The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-10-21

storm and rescue. Does ne dread that | some one in the audience has over
 looked his act of redemption. and will
 hiss him for an ordinary william?
 The sea storm In "Brewster's Mil l lions" broke in a New Jersey suburban | town. but 1t headed for New York. The Frederick Thompson who conceived and executed the spectacles which
 made the Hippodrome famous. and emptied the treasury of the company with the expenditures, saw a chance for tremendous imitation tempest in George Barr McCutcheon's story of a
 chap who. by the provisions of a will
 had to spend one million in . year or lose his inheritance of seven millions.
 So while the novel was being turned
 into the first second and fourth acts of a farce-the only feasible treatment of the whimsical tale for stage pur- worked with paint
 CTS, carpenters and electricians on a
 melodramatic third act which would 1 show a storm astonishingly.
 Up to this point. Brewste- had ridded
 himself of only a half million. He Is
 barred from giving any money away
 outright or losing 1t Intentionally by bad investments, and no one must Anow the reason for his prohigacy. There
 fore, his singular conduct makes his friends doubt his sanity and convincts his sweetheart that ha Is faithless. Ee has used up all but a month and hal: of his time, but has got rid of only half of his money The character is
 personated with ful1-navored humor by Edward s. Abeles. a young acto- with the skill of an old one. and who's, versatility seemed for years to doom him to obscurity in the varying dis, suises of service for star actors with never tho opportunity to become T. 70 diary. but almost hopeless of lame. But his time came when Thompson lo oked around for q comic yet hand some actor, clever yet still young to depict the eccentricities of Monty Brewster. the freakist spendthrift TEe play. as shaped by Winchell Shit" and Byron Ongley. Is farce fantastic enough to be a libretto for comic opera, but Abeles holds 1t as close as possi- ble to probability. He backs, a tall entless prima donna. publishes a brain- less authors book. plunges madly in Wall Street fim-fiam speculations and maintains bachelor apartments in reck- less magnificence. but the good luck of his wild adventures Is bad luck to hls prospect of getting the seven millions. AS you can see. there Is a plenty or farcical material in all that.
 At this juncture Thompsons storm clears the sky for Monty Brewster. Ii. has set out on the costliest of steam yachts, d mansion af1oat. accompanied
 by a coterie of friends, In to form hope that Providence may guide the voyage to a haven in the surrogate office The yacht is cruising on tn" Mediterranean. The work of Thomp- sons painters and carpenters Is visible on the rise of the curtain on the third act. and some of the skill of his cleo trician is in evidence. A clear sky $ filled by scurrying clouds. calm sea br eaks into turbulent waves. Thsre IS thunder. lightning and all that Be- lasco Is made to look like a few cents. ard the Hippodrome like not many. Il Is the climax and acme of storms. And its dramatic value Is that Brewster flies a signal of distress. vessel comes to the rescue he gets receipt TOT