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Show J BERNARD 5 HAW PLAT 15 A HIT J Granville Barker Opens Repertory Season j ; THAT OP ANATOLE PRANCE NOT Famous London Director Comes to New York to Stage Series of Satirical Productions; Highly : ' Praised by Society Audiences. By VANDERHEYDEN FYLES. . New York, February i'., "ANDKOCLIiS AND THU LION" A fable p!ay by Eernard .Shaw. (Wallack's iheater.) The emperor "Walter Crcightou The cantain Ian Mu.clareu Androcles O. P. Hegjarle The lion Pldl Dwyer hentulus H n ran B ra lia m Mrdtellus "WrisrhL Kramer Fprrovius Lionel Braham Ppintho- Arnold Ltiey Tiie centurion Ernest Cossart The editor Eric Blind The eallbov Cecil Cameron ecutor J. H- Green Rctiaruis Terald Hamer Tho menagerie keeper Edsar Kent Tiie slave driver Hush McRae Musaero Kate Carl yon Uvinia - Lilian. McCarthy "THE MAN WHO MARRIED A DUMB i WIFE" A comedy in one act. By Ana-tole Ana-tole Franco, translated by Professor Curtis Hidden Page. (Wallack's theater.) the-ater.) '-iles Eolseourtier Horace Braham i M. Adam Fumee Edgar Kent I Jr. Leonard Botal O. P. Heggie 1 watercress man Gerald Hamer I candle man .....Hugh McRae i A blind piper '..Cecil Cameron : A sweep George Carr M. Simone Colline Arnold Lucy -1. Jean Maugier.; Lionel Braham M. Seragln Dularier Ernest Cossart Footman to Mine. LaBruine Edmond Banks Footrnan to Mile, de la Grandiere Manice Lewis Catherine Lilian McCarthy Alison ; Eva Leonard-Boyne Madame La Brulne .. .Ruby Blyth 1 Mile, de la Grandiere Isobel Jeans "THE CLEVER ONES' A comedy, in j i three acts, by Alfred Sutro. (Punch and ! Judy., theater.) i i i , "ilfrld Callender Charles Hopkins ! Peter Marrable Edward I'.mery David Effick Russ WTiytal Hannibal Pipkin Charles Hampden'-: 1 larold Marrable Herbert 'o3t 1 Thompson Cha rics Dodsworth J Brown John Rogers i Martin Cliarlcs Coelil.'m lames Noel Leslie: Knyp Effick Mrs. Charles Hopkins: 1 'oris Marrable Beatrice Prentice i Mrs. Marrable Ann! ft HuiThes : Athene Settle Louise Closser Hale1 Mrs. Small... Vera Pole j "THR CRITIC; or. A TRAGJODY RE- IIEARRED" A coinedr in three acta, I by Richard Brintley' Sheridan. ' (Priu-'es (Priu-'es theater.) , I l':tndo Dallas Anderson ' Sik'lt Wallis Clark Kir Fretful Phiiarv Marin Majeronl Mr. P'.iff ; B. IdiMi Payne Mrs. Dangle Marie Leonhard Servant Elvln Hodges Characters in Tragedy: ! Lmi-, BuTiei.jh y. Cecil Butler t;o.(Tnor uf Tilbury fort..'illia m Monltoti '"'I rl of Lei'"f-:,-ter Lawrence Grant s;r Walter Raleigli Whitford Kane Mi. Hojikins. tb" under prompter: Sir Oiristupiicr llation. . .Thomas Louden MalPr of horse Howard I'lingc J '''"cfeater Lawrence Grant bistice Whitford Kane Tnin Jenkins Ga reth 1 1 u.yliL-s ''"tistable lid wa I'd Lflhty Tiiair.es F. (V Puller Tili.urina liniUle Pollui u 1 b-r -ont)dan le Saxon Morla nd '-''Jii Ferolo Wlrihkerumios Wilfrid S--at;ram irsl niece Kato Mor;:a n "'ond nioce Ma r.ucrite fustiee's lady Patricia Power 'MXK.TY IN Ti-IK SHADE"- -A musical cuineriv in iwo acts. Book by Guv Bnl-bon. Bnl-bon. Mujo h- .Jerome. Kei'u. I Knickerbocker Knick-erbocker theater.) 1 (VUo Wlllard Reynolds Bolo, Parker's native sei"vant Philip Slu-riield 'Jb Mandrake, owner and slijper of the schooner "Double Cross" r Ed. Martindel i A illoughby Parker, agent of Maniht i Hemp conipan' Richard Carle Capta in Jerry Carvel, U. S. Marine eorpK Victor Morley Polly Bainbridge .Marie Cahill Maclge Splint Lienor Henry Dot Splint. Dorothy Arthur Petr Thompson RniJin Grimes Judge Splint, father of Madge aud Dot Fred Walton . Hodgins, Judge Splint's secretary. . . . Ralph Nairn Bridesmaids Rose Carter May Thompson Lily Whitehead Jeanne Crane Pansy Whitehead Bettle Best Daisy Hammond Jessie Crane Clover Royce Alice Carrington Myrtle Watterson Alma Braham Violet Fuller Madeline Fliese Lett ice Romaine Amperito Ferrer Serjeant McGinn Murray D'Arey Mozl. an educated Filipino , Pedro de Cordova Catti. his wife Florence Dillon Hai-cho. a Filipino chief .. .Abbott Adams Ooma. Estrada lean Newcornbe T.V records of the New York stage of fifty years or so ago frequent mention occurs of a popular farce with the self-explanatory title. "Jenny Llnd at Last!" If a similar piece were written today it should be called "Granville