Show MADAME janauschek iter appearance in III the drama of or 1131 mother other and son sou P our c expectations x with regard to the brill brilliant i ant dramatic star that has made bohemia illustrious as its ris iris ing ilg po point i tit and lias bas blazed over a civilized ivi I 1 1 d universe with undimmed busier luster were not exaggerated janauschek on tuesday evenin evening 91 gave the visitors of union opera house the grandest performance in tho the dramatic line that it has ever been the lot of a ft re resident ident of the junction city to witness within the limits of the corporation if not also outside owing 0 wing we suppose to tb the tile smallness ness 13 odthe of the stage and the limited facilities of the establishment the illustrious madame was compelled to select for her appearance in in union opera house her tamest piece the one requiring the least and simplest amount of explosive emotion her agony As as outraged medea her despair as deborah De borall bouhl havo have been iti encased incased cased and stifled like a thunder storm in in a nutshell As it was bl mother other and sou son with its pathos and grandeur its passion and outbursts more than filled the place with violent reverberations mother and son is a domestic drama in aristocratic circles it is the tile able dramatization of a most popular swedish li novel our neighbors by frederika bremer whose literary efforts have lave given scandinavian prose an honorable rank in the literature of the world be moral of the play is that a mothers love melts in forgiveness before the bent knee of a son imploring mercy on bis lead bruno the tile only son and only child of the countess Countes ss of mans feldt is a headstrong wild adissi abed fellow he falls into the of usurers to settle ais ambling gambling debts and in a moment f pitying impulse he steels a bag of dubats from his mothers strongbox to screen his stepbrother rom shameful exposure the theft discovered before bruno aas an opportunity to explain the matter to his mother an lion tiou is instituted by the stern und and strict countess resulting n the exposure of the son who beng being accused before the whole fam ly ily and servants refuses to confess ais guilt or cr to ask pardon and rushes rustles from the castle of his ances ers rg burdened and seared with the withering curse eurso oilier of her who gave birth fifteen years yeara after a mysterious stranger appears antho in the neighborhood of the counters countess wil for several years had been seriously y affected 1 1 in mind and body by jy the 1 heartrending heart bean rending severance of the tender ties between mother and son bul but lias bas now recovered lier her unusually strong will power clear mind and masculine management oilier of her own affairs the goun coun hesss surroundings including lie ile step stepson eoa son stephen and his vivacious wife rau iska take great interest in their n new ew neigh or who proves himself a most philanthropic man mail of un bounded means but the greatest interest iu in the stranger is taken by Ili selma elma tile e niece who at the time ot of brunos Bru nog flight was his li is beloved little pet ten years old only and who r still aill harbors hia his memory faithfully in her bosom the de romilly is introduced to the tile countess of mansfeldt who takes a singular liking tobia mixed with an inexplicable aver aversion tion but the eyes of true young love eee see clear and selma recognizes bruno in the strange guest and the curtain falls overt over their beir enraptured embrace now all that remains odthe of the plot are the efforts of the family to bring about a reconciliation between mother ami and son it is the birthday of brunos Bruno 8 birth afie countes countess it iu in whose inmost it heart the pride of offended maternity lias has long given way rt ay to the yearnings for the loved aly begotten remembers the tile day da y in in the sombre solitude of her cli chamber amber which is broken into by lier her vira veracious cious daughter in law and tho sentimental selma selina their combined combi tied humor and sentiment aided by the mothers own grief at the long separation finally break the tile barrier of pride that lias has walled i the mothers mothe rs heart against lier her once wayward but now reformed son and the tile cuic curse is is bitted lilted from brunos lead head L the ble blessings of his mos mo abers heart mingling ill ecstacy s taca with the kisses of hia his I 1 bride ride so much for the play As for the playing play ing there is 13 no pen adequate to tt depict t the le mastery of the eminent tragedienne ira ge dienne over all tho the heartstrings heart strings ri nm 0 of f bulli humanity anit Y the tile transition from r tho tile coldness boldn ess and hard nessa of a marble statue to the longing grief and the melting mercy f from i OM the tile fierceness odthe of the cureo curse clerc gothic T 0 tb i in in it its grandeur and inexorable in in ita its intonation in toa tion to tho yielding elding softness oi of the blessing an and tho the gushing llew flow of reconciled love lovo is as great as marvelous roar yea as miraculous as the transformation of the greek p tr tore inanimate marblo marble to t abe h e living woman and aud one grand feature there is about madame francesca elmana magdale na janauschek bo il her er wild mind wrought u up to the tile height of indig nation at tho the infamy 11 of affects her son or be her heart affected by the irresistible impulse i eulsea of mercy and forgiveness ehe she towers in in dignity above her ber surroundings aebel as as above her sentiments aa as saul towered a heads length above the philistines hers is 1 the carnage carriage the gesture the tile facial expression the look the smile or the frown ol 01 a queen a queen to the born her aati acting is living her presence on the Z boards ion ads makes ho the play a reality to the heart an actuality to the feelings her power not only draws tho the easily flowing tears from the willing eyes of the audience audien cZ but it keeps their pulses us as spellbound spell bound and almost stops their very breath at tile intense intensity ty of her more than magnetic influence it is fit that a star of such splendor should not be dimmed by the obscurity of incompetent support and we are glad to state that mme ame a company are artists from the crowns of their thir heads to the soles of their feet mr alex H stuarts bruno was an ail excellent impersonation first of uncontrollable troll able ungovernable temper and waywardness and afterwards efdig of dignified manhood clouded by the shadow of remorse and illumined by the tile glimpses of hope and love As selma miss ada monk represented the exuberance of love and tho the strength of affection affect io especially peel when she told the co countess the tile dream which was to break the spell that had bound of ico the heart of the mother her sad rad sentiment was beautifully relieved lieveld by the sparkling grace and quick wit of franciska Francis miss bliss V brooks whose humorous sallies conscious and unconscious often tempered the agonizing pain of tho the situation as sunbeams line the cloud with silver mr george D chaplins stephen was a pleasing appearance pe arance and mr ogden stevens palmer reminded us vividly of the good steward of the staid old country mansion the rest of the support filled in a merveille making tho the whole performance go clockwork clock work there is only one word to add as to 0 o the audience not only might it b have be been more nume numerous roul la but also vastly more expressive of its appreciation cia tion ogden audiences are hard to please we know except it be a burlesque boisterous brutal minstrel show but a art certainly ought to be sufficient to draw more than faint and feeble attempts at applause the true artist can well dispense with these evanescent marks of success but an audience can call scarcely afford to betray ray such coldness indica indicative tiyo of the absence odthe of the spark divine |