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Show nevermind!" The luteal conclusion Is not flattering to the brain of this specimen, lint it is known to have sly and cunning ways, anil to live largely on a weak list, vulgarly called the 'sucker.' It Is pro-historic anil was (Uncovered this week in a mud deposit near Harlem. In other wonts, Dis He liar has at last projected her astral body. Tho pupil of Madame Plavatik has gone starring! hen sho first un-fold un-fold upon tho view of the audience she supports a brief tennis costume a red and white stripped blazer and skirt that readies to the point where the kneu usually appears, bhu tlouts about with a pre-rapliaelito simper and the most bewitching toddle, Her visible means of support aro not spiritual. They bear a striking resemblance to a pair o"f old fashioned piano legs in red silk stockings, and are reminiscent of tho poet's fancy about "Milk-white ankles splashed with wine." Her arms aro constructed on the samo architectual plan as Armour's hams. In the first pastoral scene she moves pathetically thro' several light comedy episodes with a tennis racquet in her hand. When sho lays her tapering fingers upon it in dreamy and romantic. contemplation tho "All the Comforts of Home," which closed its engagement last night was the only eveut of importance ia tho theatrical lino this week. Tonight Cleveland's minstrels hold the boards, and the advance sales iudicate a big . house. Next week tho new spectacular "Kajanka" will delight the Salt Lake theater-goers. One bf tho big scenes in "Kajanka" is where tho Hindoo idol is struck by lightning and the entire scene is transformed in an instant to an Indian tcrraco with prismatic fountains from each step of tho magic Btaircasu. try is delightfully original and has met with the success it deserves. Tho Lorgnette, Australia's only theatrical the-atrical journal, expired iu Melbourne January 17th. Tho Melbourne Table Talk, in chronicling its decease, which was owing to non-support on the p;irt of the .theatrical profession, remarks that "they, as a body, are only tixi pleased to bo advertised: but rightly, thev entertain a horror of paying for Mich advertisements." How ditVern.i it is here in America, Maude llaslani, of "All the Comforts of Homo," left her diamond ear-ringi in her dressing room at McLaiu and Lehman's Uruud Opera House. ,,,, Angeles, one night las t week, and nn reaching tho Theater next day she hss pleasantly surprised to find them j ut as she had left t'lem. It is not many theaters ou the ciruit where the same thing would havo occurred, and the managers of the (jraud hare reasou to be proud of their stage hand. A warm reeeptiou was tendered Maud Granger during herj recent performance per-formance at Johnstoun, l'a.. in hcriicw play, "Inherited." The original production pro-duction of the play at the Theater L' Application, where the piece was brought out under the title of "L'llen. tage d' llelene,' was for th benefit of the Johnstown siillcrers. Tho performance perform-ance took place on July 4lh, lv;i. Mrs. Hooper, one of tho po-authurs. el the play, is a 1'enusvlvnnian, and sin was instrumental in giving tbo performance per-formance in aid of tho sufferer. The abuse of Untie and Helena, winch Kinnia Jueh thought tit lately to indulge in to a Salt Lake interviewer, marks her as somewhat deficient in ordinary or-dinary gratitude. John Maguire, it appears adv anced 000 to release the company from their dillieulties in Spo-kane Spo-kane l'a'lls and bring them to Helena. In the latter city their misfortunes were the result of 'the weather, which the citizens realizing, raised $J,00() to enable them to reach liutto, where an equal sum was forthcoming for their transportation to Salt Lake. lloyt is nearing the completion of his new play. "A Temperance Town." The principle character is to be a good natured saloon keeper who never supplies sup-plies liquor to anyone who indulges too freely. The local minister and the llowers of his flock capture the saloon and pour tho liquor into tho street, after which they hold a triumphal service. The saloon-man then narrates tho story of his honorable struggle for sue cess in the face of most adverse events, and points out that now, through the action of the church people, he is beggared beg-gared in his old age. Tho etid of the piav finds the drunkard reformed not by tho fanatical preacher, but- by the good will and affection of his wife, lloyt attempts a. decided moral, and the result of "A Temperance Town" will be awaited with cotisiderablo iu-tercst. racquet