The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-12
Love And Learn Masterpiece
 Of Wit
By A. c. JACKSON.

The propaganda that every year is leap year to most women was given further impetus in Love and Learn" a new three-act comedy. at the Park theater last night. If memory serves us right, it was Bernard Shaw who first advanced this theory in Man and SupermSn." But it has never been so amusingly presented as in the latest production made under the d1- rection of the inimitable George M Conan
 Love and Learn" in kprief, shows the female of the species utterly dis regarding the advanves of two ehgi- bles when she comes across a bridge builder who believes that woman's crowning glory is basket of rasp- berries, and experiences no hesitancy in passing 'em out on the slightest pretext. The young woman decides ing him to his knees and to that end she kidnaps him right into his own rooms while his two rivals are pun melhng each other at her home.
 But her heavy vamping fails of ef- feet and, finally, p1qued, she allows her father to take her home. But when the angered sire informs her in tended prey that he will release his contract for his pet bridge. the girl relents and tells the truth. The end is as simple as it is inevitable.
 There are three people in this play WnoSe H2HleS are all Ine- ater-goers, and they handle them selves with their customary finesse. We refer to Ruth Shepley, Enid Mar key-a recruit from the movies-and l the irrepreSSible Wallace Eddinger. No better trio could have been grouped together than these three.
 Miss Shep1ey is mistress of the sit uation-if not of heISelf-at all times. She romped through her role with an easy grace, and at times shook her blonde locks in a manner that quite distracted her audience. Miss Shep- l ley has a naive way of taking her audience into her confidence at times. l She beams down upon them, and they i beam right back. To be beamed upon i by Miss Shepley is indeed an excellent i substitute for the Christmas spirit. It sort of mellows one, if you know what we mean.
 | Wallace Eddinger is a farceur of idistinction-a young man whose tall ents were not, until comparatively re- gently. fully appreciated, because of i the i'll luck that followed him for years in a series of self-collapsible plays that folded up and left him ] stranded He is at his best in Love 1 and Learn" There is a certain crisp i ness to his delivery which, added to 1 a thorough understanding of his role of the unwilling victim, who even- tually becomes only too willing de spite himself, that makes his charac- terization one to be remembered Ions | i We haven't much confidence ir movie recruits to the 'legit'' stage
 but Enid Marl1ey is the exception that
 proves the rule. Here is an in.
 genue who has a real future directly
 ahead of her. To her lot fell ont
 of the few '+big" moments of tho
 piece, and she took care of it witt
 admirable discretion. We regre
 only that she didn't have more tC
 do.
 James Gleason and Frank M
 Thomas, as the rival suitors, deserv,
 a special niche of their own. Thest
 two men have been allotted the fiat
 comedy parts of the play, and the. work them to their utmost limits. w,
 will be very much surprised if Glea
 son and Thomas are not accorded
 mention on a par with the stars % this production. 'Gleason's interpre
 tation of the moron male lover wa
 especially noteworthy.
 Love and Learn hasn't a non
 Imaginable moment in it. Vincen
 Lawrence and Edgar Selwyn have pu
 together a farce that will keep yo-