Barker at Last!" At least, that was the phrase on every tongue at the first performance in America of his London company, headed by his wife, known professionally profes-sionally as LillajT McCarthy, which was given before the Stage society, a. theater-going organization largely composed of people in society who wish to be known as persons of brains and persons of brains who wish to be known as people in society. Of course, you know who Granville Barker is. Then, again, perhaps you don't. At first, he was not much more than the foremost, and most fervent and unquestioning, disciple of Bernard Shaw, most of whose plays he produced in London; but he is a man of literary taste and, presently, his repertory theater became the lioivt" of such profoundly interesting, though not widely popular, dramatists as John Ga is worthy a nd Elizabeth Baker. He made unique revivals of Shakespeare; he delvedtinto old bookshelves book-shelves and brought, down Greek tragedies and forgotten (if ever read!) verse-dra mas by George Meredith and Thomas Hardy, and lie wrote some thoughtful plays on vital sub- i jects of contemporary interest. About eight years aero, when plans for the New theater in New York were taking tak-ing definite shape, he was the first choice for director; but after coming lit this countrv and examining the urehitectura I plans, lie refused t he honor, declaring the auditorium too lars;c for the best dramatic, art; and w hen the house was built and the noble enterpriso collapsed after two years under the dhvtion of Winthrop Ames, that very vastness was gen- 1 erallv conceded to be the chief reason for the failure. Now Mr. Barker has be. -ii brought over on a considerable ii tone v gua ran tee by the Stage society." so-ciety." n which belong ma ny of t he iniilinnaires who com ri but ed to the New i heat er ; and it is said that if lliis repertory season at Wallack's is sii'-ci. ssfuf and comes up, to ' the standards of these wealthy critics of the drama, a theater will be built tor him. H is a little difficult to speak imparl im-parl iall v of the start made with a dtxible ' bid of Bernard Shaw and ATa tole Fra nee with one's ears still tingling with the unreasoning rhap- ( . sodics of the Slage society. Socially import a nl ma irons, with ropes of pearls nestling in the f:i creases of I hej " n 'kH and not an idea under t heir .-labor.! to -oi 'I'm res. ev la imed, "What art. what art!" and einaru-lately einaru-lately dressed oun.ir bmterfhes of fashion, who are as well informed in the matter of the i'ox inH as Wiliiam Winter on the subject of Shakespeare and vice versa, rushed about the lobbies, lob-bies, easing to one another. " Hy dove, how w onvier fid ! " The onlv objection to be made I o the erst a lie conclusions of t hrse nidges is that they were called forth , ecjiiullv bv tho Shaw play, wm.-h turned out to he as delightfully funny a farcical satire as has been shown in years, well acted, and produced appropriately and with .some novelty of manne!. and on the France piece, also well played, but an dull and infantile in-fantile as a children's Christmas cha vade in the back drawinrx room, and staged in a style entirelv out. of keeping with its design. However, It is just such people tor. rather, their husbands and fathers, who generally sit m the background in bored dismay)- who have made it possible for years for New York to have the - greatest performances of grand opera in the world : and it is to be hoped that their efforts to do as much for the drama will ultimately succeed. Judging by Mr. ' Barker's auspicious beginning, he may prove to be tho man to bring about that happy culmina tion. Anatole France's "La corned ie de celui qui espousa tine famme muette," translated by Professor Curtis Hidden Page of Dartsmouth university, as "The Man Who Married a Dumb "Wife." is a brief play (though it didn't sr;ein so: i, so let us describe it briefly and then dismiss it from our minds for all time. it is a some- -what laborious and highly "literary" attempt at a Rabclnisian farce on the i Sunday comic supplement and cvit-I'Hte cvit-I'Hte vaudeville' theme of the wife who- talks incessantly. In this ease, she was a mute and gained the power of speech only after a surgical operation, op-eration, whereupon she made up at her husband's expense for half a lifetime life-time of enforced silence. Her hus-1 hus-1 hand. a. magistrate, is driven to dis-traetioh; dis-traetioh; but when he asks the surgeon sur-geon what can be done, the only eon-sola-tion lie receives is the. advice that he submit himself to a powder that will make him stone deaf. An idea of the wit may be gained from the magistrate's question. 