The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-10-17


10 matter how many engagements
you have on for the week, your list
n NOT complete unless IL includes an
evening with Marguerite Clark, In
ne Oarrlck. Cancel one OF your
other engagements II necessary. but
don't miss Baby Nine"
n makes no difference whether you
are married or single. whether you
are chiIdleBB or the father OF brood,
there's a jolly good time In store for
Ion. II there's any virtue In the old
saying. Laugh and grow fat those
who thronged the Garrick, Monday
night, for the opening performance,
uutt have taken on considerable
weight. for an audience never laughed
more heartily. To say the piece is a
-ecream" Is putting II mildly.
The play starts on soberly enough.
The curtain rises on a wife In tears.
Alfred Hardy, the head OF the house,
n Ia hun because OF his discovery
that his doll-like bride has taken
lunch with another man. The man"
WAS none other than Jimmy jerks.
AIfred's best friend, and there was
really nothing wrong about It, but the
wife chooses to make mystery OF
the incident and the husband forsakes
her. declaring he is tired OF her lies.
Nothing so very funny about that,
eh But wait. To win him back, little
Mrs. Hardy. as impersonated by Miss
Clark, conceive the idea OF adopting
baby. knowing her husbands yearn-
ings In that direction. When the cur
tain goes up on the second act, three
months are supposed to have elapsed.
Arrangements have been made with
foundling's home for the adoption
Of an infant, and the husband is to
be summoned by wire that night.
The well-meaning Jimmy jerks, how
wire several hours in advance OF
schedule and then the fun begins.
Hardy arrives before the baby, and
the wife and her devoted friend, Mrs.
jerks, are In a pretty predicament.
Il transpires that the mother OF the
infant. at the last minute. has refused
to give her consent to the adoption.
Jimmy calls up to impart this infor-
nation and Is ordered to get the baby
somehow, even II he has to kidnap
~ which he does In the end. To
appease the husband. the wife in
forms him that Jimmy has taken the
baby out for an airing. although the
thermometer Is close 10 the zero
mark Lie No. IL.
Jimmy finally arrives with the baby
and the young husband is delighted.
Not far behind Is the mother of the
Infant and she insists on the return
of the child. Well. it's long story
and the complications come thick and
fast In the course OF the story
three babies are introduced. and the
fact that they are dummies does not
Interfere with the fun in the slightest,
for they are good limitations. Just
when the proud father has been led
10 believe that his wife has presented
him with triplets, the real parents OF
the infants appear to claim them and
the wife is forced to confess that II
WAS all joke. However, the ruse
serves to effect q reconciliation.
Dainty Marguerite Clark, as the
young mother" presents about as
pretty picture as one could imagine.
She's bewitchingly pretty, to start
with. and her work has the charm OF
nafuralness. added to which Is an
abundance of grace.
Miss Agnes De Lane Is most hap
PLY cast as Jimmy's wife. and Wal
ter Jones, as Jimmy, Is a whole show
IN himself Ernest Glendenning plays
the husband In a thoroughly capable
manner and Miss Marie Falls, as the
Italian mother OF infant No. 1, gives
q clever character impersonation The
piece Is in three acts, all perfectly
mounted. On the whole, it's the best
farce the Garrick has offered in many
= long day.