The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-02

When you begin to watch the antics
Of Stone, who evidently was born minus
the usual number of bones credited to
mankind. so timber lis he, you forget all
about Montgomery, and when that per-
son comes within your line of vision,
with his marvellous facial contortlons
and absurd byplay, Stone just naturally
has to get along without your assist
ance. They sure are a pair, those two.
Far be II from me to say which IS the
funnier, ! couldn't if / would.
1.-THE Red Mill" in which these twin
stars appear. is at the Newark Theatre
this week. and promises to draw every
bit as well as ii did last year. 1t is a
bright, rollicking musical comedy OF the
kind you enjoy seeing and hearing a
second, or even a third, time. The
fact thai Montgomery and Stone have
gone through much the same antics,
and said the very same jokes for over
700 nights. seems to danlpen their n
ergy or Lessen their ability to amuse
not ar all.
Every person in the audience wore a
'welcome to our city smile when they
appeared. Before long the smile was
lost in a grin. which buried itself in
a chuckle. The chuckle disappeared in
a chortle. n the chortle became en-
meshed in a guffaw, and there you
were.
Laughing at Montgomery and Stone
gets to be a habit long before the first
act is over. Go to see them and get
rid of your Indigestion, which it is
claimed can be cured by laughter.
Miss Florence Quinn makes a dainty
Gretchen, the burgomaster's daughter.
She has a sweet, fresh voice and high
ly pleasing is her rendering of the
moonbeam sons from the top door of
the old mill. Bertha, the burgomas-
ter's sister. is played by Allene Crater,
who also has a good voice. deeper and
fuller thar that Of Miss Quinn.
Miss Ethel johnson Is decidedly pert
as Tina, the barmaid, and the buster
ing old burgomaster is we'll portrayed
by Edward Begley, whose dancing sug-
gests the mountain as 1t might have
looked had it really decided to visit
Mahomet.
Carl Ganlvoort, as Captain Doris,
undesirable sutton to Gretchen, sang
The Isle of Ny Dreams" very well i'm
deed, but spoiled the impression he
might have made by trying to see every
single person in the audience when he
should have been making eyes at the
fair Gretchen.
Maxine Verande was excellent as the
vivacious, yoluble French countess,
and David L. Don was decidedly funny
as the keeper of the Red Mill Inn.
The average musical comedy has one
or two good songs. The rest are hardly
passable. There is not one number In
THE Red Mill' that has not a charm
of its own Were more musical comedies
produced as good as this particular one,
which is scheduled to delight New
arkers this week, there would be less
talk about the falling off of interest in
this type of entertainment.
The Red Mill would be worth
while without Montgomery and Stone.
With them it is wholly desirable. There
is a tremendous difference between be-
ing funny and acting funny. Mont
gomery and Stone are being funny
every moment they're before the loot
lights. They remind one of the Biblical
~admonition. "be not weary in we'll
doing" Others, who try ever SO hard
to please, are only acting funny.
Note the difference?
If you cannot "be" funny there's no
use in trying to act" funny.
If certain vaudeville entertainers
would only take the hint!
ADELINE STANLEY CARRICk.