Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1913 — A Play With a Good Moral. [ARTICLE]

A Play With a Good Moral.

Coming to the Ellis Theatre, Wednesday, April 30, the most talked of play of the generation, ‘The Straight Road,” one of the most beautiful stories of “Home Sweet Home” ever written. Its theme deals with an all absorbing question,' how to keep the boys and girls, fathers and mothers of tomorrow from responding to the flare and glare of the city. How to keep them in the little country home, in the free open environment of the country home life of which nature makes men and women who live, love, think and conquer. It grips its audience with dramatic interest, and turns over pages of memory recalling once again those scenes made immortal. To see this great play is a treat not to be missed by any one.

Coming to the Ellis Theatre for one night only, Wednesday, April 30, J. Harvey Mack, and his excellent company in his new play ‘The Straight Road.” The author of this beautiful play has shown great wis dom in equalizing the elements of comedy and pathos with bright lines, humorous situations and unexpected bits of business, thereby relieving the seriousness of the main theme. The pretty story is that of a little country home, the mother, father, sisters and brother, a true heart story. It is a play that holds, its audience from the rise to the last fall of the curtain. Mr. Mack, who plays the part of Bob Howard, the town sport, is a part that you will want to see him In more than once, and those thait see the play will leave the theatre as ardent admirers of the star and play as thousands in every state who are now numbered as such. It is a play that the audience almost feels the same emotions as those on the opposite side of the footlights are supposed to have. Their sympathies are with those who need sympathy and they are elevated at the final outcome of the piece