Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-15
The Newark Is Arena for .'Get-
Rich Quick Walling-
ford"
DISHONESTY TAKES OFF
HAT TO LITTLE DAN CUPID
Heart Wins Battle Over Cupid
ity and Happiness Reigns
Over All.

Get : Rich : Quick : wallingford."
George Cohan's II best bet breezed
in under the wire at the Newark
Theatre last night a dead sure win
ner. There was a classy bunch of
thoroughbreds entered in the Wal
lingford stakes and they ran a
pretty race, getting away strong at
the post and pulling up particularly
strong and fit at the finish.
This Cohanesque comedy. which
has been seen here before, Is just as
good, or a little better. than ever.
There are several old faces and a
few new ones in this particular COM
pany, but they all are right there
with the goods when it comes to
displaying the assorted wares of
Cohan and company.
Each More Exciting Thar the Other.
To get back to the other smile be-
fore the "Mixtmet Club interfered,
the race last night was run in four
heats, each successive one being a
little more exciting than the former.
The first heat was staged in the ex-
change of the Palace Hotel, Battles
burg, Iowa.
Wallingford and his pal, Blackie
Daw, arrive in the Iowa village
with the intention of carting away
a few hundred thousand dollars OF
the inert capital of the wealthy but
unprogressive citizens of the town.
The suaVe manner and business
like appearance of the two strangers
made it's impression on the village
capitalists, and they get down on
their knees and beg the Crooks to
take their money. The scheme Is to
build a covered carpet tack factory,
lay a street railway, and, in fact,
build a real live city.
Something Interferes with Game
When everything Is ripe for the
getaway" and the two public bene-
factors'' have gotten control of a
quarter million through some quick
real estate transactions several things
interfere with their moving" The
two most important are Fannie Jas
per, Wallingford's stenographer. and
Dorothy Welles, daughter of a real
estate uealef.
True love and dishonest labor do
not go hand in hand.
The stenographer unconsciously
gives Wallingford a higher view OF
life. He is led to believe in his own
power to succeed with as great sue
cess in honest enterprise as to sue
coed as a Crook"
Business ventures In ~Battlesbure
turn out unexpectedly successful
Capitalists from other sections, hear
ing the boom. pour their money intt
the little town and the most fanciful
dreams of the villagers come rue.
Everybody Prospers.
Everybody prospers. The town
within two years becomes a great
manufacturing centre. The crooks
reform and, of course, marry.
ibid you tell your wife the real
story about YOURSELF" said Wailing-
ford to his pal at the end of the act.
did your" queried Daw.
yep" said Wallingford.
$50 did J." said Daw.
"A mans a fool for being a crook,
amt he?" said Wallingford.
Yep, he is said Daw.
Just then a miniature street car
whizzed through the streets of Bat
tlesburg, seen in the distance with
its thousands Of lights and its huge
factories and homes, and the curtain
drops.
1t is a remarkable play, no mat.
ter how often me see 1t, 1t is bet
ter than ever.
The asst includes Joseph Manning,
as Wallingford; Sidney l.. Mason, as
Biackic Daw; James C. Marlovye, as
the landlord of the Palace Hotel;
Miss Rose Lubonn, as the .stenog-
rapler; Frederick Seaton, as the rich
est man in town; Ruth Tanning. as