Show li i ii i 1 I c I 1 f C i f L 11 P THIS WEEK AT ATTHE ATTHE ATTHE THE THEATRES a f All t week peek eek beginning and tonight matinees Thursday and r rr r Saturday The Matchmaker Orpheum All week beginning tonight matinees daily vaudeville 0 r Bungalow All week beginning t 6 tonight matinees Wednesday and o Saturday The Climbers Grand All week beginning t a night matinees eS Wednesday ay ari at Saturday A Bachelors Bachelor Hone moon f BY FRANKLIN FYLES N New 1 York April 90 I Gotham is oi lI ci glorious to think itself the only Ame Amean an starting point on the I 1 map for tr tours Olga th hn b i uny un unY Y Olcott and Andrew Mack bra brn br I i town ton this week wak plays which IH tit hate haxe ha P used initially elsewhere a Although it bad had been seen MeD in other ether Americas American cities clUe The Writing th the Wall was wa new to New York ts t t week neek k and here it Is IE that the play pla i effect should be strongest t It hur hurt its 13 t J shafts shaft ry bold and vigorous f sha h hat at the Trinity Church t first directly and later l hy by y thinly lIc Trinity parish owns se cT I large and influential r churches hur lies in tl ti n s nt besides its Ita famous old edi kr P e m to at the head of Wall str strait t tIt It has much other real estate Aid AnU tt th t powerful corporation has hall tong mAd rA it U almost a boast IM ast that it will wUl not take taK tl tL into its Ks confidence as to an any i tails of management William J Hurlbut voices voice in this pUi pUia play Y Ya I Ia a complaint that has muttered and andi i d for years In the first act peo Pf o i Die talk of or the bad bed condition of East EastSide I iSide Side Ild tenements owned by Trinity the I results of similarly rotten revealed later suggest an charge har t The young dramatist speaks peals fearlessly of the wealthy parish whore whole hn e clergy jerg sprinkle rose water while h hr r deeds derda smell to heaven en Presently one or of the characters goes on to say y In n the very ery shadow of the church there are tenements where men and women in in m squalor and disease and worse wo hut but in the stained glass windows wI shut out the vi clew j The ca case o which young Mr Ir Hurlbut lakes to illustrate his pit is 18 graphic direct H ct ital vital and Impressive A woman Whose WhOle husbands large arge income is de derived derived rived from tenements similarly rotten to 0 those suggested SUI ted as the church churchs e troP II becomes interested In social It ti tk i incas and goes in for tor practical re rt S activities She Induces her hus husto to put new capes In his 1 gs but be he has the old ones JI tainted pd over oer and lavishes the money motley sa saved Oil nn i a woman In her heri i leme of reform the wife sends her re i and Idolized child to a Christ Christmas nv mas festival among the poor children Ire in building burns her boy 00 is with the t PI killed re are rp minor motives but that Is thA story Simple a big 1 to a poignant pie pic pier pI ir r it i is il the Ute second play pia by Ity this s lank toA youthful and it iv much but in it he be has smeared e 11 hI his vigorous ideas ith 1111 Ih 1 sticky Ie of the their thenh nh ni tn drama dram He has hal not got quite aaz r A from some ome touches and phrases easy ay hackneyed appeal But it Is a af I te f of f work ork which the public Is likely t 11 k practically II x sc I s sea IIa ea a appear appears as the star it T 1 he the first fr t night with a superfluous fI A nj 1 i nj r motion emotion she sh reminded us that t Ire t American play she has hasar ar r i to 10 i produce Miss is III n f ting stage instance In a aay ar aI aI at aI aRay ar aI af ae r I I I f t e I Vv t t i iRay Ray ay L Royce Fate late star of the York State Folks at t the Orpheum this Week I j long experience experienc of the stage I recall no noI I j player who made quite the sensation I she fhe did on her first night here She Shei i I TV was as preceded by a small London fame her best work had been done in Aus Augustin Daly brought her over and it was wa intimated ed that he planned to make her leading l ding actress of his famous stock company exploiting Ada Rehan as an Independent star She Sho appeared at theatre then I Palmers and the play was a forgotten failure called The Transgressor But her Mier neurotic enthusiasm literally elec j trifled the audience It was something I i I new People hurried h the next day and andI I the day after and for nine days to tell tellof tellof of the thrill of this night But this was fifteen years ago Mire was the advance guard of a type of acting that has come flourished hed and grown stale tal talI I Not but that Miss is still sUIl stilla a very fine line actress and ranks deserved ly among am ng the best of the day Where she has become Is acting between acts act When she first burst on onus onus onus us it of the thrill that she was wasso wasso so tO overcome after gripping scenes that she still sUit wept was distraught had to cling to her leading man for tor support It was the new now sensation afe now new no as an 3 the Florodora e ln In 1900 and Mary Ial Gardens Salome today But following close upon Miss Misa Mrs Irs Leslie Carter was similarly par har harrowed rowed and hysterical after alter tempestuous ous scenes scene nee and noting Mone every Camille and Lady Isabel