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Show "MM GET YOUR GUN" GREAT SHOW Rocky Mountain News Praises the Play. The Rocky Mountain News has tho i following to say of "Johnny Get Your Gun," which comes to the Orpheum theater Wednesday, January 30: ' "If there is a dull moment in! 'Johnny Get Your Gun' it can't be recalled. re-called. It opened last night at tho Broadway with a laugh and ended with I a scream with the same things all the way through the three acts and tho prologue. The prologue opens in a factory of custard pie comedy location loca-tion somewhere in California. This little glimpse into the home life of the picture makers is ono of tho funniest fun-niest biLs ever staged. "It fairly bristles with satire and serves to Introduce besides Mr. Louis Bennison, the stir of tho show, an old Denver favorite, Robert Homans, the excellent character man who has played at tho Gerdans. Mr. Homan3 played the director of custard plo comedy who has a volcanic temperament. tempera-ment. "It is. In this studio, doing western stunts for the leading man, that Johnny Wiggins (Louis Bennison) is discovered and persuaded to go east and save his friend's sister from marrying a duke. The plot is that, Johnny Impersonated his friend Bill I Burnham, Bill being temporarily de-, tajned on account of killing a sheej5-1 herder. This idea originated with the young man, who wants to marry the sister himself. "Leaving the home of c- p. c., the adventurers are next . discovered in civilization right among dukes, butlers, but-lers, parlor maids and an aunt who lapses into French. Johnny does not fit into the arrangements, aunty and the duke dislike him exceedingly and the duke's man doesn't caro for him at all. The butler thinks he's vulgar, too in fact, Johnny loses casto. except with the parlor maid and his sister. However crude his methods and though they were not understood or appreciated, lie was successful. "It would not be fair to those who have the treat of tho season In store for them to tell of the many funny situations nor of tho clever-climax. Enough that It is tho most freshly conceived con-ceived and lustiest farce that has como this way In many a day. To Louis Bennison we are indebted for tho delightfully naivo characterization of Johnny Wiggins and Mr. Bennison Benni-son also had a finger in making this farcical pie. Ho is engagingly natural, doos not overact (the cruse of farce) and such a smile, that.smilo is a regular reg-ular chinook on a January night. "Edith Lyle. young, attractive and pretty, displayed the sister, and an equally pleasing personality Is that of Lorraino Frost, the parlor maid, who casts her lot with Johnny and the "pitchers." An immensely clever piece of work is done by Echlin Gayer, who plays the duke. In fact, the farce is perfectly cast throughout." |