Show d k i c W ana and Vanna By 3 Franklin FrUin i New NewYork York Oct Solid substance sub tan e eis Is not scant cant In Monna Manna Venna or orThe orThe The Squaw Man the dramas hew h v here Both are virile and vital in Iq intensely tensely tensey human in feeling sufficiently purposeful in ethics and popularly en engrossing grossing And I dont think it Is Un Unfairly u fairly patriotic to say sa that Edwin Mil Mit Milton Mitton It ton Royle Ro le the Americans Am play pIa is as is literary as Maurice the Belgians although one oue man is a cosmo cosmopolitan politan celebrity for tor the O depiction of or character and conduct literature A native dramatist writes s against prejudice anya an a and W l his Ills play Is i of ot the Wild West it is corn com commonly CO manly rated down below erudite coq con consideration Royle floyie Ro le make The Squaw Man in manuscript look good go d dI to any manager who had won out in inthe inthe I the show gamble enough dough to tomake snake make maj e a 11 pudding I am phrasing it I commercially commercial understand under tand So he de etched elded to hold out a p card in a 1 new dots dea dc j for a n bluff He added add d a few words of C start and finish to tot tol the third act and I had it produced at ati ad a Lambs gambol as a complete work worle That trick has haa haaI saved aYed him the game though thought tardily I for tor it is after two years that the en entire entire tire thing gets on the th stage i That third act still contains the moral problem which distinguishes ci The Tho Squaw Man Maa from tram the ordinary cowboy melodrama A young oung English aristocrat and aud army arm captain has ex cx exiled lied himself to Utah and become a it rancher An Indian chiefs daughter has saved his life by shooting the desperado d who would have killed him again by hauling him Into camp from froma fromn a n blizzard and still again by nursing him through a n fever feyer I am a human being he says In Sn his account of ot their intimacy and the human thing happened But I couldn t let my child be born nameless and so 90 I 1 married the mother That is why I Iam Iam am that creature despised hereabouts a squaw man 1 Such is his status when nhien hen his hi solicitor brings word that he be may go home to an earldom Now his squaw Is no ideal savage She is i neither J young nor pretty and dud her mina is too small to hold more than an instinctive love hove of Jim and Hal her husband anti and an her boy bo Jim has no affinity with his Isis j 1 wife but is to his little littleson littleson son What shall shan he do He longs for London where when the forbidden sweet sweetheart sweetheart sweetheart heart of his earlier years is now no a widow countess He will remain with an all uncongenial squaw But has he hethe hethe h the to keep his child away from froni froma fronia a heritage of title tithe and estate It will break his heart to part with the boy hut but his sense of duty demands the th 1 sacrifice The man who might go and andI j I be an earl feels in honor bound to stay i and be a squaw man manI I But for that problem pro lem in ethics to dignify it The IThe Squaw Man would be no bettor bf than the average of excel excellence excellence lence established collectively by The Virginian The Cowboy and anti the tho Lady The Heir to the Sunday Sunda Ranch 10 and Arizona It repeats in the one way vay that I have described The action begins in m Eng land among aristocrats and passes j j i next to a Rocky Mountain barroom j I I where the guzzling gambling and gunning are of the grimly humorous kind familiar in fiction and I cant gainsay that it is faithful realism but we have seen It staged so ninny many man times that It cant rouse us any an more And the story stor ends with the easy device of ot j i having the squaw kill herself out of j j the th earls way wa Yet altogether It it is isan Isan II an extra strong tron drama admirably 1 acted by b William WilHam Faversham and oth otis others othI I ers ens The limelight ought to fall faU on the theauthor theauthor theauthor author Faversham said in his thank you to the first audience and I quote It as unlike the usual star actors utterance He wrote this play we are merely merel performing it 4 Few plays In a ri New ew York season re receive receive anything like the preliminary at that interested our public in jn Monna for several years be fore Its first performance In l English this tills week The more literary folk would In any an case ease have read and dis discussed cussed It because it came c me from Maurice the Belgian poet ability some rate as high as us greatness and anti some as below belo Imaginative com corn competency But the boldness of this dramas theme thome centering In iii Its Us mate material vial rial detail on the visit of a woman naked ed but for fOI a mantle manUe to the tent of ot ofa otI a lustful warrior sent Its fame far be beyond b bond beyond yond ond literary and nOd artistic boundaries Battles of words were fought over the question of morality morall t the chief chi et Chamberlain refused to permit a n per perter pertel perI tel tat occurring in London when the Lord I Thereupon some conspicuous ous writers headed and incited by b Geqrge George Moore Henry Jones Tones Lawrence Irving and Mrs Irs Cragle formed a sub subscription society