disappears from view. I This is one of the dramatic surprises of the play. When she turns upon hor axis thero is a flesh-quake from pole to pole, ami superficial and dramatic tremors lasting some minutes. It takes certain portions of her several several seconds to overtake certain other portions of her, and liually establish estab-lish au oquilcbrium. Sho is not absolutely abso-lutely round so she finds it more convenient con-venient to make her entrances in profile. pro-file. This lair young thing is loved, so the play (?) would havo us understand, by "dear (ieorge," George, is played by an ex pugilist and professional wrestler, who has been accustomed to walk around with a half dozen men on his b.icl . catch cannon balls, and havo rocks and chestnuts cracked on his chest. Ho consented to take the engagement en-gagement provided Dis J)e liar promised prom-ised not to faint in his arms. Ho bears up under "Little Helen" as she is playfully play-fully styled in the bills, with true dramatic dra-matic heroism. When Little Helen unloads un-loads herself upon his neck and says "I am yours, all yours, dear George," a voice from the place where George was last seen murmurs in choked accents ac-cents of smothered passion: "I am so h'lMnt'el Atitl tl.a nti,lwin,.n f.ilrlif t-i,,L- NKW YORK TIIKATKICAL LETTER. The New riayi ami Soma (iumlp About th Bppclal ("nrrespor.dKncc. New York, March 2."). "The Than-fee" Than-fee" (Madison Square theater) is written to show that a woman may have sinned, and yet bo a good woman; she may have outraged tho conventionalities tif society, and yet that society bo unworthy un-worthy of her. Christ taught us the lesson. Ho was seen even in public places with social outcasts aud the proscribed, pro-scribed, and w hen they came weeping to his feet he did not draw his spotless lobes aside, nor lecture them in well-worn well-worn phrases, nor humble them, nor remind them that they did not belong to his social set, uor push them back into the mud from which they tried to rise. Ho did not ask them to sign the ' pledge, nor promise to come to prayer meeting, nor join various virtuous or- ; gani.ations. He showered a blessing on them in the pity of his glance. Ho preached of nobler things in the tenderness ten-derness of his voice. He took their hands in tho clasp of universal brotherhood brother-hood and simply said, "Go and sin no more!" Fiton and George II. Jessop aro the authors. Wonaorlnad mud H Juu Thloriain. The fact that a meretricious performance perform-ance given in a popular place will bo well potronized by the people of Salt Lake was never better shown than it has boo n f:l during tho to',; -S;1 past e e k X e ro wds have simply ??V" been enor- tall girl. Kl- 5 tX'it i K 1 11 k w i tig, hl&M?h a s . o"f A yV&X? oooui'se.been m yJp'Ai) the preilom- 'V:$'-y inantfea-$w$jir?!5?& inantfea-$w$jir?!5?& ,V. ' tore. Hut '- -S sho alouo would not draw the crowds that have thronged the place. The place has not been large euough to accommodate the throngs. For the coming week tho bill will be as follows in tho curio hall: KUa Kwiug, who has been prevailed upon to stay for another week, and fur the beuelit of those who have not seen her. it may bo said that she is the tallest living woman us yet discovered by an incredulous public; and Austin, and Master Kddy, tiesidc! tho wax lijjures and new ens-moramas. ens-moramas. In tho theater the predominating feature will bo the Kinehart family in the comedy called "A Waif's Luck." in which Miss Beatrice Kinehart portrays the principal role, ami who has received re-ceived for the same pome excellent press opinions. Miss Kinehart is en route to San Francisco with the other members of the family to join a well-known well-known stock company there. These kind of performances will lie given tn tho theatorium from time to time, ami will no doubt become very popujar. Manager Llmer Cooper estimates that he has turned at least a hundred dollars dol-lars away from tho doors in the past week in possession of persons drunk, and of besmirched character, and there is no question as to the manner in which order is kept. Some ery curious sights are seen during the day. Yesterday a very good type of tho thorough-going farmer drove up to the entrance with his team and wagon that contained some twelvo or fourteen youngsters, aud after trying try-ing to jew tho ticket seller down ou "a commutation ticket as it were, for tho parly and failing, ho loaded them all in the wagon and went away, to return very soon, however, and buying tickets for tho party, tied up his