The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-02
Monty Brezusfer Has Just an Awfm
Time Spending a Million In a Year
Edward Abeles, at the Newark
Theatre, Finally Gets Rid
of 1t, However.
LYRIC AND PROCTOR'S
HAVE GOOD NUMBERS
Melodrama and BurIesque
Shows Play to Crowded
Houses.
A SIX a man If he could spend a
A million dollars in a year and

A SIX a man If he could spend 2
~ million dollars in a year and
he'll probably answer gimme
a chance" He thinks it would be the
easiest kind of hard work he ever
tried. Monty Brewster, in "Brewster's
Millions over at the Newark Theatre
this week, proves most satisfactorily
that it isn't as easy as it appears.
The ~endeavors of that young man t.
spend a million in a year in order to
gain seven make as interesting a story
as has been dramatized in some time.
Monty. the hero. ~personated by Ed
ward Abeles. whose easy humor long
ago made him popular here, has the
worst kind of good luck. He casts a
dollar out, marks it credit in his rec
ord book, and 10 and behold. the next
day it comes back to him accompanied
by nine more little dollars. He bets on
The worst entry in a horse race and
wins, forty to one. He invests in Wall
Street Jonah stocks, only to have them
rise. 1t seems that he'll never get rid
of that million.
And then, just when he has sue
ceeded. the last day of his soul-trying
year, when he stands IN his empty
house. owning nothing but the clothes
he wears and two huge piles of re-
ceipts, an old friend returns to hand
him s35, 900, stolen from him months
before.
In two minutes the allotted year will
he up. Monty Is desperate. A happy
thought strikes him. He hands the
amount to the executor of his uncle's
will, and wins. The clock strikes IL.
the year Is up, and the seven millions
are his.
BY the way, his uncle left him the
sever million on condition that he
} spend the million left to him by his
grandfather, who had ill-treated his
mother-Monty's mother, am / clear
when Monty was a little cheeild.
The play is full of funny situations.
Edward Abeles has a style of comedy
which is all his own, and highly eff
fective. BY merely twisting his eye
brows he conveys his meaning and con-
vulses his audience. His acting is
straight comedy. He never finds 1t
necessary TO fall over a chair in order
to create a laugh. Well hear more
of that young man. His support is ex-
cellent. Miss Amelia Milton makes a
sweet, lovable Peggy n Grace Ar
mold gives a clever Interpretation of
the mannish girl who adores platonism,
but throws 1t over for love.
And now for the storm scene. We
couldn't possibly forget to mention 1t.
Suffice to say that it's lost lone of it's
power TO thrill. The boat rolls, the
foam flies. the signals boom to an ac-
compartment of thunder and lightning
that makes you long nightly for an
umbrella and overshoes.
You feel that 1t Is not quite prope
to sit and watch such a storm without
getting wet. The lights 'on shore" are
cleverly arranged. In the distance one
sees the signals OF a lighthouse. As
the boat gets under way these things
are lost on the horizon. II is with a
sigh OF relief that you welcome the
second curtain, which shows all
hands on deck making their apprecia4
tive bows. while the moon-rays beam
through the scurrying storm clouds.
It's one of Frederic Thompson's best.
is "Brewster's Millions" We bow our
thanks to Winchell Smith and Byron
Ongley for their clever angem
of lines n situations. M to George
Barr McCutcheon for the entertaining
plot.
ADELINE STANLEY CARRIcK.