for tor a private lepre representation representation This was nearly four years year ago The ado led a couple of women who had failed tailed with a burlesque thea theatre theatre theatre tre to seize on the thoroughly adver advertised advertised advertised drama to recoup losses But when Minnie Maddern Fiske announced L Lit a it production here she was suspected of Qt no such uch motive And Ant r rafter after consideration she decided that the therole therole S Srole role at of Vanna did not suit her personal persona it ity So at length she has put It on her hex stage with Bertha B Kalish the lauded aude I Yiddish actress playing the heroine in I English Interest ran high at the first perform performance performance ance which was iras given glen before an unusually unusually unusually ally cultured audience It Jt would be S avoiding the truth if I did not recall recal I that in itt the tho atmosphere of or respectful re regard regard regard gard for fOra a masterpiece most that hind had been I acclaimed throughout Europe there S was also alio an electric current of expectation expectation tion of ot indecency What the searchers for literature saw was a story of uplift uplifting upliftIng upliftIng ing significance simple in its ita symbolism exalted In Its se and unfold unfolded ed in long ong poetic speeches which hat had I been translated Into pat English Engish by John Severance from the French in L which had written them Told in a few uninspired sentences the tale tabs begins with a lord of ancient despair at the conquest of ot his bis city by b Fi and by their leaders le 3 shocking otter offer to spare pare the vanquished I from deflation and death deaths if Gismonda Gismondi L will come to his tent robed In a mantle only She does that in the exalted res rea resignation resIgnation ignation of ot a martyr and to the of her husband When she delivers deliver I herself at midnight the loftiness of ot hel her 1 sacrifice so impresses the warrior that tha t tho ha ho b sends her back at dawn unsullied 1 by wen even the touch of his hand But her he r husband refuses to believe in her 1 purity doubts the chastity of her mo motive tive and shocks her grievously by moS his hi S mistrust that she recalling the nobler 5 love which she engendered In the other oU r man rejoins rt j him and ad shares the 1110 he exile I It to t which his failure to destroy Pisa Fist t dooms him decks docks the tho motive of ot hIs hi a drama with veritable garlands of poetic poet S thought yet he never neer obscures its aim sim simple pIe grandeur And in the technique ot a t play building as fully as aft a in the dain daintier dam tier art of poesy this Is Indeed a mas mn masterpiece There disappointment d t among the appi and serious who wIn t may have doubted the th actability of tile tl S composition But there was d di satis satisfaction satisfaction faction among the sensation seekers 5 Except that the tho theme was sexual pas passion sion ston the purist could see no caUse ca c to t D blush Dominant as that carnal factor r wa was waH In word or lance glance did It have hayl havea ha han hayla a n gross expression Those who counted on uns In ill the nt must have felt cit gold art when the they saw that the m j the supposedly naked Vanna anna had thrown around her was as a flow dewing Ing gown that enveloped her ler completely tely draped her h er head hend and trailed on the ground Mme M ine might without Indecorous exposure e of ot herself have torn oft a few tew yards arda lr of her more mor than ample cloak to cover over c the bare back of at Emma Calve cW who wIto W ho was an open exhibit in jn a stage box Mrs Mra Fiske assisted her husband In making u as artistic a production as ever was v s seen seenIa la In New York It Is not re remarkable remarkable remarkable for costliness In these pas days q f expenditure but in beauty of oC coloring c In accuracy of detail and In suggestion s where reality reamy would be ra ruinous r the Flakes hero here equal Irving and a nd Daly Dal at their best beat be t A command commandingly Inglr i beautiful figure ligure fi re amidst the Ital Italian ian I an splendors Is Bertha Kalish first In Ina Ina a gorgeous gown of ot pale violet lolet em embroidered embroidered broidered b ab with pearls but more glori gloni glorious glorious ous o us still a very goddess of tragedy hi a deep purple mantle that falls taUs In heavy h eavy classic folds I have haye seen noth nothing ing bg I more picturesque since Eleonora Eleanora Duse in The Dead City Mme Kalish has h been een proclaimed in the Polish Jew quarter q of the city cit where drama is acted a In Jn Yiddish as a new net Bernhardt Earnhardt In I aI n this her second role In English she leaves eaves J i aves the claim unproven un roen to uptown audiences a She lacks hacks the beauty of voice oice v and especially the repose of man manner manner manner ner necessary to dramatic greatness But even oven with those defects detects she stands tar far f ar above nearly all aU our star tresses actresses She suggests Bernhardt ernhardt in richness of resource r In experienced sense of pro proportion portion and In a regal sweep p of trago tragedy dy d y I can name no American woman who could surpass Vanna and if It her associates who all but lr Frederick rederick 1 Perry Perr