Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-10-07

Broadway at Goth Street
For the week of October 9, the at
traction will be the English comedy
-"HObsOn's Choice
with the scence laid in Lancashire,
and the atmosphere wholly British.
Henry HobsOn, a prosperous shoe
maker, self-important, loquacious,
irascible, dictatorial, or obsequious,
according to circumstances, has three
daughters who tend his shop without
pay and are subject to his petty,
selfish, but not altogether unkindly
tyranny. With constant eye to the
main chance, he is fearful of losing
their free service.
They are all eager for matrimony
as the only road to freedom, but he
discourages lovers, issuing a paternal
fiat that they shall only marry when
and whom he pleases.
Alice and Vivky, two Of the girls,
entertain ineligible SWANS in secret,
but Maggie, his right hand in the
shop, and accountant, is supposed to
be heart-free. Really she has her
plans for the future we'll and care
fully laid. She knows that the most
skillful craftsman in her fathers en-
poy is an exceedingly bashful and
unsophisticated apprentice, William
Mossop. Him she determines to
marry, confident of her ability to turn
his handiwork to good account.
When, in highly amusing scene,
she makes him aware of the honor
she proposes to confer upon him, he
tries to decline it on the score that
he is already engaged to another, she
promptly overrides the objection,
routs and dismisses her rival in a de-
cisive encounter, and extracts from
the perturbed and astonished William
vow of fidelity and obedience.
Accustomed to get her own way by
simply taking it, she smilingly disre-
CARDS her fathers ire and her sisters
scorn, marches her obedient lord off
to church, and celebrates her victory
by a wedding breakfast-at which
she compels all the others, father,
sisters and lovers, to be present-in
the tiny shop in which she and her
husbend have set up business.
Moreover, she engineers a little
conspiracy by which her father-who
in his wrath and amazement over the
confusion of his schemense has got
drunk and fallen into a cellar-way-
is compelled to pay damages for tres
pass, and so furnish dowers for her
self and sisters.
But for one week, with matinees on
Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
1.-THE Intruder
by Cyril Harcourt, now at the Cohn
e. wis FOL Sc 0f 70
intensely interesting plays that has
found it's way to New York stage
in many day.
Mr.. Harcourt,. who is also the author
of "a Pair Of Silk Stocking" and "a
Lady's Name" has fashioned story
that grips with the firmness of a vice.
AS a matter of fact, audiences view
ing this remarkable drama are held
in spellbound attention throughout
it's presentation, so vital in human
appeal is the message it transmits.
So admirable is the construction of
"The Intruder" that the elimination
of a single line or situation would
mar Mr.. Harcourt's splendid work
which measures up to the best
dramatic standards.
In other words it has a beginning,
middle and an end, and, from the
prevails an atmosphere of expectancy
wherein is a surcharged appeal to the
emotions that holds one breathless.
The story is filled with unusual
episodes that maintain this element
of suspense while deity concealing
it's denouement until the final cur
tain and the whole dramatic is en-
HANGED by the consumate acting of
one of the best companies the Gotham
stage has harbored in recent seasons.
To those who enjoy seeing play
that simply devours attention-and
grips all the way-"The Intruder" at
the Cohan & Harris Theater, is
heartily recommended.
mister Antonio
Otis Skinner continues to delight
Lyceum Theater audiences with his
remarkable impersonation of the
optimistic, big-hearted Italian Samari-
tan, whom Booth Harrington has
made the central figure of his charm
ing comedy of American small town
life, "Mister Antanio." The play has
the genuine ring of truth from it's
first scene to its last, and in Tony Mr..
Skinner has created a living, feeling
character that is sure to win the
heart of every audience. The role is
the best, in the popular actors long
repertory.
-"CarOline"-
Miss Margaret Anglin is doing the
best comedy acting to be seen on
Rroad,uav in William Somerset
Maugham's brilliant play Caroline"
now at the Empire Theater.
The piece belongs to the same cate
CORY as Oscar Wilde's "The Import
ance of Being Earnest" called by
critics the most deliciously witty
comedy in the English language.
Caroline" is a sprightly satire
that has for it's thesis the truth that
everything, especially women, is the
more desirable for being unattain-
able"
Tangled Lives" at