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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1922)
1 THE SUNDAY OREGONTAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 31, 1923 Mystery Play r copyright 1922' By The Chicago inoune, Kr fv -via LKV - -V. U4 m -4-' V r i'f;? sift -.1 48 "OrCwhy DOESN'T "she look be hind her) Oh, that AWFUL man I" And Jessie will clutch Harold and scream when the lights go out, and jHarold will hold Jessie's handjlght isJbd have a beautiful time.' The nervous youn man wno jumps the soand ol shot : - - - -iw 4 JJ rTi'y. fAStt" s! 2 car fefe Jt;iiK if Iff f I ! iijsT5?-i in e) The - detect! ve withfhe big cigar, who sees riht away that "some fiendish mastetindjs at work!" ill 111 The comedy relief. """Oh, gee,' I got a'pSnln my eugnic- honest; I have!" When things get a little too tense the corals maid or butler does some heavy relief work. wife :-. - IpHreeTolly'rntlSnee girls'trymg to de eide where to go. if s a tossiy be tween "The Snarl in the Dark" and "The Creeping Thing" until Mrs. Mabel Roe remembers that her friend 'Mrs. Oleson told her that five women were hysterical after the second act of "The Creeping Thing.' So "The Creeping Thing" it is, and, oh, what a Splendid time they're going to havel You see in Act Second ail the lights go out and a ghost chases the detective right down into the audience and creams and howla something .awful Ft f " wt4w;" Phs. & L wYm&w-. w hfmm it i . f .': my 3 J, v art no. WkA m TV' a w M ; The love scene. "Sometimes,' admits Helen, the beautiful heroine of "The Man in the Suitcase," "I feel that some one is trying to frighten me I" Whereupon Gerald says lf all nonsense and not to worry, and that they'll stick it out to gether and see the thing through. The madman be hind the couch is really a de tective, as every one will see at the final curtain, when he says to the culprit, "You come with me." The old desk at the right has Just swung for ward, revealing a corpse in the recess behind, to the de light of all nervous ladies in the audience ' i f Him nifinnin-iniiriiMiiriiiriiT ilrTrijiiaTln-i r"f " - : Mm .Vf'-vri "I don't see how she7 knew the old uncle had put the dead body up the chimney or wasn't she supposed to know that anywyr rea ls trom the suburbs who have to leave just few moments before the final curtain have end of trouble figuring out the whys and wherefores, , Silas Borrow, multimillionaire and skinflint, found dead in his library. Curious penetrat ing odor throughout the room. Strange blu ish light seen from without the window. All 'doors and windows barred.' Crudely. drawn I skull on paper oa table. - jell si Ti'ffit a MYSTERY PLAY STANDBYS The heroine. Some one is forever torturing her with questions. "Can't jrou SEE I know nothing what-) ever?" Wherpnihtfiijjasfc Ths beantiful young hero, cut off in the wilL Loves the heroine. Very much suspectedof mwdaiagtha oIsLks?!,' The scapegrace nephew. Quarreled violently with the old man and threatened his life time and time again. So very suspicions are his (actions that the audience Immedb The cop, who comes in at the end with the handcuffaOfScet-arrest tb&tjn&nj? Th old mother. Badly treated by Mr. Borrow, for whom she served as housekeeper. Given to sobbing and begging not to. be nuHt tn t.fl