arc are hardly adequate to t o their difficult tasks gave the requisite site s ite assistance Monna VaniLa Vanha would be a still sun greater triumph than it is isIt isIt isIt It is a fact already alrea in full Cull publicity that hat t Lloyd Bingham Is a aLwell well to put putt Jt It I t colloquially he is a scrapper His exploits e with his bis lists fists hale hao been beep set down In the annals of theatrical dress dressIng dressIng Ing l ug rooms and lobbies Now his fight fighting fightIng ing l ug disposition is dramatized by one woman Corinne Jordan and r by another Amelia Amella Bingham so that he be may act a t the hit em hero In a anew anew new Irish play Bingham may not knock out Olcott and Mack but he is squared off for them and an theres power in tit Ut brogue av his th rollick av nv his song th tho frolic av DV v his dance an In th Ui av his fist fiat st Amelia the tho bonny and buxom buxo Bingham is Lloyds wife I and he Is announced as aa her business and anti professional management Those were reasons enough for going twelve miles to a suburban theatre to see Ireland 1798 Chauncey Chaunce Olcott and Andrew sack Mack have hare not thrived in Broadway and Lloyd wont but he may do aa aS well wen as ae they thee the elsewhere by b and by after the people who know them have got ac acquainted acquainted with him But they will wilt find Lloyd Llord a more serious chap in his hero heroics heroIcs heroIcs ics and more wonderful Chauncey and Andrew cuff an Irish process server ser serer er or er or kick an English soldier but usually usually ally any In the way of ot pleasantry and if once In a while they hit a principal villain In earnest arnest the odds are not un unreasonably unreasonably reasonably heavy against them Lloyd bullyrags a of British army officers where he ho is a captive compels the privates to fetch supplies to him and other prisoners breaks brooks into a castle where his sweetheart is Im Immured ginned throws her abductor to death through a tower window beats a gen son general eral oral to the ground with a flagstaff de tIe despite despIte spite a numerous bodyguard and led me to expect that history he lie heIs heis liei Is i going to set old Ireland free for at al atthe atthe althe the final sight of him he ho is waving tho the greeh flag above the red prostrate one ene enemies mies mica Erin arc are strewn all around him hiss and the band ban Is playing the air of ot The S Irish Minstrel who sang that ho he 1 would never live Jive In slavery 0 The biggest melodrama on earth if ti measured with a tapeline is The Tue Ro Ito Romance Rom mance m nce of a Princess It is isma I ma l O feet teet by b on the tho level loyel and it fills that area of ot the Hippodrome stage twice by b a change of East Indian scenes scene Measured by a clock play is small for It lasts only forty min minutes minute mm ute utes Measured leasur d by bya a count of ot spoken words It Is not more snore than a leaflet but butt the t for Its action would fill till filla tilla I Ia a book The bill says that Frederick Thompson arranged It no one Is put putdown putdown down as aa having written it A deSt man mar I might find it entertaining but a blind blindman blindman man never neer The actors who play the thu princess father and two suitors have havel leather ather l lungs and brass tongues with which to make an entire audience of ol persons persona hear what they say sa but it would woul be disenchanting to have haye the theL sensuous little heroine speak like hike a a L female baritone and so 50 she talks con confidentially confidentially to a near portion of ot the tue as assemblage assemblage assemblage only However all can see seeby seey seeby by y the pantomime that she chooses one of ot the princes to marry marn that her des despotic despotic despotic fathers rathers choice Is the other and ant that Hiat there Is warfare between the rival wooers for possession of her herA herA A royal ro 1 palace and Its walled yard sart I make such fuch a frontage on so spacious a I public square that all aU looks actual and ant what happens in that environment Is Is done so naturally that it makes no sug suggestion ot of unreality At first the place Is alive with the ordinary ordinal coming and ant going of ot Oriental people with horses homes bullocks donkeys camels and ele elephants elephants elephants in everyday uses of business and pleasure Soon the princess Is in S brought from the palace on a canopied 1 litter to receive the rival suitors They r come showily shown on decorated elephants each with a parade of followers A i L hundred girls dance for the di dl diversion version of ot the guests These Oriental Orienta 1 are not imitators of the gross I seen at worlds fairs but grossS slim shin S and limber American idealizations It ItIs Ii I IiI Is ia no wonder that when these poetized I exercises are over and the th princes contemplate the beautiful princess prin priss princess cess cern reclining like a Cleo Cleopatra Cleopatra patra on art her couch both are mad with will 1 desire to be her Antony Anton This romance of a HI Ht doo princess is is told to the end in animate pictures of ot a I enormous size We Vo next see the royal roya ro aI I maid on a balcony at an un upper Supper win window in dow dew The prince of her preference a comes cames |