Brooklyn Life from Brooklyn, New York • Page 27

27 BROOKLYN LIFE. The Travelers for your wife's new thousand dollar coat came on the first Jolly May Irwin, in the guise of z.nouveau, riche boarding house-keeper of Yellow Dog, is to be at the Shubert Theater in "Getting a Polish" next week, and one cannot be long under the same roof with her without catching some of her infectious good humor. The star is appearing under the management of Liebler and Company, who have made the production a complete one, as is their: Hugh Ford staged it and the handsome scenes were painted by Gates and Morange. The supporting cast, which has been carefully selected, includes such well-known actors as Mary K. Taylor, George Cain, Frances McGrath and John Junior.

Fv ZIEGFELD, largest and elaborate musical revue; "The Follies of 1910," is to be seen at the Broadway Theater next week, beginning with a Monday matinee. Harry B. Smith wrote the book, while Gus Edwards and others ate credited with the tuneful music. There are three acts and thirteen scenes, and the same cast will be seen in Brooklyn which appeared in the piece all last summer at the Jardin de Paris, Manhattan. The company includes the names of MRS.

CHARLES D. BIGELOW, Mr.1 and Mrs. William C. Beecher and Miss Eunice Beecher went to Old Point on Christmas Day to stay until next Monday. Mr.

and Mrs. Charles F. Park, (Gertrude Beecher) have returned to Englewood, N.J., and Mrs. Park's brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs.

Paul S. Ney (Bertha B. Beecher) of Farmington. are to. visit her until next week Thursday.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hartley Sherwood, formerly of Ben-sonhurst, have returned from a three months' trip abroad and are now at Danville, 111., with their son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hegeler.

Mr. John C. Giles, of is spending a couple of weeks in Florida. Besides visiting Jacksonville he will make a trip down the St. John's River.

Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Hoxie and Mr.

Albert Halstead, American Consul at Birmingham, arrived from Liverpool last week by the Lusitania. Mr. and Mrs. G. Watts Bagley have left the Hotel Albert, N.Y., and are at the Elwood Hotel, East Orange, N.

J. Mr. and Mrs. Van Brunt Bergen, of Shore Road and Seventy-seventh Street, Bay Ridge, left this week for Lakewood, N. J.

Lieutenant-commander and Mrs. Henry Hughes Hough sailed for Liverpool last week Saturday by the Baltic. Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley Swan, who have been at Rye, N.Y., until recently, have returned to town and are staying with Mr.

Swan's grandmother, Mrs. Sara D. Kingsley, of 176 Washington Park. Mrs. Joseph H.

Bragdon, who spent the summer in California and since then has been at Tonawanda, has returned to her home, 2684 Bedford Avenue. such wen-Known entertainers as bickel and Watson, Bert Williams, the celebrated colored comedian and singer Billie Reeves, Bobby North, Harry Piker, William Schrode, Wania, the Imperial', Russian dancer, Quigg and Nickerson, Lillian Lorraine, Fanny Brice, Shirley Kellogg, Arline Boley, Florence Gardner, Fawn Conway, Lottie Vernon, Lydia Scott, 'T? ii ir i.i- .11 a it oessie reimeu, viuiei jeweii anu seveniy-nve Anna nem girls. HP HOSE who furnish material for cartoonist and joke-X smith by dwelling in Lonesomehurst or some other suburban spot on the outskirts of Manhattan, are the characters about whom James Forbes has written a comedy full of ludicrous situations and much merry laughter. "The Commuters" will be next week's attraction at the Montauk Theater, the initial appearance of the company being on New Year's Day, when a holiday matinee will be given. In the cast are Taylor Holmes, Lowell' Sherman, Edna Phillips, Georgie Laurence, John Cumberland, Pauline Duffield, Lillian Thurgate, E.

Y. Backus, Maude Knowlton, Amy Lesser, Burt Roach, Adelyn Wesley and Isabelle Fenton. SAM BERNARD, in the New York Casino's musical success, "He Came from Milwaukee," will be at the Majestic Theater next week, supported by the original cast of eighty-five people in his latest play. There is a "beauty chorus" that is a special feature of the production, while the scenic effects are excellent and the costuming varied and striking. The cast includes Nella Bergen, Winona Winter, Adele Rowland, George Anderson, Martin Brown, Henry Norman, Louis Harrison and Alice Gordon.

