Show PERCY HAMMONDS HAMMOND'S NEWS LETTER By fly NEW YORK TORE April Loud to-Loud 10 shouts disturbing disturbing- the calm of Times Square last we weeK k reported the discovery 0 of a ne new genius 0 of the stage la In Miss Alice Bradys Brady's performance In Bride o of the Lamb the watchers espied a greatness ss variously estimated 1 from that 0 of Dusa to the gold golden n Sarah From the several critical turrets the news was cried that Miss Mias Brady was the finest st act act- actress actress act actress ress of DC her land and time the he first play player r 0 of the period Wonderfully b ond Ie- Ie be belief lId lief and ard gorgeously llly histrionic I ic Co Ev Even n an executive editor Ir 1 Swope 0 ot of The The World orld was wasso wasso so 10 rejoiced by the exhibition that he telegraphed Miss Misa Brady his fervent admiration As pUblished In three columns ot of 0 capitals In inthe Inthe the newspapers the followIng follo morning Mr Swope's dispatch said Your work ork tonight was the greatest I have ha ev ever r seen on any stage If made me flue think of aC that Inci inci- incident mel mel- Incident dent wh wherein Tomassa Salvini ex- ex exerted exerted ex exerted a 0 similar influence ov over r Senhor de Castro the RIo Illo Jan Jan- Janeiro Jan Janeiro eiro elro executive editor who was wal famed for his Immovability It was said of or De Do Castro that ho he burled buried his best friends without a 0 t tear ar During Salvini's perform perform- performance performance performance ance of La Morto CIllo damp damp- dampness dampness dampness ness came Into the cold journal journal- Journal ista eyes On ca ji side ot or his nose there was a a great wet furrow fur- fur row v The next day according to memoirs everyone every one In Inlo iw E-iw Rio Jan Janeiro went about eang He has thrilled De Dc Castro Castro Castro- What a triumph Misa Brady Is now established permAnently as our first actress In her It Is announced the art artor artof artof or of Impersonation reaches an apex I am In no situation to 10 protest agaInst this pleasant uprising on behalf 0 ot of Hiss Brads Bradys accomplishments The particular gazebo from which my telescopes scan the horizon orl on is not tall tAli enough to dIscern what hat Is s great acting and what what Is not Whether it Is crea crea- creation crea- crea creation creation tion characterization counter counter- counterfeiting felting or mimicry I have not yet been able to decide But 1 Bradys Brady's playing In Bride of the Lamb It if not momentous Is most entertaining to the humblest humblest lest of or the astronomers No act act- act actress roes ress of o my recent Is Ismore ismore lamore more skilled In tho the Imitation ot of spasmodIc moments in a womans woman's lIfo than I Is Miss liss Brady She he Is at least a stupendous mimic of oC the female paroxysms and hys- hys hysterias hys hysterias t In In the quieter Intervals of Bride ot of the Lamb she Is just a conventional player Ill III at ease and awkward among the real realand realand and simple things However the season needs a 0 Joan ot of Arc and here she Miss Is-Miss Is Miss Alice Brady I I I IThe The best can I-can I can do Is to Inquire In the words of CAli Caliban ban Teach me roe how bow To name tho th bigger light lights lights- lights And how the less leas Bride of the Lamb Lamb Lamb-Is Is a vi vicious ti- ti cious dous lampoon by William Hurl Hurl- Hurlbut Hurlbut Hurl but but against religious evangelIsm In It he flogs the dervishes and their parishIoners with considerable rable brutality He Ue has hal hala hasa hasa a grudge against s sensational and mesmeric cl clergymen n who ups Upset t the tranquil rhythm 0 of exIstence In the sinful communities Ills His play shows that a single w weeks week's thumping eki tub thumping In In n a middle western estern village may have consequences or of ora ofa ota a horrible character ranging from Imbecility to homicide I thought Mr Hurlbut opposition a bit distended revealing Iced fangs and the venom sacs saos or of hostility