Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-12-09 | Page 17 | Moroni Olsen Changes Play

h MORONI OLSEN CHANGES HANGES PLAY Candida by Shaw to tc toBe Be First Ogden Offering The Moroni Olsen PIn Players have decided to present as ns their open opening ing bill George Georgo Bernard Sha Shaws Shaw's s 's popular piny pIn pla Candida on Oil Decem Decem- December December ber her 17 Instead of o tho play Am bush n as previously advertised advertise Moron Moroni nl Olsen Byron Blon B ion An and Janet Young Tonne appeared In da 11 In New York City at nt Ih the Green Green- Gr Green Ieh theatre during March and and April of o last bt year It I Is 19 slid that no group of o young oung actors ever rc- rc ro-cei ro c d l more criticisms or were wre accorded more moro space In the C ev YOI k papers PRESS fh The Silt Salt 1 Lake October I 13 1123 1 says sais Could one Imagine a more ihle ador-ihle e character thin than Candida most mot pOl tra cd by Janet oung 1 oung bringing out the 1 idea ea of o the te wife Ife of the prelate pole pule Hn e and ind unselfish Then to In the tho of the re orel Mr Olsen Oln appeared n as his whole hole raer In teal leal Hrc ho Karl had 1 been bren de demoted to the mm- mm min km Th The 01 oice carnage carriage and l eler emery action suited th the part perfectly lh Byron D a name for lor lorI I himself in to th the r r of ru en the lose o 10 e sick poet pod not et el at the age ige where he l e has up against the realities of lIf life His sIn nes In discussing 10 lose losew e w ith Miss fiss iss Proserpine Garnett t ti tl 1 p- p pst p It st to the minister Is without n a atan aHw tan 11 hll while the work ork of the I pork as d cd b Dorothy Adams I is h n en- en entitled i titled to c r thing good that thit ran can b be Bald all about it IL In the list last act ranI I after the I turn from the late sup supper supper supper per during champagne was her hr interpretation of or the bIbulous young oung women Is a scream Then there is the curate In tilt the personality of 01 Joseph IT Williams 1 I is ms perfect hf ii detail and lands much mutt to 10 lh the success of the pIa pIas plat s As AsIr sIr ss v Ir Mr Bunts Candida's father frank I certainly Jr with perfect command of the hc In lIsh dialect as peculiar to the O n The Tacoma News Tribune No- No ember No-ember ember embr 13 l 1 23 aass s a Olsen himself one of the nuU figures of the stage stae to- to toda today to-dai to I da day with Ith his magnificent presence his loice olee of wonderful richness and Ills his fine tine poise and com com- command command mand manit of 01 Ins lIS role played the part of the big MR- bo boy parson and was as at atall atall all times Irreproachable ble In his its pren pre presentation of 01 the th character lIos Janet Young made a 11 well swell nigh perfect throwing hr herself her herself self Into the de delicate situations that are the theme of the play and ne neer ne er los los- los liP of the quiet understanding of both her boys hoys who are art In such danger of ot enemies Byron BYTon Foulger or a 01 es Eugene March March banks 8 gate e a a a Portrayal of ot a n mot most character with such fl- fl fi fidelity delity and delicacy as to be most con The shy sh sensitive e boy bov with the poets poet's soul who fancies he Is In love lovo with the parsons parson s wife lIe and flies files Into a II rage o o er r hr her fancied lonely Jonel- misunderstood lot appeared before the tho audience In to 1 n corn corn- rl 1 f ay nay to win and aid to eom- eom com command mand nand admiration e esen een e en when ben JIt he seemed to cut a sorry figure as the father of Can Can- Candida Candida dida was as a splendid contrast to the theother theother other characters and anil he h pia played placed ed the therole therole therole role with extreme cleverness Dorothy Adams In tho the party parts of Prose the typist was Irresistible and nd roused the to audlene-to mirth with her lier Ier clever cleser cle er hits at the differ ditter- ent members of the tho parsons parson's group Joseph Josph Williams In the role lole of the curate a was Has fully In I keeping smith Ith the high quality of the Ule entire production The Oregon Dally Journal Port rort- Portland Portland land Ore October 31 1923 says All AH members In to the cast were ad- ad admIrably admirably ad admirably suited to their parts The Seattle flail many Tines Times No Noem No em- em em vero 1923 says Candida CandIdo I which remains as one of the tho most mot amusing things Shaw Shawl ha has e eser eer er written mitten gl gle e Mr Ir Olsen and his players excellent opportunities opportunities