The age-herald., 1900-11-18
Thomas o. Seabrooke.

IOIlaS Sts SCdpiOS
 Thomas O. Seabrooke, whose art as creator of hilarity has kept him at the very top of comic opera stars since he leaped to distinction years ago in "The Isle of Cham pagne," Is booked for appearance here next Wednesday night at the Jefferson Theatre in "The Rounders,'' the sparkling New York Casino gaiety, with which he packed the New York playhouse for POP nights last season. "The Founders" is described as comic opera vaudeville in three acts adapt ed from the French piece, "Les Fetards" ('The Jolly Boys'). The adaptation is made Ay Harry B. Smith, with original lyrics, Ssld the music is by Ludwig Englander. The story of '"The Rounders'' opens in Biarrittz, a Parisian watering place, at the height of its gay season. Among the guests are the Marquis Baccaratt and his young American wife, a Philadelphia girl, who has been carefully brought up by worthy family of Quakers. Driven desperate by the Qua kerish prudery of his wife, which she really carries to the laughing point. the Marquis seeks consolation in the society of Thea, a dancer, who is the pet of the Parish boule- wards. An accident betrays her husbands attention to the dancer, and lands the wife in the French capital simultaneously with the arrival of her husband, who Is there by appointment with Thea. With American decision the jealous little Quakeress pene- -"ates boldly Into the greenroom of the n which her rival is appearing, sH4 e discovers her fickle husband at ne IS feet; and usually there would be I Splosion at this point, but there is lrt e wife waits until her husband has
 d, and then, without revealing her
 ' wins the sympathetic interest of
 ress. The little Quakeress asks the
 the secret of captivating and hold
 e affections of men, and the dancer,
 ling her visitor behind screen, gives
 n object lesson in scene which fol-
 using the wife's own husband as one
 le foils. Chagrinned and defiant, the
 1 little wife determines to try her own CTS of fascination as soon as she can
 suitable man. She has not long to
 1t. She finds an all too willing subject
 Maginnis Pasha, an Irish-Turk-that is
 say an Irishman wrecked upon the coast
 Turkey who has been adopted by the ultan and who is now running the gamut Parisian gaiety It develops that In his wild oats days Maginnls had broken the heart of Seraphine, the aunt Of Thea, and now the stage maid of that celebrity. Sera- phine discovers the identity of her recreant lover just as he is about to repair to rem dezvous with the Quakeress, entered upon by that veery proper little lady for the sake of the lesson 1t may convey to her hus- band. Maginnis, however, finding the Wife in Thea's dressing room, believes 1t is Thea herself with whom he Is coquetting. The wife schemes carefully, with the result that her husband is sent to the hotel to wait in vain all night for Thea, while the lady is decoyed elsewhere. Seraphine, who, by the way. is fair, fat and fifty, discovers Magin- his in Paris, but meets him when he is In such a state of intoxication that he imag- ines she is Thea. As the Marquis knows Thea could not have met the Irish Pasha, and doesn't know of Seraphine, and every Nf,,fe t0 hn that it is his own good little Quakeress wife who is the reckless partner of the Turkish Celt in the orgies of the night before, his anxiety is extreme. The end of the piece of course, clarifies the wife's conduct, en- lightens Maginnis and deals the husband a needed lesson.
 The company of sixty-five people includes such well-known and popular names as Irene Perry, Bertha Waltzinger. Jeanette Lowrie. Crissie Carlyle. Will c. Vaudeville