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tion of Mr.. Plpp," the Gibson Thomas
comedy
He comes after a successful run OF
| twenty weeks in New York. cut short by
future bookings and with the original
east The Education OF Mr.. Ptpp,'' not
a series OF disconnected tabeaux as the
relation TO the Gibson cartoons might i'm
ply, but a connected narrative, is bril-
liant comedy giving Mr. Bell opportuni-
tiese in plenty for his droll delivery and
his quaint fun that have spelled success
for him I'm past years.
Mr. Gibson has given him the long hair
and the face, Mr. Thomas has put into his
mouth the brilliant lines. the swinging
dialogue, Mr.. Bell has given us a charac-
ter that will long be remembered
Around the series OF Gibson social car
toons the playwright has built bright
comedy He gets the Gibson girls I'm love
entanglemeuts and brings them out safe
ly again. He toys with Mrs. Pipps social
ambitions and finally bests her. little Mr..
Pipp and the daughters coming out on
top He marries the Gibson girls to suit
the father and all He makes OF Mr. Glib
sons courier and other celebrities the
villains and enmeshes them. Then all
ends happily.
j. Wesley Pipp. the unassuming. and
always with apologies the head Of the IL
lustrious family Cwhen Mrs. Pipp IS out OF
sighp has made millions through the
courtesy OF United States Steel. but de-
plores that the squeezing process OF the
trust has retired him from active business
life To Mrs. Pipp I'm her tireless search
for social recognition tho change comes
as a godsend. the fulhllment OF her long
cherished hope-a Fifth avenue mansion.
The native Pittsburg so dear TO Mr..
Pipp where as a puddler boy he courted
his future dominating Wife and builded
the foundations Of his fortune. is left be-
hind and forgotten. II is In New York the
first act shows the Pipp family comforta-
bly, installed In "A made-over mansion.
Here Il is that Mr.. Thomas opens up his
volleys OF satire with the title-mad as
his targets Count Charmarot. self-styled,
reduced i'm fortune, robbed OF estates
sometime croupier at Monte Carlo. more
recently instructor OF the French lam
guage to aspiring Americans OF wealth.
is Mrs. Pipp's first idol.
The villany OF the bogus count, and the
plot 10 defraud the Pipps out OF thou
sands Of dollars is revealed when Chsrma~
rot meets an accomplice Due de la
Tourraine in the Pipp mansion. The Duke
is Mrs. Pipp's idol number 3
II is around this story OF the theft NJ
SIS, Ono by means OF a bad check and n
traced signature that Mr.. Thomas has
constructed his lines of unoffending sa-
tire his gentle fun and rich comedy. and
live
John willing. protege OF Mr. Pipp and
treasurer or his trust company shows his
hand when the accomplice of the French
count succeeds in cashing the bogus
check with Herbert Fitzgerald. a young
English lord driven 20 an assumed name
by reverses and In love with the elder
Pipp daughter. willing then. not reluct-
antly begins the pursuit OF Charmarot
and his tourist party. The two overtake
the scheming Frenchmsn At Carony Cas-
tie. England. the home OF Fitzgerald's
mother. Lady Fitzmaurice and complica-
tions. primarily Mrs Pipp's own mistake
compel Willing now minus a beard TO
masquerade as the young Lord Fitzmau-
rice. Hts companion IS the new master of
the stable at Carony.
Mrs Pipps coup a etat she acknowl-
edges it.affiancing Julia 10 the disguised
willing already engaged 20 the younger
daughter produces a tangle and AFFORDS
situations that are uproariously funny
From Carony the party Journeys 90
Paris consecutive series OF thrills Is
furnished by the discovery OF a scheme
TO rob Mrs. Pipp of her diamonds. a plot
TO poison Mr. Pipp and the arrest OF the
bogus celebrities. The identity of Fitzger-
aid is revealed and the other tangles un-
raveled I'm this stirring situation.
Helen Tracy IS a delightful Mrs Plpp.
Janet Beecher and Adele Luehrman are
the Gibson girls Fred Courtenay and Sam
b Hardy 40 the love making as the
young Engllshmart and the young Ameri-
can. WS.st clair is the scheming count.
Others Ia the cast are Sam Colt Seth
Halsey. Frank Powell. Ann Warrington.
Ellenore Carroll Edytha Johnson. VII
liam Evans. G. Jay Williams, Harry l..
Lang and Bessie Baldwin.
FRANCIS WILSON COMING.
Francis Wilson will be- seen In new
play. under the management OF Charles
Frohnan. az tho Providence Opera House
FOR the last three night of next week A