Show very fine performance tho dixie academy presented the three act comedy the house next door to crowded houses on saturday and monday nights also a matinee anda afternoon afern oon alie costumes for the play from the ball lade house the full orchestra as a good feature of the evening and they did e thord the play as n ell received us indeed it defered de to be for it ft as one of the clean sparkling refreshing sort that leaves one feeling the better for chiung acen it the plot of the play is 1 iid in london and the chief characters are bir john cotswold Cots wold 1 crusty old baronet who lias squandered his estate through poor besmen busmen management and bir lac Jacot won i jen lw by good business methods and square dealing lias acquired sir johns property upon which his f had been poor tenants sir la ic befriends tho firmly in roam was unknown to them especially in forwarding the education of cecil the baronet ason cecil falls in love ester jacobson while adrian jacobone jacob one son falls in love with the daughter of the baronet the p girenti forbid youir conales meeting alie baronet on account of zainib pride tho jen because iio docs not miah his children toi guiti leh violent quarrels occur be otteen alip heads heids of alie farlies fam lies but loe conquers and the young people finally bring alie unhappy condition of affairs to a hippy in hn after the baronet is brought to realie ins real financil finan cul condition and the generous part acir I 1 vie hid played ibe afT iiri of all concerned are much helped by the activity of walter lan is i inasi cil igent vivian arci as perfection itself in his conception and acting of the ellis took the put of the crusty and aristocratic old bronet exceptionally viell and the other characters wre all wy good alio cist wig aa follos sir jolin baronet ellis pickett SIar giret his wife althea grager son ulrica his daughter diverd entson cecil his son chester banow vining hia sen ant hubert thellon clive agnf sir son M P viviin brei He becci ife hiibel jams his djup liter aggie aan in his bon coq forayth ins hubert walter acnia hamid ahe 1111 of tho of alio phi it ani was no prompting and the several characters appeared as much at home on the stee as altere lin i 1 j 5 ay A y v i l if V |