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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