Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-18
"GhOst Breaker at the New
ark, a POtpourri of Thrills
and Laughter.
WARNER ANNEXES FRESH
LAURELS IN HIS NEW ROLE
Miss Emmett Likewise Comes
in for Much Applause as
Princess.

| The Ghost Breaker at the New
ark. is unique in that it gives one all
sorts of runs for ones money. 1t is a
bit Of comedy, of tragedy, of melo-
| drama and of farce, each with it's
full share of fun, awe, thrills and
laughter, and all merged into so con-
sistent an amalgam of enjoyment
| that, at the end, even inveterate the
| atre-goers feel a poignant pang that
there isn't more.
1t is a play full of climaxes. the
/ very rise of the curtain in the first
| act Signalling the climactic point of
| a feud, with pistol shots playing the
accompaniment.
| IL there Is any fault to be found
with the play, aside from the fact
that it occasionally leaves one won
dering why an opportunity to slay
! the hero is not taken advantage of
| by the villain, it is that the end comes
rather abruptly. But this shortcom-
ing, as has been intimated, may be
due to the fact that the spectator, by
the time the end is reached, has
grown to love the play and its hero
and heroine so cordially that he takes
il amiss that the authors do not per-
nit him to linger a while longer over
the parting.
He Was Bred in Old Kentucky.
Warren Jarvis has come to New
York from Kentucky at the invita-
ton of an enemy, whom he is to meet
at the Manhattan Hotel. He does
meet him there at a. m. and there
is no time wasted Shooting begins
without preliminaries. Jarvis is
wounded in the wrist. His enemy,
for aught he tarries to learn, may be
dead
In his hasty flight Jarvis bursts
into the room of the young and
beautiful Princess Maria Theresa of
CASTLE and Aragon, a guest at the
hotel. This boisterous intrusion by
a stranger naturally shocks her. but
with an eloquence that would have
done justice of King Richard III.
the time he won the heart of Queen
Anne at the very bier of the king,
her husband, whom Richard had
murdered. Jarvis persuades Princess
Maria Theresa, etc, to harbor and
shield him from the police.
Promises to LAY" the Ghost.
In return she exacts from him an
oath to be her vassal and perform
whatever service she may demand,
particularly to aid her in solving the
mystery of her haunted ancestral
castle in Spain.
From this point on Jaryis's adven-
lures come thick and fast: and. by
the time he reaches Segura. Spain,
with the princess and her cousin, the
Duke d'Alva, the amazing GOODNESS,
courage, wit and resourcefulness of
the American have won the admira-
ton and heart of the princess.
The Duke d'Alva is a knave. In
his hire is an adventurer Don Rob-
ledo, whom he instruets to prevent
Jarvis from reaching the haunted
castle, where there lies concealed a
vast treasure. There is a charming
love scene between the princess and
Jarvis, at the conclusion of which the
princess repairs to her room at the
inn to pray for Jaryis's success and
welfare, while the latter prepares to
set out on the trip to the castle. BY
chance, he detects the presence of
Don Robledo, waiting with a revolver
at the foot of the stairs
Another spanish-American War.
Jarvis, whistling Dixie" suddenly
hurls his coat at the solitary lamp,
extinguishing the light. Then there
is staccato of revolver shots; and
just as the spectators are beginning
to fear the worst for Jarvis, the whis-
Ting of Dixie is resumed. And, al
though the stage remains in dark
ness, the qualification experienced is
intense; for one feels that Don Rob-
ledo has been eliminated from the
further development of the plot.
Next comes the 'spooky' castle
scene and the discovery that the Duke
d'Alva is the villain, while one of his
confederates is the murderous ghost.
And, in conclusion, another love
scene.
Henry B. Warner. as Jarvis, fully
sustained the fame he has ac-
duired as Jimmie" in alias Jim
mic Valentine" His leading woman,
Miss Katherine Emmett, is the be-
witching Spanish princess. She gives
the role such sympathetic treatment
that the honors which she recently
carried off in New York as Gabrielle
in 1.-THE Affairs of Anatole" 'moult
no feather