Show i M Maud Adams ams In Her New Role Rol i ISS Maude Adams last I I Monday night at the 1 i mISS Knickerbocker theatre b be began ran an her fourth season a J in tn New York as a star starIn starIn c In the three years y ars she has been before the pub public public I lic lie In a stellar capacity she has appear J ed d In n two Important I productions the first The Little Minister and the second I E Romeo and Juliet Jullet making a great ireat sue suc success I i cess c ce In each This time Ume her manager C Charles Chares puts her forward In tn another Important t production She ap b v ared as lis the te hero of Edmond Rostand s s drama LAiglon LAIgon V which haa ha bt n a tremendous triumph in France Prance The role she e plays play yB is te that ot of the Duke ile th J t the eon on ot of Napoleon Bona Bonaparte i parte who was called the Eaglet as his 1 before rore was as willed called the Eagle There 1 1 It Is opportunity for fine tine comedy deep sen sentiment seni i nt pathos palho and heroic courage I IH lit the part and there seems seem now no rca rea rean I It 4 n 5 t n r why Miss Adams should hould not be sue suc I z with it I The of the tle play begins begin b gin In Marie Mariej j I Louises s salon alin where is la revealed a bevy ci of lr pretty rett women who give themselves up to chatter and matches of mu m I Ik SuI In the th nit Hir and while r Metternich is keeping a ill walh wat h upon upun all that is going forward li rM with the young OUn N Napoleon II H th the Duke find their way wa to his side i and urge urE him to redeem deem France One of these the Counters Counte Camarata who is I of 9 blood appears In the guise of a h modiste This his woman comes especially fro frol fm i Paris Pari to persuade the duke to at attempt 5 tempt a coup and return to the faithful Partisans of his father Reichstadt hesi hiel hesitates 5 tates tales he is i not sure ur of himself he will i j not promise This act the first is 1 brought broughto S to a co o e by a sudden appearance r rJ ot o the 4 dancer c Fanny ia ya who g mounts s a ta fi J I lj tile ble ana 2 declaim i the t latest bulletin e of I f the Grande Grands Armee e which I t she e h has learn learned r I ed d j by heart for love Jov of ot the duke This wakes wake dt from his reveries and ii I he holds h forth the astonished I court ourt showing that he knows a good 4 deal more of ot the history hh of his father the Emperor Napoleon than it was W as intended t ho lie should J I Next we wo see the duke dike in his study at ati i about to take his lesson in inthe InI I I i the art at off war He iJ that the tte wooden wO d U soldiers which usually fig figured figured Iii I tired as Austrian marionettes have I painted by some friendly hand in semb l I lance ance cf f the Grande Armee fn Metternich t i enters and a a stormy dialogue ensues Upon his hili departure one of the servants I r supposed to be a spy in the service of Austria Au discovers himself to t the Duke I a all as u a former grenadier of Na Napoleons 1 guard who has introduced him rs Hf edt If into Inlo th the court of S for forthe I the he purpose p r e of the young Napo L I h he will wiil o 0 but hut not net until he shall have havo I asked his hili grandfathers leave This hail lail hailI of I I lag Ing he w will l escape cape V Then Ihen conies comes an Interview between I I and the Emperor Francis Franls in 1 which the former pleads with charming grace to bo allowed to go to Prance France The Theold I 1 old emperor Is about to accede when i t as U 2 usual intervenes and puts putI t a stop to any n such plan Falling Failing by all I J the methods LJ had tried to t dissuade li the theBon tt I son Bon of ot from his desire to re return rei return i I turn to the land of his father Metternich takes another course and tries moral suit sua pion ion He tie leads d the young duke a looking r glass and there bidding him or look o ot Ht at t himself him for his blue blueeyes j eyes and fair hair his unmistakable I l Hapsburg features and tells teUs him he is not nOI oi lit to succeed to the th throne e of his i father After falling to win the emperors f consent con ent to his return to France the duke 4 p determines to accede to the tho requests of Iq i the and go 10 anyhow f 1 The rhe escape is made during a night fete given hen by Metternich The duke hiss has r promised to meet his ida friends upon the thet i t battlefield of ot Wagram Wa ram In order to fa facilitate fai his escape he changes cloaks i with the tM Countess Camarata who of jt 3 many manXi I l 11 in love Jove with him and while she shet he heft ft t mingles with the throng throne of ot merrymakers 4 Reichstadt makes makei mak hiss way out of the ti i park pak of I He goes ge direct to the field of i It is 18 night However thc the court coert has been Jf l warned of ot the Ule dukes escape and aid that of ml 01 if hl hi companion They are pursued by the f soldiery of ot Metternich and i rather than tI be taken alive stabs stubs himself and HOO nd dies in the arms of his prince amidst the walls of ot spirits supposed to be b those i of the slain in battle Z The Th final act of ot the play presents the deathbed of the duke He expires e pires sur surrounded surrounded rounded by b his friends and family of the theAu Austrian Au branch his hand nand upon