| Show I PLAYHOUSES OF THE METROPOLIS By fly D Actors Acton IO Davies new nets American play piny playa T a rigi LA t blow blew Into e York this week Icek and in III spite of or the ex extreme eXtremo rome mildness of ft the weather experienced a frost which must mutt of ne nit necessity nip their maiden efforts error IS In the bud bUll They did not riot however all nil meet ascot failure In the tho saran samo degree Winston Vinston Churchill The Title IllIe Mart Marl anti and Wil Williams llama liams Walkers now new musical piece Abyssinia by a colored librettist anti composer fell reI down so no hard haid that there thoro little possibility of any an rebound to 0 them while at nt the Manhattan Hu list Hupert pert Hughes The Triangle though It missed by a 0 long way the lull bulls billie eye of o success contained one ono act with so good dramatic material In It that It hold hoid out a hope that sooner or lat hat later later hatem er em Mr 11 Hughes If It he will only Oil perse perso vera Vre eie will turn out a alron and na national American play pIn lIe He calls caile his dram 11 A Play liay of u Manners but lUt us itS n ii 1 matter of fact fiset no nu stage singe ever exhibited a IL Her of or alleged society people p ople who e goings on were nere more mitre crude and un uncouth couth Colitis The heroine Perica Van luyn the ball bail of had bad manners rolling by proving herself In III the first net act to be bo bothe bethe bethe the most uns character in III tto play pIny The Tha scene Cene 1 is III laM lal l on the Iho golf links link and ns liS everybody knows Its one ont onto of o the thu I rilL t rules of or that game hut thul pla players ers shall not stop slop for tor private conversation on the links while playing the game Hut But the fair fall what cares care she She even cun runs rune the tue risk of being hit by one 1510 of or the other oIlier golf golt balls bails while she Rhe pauses to tell the tha young joung naval o III Henry Forks who loves Ions her bier devotedly that ho he may kiss her lIer If It he tie Is h Hure sure nobody Is looking then utter after he lie has bin taken the risk rink and ond collected the premium fill tulsa a calmly Informs him that she he titus has just become be engaged to little Willie whoso whose most notable are ar a weak chest chut a debilitated liver a I crabbed cl die dis disposition po position anti OIHI unlimited millions After fter thu tho marriage and Henry Henr still quite brokenhearted meet In iii tho the Amer American heart ican drawing Mil room In Paris and the fair Mrs Irs Enslee again allows positively po Insists upon hl hI Isle kissing hues hei again lignin The third act finds them all nil back In New York Two society women call on Mrs lr and grossly Insult her In her own draw drawIng Ing room Then Henry arrives and ani tells lell her tier that hat their must end eat at nt once one way any or another Either ho will trill resign from the navy nalY at nt once and elope with her lice or else they the must never see noe ce seeh ach oh other as 08 on account of bIN hi attentions to her ho he Is liable to b be at any an moment for tor conduct unbecoming an UI and u it gentleman who has ha s developed u a conscience c by b this time those declares that she wl will 1 nut not ruin multi hU tile 1 must part forever but first fint of or nil III they have vo just one kl kiss kin Title This kiss 1118 de tie lopes Into Inlo n II long farewell embrace and onel when the lovers hovers finally tear them themselves selves apart It U Is to Mini themselves covered by thu Irate pistol l faints promptly us any uny date sO society I ty I In n 0 pl would do under the circumstances hut the bravo brave faces the tho husband bl U lit him in shoot If he hue thames dares res The Thu de rho decrepit little husband loses hoses his isle nerve the pistol drops from his hand Henry picks It up pills It In his pocket and II 11 I goes out of their life lICe forever Just hero comos comes tho the Hist re real l moment In the Ihn play Husband an wife wire ore ari confronting each other othol when the butler buller announces dinner Youie Youle not lICIt going to let th servants know pleads the woman 1 J think you OU might trust mat Iru l to my good breeding for tor that the tho husband anti and they mute their exit to the dining room The final ic scene Icene ne shows the Site dinner In progress soup lOUp to nuts null Verses lenell dutifully mixes her husband A n cocktail H lie He drinks It then IHen begins to 10 glower flower at al her WhIle I the