'Ms deafness deaf-ness a disadvantage in a,. judge?'' and (he surgeon's answer. ''No: on th contrary." Show ing, to those of us interested in antiquarian research, that the style of vaudeville ' team known as "sidewalk conversationalists" conversational-ists" was already flourishing mediaeval times. Mr. Barker, gifted with intelligence and taste and having gained a wldft experience in The practical drama, also knows the value of pretense. Presently we shall see his arrangement arrange-ment of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with the fairies all with faces of gold, which oddity , set London aehattering and attracted paying audiences au-diences to a play habitually shunned. A fashionable pose of the present period Is to reject every aid to stage illusion evolved through centuries of experiment and expert thought, and to revert to the most primitive devices, i A dark-blue cloth, for instance, with nothing painted on it, but with an I oriental tamp hung up in the left-corner, left-corner, represents moonlight on the Adriatic, or twilight iu Milan, or a fog in London one has to listen to the text for a hint. A writer lilt off the matter in a happy rhyme: Pink if green, and red is blue, One and one make three, not two; Squares are circles, globes are cubes, Piccadilly swells are rubes: - To the Granville-Barkerite When the sun shines it is night.. Although Wallack's stage is one of the most spacious in the city, very little of it is utilized that is, un-' less Mr. Barker uses the invisible part as a wood-shed or for paint-pots for his golden fairies. Over the footlights foot-lights and the space where the orchestra, orches-tra, used to play, a platform has been constructed, ending on either side in an und raped exit where a box used to be. in the first play, and for the most part iu the second, all the characters char-acters enter from one' or the other of these entrances. The "scenery" of the "inimb Wife" entertainment con-. con-. .sists of a flat, white "drop," with a door and a few windows sketched on it in square black lines. One of the windows, about ten feet above the stcc, is very large; and through it we aet all the action of the play, except the entrances and pxits of some characters. All the color is In the costumes, which are bizarre and quaint. The whole matter winds up in a mad dance which is very dashingly dash-ingly executed. Probably . you have read hhaw'a " Android-? and Ihe Lion.'" which appeared ap-peared last autumn in an American magazine. It turns out, however, to be an exception among .Shaw's plays inasmuch as it acts much better than it reads. Mr. Barker's company Is. excellent ex-cellent throughout : Miss McCarthy, suggesting Mrs. Patrick Campbell in demeanor and voice, reads the serious passa ccs on Christianity very eloquently; elo-quently; and Phil Dwyer ( I don't know Phil so well as to speak of him so in 1 1 mat ely, but that is his name as given on the programme) dispels one's tV-iiis that the introduction of a ho n lis an important character In a play of serious purpose, no matter h.ov fiivoious the expression at most points. wo;;ld not be feasible. A more remarkable impersonation of an animal ani-mal I have never seen. But above all. I think the reason why the 'abe play, as Mr. Shaw designates it. acts so much belter than it reads is simnlv in t ho Alidades of O. P. I ferine. PS-re. is a superb y.ri fo: matice. cm the printed print-ed paco, we i:et nothing but the ridiculousness of the meek, anologrtic. f XX .'X r x i - V ' X 4 ; 1 ' X, Vat V V "V " -NX.' r ' tf'-.IA X 1 & ri i? - . I' M 1 1 . x- . - rj " ' " , X jU :2r . j N tvf " e v McPhe dropping from a railroad "tell-tale" upon a tram going forty miles an hour. On of the last of lus love-imposed