Miss Lulu Bett comes out all right in the end. As the play goes rollicking along, one wonders just what that demon Fate has in store for her, but she forgives and they all live happily ever after. Miss Lulu Bett is the heroine, if such there are in this modern age, of an amusing comedy being shown this week at the Peabody Playhouse, with the Stagers in charge of festivities. The play is taken from a novel of the same name by Zona Gale.

The beauty of "Miss Lulu Bett" lies not in the plot, which is perhaps a bit obvious at times, but in the superb characterization of Middle-Western family life, admirably carried out by an able cast. Francis G. Cleveland, as the dentist who loves nothing better than to read the evening paper undisturbed and to rule his family with an iron hand, plays his part capably. So also does Marjorie Holman, as the lady of the household who thinks entirely in terms of what the neighbors will think about this and that. The whole cast, in fact; is well chosen.

The lines are clever for the most part. There is the old grandmother who gives her daughter her last fifty which she has been saving for her own funeral, and then there is Neil Cornish, the bashful town bachelor, who is always wishing he hadn't said something before the words are all out of his mouth.

All in all, "Miss Lulu Bett" affords a fair enough evening's entertainment and is just the thing to keep one's mind off those greasy books.