team and went inside, grumbling about monopolies monop-olies keeping a poor man down. This is only a sample of tho incongruity of tho great crowds. but only goes to prove that Wonderland is the place for the people. Henry Arnllnif'i Huielil. Henry Aveling's suicide aud Lawrence Law-rence Karrett's sudden death have made this a tragic week. Most of Aveling's follies aud miseries could be directly traced to liquor. Ho was a good actor and got a good salary when he played, but he was out of un engagement at the time, could see no prospect of one in the immediate future, grew dispondent aud put au end to it all. Tho last time 1 saw him play he took the part of the chief of police in Sardou's "Exile." Many of the scenes he played exceedingly exceed-ingly well. I remember in particular his ghastly and querelous death scene. Lawrence Harrett was a man of indomitable indom-itable perseverance, untiring industry i and pluck and, without any great talent us nn actor, raised himself him-self by these qualities to tho honorable position he held at his death. He was a brilliant conversationalist, conversa-tionalist, and a man of charming manners. He was highly esteemed in society, but in his professional pathway path-way ho left only bitterness aud enmity. I never heard an actor speak an ill word of Mr. Kooth. I've seldom heard a kind ono spoken for his dead partner. It seems strange to think that these peoplo whom tho public kdows only in tho mimicry of life have real wants, ami sorrows, real suff erings, and real deaths like all tho rest of us! How strange it must seem to one who has played at death a thousand times to meet it face to face! XVIint lloyt Him none. Charles H. lloyt has brought more actors into prominence within the past few years than any other manager in in America. Frank Daniels, tor instance, in-stance, was an unknown quantity until lloyt put him into the part of old sport. Then came Charlie Kced, who was unknown un-known in white-face comedv until lloyt took hold of him. Ditto" George Richards, who was brought to the front as the strangor in "A Hole in the Ground," and then made the success of his career as the Deacon in "A Midnight Mid-night Hell." (ieorge Marion, another graduate from the burnt cork stage, mado his first white-face success as I do not agree with the critical Pharisees Phari-sees that this is not a proper subject for dramatic treatment. The world is hard, cruel, unrelenting. It makes no distinctions, looks into no motives, sees no extenuating circumstauces, never knows or weighs all tho truth and nothing noth-ing but the truth. It is pitiless and relentless. re-lentless. There are Magdaloues, are thero not? And they do sometimes come to tho Savior aud a better life, do they not? How are they received by His followers? Do these say, "Go ami Sin no more;" No, they say. "Why were you found out? Go'and sin away for you are lost now forever." Is it not therefore admissible for the dramatist dram-atist to teach ono of the lessons taught liy Christ? The only question that remains re-mains is, is it taught properly and artistically? ar-tistically? '"The Pharisee" tells a story of a young and dangerously innocent girl who falls under the lnlluence of a cor-. cor-. tain Lord Ilelmore, a brilliant, fascinat-, fascinat-, iug man of the world, with all the devil's V philosophy at his finger's ends. He persuades her that they can be happy I without marriage, that bell and book t can add uolhing to the sacred union of ' two loving hearts. She loves, there-i there-i fore she believes and trusts. Of course he tires of her and deserts her. She and her reprobate father come to England, Eng-land, where they meet a conventional young puritan, Laudon by name, who falls in love with tho hu.sbandless wife. Kato refuses to entertain a proposition of marriage until Landon is mado fully aware of her past life. Her father promises to enlighten him, but betrays his trust and brings a lictitious forgiveness from Landon Lan-don aud his expressed command that she never allude to tho subject again. They are married and a child is born to them. Tho Lord Helmoro, who proves to bo an old friend of Laudon's turns up with an interesting caso of heart disease, lie is in search of the woman ho has wrongad to do her reparation before he dies. Despairing of success before ho has to return to India ho en-v en-v lists his friend's services in his projoct. To assist him in tho search ho leaves with Landon a packet containing, among other things the woman's letters and jihotograph. Kate discovers that Ilelmore is alive and