The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-21
THE DRAMA IN
 NEW YORK. CBy Louis Le Brun9

What Would You Do?" August1n
 MacHugh inquiries in the title or ms
 ne W play. which had brief rnn-ors 4rather, WalkA-sat the Hudson. and just to relieve his suspense would repiys
 that. if I had it to do over again twould go out to see man before the tae1lrfafrl went up on the first act, ana eoreet to go back That's what E would do, and I think most people Wnol
 witnessed thes play will agree that AS l lhave supplied sthe correct answer io Ibegin with, the title is inpert1nent ana Hacking in Originality. What business lis it Of MacHugh's, or the Hudson ltheater management, what you Woulc I fdo? Just because he put oyerea a DE.
 hit in s.OfEleer 666.'' and made mint
 Of money iii roy aIties. this felloW Mac
 Hllgh needn' t Think he. has a right 70 l stick his olfactory organ into our pri-a
 vates anairs.F Now, need her take | it that the nays have it. I have toid
 MacHugh what would do because II I am a 5 sympathetjE duck who nAs q, lhearf: that bleeds for a fellow human. | for even : a playwright Is hs1xnarr-in distress and not because consider | he had any business to ask such a | question. What I would do is mat l ter for my own conscience and the: police force, and not for any peering.
  ] questionable, so to speak, title rerninds
 me of a story of Horace Greeley. For several years good old Horace had the habit of asking questions In the: heads over his editorials, such as What Is the Country Coming To 2''s | and aWhither Are We Drifting and Ethat sort of thing. A bright reader clipped out a lot of these heads pasted them on paper, and sent them to For ace, with the comment, How in -
 should we know? 2? That cured Gree Hey of bale question habit
 Dfsrnissing the title thus with a few well chosen words, we come to the play itself The successful author of "Offi- l cer 66s,s really wanted to know, in his attempt at serious drama what you i would do with $500, GOO Now. that's a iconsfderab1e sum, but it. showed pow Eerty of resource on the part of the lpiayw1ight. By adding a few more t0ss's he could have made 1t $5O0 900. -f 900. MT. MacHugh invoked allitera- ticn.s artfuI aid in christening his hero whom he calls Herbert Hostage. Herb 1 is a bank clerk at $3,0o0 a. year and he lives with wife Alice in a set of lpigeon-holes such as is called an apart
 ment in New York The bark-clerk sister -law named EtheL HoWard M Smote. who has oodles of millions, Is the serpent in this six-rooIn-and-b bath Eden. The millionaife. while pretending to pay attentions to Ethel | is really violently in love with Mrs.
 Hostage. The wicked rich man wantss I to get the husband out of the way, and 1 considering that Sing Sing would bes a nice place for him, he urges theS
 bankclerk to make away with $50s000
 of the bank funds Smote promising to,
 supply tips on the market that will plan. but he soon loses the fifty tflolis- and just as the William intended he
 should. The bank clerk unburdens
 his soul of it's dark secret to friend,
 who is magazine writer of muck
 raking tendencies and follows the ad-
 vice Of this frfe1ad to $z5p. 1000 more and have another fin ge at
 Wall street Hostage intends to quit when he has won back the fifty tl1ols-
 and, but the market goes sky -hooting I io00 to the good. With tsne $300sOOo I leash money in his pocket. Herbert Egoes home. only to find his wife lock 4 ed in the fond embrace of the million aire william After threatening to. Festart something Wfth the false friend and dragging wife around the floor a l bit, Herbert cools off and gives his ! recreant spouse the $500. .00a while he iannounces his intention of going away from the bad and wicked city and set ltIing down on farm where in a lclose communion with nature and veg etables and birds and flowers and pigs, Iqae hopes to forget the dark tragedy I that has wrecked and ruined his life. The wife refuses the money, consider ling it tainted, and wishes it back on lthe desolated Herbert. The bank Ic1erk has about decided to give the I money to the Society for the Proven
 ton Of Cruelty to Oysters, or found 8 home for crippled children, or some when the wife returns sister Ethel e1opes with the shoofer of tfeSrich will Ilian. Amy Hostage gets herself engag ed to the magazine writer, and many I other pleasant things happen, and Rv- terybody lives happy ever after except land andienfe, who have had a bad six hours Well, maybegit wasn't that long, but it seerned like it.
 George Scarborough, who. as G. Ade might say, put Over couple of Live tOnes in ssThe Lure 'and At Bay," had flash in the brain-panl when he
 thought out all the horrible details oe The Last Resort, Scarboroughs $ T melodran isn't really .~The Last Re sort, ., but it comes mighty close to Sit I There is this much to be said for 1t, however,-the resort referred to in I the title hasn't a red light over it nor T a white slave in it. Instead, the drama. deals with black and dirty politics and
 wicked judges and hydrant-headed
 SOA k'oA <<--aOls 7 SAes 1s lefls v ears nf9W
 since began trying to get "hydraIrt-
 headed corporation" into print, but every time the intelligent compositor or the proof reader correets it, and
 for the benefit Of these I will now ex-
 plain that this is joke, being a pun upon the word hydra and is rem dered excruciatingly humorous by the fact that water comes from a. hydrant
 and goes into corporatfons.1 The story of the play is something like t this: An attorney, young, gifted, rich, handsome and an orator, gets into the
 limelight by 1ambasting the trusts that
 are sucking the Hfe-blood from his be-
 loved native land. This wins him
 much popularity, and he is being talk
 l cd of for governor when inc william