Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-11-21
DULL CARE NEVER
HAD JOLL|ER FOE
THAN EXCUSE Me-
Rupert Hughes's Pullman Car
niyal at the Newark a
Cradle of Laughter.
COMEDY, KEYNOTE, TOO, OF
PANTOMIME AT PR0CT0R'S
AT Other Theatres Themes
Range from Merry Quips to
Melodramatic Quirks.
EXCUSE ME-"
By Rupert Hughes,

BY Rupert Hughes.
Harry Mallory. .,...,... Harrison Ford
Jimmie Wellington. james Lackaye
Ira Lathrop............F. j. Mccarthy
Rev. Walter Temple. 80. Charles Able
Roger Ashton. ..... Charles Trowbridge
Harold Wedgewood....T. Gunnis Davis
The Porter George w. Day
The Conductor .,.... Louis Hendricks
Lieut.. Hudson. ..AlonZo Price
Lieut.. Shaw..............Ha Harry Kernel
Mr.. Bauman. Philip White
The Gambler. ...........A lonzo Price
Rev. Charles Selby, of Ogden........
Harry Kernel
Marjorie Newton. -. Geraldine O'Brien
Kathleen Llewellyn.................
Marguerite Skirvin
Anne Cattle. .Lalive Brownell
Mrs. Walter Temple. Lydia Dickson
Mrs. Jimmie Wellington. ..........
~Jacqueline Blaney
Mrs. Whitcomb. ........ Ida Stanhope
No apology is needed or asked. 1t is
merely an original invitation to laugh,
nay, to hold thy sides for the crick
hat is discovered therein, and then 20
laugh again. Dull care is banished this
week at the portals of the Newark
Theatre, wherein a sprightly company
do .disport themselves in such mirth-
provoking manner as to furnish one OF
the gayest of the seasons offerings
thus far vouchsafed. There is never
any doubt as to the status of the
Pullman carnival as it is described
on the program. 1t is farce of the
most hilarious .fa~rsicalness, and beyond
that it is clean and free from lines Of
double or doubtful meaning. It's es-
pecial appeal is to the grouches, no
matter what the cause of ~grouchinessl
might be, for it deals with them at first
hand. And SO swift is the action and
so plausible the development that 1t Is
safe to venture that anyone, unfamiliar
with sleeping-car travel, would feel
in a measure disappointed after seeing
Excuse Me- to dld a long train trip
a. prosaic as they usually are. The
interior of the Pullman sleeper, the
scene of action, is a circus tent, and
SO much happens in the given time that
one = hard put to it to allow no by
play to escape.
The story runs at break-neck speed
and every puff of the engine is a
chuckle. IL gives the four days ex-
perience of a car full of assorted speci-
mems of humanity on the limited from
Chicago to San Francisco. There are
a parscn and his wife off for a holiday
andIconce ling t.-eir identity, ever to
her smoking and his drinking; a mis-
sionary to China and a crusty old
bach who not only discover them
selves to be one-time sweethearts, but
get married while passing through
Utah; a "blarsted" Englishman, of
whom the porter declared. Laws, l
could git arrested for what think of
him." a fat, bibulors party on his way
to Reno; his wife bound for the same
destination, quite unconscious of her
ibby's identica. intentions; a fascI,
mating young man; a fascinating
young grass Widow-to-be, and last,
but not least, a loving young
couple, whose efforts to be married
before the train started were frus-
trated by the breaking down of a cold,
unfeeling taxi. And they had to get
that train, ror i, was the last that
would catch the boat that was to take
the young soldier to his post in the
Philippines All these, to say nothing
of a perfect joy of a porter, IL big con-
ductor, a troublesome third party
some train robbers and a small, but
epoch-making dog. The plight of the
young couple. who do not confide in
their fellow passengers, is the chief
thread in the tangled skein, followed by
the about-to-be divorced couple, who
make up before Reno is reached.
The company is so well balanced that
individual work can scarcely be picked
for comment. Miss Geraldine O'Brien,
exceedingly youthful, contributed to the
role of the frightened eloper so much
earnestness and healthy vigor that the
plausibility of the nonsense was WIS.,