has left this dangerous dan-gerous packet in her husband's hands. Then for tho first time she finds out that her father has deceived her and that her husband knows nothing of her past. Hefore ho has time to examine tho packet Ilelmore discovers tiiat his former mistress is his friend's wife aud recalls tho trust. Tho wife then confesses the truth. Hoimoro with a proper regard for the proprieties dies and the husband turned suddenly from a pharisee to a man, is united to his wife through the mediation media-tion of their child. The theme is ad-missihlo ad-missihlo but the treatment is artificial. The play is poorly written. It is full of such phrases as "Oh no, it cannot be!" "Am I mad or dreaming?'' "Not that! not that!" What have I done!" "I see it all!" and similar stilted an- tiquities. And tho artliciality of the play constructed strictly with a view to I I V -..w ..... each other with ecstacy. George's efforts ef-forts to find the waist of his idol met with genuine appreciation. When he has succeeded disentangling himself from his iufal nation he exclaims tragically: tragic-ally: "Ah, I see it all, now!" This line has puzzled the critics. It cannot refer to the plot of the play; no one has succeeded in discovering that! Nor can it refer to "Little Helen," for up to that point George cannot be truthfully truth-fully said to havo seen it all. This disclosure dis-closure is reserved for tho last a.H. During tho earlier scenes of the play "Little Helen" suppressed her emotions with a strong pair of stays. She simply sim-ply walked thro' the part just the show how little would bo left of the part after af-ter she had walked through it. Hut in the last act she lot herself out, as it were. Her costume seemed to shink according to the square of the distance, until at last bubbling, wobbling emotion emo-tion was visible and unrestrained. Mise Dis Do Har's skirt dance without the skirt is unique. It is not characterized character-ized by abandon, but is gently frolicsome. frolic-some. Out of respect for hor well-known well-known specialty it is called the ghost dance. Tho hippopotamus will now retire from the terpsichorean arena! I do not hesitate to say that if "Little Helen" could kick a couple of inches higher it would bo a distinct feat. Miss Dis Do Bar makes a mistake. Her lino is not the coy ingenue, nor tho kittish soubretto; it is tragedy. If she could be induced to do a fall from a precipice she would make the biggest hit ever known on the stage, and also do an inestimable in-estimable service to tho causo of high art. Th Poirr of tli Pret. I think you can write down success for "Tho Power of the Press" produced this week at tho Star. I Biipposeit is too much to expect anything particularly new in melo-dratna, but this ono is lavishly lav-ishly mounted, splendidly played and seems to please tho audience. It has tho usual hero falsely imprisoned for another's crime, tho usual convicts, lame news boys, dudes, dock scenes, etc., and a villain who has nothing on earth to do but follow the hero around, get him drunk and faBten crimes upon aim. An industrious and inlluential villain's time is valuable. How can he aiTord to spend his entire time hounding hound-ing tho poor horo? He wants the hero's wife, I believe, that is the usual excuse, but this particular gentleman is such a frank, open fellow, lie tells the loving wife that he will pursue her husband to his death, aud otherwise glories in being be-ing superfluously wicked. After that he certainly cannot expect the wife to tako a romantic, interest in his suit. Hut that is neither here nor there. All things are possible to melo-drama. The more one thinks of it the more one feels grateful for "The Power of the Press." For one thing it spares us the archaic phraseology of tnelo-drania. It is well written. Then it presents a series of remarkably beautiful stage pictures. The Manhat- t.. At llrt,:,. l..l. u,. ...... .l Jonah in A I?rass Monkey," and now comes Tim Murphy as M.nerick Hrander, in "A Texas Steer," who owes the hit of his life and such a hit as any actor might be proud of to lloyt. Quite a number of people, who were unknown until they became identified with lloyt's various plays, havo to thank "Our American Dickens'' for their present prominence, In addition to all this, Hoyt, who was formerly a reporter on the Hoston press, is rapidly making a fortune for himself and his partner, ('has. ll. Thomas, who was also a Huston newspaper-man, A great team is lloyt and Thomas, and whit is mora to the point, their business stall is composed of tho brightest