perils. To be seen at tho Rex Wednesday and Thursday. hen-pecked little tailor. Mr. Heggie misses none of those Qualities. He is the scrubbiest little nonentity. And then one sees his eyes. In them lies a, world of tenderness, of patience, of human love, of Christian faith. Just as we arc roaring- with laugrhter at his inconsequence, his terror of his domineering wife, his smallness in the bust 11 uk world of men, we see his eyes and we are caught up with an understanding- that brings tears But let us come to that. Androcles and his weighty wife are making their way through a forest a veritable children's picture-book forest, for-est, for we hardly would have believed in the lion in any other setting-. The king- of beasts has got a splinter in his paw and is meaning terribly in self-pity. self-pity. Vie lias retired behind a tree and fallen asleep from pain when the wanderers pass. Androcles's wife berates be-rates him for being a Christian, which Ik the cause of 'their ejection from the Greek town in which they lived. Me makes no complaint, but urges her to hurry un before nightfall. Presently .she yens the linn and collapses in a faint. Androcles urges the beast to ent him first, because, rhough small, he is inugh. and devnuring him will take enough time for Ids wife to . escape. Then he sees that the lion ts in pain. Immediately he forgets all about Ids own fears. He sympathizes with th'1 beast in baby phrases and induced in-duced him to let him extract the splinter. splin-ter. This requires a lot of tact, as each pull brings a new twinge of pain. But Androcles croon? to him In -'di'ldums" talk, calls him a "poor 'ittle lon -piny" and promises him a nice little Christian fir his dinner. Finally the splinter is removed and the lion is so pleased that he embraces Androcles and they whirl away in a dance of joy. ''Vou beast," cries the fainting wife, sitting- up; "you haven't danced with me for twenty years!" Before the arena scenes there are the passagF-s of Shavian discussion of Christianity, consideration for aoi-mals aoi-mals and other ionics dear to hip hearl. It would be impossible to even fmggesi thorn in my limited sr.a-'p, hut they are cfVHinua jl ini crf-sler. i-.pressitig maturel ;,nd serious often profound and devout thoughts in a running lire of wit and satire. Then comes thf arena. First we arc in an antechamber, vho:e the Cnristian martvrs a-;,it their doo-;i. ICverythiim is ran a.- in th-- greer.room of a mus:- hall. Ther- is a cad boy whocalls the turns by (number and the stage manager- who is agitated lest the performance will not come off as advertised because there is "such a distinguished audience out front." Space prevents me from dwelling on the different personalities and expressions ex-pressions of faith of the Christians about to die 'now Lavinia converts the Roman captain by her definition of her faith in probably the most eloquent elo-quent passage Shaw ever wrote, this lime serious and exalted without bombast: bom-bast: how the powerful giant Fer-rovius Fer-rovius prays that he may have the spiritual strength (not to usn bis physical strength on the gladiators assigned to kill him, yet does, a nd thus so pleases Caesar as to gain freedom for his fellow Christians; how the miserable, snivelling Spintho commits every sin in the trust that, all will be forgiven because he will die a martyr, and then. In a paroxysm of fear, runs away from his doom and right ieito the cace of a lion 1 hat dcvimrs him wit hout his dying as a Christ ian sacrifice at. a II. But above all. there is Androcles. The despised AmlroHcs Is ii"t to be sent in with the men to be killed by a gladiator, but with the women, to be fed to a lion. lie only hopes i he beast who gets him will not be loo hungry, as he is such a skinny little moi-sel and he can't bear think-in think-in ir of any animal suffering the pantos of hunger. W can't help laughing at the litlle tailor a he disappears inlo the arena, or, the scene having turned around, as wc .se." him pnter-iui'. pnter-iui'. For. of course, we know what is going to happen and are. impatient to see our old friend, the lion. Vet bv i he. shce. r force of gra t. acting Mr. HecL'i'' gives i:s a t lirill that ma ks half a dozen L'iab-r Cove: " "punches" seem like a lmht siap on the wriM. Androcles Is just a funny little man and then he is the saddest ligure in the world; a thin, inconsequential inconse-quential little creature coming through the iron gales below ibe gorgeous box of imp.