Show V AT THE GRAND I A Fine Performance Last Night bLast b-Last evening saw a better attendance atten-dance at the Grand opera house than has gathered together there any night since the advent of the new company The bill was a double onea combination combina-tion of rollicking farce with serious comedy The title of the former Job sons > isht Key is suggestive the champagne suppers welsh rabbits and wont go home till morning habits indulged in by a gay Lothario who gets himself into endless difficulties by his reprehensible way The part of j Jobson the possessor of the night key was amusingly portrayed by George R Edeson who drew upon the condition I con-dition of helpless but benevolent intoxication intox-ication to a ludicrous extent calling forth roars laughter from his audience audi-ence Mrs Amanda Smith a characterization charac-terization of the Mrs Caudle kind was consistently carried out by Annie Ohester whilst William H Looker as the longsuffering recipient of curtain lectures and Edith Pollock as Eliza Jane added to the mirth of the piece Jobsons Night Key was followed by J Palgrade Simpsons extremely pathetic drama of Broken Ties The story of the play is a simple but not uncommon one and deals with the history his-tory of a woman whose passion for I the footlights leads her to forsake home husband and child After many sears and at the zenith of her fame she is brought in contact with her forsaken for-saken boy who has attained manhood in the belief that death and not a cruel desertion has deprived him of a mothers love In La Silvia n prima donna of the operatic stage the deserted de-serted father recognizes his wife and discloses the truth to his son who immediately flies to the scene of his mothers triumphs The story ends in the conventional way of a reunion of the parents by a mutual affection for their only child but it is told in such sweet and pathetic words as bring tears to the eyes of the most stoical The part of the husband and that of a celebrated painter Lionel Warner byname by-name was admirably interpreted by Mr Ingersoll who had surrounded himself with an air of mournful dignity dig-nity and studious reserve in keeping with the character His lines were delivered de-livered accurately and with charming intonation If we have one fault to find with Mr Ingersolls portrayal i is that he carried his innate repose of manner to its utmost limits imbuing one with the idea that he lacked animation ani-mation This manner Is somewhat repelling re-pelling to his audience and does not allow him to call forth all the alow cal al sympathy sym-pathy which is due to him in the part of the wronged husband Mr Inger sol could easily improve on this characteristic char-acteristic which was not passed by unnoticed In his portrayal of Elliot Gray as well as Lionel Warner Miss Fanny McIntyre did some very fine work in her impersonation of the erring er-ring wife but was not altogether beyond be-yond criticism In the first act she seemed to promse what she did not or could not fulfill in the second In the first scene she was artistic the second stagey the third the best of all Taken altogether her portrayal neither lacked fire nor spirit In fact it possessed these qualities in a marked degree but real passionate intensity In-tensity although not altogether absent was yet not easily felt Hugh Ward was applauded more than once as Herbert Warren a part which becomes him well and which he interprets inter-prets with a gentle earnestness that is very attractive Edith Pollock made a pretty picture as Lucy Richmond William Tooker an amusing one as her brother The scenery was in accord also the music which was conducted in Willard Weihes most masterly style Jobsons Night Key and Broken Bro-ken Ties runs till the end of the week te V |