| Show i or ore ory orty l d t ty a i itt e y e tt d ta I n ii iiI 1 I I 1 i I r f i 1 J 1 THIS WEEK AT THE THEATRES il Tuesday y 4 n II itu ioe uda l v and Wednesday Ve f 5 and Fri l ri II In Fifty Kift Miles il s from Boston c M MAll All week Meek beginning 4 ii matinee daily dotty vaudeville f 4 I oX I All week beginning t 4 t i etu matinees s Wednesday and nd f Sa S Prince Prin e Karl Karli f 4 t i fl HA SI week beginning b to 4 es ee Wednesday and Sat 4 Lieutenant and the 4 4 nr is y c The 4 i 1 ahoy h o oU n f 4 M U ni All week weak matinees lally dally and illustrated songs 4 IKS s H N t t M M 4 M M BY FRANKLIN FYLES Nr York Jan 15 The name of the play new this week to New York in n the course ourse of ordinary theatrical bus busies business ies iness A Bad Mans Wife promise c any an disclosure of dramatic act actor aztor or literature so 80 I looked around for things intelligently readable rea able and I 1 saw that pantomimic acting was at the fore forein li in diverse entertainments extravaganza ganza gan vaudeville and grand opera The 4 high forms of music are above my reach and I wont wont fool with La Lahair Lahair f hair which I guessed a n piece r I I Moulin Rouge House and the Abbaye have been visible awhile in New Nev Yo York Yok k plays Now that their surprises surprise haVe hae h e become I familiar these shows jolly their Jaded spectators anew by showing things brought directly from those or ginal places of notorious deviltry Whoever hoever i visited tho the abbey within a year rear may 1 I have seen een a thin pale young oung man dart away from his glass of absinthe at a alone alone I lone table jostle those who stood in his way to the center of the floor and there stand still sUlI a moment glaring I around him like a maniac manla Seemingly incited by the lively music rouble of the or orchestra orchestra chestra hestra he suddenly danced dance furiously without any method taking no noo regu regulated regulated regulated steps merely jigging with all his might and tremendous rapidity Again he came to a dazed standstill again went Into the frantic dance repeating the brief spells spoils of and agitation agitation agitation tion durine during five minutes or so That was his paid specialty and he Is now giving it in the abbey scene sc ne of tho the play in New York The oddity imported from rom the red mill Is a dance by a young oung man and anda a girl both as ghastly wh te as that other one In both bout cases the tho evident mention Intention is to suggest drugged drunk drunkards drunkards drunkards ards in an abnormal state sUite of intoxication tion He lie looks sodden Odden and she sul len as they come into the tho dancing throng Space is given Riven to their waltz which becomes at once an exhibition of hypnotic h control of the girl by bv the theman theman man m n He handles h her he v roughly flinging her lithe figure fi ure about pulling down her ht r i mass mast of jet Jt hair around her chalk hall fa face e f fand and seeming to frighten and disgust i hoer her h r yet whenever she Bhe starts to tl run runaway runaway runaway away he gases gaRs with evil eyes es into her scared II ones as you ou have seen cen Sv I entrance Trilby in the th play pin and slur she goes back bock to his arms to be maltreatEd again for his brutish pleasure is meant mt ant to illustrate the strange strang power held over mer many Parisian P cocottes by I their dependent yet singularly dominant lovers Although repulsive this pan pantomimic pantomimic waltz Is fascinating vv with Ith Its psychology There is a third remarkable dance U tr tell about The place on v view is in New Nei York and not a slumming resort but that one of the tilt Broadway iv restaurants where whore rifts rift pas pa higher prices nr food ad all a I drink than is charged at any other oth r in the th whole town The time Is midnight on New Nf Years eve The hubbub of f the th crow erow comes In from frim ire fie street along with the blowing of tin horns auto honks and ang steam sl nl whistles s and the more morp di ditan tarn tan ringing of church bells for th people are watching th the old year ou out and the now new year In The spacious resort re resort resort sort Is seen to be bt crowded to excess execs by men and women in do the finest clothe clotha and costliest jewelry as It is annually on tills this night of especial revelry Tho ThoM c who occupy the tables have had to en engage engage engage gage them weeks beforehand for din dinner dinner dinner ner earlier In the evening to secure thorn them for supper late latee and after 10 11 no order for any other beverage than champagne is accepted The musicians are playing with all z I r s a WILLARD MACK MACKAs As Prince Karl at the Colonial n 00 furniture to sit on but The Flesh ach I found out to mean moan the corporeal cor b beauty auty of an Italian wife with witha a fral Jt u husband and a passionate No o prima donna singer had hada hadn been n a asked ked to take a silent role of course but a grand opera outfit always includes a premier and so IQ soft it ft was an Odette Valery Va ry who made the graphic motions to show how a coquet b wife Ife maddened mad ened two by b her er fleshly witcheries Th The husband came came upon tine the Wife J fc re with the tov lover r she preferred to i nm hm him and was minded