Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-03-06
THE DRAMA.

THE DRAMA.
"Dr. Clyde" ut the Opera House.
The extended run enjoyed by Sidney
Rosenfeld's sparkling comedy of CDR.
Clyde" at the Chestnut Street theatre, has
placed that production among the comedy
events of the season, and its initial sue
cess has been followed up by continued
manifestations of popular favor wherever
it has been produced elsewhere. 1t was
given at Fulton opera house last evening
by the same cast and under the same man.
agement that secured for it the approval
Of large audiences in Philadelphia, Balti-
more and number of places through
interior of Pennsylvania, and the
stream of humOr that flows through it,
pure and undefiled. furnishes ample ex-
PLANTATION for its quickly achieved
popularity. 1t is charming little
story abounding in piquant incidents
farcical situations, and pervaded through
out by a deep current of fun which culmi-
mates in the fourth act in the side-splitting
scene between the doctors servant Higgins
and the sick farmer. This latter incident
is intensely mirth- provoking. Higgins. being
ambitious to follow in the footsteps of his
employer, who is an eminent physician.
undertakes to attend one Of the latter's
patients during the doctors absence. In
the doctors books for the proper reme-
dy, and discovering the bottle to be
empty, calmly prescribes for the sick man
out of the bottle next adjoining it, on the
assumption that its near vicinity
has given it measure of the vir-
tues possessed by the proper medicine.
Afterwards Higgins is pursued by remorse,
imagining he has poisoned the man by
some deadly concoction, but the patient
turns up at length hale and hearty and
overwhelms Higgins by expressions OF
gratitude for his miraculous recovery. The
plot is simple, if indeed the succession of
incidents comprised in the unfolding of
the story may claim such designation.
Julia, the only daughter of a rich retired
jeweler, who is dOting parent, has mar
ried Lord Hammond, who has been a
scapegrace, but who has strong and sin
wife. The embarrassed condition of his pc
cuniary affairs was not known to his
wife at the time of their marriage, and his
readiness to live upon his father-in-law is
source of annoyance and secret unhappi-
nses to her. DR.. Clyde, her crusty, honest
uncle, takes the case in hand, and, by PIE
tending to Lord Hammond that his father
in-law has become bankrupt, and that the
latter's money advances to him have been
chiefly responsible for the disaster, arouses
the young mans better feelings and sets him
earnestly to work to retrieve his fortunes.
There is pretty little sub-plot centrins in
DR.. Clyde's own family, the love-making
episode between his daughter Emily and
Totbury Smms constituting q very
amusing by-play. OF course the funniest
character in the piece is the doc
tors man Higgins, whose ludicrOus
pretensiOns to medical knowledge,
grotesque gravity, and terrible misappli-
cation of scientific terms, are intensely
comical. The Interpretation of this role
by Mr.. Ward was a clever piece of comedy
acting, while MIR. Turner as the austere
but kind-hearted DR.. Clyde, MIR. Woo'ler-
son as Mr.. Meeker, Mr.. Fitzgerald as
Simme, the bashful lover, Miss Palmer as
Emily CLYDE, Miss Myers as Lndy Hm-
mond, and indeed every person in the cast
gave altogether satisfactory renditiOns
of their respective roles.
The fair sized audience present appeared
to enjoy the performance thoroughly, as
was testified by their frequent applause
and continued merriment. The play will
be repeated tonight, when a large house
may be reasonably looked for; for last
night s entertainment commended itself to
liberal patronage.