The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-22
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Tonight, w. H. Crane. that popular and sterling comedianJ will be seen in what has been acclaimed as his best success of many years. George Ade's comedy, Father and the Boys" 1t looks very much as if Father and the Boys" is the kind of play that MT. Crane personally likes. and. what is more to the point. the kind that his audiences want. It supplies him with the role of a quaint. shrewd. country bred wool broker who has made his bred sons with their ambitions for athletics and social frills. consider hopelessly behind. the eprocession-" The old gentleman feels huft for a while. and then decides that the only way to bring the boys to their senses is to get out and ''circulate'' on his own hook and, by so doing, demonstrates to his young hopefuls that he is able to out-trot them down the joyous amuse. ment pike of gay life, with the result that the youngsters are obliged eventually to request him to ease down for a while and give them chance to "catct up." It Is all hugely comical with valuable little moral thrown in.
 
 "Graustark.'' or "A Love Behind a Throne comes tomorrow for a special return engagement. This engagement will include a special bargain matinee, and the same splendid cast and stage equipment seen here recently. on the first visit of the attraction, will again be seen ssGraustark" Is a most en- crossing play. and is worthy the atten- ton of crowded houses
 "The Servant in the House" comes Wednesday evening with the same re- markabIe cast whose artistic work contributed to it's triumph in New York This is the famous Henry Mil CT Associate Players. a collection of stars
 ah rrr, equal basis such as has not been seen since the days of Augustin Daly's. Lester Wallack's and A. M. Palmer's Stock Companies. It is composed of Edith Wynne MatthiSon, Tyrone Pow CT. Walter Hampden, Frank Mills. Arthur Lewis. Mabel Moore and Ben Field. Henry Miller has indeed a sec ond company playing 'The Servant in fined to the West. This. too is almost an all star cast as it includes Preston Clarke and Clay Clement stars of long standing and Lizzie Hudson Collier. Matthison.) George W. Wilson and Wilfred Roger. It will be seen from this with what care Henry Miller se- lects his casts. "The Servant In the resembling the Nazarene demands the most careful and reverent treatment hence the necessity of having an ex- perienced and sympathetic artist in each role.
 Messenger Boy Mo- AZ a new play from the pen of Charles H. Fleming, will make its first appearance in this city Thursday matinee and evening" at popular prices
 Victor Moore in his new celebrated creation of 'I<id Burns,e originally in troduced to the public in "FOrty-five Minutes From Broadway and now amplified and enlarged for Moore's starring vehicle. "The Talk of New York; comes Friday and Saturday. with Saturday matinee. George M. Conan invented the character of Burns some four seasons ago for the piece that was to feature Fay Temp'eto as '.PIair Mary" Eke Charles Dickens From Pinch,' modesty, simplicity and goodness of heart were the principal assets of the Kid With the excep- ton of the assumed slangy vocabulary, Moore practically plays himself.