The record-union., 1892-06-04

Notes.
p. Dunlop, writing from New York
under date of May 2Sth, says:
imagination at the Fourteenth
street Iheater, and Irish Inspiration at
the PeopIe's are the two novelties of the
week. The first is creation of sydney
tosenfeld's tanciful mind; it means abso-
4utely nothing, and is made solely 10 pro-
woke laughter. Rosenfeld is a writer OF
nIppant wit. He is always original his
lines are never pointless, and up to now
ms hlmsy constructions have been clean.
lie has had more chances than any other
dramatisJ in America, but he seems en-
tlrely to lack the ability TO make sue
cessful play of noble or serious interest.
Since Mr.. Rosenfeld graduated from
New York public school into the edlto-
rial rooms Of Frank Leslie's publications,
more than dozen years since, and wrote
his first play, a society comedy called
Success which he almost worried poor
Harry Montague into accepting, it has
been expected that he would write the
great American play. y ear after year
his work, brilliant in spots, has clrcled
around the goal with just enough inter-
est in them to warrant the expectation,
but he seems to have of late made the
circle of greater circumference, and his
last effort brings him within the radil Of
farce. Mr.. Rosenfeld's eXuberance this
time sends an old man into an uneXcep
tional well-ordered private residence un-
Ger the misapprehcnSion that he is par
taking OF the experiences of DR.. Park
hurst, and assisted by a slight jag the
respectable people and their surround
lngS have the appearance-tO the old man
as well as the audience-as belonging to
vicious life. He chucks the young ladies
under the chin, calls the hostess the
Queen Of Bohemia and comes in disagree
able contact with the professor All this
Is, of course, food for snigger, but SO
bright and crisp is the authors triviali-
ties that the more serious laugh in spite
of themselves. The popular hits were
made by Wilton Lackaye as a col
lege graduate, whose zeal for athletics
has developed his muscles and let his
grammar weak; Miss Ulmer as a cham
bermaid, Frank Hatch as the pro-
fessor, and Miss Bijou Fernandez, who
promises to develop into a great actress.
OF course Mr.. Rosenield came before the
curtain. He always does, although he
was never known to make good
speech. People like to see him because
he looks as funny as he writes, and when
he shuftles on, and finally has the center
OF the stage, his appearance reminds one
OF Il carIcature in Puck or Jjtdge some
times underlined has du gesehen.'
Irish Inspiration is the Joint work
u dOun w dISu anu I1ONdTu L 1aylOrs
1t was produced at the Peoples Theater
and made a big success among the east
slders, who like melodrama OF that type.
And no wonder il did, for in one act
alone there were such high diverse and
active episodes as a boxing match, a
horse race, bagpiper's solo, duel with
swords, murder, a rescue, fire, an alb
ductlon and piece Of realism TO end it
all. The story is of a rich Irish girl in
love with the careless hero, and plotted
against by her jealous trustee, q cringing
villain, the tool of the latter, a dashing
village lad, with his pert colleen, who
sings and dances; a precocious child,
an old couple IN love, and the usual
groups Of peasants who aid the good peo-
pie and boot the wicked ones. The real
1Slc sensation was effective because it was
new. 1t was the use Of huge Irish grist-
mill with big stone wheel that looked
dangerously genuine. 1t made circu-
lar track around the stage, and in its path
was the head OF the senselesS hero; but
just as 1t was about to grind the PROSTATE
lace into bloody pulp, there was rescue
by the heroine, who had to burst open
the side Of burning house before she
could save the man. Of course. this was
an irresistible appeal to the audiences
SympathleS, and II Is, indeed, one of the
incidents which will gain for the play a
great degree of favor. X. y. Roberts, a
very clever actor, played the part of the
hero, Con Reilly, and made a great sue
cess.
AT the Twenty-third-street Theater
Richard Golden began on Monday, what
IS hoped to develop into run, his hayseed
embodiment of Old Jed Prouty. 1t is
only remarkable as an annoying reflex
of unpleasant peculiarities and it is
wholly out Of proportion. To the Ameri-
can, these later stage representations of
the type American is rather discOurapiuey
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the land snorting and bowling as type
of American manliness, and Mr.. Crane
has ilaunted is parody on the character
of an American Senator, but neither Justly
represents anything but Ill-bred com
mon and coalse creatures, and old Jed
Prouty' IS certainly type not to be
proud OFF,
so VERY SELECT.
The love of our English cousin isshown
pretty clearly by Augustin Dalys at
tempt to become member of the trarrick
Club. Actor Bancroft proposed him. and
the great name was duly inscribed in the
candidates book. The committee, how
ever, incredible as it may appear, did not
appear to want after Mr.. Daly'S society.
anu so the name OF the first manager of
America was withdrawn. The Garrick is
probably the highest ciasSed Bohemian
club in the world. It is, however, the
Bohemia OF purple and line linen, and
there is not trace of the sanded noorand
clay pipe idea in its composition. Its
members are drawn from every social
strata, royal princes, bishops, peers, edi-
tors, iterateurs, scientists, painters and
actors. 1t is the hopeless ambition of
every actor to become a member, but the
road into this club is even harder 10 travel
than is the famous camel path through
the needle-eye pass. y few, only yerv
few, of the theatrical profession are mem
bers, and with the exception OF men like
Henry Irving, BeerbOhm Tree, Willard
and a few others, most of the actors who
belong To the club were members before
they took 10 the stage. The other day
young Fred Terry brother ofAda Rehan's
great and probably only English rival.
who has come steadily TO the front in his
profession, recently took a wild flight for
membership of the Garrick, but even
with his powerful support he was black
balled. Mr.. Daily, however, is an Amer
lean, and that settled 1t.
QUEEN OF COMEDIES"
Jane" ambitiously called the Queen
OF Comedies" with the original cast di-
rect from the Madison Square Theater,
New York, under Charles Frohman's
management, comes TO Sacramento next
week. Mr. Erohman secured it in Lon
don, after il had attained a run of 500
nights, transplanted il to the Madison
Square Iheatcr, in which it run loo
nights more. IL has since been played
over ntty times in Philadelphia and Bos-