The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-18
Miss Ho|Iinger Surpasses Grace
 George In Role Portrayal of Wife Who Wouldn't be Wronged-Splendidly
 Artistic

Let's make a confession. Let's use the gifts which we have received from kind Providence and a society which provides liberal means for the educa- tion of the mind to independent dis elimination When we saw Grace George in "A Woman's Way" we en- joyed it very much. We said that she was an accomplished actress, those of us who didn't prefer to say. Wasn't t she just grand And then the play. We thought what a strong play it was and what a valuable lesson it taught to men and women. You re- member the lesson? Men stay in your own dooryards. The other woman is not half as nice as the one you have. And you remember the wife in the case? She didn't tamely submit to having her husband made way with by the woman of easy smiles. On the contrary she brought that female per- son into her own home, convinced her husband by a comparison on the premises that she, the wife, was the real drawing card with him, and so the curtain went down with all the men instructed and all the women informed.
 ]. The play at Polls this week is the same play; same dialogue, same lan- guage, same lesson.
 Criticism, therefore, is concerned only with the presentation, which is divided into two parts, the settings with the costumes and the acting.
 Now here is the chance to make that confession of which mention was made in line one of this dissertation. We all know how easy it is to dis credit a prophet in his own country. A stock company is like that We are apt to think the stock com pany that is right with us all summer inferior, when it isn't.
 This is one of the times when it isn't. Scenery costuming, and acting, the play at Polls last night, was just as good as when the original company gave it with Grace George.
 There were some discriminating persons in the audience, in fact, who believed that Miss Annie Hollinger as Mrs. Stanton, the wife that wouldn't be- wronged you remember can give Grace George cards and spades in the part an still have the best of it..
 Miss Holilnger has some physical a1vanta ges, to be sure. Miss George is square, and her head is set on her shoulders by a short neck. But Miss Hollinger, has a head that is poised at the end of a regular Greek column of a neck, and she can do that Ethel Barrymore work, which contributes so much to the illusion of idealism in female parts.
 And then MISS 1OlllnS0F Has SOUL whatever that is, for it is something that one perceives without being able to describe it in acting.
 Really, now, aren't We willing to admit that we had never seen thus part played until we saw Miss Hol- finger play it?
 As for MT. Ince, never, never, never. has he looked so we'll in evening dress as in his role of Ned Stanton last night for Thee. you know usually comes out somewhat stronger in the rough parts.
 But he delivered the artistic goods, l this time all right.
 And, indeed, this is one of the rare cases in which the entire company is entitled to compliment, MT. Eggen- ton, MT. Kirk, MT. Reynolds, MT. Jun ior MT. Moore, MT. Rrandolph. Miss Inman Miss Bennett, Miss Murray | and Miss Rochte.
 And we'll travel for before we see a more striking scene again than the l dining room in the last act. So here's | to the talent of Giuno Socola, for | from the stage manager more excel | lent things flow, in the plays we ad- | mire, than most of us wot of.
 Under it's present arrangements for providing cold air it may be added l that Polls is about as cool as the | seashore at high tide.
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