The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-10-06
AMUSEM
Barrett Makes n Hit in "Anothcr Mans
Shoes, at the New Opera House.

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did company before the curtain several
times during the play, Another Man
Shoes" Tn play was preceded by a one
act comedy, "a Clerical Error" with four
of the best members of the company in
the cast. including Mr.. Barrett himself
This little comedy appea ed to whet up
the appetite of the company for a rich
treat. Mr.. Barrett had shown himself
in that little comedy. an ideal come
dian.
Another Mans Shoes" as presented
last night is u play which all CLASSES OF
theatre eoers can thoroughly appreciate
aud enjoy. The finished touch of
Mr.SBarretJ's work cannes fail to meet
the approval of a critical audience, nor
the rich drawing room scenes Il dress
of those who participate in them,
fail to crafty the feminine desire
to gaze upon pretty gowns. The
and incidents tha characterize the
best of melo-dramas, where knives
and pistols come into play. But every
movement of the participants in these
scenes is so studied as to make the scenes
themselves realistic. i
The curtain drops in the first act
upon an exciting fire scene aboard a
transatlantic steamer, where the villain
of the play, coming face TO face with u
wronged wife and confronted with the
evidence of guilt, leaps into the sea. This
villain is the son Of a wealthy Amer
lear gunmaker, who believes his son
q woman he had once loved with a view
to adoption as a successor. The forum
ate individual Is one of London's Rough
Diamonds-'all right when You knows
him, out you've got to knows him first. !"
He falls in love with the villains wronged
wife. 1t is Mr.. Barrett himself that ap.
pears as his Rough Diamond. He, who
has already stepped into another mans
Shoes, is aboard the steamer in the first
act. The efforts to install this %greenhorn
at the head Of a great factory and TO
bring him out into society are the conf
cal features of the play. 1t is during
these efforts that Mr.. Barrett exhibits
the skill of a polished comedian. Not
once in last nights performance did he re-
sort to ~buffoonery. The play deals mostly
with the fight between the wealthy gun
maker and the demand of the men in his
employ for higher wages and less hours
of work.
The adopted son joins with the men.
The villalnous SOL incites the men to
violence. The rescue of the fearless
manufacturer from an Infatuated mob by
the Rough Diamond came within an ace
OF costing him his life. But he in turn
is rescued by the woman he loved and
former '.pal'' of the villain. who had be-
come disgusted with the villains schemes.
In the last act he fights an uneven fight
with the villain. He is vanquished. but
in attempting to deal an assassin's blow
Is hurled from a window Il killed by
his former pal.
Mr.. LOUIS Carpenter also appears as a
comedian in the character of MIR. Scuddy
Perkins, an American promoter, whose
acting Is as perfect as that of Mr.. Bar
rett. Miss Beatrice Lieb, as Ruth, the
wronged wife of tine villain, admirably
sustained her reputation as a pretty
- .rI rr noDf;4u nntrnCs aud
Miss Beverly-Sitgreaves, as Rosina,
daughter Of Mr.. Scuddy Perkins, at once
established herself as a favorire. Mrs.
George Dickson was all that could be
desired in Sally Cfomp. a nurse.
"a Hole in the Ground"
The caverns of Luray may be bigger
than HovJ's 'Hole in the Ground,v but
they are not half as funny; in fact, it
would be hard to pack any sort of an
orlti:e with more humor than Mr.. Hoyt
has evolved from the washout~ that de-
layed a train for our mortal hour at one
Of those country functions" where trains
are supposed to connect, but never meet,
except by accident. AS to plot, the piece
is not half SO deep as the Hole" There
is a thread of interest, but 1t isn't much
stronger than the paper patches the sta
ton agent puts OF the trunks he smashes.
But on that thread gems of music. ballads,
humorous and topical songs, jokes, funny
business n comical incidents are
strung thicker han washing days duds
on q tenement house ciothes line.
There isn't a dull thing in the piece,
which is saying a good deal, seeing that
there are three acts OF it, and that the
curtain does not fall until nearly eleven
O. clock. The fun is Infectious, and peo
pie are forced to laugh whether they Will
or not. The principal funmakers are
Charles Cowles. a "S~tranger;' Frank
Lawton. the station agent; Hattie Harvey
as the lunch counter girl, and May Curtis
rs the telegraph girl. Every one knows
them. Thu fellow who wants TO know If
the clock is right" and what time the
11.40 train goes out" worries the life out
of the agent, who hits back, as usual in
such cases. The lunch girl worries both,
and the telegraph girl helps her.
made girls. Lydia Pierce, Dottie
Neville and Militia Lawrence, who try to
help on the elopement of Jack Palmer,
the romantic young man, with a girl who
never shows up and probably got lost in
the "Hole in the Ground" before the cur
tain went up. The co%ntributory force
consists of the usual commercial traveller,
the woman whose boy is o Il years old
on the car and twelve at home, and these.
with several tarriers, a de Il lady, linda
Palmer, the boy who wants to be a rail-
road man, and several others who do all
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at a railroad junction, and do them clev-
er y. Running through the play. along
with the thread, is the Barry Maxwell
wreck of a baseball umpire and substi-
tute mascot, which is very funny. Among
the other funny people are the ropers in
of the rival hotels, Fin Reynolds and
William Hagan, who manage to rope in a
good deal of amusement during the
periods when they are not out "chucking"
for drinks.
The music of the piece is bright and
catchy, the songs are funny, and the
dancing excellent. The encores accorded
Miss Harvey, Miss Curtis. Mr.. Frank
Lawton, for his bones and whistliug;
Mr., Maxwell. the baseball umpire. pro-
longed the performance somewhat. but
no one seemed to regret the time it took /,
except, perhaps, the weary actors. But
II they kick they have a remedy-they
can throw up their engagements, or de-
mand an increase of salary. Why do they
persist in making people laugh if they are
not willing to accept the consequences?
Hoboken Theatre.
The weird tale OF ''Fabio Romano" was
presented ut the Hopoken Theatre last
night. The audience was an appreciatiye
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