Iho servants are arri In tn the tha room ream ho Iso and an l lI I Perses Persell manufacture small talk taik but the they tiley leave leao he taunts her bel Ily Uy the lie time the lie rOilS roast Is brought on mat flint matters tars are arc nearing a 1 climax Perses stung by b his calls CRUS him a coward oward He his Willi afraid to lo Urn tire hula his pistol she he de declare l clare clarN and anul an the lit littie tl tie man picks up the curving curvin knife amid rising from his hU s seat nt remarks I 1 may Y have too much of ot a n coward to 10 kill your OUr lover lo r but Ive IV got luek enough I to wreak my veng upon you Then he stabs her just beneath the heart utterly ruining h her r black velvet t and her a mortal wound I 1 hang han you OU foi fos this gasps ca i Per Persis t and ana I 1 hat hiete to ti think of jou yuu d dyIng on the gallows So calling to ii lh the butler who lice has just she hu tells toll him that she else Is 19 dying and that slid she wants waists him to remember rem that she hall hail d herself te with the carving caning knife Then wIth her last breath oh she turns to tJ h her r anti and says fays At AI heat I you must admit that I die 1110 like a II thorough bred br Thin Thur scene feme In spite of nr some JUlme tl SI held lick the th audience and brought t r tone IanI rone one anI real gleam of r In eie ei e i tutu into whet haul been b n an iso nl nfl extremely tinge performance That capital act lIf JIl or Ferdinand gave a re remarkably r fine tine performance of or the hus hue husband husband band and In sonic some of o the scones scenes Icon Miss MISH Charlotte Walker r was extremely cf of e as os r rise Triangles chances of ot success however are arc limit limited ed eu to the one final scene There was Suns a good deal cleal of Interest In Inthe Inthe Inthis the this production of Abyssinia for Cor tho the reason reu on that It U was wall the Urn time that a IL first elms class theater like the th hi Majestic hind had sheltered a n ploy piny written acted anti and staged entirely by negroes The color line was drawn sharply at atthe atthe atthe the first r rV v of ot the balcony no color 1 spectator being heing allowed In the hue orches tat but between the acts nets the lie occupants availed themselves of all nil the room In tn the lobby lob b and and foyer to er md greatly to the consternation of ot mine host here Heir droves of ot negroes Invaded tho Us th I beautiful restaurant nod cafe next door In itt of liquid refreshment It Il wars j jn I I In n a rather try spectacle and i t ithe the clientele did 1 not teen seen to 10 appreciate It any ull more mon titan than they lucy did the tile piny po Abr Is II a hopeless I proposition from Crom any point of or view vie Williams cud 1 Walker HO re uncommonly I clever cleer comedians of that lint thero there Is U no question but hut their new play has no wit wl r no rio situations no tunes tune nail and absolutely no fun tun In It II Walker and nil III the other I member of ot the lie company com pan except Wil William liam linin who tuho used usell use his Isle familiar burnt brunt cork makeup teemed po lf of or the hue onus one i desire to act and look irs IH much Ilk lIke 1116 whites as us possible Tho Iho result was that thal the lie women In Iii the troupe made up Ul with 1111 it h rouge coil and powder ponder presented tI a ghostly appearance and aM the entire ne I if f fany any havoc 1111 V to tile the pu p ruined It from n ii 1 commercial comm I point of ot slew lew Williams wise in hll day tic 1111 ond generation was content con lent to re cc remain e main the same lazy negro that he h has hall always s bellI upon the hue stage and while tutu alike applauded him for tor his hi genuine genuineness ness lIess Ills hilts old song Bong Nobody which h sings Inimitably was wits the only real h ht t of the night It H Is II safe liae to say y that It will be bo a I long Ions time before ore a n theater of 0 ofha the ha standing try suich h an nfl experiment again In their old line of or work Williams anti Walker were ex IX funny unity men but they tho ought to 10 remember the old proverb oboist about tryIng lo to gild the lily Illy for It works vork both wass wa s sI I wont dwell on the thie Title Mart at nt atthe the Madison on Square for tor the Ih very rr Rood good reason that Mr Ir Winston Church ChurchIll Ill Its author has hall already thrown up out his hands and announced that It will willbe willbe be ho withdrawn As All a n play it was en on entirely entirely unworthy of the man