The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-05-01
WITH PLAYS AND ACTORS.
TIE FUNNY FlLE or ~JLH THB PEW
MIN0 AT NIBL0's GARDEN

Eartner-Hanuersteln' Thres Theatres
Niblos audience on Monday night saw
Jim he PsnInan get q fall that was not written
IN his stage directions. Joseph z Whiting,
who is tall. heavily built, and thoroughly dig
ninsd. unprecedented the melodramatio rascal,
and no had impaired a good deal OF impress
sivoness to the character until near the close
OF the FIRST act. As he was going MP the stage
after his scene with Baron HdTtJeld at this
point something came between WhitinR's feet
and the floor. moment later the audience
saw him measure his length on the stage.
He struck sduarey on his stomach. His
arms stood out straight His legs d.
soribed an anglo Of forty-ave degrees, The
spectators laughed loud and long, all the other
actors on and behind the stage Uttered. and
Whiting looked the picture Of misery and NOR
tilcation. 1t was q long time before jim The
Penman was his scoundrelly self again. But
the performance was not notable. even with
this low comedy interjection. The big theatre
was very sparsey occupied. When the curtain
first assembled less than 100 persona sat In the
seRts on the lower floor Here was an indica-
tion that Sir Charles L. YounRs play has at
last grown tired. 1t will be the better Tor sea-
sons retirement on the principle already
pointed out by THE Sun. that good dramas
need rest once in while. Out OF
this play many thousands OF dollars have been
writer now dead and gone had to hire thea
tire and pay an English company to test It for
him. so little encouragement had managerial
experts given to him after reading the manu-
script The revival at Niblo's has in the cast
Ellie Wilton. John Flood, Franz Relnau. W. II.
Pope. Lysander THOMPSON. and the widow OF
A. r. Cazauran. Miss wilton's Nina Rdlston
is not an even portrayal OF q difficult role. but
It IL always interesting and earnest.
At the other combination theatres the week
has been unproouctive OF new things . ks.
ssnkasa return to toEn has rs. developed s that
Grand Opera House. but there has been u loss
tho pressntasiOn H The specially acts are not
90 nu nerGnf Or SO attractive as at irst Man.
Actors S g's Vigorous shorts and the Careful sup
Si HI Hearts Of han
seven year old "reminiscences by the presence
Vile. Kathsrins corcoran Mira Hernes acting
Is As sympathese and as graf &c ~ as o eyer
dT Sa nSI much. ho%eyor; Held ~ the EHony"
6rnfnS ar its sadenoss to
Harlem house. The staging OF Mr.. Gillette's
etrong play is excellent in this revival, and the
hit as susan AT Jacobs's Third Avenue The
good crowds. Il is performed with brisEness
and cleverness all the way through.
Paul NJ Potter, who wrote Tho Fakir" and
thai s spte Of Their terSr9
they are making two manaGers' fortunes is
he In Mr. Leslie
nature Of tho plot or q the Characters. but i is
ture OF the exhibition OF MRS. Carter. who
bought It ip PARIS. 1t is declared, and will never
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skill so ag to utilize the cloak as leading
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