| Show I I i FOOTLIGHT FLASHES I The New York World any 01 the = v melodrama The White Heather I i The name ot Eeviral score of other I clever people decorate the Academy rogrnmm The rogramme Pays there rre 300 In the cast I saw on mn enter six times through the door In the Stock Exchange scene with six aylng I I I I I 11 I expr anions and I wondered at his energy en-ergy and economy But notwlthstand ing that tact t It Is a well populated play The scenery Is exceedingly good I and correctexcult Lord Angus chain bers which are redolent of furnished room on the extreme went side For throbbing Incidents sounds smells and I I good cloths The White Heather Is I remarkable for mechanical effects and scenery It Is I unequaled but for any likeness to human nature It cannot banded ba-nded Scribe had a way of making every Ingle In-gle thing said or done on the stagq hinge upon the development of the plot He vas a terrible stickler In this matter One day ho said to a young beginner who had coma to him tar advice ad-vice My dar youn friend your hero leans a gun up In the corner at the room In the first scene and that gun dos not go art once i In the whole play What do you want me to say of u piece In which there Is I such a tremendous flaw In dramatic construction Charles Ho > t and Demnan Thompson are to collaborate In writing a play In which Mr Thompson la t to play the leading role Mme Sarah nrnhardt has for sometime some-time past ben anxious to disprove the I oft repeated charge that she always dwarfs hr cast and so has accepted a play In which she does not appear until the third act Clyde Fitch has Intrusted a new play said to be of the Jim the Penman order or-der to Herbert Kelcey and EIHe Shannon Shan-non The acting of the Americana In The First Born as tell as In The Cat and the Cherub has brpught out from a number ot the London critics the strongest expressions 01 pralse for the ability 01 the actors to delineate character char-acter role Plans for a permanent English opera op-era company for New York have about ben completed and within a few weeks an i organization equipped In every way to pront the greatest grand operas will be seen theve Julia Herne daughter ol James A Herne Is playing with him In Shoro Ae I |
