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Show EDM GOODRICH PLAYS SHADOWS' After bavins itten.ud tl.c perform ance by Kdn.i CJoo.irl. h and company of Shadows.' melodrama by Octa-vlua Octa-vlua Roy Cuiifn, about the first thins the reviewer should sav- is this It senis a shame that so much lime and talent is devoted to .o unworthy a Ploy. (JctavlUS Roi Cohen may be able lo viite n giM dialect stories good enoufhl to suit the fancies of the edltbi or The Saturday Evening lJost but be doesn't amount to muc h as a dramatist dramat-ist if shadows" is .1 fair example -f his work. 1 j Everybody in Miss Goodrich's com-pany com-pany worked hard last night and therX was some fine talent displayed but ;iii ihesp endeavors could not ''put lite play over.'' It is sad to contemplate what would have been the result had 'a les.H capable group taken upon themselves them-selves the task uf producing the .Ira in ' j But all this adverse criticism does' jnot mean that lust, night's derform-ancs derform-ancs w"- .. failure. Thefce ivas much to be enjoyed. The stage settings ,werc excellent, the costumes beautiful .and the uctlns a:i h whole, praisewor-ith.v. praisewor-ith.v. (in, feature of the ploj v-Js tni 'well sustained character of l7-vear-obi sirl with .1 perverted sens of the 'romantic. The play tells I lie story of a man s ilack of faith In his wife. A scoundrel lhas betrayed the husbaners sister. This 'fellow- enters the wife's room at nishl and presents lo her a pn Whereb I be husband will not dare to carry out his threat to kill the sistei's betrayer, The wife do.sn'l want her husband to 'he a murderer and so she agrees lo go to thc villains room, there to work out the details. 1 The huaband learn:' of the strung rs Visit to his wife's room He SUSpocts bee of Infidelity. Bhe will not tell him the truth, for sonic, nason which the ; author does not make convincing and; It looks like a genera! all around bUSt- . up until a few minutes before the fbse 'of the last net when tw. policemen arrest the villain and the husband 'learns that hia wife rOS trying to mv : him from himself. .Miss Goodrich and her company are to present a play from the French at 'the orpheum tonight. "Sleeping 1 'nets'' Is the title. Advance not). would indicate It to bo well worth see-ilng. |