to do some soma mur derng ing but th the woo won lured him hint away operated her h r wiles and so Wm him that h he kissed Instead of killing I her h tr r whereupon she contemptuously de defied derided fied him and h he be In chagrin ln slaughtered d himself Odette th the danseuse help malting flaking the wife old enough to behave 1 yet ct she rendered the th flesh hall lw graceful and conducive to toJ t t tt t th J the he e line fine art of r p expression j La a hair thair t was even betwixt faa Cava Cavana erria na and 1 so soone that at one evening held bald three tragedies or of men mens s murders for misbehaving women W men but the tile operatic bread of this melodramatic sandwich had been but ered so ao often otter that modish people swat loved OWed it without tasting They smacked i their 11 lips laps though at the slice of I flesh that was peppered and mus taMed toted fresh fre n and hot Between r dancing is a new factor In Inh aganza Two of ot the restaurants tha h Am ricans go to see in Paris the their vim the tune that accompanies S the assertion Theres a hot time in theold the theold theold old town tonight and the people are an standing up to sing gleefully of the high convivial temperature tt At th the center is a very verj VH ji rit actress a no nor f 1 l comedienne a star v ho leaIsa a big company n s s that matte mak rounds of the bit bett t r theaters She fhe I n r ti 1 X ar r ar 3 p pf pANITA f ANITA LAURENCE ADELAIDE JEANETTE KIMBALL The Salt Lake girl who Is at the Orpheum this week springs on her chair and thence to the table where f she gathers her long skirts around her ankles so as not to sweep ep off the glasses and dishes and ami lances among them without breaking anything except the law of decorum Tnie Tn her dince has few steps It con conIs on Is ts rah I n of swaying whirling ani an i jd to i i l i sing lEing but It Is dexterous as us 1 rr ROSE MELVILLE As Sis Hopkins at the Salt Lake theatre well wen as s audacious and the crowd cheers What is the play Why it Is no play at all but a real occur occurrence occurrence rence renee on last New Years Ye rs eve eve And AntI wo O was the actress I wont vont write wite it I for although her special performance was in a public place before a crowd of spectators she acting professionally Two women who may be named for doing dignified things un this week are arc Mrs Elisa Elisabeth U beth Robins for her political drama Votes for Women and Katrina Trask for her religious drama of The Tl e Small Town of or Bethlehem It wits was IS Elizabeth Robins who vho with Janet Achurch church was first to act fib Ibsen Iben en in Lon London London London don and she brought Hedda Gabler Gabier to New rew York but went right ight back with It after one un unappreciated unappreciated appreciated performance That was wasten wasten I Iten ten years ago and Ibsen meant nothing here She and anti her husband Joseph I Pennell were intimates of Whistler i ind their biography of the dead artist arth artist t i is the subject of a lawsuit brought by byon byan i on an 1 n heir to forbid the use u of his letters Mrs Pennell Is an ardent suffragette and wrote Votes Vow for Women t propagate in a play pia the doctrine of or lift het h tt equality at the polls It lt wasn t i acted but read in a n New York theatre theatT by Olgs Olga to an audience of or I suffragettes suffragette su and a few managers I II I will buy your our drama outright or PlY pay you OU a royalty Charles Chary Frohman II tai iral i ta l said to her in London but for forone fori i one of its four acts only to put into i i a rw hEr play pia I M My Iy work has a political purpose ht he h r plied piled and must be acted all or orT orn T 1 n err T i iT T Th t portion that Frohman liked Is Isa a riveting rt eting of suffragettes in Trafalgar ir London The Th heroine has suN suNI su I L f fr r rr 1 I shame from rom mm her love loc of or a man In and she has bas developed into a av v against a all aU the tho aggression 31 f men against women She Is an elo eloI I nt advocate adoca tl of the universal right i o vote ot in the thc mass of fates faces cs cst t the tb f he she espies that of th the tan nan who ho 13 lej cr r astray The sight of him MII after many yr years rouses ranges her to story atory that convinces him of on onman one mans man s cruelty to one girl That leads lea s sI t I to their reunion In a happy marriage I IBy By chance exactly the same Iame motive is m mused used In Salvation Nell but Mrs rs Fiske personates a Salvation Army Arm lass las instead of or a suffragette A congenial audience applauded the reading of Votes for Women but aside from It ita j jeph piO ode ir k Tr square It contains I no value nIue for the stage t Christ Is rot tin 1 n acted arted character in Th Tb L L tie tle V n f Bethlehem nt t ten by Spencer wife the Ka Katrina Katrina trina Trask of poetry antI acted during dur during durIng ing a fortnight tomake money for set sev several oral eral charities after Ben Greet had hall been paid for the services of himself and his company It was Greet you ou know who presented the old morality play of Everyman In which the sup supposed supposed supposed posed voice of God was audible and his hl presence was indicated by tin un illumination tion Mrs Irs Tracks composition comP rever reverently reverently