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Show By GEORGE JEAN NATHAN. (Copyright, 1016, by the MeClure Newspaper News-paper syndicate.) ANOTHER season draws now rapidly rap-idly to a close. A revival by Miss Anglin iu the Fulton of "A Vvoman of No Importance," a revival re-vival ' by Arnold Daly in the Cort of Mansfield's "Beau BrummeU,' a to-do with scenes from Shakespeare by the halt-portion company in the Lilliputian Bramhall, the opening of tho new Rialto theater, to be devoted de-voted exclusively to the screen show, the Percy Mackaye masque and a few other manifestations, and the stage hands roll down their sleeves. What the nature of the prosecution's prosecu-tion's summing up? Although one hears that, at least so far as New-York New-York is concerned, the season has been a lusciously lucre one for the impresarios, the fact persists that it has been a not especially signal season for the admirer of first-rate first-rate drama. Of all the many new exhibitions made in the Broadway mosques, how many still linger in the memory? "Justice," the Galsworthy play, stands out in the light as probably prob-ably the season 's most important presentation. Next, Brighouse 's " Hobson 's Choice. ' ' And net, shall we say ; Frederic Ballard 's ' ' Young America "? With these three good specimens, one must not . omit a record of at least two short plavs exhibited by the amateurs calling themselves the Washington Square players; residence, the Bandbox. Band-box. These two pieces, "Tho Clod" and "Helena's Husband," to wit. are of a grade of merit that lifts them above the Broadway welter. This lot, in a word, comprises the season's honor roll. x "The Boomerang,'' an entertaining entertain-ing and delightfully acted and staged trifle, is just that a trifle and as such scarcely meat for profound pro-found study. "Fair and Warmer." Avery Hopwood 's excellent farce, obviously does not come under the head of stuff seriously to be reckoned reck-oned with. Noi. do the dramatizations, dramatiza-tions, though adroit in the main, of the Potash and Perlmutter tales and Stevenson Js ' Treasure Island. ' ' Miss George 's revivals of Shaw 's "Brassbound ' ' and "Major Barbara" Bar-bara" and of Langdon Mitchell's "New York Idea" brought to our notice pieces with which we are already familiart though the lady 's exploits in this direction were praiseworthy. Aside from the plays named, the stages revealed little of importance meriting a commemorative commemora-tive criticism. A statistical review of the acting brings to light a better showing among the men than among the women. Among the unstarred and m unfcalured male performers we find the following performances deserving deserv-ing of record: Wallace Kddinger, in "The Boomerang"; Benjamin Sweeney, in "Young America"; Ferdinand Got.tschalk, in the revival re-vival of "The Duke of Killi-kranlde"; Killi-kranlde"; Gareth Hughes, in "Moloch"; "Mo-loch"; Conway Tearle, iu the several sev-eral Playhouse revivals; Barnoy Bernard, in "Abe and Mawruss''; John- Cumberland, in ' ' Fair and Warmer"; A. G. Andrews and Whitford Kane, in ' ' Hobson 's Choice"; Theodore Hamilton, in "Back Homo";' Charles Winninger, in (strangely enough) "The Cohan Revuo" (this performance is cer- .u tainly something more than a mere ' imitation of Mr. Ditrichstein ; it ia cabotinago of a loftier grade) ; Everett Butterfield, in "The Unborn"; Un-born"; Pedro do Cordoba, in "Sadie "Sa-die Love"; Lewis Edpard, in " Captain Cap-tain Brassbound 's Conversion "; John Daly Murphy, in "Erstwhile Susan"; John Barrymore. iu "Justice"; "Jus-tice"; Frank Bacon, in "The Cinderella Cin-derella Man"- Thomas Wise, in " The M'errv Wives"; Lvn Harding, Hard-ing, in "Henry VIII"; John VV. ( lope, in ' ' Erstwhile Susan, ' ' and France Bendsten. in "The Fear Market," and "Mrs. Boltav 's Daughters." Among the unstarred and unmatured unma-tured women players we find fewer instances meriting critical celebration. celebra-tion. Aside from the admirable per- k formance of Miss Emily Stevens in - (Continued on Following Page.) : x'yS ' y.:W "i ; ;;J: . K:. A-JV.