"Take Your Medicine," now running at the Hollis, offers Alexandra Carlisle and Einar Linden an excellent opportunity to display a great deal of spontaneous art. Miss Carlisle is worth going to, merely to hear her voice, which is a great relief from the variety of speaking that greets the "tired student" from the runway. Mr. Linden has a difficult part, and makes the fullest possible use of his opportunities. From the very start he captures the sympathy of the audience by his skillful representation of temperament. To do this, he exhibits a remarkable variety of truly cultivated parlor tricks. Even in the last act, he adds to his exhibitions of dancing, singing and piano playing, some grace with the guitar.

The other characters are not so successfully represented. However, there are a few brilliant exceptions. Samuel Tanner as a shyster lawyer is most convincing, but C. L. Felter as president of a women's college fails to exhibit even the weaknesses demanded of his part. In passing, we cannot but demand that he have his frock coat altered so that it will fit around his neck.

Of the plot itself, much remains doubtful. Most doubtful of all, is our feeling at the very end, when the Hungarian dancer wins the consent of a New England trained nurse to be his bride. Will they, can they conceivably live happily ever after, and if so, how long?

The play gets an enormous impetus in the first act. While the principals are starting the trouble they have ample chance to make use of what must necessarily have been a sketchily written and most skillfully directed scene.

The crash arrives on time in the third act, accompanied by a most unfortunate quantity of raving. Here again Miss Carlisle's dignity and restraint mark her as an artist.

Briefly, the plot is most convincing but there appears some unevenness in the way the authors have written it. But the stars do star.