THE MICHIGAN DAILY .. Imo I v~tec hn w ll ha in n~ a~,.,, a,,,- 1 . -....____:.,._........._.I_1. THEATER BOOKS MUSIC bestqu t O. D )f ^°17 Nickels )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 L SUPPLIES- for all makes of American Rug Cleaning Works TYPEWRITERS Rugs and Carpets nover, fresh stock Insurer ality at a moderate price. Cleaned-Sized-Repaired . MO RRILL 1032 Green St Phone 8115 Arcade. Phone 6615; MULLISON SADDLE STABLES 326 East Ann Street Class for Men-Friday, 4 P. M LIMITED NUMBER-SO CALL EARLY Phone 7418 ' 1 I qw sw w w w I e to enter for that Busi- wining you need. Let us you for a good position. 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