The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-24

who has been in the vicinity tarpon fishing.
 The ensuing scenes and the final denoument make a most amusing play. Cow1es, George Backus, Roy Atwell, Mark Smith, H. Guy Woodward, Charles Judels, Annie Buckley, Ann Mooney, Blanche West and the most acceptable chorus ever organized.
 Among the clever musical numbers in the piece are: Smith, "Old Re- liable Jokes" Hos a Cousin of Mine." 'f1oah." Three Men in a Boat" The Last One Is the Best of All,'' MT. Cupid" "Gwendolyn" and "Do-re-me."
 Adelaide Thurston Friday.
 The story of The Girl From Out Yonder," the new play in which the charming young actress Adelaide Thurston will be the attraction at the Montgomery Theater, Friday matinee and night. is one of the sea and those who make their living by it. The scenes are laid along the coast of Maine. and the principal characters, including that of Flotsam, played by Miss Thurston, are typical of the To- cality.
 The first act opens at a summer club house at Terry's Harbor. Mrs. El mer, her nephew Edward and 8 young society man and woman are talking over the elder ladys recent narrow escape from drowning, in an accident to her canoe. Flotsam Miss Thurs ton), who has rescued Mrs Elmer, makes her entrance dressed in the oil skins and sou'-wester of a Gloucester fisherman. She is immediately made much of by every one except Clarice Suspicion, the society girl, who be- comes jealous of her and tries in many ways to humiliate her, but Ed ward exhibits fine quality of temper and drives Clarice to cover At this time her father, old Capn Amos Bar ton, the lighthouse keeper, and Joey Clarke, a fisher-boy in love with Flotsam, come on. Mrs. Elmer wants to take. Flotsam and have Der prop erIy educated, for up to the present time she has only learned how to be honest from her father and the Bible and to quote from Shakespeare Young Elmer has by now fallen in love with Flotsam and she with him, and he has agreed to go to the Lighthouse Island every day and teach her man. ners. A first glance at Elmer gives Cap'n Barton an unpleasant Surprise. In q conversation between the Capn and his friend Ben 1t transpires that years before the Cap'n had killed a man by the name of Hamilton, who re- minds them poth of young Elmer whose own father had disappeared twenty years before, and 1t was sup posed had deserted his wife and child. Elmer having been cared for by his aunt had dropped his own name, that of Hamilton, and adopted Elmer
 The second act, which Is on the lighthouse island. starts off with a comedy scene between Ben and Cous- In Simonson. Ben has been asking her to marry him for thirty years, but the lady claims that the pleasures of widowhood far exceed all others Then comes a very pretty love scene between Elmer and Flotsam and the act closes with Joey, who has dis covered the Cap'n's secret while nurs- ing him during a fever, telling Elmer, in a frenzy of jealousy, that FIot- cams father is the murderer of his own parent.
 The old Cap'n, whose conscience has scourged him for twenty years, be- gins to see relief in the third act and goes to the officers of the law and confesses. He then sends for Mrs FL mer and tells her that FIotsam is not his own daughter but a waif of the sea, and asks her to take her away This. of course, would straighten out her love affair with Elmer, but F'lot- sam divines that her father is making