Show THE THIRD DEGREE PLEASES A big house greeted charles KWIC 4 great production at the opera house ise last tuesday evening the play I 1 itself tse if f Is one ona that holds the audience aft A the way through and the strong moral lesson running throughout impresses the auditor right at this time when a police lieutenant and four gangsters have been convicted of murder in the first degree in new york the scene showing the operation of the third degree the second scene of the first act aci when the police chief chef forced tha suspected murderer to colfels cor fess to crime which he did not commit co nimit was very dramatic police methods are somewhat exposed all through the me play aud and served as an eye opener to this staid public the stars of the cast were vere gertrude richie as mrs howard jeffries jr and ar sir orrin on in T burke as lawyer brewster the bowery slang of miss richie was real compelling and carried one back to new york mr burke made such a capita brewster brewster that it would be hard to improve on his delineation the other parts were also well handled bandied and the entire production pleased the immense audience which t turned out to see it the stage settings were vere elaborate as were ere the costumes |