New-York tribune., 1878-12-21
ORR BACHELORS AT THE PARK.

The play Of "0ur Bachelors" which is COM
narauyely new pieoe and which derIv,s new fresh
ness from the clever and tasteful manner In whch u
has been revived the Park Theatre where last ngh
it as reproduced for the benefit of Mr. Crane ana Mr.
Robson-was apparently suggested by Mr. Leonard
Growers hash called Our Boarding House,, ana tnat
niece In turn of than one popular farce OF
the last generation. In "Our Bachelors. we may re-
mind the reader, s presented highly exaggerated PIC
ture OF life IN a clearinghouse in NeW-norK' Ine
persons who through this picture are the ihuis
and her daughter and servants three bachelors VINO
hoard with her; and q couple OF lades-widoW ana
maid-wno are Implicated in the plot OF the piece one
of the bachelOrs-oldis hater OF women ana OF uar
mopy Another-hkewise Old-is music teachel' "ho'
like old Gobbo has ga kind Of taste and "doih SOME
thing smack" in fact, is roady to smack anytbiE '"l
may happen to come along IN pettioOsts. Ihe thru
bachelor is a mere juvenile "spoOn' There Is sun
another-nepDew 10 the mysOgonist-whO is betrothed
TO tue widow. This youth, having just arrived nome
from Paris where he has been leading gay te meets
this wdow-o whom lis father has by letter. betrothed
him. and whom he has never before Seen-ln the Ceha
Park There he scrapes acquaintance with her by
picking up bracelet which she has dropped and then
still ignorant of her identity loses his heart TO her The
piece concerns itself with his eortsin which he ~ as
sisted by his uncle, the wOmanhdter atoresld-o ooSe
himself from engagement to the widow, and at the
same time it illustrates the comic proceedings and per
plexities elderly musiceaeher who's 40 intensely
desrous 20 be married. and clumsy, or accidental or
volatile In his ways Of wooing that he gets himself ell
gagged to three women at The wOmanhater Tesents
this apparent bertnsm on the part OF his ancient cou
rade and these bachelors thereupOn violently quar-
rel and huT the other out Of the boardinghouse WlD
dow salient point in the farce is the camOrOus pur
suit of each other that these two eccentric and NOISY
persons make, and the appearance Of the discounted
cOmbaant, after the frsy with bloody nose II may
be gathered from these particulars that the incidents OF
GOur ichclOrs are trivial, incOnsequent mostly lm
possible and altogether absurd The piece never rises
above the low level Of a rough burlesque Of common
life. Its parts. however have been put together with
skill and an air OF municipality incident to the lead
ing characters and partly ENHANCEMENT OF their
acous and the perplexy Of their condton-s difnsed
over Its whole structure 1t derives some comcaity
from the e1pedient OF causing repeated avowals OF
matrimonial intentions to be made condolences TO the
old bachelor who hates marriage and who Is hereupon
driven half frantic by the thought that all his acquain
tances are going INTO the perdtiOn of Hymen 1t treats
with good drOlery the musc-teacher's several inter
views with the ladies' adrotly puts him at crosspupOseS
with the matchmaking andady and at last presents
him. with these three engagements on his hands at his
cOunt y-house the HudsOn-where the situation
vastly like that Ofan opera boufe There s "n
intermediate In which the womanhster visits the
widow to misrepresent his nephew, and in which the
nephew, pretending to be drunk. visits the widow
20 misrepresent bimself-and finds, when the mis-
chief has been done. that she is none other
than his acquaintance OF the Park. The Lead
ing characters O,cler and Juan Bangle fashioned
for Mr. Crane aud Mr. Stuart Robson who find In them
the vehicles for much aud various eccentric humOr.
The strength the charscterpanting is in the persona
tion Of JOrer, ny Mr.. Crane There is however much
ehirruping oroery in the demeanOr and action of Mr
Robson The piece will be represented this afternoon
and evening 1t Is aceordsnt with the frocsome mood
of the time, and affords occasion for happy
Issone and Mr. samusI Coyiiies company will present
~Ihe Babes il the Wood"