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Show I "COUSIN KATE." After the stridency and high tension of the ; recent Savage operatic engagement, "Cousin Kate" came with all the fragrant serenity that follows storms. . Not many first-nighters were present, possibly because they feared to lose the delightful impression left by Miss Ethel Barry-more, Barry-more, who appeared as the winsome Kate a season sea-son or two ago. "Cousin Kate" will never make a decided stir in stageland, it is so unpretentious a little love story. But it will probably always be popular, because it tells so refreshingly and BARNEY BERNARD, as ''Lena" the Gorman tmrso, in "Tho Sleeping Beauty and tho Beast." I quaintly the old story that is everlastingly new. i Miss Gallatin is not to be raved over, but she is withal a very fascinating Kate, and showed an artistic ar-tistic appreciation of all the possibilities of the role, which indeed are not manifold. Wilfred L. j Roger as the artist was robust and pleasing. Cecil Magnus may have qualifications for the stage, but they do not appear to consist in ability to act. Miss May Wells was very delightful as fj the widow, and the Amy Spencer of Marian Mc- l i Donald showed that the young actress has con- siderable talent to work upon, i i.f i |