Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-09-20
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FAIR AND WARMER
FULL OF LAUGHS
Author of Twin Beds" Has
Created Merry Farce;
Two-Day Visit

Fair and Warmer" was the title of
the lauSh-producing farce that Selwyn
and company presented at the Or
pheum TO a fair-siZed audience last
evening. Fair and warmer was the
appreciation of those who went to
laugh and were given full measure
FOR there is an atmosphere of joviality
ana merr1ment throughout the three
acts Which is shared by actors and audi
ence alike, and the evening slipped
pleasantly by with nothing but un-
diluted humor to ruff1e the emotions of
the audience. AS one critic has de-
scribed II. innocent Stiffness and at
tempts to become drinkers are always
pleasing to the audience. Because
they all know better"
The story of Fair and Warmer is
that of model husband and another
mans gullible wife. Sager Midgeley
as Billy Bartlett and Edna Hibberd
as "Blanny' Wheeler are the main
performers, eNcellently supported by
small but capable cast. Billy's wife
Is one who must have her husband the
OBJECT OF other women'S attentions,
else she cannot be happy. Billy has
never taken drink in his life. never
smoked, never deceived anybody. He
Is too good to be true. And it takes
the second act and most of the third
to prove that he is interesting through
an innocently planned set-up on his
wife with the aid of Blanny Wheeler,
whose young husband has to have his
nights off occasionally. Matters pro-
Sress beyond the best laid plans Of
the plotters, with far more telling
eifect than had been intended. And
therein lies the foundation for the
acting. 1t wildly recalls Twin Beds"
The lines include many clever sallies,
paying particular attention to the
psychology of woman's mind where
her husband is concerned. The dia-
loSues are good and the whole per-
formanCe calculated to keep the audi
ence in roars of laughter. which it
does. Fair and Warmer" will again
be played this afternoon and evening.
MAX ROBERTSON.
-night-"Fair and Warmer"
Friday evening, September 22-"Watch
MAJEsTIcPvaudevine.
COLONIAL-"A Tortured Heart"
REGEN,FI-"An international Mar
GRAND-"Good Bad Man
Watch Your Step" will be the at
traction offered at the Orpheum Thea
watch Friday night, one must
Your watch his step" from the
step" first to the last curtain, and
it's safety first" to do it,
for after the production is gone so
many people are going to talk about it
that your first safety lies in having
Irving Berlin. who wrote the music
and lyrics. has given a syncopated
string of numbers which are at times
sentimental and again reminiscent of
other favorites, and always along the
popular lines.
1t is with pleasure Joseph. L. Herman
oners Tor your approval the musical
Memories of Your to awaken memo
Childhood Days ries of your child
Mother Goose" How many Of you re-
Little Boy Blue?'' All of them and a
when it is offered at the Orpheum next
| Tuesday, matinee and evening. Seats
for both performances on sale Saturday
this week headed BY Paul Armstrong
"A Romance of the Under
A. ,bpes Grid The ,be act sq
representing courtroom
on sentence day, the second, the Bridge
of Sighs. in New York. while the thirt
Tombs prison. Completing the list o.
acts are; Nardini, clever woman &C.
cordeoniste; Devine and Williams. com.
edy entertainers; Ted and Corrine Bre
tin. in songs and nonsense, and tn,
Olympic Trio, in a comedy parallel bal
act. For the last half of the weer
Denman Thompson's famous Old Home.
steady Double Quartet is the headline
attraction. Completing the bill are
Nip and Tuck, comedy acrobats; Fisher
and Rockaway, plantation darkies
Wheeler and Dolan, novelty dancers
and one other Keith act
In the Southern story told in pictur,
form in William FoX's "A Tortured
| Heart" which is show.