The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-01-19
William Hawtrey, at Pr0ctor's,
Is the Leader of an Ex-
cellent Bill.
Mabel Mckinley and R. 6.
Knowles Are Splendid Fea-
lures at Lyric.
Pat Reilly, in New York Bur-
lesquers, Holds Forth at
Waldmann's S.

n UST like the ten, twent' and thirt',
only more SO, is F'rederic-spelled
without the final k-Thompson's
f<Via Wireless at the Newark Theatre
this week. During the big steel works
scene, while the gallery stamped and
whistled its appreciation, the orchestra,
though it lie it's best to enthuse, sue
ceeded only in looking politely interest
ed. 1t was different during that ire
mendous storm at sea, when the steam
ship Monaghan was SO arranged that
its "other'' half seemed to be out in
front, with all of the audience in it;
when the lightning fiared and the thun-
der runlbled, with the boat rocking so
I realistically that impressionable spec
/ tators experienced a wild desire to rush
to the side; when the bewhiskered cap
tain "bellered" and the model officers
Differed, and, most of all, when the
: wonderful little wireless machine--the
genuine article, by the way, furnished
by h United Wireless Company-re-
ceived n spanked off its wonderful
messages to the struggling. sinking lit
tie vessel in the distance.
A marvel of stage-craft was this
wonderful scene, showing the magic,
capable hand of Thompson at Thomp-
sons best. A more realistic represen-
tation of an ocean storm a never
been given us off a transatlantic liner.
1t made the audience forget that the
plot was painfully apparent after the
first ten minutes of the first act; that
the arrangement of incidents and even
of conversations We're not new, and
that it knew perfectly we'll just how
1t vas all going to end These things
mattered not at all. The storm scene
and the wireless made it glad it was
there.
The plot? Well. there's a rich father
and a charming daughter, a "villyun''
in love with the daughter and a hero
ditto. A weak man under the ~villyun's
control, a pair of youthful lovers TO
supply the comedy, and others. The
hero inyents a marine gun and the
weak man, under the v%illyun's con-
troll, invents another. Piece out the
rest for yourself, and Their hurry back
to the big storm scene and make up
your mind that it is too good to miss.
Martin Alsop, as Lieutenant Som
mers, hero, made the best of his
part, and Miss Vera McCord, as
Frances Durant, was a decidedly win
some heroine. Miss Georgia Drew
Mendum In the role of Maize O'Brien,
s~tenographer. betrayed a quick sense
of hunor and a faculty for expressing
1t. She. is a splendid actress. Excel.
lent work was done by Joseph Kauf-
mann as the wireless operator. Will
iarl B. Mack played Marsh, the other
inventor and draughtslnan in the steel
works, and played him we'll, rising
capably to his big moment in the last
act. Frank Monroe got himself over
the footlights easily, in spite of his
small part, as Bradley, of the United
States Secret Service, and Francis Nc
CHM, as Smith, the tipsy master
mechanic of the steel works. gave the
best performance of all, real and thor
ouPhly consistent.
But to get back to the storm scene
n tie wireless: You'll regret it If
you Miss 1t.
ADELINE STANLEY CARRICK.