Show OFF S IS s sEAT I GREAT EAT PLAY i I Audience at Orpheum Is Delighted Plays Again Tonight I I If It Manager Joseph F. F Goss Goes pie pie- inc inc-I gents cents nothing but tragedies in his show chow shop during the rest of or the theatrical season which was begun Sunday night the average in laughs laugh for the year ear still will run pretty prett high on account of oC tho the laugh and antI chuckle record achieved by The Off Show at the opening perform perform- performance I ance The writer of this article has been beena a a. persistent theatregoer th in his ca- ca capacity Capacity of or reviewer but he does not I ca-I recall a a. stage play pIa in which tho the I It audience n assumed u such h a sympathetic Ym i t tt i liaison with the play la and players as In this splendid 1 comedy I IThe The Show Off Is 15 described as all being a transcript of ot life and it la Ls I all of ot that The characters Hi lii the I piece ring absolutely true Every Every- Everybody Ever I i body has known somebody Just I like that j Many an a home and family has Its Its' Mrs Fisher always talking always aI Jawing somebody bickering with her sons eons daughters and husband but nevertheless full of sensible Judgment 1 based on years ears eals of ripe experience R e. e I Nearly everybody too has known somebody who resembles Aubrey Aubre Piper Illel the dapper youth who Is always s showing off Mt The I character of ot Auble Aubie may have been I somewhat overdrawn by b the tho play play- playwright 1 I wright but an all effective and artis artia- artistic I tic result r lt Is achieved e nevertheless e I and d the manner n 11 in iii which Ca ed the tho part stamps him bust as a highly proficient and gift gitt- gifted cd ed 1 MAJOR I Aubrey makes only on I a I week as a a mere merc clerk In a 11 railway I office yet lie he le tells everybody ever body he lie Is I I ot the department d lie talks to insurance men about poli lOli policies tIes cies visits c automobile I shows sho buys 7 tickets to football games dresses r spectacularly a t ann ana j Insists f on or o a carnation n rl dally daily for his hl coat lapel Japel but bul seemingly la is content J to let his Ills wife live 11 In two t furnished rooms over a barber shop hop He lie is a ayoung ayoung young oung Major Hoople The fhe play pIa deals with the excite excite- excitement excitement ment that results to a plain tam fam family I ily lIy when the daughter falls in hove lovo with Aubrey ubre becomes only angry I when members of or the tue family f oppose the match and all 1 point out Aubrey's Aubrey numerous nut like qualities Of Ot i i course ours the tho opposition only hastens hastens hastens' I Ithe the marriage which ends In iii tIm pair lair finally coming conting home homo to live I I with vitis and In great part on mother liE NEVER XI EIt 0 I The interest interest-In In the comedy lies lIell In part on the dialogue but b t III greater part on oil the reactions Mrs Fisher Fiher and family have when I Aubrey Is thrown among them Aubrey goes along unchanged of or course I Jessie Busley an as Mrs Fisher has one of ot the most astonishing roles j I I of the theatre She Is speaking I nearly every eve minute the curtain Is ha haup up and she must do it rapidly The i irole Irole Irole role also calls call for tor character act- act actIng II I Ing log of or order and the the- th actress l I meets tho demands demand of ot the tho part to the complete te and enthusiastic eat cat I IS of all There are a ten tori I In the lie cast a 1 weak spot The Th Sho Oft with a fine vehicle and nd fine CillO cast thus ID is I. I altogether enjoyable It will bo be played tonight again lI at the tho Or- Or go 10 |