The record-union., 1891-09-26
MUSIC AND TEE DRAMA.
Only Two Novelties in the Me-
tropOIis Last Week.
''The Hustler'' Said to be a Great
Mrirth Producer-s.BIue Jeans'' win
be Seen in sacramento Next Season
Interesting Stage Gossip from All
Over the World.
0. P. Dunlop, writing from New York

| o. p. Dunlop, writing from New York
under date of September 10Th, says:
"But two novelties were brought out
! this week, both on the East side. At
| Jacobs Third Avenue Theater, E. S.
! Wood, for many years known as The
| Boy Actor produced THE Orphans of
New York, drama, by Con. L. Murphy,
which has been accepted with loud ac-
claim by his audiences. If any flies had
| lighted on Mr.. Murphy'S play it would
not have rested undisturbed for mo-
ment. 1t developed action from the word
| Co. and moved on with restless vigor to
the end. The play, however, is entirely
wholesome, and there is much in it to
! praise. Mr.. Wood is a passable actor,
and no more; but he has no faults that
can offend anybody seriously, and his
| juvenility enables him to be boy for all
the thrilling intentions and exhilarating
| purposes OF BoWery drama of the pres
ent day.
AT the Peoples new and rather
| brilliant use was made of an old play by
Eva Mountford. When she began TO
star, last year, there We're d few guarded
predictions that she was blessed with "a
! future, and as that term may mean much
! or little in theatricalS Of this day, there
has ever since been curiosity to know the
exact measure of Miss Mountford's
promise. That measure was satisfac-
| torily taken last week by typical East
side audience, and the outcome was in all
ways fattering to the actress. The re-
viyified play was that quarter century
| old story of jealousy and crime, East
! Lynne, a tale that has probably moved
more men and women to tears than any
other drama in the English language, not
excepting the equally hectic but less
rational Camille And in addition to her
/ hntHnnSS N rn aS hnc ct9 in
| this exacting and time-worn play, Miss
| Mountford had also laid claim to conSid-
Grafton as It's author, for hers was a prac-
! tically new version of the old novel. She
| had not departed from the original plot,
! but there were improvements through
out the text, and changes in the charac-
ters, the comedy lines, and the situations.
| Miss Mountford will probably find this
| drama a valuable investment ON the
road 1t is not worthy of her marked
| ability, but perhaps that is lesser con-
sideration at present.
1.-THE only things new for the season in
| the whole theatrical length of Broadway
were Cleveland's Minstrels at Dunlevy's
| Park, and the reopening of Harrigan's S
! Theater, with Reilly and the 400.' Both
had immense audiences.
"'Niobe,' which has been slated for a
very long run at the Bijou, is prospering,
but the audience are all down stairs, and
| DuI lew OI inc SdlltIy SOItS tdh6 W lDlS
really meritorlous performance. The
play is said to be over the heads of the
/ general public, so, perhaps, it will not
| have as long q run as its owners antici-
pate. Neither is Sidney Rosenfeld's new
play, THE Club Friend, drawing as it
/ was thought it would. The part does not
really fit Roland Reed, and the play,
brilliant as it is in spots, is SO trivial in
plot, that no one cares to see it. Both
will undoubtedly do well on the road.
! but neither is great money winner"
''BLUE JEANS"
'Blue Jeans,n Joseph Arthur's dra-
matte reflex of Indiana life, which was
accorded an unwonted share of pros
perity last season, begins second season
September 7th in Boston. 1t is booked to
appear in this city June 18th and 18TH
The play of "Blue jeans is scarcely a
year old, yet the praise lavished on it by
| the press Of the country, it's managers
! declare, if strung out, column for col
umn, would very nearly encircle our
city.
The proverbial ingenuity of the Chi
nese is again displayed. 1t is reported
! that fervid Mongolian dramatist has
! submitted to his ruler plan for the exc
cution Of capital offenders, that for pic
| turesque bloodthirStinesS totally eclipSes
| electro-eXecution or anything else in the
| whole category of the most realistic of
modern native playwrights. The yellow
! skinned disciple of Shakespeare pro-
! poses to write each year for presentation
in the public temple play which shall
| enbody some awe-inSpiring, death-deal-
| ing apparatus by which offenders shall
be annihilated, the production TO be con-
tinued nightly until the years batch of
unfortunates gives out. The method of
| extinction incorporated in the Chinese
| authors initial effort gives rise to the sus-
| picion that he is not altogether unfamiliar
with the progress of playmaking in this
! country. Joe Arthur's thrilling sawmili
/ effect is reproduced entire, but unlike the
! play of "Blue Jeans" there is no rescue,
! and the condemned are to be actually slit
in twain by the buZzing saw in full view
of the assembled multitudes.
THE HUSTLER"
! When Macbeth asked: "Who can min
! lister to mind diseased?' he foreshad-
/ owed the difficulties that modern ply
sicians encounter in dealing with that
! form of mental depression known as the
! blues" for which all the resources of
| science and the entire range of the phar-
! macopuia have failed to provide rem
| edy. But ifthere are any readers of these
| remarks who are subject to attacks of
melancholy, they may proceed to lift up
/ their voices in glad hosanna of thank
! fulness that an infallible panacea has
/ been found which never fails to Danish
! dull care. and this sovereign specific is
! that merry nelange of wit, fun, melody
and song-the new, bright and diverting
/ farce-comedy, 1.-THE Hustler" which will
! be seen in all it's effulgent completeness
on the stage of the Metropolitan Theater,
Monday and Tuesday, September 2Sth
and 18th.
The unusually large, talented and YER
! satile company is headed by the eminent
Irish comedian, John kerne0, whose
name is synonym for bright, keen
edged wit and quaint humor. Brother
! KernelPs portrayal of the leading part
''Con' McFadden, the hustler-is pro-
! nounced the most striking and amusing
comedy work to be seen on the contem-
porary stage.
Among the other noted fun-makers in
/ the cast are Barney Reynolds, Gus Mills,
! John ;. Mari, Lee Harrison and Leonard
! Somers. The contingent of soubrettes
and pretty-as-a-p -picture-girls includes
! Mollie Thompson, Zellma Rawlston,
! Belle Hartz, the Laporte sisters. Vesta
Stevens, Agnes Howard, Carrie Norton
and Mile Staccione, the Italian ballet pre-
miere. Then there is a sextet of Paris
ian Duster Dancers, and the celebrated
! Hustler male quartete.
! STAGE NOTES AND GOSSIP.
! Josh Ogden no longer manages the tour
| of Irene Kent.
Robert Mantell has made great hit in
! ''The Louisianians.'
Mary Anderson is preparing her dra-
matte memoirs for the press.
Colonel j. II. Haverly goes with the
! Emerson minstrels to San Francisco.
''Fhe Volunteer" produced at Cincin-
natl on Wednesday does not look like a
! success.
Maude Granger has made hit in elm
herited" at the New York Windsor
| Theater.