, 1881-09-04
Merits of Some Of the Actors Con-
sidered-Thorne and Sara
leWett..
" Felicia to Be Produced This
Week-Story of the
Play.
Attractions Offered at the Other Thea
tres-Jamieson's New Play
Gus Williams.
Nhy Henrietta Yaders Fai1ed-DramaGc
-. Notes at Home and Abroud.


go Notes at Home and Abroad.
TIE UNION SQUARE COMPANY.
The week at tile theatres was Il barren one.
The only play that deserved generous patrols
age was ''Dalliel Eqchat 1T tile Grand
Opera-tIouse, and, oWilt!. to the extreme
heat, the attendance upon It was light II
has long been u0led Us the i,ectll1ar uuailty
OF Sardo,i's style that he evolves his story
from, within outward!y. In ''FerFeoi.'' tor
example, the whole plot was told il, tie 1irst
act, aud the remainder Of the play was occl'-
pied i'll making the pcr<uns ntl the stage ;c-
Ql,:.intetl with it. The interest lay in the dc-
velolnent of character. AT this point also
is the 1ouchs1onc Of ''Danicl lsocha1,.
though the methods by which it is REACHED
art. not 1ht. same us in ''ferrcol." ''Dal;ll
Rocl,at' is sucl, play As Halzac would have
delighted i'll. 1t luys bare the hidden springs
Of motives. 1t exhibits and dissects cllar:lc-
ter. 1t is Il great morat clinic 4.
Little rcp,ains to be said OF the acting. II
could not well be better. Coglll;s:: would pre-
sent the intellectual side OF Daniel better
han Charles TloEnc did; bu1 we would not
rrust Cogi.lan or anybody else it, surpass
Thorl,u i'll the emotional Scenes Of the lust
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man call indicate suppressed passion more
ACCURATELY. than Y'horuc. Ills enormous Vi
t.Iity helps him there, Moreover, lr is In
actor from impulse. lie las i plastic mind,
Il nervous organization, the" faculty of ill.,
yent,on and imitation. lie is not stuttiolls,
and the more pity, too; but his instructive
sense Of propricty is almost uncrrins, and lis
long stage experience gives him
an advantage wj,icl, neither study
nor nature could SUPPLY the want Of.
The posit1on of Nr. Tnor,e in the profession
will he realized if uue reflects for a moment
how ditlicnlt il would be- to fill his placc
There is 1,o actor in America today who
could he to the Union Square company what
he Is Mr. Coohlan. if he eould m. SECURED
,yon|d NOT pu>h Thorne ont. hut supplement
him. Their abilities are entirely different.
Miss .1.vett has CROWN wonderfully in
nnh1jr fayt,r. Slc is tvjrc the actress that
She was m the ,ucosiou of her former an
1,earance in Chicago. Experience has done
much for her also. She is more robust. not
nnly in. voice and firurn. b11t in method. We
,Io MT see why Miss .U.w1ptt NAV mt have
:, frtur.. hcfora har M ,s ;, :. ..st,r,,-
14aa,.a.. fo.,,;iI h,,. ,. % ,,..',;-,x 80,
She is now only IL leading Juvenile The
Union Square company itself has always
oeen short of 4 woman who i1ail the capacity
-7o +ho h.o,,;,-+ fI.,,,1o ,1,n. +,va+ho, Vii,
~. .ne l.a4s 'o'es '"i.ue1 "',n
the qualities OF body and mind that would
snake them acceptable to the public. The
1aanaseilte'i' HIS oeetl oni'seo eo1lst'1ntlS ~
20 outside for Il 1eadiLg-WU1na1l. Clara
Morris ,,aS snr,.ed ~, savar~,1 o,,.,sious =,
- 4."' VA -"
aas Rose Eytl1lSe- NOW 1ua vernon mas
been called into rruuisiiion. Felicia or Rose
af;c1,c1 would h. ,l;s,inct1,. mi nf eyiss
1f3ests ""a41 W <..ott''t!'3 "o. u PISS
Jewett's Vne-pafts that SHE would not play
ff she could, and could not if size
n.o,,1dN h,,+ +horo - ~
~"oa1u-uuI u!e4o - Ao fsoou 1e''-
SOL. why Miss JeWett Should not
in ti,n,. rrnyy in3n n successor in C@,r, Nnr-
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tbs" 1Ae anahtle ot N:at unhappy woman
hangs upon her shoulders looscly- Who
a;,1 h. ro,,, IN t,lo II ,,,, ,,,,,o,, If lro,=n
M. oI 1eaus ~ .aAI ~ ~ "ne'i IL oioI's'
= By the way, There has been some rutnor of
III intention IN file mart nf thf 17ninn Sn1,are
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a1a''sei'ehe ~ oA1AiS c4sa1tt -'iot!l' helc lo1
tseas0n of one week in "CaiMilie." While
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