Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1908 — “ Phillips’ ” Night at Lafayette. [ARTICLE]

“ Phillips’ ” Night at Lafayette.

“The Wolf’’, Eugene Walter’s great play of life in the Canadian Hudson Bay country, is announced for presentation at Lafayette, Ind., Tuesday evening, Nov. 10th, at the Grand opera house, with all its stage accessories, elaborate scenery and light effects, precisely the same as seen in New York and Chicago. Mr. Allen Dale, the celebrated writer on the New York American, said in the Issue of that paper of April 20th: “Let me say right here, without further parley, that in ‘The Wolf,’ Mr. Eugene Walter has most assuredly confirmed our impression that he is a ‘find’. His second play is a melodrama, vivid but primitive, vital but unfledged. It is direct, terse, capitally written, sincere, and free from conventional flapdoodle. “ ‘The Wolf hit the first nighters in spite of all. This was an achievement was a great feat. It proved beyond the peradventure of a doubt, that young Mr. Walter is made of the right dramatic stuff.

“ Paid in Full’ was not a fluke. It was the work of an artist. For, further particulars apply to ‘The Wolf.’ “When one recalls this young playwright’s ow r n admission that, just before the production of ‘Pair in Full’, he was sleeping In the parks, and struggling for the right to nourish his «oor outward shell, one cannot help applauding the fine hand of e ! ernal justice. “ ‘Everything comes to him who waits’, is apparently correct. It is a nice and consoling thing to believe in.

“Apparently, Mr. Walter, has not seen many plays, and therefore deean’t know how managers, actors and claque expect them to be done. He does them ““his own way, which is a mighty good thing to do. Whatever may be the fate of ‘The Wolf’, it has been proven Mr. Walter’s right to be looked upon as perhaps the only serious dramatic proposition that ,this season has set forth. If he can give us only play a year, we may think ourselves lucky. He will give us a good play.” -Mr. Au gustus Phillips (our “sons”) will appear as Jules.