptionally ex exceptionally exceptionally ex- ex well with her Southern drawl which Is so delightful Mr Cloninger as Howard Emery the Yankee cousin twice removed who visits his plantation relatives rela rela- rel relatives tives for a day and remains two weeks under the magnetic charm of ot Babby proves to be all l that a Yankee k sweet sweetheart e heart should be and was vas l as usual thee the object of all an the feminine adoration In Inthe Inthe inthe the house L. L Victor Gillard Is good as Colonel Howard the father o of Babby and the poor but aristocratic ruler of ot a small plantation In Virginia May Roberts as Aunt Caroline Babby's old nurse stopped the show how with her able rendition of an old Southern Jig to the accompaniment of ot a harmonica and andI the tune Round Sour Wood Mountain Pres Prescott ottE Erickson ckona as Uncle t George or e. e j Aunt Carolines Caroline's s man man wins wins the mo lon medal for Cor the laziest and gets his share of ot laugh laughs from the audience dodgIng dodging dodging ing his old womans wrath and complaining complaining complaining com com- of his nerves L. L J. J Foote very ably portrays Matthew Matthew Matthew Mat Mat- thew Martin stingy Yankee cotton mill mm owner who holds a mortgage on the cOlon colonels colonel's Is I's home and seeks to wed Babby using the mortgage as a club to gain her hel I consent Aleda Alda La Rue Is very good as the old maid ild feister bister of ot Matthew Martin who conI constitutes constitutes con con- I herself the custodian of ot her brothers brother's welfare A good character study is that of Leonard Leonard Leonard Leon Leon- ard as Mr Biggs the lazy Southern Southern South South- ern po white trash who aint worked a lick tick In seven weeks and who borrows a churn dash from one neighbor a churn from another and the milk from another in an attempt to git a a. little butter fer for forthe the childrens children's supper Delightful negro harmony and South- South songs furnished by the Dixie quartet intersperse the play The Sweetest Girl In Dixie will be berc presented rc th throughout the week with perr per per- r mances every night except tWI tonight nf und and matinees Tuesday Thursdays and Saturdays |