The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-15
Frank Gould Has
 Written A Farce
"The Gay Boulevardier'' to
 Be Produced in Paris

Paris, July 15.-The reason for Frank
 Jay Gould's recent hours of seclusion
 was learned to-day when he informed
 his most intimate friends he had
 been busy writing the book and Tyr ics for musical farce. The work is finished and will be produced in the Theatre St Michael here under the management of Carl Strakosch. In the winter the piece will be staged in New York city by Frank Hennes- sy and Charles Dillingham;. The bill- boards will not bear the name of the millionaire who married Edith Kelly. The musical farce is to be called The Gay Boulevardier," and the author will figure as Frank Jay.
 This is by no means the first at tempt Gould has made at playwritine and sketches. When in Yale Uni versity he wrote several pieces that which, it is said, were sent on the road. Gould then had another pen name. not resembling his own
 Gould began writing the musical farce when he was in New York last winter. and got additional Parisian atmosphere when in this city in the last month. The millionaire author in sists the staging be done elaborately. The cafe scene in the boulevard, it is said, will surpass anything that has been seen on the stage in several sea- sons. Real absinthe will be poured into the glasses of the stage folk, bottles of champagne will be opened with the true pop of the cork, and walters of the principal cafes in the Paris boulevards will attend to the show girls. The white-aproned men from the Cafe de Paris, the cafe An glaise. Cafe de la Paix and several other popular places in the French capital, where the Parisian knows the waiter as the New Yorker knows the bartender, have been engaged.
 Gould, after reading the piece to several theatrical managers here, is confident it will be a success. Ar engagements have been made for the translation of '"The Gay Boulevar- dier." The principal characters are: ugly old cove, with ample 4neans who for the last forty years of his life has lived in small town in Ohio. Then there are his two daughters, his son, his wife and the Sultan of Morocco
 The party is staying in the Hotel Henrice, and on the night of their ar rival in Paris Fairbanks and his wife leave their daughters and son at home and, accompanied by a French guide start to do Paris after midnight The parents go to the Moulin Rouge, the Cabaret de PEnfer, du Mort and du Chiel, and wind up for a little refresh ment in the Abbaye in Montmartre.
 There, dancing around the floor, the mother and father are astounded to see their daughter with a handsome young man. They are unaware this youth is their other daughter, who has dressed herself in her brothers clothes They hasten back to the hotel with the one daughter and leave the other to enjoy Parisian life dressed as a man. The masquerader meets her brother, who in a perfectly simple way tells of his having met the Sultan of Mo- rocco. The girl makes herself known to her brother and the parents are in- formed the young man they saw danc- ing with their daughter was the other Miss Fairbanks. But the cross, crab bed. ugly old cove is delighted so in- tensely at meeting the Sultan he par dons the girls, and they ultimately become engaged to two wealthy Am ericans.
 Gould has introduced many laugh able situations in the piece. One of the first scenes will be in the Ab- baye in Montmartre, and another in the hotel. It is said Mrs Gould is delighted with her husbands effort, and the first night of the farce will be a gala night, special tables being reserved in a prominent cafe for a supper at which all the performers and many of the audience will be the guests of the Goulds.