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Strangers of the Night. Those who trot consistently at the heels of the drama will recall this play as Captain Applejack. It is something of a double exposure-a drawing room comedy with the death's-head flag of a pirate brig fluttering steadily in the background. In the course of an evening when the country house of Ambrose Applejohn is to be robbed of a certain hidden treasure, he falls asleep and dreams himself his bloody ancestor, the pirate, Captain Applejack. Awakened, he finds the memories have metamorphosed his mind. From a sleepy country gentleman he turns savage...
...Jolly Roger. A. E. Thomas has created a pirate drama cunningly carved from sea yarns of long ago with a cutlass of pointed wit. He has worked along lines made familiar to the great American audience by Captain Applejack.. He swashes more, however, than did the creators of that popular satire. He dramatizes his burlesque rather than burlesquing his drama. He maintains a beautiful, deep blue background of sea and sky, and salts his situations with oaths and the glitter of daggers at every course...
Died. Mrs. Winston H. Slaughter (Marie Wainwright), actress, 68, at Scranton, following an operation. She played the part of Josephine in the first American production of H. M. S. Pinafore (1878). She played the part of Aunt Agatha in Captain Applejack...
Tremont.--"Captain Applejack", a concoction of mystery, imagination, and plain farce, with Wallace Eddinger and (less prominently) Mary Nash...
Tremont.-"Captain Applejack", an imaginative farce-comedy with Wallace Eddinger, Mary Nash, and many comic situations...