THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tl T THiATER BOOKS MUSIC TONIGUT: The Rockford Play- ers present Kenyon Nicholson's "The Barker" in the Whitney theater at 8 o'clock. TONIGHT: The Mimes present George Bernard's Shaw's "The Devil's Disciple" in their theater - at 8:30 o'clock. "THE BARKER" A review, by Vincent Wall With the duteous Charles Chaplin fulfilling a covenant to his people in "The Circus" over at the Majestic, and the Rockford Players' performance of "The Barker" at the Whitney, the local playgoers have been treated to sundry furtive peeps at the life of the tank town mountebank in his idle mo- ments. Be it said for "The Barker" that, although the casting taxed the versatility of the company to the ut- most, it is a very good melodrama, oc- casionally humorous in its blatant ribaldry, and well played in its emo- tional moments. There is, it is true, a distortion of values in the various performances. But imagine, if you will, Kate Hol- land Patton who is so bound into the tradition of the dowagers and matrons of Mayfair and Long Island cast as a Hootch dancer with loose morals and a wiggling torso; or Frances Dade playing a lady known as Lou-a taw- dry little baggage with a heart as scarlet as the gown she wore; they capture tile illusion some way or other, and are very charming sluts. You can't tell me Mrs. Mansfield couldn't do Little Lord Fauntleroy. The rest were equally good. Charles Warburton creates a remarkable "Nifty" Miller who titles the show as the spieler out front. He 'is-like the other troupers with the Gowdy Big City Shows, groping for happiness -and finding it in the arms of a cheap Hula girl and in the love of his son, Chris. As played by Robert Henderson, Chris is much like his other juveniles-too much like some of them, but he is effective in his scenes with Frances ;Dade. Franz Rothe as Colonel Gowdy; Samuel Bon- nell as Hap Spissel; Harold May as Sailor Aest, the tatoo artist; Velma Royton as Maw Benson-all were ex- cellentJn their moments. In short the Players declared a moral holiday and went whole heart- edly into the work of portraying the life that goes on behind the canvas posters of the midway. "The Barker" is almost a great play, and as given certainly is a good one. The pro- duction has its faults--as most of the others have had-but the action sel- dom lags, and the whole is both amus- ing and entertaining. "THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE" A review, by Kenneth Patrick Publicity-like history to General Burgoyne-is all lies, or else Shaw must become a little tin god to some of us. It is hard to see how G. B. S. could prefer "The Devil's Disciple" to any of his others, or maybe we're all crazy. In the same manner that Richard Dudgeon and his black soul are saved by a neck, so is Shaw saved a debacle by a scene-next to the last. And that of course is price- less. The play itself serves as an admirable weapon for the Irishman to use against his old friends, the English, and he riddles the good ship Britannica until she sinks in the suav- 'est of manners. "The Devil's Disci- ple" seems to be a battle between wit and hokum, with the latter slumping suddenly after a few lively rounds. With the smoothness of "The Bar- ker" still in mind, a disposition of the players and the playing is not so easy. What can be more evident than the fact that "Ben Hur's" and hangings are not in the province of Mimes? It is criminal for them to waste, their time and their facilities on the mak- ing of third rate spectacles, when they can be first in their field. To- night's work is well worth attention of the campus, for it contains two splendid performances, brilliant wit that is Shaw's alone, several good uniforms, and a good display of technical efficiency. But the mechan- ism creaks regardless. Grand opera will always flop in a Little Thea- ter. A justifiable note on the show is that Mr. Shuter has been prevented from seeing a single re- hearsal on account of illness, andj that a new director has had to labor under the handicap of an unwieldly vehicle, an unwieldly cast, and new surroundings. Kleutgen turnst from his Cohan and - ~N~LL FRANCE Round Trip- Germany $103. $175. Liverpool or London $85,z Any Class, Ste: Port Tour or E. G.Kue Phone 641 Gen. Steamship Vetru %... ..,....,...... - $90 is m tic i r it - $160 . . - i$160 GlasgowT s t.$15By the Month or for the Cruise UNDERWOOD, ROYAL, L 112 We Keep Th Agency RIDER'S 1540R PAI Dit Theaters __ _____ _RA The Only lIdepeldent Theatre n Ann Arbor THEATRE TUES.-ITED. iniig Suii., Mar. ";i .........7' to 2.50- Louise Fazenda at. Mats..75c to $1.56 Clyde Coo Pius Taxli T COUNT YOU'I "A Million Bid" CHICKENS" Usual Shiort Subjects MARY OIND.This "Ad"' with 10c ,odward at Eliot "E K LI N G Semester--Your Choice . . 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