Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 194, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1914 — “The Climax.” [ARTICLE]

“The Climax.”

The vocabulary which would ordinarily be used in describing ‘The Climax,” has been so abused in its application to every kind .of show on the stage that it has become meaningless and trite. It is diffictilt, therefore, to express adequately t(he charm which ‘The Climax” really possesses. The story itself is a clean and simple one. Adaline Von Hagen, a girl with musical aspirations, is jiving in New York with her poor uncle, Lui Golfanti, who is training her voice. The other persons of the story are the professor’s son, Pietro, and a young doctor who was a childhood friend of the girl, both of whom are openly in love with her, but she puts them off lightly with eyes only for her art. To correct a slight flaw in her voice, Adaline consents to undergo a small operation which was arranged for her by Dr. Raymond. While she is in his care following the operation, the doctor employs the power of mental suggestion to convince the girl that she would never sing again, and when the day comes on which she can test her voice, the one chance of failure in a thousand proves to be hers—she cannot sing. After a time she consents to mar ry the doctor. On the very night of Adaline’s wedding Pietro begins reminiscently running over bis “Song of the Soul,” which he had tom up at the loss of her voice. She starts to hum and, before she realizes it, has . sung the song through. In the joy which follows the recovery of her voice only the doctor can not participate and he and his duplicity are forgotten in the girl’s ambitious prospect of the future. The real charm of the play does not, however, lie in, the story but in the details. The personality of Adaline, the repartee of the family circle gathere about the professor’s table, the reality of the little inci cents of daily life built around this plot as a nucleus —these constitute the real strength of the play, and one must see it to appreciate them. MirSolfe and his company are admirably fitted to bring out in fullest measure every possibility ‘The Climax” holds, making it a play no one should fail to see.—At opera house, Saturday, August 22.