As A ono who man and boy these theoe forty years has ob- ob served the operations or of the ino even evan evangels gels gels from rom John B Gough to to nil nil- nilly Il Illy ly Iy Sunday I believe that he over over- overestimates over estimates estimates the evil wrought by the crusaders and neglects to mention the good times their victims have while luxuriating upon the mourners mourner's bench Miss Brady represents the principal victim of ol Mr Sir Hurlbut's Idea ot of a 0 harmful In the play she Is the patient wife of oC a drunken village doctor doing her best to sober him up In one of ot his more inter Inter- IntervAls intervals vals a tra traveling lIng soul saver ap- ap appears appears ap appears pears handsome hypnotic and selling glory to the unredeemed He Crane Wilbur Wllbur Is la not at heart a 0 vicar ot of evil II but just just a friendly mountebank Yet the moment he takes lodgings In her cottage he be begins to cast the Ute dev dev- devIls dev dev- devus devils ils us In As the curtain falls on the first act she Is to b bei seen claspIng his dusty boots bools to her bosom preparatory to cleaning them with h her r own awn hands bands At Atthe Atthe Atthe the close of the second act she ahe Is discovered ed swooning sinfully in his arms As A the third act ends she l is II being led babbling away by bythe bythe bythe the sheriff having ha lost her mind after atter poisoning her husband witha wIth a dose ot oC shoe polish Miss Brady In theao these stressful I circumstances employs her arous arou Ine arou-Ine Ing methods to the tho limit It Is Isher Isher Isher her puzzling task to combine the pious elements clements 0 ot of the character with Its brimstone aspects ts At Atone Atone Atone one and the same moment she must utter the sanctimonious hul- hul hullabaloo hul hullabaloo of a sinner tinner saved and the carnal whoops of ot the toe unhallOwed In case you do not believe bellove In Inthe inthe Inthe the existence of ot such such euch a strange person do not blame It on an MIss Brady Her capacity for tor Illustrating ing emotional paroxysms Is ex- ex extensive ex extensive and never have base ha e you seen It Ix exerted to 10 greater effect than thanIn thanin In Bride Brida or of o the Lamb Every Everyone Everyone one ane of DC o the first fighters was tremors b by her gorgeous mo- mo mom mo moment ment m nt ot or hysteria following the discovery that her saint was the husband of oC an elderly beauty doc doc- doctor doctor doc doctor tor ot of Parkersburg W Va Thi Th muscles 0 of Mi Miss 1155 Bradys Brady's neck tremble and grow taut her eyes assume a vacant stare and she mutters burbles and ks with all the convincing detail of or a lit Ut- Uttie littie tie soul In anguish Whether or not you ou r regard gard such skillful stunts as great acting you will willbe willbe willbe be moHd moed by th them m and will enjoy yourself a ai as others are doing at atthe atthe attha the Greenwich Oreen Village Theater Little else of cons consequence un- un unruffled un unruffled ruffled the serenity ot or the drama lovers last week Lionel Llonel Atwill played Beau Gallant the por- por portrait portrait por portrait trait ota ofa modern New York Tork gen gen- gentleman gentleman gen gentleman as s David Garrick might have played It It and with small pleasure to the fastidious Henry Miller while whilo making up to per per- perform per perform form farm In Lee Wilson Dodds Dodd's Toe The Stranger In the Family f tell fell ill III last Monday night and sent lent his large audience away to other I realms ot of amusement The Two Orphana was revived re by the younger Brady Drady with a R glittering cast Including the Nash girls Mary Iary and Florence Florencel Henrietta Crosman May KAbson Mrs Thomas Whitten Fay Bainter nobert War War nick Ick Robert nobert Loraine Wilton Lackaye Wilton Lackaye Lackay Jr Henry E B Dixey Duey and Joseph Joeph Perkins It was a sort ot or Unit Unit- United United United ed States Steel Company or Gen Gen- General eral cral Motors effort In the drama |