The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-05
SEE THIS PLAY
 ITS WORTH WHILE
"The Servant In the House. at Jackson's Tonight and
 Tomorrow
INTENSE HUMAN INTEREST

Those who have not seen 1.-The Ser want in the House. which last night came to Jackson's Theatre, ought not to miss seeing it. As dramatic pro- duction, it is not only far beyond any thing lately seen here, but it is ab- sorbingly interesting. One might say that it is both an idea and an ideal dramatized. In giving this play has presented thing that must make every man and every woman who be- lieves in love think of the possibili- ties of love. The remarkable perfor- mance will be repeated tonight and tomorrow afternoon and evening. The central figure in the play is Manson, the servant in the house, who is easily conceived to be the ideal of the Master who in humbleness and gentleness lived out his earth life here centuries ago, but whose teachings still live and move men and must time. Manson has lived many years in India, and when he comes into the disrupted family of the English vicar, wears the garb of ar East Indian as thetic.
 From the moment he enters this house he dominates the place with a gentleness that is effective and beau tfful. But what is the use of attempt ing to describe thing so ideally beautiful as this character MT. Ken nedy has created for us. It is vis- utilization of each of our ideals of the Perfect Man. MT. Kennedy may not have attempt ed to give us his ideas and ideals of the Man of Nazereth, but he has giv- en us the type of man we believe He was.
 In the play we have the sharply Cra UiUid1v contra Sfpd the soul-tortured vicar. the worldly and grasping bishop, the vicar's too loving wife, the imaginative girl, the Drain-man, buttons" and this large ly looming character of the ideal man.
 The story is that of brilliant young clergyman who has reached a high plane of social success. His wife worships him for his brilliancy and the rejected glory in which she lives, but she also loves him for himself. But to the vicar this success is wormwood. He has climbed upward on a ladder which was that of his brother, a drunkard whom he has cast off. How ever, he has not been blessed with children and he has taken from this brother his little girl to. educate as his own
 When the/play opens the vicar is beginning to reckon with his soul. At this juncture, to make the reckoning more brutal, the offcast brother, who mas turned SOCldllSC dIlQ begun IO hope anew, comes to take away his little girl.
 Then enters the third brother, an un- recognized brother who has grown fa- nous in India as a preacher. Out of this mysterious land he comes into his brothers as a new servant. With his religion-"I love God and all my brothers-both the vicar and the poor Drain-man are touched and fall under this new influence. The worldly bishop who has a scheme to build up a neglected church nearby to which the people won't come because there is a stench in it-is thrown from their midst, the father and daughter are united in love, the wife sees that she has loved too selfishly, too fondly if not too well and the holy love of God enters forever into the hearts of the three brothers.
 The part of Manson is simply and beautifully carried by. that distin- guished romantic actor, MT. Creston Clarke. George s. Irving gives us faithful and soulful man whose con. science is uneasy. G. Harrison Car ter makes the part of the Bishop thor oughly hateful. Buttons" the assist ant servant in the house, makes the most of his part. Were there not so many polished and even actors in this cast of seven, one might give a good part of the laurels to Miss Frances Jordan, whose delightful imitation of the simple, pure mind of little girl relieves some of the strain of the play, beautiffes something already infinitely beautiful.
 Possibly the most difficult of all the roles is that played by Miss Lizzie Hudson Collier. One must be wife, possibly the wife of a clergyman, to fully understand how she must guide the troubled spirit of her husband. It requires all of Miss Golfers art to make the character at all sympa- thetic, to herself meet and seem in sympathy with the varying moods of her husband, to preserve their doves from shipwreck.
 The Drain-man is capitallY played