Show FINE ACTING IS SHIP FEATURE FE A TURE Large Audience Attends Moroni Performance Olsen Players A rather dull play made Inter Inter Inter-esting eating esting by splendid acting and staging This is the reviewers reviewer's summing up ot of th the tho Moroni Olsen players production of ot The Ship by bt bt John G Ervine The play Is one that appeals more to the student ot of the drama than to the ordinary theatre goer theatre It is a 8 tragedY semi dealing with two strong and contrasting per per- personalities In one father family family and son The father Is the the greatest greal pst ship ship- shipbuilder builder builder In the world and wanta his son to succeed him hint In ia the yards ards The young oung son e Is in or of f the ai type that prefers study ard re 10 reflection on a quiet farm than industrial leadership Finally the yo young ng man leaves his farm tarm at the tha exhortation of or iris Ills father Cather to represent the family on the maiden vo voyage voyage ge of ot the fathers father's greatest ship The ship hits a berg aberg and sinks It Is on only I then that the father r realizes that he had no right to tomake tomake tomake make his only son lead the lath fath father's ers er's life rather than his own life Janet Young as the th year old year grandmother Moroni Olsen as the aging shipbuilder and Byron Dyron Foulger as the idealistic son are admirably cast In the three lead lead- lead ins in mc roles and their work was a pleasure to behold and hear neu Gor Gor- don Gordon Nelson Kelson has a splendid bit bic of work to do In the second act and the manner in which he did It as aa one feature of or the play There is a remarkably effective scene played by the Moroni Olsen players in the second scene of the last thelast act This Is the announce announcement ment merit of the sinking of the vessel Olsen and the loss of ot the son Mr 01 Ol 01 s sen That n 1 Miss Hiss lisa Young Leora Thatcher and Joseph H Williams make these few Cew moments of of the play n a striking lesson leon in the art ot of act act- ing lag acting players Performed by the Olsen play ers The Ship Is la impressive but the players could not put Into inlo the play the elements the author left out There was an absence or of suspense As the curtain went down on one ono act there did not seem Beem much t to look forward to in inthe the next The big surprise Is that the Olsen players could get as much out of ot the playas play as they did An unusually large audience In In attendance l i was players and gave the play play- ers most sympathetic attention throughout the time three acts |