The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-02-14
IBv Louis Le Brun.)


 ..B1lly Black is a comedy drama, occasionally both humorous and dra-. zl1a.tic which serves to 1ntroduce 10 metropolitan audiences 9. conparalVe-s ly unhnown playwrigh ht, esharleS sI,aa- lev. Crude in spots, it shows consda- erable originality. and gives great prounise for the fatures H. B. War 1,er is the Star. and creates the role Of d WaIiingfordish and enjoyable m poster who is a swindler on a gigantlc scale.
 "A suite in a Fifth avenue hotel sup. plies the backFround for the action of the play Mir. Warner. who has con-. tracted to star under the management of H. Frazee for the next two ve.sssss. has been before the American s,,ra,IlTs about nine years He is an EuEliehn1an. native of London, ana tiae <sorf of &Charles Warner, sthez eInl eInl- nent English actor
 He made his first big hit as 9 sub stitute for his father as p. .Arta snan W hen the elder Warner was incapacI-@ rsfe5 by illness. MT. Warner came fe America in 1905, and during ms first few years on this side played m Israel ZangWi11's sNurse Mai'Jor1es Susan in Search of a Husband. and 4Sa1omy Jane-
 WELSH PIfA 8ERsS IN sssr1EI lslStsIE z T
 s.Rovs wifi bs b6ys,s' Also old people win beroId people " outh must De served. but old age also demands to be obeyed- Wherefore having done with proverbs-we have strife, and turmoil, and Change, the latter being the title of drama written oy a WeIshulan, produced by Welsh players at the Booth Theatre, and having to do with the inh abitants Of Welsh village.
 new at playwriting, but his drama <sgets over despite occasional d1lllness and a superduity of dialogue. The home of a miner in the Welsh town or Aberpandy is the scene of the play The old collier is a stern, God-fearing man. who insists that his way is tl1e right way, and who daInns all who diner as infideIs. One of his sons.s an invalid. is a pathetic figure who seeks 10 keep peace in the family. Anoth- CT son fsxa socialist and revolutionist. and a third, educated Tor the ministry. leaves the church when he finds his beliefs have become unorthodoN-
 The father demands that his sons return to their allegiance to the ae- cepted order of things, both in poll ties or religion, Tor never darken his door aeainss A strike of the Tnlners, in which the soeialistic son is 2 lead CT, results in a clash between the strikers and the military, and the iIl- valid son is slain while trying to save his brother. The father accuses -he revolutionary of responsibility for his brotherss death. and the socialist like his heretfca1 .brother.s leaves the old people to loneliness and shattered life.
 The old mother, who had argued that -.if it's against the Bible, that ends it, when her sons first announce ed their modern opinions, is the chief sufferer in the tragedy, for first of all she isz a smotheFsss and her maternal love, when put to the final test, could lead her to forgive any heresies enter tained by .her boys The story eil- acted on the stage is grirn,: tragic and bitter, and, best of all, it affords 2 welcome change for those who are xearieds of sexopfobia.
 ESMONDsS 1.-THE DEAR FOOL. g
 Since the era when a girl of sweet sixteen was considered to be of the right age for the central feminine fig ure in romance. our heroines have been constantly glowing older. IT ssThe Dear Fool by H. V. Esmond the heroine is forty, and the mother of two sta1wart sons. Neither age nor maternal love prevent her from becoming the victim of folly.
 Eva Moore appeared in the role oi Betty Dunbar Her father was