-ria! Cne.-nr, a'one. afraid, with 1 oily an intangible fail!) to cling to. a Christlike residual ion in his eyes. Then all fun again, but such human. hu-man. hva: fun that the ten.rs fi'in't l'd away. The lion is admitted. T' is our u'd friend. A r.:i o des doep not se- him. for is kiie'-lig in pr:r-r and av.-iinng death. The ijnn bbr:ks se'f a ga 01st 1 :-. bars of t he cie be ha just been I'cb'as-d from, and tifi looks about for his dinner. He sees Androcles and prepares to spring. Then he sees his face and stops, lie looks at the audience in utter surprise, sur-prise, plainly saying. "Why, 1 know him." He takes another look. He crosses the arena for .still another view. He goes closer to him. Feeling Feel-ing the approach, Androcles falls on his fare. A tremor runs through the Christian's body. The lion sniffs him to make sure. There is. no further doubt. He taps Androcles with his pa,w. A not her t remor. A not her tap. Finally Andrordfj looks up. At first he is only afraid, hut presently he, too, begins to recognize an old friefid. To make sure, he goes through l he pantomime of removing1 a splinter from his hand. The lion copies him. by the way uf saying- yes. Mutual recognition; they rusu Imo each other's oth-er's arms; they dance wiLh joy. After all, I think I am with those who exclaim. "Granville Parker at. last!" though 1 think I ;i m inclined , to put in C. P. Heggie. pernard Phaw, Phil ( ip) Lion J.nvyer ami Granville Parker. PTl 11 & architectural and decorative - charm and quainlness of , the 7Junch and .1 ndy 1 hearer, its air of gen lb- bospita ii ; y, the general Hiding e eo lc nee oT the com puny ass em bled and headed by Mr. and Mrs. Charirs Hopkins, and the in:Ihaenee ami taste exerciser! in the plei.onal departments de-partments of product ion send one to a premiere at 1 hut latest "little llieater" in a mood of oude unseemly unseem-ly -prejudice. Frankly. I was "all for" "Tile Clever Ones" before 1 had heaid a word of it. A nd mont 01 ; he usual reasons for delight wei"- there. The s- "iiL-iy wn s 11 1 to the 1 n.slnmary aera'-.e and the acting, in oniy two i nsta nces di sa ppo! m i j il , was of notable nota-ble excellence in t-on.e cases. And Ihe play, bv Aified Sutro, had a lively live-ly and a r.'iiisiii-' memo ami was oftn cpigrama t b-'iUy witty. Put to be stin tiy hone.v,. lie- ;uorv thiuiKo as il w-uit al'Uig. tj,: wit rew rather 1 ore-., ,ne ih'.o'iuh s;i!,'ier;ess. and ! ;ie denolKUiielil V.as oV.l'uC: SO llMP'll loo soon that the hnal a-d v.as iargej-,-tedious. T:,c clever ui -'.-; ;, j 1(J v. I !. sou. , da ugh er and si.-: v- n - la w of a. sv -ces-in) London hop ;:: ha ni . The v. i''-- h;s t ' : ne t 'nd- --,, - jo us vilia at Hnmpsi-.id into a so; 1 ,; nui'.-utii of i ,ir! Tioino'i'i; thf ';-n.d s.s;-!- tems; toe son has written a. "d.-irir" novel which an unknown firm will publish if lie ( I hat is to f-y y hi a father) will pay ail expenses, plus a homiH lo toe company; and the daughter, a Girl on f.di'1, has t brown over her desirable, (lance for nn "artisan "ar-tisan and anarchist." In short, they are nil of a stripe nil except the practical, hhiFterin, yet really tender-hearted husband a nd father, who is treated as an outsider in his own home and confesses to fridine "a hit lonesome sometimes." The women 01' Ids fa mily he drsrrlbes as "clever women who never tlnd their equals" and who are "nurtured of liusslait novels, Swedish novelH and "ochtn China novels-;" ami In (speci;tl his wife, who ulwayn Hubneri I " b to "ud-vaneed" "ud-vaneed" mnazin'-s. as invariably to be found "in the movement" but nev-r "m t he klteh''ii." This ehar-ai-tr-r, at on re 1 -on he ; nd p.i t het if. i. H' ted to p'-i leetifui by Kdward Emery; Herbert Yost i;eis everylhinp possible out of the somewhat s'rO-"ehy figure of the son ; am) Annie Hut: ties and I'.eatrice pi-'uiti'-e, as the wife a nd dautfhu r, are ndednate. Tt is inlo this household that thf "a rt 1 s;j n and a na rein si" com en on" aft-unouii lo ask pcrm-KMou lo marry Jdoris. A -:''Ura familv row eiuues, until Wilfrid :-ts I '"p alnne ami ;id-mi ;id-mi Is 1 ha I he is not an a n.1. re In si at all. He is. in fa't, a u n i vc -; t v man. and in phtee of hlr prerended li e pf iu nd S a week " d whl'dl half j-O'-R to chi-rilv and' Tne 'auM-," he ha.s InN-rit'-d a rons'rle? a"' le imome. The n.aU'u- "imply ::; thai he met I .mi.s at an e-ci.Tit rie tea . immediately f''il in hive v. ; t h her. and foi esa w hn t ! 