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Show Hi : ; 1 neatr es j TURN TO THE RIGHT ; Clean, wholesome, delightful, full ol keen humor and heart throbs. Thif 1 describes tho play "Turn to the Right' which was presented at the Orphcum to a fair sized audience last evening I and which will show again today, mat ! inee and night, I In a nutshell, the plot is woven ' about, the efforts of a recently dis ' charged convict, who has resolved tc "turn to the right" and make good for the sake of his mother and sweet heart. It is a rural comedy, mixed with the machinations of Gotham crooks, and rural crooks. The Gotham crooks are trying to "go straight" and the rural crooks are making every effort ef-fort to defraud the innocent and cheat ' tho deserving. To tell the story of tho plot would be superfluous. It is a stropg plot and so weli played and cast, that it is one of tho best plays seen here this season. It is an American comedy by Winch-ell Winch-ell Smith and John E. Hazzard. Peach jam has a prominent part in the plot. In fact, peach jam is the eventual salvation sal-vation of Joe Bascom in his efforts to go straight and make a man of himself. him-self. , Stuart Fox as Joe Bascom; Mike Donlin, former baseball star, as Mugs; William Foran as Gilly and Jane Ellison Elli-son as Mrs. Bascom, form the principal princi-pal characters. However, every character char-acter is so well cast for the role he plays that it Is sufficient to say that the cast of characters and general makeup of the show could not be better. bet-ter. In the writer's opinion, this is the best show of its kind that will be presented here this sea6n and those who miss it today miss a rare treat. The scenery is beautiful, especially the orchard scene. This setting drew a round of applaiue from the audience. oo |