| Show HEARTS OF oaka AK how one of the audience vilers edilh eVi Lh lasic from thursdays DAILY letri have that over again I 1 say it is as fine a performance as I 1 have ever irom a prove company yes but you must remember that the company is made up largely of the best tent of other places lagree with you however that it was a very creditable performance lucli was the general verdict as the audience waa dispersing that bast scene almost broke me down one lady was heard to remark 1 I have hardly enough to walk home there is little doubt but what the play was a surprise to everybody after witnessing green bushes when it became known eliat the company had undertaken hearts of oak choso acquainted with the play remarked that they biad an elephant on their bands the surprise ia not that aliey managed him to perfection but eliat they man aped him BO well the first act it must be confessed hung fire there was an impression that the machinery needed oiling but then look at tho amount of gearing it required to make this act hold the mirror up to nature would require specially designed stage setting however taken hy themselves the lighthouse tower its lighted windows at the top the ship crossing the ocean in the distance and the revolving lev water wheel of the old mill were strikingly realistic arwil Ir WIL hyde as silas engleheart and L M westwood as ruby dayrol left something vaguely desired hy the audience I 1 that something was manhood they alid not have that personal magnetism which characterizes ahe master spirit and the audience continually felt that they were not great enough for their parts the old tar Jonathan more manliness than any of them though liia part did not require a ti theof it the careless they assumed however appropriate for the common sailor waa wholly unbefitting the of the they were trying to interpret hearts of oak arc not found in natures that take lazy undignified positions while hey did not merit alna bevey criticism their bearing asp easy not to say slouchy aa to pm eue minate in a vord they lacked backbone back bone avast wood especially in one scene only the last rise entirely above aliis criticism and westwood Wes lwood almost ap fienco these otherwise only the many really fine points in playing donld have been noticed alton makes everything lie undertakes ws a remark once heard by the writer the remark I 1 think is true but not in the sense in which it was made his characters become ridiculous by design there ia no doubt that he has the power of making them so to perfection nor can there be conceived a more perfect picture iu form make up gesture and voice of the tottering doting childish child isU old astill hia rendition of trafalgar joe considerable ail criticism the father of such a son us silas engleheart should be anoro noble and dignified even in the wreck nf old age and less a subject of daltou evidently under took to mali e his usual share of the fun of the evening but did so at the expense of his character connection it ia just to annly brownia Brow the spooning widow and nellie cleif as the irascible vine kar tongued wife of old Joe alBo stella aa alie dish breaking maido fall work did richard olsen made a good london waiter As in green bushes miss lulie boyer was of course the glory of the evening her acting throughout was superb without her ahe play could a success with her it passed above the amateur the of the closing scene i an d the tableaux throughout were very realistic oki or THEAu D |