1 . o.ily way l ftitair" h-r interest was (Continued on Following Page.) BEHHMD SHAW PUY SCORES IN NEW YORK (Continued from Preceding Fafre.) to n i 'pear to :iuij,v i li-c to hn.r "ad j an'--d" idea-'. lb- mi-'e-.'sIjj a tea pnrtv for t h'" I le.n rnerj J;idb- at "Iuh" humble lo.g- I lues in p.cthnal Crrn road, ivttli t bo ld'-:i of b'' I ti ui :it the nf""esa I V .rn. eM of diUKUMIlig Doi In with jio1. - i i-riv, anarcliv and th vrt by ponm ; iirt-h:tnd kn'.wlcdf of them. TbLs I Intro'bi' i an ahnowt s holly niv M't of i-hnra'teiR In I bo ."econ.l n-ct. ('nu o tbehn I:-' the ictnal outi't of thu lodglng. vhti lends tlnun for the a !"H'rnoon a nd p'-ch a.i the pp'tii ul - (T liair-bioflier. fe Ifl HrtUaUv 11. ditfi.iple. ot annicbt-in. yrt the gfidb'st fif old men, 'n faint with a Bonsn fi humor, who lovei everybody iunf wa nib lf d'-Hl roy overthliui." '('his part, Him in out va Kue tiatd uncoil - i vhtclng of thii play. Is wnll HHed in bv R i inn W by l.'i I, t IioUKh Ids nlown rn.H of fyefiitlfiu hciIouhIv hint the play 1 at the pnunlerr, reducing the ntber fLfdnis Into an n I mot; I fatal oa nf buiipo. 'i'bf old atiandilrtt nlunyfl lirdrtfi on bl.-i chal-woini.li nhnklrig luindM with hi in "ii nrrhal and b'pirlure. nuirh to her iiribnrriiHHinrnt and dl,icus; and on thbt (n.ia."loti shn r luite(i to rnlrnile with IiIh tcnentM. Wilfrid. on nnnii know, lrtn boawied tr Doi In of two "followMH." fio to Pb'.w tinnn In tli'j flf-nli h'i b" c.onnna i u)ed hi:i abt, inu'di agaltiJd (bat perfect h, 'I vhiiI 'm will, I o - otne tn tea a n. gi ieit ii rid to ci n jv. up mi a na rr b lul . Ml Uv nlillhliltH tbo p"i"forrna ii'-e. -,ir tblH role tho niK n-rei va nt I i.'i m foninl a, perfect 'yPr'. ' dirty loafer f mm the Linba nlwnnt . who Fioutt nn-n nn-n T' d 1 1 h 1 1 1 phr a aen it regular prnf t-n -fdnri. The perforrnari'-o of tlieput "til I f" - the rba r worn a n bv V'orn. J 'ne, Ibii trump bv I'bnrlew Uampden and 1 be a e i b- i 'bai'b-H I ifiiliiwon b ( 1 1. tnlKhl hn v.. be.m .h-hii KngTt..-t ,t prni;i timine b-avef one In dnnht ) I e-,traordlnarllv flue, I ncbl e n t a 1 1 y, there, wiih a lt;"r (not In I ho "Andro-cb-w" setifri wllh only onf Hum lo Fl.eak-"Sbal I hnvo tlio rurrbtcn wait, nipi'i who w n-'i iiol ce:t hn l,r-r.nii" l,r-r.nii" ho wan down oil 1 1 im proitrn n i nin 'in ( ' I hi i e i 'tw. lila u, Thin wit m IiIm (11 ".t I) I'pea ni Iiee, nn the fUa,'f r. not. a fi'in of tjir bit" wc-uowti fntor of the nrtrne name, bul of hh nlnh-r, I V I'ngblnn. nlno .rrid. and lolopl-d t-on of the niohl fanimi.-i of Hie, I'mrblaiiK. Id.fie. Tb- d'-bni.nil, lai nppearfi U be very viiillli:. bi a fdi'e-li.,-in: boy iiinl . anb-d oil hi., un- UU-lllIK (blU'P WH eOMi"ti, HIM'. 7 bo mom b-U'-'i tanl ..f tlm fduir- fe!rM I'cMnn fil fnr f 1 1 H I fi I 1 1 ' a T'n II''" In tbo r-oud ad Is Ro-jn, (hn Involy, r0(tiih .lausl.l'-r of II. r n. -tu.-il an- .,.,l on-. .-'I-.- ;r i-vii' ii1'.!-iih,'n ;u :r,n.' t I'm, wind-i-,w to -r UlKr.dV linA lp'nr-'H svtid tha. v. h 1 1 he miMarf'-s f..r ,. b. mere n.v' !an-y. y iv .).-es not lr.tun.-i:.- mi.-;i th'vi-ins.t.-..d. .J i--.r l" i- iv up t" i . l.e.n.-. in tbe .-:id rt- 'v tli.K- I;- Willi anarc!U-':i. r ;- 1U ,tiu t ; f'-n. rv en U Mr en'l Mrs. lfopltl: pi.' !'A prM-ndo-.-.n-irehlf. mil tb rl:l v.- i.nabv w.n.n biro. IflH IndL-n.ef.t w.-9 not Kood In listing i)ln.--if :or a n-U-tj ..,;. ndlng a ncr.auib- d-n'.-;.i,o ai.d U !b-ry. l:r:l-u'.ftv.-. iinTi'ili la I tetl.pef i-n.ei.t'for i-n.ei.t'for tn at p.i t . t: " f. i.H i ' V and iiieth-d ! e.-.'-i t.: aby p.o.o:-p-.ui,-. lb- wiUM e.,-n- t.y. bM . -irn-!ttir;s--th..t I-, aPi ii.-Ml . arn-,Hliirss-lH ea My v. li.it a- nl w Hiited ; hp K.i 'm met pu.Htng j where the IlUthor ord re, I WMlfJle. Mm. Unpkln.i. on tbo other iiand. wan id .