The Bathtub Comedy That Saved the Day

Mrs. Musgrave's comedy 'Our Flat' was thoroughly enjoyed by a fair-sized audience at the Seattle theater last evening. The play is full of new and startling situations and is very funny. The first act is a total introduction to the laughable scenes of the second, where the furniture men carry off everything in the parlor of the struggling young couple, and so form the basis of some of the cleverest work done on the comedy stage. The fun all clusters round the improvised furniture, which is so fine in appearance that last evening the audience greeted with a round of applause the finishing touches given by Margery Sylvester and her servant Bella. A little bathtub neatly draped as a chair is the innocent source of complications as ridiculous as they are amusing. One by one the various characters fall victims, as they unwittingly drop down into the attractive-looking piece of furniture. Miss Emily Bancker in the role of Margery Sylvester is perfectly at home, and her interpretation is quiet, finished and effective. She seems peculiarly adapted to the part, and makes an ideal wife to the would-be tragedy dramatist Reginald Sylvester, representing a woman who, though she cannot cook, has wit enough to write a comedy and rescue her home from the clutches of numberless creditors.