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Show THEATRICAL TOPICS. BOMB sayinq'b and ooinos IN STAOELAND. The RralUatlon of tha Ambition of Mr. Itlrhartl Maoineld At Latt II It th Ittt AmerUaa Actor Other Actora of Not. To tho grand gallery of figures heroic, hero-ic, fantastic auj poetic, which Mr. Mansfield, with the hand and brain ot genius, hta created, he hna now added another. In this generation tew creation! cre-ation! and few actora hare been 10 dli-cuittd, dli-cuittd, to praised anil io pursued as this Cyrano do llorgcrac, and Mr. Mam. field In the part. Although the plnr has been acted, In American, at least, but a few months. It la on everyone's tongue. The day for which Mr. Mansfield Mans-field has worked to bravely, to Insist-entljr Insist-entljr and with such singleness ot pur-pote pur-pote has arrived. Where Sir Henry Irving stands In England Mr. Mansfield stands with us. No caviling at his methods or means, no exaggeration of his faults can change this. The production pro-duction of "Cyrano dt llcrgcrac" Is not necetarlly tho crowning work of his ; career, and no matter how good It mny - - be I hope there are many greater tri umphs yet In storo for htm. Hut tho point over which I can readily Imaglno Mr. Mansfield most rejoices Is that tho American people aro accepting him and taking him to their botom at they . have, In his lifetime at least, no other actor of their own raco and country. Why, tho way peoplo are talking about Mr. MantDeld, he might have been born In London or bctldo tho tacrod Eolnol It looks ns If Mr. nilletto has mado another big hit In tho way of. comedy writing. This tlmo ho It an adaptor, as hd was to somo extent In his last farce, "Too Much Johnson" It Is from tho French, this last piece, and la called "Became Bho I-oved Him So." It It n comedy rather than a farco, although . ' tho plot tends more toward laughter , than any serious emotion. In It J. n. Dodson, that wonderful actor, has , again scored most notably. It waa A prdduced recently at tho Ilotton Mu- - yonngtters were likely to do tn their first plungo Into the etaitlcal drama. Of course their tuccctt has not assumed as-sumed any great proportions In to far at popularity It concerned, but artistically artis-tically they undoubtedly surprised even their friends. Somo good Judges of tho dramatic art think that Willie Jefferson la destined to. develop Into a comedian of great ability, and there are others who think that Tom Jefferson Is even more likely to mako a permanent perma-nent success In a line of character parts such as Hip Van Winkle. Of course Joseph Jefferson, Jr., has only comparatively compar-atively a small port In "Tho Itlvnla," but ho mado enough of It also to show that be has moro reason than his namo for being on tho stago. Tho succoss of HENUY MILI.EIt AND MABEL DKIIT in Tin: MAHTi:rt. (The Heconcltlatlon ) his offspring undoubtedly had much to do with the speedy recovery of Joseph Jo-seph Jefferson, .8r. "The Matter," which was the 'prominent novelty of Mr. Henry's Miller's last season east and which ran for over tbrco months nt the Garden Theater, New York, Is by 0. Stuart Ogllve, an English dramatist, dra-matist, previously unknown on this tide ot the ocean. It was also Its first production upon any stsge, for tho author au-thor was a newcomer In tho dramatic field, oven In bis own country, and wltli bis provlous and first appeal tor pub-llfl pub-llfl approval, "Hypatla," which he wroto for Ilecrbohm Treo, be had been master" and brings him to tho verre o( bankruptcy; sickness alto falls upon the stubborn old man, and at last, deserted de-serted even by the servants, hla Iron will breaks, the wife returns, and with the fortuno he has given her aa silver sil-ver wedding present tka saves him from financial ruin. Tho daughter, with the rescued husbanl, returns to his side, and at the curtain falls the ton, decorated with the cross, la marching march-ing by tho window, returning to the softened father, who wants to welcome him. SCULPTOR. MANBFIELD'8 LATEST MA8TEII PIECE. eaum by Charles Frohman's company. A. Ilotton correspondent wrltca to mo ' ns follows concerning Mr, Olllette's 1st- .'