Show Light t Ro-ma Ro Romance This Week at 0 Hippodrome I i Warmth and brilliancy color and amI i vividness threaded with the light of I lancE lO go to make up The Wonder Wonder- ful Thins Thing a It modern drama in four i acts which will willbe b be presented by the Cloninger players at the th Hippodrome Hippo theatre for one week beginning to to- to night The Wonderful Thing is a d' d sweet French-American French story o of 0 10 1 and sorrow sorro- hope and lr woven oven realistically lh into ute lUe e by Lillian TrImblE Trimble TrIm TrIm- ble Bradley radle In brief the story tory of The Wonderful Wonder Wonder- ful thing h 1 lihs to do with an old English Eng Eng- English lish family proud but with little means I II named namer l The e scenes are r laid mL db dI I on Long Island I at t the b hornet home I alph Er Is cast allt In the virile role roli of Donald l a youns youn oun l lawyer lawyor i rit eldest and rt s son earnestly r of sN the e conscientious family li n self Helf- over ever th the p welfare of 1 his 1 mother sis 1 s l 1 le lerain leo lers a and b brother In an e effort to o re retain re- re rain tain the family honor and recuperate its lo lost t fortunes he marries a a. wealthy French Canadian girl who has been reared in a European convent conent The mew IW wife is Informed by the family's creditors f that she has been taken Into tHo t the he fatuity family for the purpose of or being the source through h which the debts to ro b be paid This together with the fact that she Is looked down on by other oiher women members of the fatally family causes her to leaVe and go to her fat fathers father's hers her's ranch in Canada t relieving it from all pessimism and p of an unhappy ending the Uie wife returns to oversee the construction I lion ion t of or a new bungalow which wa waI was I to be the love vc nest of the newly married mar mar- married C 1 orio ried couple l when Donald discovers c that he hc really loves her and did not as lie ate thought marry her ber for money mone The Wonderful Thing is rarely and exactly adapted to the spirit of drama Completely convincing The Hippodrome Hippodrome Hippo Hippo- Hippodrome drome theatre should be a popular place for amusement seel seekers ers this week weel The rhe play will be pre presented every night this week except Monday with matinees Tuesday Thursday and Saturday The performances of The I Von Wonderful Thing mark the close close of of the Hippodrome season Reason under the man of ot Mr Cloninger II J L. L Z Edward Z-Edward Edward Burns played the juvenile in inThe The Virgin of Stamboul lie will be seen opposite Edith Edilh Roberts in The rhe Opened Shutters her next re release release re- re lease leDe now being filmed at Universal City |