The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-27
THE COMMANDING OFFICER In Which Bruce McRae and Isabel Irving
 Are Starring.
At Jacks0n's Theatre Tomorrow Evening
 For One Performance Only.

An event of more than ordinary in- terest to theatregoers of Bridgeport Will be the attraction at the Jackson theatre tomorrow evening when Daniel frohman will present the new Amer ican play '"The Commanding Officer" written by Theodore Burt Sayre. It IS military play with a strong in terestlng plot, which is finely sustain ed from beginning to end
 Colonel Archer Bruce McRae) has married Belle Archer( Gertrude Dal- lasl who, at the time. was a college girl. Her friend was Floyd Carroll usabel Irving. When the Colonel married he was ordered to a western frontier town and Floyd, having lost her. parents, is taken by the Colonel and his wife as their friend and com pan1on to the army post, where among other people concerned in the drama, are Lieutenant Hammond Edward MartindeD, Lieutenant Waring (Rob- art T. Haines), Brent Lindsay (Charles A. Lane), Lieutenant Billings John Jun1orl, a Major, a doctor, and other characters of importance, as we'll as several other feminine personagesa
 Colonel Archer is called away from his post, and having had a little quar- rel with his young wife, she indulges In aL little filtration with Brent Lind say, her former admirer. During one of her horseback rides, she has en- countered Lindsay, and, at a moment WHICH, ile. IlGS klSS6O ner aSa1nSC HGr will lieutenant Waring, who has Eeen in ambush, has photographed the act. Waring. a disorderly dissolute character reeds money and knowing that Lindsay is a rich man and in love with the ColonePs wife. proposes to transfer the photographs to Lind say fer a hi@ money consideration. Lindsay accepts with a view to fore ing by these means Colonel's wife to come into his room at midnight, when he claims, he will hand her back her letters and the photogra phs, for Mrs. Archer is very much in love with her husband and fears the threat that the photographs will be sent to him. She disguises herself in one of the officers uniforms to go to Lindsays house.
 In the meantime, Floyd Carroll, her friend, the heroine of the play, asks her own lover, Lieutenant Hammond, to fellow her and see that she comes to no harm. The streets of the little town, however, are filled with strik-' ing miners and the woman who is disguised, frightened at the con1nis- sicn returns at midnight to her home, telling her friend, Floyd, that she had not visited Lindsay.
 During this night Lindsay is murder ed in his house. The suspicion of murder eventually falls on the wife, bu. Lieutenant Hammond, who has been snadowing her, was discovered as Icing away from his quarters that night, and is also arrested. Lieutenant Waring. who sold the photographs, wa-s also away from his quarters. A manS shadow having been seen on the curtains at midnight where Mrs. Archer and Floyd live, suspicion points to Floyd as having entertained some man while she was alone in the house. The gossips of the village defame her and. at this .juncture Colonel Archer returns from his western trip. It is the climax of this situation which gives effect to the play and it's de- velopment is carried on with interest and skill to the final curtain. when all ends right.
 The play is scheduled as New York production at MT. Daniel Froh- mans theatre. The names of Bruce >McRae, Isabel Irving, Robert T. 'Haines, Charles A. Lane. Gertrude Dallas, Edward Martindel Rosa Rand, and others make an unusual strong cast. Seats are now on sale.