The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-21
THE PARK
'TILLIES NIGHTMAR RE"


 Miss Marie Dressler and her excel ent company in "Tille's Nightmare" will be seen at the Park on Monday. Miss Dressler in any role is scream ngiy funny, but her present vehicle allowS her greater range for her fun making talents than any she has ap- peared in heretofore. Her character s Tillie Blobbs, the daughter of the sSge boarding house at Skeneatoles, N. Y., and the play opens on the night which was to be her night off,-the first night off in over two years. However, as she is about to start out With her bashful lover, her mother secides to put up' pickles and lilly s obliged to remain at home. Tired -<lt she sits down in a chair, and falls ksleep,-then the Nightmare.
 Tillie's Nightmare is undoubtedly une of the funniest plays of it's char hcter the stage has ever known. De- spite all it's laugh provoking situa- lions, its bewildering costumes, its four score of pretty girls and its seven elaborate scenes, yet there is here and there a mark of pathos in < the character of Tillie Blobbs, the boarding house drudge, which lends to the performance a genuine heart interest. which distinguishes it from most of the musical plays of these days.
 MT. Fields has surrounded Miss Dressler with a company of unusual merit. So much good work is done by the principals that it is difficult to set apart for special mention bits of fun or character Representations es- pecially deserving of praise.
 7 Ably supporting Miss Dressler are such well known favOrites as Eleanor Kent. Ethel Fairbanks, Nellie De Erasse, May Howard. Lottie Hart, Alletta Bridgefort, Horace Newman, John Mayon, George German, John E. nedy, Jr., Frank Smiley, Gordon and Harper and Lew Fields Dancing Girls.
 Grand Opera in English under the managerial direction of Americas greatest producer, Henry W. Savage, has long been synonomous with the highest and most noble attainments In the worlds musical history. MT. Savage's prodigal productions of "Par- sifal," Die Walkure." Madame But terf1y' and numerous other music dramas in English mark historic oc- casions' in the minds of dfscriminat- ing music lovers throughout the Unit ed States. The simple announcement of the forthcoming production in Eng fish of Puccini's latest and greatest work. "The Girl of the Golden Vest cannot 1al1 unOer these c1rcumSIdnCeS to awaken the keenest interest in a performance that will be record mak- ing in the history Of grand opera in English. '"The Girl of the Golden l West" is announced. for presentation !, at The Park Theatre next Saturday | matinee and night. Mail orders are now being filled if accompanied by re- mittance. The question has often been asked | Why do they call the Bowman | Brothers the Blue Grass Boys?" The l boys will appear next Thursday and i Friday in their volcanic musical farce l Suffering Suffra gettes" at the Park | Theatre and have had this query pre- scented to them ever since their initial | bow on the vaudeville stage. The | answer is easy. They hail from the | beautiful State of Kentucky, not very from the birth place of Abraham Lin coin. William, the elder, and James, | the younger, are of true Kentucky 1 stock. Prior to this season they have | been prominently identified in the Va