The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-16
JACkSOk'S THEATRE
 OPENS AUSPICIOUSlY
 WITH 1.-THE COUNTRY BOY"

Reader. would you meet up with a segment of real life, a miniature world in which real people walk and talk and have their hour or two of vivid existence. Then go to Jack sons theatre this evening or tomor- row afternoon or evening, and see The Country Boy"
 The play is by Edgar Selwyn, who is patronized by the god of things as saint of the boy, who waits for "some- thing big" What more natural than that the boy should resent the mar row limitations of life in little Fair view, and go to the big city where the big things grow? And the boys ambition furnishes the mould in which the story is cast. And so we get the home of the Village Magnate, the typical dining room of cheap boarding house in New York, and the cottage of the Boys mother in the little town.
 For the Boy gets his lesson in the Big City, and comes home to Mother and the Girl. It is we'll for the moth that woos the candle and es- eapes with only it's wings singed. Be sure that the boy finds in the big city Another Girl, not the right one, and be sure that he learns the difference. Be sure also that when the realiza- ton of the difference comes home to
 him, as he is penniless and about to be turned out of his boarding house into the street, that he contemplates an exit by the gas route.
 So comes the thrilling moment of the play. And just here Merkle the cynical newspaper man intervenes, and the Boy determines to go back to home, to Mother and to the Girl.
 And it's all just as it happens in life and just as it will happen through
 centuries to come. except that m liIe
 horse wins just in time to give all the
 leading characters money enough to
 start a newspaper. This is what
 Merkle and the boy do do. They go back to Fairview and start news
 oh, MT. Selwyn, how could you do 1t? How could you write a play all
 to teach boys and girls that character counts and not fortune, and then
 make the crucial moment Of your story hinge upon. a 20 to one shot on the ponies. Oh. MT. Selwyn, don't you know that the ponies never run SO? When the Boy goes home he leaves behind him the deliciously fat landlady and the other boarders. He leaves behind him Amy LeRoy the fiokIe show girl, comfortably in stalled. thank heaven, in a flat, be- cause one wouldn't wish her unhappy you know.
 And the Boy marries the Girl, but first he lets the village magnate, the Girls father, out of a tight place And the Mother. one of those dotins mothers, keeps on spelling him up te the last moment.
 It's nice when the curtain goes l down. The boy hugs the girl and says that he's found the big fact o1 life now, and of course he has, de spite the fact that the divorce court: are not exactly idle.
 The people that do all, this Worl are good Credit for Robert Nc. Wade, IT,, as Merk1e. Credit fol Willette Kershaw, as the Show Girl Credit for Marion Kerby as the Girl l She is remembered in Bridgeport fol | her excellent work in "The Thir( Degree Our hats off to Mrs. Stu | art Robson, as the fat la,ndlady. The | world hates to pay it's board, and thu | fat landlady is as necessary to th' | modern scheme of things as nemesi' | was to the ancients.
 1 Pay your board, or don't eat, Is al | excellent rule that will be stronger | because of her.
 We unhesitatingly say that Mrs Stuart Robson is alone worth th' price of admission to this excellen play.
 l Jackson's theatre has opened mos
 auspiciously under it's new manage ment. A prosperous season ma. safely be predicted for 1t.