The record-union., 1891-11-28
MUSIC And THE DRAMA.
Two Novelties on the Stage in the
Great Metropolis.
Business is Good In All the Theaters
In New York-The Moss Family of
Musfcians-Edwin Forests Ring
Flashes From the Footlights of
Many Theaters.
A. P. Dunlop, writing from New York

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A. P. Dunlop, writing from New York
city under date of November 21st, says:
1.-THE novelties on Monday evening
were The Lost Paradise at the Twenty
| third-street Theater. and Lady Bounti-
fuP at the Lyceum. The Lost Para
disc by Henry G. De Mile, has as a
! basis the German work of Ludwig Fulda,
| but the success Of the play is wholly due
| to the splendid work of Mr.. De Mile.
The play is in three acts. The develop
ment of the plot is rapid and vigorous,
and the situations are effective. The play
| succeeds because of these facts and the
skillful handling of delicate theme,
which turns upon the relations of labor
and capital. including the usual strike
and threatened violence, the love of the
young factory Superintendent for his en-
| ployer's beautiful daughter and the en-
ployer's treachery to dead friend in ap-
| propriating an important invention
which should have gone to the young
! Superintendent. After many heartburn
ings and recriminations, everything, of
/ course, comes straight in the end and
| Cupid reigns. Mr.. De Mile has sue
ceeded in keeping clear of the unpleasant
| and generally offensive features of plays
dealing with labor and capital, and by
an easy intermingling of humorous and
serious work maintains the interest of
| his audience throughout He has pro-
| duced, undoubtedly, the best play on
| these lines yet seen here. It is superbly
mounted, and a realistic scene of the fac
| tory machinery in operation is particu-
] larly well done. The company which
Manager Charles Frohman has selected
to interpret this play is undoubtedly the
very best stock company now playing in
| the metropolis, and the unanimous and
lavish praise bestowed upon both it and
| the play by the great daily papers war
! rants the belief that The Lost Paradise
will be one of the biggest money winners
the enterprising young manager has yet
launched upon the dramatic world. 1t is
sure of very long run in New York-in
| fact as long as Manager Frohman wishes
to keep the Twenty-third-s Theater
open.
Lady BountifuP is by Arthur Pinero.
1t is one of the most beautiful plays of
the past decade. The argument of the
play is simple, but effective. Lady
| Bountiful is fabulously rich young lady,
whose money supports worthless
father and worthy son. When the son
finds it out, he is horrified, and gets out,
to become riding master. Lady Bounti-
| ful visits the school, and meets the riding
master, to learn that he is to marry the
proprietor's daughter. He does not
| marry her. She dies. After five years
/ OleipoC, ilO lGluIIS W ildITN lily Lady
Bountiful. This is but mere etching of
most beautiful and interesting story
| The play Is by master; the acting is all
| that can be desired. Miss Georgia
| Cayvan was beautifully sympathetic
| Miss LeMoyne was beyond praise, and
| Messrs. Harbury, Cook, Wa1cott, Will
| Jams, Kelcey, and Mesdames Whiffen,
| Robson and Shannon, were adequate and
worthy of more than perfunctory praise.
Lady BountifuP was artistically staged
and costumed, and ought to run the sea-
son out.
| "On Tuesday the celebrated Melninger
| Company appeared at the Thalia Theater
in JULIUS Cesar Those who expected
| TO see the principal characters enacted
with brilliance like that of familiar
American achievements were bound to be
! displeaSed. Of course, there was no
| Brutus compared with Edwin Booths
nor Cassius nearly SO good as Lawrence
Barrett's, and the Mark Antony was
| hardly equal to Joseph Wheelock,s. 1t
was not in the individual eminence of his
| actors, however, that the Duke of Sake
Meiningen took pride, but in the general
| high level of excellence which his famous
| productions attained. He was an adept
in the making of splendidly pictorial and
minutely elaborate representations of
great dramas, and he held about the same
relation to Stagecraft IN Germany, except
that he was not an actor, that Henry Irv-
ing does in England, and that Mr.. Bar
rett did in America. The first American
audience for Meininger was as large as
the big theater at the lower end of the
Bowery would hold, and was fully repre-
sentative of our German residents, be-
side containing many who manifestly,
did not understand the language spoken
on the stage. The enthusiasm was not
that of a cordial welcome so much as of
hearty appreciation, and it manifested it
self particularly after each of the scenes
| in which the Roman populace had
crowded the stage noisily and spiritedly.
business during the week has been
very good. The Trip to Chinatown is
crowding Hoyt's Madison Square Thea
| ter to overfiowing, and the rest of the
theaters playing to fair audiences"
THE MOSS FAMILY.
The northern papers are full of notices
| OF the performances given by the Moss
Family, a musical combination now on
! its way to California. From the various
accounts it appears to be very jolly
! company. The Seattle Post InteIli li0enceY,
of November 18th says of the appearance
of the company in that city:
The Moss Family opened at the Seat
| tie opera-house last night in their spe-
| cialty musical entertainment, and gave a
! performance that was thoroughly en-
| joyed by all present. Brooms, barrels.
odd objects were called into service to
make music, and wonderful effects were
| produced by the talented company. Both
| the men and women were exceptionally
| clever. Their marches and costumed
| drills were executed with easy and dex-
| ferrous grace, capturing the audience and
| winning warm applause. The whole
wound UP with a rafting farce entitled
| "A Quick Match which brought out the
| full strength of the company. This
amusing skit is full of fun and gives the
| musicians sufficient opportunity to show
off to best advantage their peculiar and
| special abilities. The show is thoroughly
clean in all respects"
JUST FOR LUCK.
James Conner Roche, wit, actor, dra-
matist and capital good fellow in general.
/ is exhibiting with pride present he
! lately received. 1t is magnificent seal
| ring, with beautifully cut head of
| Shakespeare in intaglio, and the name
Edwin Forrest in reverse. The ring was
formerly the property of the great
| American tragedian, and is gazed upon
! almost reverently by actors. Mr.. Roche
| has been offered large sums for it since
| it came into his possession, but he saws
money cannot buy it." When Thomas
| w. keene goes to Vienna to represent
| America at the great dramatic festival he
| intends that he shall wear it for good
| luck.
SKIPPED BY THE LIGHT OF THE MooN.n
This laughable show and old favorite
will soon appear in Sacramento for the
| first time IN some years. 1t is the pres
ent attraction at the Bush-street Theater
in San Francisco. Its tour of Southern
California was very successful, financi-
ally and otherwise.
FooTLIGHT FLASHES.
Jennie Weathersby has joined the Ca
sino forces.
George w. Lederar and Mnrnna A1nuor