The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-15
COMEDY AND DRAMA.
Maggie Mitchell's Maverick" and
Robert Mantell's s'Corsicans."

A little diamond Is worth a mountain of
glass. Maggie Mitchell is not very large.
but the fashionable audience which filled
the New Opera house last night, agreed,
as a few thousand other audiences had
done. that u more dainty, winsome, cajol-
ing little morsel never stepped upon the
Maverick" she carried the house by
storm.
The play is pleasing from its very SIM
plicity, breathing, as it does, the very air
Of the wild and woolly West, although
but one scene is laid within Texas
boundaries. For the benefit of the etfete
East. both playful and heroine explain
that "a maverick is any stray catJle crit
ter that wanders over the range without
any brand or owner. a prey to every
raskil Of a coyote or cattle stealer." May
Percy, the Little Maverick, has been
taken from the poorhouse and adopted
by Peter Bunker. a Texas rough dia-
mond. but is discovered by Lord Arthur
kenwood, who recognizes i'll her the
rightful heir to his inheritance. Kenwood
Manor. Thither he conducts her, accom-
panied by Uncle Peter aud the COUSINS,
Elise Farleigh and Mrs. Farleigh, glasses
of fashion and moulds of form" After
mourning old Lady Kenwood's dis.
pleasure by her remarkable display OF
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Lord Arthur's affections. who is called
from his seventh heaven by a regimental
summons to the Soudan. which leaves
him no time to say goodbye to May, while
his note of explanation is dishonesty
retained by Corson, the agent. Believing
him unworthy of regard. the Little
Maverick yields to the entreaties of Lady
Kenwood, and promises never to see her
son again, but when Corson puts into her
hands q hitherto undiscovered will of the
late earl, leaving the estate TO Lord
Arthur, she gives it to his mother, and
returns to the rancho with the devoted
Uncle Peter. Elise, who has married q
title. deserted by her spouse, the Count
de Chaudray. joins them there. Oh
course Lord Kenwood returns, and seeks
her, but she won't see him. not she. and
sends him away with the greatest
bravado, which utterly collapses three
minutes after he is out of hearing. But
and she forgives him - fair maidens
always do, and everything is happy.
Maggie Mitchell can never grow old
| Age cannot wither her, nor custom state.
She Is more rollicking and caressing and
utterly captivating than ever before. for
to the grace and beauty Of youth she adds
that inesse which comes from years OF
practice alone.
She needs no tricks to conceal the raw
ages of time-she wear gowns auda-
| ciously decollete, above which her shout
ders shine as shapelv and rounded as
| ever. while in the dainty dance, without
which none of her plays Is complete, hel
1.-THE body swirls and sways and her little
feet toss about pillows Of lace with that
delightful abandon that has enslaved her
audiences for no one knows how many
seasons. And oh, how her do fit
The support was rather better than
usually accompanies a star. Harry Smith
made a natural LORD kenwood. r.. +.
McClannin unprecedented the bluff Peter
| Bunker, Sheridan Topper displayed *
| cellent work as the agent Corson, and as
the Count. George Deyo displayed an
| accent the like of which was never heard
before, at least from French lips. Shani
McCrea, an Irish peasant. was well rem
dered by II. d. Blakemore. Among the
ladies of the cast, Jennie Carroll as Lady
Kenwood displayed an impressive set OF
gowns, and the Farleighs. mother aud
daughter, were represented by Adele
Clark INT Sara Lascelles.