New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-17


October II, 1882
Theatre costs from s35 900 to $4,000. The
present is the twelfth season of his cement OF
this house Since he became the lessee of this
property he has expended upon it in improvements
upward of 100000.
The occasion of the revival OF A." The Dead Heart
wiz be remembered marking the return OF Mr..
Bancroft to the stage. This actor the most ac-
compIshed representative that our time has seen
of such parts as Captain IIawtree in Caste has
of course. a numerous and influential following
in London, and he was welcomed at the Lyceum
with exceptional heartiness and profound pleasure
This occasion will further be remembered as that OF
the formal adoption OF the stage by Ellen Ierrys
son. who has taken the name of Mr.. Gordon Craig
and who enacted Arthur de st, Valerie He is
tall, 1.-THE supple young fellow, with bright iace
and free aad galliard manner, and his perform
ance denoted apt intelligence, fine sensiphiS anu
careful training Among the subsidiary per'orm-
ances that of Legrand, the friend of Landry by
Arthur Stirling should be named as conSpcuouSy
right and true.
Aunt jack now current at the Court Theatre,
ie n tbree-act farce, written by Mr.. Ralph Il.
Lumley Ia new and comparatively unknown
writer and acted in delightful vein OF humor and
frOic by Mrs. John Wood, Arthur Cecil Weedon
Grossmith Eric Lewis, Fred. Cape, +. Meryin and
other players. The action begins in barrlsters
chambers in the Temple. shifts to private dining
room in a fashionable hotel, and ends in a court
of Justice. Fourteen PERSONS take part in IT,
The chords that are struck in the piece are the
always effective chords of comic ENHANCEMENT
and perplexity. Mrs. Wood imrersonates Aunt
Jack-facetiousIy so-caed by her nephew. She
! l., ooto1 LADY no
has come to London to prosecute an action for
breach of promise Of marriage. The respondents
lawyer unaware of her identity, falls IN love with
her. solicits her hand and is accepted; and the
subsequent disclosure of the true state of the case
made at the trial in court, of course causes gen.
eral crashs of comic confusion. There are situa-
tions in this farce reminiscent OF tho French play
| known in New-YorlI as Forbidden Fruit and
/ also Of Mr.. Gilberts T-ia by Jury yet ii is
sufficiently novel in its use of old materials and
its style is marked by agreeably sustained vvacty
Mrs Wood in most astonishing costume, r~crtcd
all her familiar powers of humor and mi. lief
Where else shall we look for such abundant and
eXharating animal spirits such faculty for
communicating the excitement of mirth, such
face and such q voice for frolic, such humorous
breadth of manner which yet is only ioyial and
| never coarse Years make no difference with this
buoyant spirt-this resolute triier-ths irrepress-
! bic wit and wag. She captured her audience the
moment she came upon the scene, and she set the
! whole assembly on "A roar and kept 1t so-lust ms
she used to do IN the old days Of her New-fork
! OLYMPIC. or in the still older days of the Boston
| Theatre 1t is good company that surrounds
Mrs Wood at the Court Theatre, and there is not
anywhere IN London, at present, more sparkling
and lmdicrous performance than may be enjoyed
there. The dry drollery and gentle Junction OF
! Arthur Cecil and the comical wooden gravity OF
Weldon Grossmith blend perfectly with Mrs
Woods spontaneous payfulless and ludicrous
vim Miss Florence Wood, daughter of the dis
| tinguished actress, is in the cast of Aunt jack
| but this player indicates a simulated intention OF
| the mothers style rather than either its quallty
of temperament or its faculty of art. There never.
in orr time has been a rival to Mrs. Wood. and
! there is no successor.
new play, called Forgotten" produced some
time ago at the Grand Theatre at Islington by Miss
Gcnevieve Ward, has been re ;.scd for her, and IL
Row closes with an exceedingly tragcal death
! scene that is fresh to the stage. Miss Ward IN
tends to bring it out again in London this season.
and she will take it TO America VI 1870. Inns
expeditious and tireless actress has also obtained
new English adaptation Of Serge Famine
new farcical play called The Bungalow
written by Mr. f. Homer, is in preparation at
| Toole's Theatre, where it will shortly be pro-
| duced
The research of the late IIalliwcll-PhiIps, who
carefully explored the corporate records of many
towns in Englmnd established the fact that the
dramatic company with which Shakespeare was
connected visited the following places: Barnstaple
! in COS, Bath in 1896 and SOB, Bristol in 1897,
! Coventry in 1903, sos, 6l3 and ! 6l4 Dover IN
| 1897. sos and 1910; Faversham in 1884, foNe-
stone in 1612, IIythc IN 1909, Leicester IN loVo'
Maidstone in 1905 Marlborough in 1885, w"
! Romney in COP, oxford in 60i, l60o' iOVo' loV''
1GlO and 1919 Rye, in Sussex, in loV'' o"hroh
Walden in COS and SOC; shrewsbury III ioV''
1900 161O and 1912 The little book IN when
this indefatigable antiquary recorueu 'ne i''u,
Of his researches in this direction was privately
nrinted in 1887. and like most OF the Writings oi
Ualliwell- Philips, is now inacceSsioie'
ann bore mention two books that are strongly
- .-N..,.',o,,I,d "a students of the Shakespeare
story and of the antiquities ot WarwlcksFe On, oi'
! O. - 'cinI,osroroano Genealogical, by George Rus-
sou Erorcb published at Cambridge IN 1862 in'
otbor is Ilanley Castle, an historical no'vi "
w & Srnonds. published at No. 1879 high-Se'
,hnrv by William North The iorHier
difficult 10 obtain
Az. Mary Anderson has returned to London.
-'''' ..s -, several weeks in the Western High
-, - scotland. and is in splendid health ana
'n I'-.e Good spirits She thinks OF making
- Confessional tour of Germany, by and ny'
oi,'i tho Measure Of acting before one OF the
oi I., ontbusastic audiences in the world Az
resent she will continue to rest. W. W. .