Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-22

MI brand new comedy by george
AIDE, with music by Gustav Lu-
ders, come to the Newark Theatre for
a weeks engagement, beginning next
Monday night. Montgomery and Stone
bring their own welcome with them, for
their popularity here is almost UNI
riyaled and the theatre-going pubic,
whose favorsth they have won in past per-
of "The Red Nip and 1.-THE
Wizard of o." have long waited in a
pleasantly anticipatory frame of mind
their first chance to see the two come
dams in ""The Old Town." of which
much has been said and printed alto
gether In praise. Charles Dillng-
ham is the managerial sponsor Tor
1.-THE Old Town" which ran all of last
season at his two theatres, the new
i Globe, in New York, and the Stude-
baker, in Chicago. The mere
.ment of the Dillingham; direction gives
pre-assurance that Montgomery and
! stone will lack nothing of what is de-
! sirable in the way of a supporting com
pany or a Genie production. Indeed, 1t
is said that in the matter of production
MIR. Dillingham; has rather outdone his
own lavish habit in mounting this lat
est musical comedy by George AIDE.
There are two acts in the piece and
each is accorded a magnificent full
stage setting, painted by Homer Emens
after sketches from nature. The first
act shows the grounds and magnificent
residence of the BilwetheTs at st. Au-
sgustine, Florida, and the second pic
lures a wonderfully beautiful expanse
of California mountain valley, as
viewed from the veranda of a hand
some bungalow in the hills. Montgom-
cry and Stone appear this time in the
guise of two country youths, who run
off with a one-horse circus. After many
vicissitudes they come to grief in Flor
ida, heal the home of the Bilwethers,
whom they knew in their old town in
California. The Bilwethers have two
pretty nieces, who are the source of
ultimate attraction to Henry Clay Baxl
ter and Archibald Hawkins, the tive
stranded circus men.
Two with stunts for n Score.
In the guise of the unfortunate cir
Gus proprietors obliged to give the en-
tire performance themselves because
an unpaid company of acrobats have
sdeserted, Montgomery and Stone have
opportunity to exhibit themselves in q
bewildering series of comic ~disguises
sand to introduce I'll sorts of clever
stunts" ranging from doing a sone
and dance and a Japanese impersona-
ton on Montgomery's part to walking
a tight-wire and giving an exhibition
of lariat and ~gun-juggling on the par'
of the indefatigable Fred Stone, In
deed, it is said that Montgomery ane
aStone in this, their newest vehicle, in.
%ftroduce enough different specialties (
ramply furnish forth a vaudeville
saheatre bill composed entirely Of head.
Miners. A popular feature of the per
Aformance of 1.-THE Old Town" is tht
Ndancing number introduced by tn,
original English pony ballet, the si'
graceful members of which organiza
ton also add a laughable dash of nov
city when they appear in kits and tar
tans, skirling %gloriously upon six sono
rous Scottish bagpipes.
Besides Montgomery and Stone. tn
company presenting THE Old Town
includes a number of locally favorit'
sxgtists. Among the principals are AL
lene Crater, Charles Dox, F1ossie Hope
w. J. Mccarthy. Eloise and Genevievl
Reed, Lyndon Law, Nathalie Greene
Charles Mitchell, May Ellison, Mac
tWhiting, Clementine Dundas, Gen
Cole, Harold Russell, Virginia Kendall
Charles Dodge and Ethel Tanguay.
beauty chorus and a double octette o
dancing girls bring the membership o