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Show ii In Playhouses of New York NJiW YORK. Mnrch 27. The first. New York performance of Major Guy du Manner's English patriotic drama, "An Englishman's Homo." was presented pre-sented at tho Criterion theater on Mon-dav Mon-dav evening. The play is hardly lilccly to create anything like the sensation it provoked in London, siiice, judged purely as drama, it has little to recommend recom-mend it except a highly realistic representation repre-sentation of tho effects of a bombardment. bombard-ment. Viewed from this point, the third act compensated in a measure for tlie two rather tedious acts that went before. Regarded as a travesty on tho Kuglish home guard, and. hecoudnrily. on tho Gcrmnn army, it was calculated to ereafo any amount, of merriment. The appeal ol (he piny lies in its vivid pictures of tho horror and tragedy of war. When Mr. Brown, secure in his belief that an Englishman's homo is his cattle, and that castle is impregnable, finally finds his house seized by (ho invaders, ho defends it. and as a "result is shot down on his own lawn by tho conquerors. It is a grim incident. Init the annals of war vouch for its verity. This character of Mr. Brown was ail-inirnbly ail-inirnbly acted by William Hawtroy, who showed the sterling English char- actor, stubborn and phlegmatic, aud, when finally roused, bold and fearless as a lion. The other actors in the cast worked ably and artistically in an en- scmblo that was noteworthy. "Tho Newlywods and Their Bnby" Hindi) their united bow across tho footlights foot-lights at the Mnjcstic theater. A book has been written by Aaron Hoffman and 3'aul West around the cartoons of |