who wraP wrol e successful novels lUchard Car Carel el ei anti the CrIsIs Its humor wits was of oC n a 1 hard shell brand and Its charm leI loss cm Just so many Im Impossible Impossible possible stage types which lost all cli their usefulness s years ago Tho ho happiest manager or In New York today Is undoubtedly 0 G O n the Ille veteran manager of or the tile Academy of at Music The enormous financial SIC Due uc cess Cecil of Mrs Leslie LeMIe Carters six weeks engagement at nt IsIs theater nt lit prices has practIcally II proved 1 the tho torn log Ing In point In tho ho career of or this tills fumo old theater which roost moat of ot the tho theatrical cal managerial 1 tee ItS were wert hi ginning to regard ns as being out nut of o the tinning on account of ot Its 1111 being so o till fits down town loan til hot it since Mia Mis Curlers Carters Immense success In lu her r repertoire there then Mrs Fluke I has hOIl declared her har In his Intention of or th there thero ro for tor weeks e k In April r and one onu of or her first conditions which Mr and Ml Miss s 8 Marlowe Imposed In their con cun contract contract tract with wih the was that tint they the V be he hooked booked nt at the Iho Academy for tor several weeks next Bertha Beitha Margaret Anglin All 11 n Do De Wolf Voit Hopper Blanche Bates and Jefferson De Ito Angelic Angelli will wi also RI o en there Charles who tidied nailed foi to I II I n a I few rew days day ago uto UIO Intends totemic to tomake tomake make moke a n series cries of o new 1101 predictions of or orl l pla ilas s at hi his London between now no and June Those succeed of or course coUro will be prod u d dhere I here hare next lext season but hut tho the Immense inn HUe nine e cess ss which Mr Ir Hopkinson the Ish farce has scored at the Sawn SaI h I tins s son consIderably on shaken the faith of cf C all al those managers who turned it I Jo dOV down downIn MI In their ability to 11 out a 1 Lo play piny pia which America In hI going to LIke Vesta VictorIa the new head ln r rat at lt the Colonial Is I a n clev clever r tot coi line comedienne who male made 9 it 1 lilt twelve years Ago go In tn that old oll delight bt Daddy Dadd luy Me Ie A Bowwow In II response c to 10 a n general demand this singer will revive her old hh She made thus decision rather suddenly when some with little wih hair hall anti and lon long recalling the th pointy palmy days coys of ot the Ih 00 club and an Pus Pas Pastors toms tors tots Insisted on the old number as an an ira encore It I will wi b be Interesting to see sec lec them nr rum rayed competitively side Ride by b side slee the lie b bygone gone Rone ditty and her recent success My Iy Wife Wont Vont Let at Me Ie The latter has ha hia hud bird 10 wo o great Krut a vogue ogue In London that the has hu become bomo one ono of or the lie catchy phrases of oC thus the One theatrical day Is ns its 10 to and 12 1 years vears as t 10 therefore the tuneful tun tul song Bon Bono of o a I ago ao DIO may mn s 1 seem m ln very aw leu d tory to th h vo inger generation b hl 1 t t I li h I bo be nd sid ld 10 in awaken n akell m lolle for or th thild tf hF lId ild ld pla j I Ir r ju I I Vesta Victoria Ictoria will wil be heard In her character at lt the tho rind Ild the lilt n after ICer she nho closes her popular engagement at lt tho this Colonial It I may ra ranoL not noL be bu 0 In lit II these hose thelO days of ot booting banting to remark that Miss 18 Victoria lifts has If I not It Ith p h olI lly her eight years rib Wu W it con can CUl stunt stand n it few reI Ung 1 11 lieu llah lub ol of at h r caliber At AI the thu other theaters the tho attractions are Empire Umpire Theater Peter Pan Knickerbocker Mlle Modiste The Girl of ot the lie Golden West I t Fields Julia Bonbon New Amsterdam Am J rl ne Min Minutes Mm ln utes ule from Broadway New York Th The Rogers Brother In Iii Ireland Fire The rho Alice Alie Sit SH by 1 tho thu The Tue Hudson The rhe Duel 4 of Music The Thue Heart Hear of Maryland Fourteenth St Hope The rise Cup TIm The Dalys Daly The Fascinating Mr Ir Van Princess PrInces Brown of Harvard Savoy Sao Mr on Hippodrome The Society Circus Herald Square George Georgo Washing Washington toss ton tOi Jr Webers eLers Twiddle Twaddle Tho The Triangle le Gallops Square Tho re Title Mart Garden Theater Ra normond Hitchcock In lit The rho Gallopers The David In III the flue Music Master Liberty Libert The Redskin Lj I Lyceum I Thc Thu Lion 1101 lund and Ind the Mouse ACTON DA DAVIS Via New York Feb Tea 28 S 1900 1906 |
