New Play in Manhattan

The Intruder was composed by one Paul Eldridge with the following ingredients: Item: water adrip wears away stone, rain pitpat on roofs often melts morals. Item: since Aesculapius, physicians have seduced, been seduced by nurses. Item: wine stirs passion. In the office of Dr. John Weston was an attendant-nurse. Mrs. Weston spent a rainy night under another roof, the nurse a "beautiful, marvelous" one under the Westons' with the doctor. Six years later Nurse Katy returned to make her child an honest son. Kind words, a tear, a plea softened her wrath, ended the play, dismissed a summer audience. V;ola Frayne as Nurse Katy, Richard Gordon as Dr. Weston, demonstrated degrees of drunkenness in sympathetic fashion. On the whole, however, a play ineffectual, an evening ill-spent.