The morning call., 1890-08-26
THE THEATERS.
Two New Pieces at the Baldwin
and Bush.
Dixey's Seven Ages Hubert Wilke in
Clay N. Greene's "Peti, the
Vagabond."

MIR. Henry E. Dixey opened his engage
ment at the Baldwin last evening under the
most favorable circumstances. The audi
torium was filled to its stated seating capacity
and many extra chairs had to be called into
reQuisition. His "Seven Ages" written
and arranged in collaboration with Mr..
Gill, while most ingenious in its method,
is in our mind question Of quien
sabe? so far as its future drawing power
is concerned. DiXey is certainly an artist
in makeup and conveys the different por-
traits Of human being in the changing
periods OF life from the cradle to the II~Ie
with artistic fidelity by the help of rouge
and grease-pant. He accepts the melancholy
jacques solilOquy only as basis to build
on. jacques spoke in the abstract or gen.
eral way of the phases in human existence.
Mr.. DiXey makes his dream of wears
series Of chapters in the history of Man.
haitian Island, beginning at 1910 and end
ing at 1880, in which his ancestors, the
Van Loos, figure and between whom
and the Van Warts there is some
bad blood, fact which forms thin un-
derlying plot. Tie piece is in two parts and
eight tabeaux. Between each OF the latter
MisslCarrie E. Perkins, Junoesque style of
woman, appears as Avonia. kind of Greek
chorus, and gives the audience, in addition
to much poorly written matter, that por-
tion of the Shakespearean soliloquy bear
ing on the ''age" about to be presented.
Each picture by Mr.. Dixey is framed in
good deal of business incidental to the
stage of life he is representing. There is
plenty of singing and dancing some horse
play, and sometimes, although we appre-
ciate the tact which is evident in the We
hicle of TIE piece. we are fain to eXclaim in
the same spirit with Prince Hal, when he
scanned Sir John Falstaff's tavern bill
at the Boar'S Head Eastcheap, about the
intolerable quantity of sack to only one
half-penny's worth of bread. While all of
Dixey's changes are clever, the best acting
is in the Justices" phase and also in the
"lean and slippered pantaloon." In both
he shows great capability. The singing,
both concerted and solo, is agreeable. In
the penultimate tableau, Miss Dorothy
Gray, as Susannah, lady's maid, sings
berceuse, for which she was deservedly ap-
plauded, in rich, mellow cOntralto voice,
and had to answer an encore. Mr.. ID. l..
Dow, who crops up as an eccentric lrishman,
Van Mulligau, throughout the different
tableaux, but chiefly in the Justice scene,
excited roars Of laughter by his oddity. both
in action and speech. He is a great relief
at times when the business runs somewhat
the "soidier" episode to give us a striking
equestrian statue of Washington. The
scenery is beautifully painted; the library
interiors worthy of the best painters brush.
In costumes there is nice harmony of color.
and the faces and forms Of the tigurantes
are set off to the best advantage. "Seyen
Ages" will constitute the bill for the
week.
FIRST NIGHTERs.
Among the many who greeted Mr.. Dixey
we're:
Box Robert Grayson. Daniel Murphy
Frederic Webster, Edward Gillette.
Box 2-Mr. Isaac b. Cook of st. Louis,
Mr.. Alfred Bouvier.
Box 3-E. j. Baldwin and party.
Box 4--Ir. and Mrs. Harry Emeric. Colo
mel Basil Norris, U. S. a, and party.
John FELTON,. B. Schweitzer, CASTOR Ashe
Mr.. and Mrs. E. K, McHall, Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Ferral, Louis 4. Morgenstern, Miss
Annie Lyle, Marcus NJ. Henry. Mr.. and
Mrs. Julius Bandmann. Miss Tony Band
mann, Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Ackerman,
]. ]. Driscoll, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles NJ.
Leopold. Miss Susie 4. Davis, Miss Ray
FEEDER, Mr.. and Mrs. b. Scheidmann. Colin
n. Smith, j. D. Maxwell, James D. Brown,
Mrs. Lieutenant Niche, Allie Cummins, E.
DR.. Williams, Mr.. and Mrs. ,Lawler. Mr.:
and Mrs Thomas II. buckingham, Mr.. and
Mrs. l.. S. b. Sawyer, Hans KOhler, mother
and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. j. NJ. Rothschild,
George Grant, Mr.. and Mrs. William NJ.
Bunker, George Z. Barnes, Daniel McCul-
Tough, Samuel Thors, Luke A. Flynn, Al
fred Bradley, Charles NJ. Pyke of Fresno,
Joseph Redding, Maurice Hoefich, J. NJ.
Goswey, N. l.. Tichenor, Mrs. j. Fl. Good
man, MIR. and Mrs. Frank Sperling, Mr..
and Mrs. Montgomery Cooley, DR.. and
Mrs. Julius ROsenstirn, Dr.. NJ. Caehot,
Bert CarolaD, Herman Shainwald and ladies,
Harry j. Lask Mr.. and Mrs. Evan j. Cole
man, Miss Carrie Giyin, Mr.. and Mrs. d.
q. Bibb, DR.. l.. Neuman, Louis Sloss Jr.,
Levi Strauss, l., Block, Charles Lyons,
Nat Raphael and sister. James
Dunphy, Mrs. Rose COursen-Reed, Miss
Gertrude Coursen, Professor Thomas Price,
Arthur Price, Judge Walter ii. and Mrs.
Levy, w. E. Brown, Miss Rosa
Morgenthau and brother, James. Fair
Jr., Mr.. Mandebum and mother,
J. S. Gilmore, Hugh Hume,
Edward NJ. Greeneway, DR.. W. w. Will
Jams, DR.. B. w. Hatch, o. d. Sherman,
wife and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph
r. Fenkhausen, Forrest NJ. Seabury, Porter
Ashe, Mr.. and Mrs. J. N. Chretien, Mrs.
Orrin Jones, Mrs Otto Bauer r. TObin Jr.,
Colonel Thomas Francis Meagher, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles a. Low. Everett Bee, George
Newhall and party, Percy and Mrs. Davis,
j. ii. Gilmore and lady, Miss Jennie Blair,
Little Kline and sister. Robert Woodward,
0sgood Hooker.
"Pet', the VaCabond.'
After a lengthy absence Mr.. Hubert
Wilya hae returned IN II briupinp with him