The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-04-13
THE DRAMA IN
 NEW YORK.
tBy Loufs Le Brun.)


 In my day, reminiscentiy observes the maternal ancestor of a sweet young thing who answers to the name l of Jerry, young girls were content to let men do the proposing
 es,,s agrees Jerry, ssand see what you got!''
 There is much sparkling dialogue like this in Jerry Catherine Chisolnn lCushing's new comedy. produced at the Lyces1n Theatre, with Billie Burke Jerry is a Chicago girl whose motto is very evidently the ssIs WiIlt.s of her. native city. She interlards her con versa ion with oh, such shocking cnss words, and at every opportunity in vftes people to go to region popular ly1 supposed to be even less frigid in. climate than Pana1,na She is nnman- ner1y. she is rude. she is disrespectfuI to her elders. she wears pink paja- mas and is unashamed, and. .4 as DOT trayed by Billie Burke, she is alto gether delightful and charming. Miss Burke fits the part Of the madcap girl from the Windy City as the glove fits the hand-except that her feet are very tiny affairs
 I StI suppose, sadly reflects Jerry's l mother, that she is what is called an lup-tO-date young woman
 l up to dates" says her companion. | Why, she's an hour ahead of tilne.s Although, as previously remarked, Jerry is Chicagoese. for the purposes | of the play she is transp orted to Phil adelphia, or. rather, a suburb thereof And into that peaceful atm mosphere Jerry ricochefs like bombsheII of I discord. She does it most effectively, I too for through the glass door of the stretch of real Philadelphia suburban I landscape, so contriged as to create I the illusion of distance. Down the l street. at first far away but gradually I growing nearer and nearer, may be lseen the brilliant. gl4ring eyes of a | motor car It grows larger and larG- CT to the eye, and approaches closer l and closer unf1l it draws up, full life size, with a blaze and a bang that makes the audience shrink, before stiee
 door. So Jerry gets on the scene.
 l Jerry has maiden aunt, Joan DoG- bleday, who is engaged to Montagu Wade, of Philadelphia. In the course Eof time. as it is supposed to be meas ] ured in Philadelphia, Aunt Joan ex- poets to marry her dear Montagu, but lcn1y twenty years have passed since he slipped an engagement ring on her dn- I ger, and the couple wish to avoid
 the appearance of indecent haste. For some unexplained reason err
 ry falls violently in love with Mon II tagu Wade, and she wastes no time
 in proposing to him. The startled PhI1adelphian attempts to fly, but succnnbs when Jerry pretends that } she is about to expire by the suicide \ route.
 eJerry'' is excellent in parts. and nowhere very bad. but it is hardly to be compared to Mrs. Cushing rl Kitty MacKay.'' Miss Burke has entered fully into the spirit of Jerry, and the other characters are well acted
 THE BELLE OF BOND STREET. g
 ssThe Belle of Bond Street. the
 musical comedy in which Sam Der
 nard and Gaby Deslys-or Gaby Des- lys and Sam Bernard-appeared as , joint and co-equaI stars at the Shu-
 bert, is warmed oyer version ot
 The Girl From Kay's'' in which the round Sam starred with Hattie Will Hams at the Herald Square Theatre g decade ago. It was in The Cir [ From Kay's'' that the obese MT Ser. nard made the big hit of his career
 and in the revived and revised yer sion he has demonstrated that the quality of his humor has not deter iorated in the intervening ten years Six cooks were required to prepare this concoction of comedy, song ane loveles girls. Owen Hall and liar , old Atterfdge collaborated on the , book; Claude AveIfng and Adrian Ross wrote the lyrics, and IvaT
 earyll and Lionel Monckto com
 dfstes 1abored to apparel the gor-
 geous Gaby is not known. but there
 must have been a small army o1
 them. First she appeared in blu, gown of extreme sim mpicity. but Ga by soon had change of heart and tcIothes, and after that she appeared ! in a bewildering succession of ths } most 1urid and decorative costumes beyond-of. far beyond-the menta capacity of mere man to describe Like thai deliehtful French Ca
 iazs fjian M ;sss Eva vrsa1 r1 e4,av Miss 1ea
 lys cant sing and as for her dancing