The Washington times., 1919-12-29
GARRICK.
"Bucking the Tiger" Is
Rapid-fire Comedy.

Well guarantee you'll be amused IL
you see "Bucking the Tiger" at the
Garrick this week. Crammed full of
thrills thrown in for good measure;
peopled with types well-portrayed
and unusually interesting, and pre-
sented with plenty of speed and pep,
this melodramatic comedy looks like
sure-fire hit. It's Achmed Abdul
lah's story dramatized by May Tully
and presented by Lewis J. Selznick.
motion picture producer, as his first
stage venture.
THE CAST.
Andy Walsh, COW puncher.
Benjamin Kauser
Count Jean de Terrierre, Frenchy.
Sam Eslick. proprietor Of Hots! Esllck.
Capt the Hon. Mordaunt Ghamah:
Walter Kingsford
Donald Hayes. representative Of the west
Ritchie %seDonald W'ism aorr.st MfsnaR Minana
Shasway Belle e..............Fa .Fania Keane
Marshall Houghton. Ryder Keane
Policeman ..........James A. Bosheils
Red. the oIice manager.
TheO. w Westman, jr
Rutley. ey.................... Walter Parker
There are more real, honest-to-good-
ness laughs in this blend of melo-
drama and comedy than there are in
many so-called farces. And with
these laughs, there is never lost a
pretty little love story that moves
logically to happy ending, despite
all dangers of suicides and
Rtrf kot All
A group of carefree adventurers,
down and out from various causes,
have gathered in a has-been hotel
somewhere in the West. They're up
against it bad-with no apparent way
of getting out, until a brilliant idea,
just like that, hits our hero.
The idea is to insure one of their
| number for 500. 900, he to live for a
year well supported by the others,
and at the end of that time to kill
himself. the others to divide the in
surance moeny. Finally all agree,
| cards are drawn to see who shall be
| the goat-and our hero gets it in the
W. k. neck.
beginning that he isn't going to sui
eide, but you're curious to know
how he's going to get out of it.
Well, time goes on. and in his last
year on earth, our hero amasses much
| money. Yet, good sport, he gets
| ready on his last day to bid this
earth farewell and put a bullet in his
brain. And then comes the deliver
| ance-by the simple fact that the
| head of the insurance company ad-
mits that the company is broke, and
so couldn't pay the 100000. SO our
hero re-imburses the syndicate" with
interest, and all ends happily, with
wedding bells tinkling in the near
offlng. For our hero, bless his dear
heart, has of course fallen in love
| with a sweet girl.
You know, dear reader, that that
plot is crammed full of possibilities.
! And they've been made the most Of.
An unusually well-selected cast por-
| trays wide range Of characters in a
way that keeps action on the stage at
| every moment, and laughter In the
| audience pretty constantly.
Last night, at several times during
the action of the piece. spontaneous
applause from the delighted audience
stopped the show" Not the least
Of this was for the remarkable work
of Fania Marinoff, a young actress
whose impersonation of Skagwsy
Belle, wild woman, was one of the
hits of the performance. To Forrest
Winant fell the leading role. and to
say that he did 1t we'll is but meaye-
praise William Fitzsimmons and
4 Billy Meehan. remembered from
Checkers" here some time ago, play
roles of more or less Importance most
acceptably. the rube stuff OF FitxsIm-
mons being particularly laugh-pro-
! voking.
But the whole cast is good-Cyril
Chadwick and Walter Kingsford as n
pair of long-since English gentlemen
were a scream. Regina Wallace. in
| the leading feminin, role. satisfied
"Bucking the Tigers" impressed us
| as one of the merriest plays we've
: seen in some Jtime-and apparently
| the audience agreed.