-::. 'w .7p&m-: - -2 :-:vx ,:,.s a i ' ; - v y: J ; " - ; - ' . A ',.'." : w "'.;.:, .. -":: xi?' y.A- . ''".j-.k m hi ' "' . - v.jgi:.. x.is'M "x '' x ' ' i i . p xrzx . x yxy'M f; ." M $ H ''-X ' ' tX : . - I . 4- -ixX; , ( :V "'X, . i ' ' tV.aSTS.TL.d 10.Th8 Wv coming to the Salt La Across the Footlights (Continued From Preceding Page.) "The Unchastened Woman" (this actress was starred only after she had created a deep impression in the leading role), the following are approximately the only instances of uncommon skill: Madame Mathilde. Cottrelly, in tho Potash and Perl-mutter Perl-mutter play; Miss Madge Kennedy, in "Fair and Warmer"; Miss Gernldine O'Brien, in "The Devil's Garden "; Miss Marie Reiehardt, in "Margaret Schiller"; Miss Lcnore Flrieh, in "The Heart of Wctoua," and, possiblv, Miss Lillian Alhert-son Alhert-son and Miss Cathleen Nesbitt in "The Devil's Garden" and "Justice" "Jus-tice" respectively. And yet the sob-sisters of the New York daily gazettes and monthly magazines are busy proclaiming it as having been a woman 's theatrical season. So the summary of statistics. TWTLTGHT bills at New York's two foreign playhouses, the French theater, in West Forty-fourth Forty-fourth street, and the German theater, thea-ter, in Irving Place, aro, respectively, respective-ly, Edouard Pailleron 's mossy piece " le inonde ou l 'on a 'enui, " done originally in the Comedie Franchise thirty-five years ago, aud "The Princess of the Nile," mh operetta in three acts by the Messrs. Arthur Laudsbcrger and Franz Cornelius, with music by Victor Hollander. For the presentation of the Pailleron Pail-leron antique, M. Bouhenr, director of the local Gallic stage, assembled his better known mummers - and, with the kind assistance of tho gentleman who printed his handbills, hand-bills, so obtained what is known as an " all star ' ' east. Mme. Disk a appeared us the sapient duchess, .Mile. Giirrirk as the saucy Snsanne, M. Saulicu as the green-eyed Koger, Mile. Greu.e as .Joanne and M. Bec-man Bec-man as the voung under-prcfect. After the performance of this farce the theater will present Urieux s " L "Engi'diaiine, " "M011 Ami Teddy" Ted-dy" and "La Petite ( hocolatiers " for one week and will then drop curtains until the autumn. "The Princess of the Nile" is the successor to the Irving Place success, " KovaHv Dnners Waltzes." Whv this latter should have attained at-tained to a run of ninety performances perform-ances in the local German theater is somewhat difficult of decipherment, decipher-ment, T ret-all having ceen the operetta oper-etta something like four yea rs ago in the Kaiscrftrten in Vienna and of having been unable to persuade mvself to remain out the performance. perform-ance. The performance of the .;e p at the Irving Pln.-e, 1 did not see. Its epecial adroitness may have been, to some extent, responsible for the acceptance of the com nion pla -e. materia in the lo nl Teutonic, community. com-munity. "The Prineos- of the Nib-" has been, it would sf em, equa My auspicious aus-picious in capturing the fancy of the Irving Piaec theatergoer". The operetta wa imported f rnm Berlin, wh err. the war h a s n ot a vail e rj t o impede it lengthy run. The libretto of Die piece i of the acquisition by one Zed-lelmaun, nn antique dealer, nf an Kgyptinn nium'iiv, who, for plot purpose-. cnmes to life one day everv thou sand year. Duly corning to lite, t he mummy, a princes., falls upon the axailnblc Pnnneliit kt-r, a rum-hound, rum-hound, as h'r fatloT. The mmeilv reult from the efforts of this ';in-nc'uK'kcr ';in-nc'uK'kcr tn marry off the trouble tome princes, and yo s i m tilt a n onos lv tnnrrr- off n vaM ric 11 noila t ion of bilU whi'-h the hn-sy hat eo n t ra -t . I for per-'.n n 1 f i nt-rv. Christian jt the I'anro'ki'-ker and Mi. Mai-gnret Mai-gnret I'briian- :m attractive ees. The et.Tibrette rn!.- it l.jin.ll-l bv Kbie G..:-.elv. Other lo-e:,-.. are Wrb IV v. Ibm. r,,t..r ki'-'h'T an- l-Ai-en K"H"r. Th" ate light and r.nl isnplea ant. Mr. ffoiiaude- v.iii be r'--i Mr .J as- t lie corn prefer ol ' ''J n u r 1 1 n . ' ' |
