| Show No Praise for lor by New York Critics Maude Adams Not Fitted for Role of Rooster NEW V YORK Nolle None of tho ho Now PiP papers rs gave ga e a much praise to the tho production tion of with Maude Adams In tho title rolo role whIch hall hail Its first pro pro- d net ion here Monday ii night t. t They rather damned It Jt with faint and some Mom of ot the tho critic ere with It rho critic of the New York Press Is lIS the tho taoIst most caustic caus caus- tic lie IIo suld In many respects It was as 11 a disappoint mont ment For ono otie thin thing Is la more a poem limn a H drama Tho Iho satiro It contains Is too loo subtle for tOl tho O pla playgoer gocr and Anti the symbolism needs a diagram In itt tiie library It may anar bo he enJo enjoyed en- en Jo joyed Cd b by the cultured but wo we do not KO JW to the to hear lIelI 11 ii reading Unless Un- Un less we expect tho the readers reader to b be thor thor- r. r comp competent t nt we would vold rather do i our own reading leading We Ye cp expect ct to bo be entertaIned en- en I wh when n ho he h go to the pIa play an and for most mot of the thc M. M r. r Rostand and his adapter Louis N N. N Parker succeed In boring u us One Opportunity for tor a no Thrill Tho light c between n and the tho Game Cock at nt tho thio close o of the third net act might furnish tho lie single dramatic thrill that thai the Rostand plot hod had given us In th the th perusal of the printed tale If It Il could coul have ha been transferred VivIdly l to tho the stage Instead the lie combat occurs In a ring formed around the tho game g-arno chicken and tho barnyard hero shutting out the ihu tots tors' view w nf or It It Thi result re I N hi reported to tho the audience but tile the Game Cock l I Inot Is not keen ticen afterward while comes out of ot It with no dra draggled dra led tall tail feathers I and no further evidence to 10 prove piove he lie has lias been In iii a u fight ht They managed man man- aged this bettor better In- In Ina a burlesque called Tho rho Romeo produced hy 11 William VII Wil liam ham Morris nt at tho American last year c rI r. r I I am not so gO sure that an any actress I could have ha put mt the thc breath o of life Into this play Certainly Miss SH Adams failed In lie attempt it Is no part for tor a ij woman It requires masculine force orco anda and anda a a keen souse sense of arlot variety Miss 1 Adams struck tho the plaintive note monotonously Sh SIm did not strut enough Sh She played It like Lad Lady Babble and nod Voter Peter Pan Sho hue was waR never nener the cock coel of ot the lie walk A good actor ml might ht ha have ha mado made the tho baffling characterization char char- worth Tho The best of actresses never nC could I A Demonstration That Failed Merely for tOl the tue sake salie of the record and more marc In regret than iliac In any desire to put In a n knock against one who hasso hasso has hasto so to often otten given en me real delight c I must write down the strange fact tact that an attempt attempt at attempt at- at tempt to arouse enthusiasm for Miss dIss Adams after nete the third act fell disastrously disastrous disastrous- I ly 1 fla hat flat t. t Tho rho fault faull of the failure waa not nol hers It was Rostand's with Charl Charles Charlea 3 Frohman a ni as nn an Important acce accessory Maude Adams did the best sho idin ho could Sue Slip should have been such uch an un ordeal Tho The New York Worlds World's Verdict I The New York Worlds World's dramatic critic had this to say a y of or the tue play cock at last has hns crowed In a. At tIm the Knickerbocker theatre last night an and before another of those thole eagerly expectant Indulgent nl t t ii rons which alwa always s 's gather when MI Miss s Adams ms IB 18 n to appear In a new role lolo Charles Chirles Frohman made mAlIc tho the lion tion In the EnglIsh Ih language of ot the tho French poets poet's cm curIous Ions 1 Pia play In a translation by Iou Louis s N N. Parker slightly altered to remove remo the tho purely purel Gallic application of if tho the work worl For or months mouths tho the play has lias been heen anticipated antici as tho the event of oC the dramatic season season sea SOIl son On and the rush ruh to see Ice It was prodigious Long toro before the tho curtain rose rOle the tho Ih- Ih theatre was t hilled filled and the sidewalk ann 1001 lobbies were vere blocked b by disappointed crowds that could rould not secure oven o standIng standing stand stand- In Ing room J From the tho moment the prologue pro pio- logue was wa spoken the applause began for fOI th the fiall frail feminine little star l. who was att attempting an aggressive I and gigantic masculine role roll The curtain wn WAS lifted again and again In response e to the up up- roar rone lengthening the drama far beyond the time actually needed for tor Its perform perform- ance Reception a a. Personal One This acclaim for Ml 11 Miss s Adams does eloes not necessarily mean that she sho l to her audience tho the vainglorious cock of Rostand's Ros lies tand's ands strange barnyard or 01 that she could realize the full significance of or tho the rol role In Its application to the tho theme of thep the tho p play II Her t r r reception was In largely I of oC a 11 personal nature It would have ha been the fame same had sho she been heen Impersonating Little Eva in a n new version of Uncle Toms Tom's Cabin A As to the pIa play Itself It will vIli awaken unbounded curiosity and it will surely rail call for great admiration as ns a 11 spectacle Whether It will be ho so sn strom In II Its Ils anneal nl on its dramatic side Is a matter which Is h by no means mean c certain The settings four In iii number and of oC great beauty are exaggerated d so that the tho relation of their size to tho the stature of tho the barnyard fowls ot of Rostand's fable Is preserved Never Never- th hele lf s fi they thE art are iNen very en rv H arid fbi v v furnish the desired l Illusion lu As R a spectacle spec spec- C t-acle t alone should A attract Ih the town while Its philosophy and nym- nym holism will give Ive rise to no end of arsu- arsu mont and discussion The pia play requires the largest cast CAt that Charles Frohman ha has hall or organized for a a. production since tho the clays davs of V LAig Alg- Alg Ion Miss Adams Not the Hit Alan Dale dramatic critic of th the Nf Now New York American g SAyS ys incidentally In the tho cour course Q of a lengthy review of tho the performance The hit of th the performance was achieved not by bv Miss Adams but b by Miss Bla Blayney ney who as the lien Hen Pheasant W Irresistible This was the real de dolight do- do light of ot the thA barn barnyard From tho tim moment she entered until sho ho left us the lieu lien Pheasant ant captivated and charmed It was waa as utter r femininity In the Ihn right r was as utter litter femininity l In th the wrong place So In the scenes between the tho two It was the lien Hen Pheasant Phe whose poetry got Stol us It was as the Hen lien Pheasant whose dainty birdlike femininity at attracted at- at It was waa a personality not unlike that of Miss 1 Adams but hut de demanded demanded de- de no such guch treatment as HS It received tonight It reI received d the attention of oC a perfectly delightful actress unversed In the brutal attack of tho the sex Rex she tried so gallantly to impersonate |
