Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-13 | Page 6 | "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford"

w "GET-RICH-QUICK WALLINGFORD" WALLING-FORD" The present theatrical season holds forth no more delightful promise than tho coming of Geo. M Cohan's greatest great-est comedy success, "Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford,'' whoso engagement at tho Ogden Theatro Ir for two nights, Saturday and Sunday, boginnlng tonight to-night Almost everyone has read about J. Rufus Wallingford, the cleverest jogue in modern fiction, through tjpo stories of George Randolph Chester which have been appearing in the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines, and to haye these stories put into dramatic form by no less authority au-thority on tho superficial II fo than Geo. M. Cohan promises much for an cvoning's enJoymenL No higher praise can be given the play than tho general gen-eral verdict that Wallingford, the stage figure, is oen more amusing and entertaining en-tertaining than the "hero" of 'the story. Besides, In bringing to life the character and exploits of "Wallingford "Walling-ford Mr. Cohan has woven into tho theatric cloth a fine love web, and through this element of lovo for a pure woman, shows an Innate nobility In Wallingford that makes of the play a clean, wholesome story which loses none of Its comedy in the final rehabilitation re-habilitation of the thoretoforo unscrupulous un-scrupulous manipulator of men and money The author has used the episodes" epi-sodes" of the Cover'e.l Carpet Tack and the Battlesburg-Hoytsville trnction lino upon which to build his play and the first act finds "Wallingford and his pal, ''Blaclde" Daw, in the small town of Battlesburg, with a fine wardrobe, unlimited nerve and a small amount of ready cash, and in a few hours they have laid the network of his scheme for separating the gullible natives from their long-hoarJcd coin The laughter begins with tho first line of tho play and continues to the final drop of the- curtain Tho cast presenting this play would be hard to improvo on, and there is a typical Cohan & Harris scenic production. pro-duction. Scats arc nowcon sale. Prices 50c to $1 50. rOO