Show ITY 1901 HUTH the babcock var varty aty players touring utah in their second sea ion armed in richfield tuesday for three performance i and ami opened the tare cycle ci the same evening in the hi high gh school auditorium for a gi iced and appreciative precia tive audience the offering of th firt first evening was mas kindling by charles charle kenyon which a foot note in the program calli a great modern play pla of gripping emotions and stirring diolos we beg to take isue with this state nien men at least with th that part which milich call Kind kindling linT a great modern modem play true it I 1 is only fifteen yearn earo since the first but the th play pla LS Is in exposition position et structure ruc ture and chapaa ter deign so much of the older school chool that it would mould not b be a great mistake to call it an old timer As A far as a s the gripping m notions emotions p are concerned the liar li arpine on the strings 1 of human sympathy is of uch such a natu nature that we repeat the phrase ph raso it would not be a great rest mistake to call it a melodrama the performance it itself elf while thoroughly creditable and of a much higher order than any of the wan wall during ding companies visiting small places can put on it was wa somewhat in keeping with the cna ot the play a little old cimei too much elocution on not enough rea realism cism and to compa e it t with a painting done in colors 10 0 oud loud that the spectator gasps more than he delights what we me mean by elocution I 1 11 the sort ort of declamation that emphasize more the beauty of the spoken morti than its ness nesa to the situation anti ani actors ha who per perform forin a 3 play like Kind kindling linz ought to remember reme niber that dx dwellers eller in tenements do not speak peak like the characters in a shakespearian historical play all those thoe taking parts in the play aside irom thoe things we me mentioned before did good work ork that snowed oed liligene dill lil gent igent training and full mastery of the basic ba sic ot A special word of praise has to be given call calvin in midgley who mho the part of heine shultz in a way mray that made of it a living man beulah casady a as mr bates bate had done equally lually el as well uell had she refrained from painting in thoe tho e loud colors color the same ame applies to J stanley russel rusel anoe over painting ff can even eien be taken in the literal serse or e ozithe of the word mord because se he put so 0 much black hue blie pain on his fus eyelids eyelid i that he more like a I 1 who had just received a sound thresh ing than like a crook who outwits out wits ace a plain clothes cop as shown in his scene ne with the detective rafferty ion ery nicely played hi by merrill benion bemon myrintha Bumm harr mabrie mab rie schultz allien robertson 01 alrh smith and mercy lundberg alice fitted ft mell ell in the ensemble acting but speaking in the fission of attend ants at a medieval court in instead tead of a lenient dweller bueller anti and society ladies i of A D 1920 at any rate the performance perform arce was wa s enjoyable anil and tile Rc ration committee responsible sible for the of the varsity players is entitled to credit anti and thanks we ne mentioned some cs for the retson reison only that we think high rade acting ought to be considered from the higher viewpoint of ju just criticism anil and not from the stand standpoint pom of the ter naho vho considers consider fl aery tte as antici m we that will enjoy things s much better if they also are a little crit critical icil in looking at tho the things that arc an offered to them I 1 betheen nets acts tho girls caoru chorus aan ruby pithy thurber Thur br binl and mable enc i aloit olo soloists it rive somo omo song with miss enri thurber at th ard earned learned dew descove applause |