The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-07-12
GALL THE COMFORTS OF HOME"
AT THE METROPOLITAN.

For the seventh week of its season
at the Metropolitan, beginning tonight,
the Ferris Stock company will be seen
in a revival of one of the best modern
farces, "All the Comforts of Home"
The play is from the pen of one OF
Americas most gifted playwrights,
William Gillette, and had its first pro-
duction at the Boston museum on
March 8, 1900, where it met with i'm
mediate success.
Among the noted members of the or
iginal cast were John Mason, Annie
Clark and George c. Boniface- The
piece had an uninterrupted career of
success on the road for several sea-
sons, and has since been revived at
various periods with great success.
The last presentation of the play was
given in st. Paul by the Henderson
Stock company five years ago.
The action of the farce occurs in the
London home of Egbert Pettibone, a
very jealous man, who, imbued with
the idea that his second wife is in love
with another man, determines to keep
them apart by taking his wife and
daughter on a trip to the continent.
He makes a hurried departure, leaving
his house in charge of an impecunious
nephew, Alfred Hastings, promising
his nephew the hand of his daughter
Emily as a reward for his services.
Creditors are pressing Hastings for a
liquidation of their claims, and he, in
order to obtain the money to satisfy
them, decides to take advantage of his
uncles absence and let his handsome
~ furnished home to dodgers. He is
assisted in this benevolent enterprise
by protege, Tom mellow, to whom
he promises half the receipts. An al
Turing sign, promising 'all the COM
forts of home" is put out by this
worthy individual; dodgers arrive al
most Immediately, and the fun begins
with their arrival.
A queer collection of humanity Is
soon gathered under the rooftree of the
Pettibones, among them Fiji Oritanski,
an opera singer and Theodore Bender,
q retired country merchant, who, with
his, wife and daughter, is seeking rest
and recreation in the metropolis. The
susceptible Bender soon falls a victim
to the alluring charms of Fiji, and the
complications that arise from his en-
deavors to carry on his Irritation with
the opera singer, without aTousing the
suspicious of his extremely jealous
spouse, are exceedingly ludicrous.
Hastings, who has fallen in love with
Bender's daughter, helps him out of
one dangerous predicament only to
plunge him deeper into the slough of
dependency five minutes after
A visit from one of Petitioners
friends but adds to the complications,
and the situation receives a fitting
climax by the unexpected return of
the Pettibone family from abroad. But
the tangles are soe0 Strengthened and
all ends serenely.
The character of the play will be
cast as follows: Frederick Montague
as Alfred Hastings, Charles G. Burn
ham as Theodore Bender, Lillian Allen
as Josephine Bender, Fannie Granger
as Evangeline Bender. Harry Langdon
as Egbert Pettibone. Lillian O'Neil as
Rosabelle Pettibone. Pearl Sidney as
Emily Pettibone, George Henery as
Christopher Dabney, George Russ
Fiske as Judson Langhorne. Matte
Choate as Fiji Oritanski, Charles Fish
er as Victor Smythe, Frederic Clarke
as Augustus McSnath and C. j. Byrne
as the bailiff. The piece will be staged
in the careful manner characteristic Of
all the Ferris company productions.
For the week commencing Sunday,
July 10. the Ferris organization will
appear in a revival of Monte Cristo."
Several wellknown artists will be add
ed to the company for this event.