the tho all sil T 1 4 f 4 of 1 I I Jt t s sI I F 7 ctt 1 ii 4 1 I 4 e es s e i C 4 1 i 1 it 1 1 1 re 4 S al tei 4 1 s 1 j is 4 1 ds I 4 4 4 1 I h 4 Jv t T 4 4 Miss Carrie Bridewell contralto well weI known in musical masical circles 4 both bath in Europe and in America She Slie is now with Graus Metropolitan tan Grand rand Opera Company Y Her sister I iss Kate 4 derSon deron lives in this city L A A A A A A A A A A A L A A yer r cradle which had been be en presented to him by the City of Paris when he lie wa was I hailed as ICing King of Rome while General Hartmann read reads the bulletin of the Grande Armee by way of prayer for the dying I When Then he Is dead Metternich says with without without out a show of O feeling r Bury B him in the uniform of ah an nf Austrian la colonel And l g I j that is the end of the poor pathetic Apathetic little i I hero the Eaglet There is one commendable co dable form of An Anglophobia Anglophobia I which te Is growing in this countr country coun try tr That is the loyalty lo we show to those I who have grown gray in entertaining us Across the pond they carry it to excess I I l t and listen lieten to woozy singers and tottering actors because they pleased their grandfathers Here in this country j we seem seeni to strike about the right limit limitI I and with all the crop of prosperous U new nAI h I st stars r s out yearly I from the Froh Frohman Frohman I man and Liebler Li factories there is h none i iwho I who has so OO large a following as veteran j I Joseph Jefferson There are matinee idols tibia i br the tit matinee mainee girls girl and dAshing queens Iu en I II I of or comic opera for the Johnnies Johnniee but these blossom for a short time only onh The ad admiration adI I I which Jefferson inspires though is personal and seems to grow crow stronger j jas as the years Dress press upon him There is isa isa isa 1 a warm personal friendship too which I Ihas has cr crept pt across the footlights s and sur surrounded surrounded rounded n the genial af Joe Audit Anutt is ts not t only f floyal loyal to Jefferson n but to Rip Van Win Winkle In Inkle kle kb as well He has played plaY d other parts and all alt with that exquisite refinement which endears end rs him to the critical but stilt still the popular heart heert is set on Rip and he ho can go on playing paying it until his day is tH over Americans are very broad and gen generous genI I erous rous e in their art sympathies and they do not reserve their favoritism for their own people pe alone Many of the things we borrow b from England in a snobbish spirit might well wen be left l ft there re But Thit we Wl hae have made no mis mistake take bake in importing Imparting into our own relations rel with the stage the British h sympathy forr to matured and ripened personality I IThe The third Shakespearean revival that New York has had this season was that of A Midsummer Nights Dream pre ore presented presented seated at the Grand opera house last week by Louis James and Kathryn Kid Kidder Kidder Kidder der and their company compan The audiences were large and demonstrative ve Managers and Kemper have hae devoted much attention to the mounting and other accessories providing a wealth of scenery for the most part very well pRinted from the brush of Alexander Corbett The wood setting Etting I a pro profusion profusion profusion fusion of electrical effects efT ts and the scenes seen showing Theseus Thos us palace were extremely pretty The costumes S were likewise at attractive attractive In these respects the production Lion tion far excels excel that of the average Shakespearean Shak pearean road company With this commendation disposed of there is little else to be said Id in favor of the performance The Tho interpretation as a whole was as unsatisfactory the delightful richly humorous fantasy being played in ina Ina ina a key of ot broad farce that was effective only in bringing laughs from the gallery Mr r James was the chief offender In this I regard His Bottom was an opera characterization suggesting strongly the I work of De Wolf Yol Hopper He was not an uncouth clod but an intelligent man giving givIng I ing lug a burlesque and enjoying it 11 Thus Thug the quaint wit of this character that Shakespeare drew with such ruch masterly ma skill was as lost and its pathetic side aide al ai always ways was evident when the part Is well play pla played ed eu did not appear annear aI r In his hi reading Mr James was careless and he took frequent liberties in Ia order to provoke laughter Ar Artistically Artistically Artistically his performance did not com corn compare compare pare with that of Edmund D Lyons Ly ns at Madison Square Garden three ago Tho The other Athenian handi handicraftsmen handicraftsmen handicraftsmen craftsmen were played by Thomas Coffin Coflin Cooke as Quince Francis Chambers as Snug Putnam Bond Band as Flute D A A Patterson as Snout and George McCulla as Starveling Their work was on the same lines linea as Mr Ir James though they had not such free reo rein as he had It is not surprising therefore that the de do delightful delightful and Thisbe scene de do degenerated degenerated generated into horse play Miss 1 KIdder has been seen to better advantage than as Helena Handsome and stately she looked but beyond this she did not realize