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Show I The Mummy and the Humming: Bird. j You will be very much disappointed when John H r Drew gets here in the spring, that is on condi-H condi-H ' tion that ho plays the thing which bears the above j title, and which is from the pen of Israal Hender-K Hender-K A son. The disappointment will be in the play en-BS en-BS ", tirely, however, not in the players, for their work B j is exceptionally good. Especially is this true of 1 . Lionel Barry more, the latest member of that H I t ' famous family to make a great hit. His Giu-H9 Giu-H9 seppo is the most wonderful piece of character H 1 l, acting on the New York stage, and will bo more H I ;v freely discussed in a later article. The story of BUI ' "The Mummy and the Humming Bird" is the HBl j usual well worn story of the husband ((the Mum-Hi Mum-Hi , my), who unintentionally neglects his wife of Ullj If' the villain (the Humming-bird), who fluttered in u at the right time to charm the wife away, of the "j clandestine meeting in the villain's heavy red apartments and the discovery by the wronged hus- U band, and then the reconciliation. And the worst I of it all is that a few minutes in the first act suf- 1 flees to let you know that all this will happen. It III ij isn't refreshing, it isn't even novel, and but for Iff 11 ' ' tho work of Barrymore, it would be almost mon-I mon-I J l otonous. His is the hit of the play, but Drew ; lj is perfect as the young English scientist, and acts H m 'Pj it better than anything he has done for two or H "p three seasons. I ' v Margaret Dale is his leading lady. She is H B b sweet and charming as she can be, but her ability I B 'Ik is not great. However, she wears her beautiful I fl (lt clothes well, and that goes so far in the metropo- I j' lis. Guy Standing, who was so good in "Brother HsB '' Officers," is rather too stilted for the part of the IH i I Italian literatture, but his scene with Drew in the m " third act is very artistic. As for Barrymore he K will be mentioned again his work is worth a H: ;B r, story for himself alone and he makes the silly I I v play worth seeing. |