Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1915 — Willette Taylor Company Opened For Season Last Night [ARTICLE]

Willette Taylor Company Opened For Season Last Night

Sheer merit, in strength of line, situation and dialogue, placed Edgar Selwyn’s “Country Boy,” in the fore rank of modem American plays. Its tremendous success in New York and Chicago was due solely to its typical types of American life, and Edgar Selwyn becae recognized as one of the foremost playwrights in the United States. ■ . So seldom are stock companies able to conform parts to players in every cast, that the casting of the, play in the Willette Taylor Stock Co. was rearkable. The personnel of the play looked more to us like a first class one nighter. Every part seemed to be typical, and that is what made the play go. The character work all the way through showed the proper vehicle usually found in one night shows of the better sort. We are, of course, glad to pronounce Mr. Taylor’s porI trayal of the title role, as splendid. | Especially commendable was the work of the entire cast and to go into detail would be to praise the work of all. Mr. Taylor has a much better company than he had last year and has surrounded himself with real artists, j who don’t overact, which is the com- ' mon fault with stock. Tonight the • company presents “Oliver Twist,” and on Monday night they open a week’s engagement in Mattoon, 111. If the bill of last evening is any criterion of the week’s work of this splendid company, their present season should be a most successful one.