Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-26
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THE LOCAL STAGE.
Miss ERe EIlsIer'a Hazel Kirke-Thanks-
giving Matinee-Mlss Manning.

Miss Efie EIlsler'a Hazel Kirke-Thanks-
giving Matinee-Mlss Manning.
Miss Efie Ellsler, supported by one of
the strongest and most evenly balanced
companies that ever appeared in Fort
Worth, presented last evening at the opera
house the touching and pathetic domestic
drama Of Hazel Kirke to an audience fair in
point of numbers, and sensitiveIy apprecia-
tive of the excellent rendition OF the play.
The star has lost none of the rare natural
ness of manner and sweet, womanly tender
ness which won for her years ago the dis
tinction of being the only ideal Hazel on the
American stage. That grand old man, G.
W. Couldock, the most venerable figure to-
day on the English speaking stage, acted
his accustomed role Of Dunstan kirke,
''the man with the iron heart" with
all the earnestnesS, passion and pathoS
observable in his first appearance in the
part at Madison Square years ago. AL the
other members of the cast gave vivid and,
with trifiing exceptions, accurate charac-
terizations of their several roles. The
Pittacus Green of Frank Weston was par
ticularly happy and effective.
Hazel Kirke will be the bill at the
special Thanksgiving matinee to-day.
Tonight Miss Ellsler and her splendid
company will render the American comedy
entitled Miss Manning
An exchange thus speaks Of a recent pre-
sentation OF Miss Manning in neighboring
city.
The most confirmed and chronic of hyper
critics would have found it difficult, not to
say impossible, to pick a flaw in the produc-
ton of Miss Manning by Miss Ellsler and
her corps of artists at the Academy of
Music To begin with, the play itself is of
the purest and cleanest type of pure Ameri-
can comedy, a type which, unfortunately,
is chiefly notable for its absence from the
stage, at least on the Southern circuit.
The author of 'Miss Manning" has con-
structed cunningly and cleyerly; the lines
fairly bristle with humor and at times with
that peculiar pathos of which Miss Ellsler
is perhaps the ablest, the prettiest and the
most realistic exponent. 10 many in the
audience last night who were familiar with
her touching and tender work in Hazel
Kirke," her Maggie Manning was bright,
winsome and exquisite revelation. Miss
Ellsler is one of the purest and most low
able women on the American stage to-day,
and it only needed the somewhat exuberant
traits of the comedy part in "Miss Man
ming" to rivet the chains in which all her
hearers are bound. 1t was, perhaps, the
most finished and exquisite bit of comedy
work that has been seen upon the local
boards for many, many years.
But not the least attractive feature of the
production of Miss Manning was the
artistic setting which was given to the play
by Miss Eilsler's company. The entire cast
was as near perfect as could well be de-
sired. Is is doubtful if any better cast has
been seen upon the boards of Augustin
Days temple of comedy or at the Madison
Square theater. the home of Hazel
Kirke." Mr.. Frank Weston, who will
doubtless be seen tonight IN the role of
Pittacus Green, gives an admirable sup
port to Miss Ellsler. His impersonation of
Mr.. Kneezer was admirably droll and anus