Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-22
IN GLEE
As DANTES P|ERCES
NUMBER THREE"
Monte's Shout, "The World Is
Mime" Makes All the An-
dience Feel Fine.

If YOU have q lingering fondness for
the kind Of plays that thrill, just drop
into the Columbia and take in this
weeks bill. The play is Monte Cristo,'
fashioned after Dumas book, and II
you think the thing is tame, just go
and take 4 look. Twas years ago, re-
member. when the incidents occurred,
but the man who worked them out was
sure a literary bird.
Take. for instance, that man Dang
lars. He's a l~ow-down, scheming cuss,
and the minute that you spot him you
can see he'll start a fuss. N Fer
nande, a handsome rogue, who wants
to win a dame who has no use on earth
for him. and won't play in his game.
And then there's Dechellette n Jean
but we must not delay, the curtain now
is going up it's time to see the play.
Act /: The scene depicts the house
of genial Caderousse, a tender-hearted
fellow, but inclined to be a souse. Enter
Danalars and Fernando. who begin to
hatch q plot, and you can see the way
they ak they're going to make things
hot. M then we hear a glad, Wild
cheer come floating Ger the breeze, II
Edmond Dantes enters, from across the
foreign seas. My goodness. but that
fellow is q winning sort of hap. you
ought to hear the gallery yell and hear
the ladies clap.
But Their he hasn't been there long
enough to get his breath, before the
villains try to bring about the heros
death. They forge a letter to the King
and sign poor Dantes' name, of course
it's very "a but then they do 1t, just
tho same. And Caderousse sits idly by,
you think he's full of rum, but OF
course you know he isn't and he's only
taking some.
The note is sent, the villains stand
and laugh in Shoulish slee, o wish
you could warn Edmond. oh, Where, on.
where is he? At last he comes ana
Mercedes falls Imply in his arm, she
knows there's something doing, and is
filled witt, wild alarm. The guard ar
rives: the note displayed, and Mercedes
grows pale, but all her tears are use
less: they lug Edmond off TO jail.
Act :: It's over eighteen years since
Dantes We have seen, n lots Of
things have happened in the time that 5
gone between. He's grown a long,
white beard hat YOU could weave INTO
a braid. but through it all his heart Is
still a-longinS for that maid.
Now. you all know how Dantes makes
believe that he is dead. and how they
come and put him in a sack that $
4 Glled with lead. They take him to the
sea-wall and with q mighty heaNe they
toss him in the sea to die as we re
made to believe. But then \ scene
as changed and against the dark x
line, the hero climbs uponia rock ana
.r~. l., .%s,A - +& L 3
Act 3. 1tts here that Edmond. with n
glitter in his eye, determines nat the
villains. three in number, all must die
So. as a priest. he journeys to a road
house by the sea and prepares to mar
1.-THE finish of the first one of the three
Obligingly the unsuspecting victim
comes that night, and don't imagine
that It's long before there is a fight.
You see at once that, weight for age
the hero is outclased. but Edmond
was in training in The eighteen years
that passed. It doesn't take a minute
ere the trick is neatly done, and Ed
mond smacks his lips and then an
nounces Number one!"
Act 4 is kind of tame; there's not q
killing through it all. and you feel 9
bit uneasy The number two don
fan: but the hero knows his little game
and has it all mapped out. Just beal
in mind that Edmond always knows
what he's about. Meanwhile fair Mer
eeues has wed. and. to make matters
worse. she married villain number two
and that makes Edmond curse.
And then there is a son, who Edmond
saws must surely die, but Mercedes say'
no and Edmond Dantes asks her why.
because he is your SOM she cries
her voice raised TO a shout. Conster'
nation in the audience as they try t.
dope it out,
Act 5: It's here that things begin t
move quite fast, and you can tell ina
number two will soon get his at last
The sor won't fight: he knows his dad
and you feel quite relieved. But JUS
Their Fernando appears. He says he'
beer deceived. lie wants to fight; IL
fact, he's Just a-pining for a fray. bu
Mercedes appears and won't let it g
that way.
Yet Fernando is simply Wild. II
wants TO die so bad that finally he XIII
himself, and everyone is glad. And al
YOU hear the news that Fernandez ]
really through, the hero calmly look
around and murmurs. Number two
Then Danglars gets the fever and de
clares he wants to fight, SO you knoy
that in a minute he'll be getting his, al
right. Brave Edmond grabs "a sworc
that he can handle like a toy. and a
he p%unctures number three h CALLER.
yells. Good boy!"
And so thai is the finish of the vii
lains and the play, and Mercedes ant
Monte they get married right away
at least we hope they do. for they hav
had a lot of woe, so we leave then
there and get our hats, because it
time to go.