The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-09-27

Amos. the charming leading lady
said that 1.-THE Lie inA her opinion
of the company to show hat they can
do and she expressed great pleasure
is one that I fairly love- said Miss
Amos. land 1 firmly believe. that
can emulate my predecessor Margarer
Ellington, who was the original in
this plot
1.-THE Lie" tells an interesting
were distinctly different although IN
other ways they are much alike. Tho
younger is wild and gets into trouble
but has not the courage to bear the
brunt of it.. She is in love with her
sisters fiance and to win him tells
him. that it is her sister who is in
trouble turning him against her Be
lieving that her sisters Happiness de-
ponds upon her bearing sthe burden
the older sister suffers in silence and
sees her sweetheart taken from her.
PARK.
For it's big attraction the Park will
offer tonight. Tuesday and wednesday
with the usual Wednesday matinee,
Richard Carrie. the whimsical come
| dian in his new Victor Herbert
comedy entitled Some Colonel MI
earle believes that he has never in his
career been better fitted than he has
| in the character of Steve the Janitor
| who owing to unusual. circumstances
| is forced to maSqu Grade as a nation
| famous politician and who encounters
enough humorous complications to
| furnish an evening of continuous
| laughter. So humorous is the play.
which is from the pen of G. M.
Wright, that it would be sufficient
| entertainment in itself if it were not
embellished by Is musical numbers
| from the greatest of American com
posers. In these numbers Mr.. Her
bert has returned to the methods of
his early days and has written whistle
able and danceab1e music that Will
| take its place. 1eside the most popular
| of his earlier successes. Waltzes that
are almost lullabys and marches that
thrill are numerous and in the accom-
paniments to the humorous songs
| there is a strain of humor that few
composers can achieve. It is music
of the type that made, Victor Herber'
famous and that few other composer:
in the world can equal with the addee
touch of mastery that shows the
value of the experience the compose!
has gained by reason of his NOR
| serious recent work.
AS has always been the case will
Mr.. Carries comedies Some Colonel
| tells an exceedingly humorous stor,
, and tells it without resorting to tn
suggestiveness and vulgarity which
: has recently inundated the coined
stage. There is laugh mlnut
and not one to be ashamed of. TIL
story is that of Steve, janitor OF
Riverside Drive apartment, who, t
| help one of the tenants out of diff
Guilty, assumes the character of
famous politician and by so dom
gets himself into unnumerable diff
7 culties as we'll as again into tn
clutches of his former sweathear
from whom he had with difficulty es
: capped In the fun making MI
, earle is supported by Ethel johnson
r who returns to her old place after
= short retirement from the stage. an
= a number of others, among Their
/ Genevive Davis, Iren Owen, Sadl
= Duff, Louise Dale, Lorraine She1
= wood, Eleanor Bennett, Idamae Cd
= erIin, Harry R. Hoyt, VIM. e. Cool
S Ralph O'Brien, Howard Remig, Fran
2 Clark, Roger Davis, and number c
l girls who have been selected for thei
looks as we'll as for their ability t
sing and dance.