The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-27
ADJUSTMENTS REALM.
Roland Reed Makes a Hit With
"The Club Friend at the
Academy.

In spite of the rain last night the
Academy was filed to greet Roland Reed
after an absence OF eight years from this
city.
Mr.. Reed appeared in a new comedy en-
titled 1.-THE Club Friend" That Mr..
Reed is a favorite of the theatre going
public was demonstrated when he first
made his appearance, 1t being conceded
by everyone that q more enthusiastic
audience has never been seen IN the
clever comedy with many pretty love
scenes and interesting incidents.
'The Club Friend"i is well adapted to
Mr.. Reeds style of performance, and
gives him ample opportunity to display
his fun-making festivities. Mr.. Reed is
supported by a strong company.
home OF Abram Oaks, a broker. admir-
ably performed by Mr.. Charles A.. Smtly.
Mr.. Oaks, a great club man, becomes ac-
uuainted with a wealthy bachelor at the
club named Stuyvesant Fflbert, Mr..
Roland Reed, and finding him to be an
unusually jolly fellow, invites him to take
diuner with him at his home. A short
time before arriving at his home, Mr..
Oaks receives an anonymous letter in
forming him that ne has a friend at the
club who knows moro about his wife
than he does. Oaks, being \ man o. sixty
years, and his wife q hazel-eyen y
madly Jealous. He becomes more sus-
picious and i'll at ease on learning that
his wife, who was well at noon, is suffer-
ing from nervous prostration, and that
a ~postponement Of the dinner
with mis- club friend Filbert is necessary.
II having been SO ordered by q fashion
able physician. Perciva Jarvis. which
role Is cleyerly done by MI. George
Frederick Nash. Mr.. Oaks is about to
notify Mr.. Filbert that a p-ostponement OF
festivities Is necessary when his daughter
Sylvia. a sweet blonde, surprises him by
revealing the fact tnat sne 70 aesperateiy
in love with u peculiarly witty club man.
named Filbert. who had been introduced
to her by Mrs. Margaret Frawley, an old
friend OF the family.
Mr.. Oaks disappears to carry out the
Instructions Of the fashionable physician
and in the mean time Mr.. Stuy vesant
Fi.bert appears. Mr.. Reed was given a
most cordial reception and was compelled
to come before the t%ootlights in ackhowl-
edCement. A most amusing scene Is an
acted between Mr.. Filbert and Sylvia, in
the midst of which appears Mrs. Oaks,
attired in a magnificent costume. In Mr..
Filbert she at once recognizes an old
lover, who, having no money or prospects.
she a declined to marry twenty years
before, Sylvia Is sent for a~thimble.
and Filberr, finding himself con-
ironted by his old love, ressurrects in
short order many incidents of twenty
years before. much to the
OF love she takes him into the conserva-
tory aud is there laughing aud talking
when Mr., Oaks appears on the scene In q,
highly excited frame of mind, and gives
vent to his rage by abusing in an anus
ing .manner Makepiece Frawley (,Mr.
xryEtlt.. -. n .at1nal snhnaa hnAl ia nIxynUQ
flied with schemes to make millions. but
which had ruined him and made him de-
pepdent upon his wife. who has q prince
" Income. The scene closes by Mr.. Fill
bert recognizing in DR.. Jarvis an old rival
for the affections OF Mrs. Oaks twenty
years before, and the father of Ma bel
Douglass, whom he adopted while for
tune hunting In the West. .
The second scene opens In the home of
the Frawley's. Mr.. Oaks having become
financially embarrassed, is on the verge OF
bankruptcy, when his wife borrows fro IA
Or. Jarvis $4,000. The latter, who is IN
love with her, thinking he has her in his
power, compels her to listen to his de-
claration of love. Mr.. Filbert learns
through Macmillan Frawley the embar.
rassment OF Mr.. ks. and later Of the
~transanction aud scene between Mrs.
Oaks and DIR. JarQis. Through Makepeace
Frawley he repays DR.. Jarvis.
The third scene is enacted in DR.. Jarvis
Office. where Mr.. Oaks meets Mr.. Filberr
by means of appointment made with the
doctor. Mr.. Oaks is notified of his wife's
whereabouts by an anonymous note, and
he rushes to the doctors office to demand
an exclamation from his wife of her con
duct, but finds hat Mr.. Filbert is in the
library with his daughter Sylvia, and
upon emerging into the presence
OF the excited gathering reads
the anonymous letter which Is
handed him, and saves Mrs. Oaks by
asking for the hand of Sylvia in marriag
stating that the note which was intended
10 intimate that he was to meet Mrs. Oaks
az DR.. Jarvis office was merely the notif-
cation Of a meeting with Sylvia The play
ends with Mr.. FilDert compelling DR.. Jar.
Wis to leave the city under a threat of ex-
posture OF his being the father Of Mabel
Douglass and Of his attempt to eompro-
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