| Show I THE PL PLAY IN NEW YORK In o I ence I iw W YORK Del Dee tIn these N duys nobody ever eer reads Lei Les the pIty It modestly on corner it 11 hairy side by side with rise rhu the Hearth rho Cho Xo ew Don and other 1 it orka 1 tt lifetime tor or the II ami require almost II a lifetime tOl or the reading No novel or of which this lIIa may b said nil ho bo put 01 the tho stage a amid 1111 It Is 18 rather Wilton Lackaye real tZI tOtS tOIl before ho be began the ut of VIctor Ictor hugos under tinder till title of The rho Ul IV th ho he presented bolero It at the theater Mr Ir made mado tots cal s ago ogo but nil as ho he Used to lIay aay 1 Did II a to product produce It I 1 cant oven even timid a manag t to ItI The Thc volunteer It at lest t was ivaS s antI time the piece tvis gIven before Lb mOt lit I the club climb Jise fhe anti anel the Mass however Is not II a good phi play It a play n at 1 a ot of Incidents You can take It mue that 11 no dramatist alive alho can CIUl make a 11 ploy play out of at a book containing more mora than a 0 hundred thousand wor r There Is 19 far car too In a 11 el tikI Ilku that to he be Into two hours and a half The 1110 and the tho Mali Just skims Lee lell Ollsta bles and even evell then the rapidity of action Is some somewhat what second scene 01 o othe the tho prologue tOr cor lasts oni anI 12 minutes and In that time Jean Val Vai jean explains his condition to Bishop cutS dinner goes to beth bed asleep has hns a nightmare waken steals the tho roes oell to the high highway Is or ro rested ht balk back vindicated by th sa saved veol by God Time Tho sort ox OXa 1 a U 11 minutes that ought to appeal to strenUous president The lh Law and the tho Man Inn covers perIod of it IS years It has bias nino each treating ut of some separate Part of the book All As 1 a result the Is trag rag tary disconnected episodic It hM hare hareno no more construction than one of those pictures that jumps from place to place Ur Mr Lackaye II so for tor US use the incidents or of suffering In the ot of DIJon after his release from prison on ot of hIs salvo In the tho homo home ot oC Welcome ot oi othis his accession to the tho position ot of outlet malo maloof of teme of isis hili confession lon of Identity to M save 0 tM the d wheel wheelwright wheelwright wright of his rescue of Colette from the tho wicked tricked 0 of hl hIs from their garret In the Rue Hue anti and of his death Nil jUst after the or of Cosette and Menus As 1 Is Inevitable there thero are thrilling and vital moments in III the melodrama blAt In Instead stead ot of striking the bulls eye like a bullet the play around It like hike Is II a monologue rather than thana a role but Mr lr prevents Its being monotonous by bringing to bear upon It all his line IIno qualities ot of versa ersa and characterIzatIon Most 01 o othe the supporting company Is tory though credit for tor good worle must b ho given ghen to Melbourne MacDow MacDowell MacDowall ell all John D OHara F Jet Jef frays tres Lelo Is Josephine Sherwood The scenery te Is excellent There anything In tile the wold much moore trying than II a first night at this the theater where now and Ind again Some Bome now new melodrama I seems deserving ot of atten alten lion to draw regular critics s Into the ot of penny arcades and mu mIt Thirty years fars ago the fashion and culture of the city drove to the thO doors drs ot 1 tItle this hou house e to see aeo Charlea Charle Fletcher and Clara Morris but last week when Deulah Poynter appeared there In her own dramatization of at Mary Iary J 1 novel navel Iena flyers and culture were conspicuous by their absence Man Alan D Dale lo sat tO t I behind mo but between us ue was wasa B a large lady whose enjoyment of her I evenIng was both bolh emotional and amid gas During the tho enactment ot of qUIet scenes she qUEer ether proceeding rena sobs lObI or rOom the munching or of chewing sum guns I wa nt able to make out The orches orchestra tnt tra ot of the was filled with pee plo pia like her and front over the ratting railing of o the gallery appeared a frieze ot of heads that would have put to shame the designer ot of At the Circus flyers proved prayed to be without wrecks automobile races or orether other ether mechanical features It I Is Just the tho kInd k nd ot Of play phy that ought to please old people who maintain that nobody has ever written a droma to The Tho Bankers Daughter I ray rny ought to please but It for If the tho piece 1 revised today these old people would find The Bankers Daughter just nl as and sIlly as 15 I found Lena ena H All the heroes on and al assistant nt heroes and hero herol l Ices In Miss pIa play were much too good gool rr thIs world and ond nil all the vII lairs and 18 villains growled and andS S In n a that would have betrayed Instantly to anybody less leu obtuse then thAn 1 a hero Lenae sweetheart 11 art whose name sounds Ilk like that ot of f a Scotch whisky but SU that Lena Ienn was havIng an In with I Ith a who ho really was washer her ather so M lie he her of being that m mans ns which I Is an RI ow fist thIng to say lal on street Lena Ienn retaliated b bY hitting him in III the 1 10 C with 1 a baby blue gloVe giving him the mitten as In molt moat literal fashion Afterward Mr Dale