Show THE SILVER WEDDING HOPELESSLY WOODEN IS CRITICS CRITIC'S OPINION THERE was one tense not to say ay THERE I gripping moment In Tho Tile Sliver Silver Wedding at the Long Acre theatre theatre theatre thea thea- tre at its Ils first production and that was when hen tho the old German Gorman s saddle mak mak dle-mak- er who doubled in brass as tho the loader leader of ot tho the village band unwittingly swallowed swallowed lowed a pill in drinking to tho the unblushIng unblushing ing lag bride A groat reat deal depended on that pill pm It might have havo cured Ludwig of the c 1 THOMAS A. A IS AS S VIG Lri IOEL n. n u nn nr lr lees sg that an ii u h has sC over saddled o upon a ch a character r tr l lIt It worked only a a. change chane for tor the tile worse And the worst of ot It was that Ludwigs Ludwig's complaint was a a. purely Imaginary one Ho felt he lie had bad been attacked in a vital part purt when he heard the youth who married mar mar- ned ried his daughter speak of ot a pl pigheaded pig pig- headed Dutchman and applied tho the re remark remark remark re- re his wounded soul mark to This re remark remark remark re- re mark was as repeated repented no so often orten that it was made tc to do duty as BS tho the plot of Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward Lockes Locke's s aimless little I play This Thin time BelasCO had not been called In as ne In Tho The Case Caso of or Deck Becky and an attempt to create a musical a Ht- Ht moshe 2 similar to that of ot The Tho Cl Cil U. U max max foiled failed because only one member of ot the string quartet that came to practice and remained to wrangle knew how to tn plIt pl play It Is not nol uncommon for tor an actor to blow blo his own horn but Jut to see Thomas ThomasA A A. Wise Ve clasping a it tuba no le less Jess 8 In jn i moment that called for tor tenderness whon the tho daughter took her leave leavo wa a a. rare and Incongruous sight At other times Mr Wise picked earnestly and patiently at a zither leaving us to judge it was not his favorite Instrument to say the least Occasionally ho he lost his German dialect as completely as lS his temper but buthis buthis buthis his performance on the whole was marked markell by that beaming good nature which alwa always s 's makes us warm toward him and a n. sense of ot characterization that was at t least equal to to the tho authors The Tho wonder is ho lo managed to lo make mako as much of the tho part as he did for except In tho beginning inning of ot the first act and at atthe tile end of ot tile the pIa play It placed him Inan Inan in inan an absurd light This was positively cly glaring In the preposterous and melodramatic melodramatic melo mob dramatic scene where LUdwig started to call a halt on the wedding The reading reading- of the tho marriage ceremony was as tedious and strained to the last de degree dere do- do gree re and in requiring Mr lr Wise to play the heavy father tather for a a. moment that suggested a burlesque of ot Hazel Kirk the author sot set him an impossible task But after shaving himself with a safety razor th the 0 cons constitutionally tl n ally arni amiable o actor found happiness s as a n. grandfather Some Somo of ot the domestic touches In the dialogue of Ludwig and his wife were ere any anything thinS thinS' but delicate Yet Miss AlIC Alice Gale Galo pla played ed the good frau so 50 well that Mr Ir Lockes Locke's questionable taste was made to seem homely humor Socola as 8 an Italian barber and Miss Lillian Ross Roas as ns a 0 sentimental of mald work all-work were the only other members of tho the cast who ho wore were not utterly st age The Tho Sliver Silver Wedding is IB not only a hopelessly wooden affair but it is by byall byall byall all odds the tho thinnest play that has ever er fallen tallen to the lot of ot a a. fat actor Its plot couldn't havo have been lighter If It it had been built for lor an airship Unconsciously Unconsciously perhaps Mr Ir Locke has written written written writ writ- ten a a. motion picture play It really Is Isa Isa Isa a waste of ot words |