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)u TONIGHT:Comedy Club pre-
s sents Lynn Starling's "Meet The
n- Wife" in the Mimes theater at
8:30 o'cock.
re "u)EET THE WIFE"
A review, by I. Leslie Askren
y Comedy Club has done it this time.
They did it abominably well- but
what a thing to do! At that it is a
clever choice for Ann Arbor audiencesc e
since they all roared and 'ovated' in
the accustomed manner. That being
what Ann Arbor enjoys almost as Still tim
s much as a football game it was just ness Tr
- as well that they were given the prepare;
r pleasure.
y Speaking from the dramatic point
r. of view "Meet the Wife" presents the . s
e anomaly of a good play gone wrong
s under a load of sentiment. Starling's
d conception was a vastly clever thing.
d On a nicely melodramatic plot he hung LPg
>f a scarecrow of bromidioms and plati-
e tudes. The scarecrow was amusing
in spite of the unfortunate fact that
Phyllis Loughton did her utter best
to make a human being out of it. But
it was a scarecrow nonetheless and
should have been treated as such
with the lowest comedy conceivable.
r Mlle. Loughton, a charming and tal-
ented ingenue, made a Dulcy out of
one of these stylish-stout club women
and the result was a bit tragic,. It
would be platitude to say she was
Smiscast.She might have done a show-
stealing Doris. Instead, she was an
ample stop-gap as Gertrude Lennox.
Lt Dougall stood out as an actor for
e once. He has finally caught the tech-
nique of being mature. His skittish
11 nuances were: travesty, and very
clever travesty, where once they were
just hoofer-ism. But Wetzel, blazing
shorts not withstanding, scored the
hit of the evening. Perhaps the man
is more a moral hero than a drama-
tic one. "Silly-ass" parts about as
popular as "a lady in an interesting
condition" part is with an ingenue,
but Wetzel's playing was the most
successful thing he has done this year.
The famous Cristy truculence was
once more in humorous evidence as
henpecke4"number two," but a cer-
e tain wistful quality has been added-
e if wistfulness can be added to tru-
e culence-which made the role a very
e appealing thing; a background of
- tragedy for Loughton's amusing an-
I tics which adds much to the great en-
s tertainment which "Meet the Wife"
offers.
t WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN?
n Elmer Rice and Phillip Barry, who,
- their press agents infonm us, are "both
Y well known and brilliant young play-
wrights," have written a mystery
I play in which the murder is com-
- mitted on thestage, and have called
it "Cock Robin." Now Miss Bon-
I stelle, who is widely known for miss-
ing nothing friom playwrights who are
either well known or brilliant, has
decided to use this unusual play, in
which the horror as well as the mys-
tery is shown on the stage, as her
next attraction.
Mystery plays like the Pythagorean
Theorem or Dad's Puzzle have only a
few conventional ways in which they
can be worked out; either the hero
has been killed by some member of
his family, his sweetheart, his best
friend, or by somebody else, who
pnobably didn't mean to do it. Every
member of the audience always knows
at the end of the first act who did the
foul deed and why-if they weren't
able to guess from the advertisements
before they came in.
ALL-STATE ORCHESTRA
High school musicians, represent-
ing more than fifty high schools
throughout the state, will present an
unique musical program this Thurs-
day evening at 8 o'clock in Hill audi-
totium. Joseph E. Maddy has organ-
ized the All-State orchestra, and will
rehearse only once with the group
as a whole before the concert. How-
ever, individually the orchestras have
been studying the music in their re-
spective schools during the past ,sev-
eral weeks. The general public is
invited; no admission charge will be
made. The program that will be pre-
sented is as folilowg:
Finlandia................. Sibelius
New World Symphony ...... Dvorak
Largo
Allegro
Concerto in A Minor for piano and
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