The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1911-04-15
PARK THEATRE

Miss Taliaferro who appears as Re-
becca in ''Rebecca of Sunnybrook
Farm" at the Park Theatre Monday
April 18th has been on the stage for
fifteen years. She first attracted no
tice in "The Bonnie Brier Bush,'' with
the late Mr. Stoddard, and them in
"The Girl with the Green Eyes with
Clara Bloodgood. Following this she
had several parts Of small conse-
dali in 1.-THE Vinegar Buyer" and
Weather Beaten Benson She was
next seen as a child in Marta of the
Lowlands' with Mime. Bertha Kalich.
When Mrs. Wigs Of the Cabbage
Patch'' was produced, Miss Taliaferro
ing her sister Mabel Taliaferro, as
Lovey Mary Subsequently she APP
peared in 'tBrewster's Millions and
then as Polly in Polly of the Circus"
A special extraordinary engagement
will be played in this city on April
18th at the Park theatre when the
famous Max Thomashefsky's All-Star
Yidish Company will give one per-
form only presenting their latest and
greatest success entitled "The Yid-
dish Sapho" from the pen of the
cob Gordin. The above mentioned
company is headed by the celebrated
Yiddish players and stars Mr.. Max
Rosenthal, Mr.. David Levenson, Nine.
Diana Feinman and Nine. FEMME
Thomashefsky. They will be seen in
the leading roles and will portray
types which are very interesting even
to those who do not understand the
Yiddish language.
Eugene Walters new play, Mrs.
Maxwell's Mistake which is announc-
No.
tire on Thursday April goth deals a
life of ease, acquired by graft,
smashing blow. Although the charac-
tiers concerned in this new play num-
Der but six, each one is essential to
the telling Of the story. The plot
concerns the Maxwells, who find life
on Staten Island a rather sordid at
fair after several years of struggling
along on the husbands salary Of
twenty-five dollars weekly Grace, the
wife, pines for the finery so dear to
many women's hearts. The chance to
get some ''easy money" comes when
the husband, John, is tempted to pass
an inferior grade of cement as meet
ing the requirements of the specifica-
lions for huge dam which is about
to be built. Thirty thousand dollars
is his for so doing and with that
sum, they move away from Staten
Island and install themselves in hand
some apartments in New York. Max
well. following the advice of his
tempter, one James Stewart, doubles
his money by specializing his money
on Wall street. Later on he goes it
alone and loses everything. Drink gets
the best of him and he determines to
blackmail Stewart and secure more
easy money. Stewart resist and
tragedy seems imminent, when the wife
seeing the depth to which her love
of luxury has dragged her husband,
saves the situation and averts the i'm
pending catastrophe. The last act
sees the husband and wife renounce
their false position and again take
up the thread of their lives where it
was broken off, resolved to acquire a
competence honestly or not at ALL The
cast will show Margaret Ellington. as
the WIFE Earl Browne as the hus-
band, Miss Kenyon Bishop as the
friend, Ben Johnson, as a newspapers
man, Frederick Burton as the finan.
cier and Amy Summers as a maid,
On Friday evening April 81 w A.
Brady will present Douglass Fair
banks in his new play "a Gentleman
of Leisure" and on Saturday Mary
Mannering comes in her new play "a
Mans world