Show OLSEN PLAYERS REVEAL SKILL Outward Bound Difficult Difficult Difficult cult Drama Presented Sailing on a vessel essel bound for tor heaven and hell with six lx other passengers and a ships ship's steward would be b quite a IL new and tan fan fantastical fan fantastical thing thine on the th one han hand han hand most dis- dis disconcerting dis and nd on the tb other concerting All of or the action in III Sutton Vances Vance's Outward Bound BounI Bound Is Is on lust just such a vessel and all the characters face the th final ac- ac accounting accounting ac accounting counting for their sins To have watched the th Moroni Olsen players present Outward Bound Wednesday night at the Orpheum theatre is to have hav f full lt some seine of the tho fears tears of traveling ou 0 such a weird voyage The Tho play Flay Is broad In Its delineation of ot the human character some sour subtle humor accompanying petty fault faultfinding finding and frail characteristics of human beings Most authors In choosing choosing- a mythical setting are ar prone to pr p n Idealistic scenes but not so with Sutton Vance Vane In this play Having left lun the life liCe lit of or this world behind hu he does docs not forget torget Its basic virtues vir- vir virtues vir virtues tues tues but Jut rather has hns the tho ho examiners 1 sward ward his clients strictly and sole sole- solly ly iy on tho those e fundamentals One not wish Ish to sit before a fairer court In the final answer answer- answerIng Ins answer tug Ing for tor ones one's on sins ins TO LIFE The Th role rola of ot Henry played by Tarry Harry R n Alien All n although it is ono one or of the minor parts otters offers one ono or of orthe othe the best b st examples of ot showing on papers Just how difficult playing I such roles Is Is Henry seemed weak In his role because having to with Ith few words is an ungracious Job to begin with Hu was timid throughout and seemed to have no strength of ot character ve itch Is to compliment Allen Alien for tor forIn torin torIn In the final Ina analysis of the play the steward in correcting him tells him he h has haa been uncourageous And come to think of ot It the courageous line he ho spoke throughout the th play Was ras I 1 have nothing to say Moroni Olsen as Mr ley or of Lingley Ltd was brisk curt and ancl officious dominating the th stage whenever er he be appeared One of ot the most amusing parts of ot the th entire play piny comes when Mr Lingley of Lingley Ltd calls a meeting meeting- to decide first whether those or of orthe the party are aro ar dead and secondly It so how best to meet the tho ex cx Drawing up a 1 balance balanco sheet beet of ot goodly deeds and sins is 14 whimsical and at the tho same time subtle Leora Thatcher as Mrs Cliveden Banks Danks was very much worried In Inthe inthe Inthe the final moments before beC re the ex- ex examiner ex examiner called h her r to a reckoning She played her part well Byron Kay Foulger appeared in a more pleasing role than at other ap- ap appearances ap appearances on the Ogden stage Only at lengthy Intervals did Id he seem to escape from the character or of Mr r Prior The Rev Re William Duke Duk Gordon Nelson and the th Rev Frank Fr Thompson the th examiner Harry Nelson did credit to the minis ministerial tonal profession Harry Nelson was especially effective in his short role Much credit Is due du Janet Young for her interpretation of ot the simple characteristics s of Mrs Midget She mastered the th dialect of the tho simple aged woman with gratifying case ease The other players were ere Joseph JosephH JosephIi Ii H Williams as a Scrubby and and Dorothy Adams as Ann Williams was entertaining and Dorothy Adams along with her lover Henry had few lines to say A 1 disconcerting and un ungracious gracious tas task Careful study sincerity and abil- abil ability abil ability ity were manifested through every even moment of the play the Olsen players giving an effective per per- performance per performance of a difficult drama nn- nn |