Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1915-02-04
MILLIONS
WITH ORIGINAL CAST
OPERA HOUSE TO-DAY

The average man thinks it would be
lead pipe cinch to spend a million
dollars in year but at least one man
found that it was difficult task. This
man was none other than Monty
Brewster, who has become a favorite
with American theatre goers and
book lovers. And now the movie fans
have chance to see and know Brew
ster. Manager McAfee offers a five
reel production of the famous play at
the Opera House tonight.
Story of the Play.
Robert Brewster scion CT a we'll
to-do family elopes with Louise Sed-
gewick. Peter Brewster disinheritS
Robert and refuses to be reconciled to
the marriage, and later drives the
young couple from their home. A little
son, Monty" blesses the union. When
Monty is a full grown man, Peter
Brewster dies and bequeathes a mil
lion dollars to him.
The newly acquired wealth staggers
young Monty Brewster and he is about
to launch into the new life as one of
the predatory rich, when he receives
a communication from an attorney in
the West, advising him that his uncle,
George Brewster, has left him seven
million dollars, contingent upon his
getting rid Of the million dollars left
to him by Peter Brewster.
Peter Brewster mistreated your
mother and father and do not want
you to touch dollar of his money. If
you spend the million left to you by
him and can, at the end of a year,
show by receipts that you have jude
iously spent not squandered this mil
lion dollars, my attorneys will turn
over to you my worldly possessions,
aggregating seven millions. You must
! own nothing of value at the end of the
year." said George Brewster and Mon
ty, learning for the first time taht
Peter Brewster had mistreated his pa
rents, began to spend the million.
He invests the money in a sure los
! ing proposition in Wall Street in an
effort to dispose of some of his un-
welcome money, and the proposition
turns out a winner. He backs a flabby,
fat pugilist, hoping to lose, and wins.
There is a clause in the will of Geo.
Brewster which says that Monty must
not tell anyone of his desire to spend
the million and his friends think he
has suddenly lost his mind. Every
thing Monty touches with the hope of
losing some of his money, turns out
Just the reverse, and he wins. He has
most terrible time disposing of the
IN desired millions.
Finally, in a desperate attempt at
magnificent spending, Monty hires a
"a'atial yacht, invites several dozen
friends to accompany him end goes on
a long cruise. The friends mutiny in
mid-ocean, thinking him suddenly in
sane the way he is squandering his
wealth, threaten to lock Monty up and
Monty, to Illustrate them, runs I'D a
signal of distress. 1t costs him two
hundred thousand dollars to be salvag-
ed by passing steamer, and the end
of the year rolls around with Monty
fiat broke.
He has squandered the entire mill
lion dollars, possesses a room full of
receipts to show for every dollar spent
and his sweetheart Peggy, believing
him to be a pauper, consents to marry
him. His friends, believing him broke,
endeavor to press money and jewelry
upon him, all of which he must nos
have in his possession or he loses the