Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-11-14
"THc VANDERBILT CUP"
An Automobile Comedy at the Grand
Thursday Niaht,

With the advent Of the first real auto
mobile must, al comedy ever given upon
a stage, comes another interesting chap
ter in stage history, and playgoers Of this
city will be given an opportunity to wit
ness what is claimed to be the most per.
feet specimen of up-to.date stagecraft in
"The Vanderbilt Cup" which comes to
the Grand, Nov. 14th.
Unlike many musical plays. in which
the alluring motor car is introduced as
an incident. this play is constructed
wholly about the auto, and uses as the
main theme, the great annual Wander.
bilt Cup race, which takes place on Long
Island and originated with VIM. X.
Vanderbilt, Jr,
| From first to last it is Automobile"
and there is never moment when rail.
cry isn't directed to this latest craze Of
the American public. Even the mus
ical numbers are written with the dash
and 20 that seems inseparaole from the
odor OF gasoline. 0"The Little Chaffeur,"
'Somewhere in the World, "rhe Light
that Lies in Girlish Eyes, THE most
catchy songs in the play-are all "Motor"
ditties.
The story OF the play is briefly this:
Curt Willets, millionaire, decides that
he will make over to his neice portion
OF his fortune, and forthwith sends his
lawyer to the country to escort her to
New York. where she NAV acquire "tone."
Dorothy is partly in love with Dexter
joyce, a young wine agent, who arrives
at her home when Banting, the lawyer
does, and the three come to the city to.
gether, and proceed at once to the Mar
jorie Wellington Hotel, woWan's hotel,
and the scene OF some screamingly funny
situations. There Clarinda Larkspur,
a very clever young woman. who has
sued old Willets for breach Of promise,
and lost, discovers that he has a car in
the Vanderbilt Cup race. that takes
place on the morrow. She sets about to
win the affections Of his French chauffeur,
Gaspard. The Hon. John Box wood,
thinly yelled caricature Of figure OF ma
tional importance. arrives at the hotel
with his religiously inclined son, Arthur,
who conducts Bible Glaze in bis spare
minutes. Old Willets endeavors to effect
. marriage between Dorothy and Arthur.
After some complications, the party
leaves for Mineola. Long Island, where
the races are to take place at day break.
The second act reveals the veranda of
the Garden City hotel, where Dorothy
and Dexter learn Of the plot against her
uncle's car in the race, and she persuades
Dexter to drive it himself. and every
thing 10 adjusted beautifully by the time
the race 10 run. and the party transferred
to the Long Island Yacht Club.
A big feature is Barney Oldfield's Won
derful invention Of an actual automobile
race on stage, in which two 80 horse
power racing cars are driven across the
stage to the music Of smashing exhausts,
flashes OF fire, and all the dust and noise
and turbulence which marks big race.
Persona who have seen the race declare
It to be the best thing that has ever been
seen in theater, and as one admirer
puts it, lit is case Of back to the scrap.
heap with chariot races, horses and loco
motives" The automobile is king, and
in 1.-THE Vanderbilt Cup" this newest
triumph OF civilization is at the apex OF
it's power.