Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-09
MRS.. F|SKE WILL
STAR NEXT WEEK
L At THE NEWARK
Famous Actress at Her Best in
Title Role of "Mrs.
Bumpstead Leigh
PROCTOR TO PRESENT
VARIEGATED PROGRAM
Bills at Other Houses Range
from Farce to High
Class Drama.

At the Newark Theatr on Monday
night Mrs. Fiske and the Manhattan
Company will begin a weeks engage
ment, presenting Harry James Smiths
comedy, Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh,'
which had a long and successful run
az the Lyceum Theatre, New York, last
season. In it Mrs. Fiske is to be seen
at her best in the comedy vein, which
is. in the opinion of many, the most
delightful phase of her brilliant art.
AS is his custom, Harrison Grey F1ske
has surrounded Mrs. Fiske with a
company of players quite worthy of the
star, and the mounting of the play has
been most carefully looked after.
Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh" presents the
twice-told tale of American money
seeking an English setting. Old jim
Sayles, of Missionary Loop, Ind, has
mad his fortune and passed to his re-
ward before the play opens. His wife
and two daughters, by means of his
wonderful Indian Remedy" have
scaled the social ladder. The elder
daughter, played by Mrs. Fiske, has
married well in England and now re-
turns with the younger sister and the
mother to America, where she means
to marry Violet into the American aris-
toc-acy. Having discarded The name
of "Sayles'' and appropriated that or
DE Sale" Violet and her mother are
but wax in the lands of the scheming
sisteY. Already the girl has been en-
gagged to Anthony Rawson, the elder
nephew of Justin Rawson, a mighty
figure in the financial world, n the
family is on a visit to Rawson's Long
Island country house when the curtain
rises.
In order to bring the matter to a 70
Gus Peter Swallow, tombstone sales
man, Is brought to the Rawson home,
and Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh is confront
ed with her former sweetheart. Not
for nothing her long schooling in social
hypocrisy. She simply overwhelms the
chatty travelling man, v%anqulshes his
belief that she was the girl who had
won his heart in bygone years and
wins her point.
Short-lived is her victory. Violet
speaks out and tells the Mortified Raw
sons that she is the daughter of Old
Jim Sayles, and is not ashamed of it.
Instantly the situation is reversed.
Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh is denounced as
MI lhlpOotCl III OIQtI6u ~ lea
When she withdraws to pack her trunk
In comes a sutton and proposes to
Violet. Mrs. Bumpstead-Leigh re-
t~aliates by discovering a dark page in
!. Anthony's career and taxes him with
It,, He surrenders Internationally.
Through his aid the family relent, the
ban is removed and Old Jim Sayles
lies buried deep in oblivion.
Mrs. Fishes supporting company in
cludes Joseph Kilgour, Henry Stephen
sen, Shelley Hull, Douglas Peterson,
R. Owen Mech, Cyril Young, Florine
Arnold, Hattie Russell, Francesca
Rotoli, Gilda Varesi and Helena van
Brugh.
Considerable interest has been mani
tested in the engagement, beginning
Christmas matinee at the Newark
Theatre, of the new play in which
Robert Edeson again visits us as a
star. Els vehicle on this occasion is
called 1.-THE Arab" and is from the
faeile pen of Edgar Selwyn,