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It is in two scenes, with two characters. Opening on what is in- tended to be a sea, and maybe seemed like one from the orchestra seats, there is a superabundance of talk between a Ger- man (Mr. Lester) and an "old tar" (J. Alexander Clark), both the sailors having been shipwrecked, meeting in the ocean, one on a raft and the other in a tub. Downstairs, the effect may be as intend ed, the "waves" rolling the stranded salts back and forth, but in the balcony and gallery, the tables upon which the sailors are standing may be easily seen, and the mechanical appliances removes the illusion.
As the upper part of the house is a good applause producer at times, this should be corrected, and a great deal else in the act before it can pass through. As "Shipwrecked" is at present there should be about five minutes taken out of the first scene, and the act might as well end at that time. If it did, there would be no act; there isn't much more now.
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Variety 9:3 (09/21/1907)