-ally mi;I,-, lo Hie rob- ,,f Ind'-ed nhe .ippeiirel to vet more, out of tbe prt tb-in too aut.n.r put Into tt She m fur lunate, tn 1 ?' f--lnS much of that bb-nd of trlrllvb. my 1-vaeltv 1-vaeltv and wm,.M;i', undi'ttvim; Wid-neR, Wid-neR, that inn ken Maude Adam- the rnunt popular jiotreHM In Ameib a. rpUK pprlghtlti-fl fun of I'-'C occurn A III a pbiv llrxl n. ted i::.'. yearn turn. Having chauMd tla' Cr.ind i ;ulgnol ami Hi b iiN In Its efTurt lo lu,., up to date. ;mhI with soin.-ub.il bis, ouiMirlnc ic.-ulis. tiie Interest j little e.. I'.e, has rea- brd I ..irk to Ki-'hard nrln.--l-v Sheridan, and with eumpb-le. ..n. . I Id lllib-Klatlnlv sav t;,at ' Tin- l iltb Ih troie hui tiinii a b:inil nf ni.i.Uea fvripl lhat 1 bae liil 'ecn a biil'-r-d of monke ,-, ant. Ui rl i in -nn .re, I have ttu un.ont r..lnble loathing fur . even Olie motlkev. Tbe tlf.-l ;ft i. on the whole. t.lth'T v.-.i riMOIlle. Tills I section of 1 1 in play. It may be ienie-ii-bered. ifi tpb:il t li;bte.-ntti century 1 . oniedv. wllh tiin la bored phrai-rol-oev il nd ela boi t. Iv t Ul tied II 1 b it 1 lieedfi a hbp of (bdlrr- abni-st nn-K nn-K now n a ni'-ng act urn ul' t hi" period. i I I ideed, only one a inonu I hi. com pa n v til Kngliidl actoiM now coluo iM-wlv to New York, bv a v ot th- I 'b II a .1 rip ,1a 1,1Mb; theater, han .iilic the bioiid ii ml artlllrlal nlyl" tn eurrv ofT Midi dlaloKlie. Th" cxa-epltnti f U. blen l'avne. director of tlm cumpaiiv. who In vrl h Mr. I 'u nf. Hie llrsi of preH ngentM, with tnlneinc ;;r:iccand wllh a suing Reir-Mntlfdactioii thnl Mill Im s.o Ken In I n nd childlike n mi bin nd jin tn be eni;iilng. with a result that Ih com pie I i-ly comic a lid Mi'-censl'ill. 1 lowever, ii fter the hit rod uct i ir y net, thero need be no u "a 1 1 Ilea t Ions nbonl the lo lliiK- In the two ai tn of IV-lieiiiHul. IV-lieiiiHul. evervono M d e 1 i i; 1 1 1 f 1 1 1 1 y droll. It Is ci iM oinii )' v lo list-nine that rveiy-bo.ly rveiy-bo.ly Is familiar with n classic; yef in the' !,ennil lai gefd rlly In the world "T'ne I'rllle: or. A Tragedy Ite-hear'ed." Ite-hear'ed." baft not betn acl.-d, rM'ept peihap5' by amateurs. In twenty or bvnnlv-flvn veins. It wn H laVol'lle fuii-uiiLker wllh Am: u1l n I':ily. nnd pnr.pln Ihere are who reiolle.-t Ada Kenan as Ttlhnrlnn. John I Mew as Mi. Hull. Hie lule .biuo- 1-wIm n Pun 1-Vrolo hlHkeran.ln'i, mid t'Ulie Sibaniion, KIMv I'loatbam. lrabe rv-lmc, rv-lmc, Herbert hiw;h;mi and Hobart I'.oMwurth In oilier p.-trtr'. tint lo nint of us K conjeti a ,1 il noVelM. fof It not a plnv thai "readj: i It." Aw n lioveltv, therefui-e, I mav tell on lhat II tvrn er.Um the reb. aiMil nf a tuii-l'l tnifeilv on the t-ta;e of J inil'V I.IDP III I77H. cl tn .Hew al the vniiltv of rietoi-H the hurt prble .if Hie ilnim. litbil wlin-p "bert liner:" are Invaii-libly Invaii-libly the oneM cut, the Irlle. lelblbb-nld lelblbb-nld phraser oT .linmallc crltlcH. are nil nn no to date nnd pertinent hh "Ibdb., Ht-unduav:" Clearlv, If tbr provlliee of Ml I Ire hi to buue ) 1 1 ell rrom evlwlnnrr, "The frill. la n failure. fail-ure. K..r here Ih evblene,. tbnt in I 7 Y'.l , nr-lora pnictb-eii 1 be '-nine pi 1 1 v iuu-tb-i I hn I c vl-M toda . -"mm-v pla v er doe i bit: ben I o "wm-U UP It. ice" thai Ih. t-. ''( ,i p.r.llloM so' n.-,r b bfi.-U . rlrop thai Hi- p.u;awi u. If. lalK-Ing lalK-Ing to i-imnot help bul Mini bin hn U j on II,.- audience Then tb.rc tr, (b 1 ibiel. u h I he four r I mlo. up an. I i ! too, s-liol low n; lb- --love,- ,,iii... : nd th-- .-ntb ntin f'.r 1 h fs mtiancrt of thf heroine- tbe tinny of tw.- supers: t tridl'ig bird.-,, and .atitiun. and other t.ds "ufT ' tiiat In v.i ri-:dv ri-:dv tome l:i at t -. run: tim-". At the pp.1. t .ic:e i- the n pot heo'.F, the ;ralid Mai-'b of tbe. Ur.cr. The t .1 ue.iv re .-.it s. . i . -. .11 see. is "The Siani.-h Ar::!.oi.i." Mr. t'ulT. the a i-I.'.;, i-I.'.;, !..t;i bad ;i ;e.-:.i i -e.m-st j. iint. I. In thi- ih.- waves are a k-i k-i b s o;' p. i f.-. ; s. inb-M. a h t r:ic-d in w:.;t. on n ,i.-..p i.;-.;L. t.ok-dr.'p. TI en there a st;lp. in t:.e muiio d"s:n. drawn a- r s the ftu.ir of t!if ?la .lust ha. k oi tne fo:l!ht t. In trin r..t!i1ic t ! i n . b-n- (.in;iv sblp;. two Hr.tisn and two spa !)