Isbel carried en her emotional upheaval through the curtain call cal after ing In acts But years have rolled by I I I Margaret Anglin is with us While it i seems seem unnecessary ce ary to call any an single singh I actress s the best beat of a school it certainly I will not n t be denied that Miss Anglin is among the best b St portrayers of feminine emotion Yet she finds herself able to bow her thanks to an audience enthusiastic enthusiastic over oer her great scenes s enes as Camille or after the exhausting third act of Mrs Hrs Danes Defense with all the serenity se serenity serenity of a popular or a sweet i isinger i singer of placid mother songs On the first night of or The Writing on I the Wall all Miss had a fear k i it iJ t J G Anderson as Benjamin Bachelor in A Bachelors Honeymoon at atthe atthe atthe the Grand this week ful Cui time after the third act a t She Site had crowned a notably good performance with a period of tense tene passion which one could call without gush great act acting actIng acting ing She did not stop with that She heaved and trembled to toJ her load loading ing Ine man was bewildered In her e st u of gratitude She could express her emotion motion only by coming down to the footlights and spreading her arms wide as 8 though embracing the audience Once in this blank verse vers verse attitude she was so far out that her Mending leading man had to seize her back to save her from being hit on the thc head by b the descending curtain It was as though one were startled from reading Keats or startled in the midst of a song s ng by Toti To tI by being reminded that the tripe was burning on the kitchen stove Of course none of us wants to lose so excellent an actress as Miss Nether sole but if that curtain had struck and killed her that moment she lIbe would at least have died happy Andrew Hack and Chauncey Olcott fascinators fa with Irish brogue and melo melody melody melody dy of oC g ris in their plays and their audiences au s alike are here with their theft w wooing coins in n rhymes rhy lS and And Alid with witha a surprised pen I write that neither sings Kings nursery ditties nor h labys to a clinging dinging group of or children However they do warble their wooing rM ve you yO ever eer noticed a R colleen who in tn coy fond repressed pressed rapture to her bel melodiously eloquent lover How wistfully surprised as she by the sen sentimental sentimental sentimental declaration in the lower regis register register register ter of his hi voice ice how liow she he arose silently yet et palpably with him in his big higher i pitch of ardor how finally m n rapport the he t let him hug hus hu h hr hc r clear elar through his wishbone against his spine at a rhapsodic ie f t tX Nev X ballads were we introduced by both Ol tt and Inri mr Mack but I am such Buck a mu muSH musk SH sk I i on that I clapped my m hands handa like a childs when one oneill Set ill iii go for all It t was worth orth ill in it lt Y yuu uj l remember rt n me and the other othern I n Those endearing young charms both by Tom Moore I own up though that one caught the feminine hearts in inthe inthe the audience with a new lyric assertion that the tM persona tor of or his ills sweetheart Lyda Lda Powell Po was a rose In scented I beauty while the other turned the th trick by declaring Alma Belwin Delwin to be bethe bethe the girl giri of his dreams I dont know how Lyda and Alma felt about it they may have been thinking of o anything else than the tile u mimic wooing of 0 them themselves themselves themselves selves by t tho those e heroes of lC romantic mak but sure I am that al although although although though the two actors had taken on unromantic unromantic un unromantic romantic fat with years yea still the slim sUm young actresses es were envied by hun bun hundreds hundreds of girls in the audiences and bi by b matrons too Rivalry Well no Mack was waA at one edge of the town and Olcott nine miles away awa at the other t Mack Mad personates n 11 Blarney a son Eon of Erin returned to get an Erins daughter and for convincing blarney he gives her ber a Tom Moore ballad as I 1 have said and I wonder what Lyda Powell is thinking i when she leans to yam I ty 5 3 x h j A I i sr srI I 1 r 7 r y ki M e elc x lc r b r C Valeria Huntington Huntingdon the clever American Amer i n artiste at a Orpheum O heum this week w k his song sOnt gives her h r hands to In hi his iut ez ure lire and yields herself up to h his s n ru n brace I dont know anything an thing about Lyda whether r he she is a maid Ml v t I r 1 r widow wido but an anyway she ha be ben a wooed that wa way during anAus nn Aua ra i i t trip tri six to eight times Ume a week ant It iiI 1 l there can n be no illusion left to hf h r i the We mimicry As to Mack ack he may bear his real wife in mind Will Scanlan used in to o tell m mf me th that t along in the thousandth repel tin f Plain Molly Holly ony 0 O he always alway fixed t 11 1 some girl in the audience for inspiration it tion and sang out his soul to tJ I Whether or no Mack laek takes re rs t that expedient I dont Know tut t ut It t seemed to tome me on looking around alo nd at tare tue t e maidens near by Yes yea at matrons matron t v they were spellbound by blarney d as 1 a appeal personal each to herself aril ail di regard it as a plea to the UH mo