Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-10-12
BOUGHT AND PAID
FOR" At SHUBERT'S
Remarkable Broadhurst Play
Will Have Original Cast
and Scenery.
PROCTOR PROGRAM TO BE
POT-POURRI OF PLEASURE
Orpheum, Jacobs's, Miners,
Gayety and Other Houses
Will Have Good Shows.

Bought and Paid For" with the
original cast from William A. Brady's
Playhouse in New York, will be re-
vealed at the Shubert Theatre next
week.
In the company are Charles Rich
man, Julia Dean, Frank Craven. AL
len Atwell and others. The Playhouse
scenery, furnishings and stage set
tings in detail will be employed.
This remarkable play remained for
an entire year in Mr. Bradys theatre,
and in all AIS performances were
given. The final night witnessed an
ovation to the author and the noted
players who had enacted their roles
from the very first night of the un-
common career of Mr.. Broadhursts
comedy drama
. Robert Stafford, financier and multi
millionaire. is the character assumed
by Mr.. Richman. The man, a master
in the world of finance, is attracted
to Virginia Blaine. a girl of good ed
lcation and unusual refinement of
character, who, through adversely, Is
employed as a telephone girl in q
large hotel. Stafford finally asks Vir-
gfnfa to marry him. The girl, though
realizing that she does not, at the
fine, love Stafford as she feels a
woman should love the man she is to
marry, nevertheless consents.
Ia Genuinely In Love Now.
Two years of married life find her
genuinely in love with her husband
and he with her. but the great blot
on her happiness is Stafford's fire.
ouent over r-indugence at which
times he is turned into a brute. On
one of these occasions Stafford. in
famed with passion and maudlin
with the liquor he has taken, tells
his wife, when she repulses him, that
she has been bought and paid for"
with the money and gifts he has law
ished upon her. Virginia flies to her
own room, but Stafford breaks in the
panel of the door and gains admit
tance.
The next morning Stafford is, of
course, remorseful and repentant, but
he has hurt the sensibilities of his
wife and she decides that the accu-
sation he made in his drunken state
is virtually the truth. Virginia tells
him that to retain her self-respect
and to prevent the repetition of such
a scene there is but one course open
10 her Either Stafford must give his
promise never to drink again or she
will leave him.
The husband pleads with her
against the ultimatum she presents,
and tells her that, as the head of
the house, he cannot be forced into
making such a promise as she in
sists upon. Accordingly, true to her
conviction. the girl leaves the luxury
with which she is surrounded end
starts out once more to earn her own
living.
HurI Defiance ut Each Other.
That she will never return to him
unless he comes for her is the wife's
final word as she passes from her
husbands roof, and tha. he will never
capitulate unless she sends Tor hin
is Stafford's final word.
The girl goes to the home of her
sister, whose husband has formerly
been employed by Stafford at n fat
salary. but=.who. when the 1nal act
ODtilS, iS OBI6 iAOlt a oiiipPPiD NtNiN
at paltry wage. She obtains en-
ployment in 4big store and struggles
bravely to keep up. Her hrorher-in-
law. not at all in love with the tran
sition from ease to poverty. and
knowing that Stafford is still deeply
In love with his wife hut that each
Is too proud to give in to the other,
conceives the idea of informing STAT
ford that Virginia wants him to come
for her
Stafford wastes no time in reach
ing the little fiat and Virginia rushes
into his arms, proud in her belief,
which she conveys to him, that he
has come for her unaslSed. stat
ford allows her to think this until
her sister finally blurts out the truth.
whereupon he tells Virginia that as
she has not violated her principles
and has not summoned him. and as
ne has come and is wiling to prom
Use anything that will insure their
future happiness, she has no reason
not to return to his home.