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Show Good Acting in r a Amusing Plays Students and teachers who had the good fortune to watch some of the rehearsals of the U. A. C. Dramatic Club know that we are going to see some unusually good student acting next Monday night at the Lyric as well as three amusing plays. The program is well balanced. It contains two farces: The Pot of Broth, by Yeates and The Spreading of the News, by Lady Gregory, and a powerful pow-erful little 'one act play with poetical touches called The Rising of the Moon, also by Lady Gregory. Tho plays ought to appeal to all people in Cacho valley, who have not lost the old world love for the slmplo gossip and the simple problems of dally life and who enjoy tho quaint, poetic expressions that were the current coin of our English and Celtic Cel-tic ancestors and still survlvo in many of the Cache valley pioneers. Tho rising generation of students certainly cer-tainly will not be able to point tho finger of scorn at thcso plays and cull them classical as they did last year whon they patiently sat through Tho Rivals, and were inexpressibly bored because thoy thought It was a classic nnd thoreforo unworthy tho attontlon of practical dollar earning students. The plays next Monday may somo day bo classics but 'Just .now they are ono of tho most modern phases of tho modern drama. Thoy aro tho work of Irish plajwrlghts, ropresent Irish villngo and country llfo, woro first played in Dublin and then In London. Tho past two seasons a company of Irish players has given them with enormous success In Boston Bos-ton nnd Chicago while the other cities cit-ies havo wolcomed them somewhat less enthusiastically but havo given them good houses. This week tho student! aro felvlng the plays in Hyde Park and Smith-field Smith-field and by Monday the cast wilt be ready to do the excellent work that friends know thoy aro capable of doing. Wo havo seen only the rehearsal re-hearsal of Spreading tho Nows, but was much impressed by tho consistent, consist-ent, well sustained acting of the cast. - Each member has hard work to do. Ho has to cease being himself, him-self, got into tho skin of an Irish villager, speak the Irish brogue, think Irish thoughts and move and stand llko tho sons of Ireland. That they can do It successfully and creato illusions Is greatly to their credit and gives promise of an artistic as well as entertaining evening. Adv. ml4 |