| Show AMUSEMENTS It was stated In Saturdays News that Friday nights mammoth audience ut at the Theater probably represented ted the high Vater mark In tIme tho Nanee Nance ONell This sta statement ement must corrected The gathering which poured Into the Theatre Saturday night to see seo Oliver Twist out the other othor water murk tint and supplied t a anew new one that has few lew In the tho hIs hIstory tory ot of the house houKe Time The re receipts could not have 1110 alien below and at pop popUlar ular prices this moans means every Inch ot of space above and below of both standS InIC ini and seating room occupied It wOuld e been a 11 even en fr tile the opening ot of the most ble kind ot of an and that It marked tM the thIrteenth consecutive pet per ot of Miss O ONell ell Is the rarest t trIbute This town could have hav laid lold at ather tier her feet teet n II would have been dIfficult to find a apIa pIa play better botter advertised or one on which the tho pUblic imatt been better worked up than Oliver Twist Thu horrible Ira pres lons which It left leit here years ago when rendered by Lucille stem anu and James Jamell A home Hurne the tho fact that Its 1111 rope titian by theeo artists was prohibited and time the further tact fact that that has been advertised and ever since Ince excited the tho curiosity ot of the younger generation all as nothing I fIsc could have hlo done and olti time then thea theater ter goers who hall had behold beheld the thc pIa play Just as eager to see IlIe It again In tel few worda It must he be salt Bald that the lon by Miss ONell and Mr Ir Hankin tully fully justified the public cray cra InC ing Nothing more admirable therm theIr rendItion ot of anc ant Sykes has been seen here In that particular line ot of acting sInce Miss MIls and Home I themselves portrayed chariw tere While they Were Ire twin twIll star larts In S Saturday nights presentation Mr is II probably entitled to first The absolute brutality utter utterly ly lip unrelieved b by one glimpse of feeling which h belongs belong to 10 the character as Dick Dickens ens ene d drew w It was all most faithfully and portrayed b by Mr r There Is probably no one on the stage today oda certainly not on the American boards who vho could depict tIme the character with such minute fidelity ne lie nehn hn had 1 time advantage o of seeing the great at original ot of the mote rolo In this country E EI I 14 Davenport father ot of Fanny Daven Dann besIdes beshle himself In Mi company ny so PO that lie he hind nil all the best tradItions ot of the role ut nt hIs fingers ends Miss ONell stood of at him She Rhe confesses In conversation that she M never approaches the murder scene ceno In Nancy NAnc without n a feeling ot of anti one can well Imagine thIs to be till the ease rendition It II fashIoned closely on time the lines ot of Ml S though she he does doe not go to the tame same horrIble extent In plastering her head with blood In time the murder scene that that thal dill did She manifests good taste by so doing for tor time scene as she rendered it II was Wal horrible to servo all as a night nightmare mare accompanIment to the dreams or of I people for tor weeks to CUlna comae The scene In the garret where Sykes Is suet recovering ruin hIs illness Wall vas to the he highest t degree finished on th the part ot of both bolh Miss lIss ONell ONeil and Mr Hankin Mr r lenient Fagins was IOS uneVen the rime d dJ J airing scene when time the old man was wall about to be carried to tire the gallows was superb In the play his hili make makeup up mit tiki not suggest l proper alf age alfand ant and the hebraic touch was hardly pro Iro pronounced enough Mr Decks Old had II a thoroughly Dickenson bIn Ilin atmo atmosphere What A or n a Tim Ilm thIs would make Mrs Oller Oiiver Twist Twill was neither youthful enough nor plaintive enough Mr was Rn an excellent Dodger The play at time the bet best Is IA but n a sketch md and unless one dra draws WI heavily on lila his knowledge ot of the lire hook It would full rull ot of gape The Theold Theold old hai haa or of Olivers ex with Mr Ir Bumble and the end shows Sykes death which rounds It off more satIsfactorily than the present ono one Tonight will be sn seen for tor the last time lime and there is Ie a heavy advance sate human opens Its engaGe at the Grand Orand tonight U Is said MId to bo be an up melodrama Inter b by a stroll Compan Manager alT arranged n cm brIef or orgon tran gon recital for tor loll Miss Oell and her om corn pany panr ut at the close CION or of the tho Tabernacle tier ser services vIces yesterday Prof Irot rendered sc everal ml numbers and Miss ON II went Into over his work It at her reo me he gave aVO the tho Intermezzo from trum and at the conclusion she warmly him and complimented him on attainments his as aa a performer |
