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The Woman Hater

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
December
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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The comedian, Roland Reed, will be 6een at the Opera House, Monday, Dac. 5, in " The Woman Hater." An exchange says: "Roland Reed's new play, the ' Woman Hater ' is billed as an 'ecoentric comedy.' Tne name does not do justice to its eccentrioities. It is a three hour cyclone of ecoentricities, each one more humorous than the last and growing in mirth provoking ïntensity as they develop with kaleidoscopic rapidity and vanety of light and shade. It is as full of fun as a shad is of bones and the fun is never fishy or far fetched. Nor is the ' Woman Hater ' a mere clothes horse up on whieh to hang a lot of funny specialties or a skeleton play, built to enable a combination of single charat tor people to develop their peeuliari ties. It is a oharming comedy with a clear and decided motive, a fresh and breezy plot and a series of telling situations leading up to a proper and probable climax. It is not a play which filis the bilis with its dragged-in fun and leaves ihe greater part of its story to be imagined. It is cleverly worked out and continuous from its opening scène to its closing lines and is aspleasing in its dramatic architecture as it is irresistible in its funcy complications and situations And, thro"out it all, Roland Reed appears as a marked central figure arouud which the other characters are grouped in natural and easy combinations. His character of 'Samuel Buody ' is the principal feature of the play, but it is so harmonized with the rest of the cast that it neither overshadows nor dwarls it but rather helps it into prommence and gives scope to the different parts in the development of the plot."

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