Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-21

BOUGHT AND PAID FOR"
AT SHUBERT'S, PERFECT

Every married couple, young and
old, will be better off IL they make a
visit to the Shubert Theatre this
week and witness a performance of
George H. Broadhurst's splendid
four-act drama, Bought and Paid
For" 1t is an intensely human-in-
terest story, built on the problem of
what a wife should do when her hus-
band drinks and comes home intoxi-
Gated.
In Bought and Paid For" the wife
what you would do. be you either
husband or wife, if you were in her
position, will give you plenty of food
for thought and for that reason it is
safe to say you will be better off
after you have seen the show.
Broadhurst has written real show.
1t is a story that has it's double in
many a home today, and not always
does all end happily as it does in this
home on the stage. While the
dramatic element is what carries the
real story of the play. Mr.. Broad
hurst has shown his splendid knowl-
edge of. stagecraft by keeping the
dramatic end of the performance
tinged at all times with good, clean,
healthy comedy, so that Bought and
Paid For" is really one of the most
enjoyable plays on the stage today
AS Robert Stafford, the successful
business man, who marries hotel
telephone operator through love and
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by telling her he has bought and
paid for her, Frank Mills was at his
very best Mr.. Mills both looks and
acts the successful young business
man to perfection.
Miss Helen Macbeth. as Virginia
Blaine the telephone operator, and
later wife of Stafford, was capable at
all times, and displayed some fine
emotional talent in the second and
third acts. where she first repulses
and fees from her drunken husband
and then, the following morning,
when he is sober and repentant, tells
him she has decided to leave him.
Both Miss Macbeth and Mr.. Mills de-
serve credit for their really splendid
work in these two hard scenes.
On Miss Helen Lord, as Fannie
Blaine, the sister of Virginia, falls
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in the female line and she made the
most of her opportunities. Some of
her work with Francis Conlin, as
James Gilley, the S14-a-week shipping
clerk, with whom she is in love and
marries, was of the highest class.
The pair were especially funny in
the last act, where, after Virginia
has left her husband likewise caus'
ing Gilley to lose the $50 week
job he had worked up to with Stat
ford, he goes back to work as a ship
ping clerk at $13 week and with
his wife moves to a Harlem fat.
The efforts of the pair to get back to
the level of living in a Harlem fiat
after having had their taste of high
life is screamingly funny and withal
so true to life that the audience were
in constant roar of laughter
throughout the last act
But for real naturalness in acting
you have to hand the palm to Maka-
to Inokuchm, as Oku, the Japanese
servant of Stafford. You have to
hand 1t to him for he Is the real thing
not only a real Japanese, but a real
actor as we'll. The little Japanese got
deserved applause for his splendid
work last night. Miss Maria Hardi
and Alex Carlton, as maid and man
servant, round out a highly accept
able company.
Thought and Paid For" Is more
than a play put on the stage for
your enjoyment. 1T is a wholesome