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Show am mim time taken to enact the piece, arc i pen to criticism The. weak points in the cast were on the feminine side. It might be wiser to mention no nam'-s, but simply sim-ply to say that better talent might have been secured for the parts of the ladles, or that something was larking lark-ing In the rehearsals, and has been ever since. The costuming of the play was true to the Southwest, as far as the Soiilhwestcrnert are concerned. Fresno's Fres-no's exaggerated college "get-up" would make a Stanford student gasp, and the Bowery would disown Larry Glass in some of his ''Bowery" togs. The comedy una very acceptable, however, and had the audience laugh-I laugh-I lng from beclnnlng until the final curtain cur-tain fall Speed's difficulties and disappointments dis-appointments with his subsequent success. suc-cess. Glass's devotion to the Rug of Allah, and the teirlbly sincere mcth- ods employed by "that Desperado, I Willie" well repaid the spectator for the price of admission. Allyn Lewis, in the stellar role, suited suit-ed the part to a nicety. In the beginning, begin-ning, it looked as though he would overdo his part, but his peculiar little personal charm, and clever bits of genuine acting soon drew the audience to him. p ; AT CHE5 1 i "GOING SOIIE." ! Going Some." tho dramatized farce-cmedy farce-cmedy from Rex Beach's latest book. I vi as pre-onted tit the New rden th-: th-: aler last night t' a well nil-d hous.'. ! The play w as civ en In five act.i, t when threo would have jdea d the an-: an-: dlence better. There vva much time lost and wasted In umieceni-ary "byplay" "by-play" and attempt. at the conic, when the mere telling of the rtory i as vvrl'tf-n by Mr. I'each would have sufficed. "Going Some" Is a realistic tonudy of th.; New Mexican italic, true t. eier' character Introduced Into Ihe book and true to every -Itualbm brought about. The dramat izatl. -a of the norv took away none of lu laugh-making roe". t Ue collec-llon collec-llon of yUycrs. togeUier -jta. tho |