Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1914 — “The Climax.” [ARTICLE]

“The Climax.”

The vocabulary which would or-' dinarily 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 difficult, therefore, to express adequately the charm which ‘The Climax” really possesses. The story itself is a clean and simple one/ Adaline Yon Hagen, a girl with musical aspirations, is living in Now 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 on(e chance of failure in a thousand proves to® be hers—she cannot sing. After a time she consents to mar ry the doctor. On -ihe very night of Adaline’s wedding Pietro begins reminiscently running over his “Song, of the Soul,” which he had torn 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, 4he repartee of the family circle gathere about the professor's table, the reality of the little incicents of daily life built around this Riot as a nucleus—these constitute the real strength of the play, and one must see It to appreciate them. Mr. Rolfe 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.