The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-02-15
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MIX-lJPS
'.rhe Gibson Girl" With a Heavy
Chorus Holds the Grand's
Boards Thursday Night.
Some of the Members of the Com
pany Do Absurd Things, But
It's All in the Book.

The Gibson Girl" play billed as
"a bright musical comedy with a
chorus of pretty girls who know how
to sing and dance" and which de-
rives the title from the. gact that a
girl in 1t As years old is the daughter
of an old chap by the name of Cen
eral Gibson was presented at the
Grand opera house last night. A
small sized audience saw it.
The chorus is quite heavy; it con-
sists OF. five women and they are not
lightweights. Two of them look
like they had left their legs out in
the broiling hot sun one day until
they melted down bit and then
moved into the shade. They walk
slue-rooteG which is probably due to
the melting incident. In the first
act they come skipping out attired in
the most horrible cheese cloth suits
in order TO Introduce the soubrette,
a lively little creature who talks
with an affected yowl that is quite
touching. Then in turn enter the
Gibson girls dressed in red light cos
tune; young Jack with a 'kerchief
around his head, the old maid made
up to represent skull with an ex-
ceedingly high forehead, old Genera.
Gibson who has just returned from
Europe with his second wife and
Heiney an alleged Dutch comedian.
The company comes in in pairs and
talk about a will that somebody LEFT
which provides for the inheritance of
a couple of dozen millions to -
General and few others providing
he and his daughters are married ac-
cording to the desires of the testator.
There are some songs in this act
that are quite indefinabla, but the
big chorus helps out wonderfully.
In act two the "goils" come ont in
more cheese cloth gowns and the
soubrette is dressed in black She
splashes her skirts around terribly
and stin strains her voice. After
a song about something or Their,
each member OF the company comes
in and sits down in a chair to hear
a bell ring. This is kept up until
the bell gives out, or the company
tires of the amusement and then they
all turn their attention to getting
mixed up. Everybody tells lie
about his relationship to all the other
members of the company and the
others go>prowling around like lot
of dumb fools and believe 1t. The
Gibson girl takes Heiney for her long
lost daddy and all the others become
bigamists. Heaney lost his clothes
in the preceding act and he gets
kimono from the Gibson girl. He
puts it on and the General comes in
and takes him for his long unseen
daughter. The fellow has whiskers
on his fact and masculinity is written
all over him, bat the general looks at
him and says he is his daughter.
How in the name of Heaven the Gen.
eral figures 1t out is mystery but
it's in the play and. they have to do
1t that way.
Jack runs in and talks about his
attorney every once in a while until
the audience believes he really has
lawyer waiting for him out in the
wings.
In the third act the old maid ar
ranges marriage between Count
Bologna and the Gibson girl, the
Count being Heiney. The heavy
chorus comes in attired in gingham
frocks, makes a noise as near like a
song as possible, and slIddoos. A
lying machine in the left rear stage
records the lies that are told by the
company as each comes in and begins
to unravel the mixed up relationship
and some one gets on that old, old,
ancient gag about the grass widow
and the woman who was married
four times and must be a bale Of
hay. The audience groans real heart
lily at this. The chorus comes In
again with Kitchen aprons over the
Bingham frocks and Heiney sings a
song about cooking that is the clev-
crest thing in the whole play. Its
success lies in the fact that no at
tempt is made to accord it to the
written music. They get a number
of recalls. The General does a Sol
Smith Russell recitation in this act.
Finally everybody is Strengthened
out and properly identified. Jack
marries the Gibson girl, the General
is restored to his wife and his wife
to him, the soubrette marries the
butler, the millions that somebody
diad oud 1aFk 4hrono,k -, noon,.t-f,