The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-09-23


vacation, was opened on Saturday week,
with much heralded play Taken from
Life, in which half dozen English ac-
tors and actresses made their first ap.
pearance. The play is finely mounted,
the costumes are notable, the stage mi /.
olinery intricate and successful and IL
introduces a live horse and terrific ex-
plosion which nearly lifts the roof 1t
tells of stolen child, celd-hearted viii
lains, arrests for forgery and murder, and
all that sort of thing, Land while not
quite SO full of gore an the small boys in
the gallery would relish, is All inconsist-
ent and unnatural mixture of.the regular
Bowery style. with no literary merit
whatever. At the
UNION SQUARE
the "Black Flag" is still waving its
troubled and volulninous folds over viii
.ins galore and sensational episodes
enough to stock dozen dime novels.
Thank goodness it was replaced on
the LIST inst by The Rivals" with Joseph
Jefferson, Mrs. John Drew and good
company. Hasten the day when this
grand old play lifts the Union Square out
of the dramatic mud and restores it to
the affections Of those who have in FORM
er years been proud to be among its sat-
isfied patrons.
DALY's THEATRE
once the recognized home of enlivening
and spirited "sooiety plays" has been
given over to a complex, impossible, in
describable mass of villainy, intrigues
and absurdity called mankind, ,"probat-
ly because no other equal number OF
mankind or womankind ever acted in
real life as the people are made to do on
this stage, The play is superbly set and
has been we'll patronized, there must
be large number of people who are con-
tent to contribute to the triumphs
of the upholsterer and costumer. 1t
Is announced that the Irregular season"
will give series of plays of an altogether
different stamp, embracing THE Squire
calls we'll that ends WE'LL" &c. Nobody
can do these things better than DAILY
when he tries, and the sooner he tries the
better. At the
PARK THEATRE.
Maggie Mitchell, who bears her fifty
years as lightly on the stage as if they
were but fifteen, has been playing new
piece called Elisa, which has not proved
success. One of the absurditics in it is
a s.ruggle-a regular wrestling bout, al.
most-between little Maggie and a great
brawny fellow who could pick her up
with one hand, and it isn't meant to be g
burlesque either, but genuine trial Of
strength. Like the "Marchioness" you
have "to make believe great deal when
you see that. Miss Mitchell has now
wisely sent "Elsa" adrift and put on
"Jane Eyre" in which she is always sure
of house filled with her many old time
friends. At
HAvERLY's 14rH STREET THEATRE
bowie knives, red shirts, miners, clang
California scenery, revolvers, Mexican
dance, blonde young lassies, genteel,
black-eoated murderers, robbery, over.
land coach, thieving Indians, "old sledge'
and all the rest of the parapbernaia Of
the well-known frontier drama, halo the
boards under the title of ''Chirpa." Miss
Marion Elsmore being the Cbirpa afore.
said. On the 18th Miss Minnie Palmer
opens in "My Sweetheart, and is said te
be an attractive sweetheart, too. The
STANDARD THEATRE
has had, next to the Madison Square
some of the longest runs on record: ]
doubt if this will he the same with ''Tht
Daughter of the Nile," now being played
by Miss Laura Dow, in spite of the gen
eral interest felt 10 Egypt just now. Thii
daughter of the Nile starts from some.
where up the Hudson, turns up in Paris
stains her face and pretends to be al
Equatorial Princess; personates a statue
in order to overhear q domestic row be
tween Lord and his wife, and fiually
after sundry incidents aud adventure,
gets back to the Hudson River where sh,
meets her old lover, RECEIVERS her reasoI
(which she lost after seeing the Lord ant
his wife jump into an old well) and mar
ries the man whom she loves. There ar,
some good points in the play and Mis-
Dow displays great deal of vers .tilit.
in eDacting the principal character.
BOOTHS THEATRE.
More blood, more villains, more slum
) of London, and lot of gypsys as ib
chief card are the notable feature of ''Th
Romauy Rye" put on at Booths sine,
yesterday. The piece has had a success
full run in London. 1t is of the intense
, ly sensational school, principally direct
ed to showing how virtuous are the poo
and how vicious and deserving of violen
death (Which they get in the play are tn
, rich. How much literary or artistic mel
it there may be in it remains to be seen
Those who can't find gloom enough I
quito drive them into nightmare or sui
eide at the other theatres, can GO to the
GRAND OPERA HOUSE
} and see Clara Morris in her very shol
| season as miss Mutton" Do not elias
, this play however, with the majority {
3 those have named. 1t is sensational, @
/ rather inteensly emotional, bat it is ais
5 strangely powerful, and the acting c
5 Miss Morris in it is simply wonderful
{ and dreadfully horrible in its intensit
E and fidelity to nature. 1! you like to fe,