| Show I THE STAGE IJ THEATRES I THE SCREEN Dream Fantasy Cleverly Acted At Hippodrome The The- wish or ot the poet Backward turn backward oh oh time was granted last nIght at the Hippodrome theatre when Ralph ClonInger and his associate play play pay payers ers era ers In The Road to Yesterday left lett the modern thoroughfares of ot time to wander along the roads and lanes In Merrie Leaving England when James I was king Leaving Leav Leav- i ing the prosaic twentieth century after atter the first act they reverted back to the year 1603 when was vas lord In Lincolnshire and ruled the tho country with a heavy neavy hand The Tho whole trouble centers on the tho wish of a romantic young girl on midsummer's mer mers mer's a eve to be back In the tho days when knights were bold and the swashbuckling heroes returned from fighting In France I and In the tho lowlands The romantic miss miss' Is is granted n f her hearts heart's desire and becomes Lady Elizabeth Tyrell ward and later the tho wife the of ot Lord Here she meets Characters she knew In the twentieth twentieth century but none recognize her Her Tier trials and persecution form the basin bash for two of the acts Then she awakes Ralph Cloninger as Jack Greatorex and in the dream Jack gives a pleasing characterization of both parts of the young young- American educated In England England England En En- gland and back In 1603 as the son of the yeoman a swashbuckling young hero Just home from Holland Clonin er has been seen In z no part that fits him him m better bet bet- ter nth than that t of ft r o Jack Kirnan King as Elspeth Tyrell and In her former existence Lady Elizabeth Tyrell causes all the trouble when she ehe exhausts herself herselt in seeing the sights of London and tops taps It off with Cheshire cheese Her dream Is the descent Into three centuries of time Miss Kings King's work in the emotional scenes Is excellent Harold HutchInson also Is excellent In Inthe Inthe inthe the dual role of ot Kenelm Paulton and Lord He lIe takes two opposite opposite opposite site parts in a manner that deserves comm commendation com com- m I Ethel n Baker ker Is la back in the cast and is given considerable opportunity In the role of the gypsy Malena a a. role which she sher shem m makes the h most of Others r In the cast st whose work Is deserving deserving deserving de de- de- de serving of mention are Seldy Roach L. L Victor Gillard Margaret Peterson May Roberts Pearl Van Norman and Claire Morrow o An added Innovation was Frank Gibney Gibney Gib- Gib ney singing popular songs between the he acts V V. J J. J K |