the part Her acting was cold d and unsympathetic h lacking I in vivacity and a dd magnetism m while her read readIng reading Ing was monotonous The Th Puck of Ethel Browning was a I charming portrayal that caught well the sr spirit Irit of the mischievous elf All Ail that marred her work was an occasional o tendency 3 to gurgle while speaking that I made her enunciation indistinct The Oberon of Ashley Ashl y Miller was a well ren rendered rendered dered effort both in point of elocution and of acting Norman Hackett was an ex excellent excellent Lysander Ly easy graceful and ef er effective effective Jane J Oaker r was an equally e good f f ge Hermia her work showing g intelligence and skill kill These Th four players llla ers may 1083 be credited with the th best performances In view of certain available facts fact it would appear that both Charles Charlo and Dan Daniel DanIel Danid iel id Frohman are inclined to take a too dismal view of conditions in inthe inthe inthe the United States The other day 3 Daniel Froman said to a i reporter My Iy brother Charles and I have hae spent thousands of dollars on American dram dramatists dramatists t within the last f only to it lg tf ira find that they cannot t write good plays No one on has bas been b n more willing than Charles Frohman or myself my to foster na native nathe native tive the tal nt In ha the matter of play making but it simply will not foster This seems a very verv extraordinary state statement statement ment meat however true it may be In certain particulars Among the greatest success successes es oh Charles and Daniel Frohman ever en enjoyed enjoyed joyed have haye been b en through the medium of such American a plays as Shenandoah s dC The Ch Wife The Th Charity h Ball Bail The I Girl I Left Behind Me and Secret Ser Service Service Service vice while eau Brummel The Heart of Maryland uAn An American merican Citi Citizen CitIzen zen zeus Arizona Barbara Fritchie Fritchle In Missouri l U Zaza and a score of other similar plays made m de in this country are arc certainly not to be forgotten for otten It is scarcely to he be expected that our play makers would produce so RO many dramas as IS the combined t of England In land France and amI Germany but a fair compari comparison com pari son with England at least would not prove prOe unfavorable The English plays mentioned in the Empire list lI t were wen in the main of ephemeral and nd trifling interest and while we recognize Pinero as a master the dramas uttered by Grundy Grund Jones Shaw Shari Carton and Esmond have hac not been of such quality as to cause any feeling of despair d Dalr in the bosom of the American dramatist drama STAGE NOTES Mr David Bispham baritone of the Maurice Grau Opera company arrived from England last Wednesday Mr Bis Bispham Bispham pham will immediately start upon a re recital recital recital cital tour before joining Mr Graus Grans fore forc forces cs es in San Francisco Fran isco Now Nov No 12 Mme Melba was unable to sing at the tho performance at the Drury Lane theatre London on Oct 16 in itt aid of the Gal Galveston westOn veston sufferers Because of an attack of influenza and bronchitis her bor h physician had forbidden her to appear on oit that oc oe occasion casion S She has written C a letter le of regret W Je it itC to Sir Henry Irving who 0 managed the performance p She Sie a contribution contributIon tion A t tn t Miss n 1 Blanche Walsh will be at the Broadway theatre in New Ne York for some seine sometime sometime time to come ome She is at present playing in tn Marcelle will shortly revive More Than Queen Quee John Philip Sousa S is lost last week in i the Pennsylvania supreme court the suit brought by b Mrs Ada P Blakely whose late husband owned and managed Sousas band The court decided derided that Mr Sousa must pay of his royalties to the Blakely estate Enrico Italian pianist will make a tour of ot this country beginning in Jan January uary Julia Arthur has denied the recent pub published published reports r toot that she contemplates an I early earl return to the Ih stage to appear r as Hamlet She intends int to spend the th win winter winter ter in the southwest eSt and in Mexico ac an q j 7 4 A 1 5 I i 4 1 S Si I i 4 4 t 5 S h S 5 S1 4 4 4 j S S iJ t S t tJ 4 S I 4 S 1 th S Si J I IS rj S i 5 j ji i I I I 4 5 1 I 4 1 4 9 1 4 t p 1 j 4 j S 4 4 1 5 4 S 55 1 I 4 4 f ft 1 4 5 4 4 4 t 4 j 1 4 a 4 I 4 4 4 jJ 4 I J I 4 S j I 4 4 1 4 S 4 4 5 j S 4 4 4 ia a 4 4 s p S 4 S 4 4 I 5 S 4 Ca 4 xi 4 4 4 4 4 rAbIEs dAMES NEILL 4 t S t 4 companying her husband B P Cheney Chene who will tour thither to inspect t the rail rall railways railways ways w in which he is interested Julia Marlowe has selected a it quatrain by James Whitcomb Riley to be painted upon the woodland scene curtain curlain of the tl Illinois theatre Chicago which she opens this week eek Mark Twain and Sydney Rosenfeld are to collaborate In writing a play the plot of or which was ns mapped out by b them when they the met this summer in Vienna Vionne Mr Twains success suc ess with Wil Wilson Wilson 11 son is said to have prompted his desire to write another play pla Herbert Kelcey and Effle EIDe Shannon are arc i ithe I Ithe the latest victims reported by rumor to have hae been stung by the Shakespearean bee They want to play Romeo |