New Britain herald., 1915-02-09
LyCeum Audience is Aroused to a High
 Pitch of Enthusiasm

He Fell in Love With His Wife" !" 1 "hlch began the week at the Lyceum last evening is likely to prove at tfactlve because in the first place it IS most interesting play, is we'll in terpreted and contains some scenes winch are very much out of the or ulnafy' one in particular being the row between James HolcrOft and f1enfy Ferguson which takes on much or the appearance of reality and brought the audience to it's feet, some thing which is unusual in a case of this kind. This is the cast:
 Mrs. Mumpson. Adelaide Hubbard
 Timothy Weeks. Fred l.. Sutton
 James HOlcrOft. Alfred Cross Justice HarklnS. L. J. Fuller
 Aida Armstrong: Emily Galloway
 Henry Ferguson Frank Wright
 Maloney Wyrley Birch The story of the play is not only
 full of interest, but it is worked out
 by the company in a manner that
 thrills and holds the audience. Aida
 Armstrong married Henry Ferguson
 not knowing that he had a wife and
 
 she separated from him, and later
 when her mother died she became
 housekeeper for Holcroft,, who was a WldOWer. They were married but if was only a sort of a business affair and when Ferguson appeared on the scene later and demanded that she go away with him she did as requested, but it was solely because of a desire u-hn great deal of the memory of his dead wife, from assault and perhaps death. The husband, however. and Jane, a domestic, followed the cOu- pie and found them shortly after they young wife was liberated and returned to her home, the husband finding that he had fallen in love with her.
 The story also introduced Mrs. l MumpsOn, a widow and mother of Jane l who was housekeeper on trial for HoI- l croft. She had matrimonial designs on him and he didn't like it, and when he installed Aida Armstrong in 1 her place she was very indignant and l her displeasure in various ways, particularly. in circulating scan- ! dalous stories about her successor. The | part was played by Mrs. Hubbard and | she interpreted it With all the wiles . of a widow and all the scorn and dis | that a talented actress ! could command. Miss Galloway was [ Aida Armstrong. This young lady 1 has been convincing New Britain peo- ! pie ever since her debut in this city | that she is a dramatic star of ability | and her work in the present play l adds to her capability. Cool, care ! ful and conscientious in all her char way as to give them life and atno- ! sphere that are pleasant to see. She is very convincing and pathetically earnest as Aida Armstrong and the audience was pleased to see her at the end in a home and happy after the storms that beset her life Miss Bolton is Jane this week and she is just as clever as it is possible for one to be. She is droll in speech ] and action and shared in one of the curtain calls with the leading man. MT. Cross played Holcroft and Mr. Wright was Ferguson, characters very much dissimilar and in interpreting hem the meritorious qualities of -hese two gentlemen were brought into bold relief, MT. Cross businesswise and MT. Wright cool and cal the former full of affection, he latter selfish, and in their row much bitterness was figured, aking he scene very realistic. The other were we'll filled and the attraction as a whole was brimful of interest and the audience liked it.