The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1912-10-03
"EOuGHT AND PAID FOR ONE
SEASONS BEST ATTRACTIONS
George Brosdhurst's New Play COMING
to the Masonic Temple Theatsr
Saturday EVENING,

Attersome of the amateur attempts
at play writing which have recently
been submitted, George Broadhurst's
new play, Bought and Paid For
which will be seen at the Masonic
Temple theater, Wallace, Saturday,
October s. comes as welcome relief.
The curtain will raise for this per-
Torrance at 8 o'clock.
Here is the production of skilled
dramatist who, guaging popular appeal
to nicely, and telling story that Is
| is sure to win a big popular success,
employs the resources of the theater
with facility and authority in the de-
velopment of his theme.
| There Is the necessary appeal to the
emotions that will fill the theater at
matinees with the gentler sex enjoying
the privilege of weeping into their lit
tie squares of linen and lace. There is
Astounding comedy for the sterner sex
and there is a strong scene, repulsive
enough to start the discussion SHOULD
the young person take her parents to
this play?"
Yes. there is every element of the
big hit in Bought and Paid For"
According to the stage fashions, tele-
phone girls will he much in vogue this
season. There is one in Mr. Belascos
production of 1.-The Woman" Mr.
Broadhurst gives us another in
Bought and Paid For"
She marries millionaire whom she
does not really love. She respects him.
Incidentally, her marrying makes
things easier for her sister and broth
err law and their baby
The respect is soon shattered when
the wife discovers that her husband is
drunkard Under these conditions he
is an unspeakable brute, and the ex-
tent of his brutality is very clearly
shown in the second act when he re-
turns home in maudlin condition, and
resenting his wife's repugnance for
him in that condition boasts that she
is Bought and Paid For" Then he
breaks down the door of the room in
which she has locked herself
In the third act she begs him to re-
he promises to do so. He refuses, and
the wife handing back the jewels and
the wedding ring. steals out into the
cold world. The curtain falls on the
HI C h1 n
"No, no. he says, irritably. Il don't
want anybody watched. l want you to
protect someone
The last act shows her living in
humble circumstances with her equal
ly reduced sister and brother in law
She's only poor shop girl noy, work.
ing for seven dollars a week and
hanging on strap in \the subway
twice daily.
The brother inlaw. who is warrant
ed to have an idea fresh every hour,
evolves a scheme to bring the husband
and wife together 1t succeeds. They
really love and are pining for each
other after true hero and heroine fash
ion All is forgiven. They are re-
united. She goes back to furs, auto
mobile. French maid. jewels. a box at
the opera and her discarded wedding
ring.
The remark of her brother-in law is
true indeed: Say, you make Laura
Jean Libbey look like a piker!"
This same brother in law is the joy
of the play. He is an inspiration in
character study. An ungrateful
sponge. he takes all that his wealthy
brother in law gives him. coolly as
cribing the opulence to his own worth
and industry. Mr.. Broadhurst gave
this character some of the best lines in
the piece, and 1t is presented in a de-
iciously comic vein.