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Tremont Temple--"Lightnin...
Tremont Temple--"Lightnin...
...Lightnin'. Until a month or two ago Lightnin was the most popular play ever displayed for U. S. theatre-goers. Depending on the durability of the story, the picturemakers stuck to it. Again the theory is proved that a good play does not necessarily withstand the canning process. Lightnin' is fairly amusing, fairly vibrant to the widely known heart strings. The performance of an unknown, Jay Hunt, in the Frank Bacon part counterfeits that characterization carefully...
...with Antony, J. J. Collier '23 Mardian, Cleopatra's Enrico Caruso, W. E. Collins Jr. '24 Chairman, Both confidante and confident, Paul Mendoza Jr. '23 Iris, A valuable piece of brass in Cleopatra's silver service, Kellogg Gary '24 A Soothsayer, Who missed his own age, Curtis Nelson '24 Lightnin', a messenger to Antony R. S. Flinn '23 Octavious Caesar, a Triumvir, by Gosh! R. H. Sears '24 Octavia, a worthy decoration in any home P. F. Pond '25 The Comedy Element P. L. Cheney 2S. L. A. Cleo's Messenger, as dumb as he looks M. S. Jones...
...Frank Bacon last Sunday closed a career that was notable in an era of stage notabilities. Surely no man since Jefferson in "Rip Van Winkel" has been seen by so many people in a single part, and no part has held a place of warmer affection than that of Lightnin' Bill Jones. "Lightnin'", along with "The Bat", will be a by-word for theatrical success long after both plays are discarded. The fact that the play itself was hardly worth the candle of Bacon's personality makes his achievement all the more interesting...