The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-14
THE DRAMA IN NEW YORK

man of wealth, but she didn't respect his wishes when she chose a husband, and in consequence was disinherited- Soft comes about that when she is she is dependent on the charity of an elder sister. a spinster of grim. char acteristics.
 MT. Esmond, the author "doubles' as Sir Egbert Inglefeld. who is madIy infatuated with the fair Betty, and who has proposed to her at least a hundred times. Betty's boys think Sir "Eggie'' is a ba1ly fine old top, don't you know and for her sons sake mamma, couldn't do better than to say .syes, to his matrimonial pro- posaIs. The reason she doesn't-sf you may call 1t a reason-is that she is in love with one Cecil. a lad Of tWenty-two, who might be her son. This Cecil person dpesn't get on the stage at all. althbughs h e is one of the
 The fair widow, besieged by the amorous Sir Egbert, confesses to him her love for Cecil. A little later Bet- ty receives a message stating that Ce- cil is to sail the following day for dis tant parts, to be gone a long time. She realizes that by the time the boy returns his fnfatuation. as well as the remnants of her gfr1ish beauty, viii have vanished forever. {. It is a case of now or never.
 Mrs. Betty Dunbar decides in favor of now. and. telling those wh orn 1t lconcerns that she has been called sud- denly to London, she flies to CeciIss arms. It was unfortunate that the woman Betty said she was going to town to see should have arrived just at that time and doubIy unfortunate that Jack, Bettyss young ngest son should have chosen that particular day for falling from a tree. or a telegraph pole, or something. with resultant ser ious Injuries. While Betty is presun- ably with her boy lover, her son is unconscious, perhaps dying.
 When the widow reBurns, she ad- nfts her guilt to her stern sister The I latter, despite the austere morality of her views, engages herself to 9 penniIess marquis in order to annex a title, but she does not find this pro with utterly condemning her fraii sister. The pious sister Insists that Betty must go at once to Canada. find Cecil and marry him.
 At this point Sir Egbert again in | jects himself into the situation; de- cIares that he is ready to forget and forgive, and the play ends with pros poets of Happiness for everybody, ex- cept the grim spinster who is going to marry a titled boy for position, and the marquis who is going to wed an old woman for money.
 P. S.-Fhe boy who fell out Of a 1 tree, or a telegraph pole. or some thing, recovered.
 THE YELLOW TICKET.'
 Michael Morton's play, ..The YeI- low Ticket produced at the EltinEe I Theatre, has Russia for a setting. The yellow. ticket which figures in the title
 is a sort of passport which, in the 1 Cars dominfons, is given to women ] of s.tne worlds oldest profession ''ss young Jewess, who does not be- long to that profession, is given a [ticket of that color, all innocent of it's significance, in order that she may De free to travel and. rejofn her father Enro1lment as the possessor Of a vel l low ticket brands her as one of the lost. and everywhere she goes she is l bounded by the authorities. driven i from honest positions robbed of the I love of honest men, and forced to I struggle constantly to escape the pro-
 fession which is followed by the hold CT of a yellow ticket.
 The first act presents a novel theme
 exce11ently staged, but the concluding
 act is rather stale and hackneyed
 She stabs a wicked baron who has sought to force his unweIcome atten- l tions on her, but she does the stab I ping with a hatpin, which is at 1eas an original variation.