Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-07-19
BLITHE ADA MEADE NEW
STAR IN ABORN PERMANENT
AS Sergeant Kitty She Takes
You by Storm with Her
Winsome Face.
! DA MEADE. the newest star i

a DA MEADE. the newest star In
~ the Aborn armament, had
things pretty much her own
way In the Olympic Park Theatre last
night when she appeared in the title
role Of Sergeant Kitty" this weeks
offering at the ADorn Comic Opera
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All OF the requirements of the
musical comedy ingcnue heroine are
hers. including blithe manner. win
some face ana voice, which. though
not strong, is clear and sweet. The
big audience Was not slow in respond
ing TO the charm OF her Sportrayal of
The fun-loyins, romantic, whimsical
Kitty, though no doubt 1t wished that
size would show little more strength
in tho comedy moments Of that same
kitty's career or particular merit
was Miss Mesde's singing Of the
Love" waltz song
AZ tc the plot OF Sergeant Kitty. in
its youth 1t must have been lively
twenty or twenty three minute farce,
the "buslness' Of which consisted
largely Of nlystifed parties going IN
one door and out another on q wild
search for more mystined parties who
were very much on doing the same
thing.
Ail-Arouod Lying Mntch.
Everything hinges on fortune
which ia to go to the nephew If it does
not 20 to the uncle, which win surely
! happen unless uncle rarries first.
Nephew marries and palms his wife
off as belonging to his friend, so that
uncle will not know. His friends
sweetheart z(same being Kitty. who
has married him by proxy. without his
knowledge. comes upon the scene.
hears of the borrowed, or rather loaned
wife. and demands an explanation.
Business Of lying and getting found
out for thirty-three minutes, during
which Kitty's aunt rouses everybody
to find her niece. who she claims is
under age and not allowed to wed
without her consent.
z Add to this pretty kettle of fish one
eccentric captain, who has been cor
responding with Kitty's aunt under the
impression that 1t was Kitty, and who
finds himself engaged to her (the
aunt and at her mercy because of the
fervent letters of his that she pos
sesses. Then stir in one lone. lorn or
Derby, whom Kitty hypnotizes into do
marriage by proxy Add several lieu
, tenants few corporals, great many
privates and couple Of fetching mu-
sical-comedy maids-in- waiting and you
have the plot complete. Understand
It? Well, who expected you to? It's
a musical-comedy plot, not a regular
plot. Consequently everything comes
out beautifully before the final cur
tain falls. even to Kitty's aunt discov-
ering her long-1ost husband In the
grouchy general.
To Louise de Marrilac. wife of the
nephew's friend. Blanche Morrison
lends wifely dignity that is quite as
tonishing, one is so used TO seeing her
In the roles OF rollicking heroines.
Forrest Ruff scores heavily as Kitty's
soldier lover, and Charles Bowers is
adequate as the nephew. Thomas Van
makes the best of an excellent oppor-
tunity in the role OF the lugubrious or
derby, and as the eccentric captain
James McElhern, evoked much laugh
ter. In the second act he took occa-
sion to interpolate a typical vaudeville
monologue. which was we'll received.
william Schustcr gave an excellent in
terpretation Of the doughty. grouchy
general.
ADELrNE STANLEY cARRIcK.