The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1912-01-26

ton really ranks among the very
best seen here in years.
1t is to laugh every minute of the
three acts, and complications grow
out of complications, unit. every
thing is a hopeless tangle and stu
ations seem hard of solution.
It's a william A. Brady troupe
every member Of the troupe ranking
in front company, and while chari:l-
ing Miss Francine Larrimee and
clever Tom Emory have the most
to do, the others keep close up in
the running, and work out ths CAPT.
tai story Of a bowling grand stand
finish.
The story of "Over Night is an
original one, and it vas evol!ed by
| Philip H. Bartholomew. Two
newly married couples meet on
their honeymoon trip and the mas
terful man, who has married the
J gentle, yielding little woman, and
! the J~unoesque masterful woman.
who has married the abbreviated
milk sop of a man. by some acci-
dent. are left behind. while the two
weaklings are carried along up the
Hudson on the putting steamer.
They are driven to representing
themselves as bride and groom. and
from this situation the complications
arise. There il a trying hour and
a half on the boat, a strenuous
night in q country hotel. and almost
a tragic half hour in the same hotel
the next morning. when the master
full couple reach the scene and are
likewise mistaken for bride and
groom. But it all comes out accord.
ing to the happy order Of things,
and each husband gets his wife and
Ii well content with the explana'
lions brought out by the funny old
hypnotist.
The subject is not an indicate
cne-that is, the playwright. has
been careful to make his work a
comedy and not a problem piece
and there is not even the suggestion
Of the Objectionable, for the peoplpe
out in front are always in the con-
ldence Of the lost and strayed hus
band and wife while the Other
characters in the farce are not.
Francine Larrimee Joined the com
pany in this city yesterday to take
the part of Elsie Darling, the weak
coniding little bride. Miss Larri
| NEE, coming from one OF the north
ern companies, gives the piece
strength that should make it on
of the hits Of the season.
Miss Larrimee is only a girl II
her teens, but she is already dis
l playing an art that promises
brilliant future. She is a Russian
and served her apprenticeship witt
D Nazimova in the cars country
( playing one Of the children's part
4 in '.The Dolls House." She cam
e to America with Nazimova and play
: ed with that famous actress for tw
seasons in New York, appearing Q
the child in Little Eyolf", Ibsen'
nightmare. Her father was a lead
y ing French actor and her uncle L. !
Adler, the great Yiddish tragediar
e Miss Larrimee, although in Amer
CO but q few years, speaks Englis
perfectly, without even the sugge'
d ton Of an accent. She is. q swee
dainty little lady, with bright. sparl
ling eyes and pretty face, and Oh
n has a manner 90 innocent and ~
le 50 chic that carries her audience b
: storm.
AL She is full of the quaint name
d ism of the foreign woman, and
e capable of expressing almost a
n much with. the Frenchy shrug Of hi
shoulders or the toss of her SHAPED
head as she is with words.
Tom Emory is a wonder as
comedian of theout- of-the-ordinal
type. He is little and active ar
n always busy, and he has a lisp th'
iy fits In most effectively. He kept IL
he audience in one whoop of laught'
while he was doing his share, al
IN il they come any better than M
IN Emory in his particular line Ne
1e Orleans hasnot seen them.
of Miss Ada Stirling, as the woms
&C. suffragette, who had married Il