Dille tells me Duwart and Lena svere mantled but t I mIssed this About tIme tho time It happened I was eating B a frankfurter s In I a room on Sixth S avenue So basely material nr are areo we u o III this year ot of our Ird 1906 SI The fhe subject of theatrical antiquities rings b us ue easily tuft gracefully to Minstrels now playing an 1111 e at thE Now New York theater Its a pity that Is dying out o ut said tho lady jady who Roes goes to the tho heater t with me No other form torm of e Is 80 50 of If our o ur stage That probably was the opinion of Law Dockstader lie went farther tarther lie tea rea s The ordInary show of o f tOdAY has nothing about It i t except the burnt cork nd the first p art All the tha rest reAt is 18 simon pure illa v I will still get up a minstrel nce ance o that wilt will be II a mInstrel perform nce lince si nothing else lie He has hIli succeeded There Is no CUb club winging swingIng s or In the NI Et t at the tho Ne New York none Ol tho he t specialties that hat to be huddled t and called an 1111 ohio Time Tho a following the first part are aro m atts presented by the ona a ns and dancers of time the company and there here t Is no mm that they ther ate are the he t beet ot of theIr kind lint But ohl how t they get to he the e Is over oer ono one has resolved lIever gain again a to hear t song sung Hung or see eee II a Jig danced ul It one can help It There are ato two t sketches of the kind that used to tobo toe bo b e extremely popular In the tho days daye ot of Thatcher hatcher T Primrose West hut bul that thal seem s silly and childish Is It that minstrelsy m has gone back or that Wt we weave havo h ave gone one forward himself is III extreme Iy l y funny tunny aft as usual In Iii the tho first part parthe hu he haa ha two excellent parodies roo to t on Dearlo Deane and Waltz Me io Again Willie White while his tao mo r entitled The Tho Editor In Introduces t the comic to our cur current rent ent r topics that have hlo always beaus the salient allent feature of his skits So tar far tarliS fars liS a s mountIng Is the tho ion t la is one ot of minstrelsy do No comic opera could have been more t and elaborately staged To realize how weak anti and ive t is II The Daughters Daughter ot of Men en even eveD u as n a sermon ono one should see Eee The Man Manof of the Hour lit at the Sevoy ThIs Thill play by George depicts political cal conditions In any large city In III America though the tho Intention to show up New Nel York Is II so ao obvious that aUdiences laugh lauh heartily on their way out cult of the tho hou house o when this orchestra plays plas Mr lr comedy beat about the Ule bush bURh after the fashion ot of Charles KIlns Kleins Tho talk of at corruption anti amid graft gratt In The Man Ian of at the Hour Is not onlY but faithful to the tho sort ort of thing that Is said under such condl condi tie its In the tho first act Charles WaIn wrIght capitalist tells RIchard horn gun gon boss that he wants II a street rail way franchise granted Hero is III the tho dialogue that ensues how dOI doas this In terest mile me 1 am a 11 firm believer In the present administration and I think It would work greet great Injury to the cIty to have It sUP superseded ILS as I ant am willing to tow toward r 1 the tho expense ot of the comIng campaign to keep the tho present part party In power fair enough hut taps himself on the tho Cheat l whenever r I havo anything which looks particularly good I om nat never averse nerS to giving Q a a to make somo mone money so ro I will carry shares of IJo Do rough stock to YOUr account market markot price 63 I days after the tho franchise Is guaranteed that stock should Sump Jump 35 25 poInts point That Thet will give you ou a 11 profit or of 3 7 fOr mo me and you will malus millions I 1 thought I sva a better friend of yours ours than dl did 11 I value my m frIend friendship ship lit at shares at the present price Then It If tile the advances os ne you ou say It wl will I shan shall make a little over Some time afterward HorrIgan 0 1 vises vices ono one of his Imie aids aide who I is afraId of the 0 of scandal have havethe the money when thata all blown over ise he says Then they asic how yOU got gal It or where you got It but how much ot of It youve got ot 01 0 the tho honest homiest whom Ime ho has put Iut In office and who subsequently refuses to do his hili biddIng he Inquires Who elected ted you 1 The Tho people ld replies the tho I ImBor flayer The Tho lieu hell they did I reJoins an del der talk and 0 a succession ot of ploys plays like Time The Man llan of the tho flour II is certain to hare hao an Influence for tor clean cleM administration tion ot of affairs Robert pia play Will sins presented l lb b by Grace Elliston at It special matinee last Monday at this Hudson Miss El EI hue hns been giving a mo moat t unsatisfactory I factory In The Lion Ilon and the tho Mouse and just why she Bhe should attempt BrownIng nobody could guess The production itself shed Ih light ht on the problem Henry E has conic come back to tile tle with The Tho Man In the Box nd there thero have havo been one or two other revivals but ec except pt for tor these and tIm at al rend ready not noted d the week before Christ mill proved rather uneventful |
