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Show I. PLAYTHINGS w, I r The first local productions of 'the I sach heralded and eagerly await id grama "Playthings" are to be sir-W,by sir-W,by the Rotation Stock players at tit LyrlV theatre 'Watadar.f set jsrtsssssssssssB-ssssssss.sassssaassi ember 12, and a record breaking house U confidently tlcipated by the management. It aw been a long tfme since so much preliminary 'in-' terest In anything theatrical has bee manifested in this city and Uaatager Thatcher is already being 'congratulated over his entciprJso In securing this much sought ufter attraction at-traction nt this time. 'Tlaythlngs" is a thrco act drama dra-ma by Sidney Toler and tho unanimous unani-mous verdict whorover It has been shown Is that It is one of tho mast daringly sensational plays ever produced pro-duced on the stage. It !c i poweiful indictment of parents who allow their daughters to grow up in ignorance ig-norance of the truths and dnngcia of the world. The play has .been commended in tho strongest terms by some of the most prominent clergymen cler-gymen of the country and pronounced pronounc-ed one that every mother and every daughter should ccretainly see. j Tho virile and vital, or charmlsg and sympathetic characters of '"Playhtings" are of tho sort with .which the members of the Rotation I Stock Players are sure to do their most excellent work. Tho author might well have had them with Their various abilities in mind when he wrote the play and created tho types of men and women about which its action moves. As Marjorie North Miss Ada Daniels will' find herself In one of those parts in which her superb gifts shine most brilliantly; while as John Hayward the young attorney, attor-ney, whose love and regard shines . as sterling metal among dross, Mr.' E. Forrest Taylor has a role that will undoubtedly afford him the opportunity op-portunity to demonstrate those very real gifts that are hts to an extent ithat does not come many times in a decade. |