Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1882-09-14

"A household word, in connection with
her impersonation of Fanchon, took n
new departure and appeared III new
play called Elsa" and written for
her 10y Mr.. Dazey, n western journal
list. 1t is an adaptation of Wilhelnine
ven Hillern's famous novel Geier-
Wally," which has been translated i'm
TO several languages. But the adap-
beauty of the life, the thoughts, the
sorrows and the pleasures of the Ty-
rolese Alps has only too frequently
been made TO yield in favor of the con
ventional and commonplace. The pa
thos of the novel and the German play
has a strategy ilavor in Elsa. Miss
Mitchell can hardly be said to have
satisfied the critics. Ii was my fortune
last season to see Frau Elmenreich
play the heroine at the Gernania The
atre. With the excellence of her por-
traiture still fresh in ones mind it cost
insipid. Her mannerisms, which have
made her Fanchon the standard, mill
tate against her in her new play. The
fact is that, like many other excellent
actors, who have achieved fame and
money by playing salne one character,
or set of characters. so much that one
cannot be separated from the other in
the mind of the theatre goer, they can
not leave well enough alone. There
is HarrigGn and Hart for instance
They made an immense success of
their series of vaudevilles illustrative
of lower Irish, German and Negro life
in the city. In fact, it became quite
the fashion among upper-tendom to
drop into the Comique. Instead of
keeping on working this mine, which
was almost exclusively theirs, they
could not resist the temptation of fall
ing in with the present craze for melo-
drama. The Mulligan's, the McSwee-
ney's, the Skidnores, and all the 9TH
er heroes of their creation, of whose
adventures the public never got tired,
| have been consigned 10 oblivion and
the Blackb,rd substituted. Such n re-
la sh of old and new plays as this piece
is has seldom been seen, md OH the
first night the audience amused itself
by tracing the origin of the various
which go TO make up this dramatic bed
quilt. The only things which save il
are the scenery and mechanical effect.
which are charming beyond descrip-
iion, and one scene, representing All
Irish wedding, which introduces the
scenes of uproarious fun which made
the Comique such II success.
This evening Mankind will be
produced for tie first time ut Daly's
theatre. The play has been quite u
success in London, but as Mr.. DAILY
has, as usual, adapted it, tina chances
tiveness. laula Dons new play, :" 4
Daughter of the Nile, in which she
was to open her season at the Stand
ard, could not be produced last Satur
day, the evening fixed for its initial
representation. Matters were i'll sucl
confusion in the house, the carpenters
being unable 10 get through in time
that the people could not be admitted
The play. if at all well constructed
, ought TO live, for in it Miss Don vii
introduce a. number of specialize
, which are very novel. Among othe
things, she will draw an instantaneou
crayon portrait before the audience
, and play IA whole scene made up as
marble statue. Nowadays if u play in
troduces no specialties it is voted |
. bore, and Miss Don will, therefore
q probably please that queer mass q
F., many heads, termed the public. Tn
first night has been set down for to
morrow.
j., Madame Theo is hard at work re
/, hearsing her company. In my letter o
two weeks ago ! stated the new Casin
would not be ready for opening by tn
9 11th of September. From the look
f of the establishment Aronson will b
4 fortunate if he can open its doors b
October. He either makes wild prom
:. ises or he lacks the energy and abilit
:. to fulfill them. At all events the put
lie is beginning to get tired of hin
- which is very bad for u manager, an
r particularly new one. Mr.. Grau wi
o. thus be compelled to bring Theo ou
y at liaverly's Fifth Avenue Theatre, tll
q scene of the triumplis of Aimee an
/, Paola Marie, in every respect n yer
!. desirable place.
a. herbert Spencer, j ain assured by a
-, acquaintance who met him while tra'
:, cling in the Catskills, is n physici
wreck. lie is mortally afraid of NEE
Il ing anybody or being talked to /
- strangers, and thus confines himself e
> clusively to the society of his travelin
n. companion, Mr. Edward Lott, an
II spends his days in roaming through tl
:. mountains, AS regards writing, tia
II is out of the question ut present. B,
m as he purposes TO make an extende
tour, going as far as Canada, and n,