Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1914 — “The Rosary” Well Received In Monticello Tuesday Eve. [ARTICLE]

“The Rosary” Well Received In Monticello Tuesday Eve.

‘The Rosary” is to be at the Ellis Theatre this evening and the following high endorsement from Monticello where the company was Tuesday evening is taken from The Journal of Wednesday: ‘Manager Mathews made another lucky hit with Monticello theatre goers when he booked ‘The Rosary.” The man or woman who left the opera house last evening at the close of this play not bettered or improved by his or her presence there is indeed a difficult customer to sultivate. The play carried a serman that to have had scores more of auditors than it did have, as th.e lessons were wholesome in every respect. “ The Rosary’ deals with the lives and fortunes of a little group of people living in the beautiful Westchester county near New York city. The husband is a disbeleiver In all Teligion, his wife a woman of serious conviction regarding faith in the things of life unseen. Strong In his belief and thoroughly human, a priest moves through the subtle story of this play. When doubt comes and the man and woman’s lives are shattered seemingly be yond human power to repair, this priest analyzes the situation and by the power of faith brings both the people, whom he loves, back to happiness. Many were the wet eyes last night and the audience was held almost breathless from start to finish.