The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-14
POLES THEATRE

Madame x. the reigning dramatic sensation of New York and Paris will l be acted by the PoH Stock company next week This will be the first stock presentation in New England of the play which has perhaps caused more wide spread comment than any other stage work in half a century MT. Poli leads all stock managers in this part of the country in procuring this 1 w. Savage brought Madame x'' out at his New York theatre with Dorothy Donnelly in the stellar role after the | play had already been produced in sation among the theatregoers of the French capital. New York tooks kindly to the drama from the start and pack ed houses were the rule throughout its Etremefidous run in the metropolis Mir Savage sent out some two score road lconpanies with the play, about a dog Fen of which are still touring the coun- try. Wherever the sign Madame x~ quotes has been placed in front of a theatre, capacity audiences have been vogue but the play Madame X'' .eclipsed it in popularity
 F The Poli production next week will be complete in every detail. Frances Nordstrorn. the popular leading woman i will have the great opportunity of her career as an actress and will undoubt- ed1y make the most of It. There will be interesting parts for all the favor hes of the company MT. Van Beuren will be the Iaroque, the devil-may-
 
 by the woman when she believes he Is about to betray her secrets. MT. Harrington will play Floriet, the de-
 serted husband and MT. Fox will have a splendid opportunity for acting as the young lawyer, who unknOwingly defends his own mother, who is charg- relief in the play is furnished by Pa riSsard and Marivel, two trfckster lawyers, who will be played by Mark Kent and Thomas Williams. Miss Pringle Miss Starr, MT BlunkaH, Miss Bernard, MT. Velsey and others will appear among the principals Unusual
 engagement to the staging of the great courtroom scene, which is the vital act of the play. The atmosphere of French court of justice with it's gendarmes, prosecutors, judges and spectators will be faithfully portrayed.
 The story of Madame x" is of a against As Jacqueline Floriet she de- serts her husband in the prologue and tlees with lover. Returning after absence of several years the unfor- tunate woman bees forgiveness and pleads to be permitted to see her lit tie son, who is at deaths door. The outraged husband casts her from him
 and she goes out into the world brok- en-hearted and embittered. The first act shows Jasqueline twenty years lat CT at the Inn of the Three CroWns
 at Bordeaux with her companion Laro- que She is the wreck of her former self from the use of drugs. which in her own words she uses to make her forget" Laroque enters into con- spiracy with Pariasard to expose Jac-
 quelines past and to blackmail her hussb sbard who has now risen to. be president of the court. Rather than
 have the knowledge of her infamy reach her sons ears. Jacqueline shoots and kills LaroQue. She is arrested and locked up under the name of Madame
 x, having refused to give the police any information concerning herself young lawyer, Raymond Floriet is as- signed to defend the woman. The play then leads up to the tremendously the young lawyer discovers that