Show BANDMANN IN LONDON how his dr jekyll and mr hyde was treated alic arrovo people havo occa ion to remember hirough not with any love at all tins olavee his dr jek alt and mr hyde in london and how it was received may be judged frodi the following contained in u prominent london journal the last sentence ii the criticism refers to an injunction uit against by the author of the work from which the play lias been dramatized alie outcome of which was nat bandmann was compelled to withdraw hi play from the the dream of a dyspeptic after a supper of underdone pork chops was iier r so idiotically fantastic as herr daniel E Band minns version of br ind mr hyde produced here til monday evening after a succession ii checkmates check mates eniy one of which would have dis heartened a less masterful actor mr dohert louis Steven sons well strange case does not end itself to dramatic treatment and in tu present version there is ailtie to is an entire absence ji humor while alie dialogue in alie more passages is frequently vulgar and generally stilted alie departures from the original story arc blemishes rather than improvements and the is a very longway off of being orthodox mr H yde the second self and die predominating evil half of dr jek alls nature is allowed as an nate satan to leap like a monkey and squeak like a rat and to murler at will and finish off as i suicide and yet the tediously di doctor is given a silly which represents him in a halo of purity to eternal bliss the con itron of alie piny is extremely de fe clivy and the introduction of the auert voiced chorister boys is an i 1 lancial device which tends dangerously toward towards s the ludicrous thiry t in a biome of mourning ahti lra hyc lily though ameci CHII t iii i leave presed ibid exea indis in llila alie L its it s 1 if we may from alie oin remarks of some of it i on monday evening is not ly ti endorse he i and is alit alfoot immaculate jekyll ilia ly ive lyde is outrageously grotesque and is aa edifying as a scarecrow rather than alie changey 0 v aich lucli had been reported are stage tricks of no striking originality or merit and on monday night were not particularly effective mias louise beaudet as the introduced heroine aaa very ordinary transatlantic actress given io artificiality and to cur vili neur without exhibiting Hogart hs line of beauty and presenting in a marked degree alie worst faults of herr own elock method herr bandmann at alie cali elusion was drawn into making a speech in which he deprecated washing his dirty linen in public protested that mr stevenson was his friend and threw liim self on alie london press as an actor who biad won many friends since he appeared a score of years ago as narcisse and in the interval had played in every province of this mighty empire |