Show FERN CLIFFE A SUCCESS A large audience enjoys its presentation at the tao grand good plays good business bad plays play bad business this rule unbroken was emphasized reemphasized re rc by the largo large and enthused audience at the grand lost last night an audience that large as it was wag will be doubled in most of 0 the succeeding nights of the present week there has boa been an occasional disposition among those at the head bead of affairs at the grand to seek excuse for the poor business weeks of the house lit in tho the company the company la is till all right the plays playa alone have been to blame just so often as playa we tire given to the taste of the public the publio will attend and as often as some antiquated time soaked play Is resurrected tor for which there la Is no demand the public will stay away at the end of 0 last nights perfo performance ran there was just one puzzle unsolved that was whether the company earnly comly had been cut out especially especial ly tor for the play or the play had been especially designed for tile the company certainly a fit B could not be more perfect from top lop of the pro gramme to the bottom everything seemed made to order me eo excellent was the jointure Fern cliffe itself Is a d lofty inspiring and character building play it ita circuses arouses the best emotions omo tlona inculcates the noblest renti sentiment ment it breathes patriotism it exalts loyalty it en shrines the american nag flag it does docs all these thines without apparent effort to do them the story Is if one of love all the time the listeners sympathies are in the fortunes of young and devoted lovers but with this Is artistically entwined that yet dearer nobler senti mont the love of country there are no battle scenes no clashing swords no dishing dashing steeds the fray of battle is only told not pictured on the the question of north and south does no not t enter it Is only the story of the loyal union walter edwards has perhaps the most conspicuous role that of a young husband who tears himself away aiom wife and child to right fight tor for his flap flag and wipe out the disgrace of a brother who he has deserted taken a prisoner and sent to Anderso An dersom nv life he be returns home to find his hl wife arai rrai crying as a scoundrel who has plotted the fam ilys ruin it la Is an e exquisite t character and exquisitely does edwards portray it his brother the supposed deserter la is impersonated b by y mr ingersoll another carefully drawn nicely touched stage that thal called out fullest admiration at the end of the third scene a miniature ovation greeted these two actors mr air edeson as the new england farmer overcome by the feeling of 0 joy jay and sorrow borrow which the charges chances la in the careers of his two sons produced was EL a splendid member in the perfect mace group his 1113 makeup make up was fine with but little of the comedy element in which ho he has become associated by theater coers mr edeson made one of tie the most plea pleasing ing of the season hugh word ward in the juen juvenile tle element clement was in his own home his deft handling neither cheapening it by exaggeration nor weakening it by softness made the rolo role of harry one of the on ones 9 in the plays development Clop ment th then ric again mr tooker seems to have halve fallen into congenial opportunity port unity tor for ills his villain was whether da designed C ignec or not a pleasing and effective I 1 va lie novelty L ity there was none of the conventional annal dyed ln in the wool stage villain but in an easy natural designing rogue such as Is encountered in everyday life alim warren as the wife ot of the hero a part that in most hands would be colorless colo iless because not in itself a strong role gave an impressive delineation of annie one ona of 0 the recommendations ions of this modest young artisto la Is that while equal to great occasions she does not in small email ones what more la Is required ot of an actress miss pollock vona sweet girlishness to hattle and dressed it fullY As the old nurse mrs airs chester infused an enjoyable element clement of comedy made all the salient lines of the author toll effectively and won the favor of 0 her br auditors llly lastly though least only in axe and size was wa the little ons one whose dryer clever wort work last week called for special notice several times in these columns jessle conrad displays a pre precocity coe ity that to Is rare arid and that need needa 1 oni only proper training to bring brine maturing maturin C fru fruit t of 0 highest order list last night she ehe appeared pie as a little boy the son ot of the biero I 1 era to add dd to tho the general Ee all round satisfaction sats of 0 the evening the house was comfortably with some ft degree of justice a purl part of past frosts tit at the grand have been registered by thermometer us its well its as the plays still another gratifying feature one tho the cri critic tie would like to have called to the att attention elltion of a woman vroman who sat tn in front of 0 him and ware a wh wheelbarrow hat a few nights alac waxe the following notice in the pro llfra ame mme labett now that it li is to ta kt it at laet the ali fashion tor for woman to go 0 helf t th jhb in orar to t hinsum tic like 1 a all 1 th ha r broo of t tho tb bowa kalva ahr ru kindly ru buirl irl 1 to t anny liuto tile of f 7 or amIs botte tn in the ha derst resep tink acerri led by tho the audience and in the fervid comments a a bestowed bea towed after arter the play w was over my may be set met down dawn as one of tle me grands boyt 3 suo cesia 0 tonight the pauline hall opera company will present dorcas Dorca sll at tho the theat r pauline hall la 12 a nam familiar on fro continents it if the performance for mance of oe her company tonight equals the farne fame of the star BS as c singer there will be no room for regret ifer her Is in cut to ono one light only so musi clovers will 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