New-York tribune., 1921-12-31
The New PLAY
..
By Percy Hammond
captain Applejack,' at the
Cort, Excellently Acted, Is
One of the Most Inge-
nious and Amusing
of the Burlesques
THE CAST.

AMBROSE 3, "
Mrs Pensars s......... Helene lac<aye
Ecrace Peneard -. Ferdinand Gcttsohaik
Ivan Sorolsky. Hamilton Reveile
Palmer. Observation-Disclosures. Maud Andrew
bennett. ......,,.. ....s.. d. Waiter r scott
Johnny Jason. .......... Aarod Nermiiye
Lush. Observation-Disclosures. John Gray
Poppy Faire e................Ph Phoebe Foster
Mrs. agatha Whatcomhe Marie Wainwright
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1t is agreeable this morning to an
aounce that Captain Applejack," the
new play at the Cort Theater, is con-
siderably more than irst-class enter
tainment, as frst-class entertainments
20. Undertaking difficult ingenuity
in combining comedy, bulesque- melo
drama, and at the end q blending OF
both the others, it succeeded in that
surprising feat with happy results on
last nights audience. Moreover, the
performance Of its principal roles by
Miss Mary Nash, Wallace Eddinger and
Hamilton Revelle is so captivating
development of its risky possibilities
that one is disposed to ardor as he re-
ports it. Captain Applejac seems to
this observer to possess everything
that a 'show" ought to have, with
skill and intelligence added.
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Here is Mr.. Eddinger in the first act,
4 stead Cornish gentleman, weary OF
is routine and yearning for the ad-
ventures of the open road. The tinkle
OF mandolns in Seville, the gleam of
moonlight in Tangiers lure him into
the purple mists of romance, and he
decides to abandon the ruts of life in
Cornwall for the hauberk. the helm
and lance. Thereupon Miss Nash ap
pears, most pictorial and in distress,
saving that she is an eminent dancer
Of Muscovy and that she is being pur-
sued by a Bolshevik spy. (Mr. Rovelle.)
The comedy then ends and the trav-
csty begins, for it is suspected that
Miss Nash. Mr. Revelle, Miss Helene
Lackaye and Mr.. Ferdinand Gottschalk
are London thieves in search of such
papers as VIII guide them to the trea
sure hidden by Mr. Eddinger's ances-
tor, who was pirate.
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The second act is dream, wherein
Mr. Eddineer finds himself imperscnat-
ing his sanguinary forbear, the Freud
ian master of one of those long, low
rakish ships. Blocdthirsty, evil and
domineering, he IS yet bit of cox
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not averse to a bit Of dalliance with
Miss Nash, who is now representing a
lovely prisoner, taken from a Portu-
euese brigantine. Mr.. Revelle is in the
dream the envious mate of the boat,
and over the woman and the treasure
Re and Mr.. Eddinger come TO grips
Surrounded by fierce, mutinous crew
.hey cut the cards for possession o.
me lady and the jewels, and Mr. Ed
d!nger wins because he has beer
thoughtful enough to provide himself
With deck containing nothing bur
aces. lie is 2 perfect humorist in this
amusing ferment, and Mr. Revelle, with
fewer opportunities, is likewise. Miss
Nash's contribution to the gorgeous
episode is a series of pictorial atti-
tudes and emotions SO deftly satirical
and so natural that it is the superior
thing Of its kind
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Mr.. Eddnger, waking from mis- dream
in the last act. is still obsessed by it
and ne retains in his encounters with
the burglars many or The characteris-
tics Of the CORY corsair. The play is q
letter performance than "The Tavern y
because 1t Is thing much more intri-
cate to do, and it is considerably above
mere purlesque. Walter Hackett, for
merry an American dramatic critic, but
now resident of London is i+s arthor