Show i i in i I DRAMA j I jm m j 11 in THE PLAYHOUSE Irish Rose is at the Playhouse this week I shall try of course to restrain myself but butI I warn you that Im I'm not in i the usual salmon-pink salmon lads because I just found out how to do something lovely with creme de menthe You take the creme de menthe and put just a drop of it in the bottom ofa of a glass and then fill the glass up with gin If you care to add the final touch of flavoring to thi this masterly concoction just add a drop or two of gin Folks it ought to set you off in a spray like a bagpipe Well I may as well say something something something some some- thing about the play It seems that this familiar three-act three collection of claptrap is still good for a hand from rom illiterate and simple souls who prefer the Elks colors to o tapestries and who vho believe believe be- be lieve that a n horsehair placed in water vater will turn to a snake All the ancient and balderdash were gathered up in one huge luge po portion ion of kraut by Miss Nichols the person responsible for forthe forthe the he abortion She was put apparently apparently apparently to no end of trouble to collect collect col- col lect enough thoroughly hackneyed and trite situations for a solid three acts of misery for the sensitive soul Every stage dev device ce ever used to wring tears from the Great Unwashed Unwashed Unwashed Un Un- washed was trotted forth at one onetime onetime onetime time or another from the Xmas tree scene to the re fathers I conciliation scene It would be unfair to the Metropolitan Metro Metro- Metropolitan politan players to state that they were responsible for the woeful dullness of the evening because individually individually individually in in- in- in and collectively they functioned nobly Mr l Feuster Art Loft and Ben Erway were espe especially especial especial- ial- ial ly fruity and after faltering for two acts Leonard Strong hit a superb superb superb su su- stride in the last Gladys George as usual was all to the merry-merry merry and acid Frank Parry had his usual assurance but it is to Art and Norm that we unclasp the katies These two lads strewed the I aisles with the pr prostrate str te forms of the emotionally uneducated Well Vell I 1 must be off to hear that extremely jolly sound of liquid falling falling falling fall fall- ing from a height Ave oo HAL THE HERMIT HERl |