TP HE tenth anniversary week at the Orpheum Theater, which begins on New Year's Day, is. to be celebrated in a fitting manner. An all-star bill is announced and the patrons of this popular vaudeville house are certain of seeing many old favorites as well as a number of more recent ap'T plicants for popular favor. In AN important event of last week, notice of which was itn-avoidably postponed, was the first performance of "The Impostor" with Annie Russell in the principal role. This is a very pleasing, but not remarkably powerful three-act play by Leonard Merrick and Michael Morton, which had its premiere at the Garrick on Wednesday evening.

Miss Russell is' characteristically charming and human in the role of Mary Fenton; a well-bred, young woman, thrown on her own re-, sources in London, where she finds herself penniless and starving. In this' extremity hunger drives her to accept the hospitality of a friend, Charles Owen, in circumstances suf- -ficiently unconventional as to be susceptible of misinterpretation and, of course, the ladies of the Omen family break in on them just at the least auspicious moment, for all but the Owen introduces her, to his mother and sisters as his sister-in-law and then flees, leaving the girl to extricate herself as best she may from the difficulty. Her social nrestige as the ostensible sister of Owen's wife is Changes of Residence. MR. and Mrs.

Charles A. Sherman are spending the winter in Flushing. They are occupying the old mansion near the golf course that was the residence of the late John Mitchell. Miss Jessie T. Sherman also is in Flushing for the winter.

She is staying near her brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Trowbridge. Mr. and Mrs.

Arthur King Wood, who for the past two years have been living at 10 Pierrepont Street, are spending the winter "Vat their country home, Penllyn House, Ardsley-on-Hudson, N.Y. Mr. and Mrs. Adams C. Sumner, who have been living at 85 Eighth Avenue, have taken up their abode at Garden City, L.I.

Mr. and Mrs. John Henry Berry have leased an apartment at the Bossert and will be there until June first, spending the week ends at their country house, Bonnieluf at Lawrence, L-Mr. and Mrs. Noel Day Sidford, formerly of.

1210 Sterling Placeare now living in the country. Their new home is on Kermit Road, Roosevelt Park, Maplewood, N.J. The Charles A. Angells have moved, from 495 Eighth Avenue to 560 Third Street. Mr.

and Mrs. Edward Blum have left the Hotel Bossert and are occupying their new home at 45 Plaza Street. Mr. and; Mrs. Russell Tillinghast Starr, formerly of 16 Montgomery Place, have moved to 820 President Street.

Mr. and Mrs. James Sydney Swan, who have been living at Richmond, have come North and are now making their home at Woodbury, N.J. Mr. and Mrs.

Gilbert W. Taylor will henceforth make their home out of town. They are at 60 Douglas Road, Glen Ridge, N.J. Mr. and Mrs.

Jesse Watson have moved from the Pierre-pont-Henry to the Touraine. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Mvnot Weld, formerly of 81 East Fifty-sixth Street, Manhattan, now reside at 65 East Eighty-second Street. Mr.

and Mrs. Clifford Middleton, formerly of 314 Garfield Place, are living at the Hotel Gotham, Mr. and Mrs. S. Stevens Sands (Gertrude.

Sheldon) are now occupying an apartment at 49 East Fifty-second Street, Manhattan. To the delight of her many friends in this borough Mrs. Emile Sherwood Harper has returned to Brooklyn to live, the Rev. Mr. Harper; who formerly had a parish at Indiana, having recently become rector of All Saints' Church in this borough.

Mrs. Harper was, before her marriage last April, Miss Grace Anna Lidf ord, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Lidford.

Rev. and Mrs. Harper will live on Fiske Place. such that the family will not permit her to explain nor tear i it i 1 iicrscn away anu so sue is uui uiugcuici lingly, to go with them to their home, where Owen, after a long absence, eventually finds her, to his amazement, the center of all attention, at a house party. Owen, momentarily expect ing tne arrival ot nis wire wno, oy tne way, nas no sister, dares no longer conceal his share in the hoax, but the girl defends her action with such cleverness and courage that she wins all hearts and particularly the one that beats within the breast of Blake Waif ord, a very robust, young Canadian farmer impersonated by Charles Richman.

The play is peculiarly adapted to exploit the talents of Miss Russell, -who has never appeared to better advantage than in this role in which pathos and humor are happily blended. Richman is called upon to enact the role of a frank, unconventional farmer, chafing under the artificialities of life in London and he does it well. As Owen, Oswald Yorke makes the best of a rather thankless role. The rest of the cast is fair. dpi PI ayers.

ays an VERYONE knows that the right way to start the New Year is with a hearty, optimistic laugh, even if the bill.