Show Young Mrs Winthrop I On Monday evening the Madison I Square Theatre Company appear at the Walker Opera House in Young II Mrs Winthrop one of the most successful of modern dramas We make a closing extract Mr Bronson Howards Young Mrs Winthrop obtained its initial performance at the Baldwin Theatre The-atre last Monday night The merits of that play are so far in excess of its faults that Its representation was not merely satisfying but left the impression that in writing it the author had barely missed producing a great play He deals throughout with none but pure motives his pathos is true His emotions are genuine and worthy He tells a simple natural everyday story so effectively that the characters which move in it become absorbingly interesting in-teresting His language is scholarly without the slightest affection beautifully concise and occasionally witty An uninterrupted harmony of events leads up to the climax A studious evasion of strained situations situa-tions and a clever manipulation of trifling details composes a most af fecting picture of domestic life and enlists the warmest sympathies of the audience The plot is revealed almost at the opening and yet the interest is not merely well sustained as the play progresses but grows stronger and stronger until the lat and most touching scene of all fitly closes a most beautiful chapter of human emotions The management may well feel proud of its appreciation The audience that witnsssed its first production in this city was of a most critical character yet was so thoroughly in sympathy with the action that any demonstration save tears seemed out of place Still the shading is so accurate that the situations never become painfully pathetic the lights of comedy are so deftly managed and so opportune that one cannot wish for the elimination elimin-ation of a single line or desire the alteration of any scene It is the foremost American society play and is far preferable to the usual French production both in point of tendency and treatment The acting act-ing and mike en scene are very satisfactory satis-factory In plays like Young Mrs Winthrop it is scarcely required that the actor infuse his part with anything like originality If the idea of the author be but fully realized the performance must prove sympathetic Yet it is but justice to say that it may be doubted if even Mr Howard himself could have suggested apything that would have added materially to the enjoyment enjoy-ment of the performance as presented pre-sented by the Madison Square Troupe Wasp Feb 17 |