hustlers hus-tlers in America. I theatrical situations, insensibly communicates com-municates itself to the actors except in the last act, The play is without simple, sim-ple, human interest. The only very clever characterization in it is Captain Poster, tho reprobate father of Kale, ilayed by Mr. Charles Harris. Mr. larris and Baby Do Grignan, a tot apparently ap-parently about four years old, carried oil tho honors of the play. Tho littlo , Lord Fontleroy prccosity has almost made children obnoxious on the stage. A child interest is jullicient now to give a New York critic a spasm, but audi ences haven't grown tired of children for that, and they never will so long as tho little one3 are pretty and clover and not obtrusive. A child appeals to the best in every heart and they seem to bring tn plays good luck. "Tho Pharisee" Phari-see" is by Malcolm Watson and Mrs. Lancaster Wallis. Tim Dratuntlo M8txlnn Glxntlut. It has come! We havo seen it and we live! Tho leading heavy wo nen of the stage! A mass of undulating beauty! Four hundred pounds of talent tal-ent and wobbling adiposity surmounted surmount-ed by a coquettish blond wig and a chaste smile! This mammoth robustus is supposed to have been burie 1 long ago but it litis been recently exhumed. It is characteristic of tho (gall) stone age. It's cheek is beautifully petriliod. It is a large accretion of blubber and pure nerve thau any example of the metaphysical and sufer-seusual breed ever before discovered. "What is mind?" says tho old phtloso- tat, jiiiucMu wiui ijuuau, i biuJ ytliil, a couple of lino river scenes, and"se oral handsome interiors. The best thiug to bo said of the play itself is that it furnishes fur-nishes a graphic picture of the ungenerous ungener-ous hardships thrown in the way of the ex-convict in his struggle to re-establish himself on a respectable footing in society. so-ciety. I believe Inspector Byrnes is on record for the statement that jail birds do not reform. Coifceqnently, in New York they aro under constant suspicion and surveilliance. That feeling is so well nigh universal that it is no wonder the ex-convicts aie driven back into the sins from which they would escape. Then, too, as in this play, there are innocent in-nocent men who havo worn the striped garb. Tho play shows the cruelty of tho rule that makes no exceptions. A really affecting scene is the hero's re turn to the ship yard in search of work. His manliness, sincerity and patience under cruel humiliations finally win over his old comrades, who consent to receive him buck among their number. Ttis charitable purpose is defeated by a walking delegate of tho ship carpenters' carpen-ters' union on the ground that it is contrary con-trary to the rules to work with an ex convict. 'This is new and good. Min kaye made a romantic, natural and pathetic figure of the hero. But how did he manage to keep a moustache and his hair long in Sing Sing? Killard was more artistic in this he looked like a convict. The cast iucluded Mack-aye, Mack-aye, Killard. Dickson, Calice, Mimul, Seligman, Madeline Lncette and Adelaide Ade-laide Stauhope. It goes without saying the piece was well played. Augustus j I'l.AYS AND l'l.AYEKS. Nffiy (IniMip nrthu Stag and Fragments of lramatic Criticism, "Sam'l of Posen" and "Mr. Potter of Texas" were produced at Brisbane, Australia, recently to rather frosty business. Manager Al. Dayman having determined deter-mined to make his homo in New York has purchased a handsome mansion on Twenty-third street. j Julia Marlowe's first nppearancu on ; the stage was in at the head of a j juvenile "Pinafore" company. Levi j Steele, the manager who first discovered discover-ed her, was lately arrested in Louisville Louis-ville for theft of an overcoat. Ho had given way to intemperate habits and had taken the article as a means of procuring intoxicants. Minnie Palmer, in the new melodrama, melo-drama, "A Mile a Minute," played a successful engagement tit the Aeadein j of Music, Montreal, last week, and this week is at Manager Henderson's Kit-quesne Kit-quesne Theater, Pittsburg, with a two-weeks two-weeks engagement at one of the lending Philadelphia theaters to follow. Man-; Man-; agers Tayior and Williiams have a big j j money wiuuer in "A Mile a Minute." ' j Tim Murphy, the llou. Maverick I Hrander in "A Texas Sicer," has won golden opinion all along tho road for j his wotk in this ditiieult character.! which may safely be termed something : new in the dramatic line, lloyt's idea ' of transforming a thoroughbred cow-j boy into one of tho fathers of his couu-1 |