The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-28
LIN THE THEATRES
JACKsoN's

THE COMMANDING OFFICER.
 @The Commanding Officer" the new military play, which is to be presented by Daniel Frohmah's Company at Jackson's Theatre, this evening, which has a1resdy received the approyaI or the newspapers, reviewers and theatre goers of other cities, is a strong, we'll written play. with numerous tents, and striking situations the author showing especial skill in developing the plot so that the interest is malntalneo until the final curtain.
 The scandals, the intrigues, the petty gossip and the romance of life at Western Army post, with which the news of the day has made the public familiar, give abundant material Tor the story of the play, while it's main Inspiration, a bold, but serious hand ling of President Roosevelt's famous crusade against race suicide, Is sup ported by a strong story. This fact is back of the whole action, for the deep yearning of the colonel Of the post for g. home life, with children to brighten 1t and to live for, and the coquetry, though harmless and un- thinking selfishness of his young wife, who prefers gay social life, bring about the quarrel on which the story hinges, and which furnishes many the play. This quarrel becomes so bitter that the colonel leaves his young wife exposed to the attentions of another officer who had been her preferred admirer before her real love for. the colonel came into her life Through series of incidents, inswhich she is entirely guiltless, she is placed in a compromising way in the power of. this officer, who does not scruple to use it to his own advantage and her harm Her efforts to extricate her. self from this situation result in en- tangling her dearest friend, the hero inc of the play, in a mesh of suspic- ion, and the fiance of this friend in a murder charge. The play is given an excellent presentation>py a cast Of un- Rae, Isabel Irving. Robert HaInes, Gertrude Dallas, Chas. Lane, Rosa Rand, Edward Martindel, and oth- CTS.
 < s'UNCLE DAVE HOICOMB."
 When .sUncle Dave Holcomb" makes it's initial appearance here tomorrow evening at Jackson's, the patrons of $ that house will have an opportunity to see something new, novel and wholesome in a type of rural play, to- tally unlike all others which have pre- ceded it in years past. A play which while new this season, has gained splendid support both from the press and public It deals with the cold, hard facts that confront a plain, God fearing, honest old farmer of the Yan- kee type, who lives close to nature and who has absorbed all of it's beauties. Every character in the play is a. type familiar to nearly all who have at one time or another lived in farming com munitfes and their actions and sayings are true to the part they play.
 The story of the play, which was written by William Lawrence and An nie Andros Hawley, deals with the trials and tribulations of Dave Hol- comb, an honest, hard working far mer, who in an effort to give his son a good start in life and to provide for the boys college education, has heav- fly mortgaged his farm. While the text of the play is not unfamiliar to theatre-goers the development of the plot is along unusual lines and will prove a unique surprise.