Typed as spelled and written
Lena Stone Criswell

THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Eighteenth Year - Number 35
Marlin, Texas, Saturday, September 21, 1907
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Under Southern Skies.
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       Lottie Blair Parker's "Under Southern Skies" was the bill at the Arlington opera house Wednesday night.
       The scene of this beautiful play is laid in the southland, ten years after the close of the civil war when the flower of ante bellum knighthood had not entirely faded.  The play is intensely human, real almost, and is entrancingly magnetic from the rise to the drop of the curtain.  It is a story replete with emotional acting of the lighter vein, until its parts are well put together and presented to the audience in a most captivating manner.
       The play is intensely southern, as are also the characters.  Miss Marian Hutchins, in the role of Lelia Crofton, shows ability of a high order.  Daniel Fager makes a good villain, handling this difficult part of any play in an artistic way.  Ralph Rollins is a good hero and Ryan is a typical southern gentleman of the old school, though a little more boastful and bombastic than the real article.  This, of course, being "all in the play."
       Edyth Fabbrina, as Anneer Lizer is great and failed not to ring the encores at every turn.  Aunt Doshey, the "Black Mammy" as represented by Stella Congdon, was an exceedingly important part of the melodrama and held much attention throughout.
       The company carries some of the finest scenery ever shown in Marlin.  The play is clean.

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