The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-19
AN OLD FAvORITE
 IN A NEW GUISE
Thomas Jefferson in a Laughing Hit at Jackson's-PerfOr-
 nance Repeated Tonight

After playing the role of Rip Van 1 Wrinkle for a period of time ten years longer than the famous sleep in which Rip indulged, Thomas Jefferson shook the lines of that famous comedy drama from his memory and made his bow in Bridgeport last evening, for the first time on any stage, as the hero of the Hghtest of farce comedies ''The Other Fellow
 The human mind is a winderful af-
 fair How a man who has played a part or the character of Rip Van Wrinkle for 30 years, achieving such success as Jefferson did. can forsake such g. role almost at a minutes mo- t1ce and plunge into a gay farce and
 carry 1t off successfully, is hard to understand.
 Yet Jefferson has succeeded. The
 audience at Jacksons theatre never could have recognized the Thomas Jefferson of last night as the Thomas Jefferson of Rip Van Wrinkle fame,
 save for his name on the program.
 If the play fails it won't be Jeffer- sons fault. He has plunged into the with vivacity and hurnor.
 The play Itself is the feather down weight of farce comedies and has the meat of an extremely humorous play replete with situations of the most absurdly Imaginable character. Last night was it's first presentation. It O1dSSGQ a O1C SpOLS. OILenCtIQeS IL was possible to see where the author had planned a brilliant ''coup" to which the audience failed to respond. Nevertheless the laughs were frequent eous and with the play Smoothed out g. bit. as it quickly will be, it should be one of the greatest of farce com edy successes.
 tsThe Other Fellow is billed as a Theosophica1 play but that need not frfghten anyone, as it has no more to do with Theosophy than with wire less telegraphY.
 The principal characters are those of Wilton Swift, a keen, hust1ing suc- cessful Wall street promoter, and ''Dr. Theodore Button," his room mate and medical adviser.
 Chud Suddah, an Indian prince, gifted with the power of removing the human soul from the body, expert at a private seance. He removes their souls from their bodies. While in the midst of the experiment some one at- tempts to get into the room, the In- and confusion, involxes Dr. Buttons soul into Swift's body. Later Swift's soul takes the doctors body.
 The innumerab1e rnix-upS and laugh able situations which follow this mis- hap are easier to imagine than des- cribe. From the time of the trans migration of the souls the farce is a continuous scream and when pol ished into it's final nicety, should be good for metropolitan success.
 The character of Wilton Swift is portrayed by Thomas Jefferson. The scarcely less important role of Dr. Theodore Button is most capably talk en by Gerald Harcourt. Praise must be accorded to Russell Bassett in the part of 'Mr. Sanderson," a business man one of the most laughable roles in the play. Samuel Klawans as MT. WalI' a lawyer and Walter s. How ard as "Thonas'' too take their parts very well. The role of ttChud Suddah'' the East Indian who causes all the trouble is portrayed by Fred W. Pe- ters, who makes the part a very amusing one but might make it a little more impressive by adding dig nifty.
 The feminine portion of the cast is most capable It includes Anne Windsor as Mrs. Swift" Jeannette Ferral1 as Mrs. Chatteron''! Jane Courtenay as Daisy Sanderson'' and Eva Condon as ''Grace Tanner. The performance will be repeated tonight and is worthy of a good audience. It may be recommended to anyone in need of the ionic of daughter.