. est: "The gilt of the plot Is that Mra. J .. Ollrcr Welt an amlabto. but high- strung young person, who has Just changed her condition from that ot V spoiled child to that of young wife, makes her husband's life a burden to ,, him with her cxploitvo Jealousy. The , two aro all the time quarreling and making up; at latt comes the time when they quarrel without making up, and look to dlvorca as tho only rctcuu. , , They return by the samo train, but In ; ., separate compartments, to Mrs. West's C?' " borne; the, to state her sad case to Ber ;' , parents; he, to defend himself, Somc- ' , how, the parents a most genial, united f r " aRectlonato, exemplary old couple 1. tear of the two young people's Intend- jj . . ... d arrival and of their quarrol beforo ,V " the latter do arrive, and hero Is where ' " ' the old, old trick comes In. The old '.'- couple dotermlned to give the erring " . -children an object lesion and so pre- "' . tond to havo a quarrol of their own, , making each other's life a very bill on jfr' '' earth. Of course. It all endt well." i AUco Nielsen hat taken Washington by storm. It one may Judge by the .. , t nenapipar criticisms. 'Tho Fortuno J - Teller," the new Smith-Herbert comic opera In which Frank Ferley Is Intro- r during1 Miss Nleltin as a star, seems to , " .havo been greatly Improved since It . was originally Introduced. In Washing- IU IUJ '...ul IffMilhil lliul iU. iur- ; bcrt has never written muslo of such a high and yet-popular class. The critic f i ' ot'the Times ssys on this point; "Aft-' "Aft-' , .'.. or heating 'Th.0 Fortune Toller" one Is t .'- Inclined to confess that Mr. Horbort's previous writings wero puerile. .He f ,, . has composod catchy aire and dainty , ballads and ensombles, together with A ." ," Uuta finales' bt a most striking charae- f, ' ter." When Alice Nielsen mado her ,, , first decj Impression In 'Tho Serenade" H with tho Dostonlans I was qulto pre- ' ""' ' pared for tho announcement of an ear ly starring tour, but her Immedlato and "j, marked success In her first season Ui n ' surprise. to evorybody, for It li to hard to suit n young woman of Miss Nielsen's Niel-sen's petlto type In a comic opera role. But The Fortune Teller," while It ., may cot bo a wonderful opora, leomi Km to fit her llko a glovo. t The-suess of the Jefferson boys In (l their father'a ample shoes has been one ',, fwis" ' tno surprises of the season. I con- W fess that I went to the theater not ex- ictly with fear and trembling, but with dalnfnl mUclvlnn about what the obliged to becomo the financial backer ot his play to securo Its production. Now ho is classed among the most promising of their playwrights. John Hare, for whom "The Master" was written, hat presented It at the Olobo Theater, London, and Edwin Terry haa given a third ot Mr. Ogllvle'a plays, "The White Knight," at Terry's Theater, Thea-ter, In both Instances theso productions produc-tions In London followed runs In this country, the first named having succeeded suc-ceeded Martha Morton's "A Bacholor's Humane," In which Sol Smith Itui-sell Itui-sell mado a successful scaioa here, and the other having been preceded by "Tho Olrl From rarii," which E. II nice has been exploiting In America during the pait tcason. Thomas Fa- niCHAIlD MANSFIELD AB CYRANO. ber, tho character assumed by Mr. lilt-, ler, has been given the sobriquet of "tho master" In his boyhood becauso ot his' dominant nature. It has adhered to blm through manhood, becauso It applicability Increased with years. Ha Is a self-made man who brooks no opposition op-position either In builncts or at bis boms, and has become the ruler of tho financial market. He plans to marry hla daughter to a favorite nephew and to receive bis son as partner In the firm. Tho daughter loves elsewhere and the son desires to enter the army. As they will not give up thotr plans In favor ot his he turns them adrift Tho daughter marries and her husband, hus-band, a mining engineer. Is entombed alive In a mining actdent Fabers wlfo wants to go to ber daughter Id her dlttreis. "The master" refuses to allow her to do so and when sbo persists per-sists be tolls her sho csn never return. re-turn. The favorite nenhew robs "tho |