The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-01-02
BABY Mine ISASCREAM
Fargoans Will Have an Opportunity
to Laugh When Baby Mine Comes
Here Wednesday Night.

The dramatic critic OF The Winni-
peg Free Press has the following to
say about Baby Mine. which will be
presented in the Fargo operahouse
Wednesday night:
When the action of a play is re-
peatedly stopped, and for several min
utes not a word that the actors are
saying can be heard because Of the
uncontrolled laughter of the audience,
even the meanest intellect would grasp
the fact that the play in question must
be funny, or that the audience is very
easily pleased. Both these condi-
tions were i'm evidence yesterday when
Baby Mine drew two capacity audi
ences to the winnipeg theatre. Holt
day crowds are proverbially easy to
amuse and Baby Mine is funny enough
to make an audience of funeral mutel
laugh
The farce-and it is just broad farce
of the screaming order-was written
by Margaret Mayo, and when 1t Is
stated that triplets play an important
part In it, and that these are foisted
on to deluded and deceived father
who prances about the stage with the
three of them in his arms, and that
in his wife's bedroom while the latter
| is wing in bed. it can be readily under
stood that there is something doing"
all the time.
To attempt to explain the plot of
such an absurdity would be almost as
absurd as the farce itself. The chief
character is a young wife who Is so
| Colossal liar that she could give
Baron Munchausen and Ananias rolled
together ten yards in 100 and beat
them easily. Her husband leaves her,
/ and to bring him back she buys q
newly born baby and sends for him,
| pretending the baby is hers. BY SER
! ses of most absurd accidents the father
! finds himself the proud parent OF
| triplets. How the mendacious young
wife and her accomplices, another
young married couple. lie and lie and
lie again to get out of the various
embroglios in which they have become
| involved would require the pen Of an
| inmate of the insane asylum to do full
Justice to- An ordinarily sane person
couldn't accomplish the feat or IL he
did he would himself become a resi-
dent of the said insane asylum.
To see a cute young woman, most
becomingly attired in robe de mutt
and a negligee jumping in and out
of bed, like a young athlete, though
with perfect propriety be it added
while q large, putting and perspiring
fat man PUSHES on the stage every few
minutes with a fresh baby in his
arms, lis calculated to bring tears OF
laughter to the eyes of the verlest
pessinist Yesterdays audiences sim
ply lay back In their chairs and I'm
restrainedly yelled-the expression is
not elegant, but it Is the only word
which meets the case. The whole
thing from start to finish is a bur-
llesuue on motherhood, and that it Is
Iinoffensive is due to the fact that the
bedroom scene Is played like pan
tomime, and that the people in the
Heading parts show very nice dis
/ cretion. especially Miss Consuelo Bailey
the Juvenile wife, who is fascinating
/ little woman, in spite of being such an
/ inveterate liar. she presented a moss
fetching figure in her negligee, afd
rlayed with plenty Of intelligence
she was we'll backed UP in her mirth
| making by Earle Mitchell the afore-
mentioned fat man, who was chiefly
responsible for the condition of ex.
haustion from over laughter in which
the audience found itself. AS tbs
scapegoat of the two conspiring wo-
men he was the picture Of comic woe
George Probert, as the befooled hus-
band. and Miss Natalie Perry, as
Jimmy. the fat mans wife, were the
chief abettors of the two leading fun
makers. A couple Of smaller parts were
admirably played by Miss Gilda varesi
and Richard Collins,