reverently introduced the immediate influence Influence ence cne of Christ but not allegorically in ina Ina ina a quiet sublunary story of Faustina a n nRoman Roman beauty In a prologue Joseph arrives at Bethlehem with Mary who Is HI Ill unto childbirth and he might get lodging for her at an inn if the arro arrogant arrogant arrogant gant girl Faustina would but give gle up one of oC her many rooms So Mary tary has hasto hasto hasto to be taken to a stable table The rhe birth of the Christ child in a manger and the worship of him by b the wise men from the east are given with few words mainly quoted from the New Testa Testament Testament Testament ment and illustrated with copies of i paintings The play takes up the romance of Faustinas love of a young Greek poet whose wooing she rejects to wed a wealthy man mair chosen by her parents The poet goes disconsolately to some distant land and the beauty becomes a leper to be driven into the wilderness an outcast This Is Is written floridly poetically and in the theatric manner of the dramas of early carb Christi Christl Christianity Christianity anity in Rome nome and Greece that Wilson I Barrett used to delight t in sonorously It recalls too that play of leprosy that Henr Henry Irvings son Sn t Lawrence wrote for Ellen Terry in which a beautiful wo wu woman weman man was adored by a n painter who with an artists eyes ees admired her espe especially especially for the white translucence of her herskin herskin herskin skin not suspecting it was the pallor of the dreadful disease that soon make her hideous Faustina has been fn fu the oblivion of the unclean many years when Carlston learns of her t plight and sets out to find ht het He wOUld marry her and share her doom but she will not accept the th sacrifice and eludes him by night flight At length the tho time of Christs miracles comes and she is healed by him by the same Christ whose birth In a stable table was due dUI to her exclusion of Mary from an inn The Small SmaIl Town of Bethlehem is likely to hold held a place In the Greet re repertory repertory but hardly can gain general popularity Jefferson De Do Angelis In The Rehear si It nur t that tha make you ou go into a theatre even cn a vaudeville house ex f 11 ii it t in a r rv v plY pay It i mein ic in two ways xe 9 i in 4 t v 3 n r a r rc c ss i t I J tT 2 C I g 4 i I I h I i j Scene from George Ceorge M Cohon rural musical play ploy Fifty Boston Boton at the Salt Lake Loke theatre theotre It did me for The Rehearsal J Ja a play at all not so 50 much as a musical i but only a few from the tho I many things he has done In to shows Im not angry because Jeff JeC t fooled Cooled me as to the nature of his fool foolery foolery foolery ery for It was very ery funnily foolish I and though stale in longer shows It is fresh h In fn vaudeville He gives the first i II five of its limited twenty minutes to Co 0 I Ith the th butler builer anti ana the buttons of a house househ hou i ihl h hl ii i i t to pr a song rong and dance f fur forr furan r ran an amateur entertainment That leaves lenI I Ia a quarter of an hour for Jeff as a Pro Professor I fessor to hold a rehearsal a tuneful nimble young Genevieve Fenley as a ladys maid I The selections are a song and dance in the team style of Delehanty and a n spell of grand opera with her singing an aria and him smashing a violin to bits in Sousa throes of leadership and finally a bur burlesque burlesque burlesque lesque melodrama with the sawmill scene of Blue Jeans for a climax The hero was inched along till thE buzz saws teeth caught in his hair and i I tore off his wig before the heroine saved him by a stroke of an axe that not only cut the rope but chopped deep into his abdominal rotundity Welt I anyway I found it unusual to see Jef Jet Jefferson Jefferson t ferson De Angelis out of some real or fake monarch in a nondescript cos costume costume 05 tume lume and in Lew L w Dockstader sort of big misfit evening suit and as to that vaudeville audience Ir it its Initiatory view of him it was Ii is i ecstasy over oer his caper from his standing on one foot with Ith the other at atthe atthe the start to his feat of strength with stuffed muscles at the finish I What about A Bad Mans Wife mentioned in my first sentence as the weeks single play produced pro uce 1 In I the or 0 7 I course of theatrical business It Itis III Itis is I so to priced that four of or Its grade may maybe maybe I Ibe be seen teen in Harlem for the cost of or oil oft orf play in Broadway It Is an earnest en endeavor end endeavor I deavor d by a Thomas Henry to make a II worthy worth variant in gun drama and its j i acme of excitement Is in a i room of squalor The bad mans w wife j i jIs is sewing by a lamp Gas is a cheap cheaper er than kerosene kerolene In New York put but ut she pitifully pick up a awick awick I Iwick wick in a gas jet as she can enn in a dim dimming dimming ming lamp With a foot she rocks the cradle of her sick baby bab which will die dit if not doctored and she has no money There are hundreds of hospitals dispensaries dis dispensaries I and other gratis charities la In laNew New York where she might mh ht get help h lp for her little one for the asking but the I playwright know vr it It She must at turn In the work she is at before 10 l I or she cant get the pay |