mot it t sweetheart rt whom he WOOed and w I on n r i ithe ithe the play L i I f fA k kAs As A to Macks own thoughts r be that he is counting count up up the au if I 11 f sordid dollars Hardly for foi Ir IT e making his vaudeville debut deb t m in r p Tc 11 Condensed ed to the prescribed third thud f r c 2 cI is I UT ur at a fixed salary of twelve twel hun Jun Juna a week cek and so tO the receipts Jr 2 or r state him except as they indi ate ir apIng or a gaining vogue Do I t J 1 Jt ii t Cat it t he gets twelve hundred Not i p s tiEI Yet when wilen I asked at the ti ketT ket T v Jw how far front I L could IH 11 bur a asea sea Sfa at at a matinee the tha th man behind tits Uit lule h ile said The sixteenth row I tv io a i 11 he ticket pedlars and found that nearly the entire parquet had been j turned over to them for sale at a II dou doubled doubled I bled bIrd price As Mack is L the headliner of the show It Js easy to figure up his in j j I duil 1 draught at fully twelve hun red rd beyond the theatres the trees normal tees n ek s income neome Do you wonder that le leg gt g t dramatic star st actors gt go into t t zd rifle ille I i is mice j Olcott with i it I TI fl b t i stays staS a fortnight at a I It j t atre ue where w ter usually the play IP In J t nig d every Monday The audience I f fi 11 het t I am one in of or an afternoon Is t fourths fourth feminine ci lne and wholly en present t t play pay ta has be ben written for him by b lets Ins and I a Young Have lIae you ou seen it already If yes you know that Ragged lagged Robin is II an Irish minstrel 1 of ninety years year ago ligO He sleeps beside b an enchanted well othe the one Oll night In Inar a avear year vear ar when tilt the tf oso good lit little little little tle people at t a Erins con congregate m there to see the first lach tseh elor wh tie the wells wens morning water are mated Dialed for marriage Of course they ju R are Olcott and Alma Belwin to whom he sl sirga gs If remember re remember member me Will Vilt she Wont she How can she sill help It when he nine in ton ten of her ber the audience are on him I know knot Jt oi oiA A p or of Mr Ir Olcott and the fine ballade b llad that he hc sings In hr the play for 10 cents cent vendors cry cr in the lobby Libby I as as the people disperse and the thesa ha e a to women and girls is Chauncey Chaunce in the play is a vagabond but by birth an heir to wealth and when he goes back from r i tt 1 C 9 1 tea IIII t 1 l i j I Daniel Sully In The Matchmaker at the Colonial Colon lal theatre all at the Colonial all this week 1 foreign wandering to claim his hi heritage his aristocratic sweetheart has ta been wedded to his rival rhal and widowed Ido edIs Is la n abject aJ Ct poverty po She IE Is not only a in lowered socia grade but a for fuel av at a starvation pay Here he is said a woman be nd me in ht heartfelt ejaculation I 1 knew hed come And here he Is 12 with the money Y to toI I save not only to feed the lair fair Alma hi hithe the Irish famine of 1820 8 The fairies s of the enchanted well guide him hm by will o the wisp Ilip lights and echoing voices to the od sod cabin here hl Alma dwells so 80 miserably So reluctant nt are the women to quit the atmosphere of tenor romance and disperse to their homes of actuality that they stay tR In their seats eats while Chauncey at a dozen doyen encore lifts of the curtain sings the choruses of all an the plays songs s ngsI I A third tenor singer Julius Tulius Steger use his hll voice in the courtship of ot Maud Earl Karl the girl Irl of his choice in Ruth Comfort Mitchells play The Way Vay to the Heart This exceptional singer is a strikebreaker not a scab nor a unionist but simply a persuasive ballad 1st who focuses h Is hs s voice o e at his obdurate brother heartlessly obdurate of a thousand factory hands hand Steger Is that mans partner and foreman They disagree as to raising or lowering l Sy 3 A I i I I i j I ir a 4 i x p k p e ec I c r J Y 4 a t I I t 4 I I 1 Ralp Stuart Stu rt woo Who w o win il join the Mack tock stock this Ck i wages The workmen come in a mob to demand more pay and less work for forIt It the boss Is In an ugly mood to flout his people but Steger sings at him There Is no heart however sad That Thai faith restore Why should w we not make life Ure more glad With th kindness evermore That Jolt the capitalist at all aU Nor Is the tenor champion of labor daunted With a fresh spread of larynx strain of vocal 0 1 chords and high hig reach of yawp he sings to his brother while the mob makes a noise outside this second sec second second ond stanza I These Thes words of love low from heaven above Within your heart enshrine Remember that to err is human To forgive divine diviDe Tough metre dont you think when you try to scan it And does docs its logic appeal to you much But no congenial audience can withstand Stagers top notes and why should his bis brother in inthe Inthe inthe the play hold out against them He does Joes not He yields to the fervid high hight t of o that metrically and logically of offensive offensive stanza as blown out with way up melodic vim the threats of strike and lockout are silenced and the lovers lov lovers 10 ers have hav their own sweet wa waif way if r Hilda Spon Spen the English type of or big j smooth 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