Show THEATRE REVIEWS Olsen Players Rise High In Dear Brutus It If you were nero ero given gien iven an opportunIty opportunity ity of having a second chance at living your life how bow would you do It It Is likely that you would b be Just about what you tore are r now even In different circumstances thinks J M loI Barrie Carrie the famous author of ot Dear Brutus which was presented for tor the first time In Ogden by the Moroni Olsen play play- players ers era Wednesday evening at the Or Or- Or Orpheum Or The comedy Is In three acts It ItIs Itis ItIs- ItIs Is is- is isone one one one- of ot the tho most weird and unusual unusual plays ever witnessed hero here and Is a play that mus must bo be put on by an accomplished troupe or orthe orth the erfe effect t would be lost I The technique of ot of tb the drama is such that only actors as a skilled as the Olsen players could depict the subtle wings me me that make mak the play what it is FANTASTIC I STOnY The The plot deals with a group croup of English people who ho have been InVIted to the tho home of ot an eeC eccentric n pId ld man named Lob whose hose and manner of talk talk- bikIng Ini tog Ing to flowers have hav created an anair anair air of ot suspicion about him him The villagers are afraid of ot him Yet It was he ho who was wise enough to bring brine g his Guests to his Ills estate on en Midsummer even een when thine ore arc enchanted and show them tm their truo true selves The Th first fir t act deals Mth the characters as they are ar In Lobs Lob's house the th second sho shows s them In tho enchanted wood that occurs on Midsummer eve where they given aro the th opportunity of ot go go- go going fo Ing back and living life as they think they would like Ilka to have done fInnA If It The he f fiA iA thIrd thip act n brings them back Into the house homo they awoken awaken from their trance and ond realize their lives are mostly the outward expression of the stuff that Is Inside them for tor the same se me characteristics that made JT them thieves or philanthropists that thai i made mado mad them lazy ha My do- do de demoted toted ot of o mediocre Lalen talents 5 or cap cap- eap- eap captains t of ot finance In III one life were wereth the same name characteristics characteristic that shaped their lives live In to the second chance they desired For Shake Shake- Shakespeare Shake spears speare said ald rho Th rhe fau fault dear Brutus Is not In III our stars but butIn butin butla In ourselves that we w ar ara under under- underlings lings NT The butler bullet Yo ho steals steal the rugs ot of house guests Is I u a great trial finan finan- financier financier cier eler In to the enchanted wood and the Bercant who pilfers is rein rein- reincarnated reincarnated Into the th business map man who would wreck a forrs bani bank without without conscience Tiro Tl TI woman who would woul make love loe lov another woman womans woman's husband Is given a taste or of her own medicine in le her lor chance The mediocre artist who thinks he h might h have e been belli famous famous'S S la sUIl still mediocre but hut happy to III dream world when t the daugh- daugh tur daugh-tur for tur he h never had lild aril and he h h 3 play ot at tl be have It n 11 Ills wife w ho li hobs hob's th thi hi thought t that she married a failure does the same thin thing when she sh marries the spend spend- spendthrift spendthrift thrift roue In the tho fairy forest and so goes so-goes goes the lh story It all sleeps Lob who apparently app s is the of old Shako Shako- Shak Puck lne play is so entirely different frem the usual run of ot comedies comedes that It Is worth seeing twice to fully appreciate the tho th playwrights playwright's knowledge knowl dze of life and lost hopes Ono One On of ot the tho th lines of ot Mr Dearth the artist saye saS sa Throe things come not back to man the th spoken word ord the past life and nd the neg- neg neglected neglected opportunity TIlE THE Following Is the th cast Cost Characters In acts one and three Mr Ir Dearth the artist fall fail failure all all- allure ure Moroni 1 Olsen Mrs Mra Dearth Leora Thatcher Mr Purdle phil phil- philandering phil young youns lawyer Byron Dyron Kay l Foulger Mrs Mr Purd e Donna Jone Jones Mr Coade a man who thInks he ho Is lazy Joseph II If Wil- Wil Wil Williams Hams liams Mrs Coade Jan Janet t Young Youn- Lob the th eccentric old man moo Harry Harryn R- R RAich Aich Ale Alc Matey the butler Gor- Gor Gordon Gor Gordon don Nelson Joanna Trout In love with Mr lIr Purdie Purdue Dorothy Adams Lady Caroline Laney Mary Croke Characters In the th Wood act two The Th Artist Moroni Olsen Margaret Dearth's daughter Janet Young Tm tIo ilor Mrs Finch Floch Leora Thatcher Jack Purdle Byron Kay Foulger Joanna his wife Dorothy Adams Adam Mabel Donna Jones The Piper Jo Joseph eph II It Williams William James Matey ate Gordon Nelson Caroliny his wife Ife Mary Croke n |