!:. t.-,i:t o it th.- v.i 1 1 . r. I li i.i.-ii!-, miiowisri; ,,f i ishl.ic at b ,.'1, :- and bnmptng vi..;. ntlv, un!;l t c Si ani-h e-els s-i-.w that t'.iy h.'ive Mink by beuig tirned around l- the n-. n who carry then:, thus rrVr.iIlM; a plain blue unr-1... unr-1... e, siir:!,ir in ."lor to the ocean nn! t iie-t'iorc Indicating a watcrv pr.i Tien coincrt tbo ilninri March f of tiie r;m-!?. This Is not so ornate ii." p n d i . i l i i 1 1 k at t he Winter Oar-den. Oar-den. Indofd It i.ons:sts s.dely of an afcn;M.i;;c of t ei S. , nctors, ii ! res""!!, s! a :..' ha nd s. pp nnp I er, su -pers, nut her They mar h In two?, we. 1 1 1 nir w i i fever cost nine or street d i ess t hey u o.-t r.--ntlv w ere em -pb.yed in. and ea.-h cartvlnc n .iiifT on which .- iho-ard iDino-.nc.-i (bo name of so-v... rlvrr-i!. Kldne. th Seine, t 1;,. I I , . Null. nllil fio oil. A verv lltth- 1.1 t.ie catlbov. h Mil np-prupuatelv np-prupuatelv siim t m.dT. ..n whb h the name W in.- brn. As a cliniax. ibr uictn bi. k-.lron is Piled and Hub bir ..tie r-ncilnj, 1 m i ; ; i cn thiys t!-ere 1- a n.-MIi.i; son. in. lie-it. d bv broad stripes ..f "Min-i'Mbivi paint. And In I in' lore round f lan.i. bi ll.-innm, with a wobbly Iiehi t and a tawdrv sil'.eld. A l1' I'l'K tbe i-i, , lminor of "The ''rltlc." wbi. b va pcrti'rnied Mist at an invitalbui mailticciui M.ui-da- ;ii'I.Tru''ii, (tie slat, uin.-hlnr-tn.i b' "wit" of "Mnetv in the Slcn'c" ; feu rather heavily. thai, of course. 1 Is p.. in i r wav to Judge an entertain-meut. entertain-meut. And. wluiov.r Us own qua h l ', the pie. e pas biunght back Mane I'ahlll, fir which wo cannot give- too inucli ib;( n u.s. wn h l.-)iy Templet on living in rei h emcTil , Mav Irwin is the old V m i I iMt III t he same S it ll M m 'a hih. Su. ii w ..men ;i rn no) "1 nil to be diMuisji-il as nierdv gcnliil pci-soiuilitl.-s. True, the coni-bh coni-bh nn b'li of mi rural persona lit v and ttnlm-d skill wllh li thev crcalo t' bond of Inl Imnrv hci w eeii them-fteivt-N ami null pcis.-n in the nudi- rU.-i' i .'dilutes a wreat sliaie ,,f their popular appeal. Hill beshb-s (ri.it .MI.'.N l'ltblll is 11 colnedleni f rM'ep- tloual. tlHuigh verv llmlled. clevcr-(n-ffj hi giing hiiiuorous evpieslon to n IH v Hue, lint. nbo all. ln r sliiL:iii;i In a sheer dellr.ht, Sho lian a Hcht. but very charming. .dec, whl. h she pn.ducea wllh tiie be:-1 Krcneh nuthod; b.-r en mnda t ion Is perfe.Mii.n. nnd sh,. can aitrno her litiuu lo palho.'. i,r to humor vuh e. pial e..?c. With -iteti a i"i.ns artist as Mi-,s Cahlll. "Mnely in 1hr Shade" could to U hct,, but be ,, enl-M talntn.nl lb.wev.-r. the b,..,k lM piett- .lull and 1,'lchard farle, who M cosinricd wtih Mis- t'ahill. H ah alinosl uinnlll- g.lled burr. HP, ,.Kn. utr ,.Vl.1( n,r than himself. In on. m;. "Kooi . tsbue.'-:." he Is enlertalnliu: rnoimb that ..lie won. In whrihrr he mlr.ht be Icsm lucubilun-i il' the anlhor had d.vie inure In h. I htm, 1 ,e UN K e Mill (lie bell, .hi uf (he .b.ubl. Tlr Ih bv buy Hulton. w ho iit.-o showed m. how smliiUM he could ln p, "The I'nlleti Idol." I tn nr,-,,, , ;in Island Hi Hie Philippine nt-ch!pc;t:o mid such plol us lliere I;, rerun to concern a tiaHvo upi'isliu:. I'late buinniei hai helped Mr. liolloii out bv .ap.ph in,; niiii uilldb- jinni'iln.; hiicN mid hi-, il'lde.l one WW pl-Mlv' tuie. " .,e'- f. uine In 'I ow n." lo I he m:i era hh ..r.- i bv .1. lon.e Krrn, l'. i.buiiK . w ith mm bo ale liiakei-' of lone.i r,.ibe- (lain ntl'b tb iiiu-d.-i.niN, Mich ns Mi. Kern ! a n- mM b: laui'-K a inali, i ,,t . ban. ! I ''or c.-Halnlv be h.-... ollcti ,; l.-o 1.1 r ncd the publle h. -n t w I'll in "cat. bv " M'lnp. lb; in In 1h:- pi-ee i b. (be ulb. r luili. I. the pint p. w b..l I, .-.. i l th to inlmlt IIm- Inlio.lu, don - any happy ditty (hut happens to oc- I cur lo Mm. In nnv case, their- is Marie Cabin -and it would take u tcroal deal weaker nil et ta Itnucnt to count era cl hn tow ons ch.ivni and Hbnost IncompAvatdo ait The i-econd act serine. J to be vet inucli bet rv ttc Il t he Ulst. tuit then, we 1 Hpcali r.litoilalh- and n No cube, tu ely) had a ,riuk Ui the !n-t !n-t enn Isshui, |