The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-27
MA-|N-LAW ONE
SCREAM IN THE
GAY MUSICIAN
Martha Georges Fun and Songs
Make Instant Hit at the
Newark.
AMELIA STONE AND HER
COMPANY PROVE POPULAR
First Night Here of Play That
New York Liked Scores
Big Success.
PRETTY play is THE Ga

PRETTY play is THE Ga.
~ Musician" at the Newark h
atre this week Pretty as tt
costumes, very pretty as to girls, and
decidedly pretty as to music. What
more could you ask?
Eugene D~ubois-he's the musician
is married to a sweet little lady, Marie
Eugene Is a lover and a husband, but
first of all he is a musician. To pro-
luce his opera, just finished, he mus
retain the favor of the beautiful prima
donna Maude Granville. Naively
claiming to his wife that famous act
resses have no use for married men
because married men will not dirt, he
poses to the famous Maude as single.
Maude, in love with him, comes to his
home. where his wife has attired her.
self as a maid, to help along the de-
ception, and try to prove to herself
that her husband is true blue. His
mother-in-law helps Marie to discover
that he isn't. She is a good German,
Is this mother-in-law. Eugene. cor
nered, loses his head and slaps his
darling Marie on the right wrist. 'He-e
STRUCK her." walls the chorus.
Grounds for divorce. Same procured
between the acts.
Second act discovers the wedding day
of the prima donna and the still am
bilious Eugene. Letter arrives from
prima DONNA father, saying he will be
there is time to make the affair a
double wedding. His bride turns out to
be the fair divorced Marie. Eugene
! tears his hair. The brides meet. Fur
flies. Again does the gay musician
lose his head. This time he strikes
Maude. Again the chorus, "He-e
STRUCK her." Maude faints into the
arms of her manager. Eugene falls on
the shoulder of Marie. Orchestra plays
tumble of the entire score. That's all.
Not much OF a plot, but decidedly
winning as worked out by a company
of capable players. Miss Amelia Stone
as the prima donna is charming. Her
songs are rendered in a clear, sure
voice, to which it Is a pleasure to listen.
Lottie Kendall plays Marie with
just the snap and vivacity that the
part needs. She wins her audience for
sure when she sings "The Saucy Spar
row." Templar SAKE gives much to the
part of Eugene Dubois, making that
erratic Frenchman decidedly likable.
Every emotion of the impressionable
Eugene is portrayed In his flexible
c~ountenanoe. There is something re-
freshing about Mr.. Saxe's voice. 1t is
clear and sweet, especially when he
sings the prettiest song in the score,
'Lovelight."
Martha George has made the mother
in-law, Matilda wager, the funniest
person in the whole comedy. Her mis-
placed p%ronouns and wronGfside-fore-
most sentences give her tho centre of
the stage often, even when the principals
are performing. Miss Carol McComas
plays Hilda Branson, soubrette. She
has little to dc but look pretty, and she
does this very we'll. Her dance "D'Une
Coquette,' is gracefully performed.
Harry Short, as Samuel Lyons, man
ager of the prima donna, makes strenu-
Gus efforts to be funny, and occa-
sionally he succeeds. The Englishman
with the accent, who of late years has
been deemed essential to musical
comedy, appears this time in the form
of Haydn P. Clifford, as the Hon.
Charles Beresford. Same old character.
played in the same old way.
Not a musical number in the score
falls fat, nor does the show become
tiresome at any moment, and the
chorus is unusually pretty. AS I said
before, what more could you ask?
ADELINE STANLEY CARRICK.