Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1912 — “On the Road to Casa Grande.” [ARTICLE]

“On the Road to Casa Grande.”

Some one has said that the favorite American play must be situated in the west, tnust have plenty of heart interest, lots of comedy, the real western atmosphere, and above all it must possess thrills and sensation but not the noise and wholesale murders with which the west has been maligned by pflaywriters of recent years. The west is a real country made up of real men and women, and real life. A few years ago people said, “It is a man’s country,” only two years ago a writer called it a “country of men and women,” this year it is admitted that it’s future lies in the hands of its women. Why not? The mothers of a race should be the moulders of a race. Then a western -play to be a true picture of the west must be a play for women as well as men. It must be true, it must be fair, it must be full of life and love, pure and clean and wholesome. All this you will find in “On the Road to Casa Grande.” It tells a simple story so perfectly that it is like leaning back in a comfortable chair after a hard day’s work and having some one read to you from the works of a favorite author. After all one goes Mb the theater to see a picture of something that might happen to one’s self under the same conditions. A tear occasionally, a hearty laugh quite often, some situations that will make one sit up and grasp the chair, a good healthy feeling of satisfaction when all is over;-?—and the play is a success. Such a story is “On the Road to Casa Grande.” ■ Like a spring that bubbles from the mountain side and flows through meadows, hills and rugged mountains, which is calm and peaceful here, madly tumbling, scrambling there; which passes, rippling, two lovers, hand in hand, while around the bend it whlls and tumbles like two men locked in deadly combat; then on till its life is lived and it buries its secrets in the bosom of the heaving sea. At Ellis Theater Friday night, March 22. Seats on sale at Jessens, price 25c, 35c and 50c. Miss Bennett has charge of our Millinery Department again this season. Come in now and leave the order for your new spring hat. ROWLES & PARKER.