The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-19
ATTRACTIONS
 EH AT 1.-THE THEATRES
MADAME x" IS ; BIG SUCCESS AT
 POLI'S THIS WEEK
STIRRING DRAMA GIVES MISS FRANCES NORDsTROM, A. H. VAN BUREN AND STUART FOX CHANGES TO DISTINGUISH THEMSELVES.

The last word in thrills has been
 reached in Madame x'. the drama washington-Br Bridgeport Pol Players,
 A big audience saw the production last night and waxed enthusiastic. over the piece. The theme IS one of absorbing interest It is ably handled and there
 is not minute when the attention of the audience Is allowed to wander. ana thrae Pe %dcn was is wp1tten an
 dramatist and adapted for the AmeTi-
 can stage by John Raphael. It has
 8 very original plot in which the
 FToriot, a man high in the legal cir
 cIes of Paris, is living happily with
 his wife Jacqueline and child until
 Jacaueline deserts him for another.
 F1orfot becomes despondent and bitter against the world When JacuueIine returns and on her knees asks for
 out
 Tn the next act, which takes place 20 years after, JacQueline is shown at a hotel in Bordeaux After being re- pulsed by her husband the woman has gone far on the gath to destruction She is nothing but a victim of drugs. The man with whom Jacqueline has been living joins a band of blaekmail-
 CTS. This gang has learned that Jac- queline came from a wealthy family, and Laroque, with whom she has been living, declares he will goato Paris to
 get in touch with the wonlan's fam The only good trait left in Jacqueline is her love for her son She does not ! want him to know of her wrecked life Paris on an errand of blackmafI, the woman becomes furious. She seizes a. pistol and kills Laroque as he brushes her aside to reach the door. 1 In the next act. Jacqueline's son.
 grown to a man, is seen at his
 fathers home. He is rising, young lawyer and has been assigned to de 4 fev,s7 ffat r7ny rF77 7n | is none other than Jacqueline. Of course the big scene is in the last act
 when Raymond defends Madame X. before the Assize court. This scene was received with tunultaos1s applause l last night
 Miss Frances Nordstronn was well received as Madame x. It is a dtf- thou1t part, requiring the actress to run whole gamut of emotions. There
 were some last night who thought that Miss Nordstrom in the first act made the character Of Madame x a little to,
 horrible. It is true that she might
 have depicted a fallen woman with but her reason may have been that l she wished to leave no doubt in the
 minds of the audience az to the depths l to which Madame x had sunk 1 A. H. Van Buren was great in the I part of Laroque. but unhappffy he tperished in the first. act: Stuart Fox young lawyer defending his mother. 1 This part was. played by William Ei- 1 liott in the original New York produc- l ton, and 1t is only fair to say that MT Fox's work does not suffer in comparison
 l Mark Kent added one more to his 1 list of hits by his work as Perrisard, the blackmailing lawyer. Merivel his assistant, was ably played by Thomas Williams. Miss Dorothy Bernard was l good in kthe- part of Helene ValTnorin, Il and Harry Andrews gave a good ae- | count of himself as the prosecuting at-
 torney Others in the. cast were sat isfactory.
 I With this stirring production so well II played, crowded houses will be the ! rule at Polfs this week