The morning call., 1891-06-02
THE THEATERS.
Charles Erin Werner Makes a Hit
in Irish Drama.
d" The Rat Ckarner" at the Tivoli- Delightful
Eusic-NO Drop" at the Other
Hoases-Mention,

Dir. Charles Erin Werner opened at the
Alcazar last evening in his own version of
the Irish drama called ''Shamus OBrien. or
the Bould Boy of Glengal," The attend
ance was numerous. bat ought to have been
better. from the fact that the performance
was for the benefit OF Court Ei Dorado, No.
76IO. a. O. +. Of A. Mr.. Werner may be
called an Irish Joe Emmett lie is like him
in appearance and manner. " hen Joe was
q younger and more likely-l0Gkiag lad than
lie is atpreSent; but he sings better than the
St. Louis fav0rite ever did. He has a light.
sweet silyery tenor just adapted to the
sentimental, love and patriotic songs CT Tom
Moore Of which he appears to have an end
less stock on hand. In the icst act he sang
two, accompanying himself on the guitar
with a touch that Charles MoreIl and
Manuel might envy. The serenade, Mary.
Believe Thee True" was nicely sung and
SO also was Believe bic, if Al These En-
deaTiug Young Charms" which contains
The botanical fallacy:
As the sunhower turns to her god when be sets
The same look which she turned when he rose
Which the aforesaid flower never does eX-
cept In the Irish poets song OF cOnStancy
But reimporte. The drama is easily
summed lis chief elements, as in all plays
pertaining to the Green Isle, are love and
PATRIOTISM. Shamus is outla wed, is a men,
Der of the Green Ribbon League, sworn
10 fight for Ireland at the proper
time" which never appears 10 come,
and 20 die for her He is in love with Mary
DOaoghm0re. whose mother and herself
he had rescued from drowning. aud finds
time to tell his affection IN feTYent irish
way all through the hot pursuit nf him by
the red-c0ats, and while beset by spies and
traitors among his own cOuntrymen. His
of ba 81 It % n
fne picture. But the great hit Of the piece
for the Irish heart is IN the last acJ-the
trial OF ShamuS, the condemnation. and his
escape from the gajlOws, realizing the poets
line that when an ITlShman dies Tor Ireland
his death Is equally glorious,
Whether on the battle field or on the galows high.
But Sbamus does not die, as everybody who
has read the episode knows. He escapes al
the last moment and the business winds up
with him on board the steamship City Of
Galway, bound for free America. The APP
p3use that greeted every aIlusiOn to Ireland
I'D Il pathetic way and to the United states
iu "a jubilaDt Oue-aud there were many,
YOU nav he sure was simply ire
mend0uS. Werner managed TO fire the
Irish heart into q complete c0ufagTStlOn.
de was well supported. The new lead
ing LADY, Miss Eleanor Barry as Mary
Don gilmore. made a typical, stately Gal
vav Girl and Mss Carrie Clarke Ward
as Mistress Kate 0'Rei!iy, Mary friend.
more than usually Spughtly colleen, AIT.
James E. Wilson as Leslie McMurrough, an
lrish-Eugi ishman who hopes 10 get step,
in the army by the capture and execution
of sbamus, had ali uuthanklul art, in that
De PLAYED against the sympathy Of the
audience; bat lie discharged It's duties con-
scjeutiousiy. Nick Long conceived Sir Regi-
nald Dare as an English dude and carried
his conception out with his usual fidelity.
But his acting was a little too
finely drawn for the rest Of the
business Of the play. The audience wanted
potatoes, not a French mayOnnaise, and
were impatient till they got it. A startling
ecceutTicty was that of James n. Ward,
an irish villain, informeT and general traitor
% bis country. 1t was we'll done though.
'Shamus 0Brien" ought TO crowd the AL
cazar every night while it lasts. If not on
account Of IRISH patriotism, for the sake of
(erner's Irish songs.