The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-08-30
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THE PARK

, In '"Thy Ndghbor's Wife" which ! Daniel Frohman will present here at
 the Park theatre tonight under his 1 new American comedy with which he proposes to open the season in New York at his Lyceum Theatre. The idea of the play is an exceedingly at- | tractive one, and in accordance with MT. Frohman's general policy in re- gard to plays, 1t is on a theme of uni
 versal interest. The play is divided
 exterior and lawns of two twin cot tages. In act second is shown the dining room of one of the houses and ! in act three is the boudoir of the
 other. The character of the house also betrays the character of its inmates; for instance, Arthur Robbins and Mrs. Robbins are young married couple. Robbins deeply loves his home, and comes home early from his work to labor in his garden and on his lawn, but his wife, who is carried away by her love for finery and fashions does Quirements At the opening of the play this is indicated very amusing 1y, as Robbins wants his dinner, and she has been too busy with her clothes to make any. In the next door
 house he sniffs the fragrant odor Of
 steak and biscuits. His neighbor, Mrs.
 Miller, unlike Mrs. Robbins. Is so att
 tached to her home and her house
 work, that she has no time for dress
 es, hats and finery; so MT. Robbins
 wonders why his wife cannot cook
 as we'll as the woman next door At
 six o'clock home comes MT. Miller,
 fresh from his friends and his club,
 late for dinner, but cheerful and jolly.
 He has no responsibilities. He all
 lows his lawn and garden to run in-
 to utter neglect. offers Robbins a cf-
 gar, has greeted the ladies good .na-
 turedly. in spite of the fact that he
 has kept his wife back in her arrange
 ments for dinner by his delay, and
 having been cared for in the house.
 hold by his young wife he has shown
 his freedom from responsibility. which
 has made him indifferent and care-- less. In the meantime. he wonders
 why his wife cannot dress as we'll as
 wondered why his wife cannot cook like her neighbor, and so we got
 problem in domestic life doubtless
 more or- less common, in which two
 husbands find that they think they
 have not been married to their right
 mates, that their natures are not con
 genial, and they realize that each should have married the other mans
 wife. How this amusing, but interest
 ing problem is worked out to the sat
 isfaction of all parties concerned, is
 the plan and plot of the play. It has been rehearsed by MT. Frohman and
 carefully cast, as will be seen by the
 principal actors in the play. Mir. Ar
 thur Byron, well known here, MT.
 Fred Tiden, formerly of the Charles Frohman Empire O., Miss Pamela
 Gaythorne, a delightful young Eng
 fish actress, who has played leading
 parts at the New Theatre in New
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 who was the leading lady of MT. Froh- mans recent Lyceum Theatre produc- tions. The play opens the season at the Lyceum Theatre, New York, on September 9th.
 Playgoers who have witnessed the increasing use made of the telephone by dramatists, as a convenient means to carry on their plots. will be in- terested to know that the telephone is used as the feature in David Belas- co.'s production of William C. de Miles new drama, 'The Woman" which is to be seen here at the Park theatre next Monday previous to it's aIl-season run at the Republic Thea Ire New York. In the three acts Of the play, MT de Mile essays to show how the telephone dominates and con- trols the destinies of men and women. of cities and nations Wanda Kelly, the telephone girl of the play. explains the theme in this manner: "One of the big central telephone stations is the world-aI1 boiled down and spread out on the switchboard-and right there on that board thousands and thou sands of people are meeting, their thoughts are crossing each other-and the Hello Girl Is perched on top of a high mountain, looking at them. That's the real world. what people are think ing, and it's all on the board, good and bad. winners and losers, rich and 1 poor, all mixed up together all go- ing on at once. And the operator is 1 a sort of Fate who sees that the | right people get each other, and like | their own affairs, though she could 1 often save a lot of trouble if she mix ed in. I tell you it's hard not to in 1 terfere sometimes when you've got | the whole world under your two | hands" Wanda Kelly really does reach the point where she can't re- fr ain from interfering. At the psycho- logical moment. to save a womans name and to avenge her fathers mem pry. she calmly refuses to let the Fright people get together" thereby precipitating a tense and surprising l Climax. This is one of many remark able incidents in a remarkable new play. 'The Woman" should crowd the theatre during the brief engage rnent of this Belasco production next Monday. The strong Belasco cast will include Mary Nash, Jane Peyton. John W. Cope Harold Vosburgh Edwin Holt. Cuyler Hastings. Carleton Macy. Stephen Fitzpatrick and William Hol- den. The sale of seats opens Friday.