National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-04-07
ACTORS IN NEW YORK.

Nym Crinkle has been interviewed by o cor
respondent of the Baltimore Bulletin, who clio
tied his ideas on topics which are of sthuman
interest" Nym is recorded as saying: ''There
cannot be a very general excellence Of perform
ances in New York, because there are so few
good leading ladies, notwithstanding the con-
tinuous efforts of Miss Morant to produce q
dramatic progeny that the country shall be
have not added much to the stage casket. New
York, with its eight or ten theatres, has at this
moment but two leading, women who are at
all worthy of that generic title-Miss Morant
and Miss Rose Eytfnge. Miss Morsnt is no
longer conspicuous in the roles to which she
can add lustre. She divides her time between
teaching and tripping il in French comedy.
Miss Rose Eytinge has returned to the st&ge
with unimpaired talent, and has been accepted
as an artistic of experience, and delicate, in
tuitiVe perception. Beyond these there is lit
orally no one.
''Clara Morris has gone irretrievably into the
stellar void, and can only be seen through the
telescope of star engagement. Miss Dyas, .
special importation, Is good looking, dresses
well, Is graceful, has influential friends, but
she can't act. Agnes Ethel has disappeared
beneath the placid waters of matrimony, leaV-
Ing MOI DuDOIe DelIuu II r8Iny davenport
had shown any leading ability, she would have
before this been gathered to her father, taking
her dresses with her. As It is she Is kept to
Jump the skipping rope in Days theatre for
the amusement of fashionable set who think
more of dress than defamation. Jeffreys-
Lewis, of Wallack's is q clever artists of very
limited talents, lacking both the strength and
the range of ability to supply that house with
leading lady.
''The actors that we have in the two or three
respectable theatres of the town command an
episodical and not continuous attention by
accidental fitness rather than nell determined
merit. Thus Mr.. Chafies 4, Horne has won 3
great deal of praise Tor his comedy acting In
Led Astray,' but he was newer known before
to have either ambition or success in this par
ticular line. The hit that he has made is owing
entirely to the accident of the part fitting him
and not he the part. Most of our young comedy
actors lack breadth in every respect except
shoulders, and as that Is a quality which the
tailor can supply at viii, / do not see that It
should command much respect. The tailor and
the haberdasher have become so potential IN
modern theatricals that 1t is little better than
slop-shop business.
When a piece is read, these actors pick and
select, or are fitted by the slop-shop dramatists
with these old clothes according 10 their deVel-
opments, COMBINATIONS, protuberances, and
curyatures. The effect of all this upon the
we see young actor like George Clarke, who
at one time set out to scale ParnassUs with
Shamus O'Brien in one hand and Agnes Ethel
in the other, now dickering and dancing am d
the old clothes of the Fifth Avenue. All Is
talents have taken textile turn, his gait is
borrowed from q lay figure, his gestures ere
hike the flap of wet muslin, and his very srticu-
lation Is muffied in red flannel. Even Shamus
O'Brien would hardly recognize him buried
under this costumery.
D. N. Harkins, the leading man in Days
theatre, is endowed with much of the vigor and
vascularity of cayalryman, and charges at all
roles and all situations as though they were to
be taken by storm. lie has rolled himself, not
indeed in the American flag, but IN Days
silken banner; and is content to die to the vol
uptuous blessings of Padovani. John Gilbert.
the last and noble type of q famous race Of
actors, still looms up, when he hasn't got the
govt, like one of those castles of his native.
land, mellow with age and ripe with tradition.
George Fawcett Rowe, scholar and q char
acter-actor of no mean ability, wandered from
his own legitimate domain of art to thrust his
head into the American jungle, where he gave
a war-whoop at which everybody laughed. He
then retired" .-.l .....r-..