THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER

After putting on a play with a considerable amount of delicate charm, the Boston Stock Company pursues this week a higher and more widely popular vein, "Rolling Home" is just another comedy that will make people laugh if they are in the right mood for laughter, and will bore them if they are feeling tired. Such things as "Rolling Home" are written because most audiences crave amusement--they want to do their weeping somewhere else.

One can't get away form the idea that this play originated either in a Business School or a Rotary Club, for it simply reeks of high finance. There is an enormous amount of cigar-smoking, hand shaking slapping on the back and all the good natured horse-play that business men indulge in, even with their wives.

Mr. Nedell, who for some reason or other were white spats, aspired to be a second Get-Rich-Quick-Wallingford, and wrote home tales of amazing financial successes before these lucrative chicks had ever really hatched. The town on Lowe Falls, Mass., worshipped their here and budding millionaire and longed for his return. This was properly affected when his one time army buddy arrived with a perfectly respectable Rolls Royce, after having deposited his inebriated employer on a train for Providence. Just why anybody in such a condition should want to go to Providence is still a matter open to doubt. From now on the plot becomes so financial involved that only a true business man can understand it. Nedell makes a speech in which he offers to reform, rebuild, and repopulate the town. One can't help wondering if it was quite right of him to want to do all these things. As part of his agreement he puts forward a dam project with the aid of imaginary telephone conversations with Wall Street, and even succeeds in sending the befuddled owner of the car, who wanders in unexpectedly from Providence, rolling home.

Mr. Richards ran away with the Rolls Royce and the part of its chauffer. His amusing flirtation with Miss Clark continue to be the brightest moments in every play. Mr. Collier, who prepared at Harvard, did the inebriate act with sure and telling affect.