Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1901 — Second Month of “Lovers’ Lane.” [ARTICLE]

Second Month of “Lovers’ Lane.”

Hearty laughter is the accompaniment nightly given the presentations of the new Clyde Fitch play, “Lovers’ Lane,” now running at McVicker’s Theatre and well fnto its second month in Chicago. The fun of the play is fast and furious during several episodes and it is as wholesome and clean as it is good-natured. At that it does not offend the taste nor disturb the more serious portions of the story entwined in | the meshes of “Lovers’ Lane.” , Half a dozen spinsters and busy- , bodies, a superannuated deacon ■ of two and an “opr’y house” manai ger form the nucleus for the humor, while Simplicity Johnson, the | orphan girl, furnishes both fun I and pathos. The women of the ! village, formed intp'a “purity bfi-* grade” determined to wipe out vice in all its forms, and led by a woman modeled on Mrs. Carrie Nation, make for much hearty laughter, while the deacon, the store-keeper and Mr. Skilligcome in for their share of the comedy. Perhaps the most humorous incident in the piece is the coverii g of the poster showing two girls in tights. The women see this bill on the walls and Mrs Brown, the leader of the village society, takes the paste brush and puts a piece of blank paper over the offending poster. When the school children come out to play the fat boy sees this blank across the poster and pulls it off to see what is underneath. He is ashamed at the sight anil the audiences roar every night at his genuine ability. Wm A. Brady has staged “Lovers’ Lane” lavishly and beautifully, and the large patronage extended to the play is the result of this liberality.