, 1879-02-02

II the tsbusinessn of anv niece
produced there demanded auy such action, it
Ind to be cut out. And when on his opening
night one Of the big mirrors cracked under the
Influence o1 the heat, Augustin wcpt and
walled, aad would not be comforted, saying the
house was doomed institution. Well. so it
was. But the thing that did the business Tor
him was not cracked looking glass!
However, there WAS no such Incident upon the
OPENING or MR. zIARK1Ss' SEASON
last Saturday NIGHT. Everything went of as
smoothly as a small boy sliding down the wet
shingles Of a barn-roof. Tie piece chosen 1oI
the opening was m adaptat of DR.. Klaus"
Nothing could be fuller Of the funniest kind OF
fun, and nothing could be received Will! warmer
appreciation. The piece is string u .u2roaE-
iously farcical incidents, hitched together upon
a very slender thread Of story. II has no plo:.
q good deal of needless cacklc in it tue nrst :!
night, and what was the strangest part ol u. !.
most OF the useless and least Interesting! tMh
vas the part in which the very sim stoFy " ~.
piece was told. There were funny scenes Il alu ~
funnier situations without NUMBER; anu ILL! ..'s
was q strong element Of brilliant anu '
Obvious smut, which almost drove ule
audience mad with g1ce. At the end u
the performance suppose there coulunt na;1 ~
been twenty men In ehouse VINO kne" Mnae ;.et ~
was all about. But I'll venture 70 say lntas t;,e
weren't three people In the whole audience VINO
hadn't cuioyed themselves. Since then the play
has been cut down into shape, ana no" tun>
smoothly and evenly. $500
Wr. Tarkins has gathered about him COM
pany which cannot very easily be neaten: ~
romnrises auoug others, Charles Fisher. tranh
Hardenbergh,- Owen Fawcctt, George Chaplin
Harry Lee. Ellie Wilton, Laura Don, Mlnnie
Monk. and Mrs Hill. Several OF these are Very
strong. Those who did the best work IN : II;
CLYDE - we're Messrs. FISHER: fa"cctt' anu
lIarilenbcrph and the Misses Wilton aud Ion.
Ia Hacdenbergh falls the greatest share OF
praise. In the eccentric servant Of Or. Cyde ne
found a character which just suited MIN, ahu IL
is superfuous to say that lie maze ereat' LII:
He was recalled three times. and the action OF
lie pIay had to be delayed while ne bowed nl5
ackuoT Judgments.
THE AUDIENCE
WIS distinguished one Among other faces
WIRE to be noticed Anna Dickinson, Mckee
Rankin. Katherine Rogers with I n, joaquin
Niller, Henry E. Abbey, Slgnor Flanncry, the
Italian sculptor; Ruilmau, the tlcket-tiend;
Frank Mayo. ''krik," the sporting authority,
less noted celebrities. Mr.. Hartins re-
ceiycd at their hands perfect ovation, and,
although, he is all exceedingly modest young
inau, I'm sure he'll have TO acknowledge away
down in his nuerlnost soul that he's an exceed-
ilgly popular chap.
But abr, Clyde' isn't to be the sole attrac-
ton for the season. Steele Atacknye's new play,
t4Throuph the Dark.'' which was originally
written for Wallacis, has been goboled by MIR.
uarkius, aud will be brought out in three or
four wceks In it Harkins himself will appear.
ue is negotiating with james O'Nei1 to do one
of the parts The play Is Said to be very re-
markable one in many respects. Its interest
centres in two men Of widely different types,
aud the plot is called aboomcr.''
alluded to joaquin Miller awhile ago among
the people WHO adorned the Fifth Avenue dur
iug tthe opening night. That is what reminds
mi. Of him now. don't know that make my
self clear, but anyhow an, reminded Of him.
Joaquin, you know, is getting up play 1or
Elizabeth Won Stamwitz. 1t is called Me1lco,"
and one OF the odd things about the piece is its
piece which was written BY Louis Wider soma
wears ago, but which has never been played.
Do you know
HOW MILLER WRITES A PLAY?
He simply scribbles off about a cord Of dia-
losue, and Ills share Of the work is done. That
is the way he wrote s. The Danites." When
he had finished that part OF it, the manuscript
was given to q man named Fitzgerald, who
constructed the present play. using for thar
purpose about one-half of Aliller's work. and
adding lot more, which be cribbed from vari-
ous sources. In writing "Mexico," the UNI
tanned poet of the Sierras did exactly the same
thing. am told that, IN speaking OF 1t tue
other day, he said, very airily:
ts1 have written the whole play, and Mr. So
and-So is now at work upon the merely mechan-
ical part OF it."
Eow's that for hieha Don't Mr.. Miller know
that the construction OF play is what makes it
a success, and not the dialogue! Don't he know
no, don't believe he does. don't believe
he knows anything!
But spcaking OF. Aiiller's plays gets me
around to 's1'he Dauitcs." The piece was pro-
duccu at Booths Monday night as it has never
the same as it was in Chicago when last done
there. But the scenery was something gor-
geous. Most Of the sets we're painted expressly
Tor this revival. and the work was in the hands
of an artist who knew how to utilize the in
mense facilities Of the Booth's Theatre stage. I
don't know how long it is proposed to run
the piece, but it has been received with indica-
cations OF continuous public favor. Last sum-
1ner everybody laughed at HaVerly Tor making
what was considered rash and extraylgauC
contract with the Rankins for the season. But
he has made money by the istful, and now it
is he who does the laughing.
TuB OTHER NEW THING
is George Edgar's Hing Lear. Mr. Edgar is one
OF the proprictors OF the Broadway Theatre,
and his debut in New York has been looked
forward to with some interest 1t has been
promised and postponed several times already,
but has arrived at last. On the whole, it is q
success. 1t is not startling portraiture, but
it is u good one. Mr. Edgar has the advantage
OF being surrounded with every helpful adjunct
in tile way Of com pany and scenic embellish-
ments. The canvas is all new and approximate
Joe Wheelock, j. II. Rowe, Frank Pierce, and
Marie Gordon form the principal part Of the
support, and are all of them more than merely
good. The revival will continue for at least
fortnight
Barney Macau1ey has madca big hit In Boston
with his 81 Messenger from Jarvis Section.''
Those Hub people 9t arc ~, not always quick M
they once get fairly walked up they
are splendid audiences to play to, They fully