Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-02-20
A MIDNIGHT MARRIAGE. "
An Old Fashioned Thriller at The
Colonial Last Night.


last night at the Colonial 10y the An.
brey Stock Company, before a large
| and enthusiastic audience which ap.
plauded every heroic deed or senti
ment TO the echo and Kissed the vii
lain until the house sounded like a
den OF snakes, is All old d-fashioubd
melo-drama Of the orthodox thriller
type. and on the whole WIS we'll pro.
duced
Perhaps il was a trifie weak in mfir-
ders and sudden deaths, scarcely aver.
aging two per act. whereas il should
have been provided with not less than
four. and ia addition with a semi
windup killing OF and piling up on
the stage, the villain aud villainess
aud all the little villains and sub
villains; still vice was punished and
virtue was rewarded, and the curtain
fell on happy reunited family, which
after all, is everything. Also for
repertoire company the AubeTy Stock
PLAY ers are plentifully supplied with
scenery Of a satisfactory character.
True, Annapolitans may have been
surprised to find ont just what tn e
Great New York Subway" does look
iike, still 1t was eruesOme and creepy
so what more can Annapolitaus want
the Fifth avenue residence certainly
met every erequirement for richness
and luxury. :" a Midnight Marriage, -
like the opera boasts a refrain Alb.
sence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder'
was starred very effectively in this
part.
Between the acts there were special.
ties Members of the company came
out in front of New Yo1k street
scene drop and sang New York songs
with "A New York accent and through
New York noses. Sounded like
phonograph. DeForrest Dawley "a
as Jimmie Van Austin" and Grayee
% Beebe as Bridget O'Hooligan, -
were quite the best members of tue
company.
First Act Heroine by her singing
drives unknown woman in Bowery
music hall to suicide; The Midnight
Marriage sUb-villain hands hero
glass of poison-heroine- bride dashes
it to the floor amid frantic applause;
subdued lights; creepy death music;
hero and heroine hand in hand, keep
ing step Great
Second Act-Van Austin's rich
father and mother, Fifth avenue, dis.
own him and refuse to recognize ex
Vassar girl music ball sin g er-w I O.
Tableaux, wife tears up $40, 600 check
throws it in father in laws face,
husband slaps villain cousin; knocks
him down; says take thatv' Slow,
no deaths.
Third Act--After six months hero
has just found work; home scene !;
poor but happy; father and mother ap-
nj ft.xy t. k.Rw, .,fl Z
my House - violent applause; enter
villain; business; gets jaws boxed.
You leave my house too l"-more
violent applause still; young wife
lured away by sub.sub- villain; hero
brought home by villain to fud sub
villain making love to villainess
dressed in wife's kimona-deceptio
works; guns drawn but no gun play
disappointing. Senior Van Austin dis
covers villains villainy; villain tries
TO blow up subway, subway tain and
rich Van Austin, whose will has
been made in villains favor, heroine
to rescue; throws bomb through con-
venient hole in subway and falls faint
ing on track as train comes along /;
creepy but net result tame only one
child stabbed in three scenes
Fourth Act-Insane ragged heroine
grooming Absence Makes the Heart
Grow Fonder" over dead baby in crib
down in dark cellar, while villainess
and old hag wrangle and quarrel. In
sanity, "gaunt poverty" tremens,
etc. lying around thick; villainess in
extreme high tragedy manner and
attitude" Another of my sins, !"
then, without pause or change of
voice "but breakfast will soon be
ready. Police take child; enter vii
lain pursued by more police; guns out.
side; villain and villainess grapple,
kill in each others arms. Bnlly,
fine Tablaeu, everything explained /;
reconciliation, all live happily ever
afterward in beautiful Fifth avenue
home.