The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-08
"Blue Jeans" at the Academy.

"Blue Jeans at the Academy.
The amous QUIZ saw drama, Blue
Jeans" will come to the Academy of
Music next week. The racy duet of ac-
cusatjon and retort that has been going
on between Joseph Arthur and "Nym
Crinkle'' rs to the authorship of 1.-The
! Still Alarm" and 'Blue Jeans" has only
added q new interest to these plays of
sensational effects. A week g we had
an opportunity of seeing Mr.. Wheeler's
work In sJack Royal" at the Opera
House, and now the chance for compari-
son comes with the memory of MIR. Lacey
and his blast furnace play with military
incidentals, Is still fresh.
The scene of "Blue Jeans" is laid in
Southern Indiana. Perry Bascom on
ming to Rising Sun to elec;ioneer for
Congress is smitten by the wild beauty of
Sue Eudaly. a half gypsy, whose actions
are controlled only by a lawless will. She
e%utangles him through his passions, and.
in spite Of the advice of his political
friends, into a marriage, only for him to
discover when too late that she Is already
married aud her husband has disap-
peared. To release himself from a dis
tasteful alliance ne has to find that nus
band. Meanwhile he falls in love with
June, a staunch, mo iherless girl
from the poorhouse. This arouses all
the desperation of Sues character, and
she resorts to the most violent means.
she induces Ben Boone, who is infatu-
ated with her, to believe that the only
mar in his way is Perry Bascom. This
leads TO the crisis. Bascom marries June.
and starts a small mill. Ben Boone Is
working for him. In a fit of jealous
frenzy brought on by Sue. Ben attacks
Bascom in the mill, strikes him, and the
man falls across the carriage of the saw.
1t is but a step to the lever that turns the
steam on, aud Boone takes it. In a second
there is the hiss or the escaping vapor.
| The belts move, the saw begins tn re-
volve, and the carriage upon which is
Bascom's body starts upon its journey
towards the cleaning teeth.
A second of intensity-nnd June cuts
her way through from the Office in which
she is imprisoned and pulls him from the
carriage.
AS a counter soothant TO these thrills
are the barbecue with the Rising SUI
! Roarers,'' the love making under the APP
pie blossoms, the scene OF Perry Bascom's
orchard, with the politicians sitting on
the fence, The wild dance of Sue Eudaly,
and the agony of Ike Hawkins, who has to
20 out and pump on his new boots every
| ten minutes to stop tue pain. The orig
inal production is guaranteed by the
managemen
Hobokeu Theatre.
Gray and Stephens with their COM
pany, will be seen at the Hoboken Thea
i ire for three nights, commencing Mon
day, November 9.
There are several novelties introduced
IN their plays this season, including the
| troupe of acting Gogs, the imported Rus
| sian ponies, and the three St. Bernard
| dogs, which have attracted SO much at
tention. "Vesper Bells" will be played
Monday aud Tuesday evenings. THE
Old Oaken Bucket" the Wednesday
matinee and evening.
Stage Notes.
1.-THE Tyrolean" and "Cavalleria Rusti
cana" are enjoying prosperity in the
| Casino. 1t is estimated by the manage
ment that the first fifty nights of the
double bill will yield the largest returns
on record at the Casino. When the operas
are Withdrawn sometime in the new year
a special company will give a season of
musical comedy productionsin the Casino.
Rudolph Aronson owns the American
! rights for LOncle Celeslin, music by
| Edward Audran, and La Demoiselle du
Telephone, music by CASTOR Serpette,
two musical comedies now approaching
their 300th representations in Paris. Both
| OF these comedies nave been much sought
after by American managers, and 1T was
| Mr.. Aronsou's intention to lease them on
a ROYALTY or sell them outright, but the
success of the new policy at the Casino
has induced him TO bring them forth in
| HIS OWN NltdltCs - OhNAS SNASS 80
be the first one produced.
Now that her "Letterblair," produced
| by +. Ii. Sothern, is Il success, Marguerite
| Merrington is at work on another play.
Ii is to be hoped she viii not be carried
away by sue ess and turn out plays
galore. This head over heels habit of
play making does not pay in the long
| run. Ii the author decides to confine
him or herself to turning out melo-
dramas Of the sims and Pettitt and Har-
| ris kind, that is quite another story; but
| certainly a play a year is enough for q
| dramatist who aims high. Miss Merring-
ton has had offers from three English
managers, who want "Letterblair" for
Great Britain. As the play Is laid in
Englan /, the play should fare even bet
ter there than here.
From advices received. the reports of "A
success for Frances HodgsCn Burnett's
1.-The Showman's Daughter" at Worces-
ter, England, appear 10 be correct. A
| batch of London critics went on to see 1t.
This Snowman is a rich plebian. He sends
his daughter away from home to Oe edu-
Gated as n lady. She returns: her father
opens the door, and she mistakes him Tor
the footman. The strength or the play
comes from the contrast with her parents
who nave not followed her in the realms
into which they have sent her. The
Showman's Daughter will be brought u
in this country, in all probability this
s-ason.
Lolita was 10 Boston recently, and went
to see Mrs, James A. Herne in Margaret