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Show ALL LOGAN HAS BEEN "AT YALE." Enjoyed Brief Stay but Learned Little Except to Love Gilmore and Dick Seeley. A packed house greeted Paul fill-more fill-more In "At Yale" at the opera house Saturday night, and the production pleased immensely. It cannot be truthfully said that there Is a bit of superior acting througout the whole production, but there was such life and enthusiasm, such ringing, whole soiilcd "college spirit" orevadlng the play that the audience was literally carried oil Its feet and entered into the occasion with a zest not surpassed surpass-ed by the rollicking sons of old KM. The audience laughed and cheered throughout the entire evening. Naturally enough the Interest centered cen-tered In Oilmoro as Dick Scpley and a sympathctlcaudlencc could not but fall in love with him and the manly character char-acter he portrayed so well. From his llrst, appearance In his own and Jack's "den," he had the audience with him, and the pillow tight Used it for tin: whole bunch. From then on to tho boat race it was but a triumphal march over a path of roses, and after the climax of that truly exciting event, (ill more had to come out iu his training togs and make a curtain talk. Aud this proved far from being the least enjoyable feature of the show. Gilmore will be thrice welcome should he ever come again. Ilcnry McClaln as Dave Hurley handled a disagreeable character to advantage, and both Jlmsle and Maine were exceptionally well done. And the rest of the bunch was good as was necessary, except Dorothy, Dick's sweetheart. One could not but wish that she were a little more scrumptious scrump-tious The stage settings added much to the performance. Jack's1 and Dick's "den"was a beauty In appcarance.and the exterior of the Hotel Grlswold, ttie scene of tho third act, was unquestionably unques-tionably the best piece of singe reality presented here. "Moonlight on the Thames" also proved a splendid bit of scenery but the beauty and quietude of the scene was most rudely disturbed disturb-ed by a female In black with a voice that was yellow. Her voice was of megaphone size and full of coekleburs She ought to have it cultivated with one of Danlelscn's six disc plows, harrowed har-rowed transversely each spring until the rough edges are Knocked oil, and then hire herself to an Iowa farmer needing someone to call the pigs each morning. Really, Gilmore ought to cut her outunless he has a grudge at the Thames or Is after introducing a little comedy. Colleges in Evidence. The colleges of Logan contributed a large number to the audience and. much of the enthusiasm was their effervescence, li. V. 0. boys were distinguished dis-tinguished by their red headgear, which they wore throughout theeven-Ing, theeven-Ing, and the A. 0. aggregation made Itself manifest in rousing cheers led by Farnsworth, who at two times during tho evening occupied the stage. Tho pennants of the two schools here were also in evidence on the stage-As stage-As a whole, "At Yale" was unquestionably unques-tionably more satisfactory to a majority majori-ty of the audience than nine-tenths of the productions brought here. It struck a popular chord. |