The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-17
JACKsoN's
RAYMOND HITCHCOCK IN 1.-THE MAN WHO OWNS BROADWAY


 MAN WHO OWNS BROADWAY
 Raymond Hitchcock and a company of eighty will present Geo. M Cohan's 'HThe Man, Who Owns Broadway, at = Jackson's Theatre next Wednesday evening, Sept. 21 The piece is the
 The man who towns Broadway, in the sense that he is a ridieulously popular actor in that ''great white way"s was character serious Aas well ns comic in the original play of Pop ularity." As changed for Raymond Hitchcock. he is a caricature, and gets entire bag of funny tricks. All that he ever did Conan contrives to have him do again. He guys all that be- fore was meant to be given and taken seriously. He tells the audience like a modernized Greek tragedy chorus, what the action means and what may be expected to come of it., calls atten- tion frequently to the fact that he is the star actor, and insists on his rights of dorninance; and is by spells all the Kinds of 9 joker that he ever A way to freshen the fun of bur1es- quing melodran1a is ingenious. As usual a quartet sings verses of plots and then enacts them 4ludicrously The Hnal sfanza this time. pertains to the plays story that is being unfolded, and runs right into a melodramatfc climax.
 Hold on" the actor cries. looking at his watch. tits only ten-ffteen. We've got to have another act.'' George Cohan isn't in this show of his, but he has trained four duplicates to dance like him in various guises. The girls, too, are CoElanized into his manperisnns of glib tongue and agile feet. They are shown in two resorts of New York gadety-a Waldorf-As- toria foyer and tie Martin restaurant. This IS a first rate CoIan show.
 Hendricks. Francis Ldeb.z Leland Stearns, Armand King. Curte Karp, Ralph Harlon, Mildred Elaine. Leila Rhodes. Mark Sullivan, Gertrude Web ster and others, and there will be a largely augmented orchestra The sale of seats opened this morning and the box office clerks have beenr kept hust1ing all throughout the day. dis pensing the pasteboards.
 ..THE GIRL IN THE TAxL''N
 The greatest event of the present theatrical season will be marked in that widely-heraIded play adapted from the French, entitled 'gT1e Girl in the Taxi, with Garter DeH4Nen and an aIl-star cast. which is scheduled for Saturday, matinee and evening. It is | said to be one big scream from curtain 1 to curtain.
 The rnix-ups start at the fiat of John 1 Stewart on Riverside Drive. New York. 1 MT Stewards family is a wife and ene9 son. the wife very much on the the 
 arrivedfng at tennis-Aannels and SS month spending Inoney-and object ing strenuously to the penury thus l forced upon him. Indeed he has been | making absent treatment love to a l contortionist lady in the flat upstairs and pawning his fathers clothes to buy flowers for her. Then Percy and | Mary Peters appear upon the scene. | Percy is looking for s'the girl in the | taxi'' who proves to be Mrs. Smith, | the wife of a perfume manufacturer, who comes to pay a visit to the Stew arts on the eventfuI evening which | starts the play on it's rapfd-hre. speed defying journey of joys and Jealous les. The senior Stewart slides out of the house late at night, followed by Percy and later by young Bertie. the destination of each being unknown to | the other. The destination Of each | proves to be the same dining room in the Cafe Riehe where complications fairly tumble over each other through out the act. The head waiter steers the whole into greater and greater tur- rnoiI the elfnnaxeS are postponed. the laughs come like dis charges from gattling guns, and the end of the act which comes in a per feet tumuIt of comedy. finds the audi ence almost exhausted from laughing and gasping for breath
 It would be too bad to describe the last act, which in many ways is the funniest of the three, and as the Bos- ton Globe said There isn't a slow in the entire performance" nesday morning.
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