Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1912 — "The Rosary.” [ARTICLE]

"The Rosary.”

Whatever else may be said of Rowland and Clifford’s new production “The Rosary,*’ which comes to the Ellis Theater next Friday. December 20, the charge of Imitation of other plays can not be made. “The Rosary” virtually breaks new ground in the dramatic field and should prove a veritable surprise when the curtain rises upon it. The play is built upon a thorough modern theme, viz: the Influence of thought upon the lives and well being of the men and women of our present day. That thought, intangible and evanescent as It is, is still a force, a power, a theory that has for sometime past engaged the serious attention of our foremost psychologists, but its portrayal upon the stage has been neglected heretofore. “The Rosary” attacks the theme boldly, it deals with the lives and fortunes of a little group of people living In the West Chester country near New York City, the husband Is a disbeliever in all religion, his wife a woman of serious conviction regarding faith In things of life unseen. Strong in his belief and thoroughly human, a priest moves through the subtle story of the play, when doubts come and the man and worn, an’s lives are shattered, seemingly beyond human, power to repair, this priest analyzes the situation and by the power or his faith brings both the people whom he loves back to happiness. Mingled with the darker colors of human tragedy is a vein of natural comedy from the events which occur during the action.—Advertisement.