The morning call., 1892-04-12
THE THEATERS.
A Depressing Effect on Amuse.
ments by the Sacred Season.
Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Drew at the Bush
Dorothy" at the Baldwiu-Noth.
ing New Elsewhere

The season is not favorable for the thea
ter. 1t is the Holy Week for the Christian
element in the community, aud the Pass
over celebration Is In course for our
Hebraic fellow-citizens. There was, con-
seQuently, drop at all our places of amuse-
ment, as the strict membership of both the
Jewish and Christian communities remains
at home for the observance Of the cere-
monies customary to the time.
THE DREwS AT THE BUSH.
Nevertheless. the spirit of curiosity In
duced a fair attendance at the Bush-street
Theater to see Mr.. and Mrs. Sydney Drew,
new arrivals in our local theatrical world as
stars, in their double bill of SIN Honor
Bound" and THAT Girl from Mexico" The
first mentioned is q lever du rideau, and, like
all curtain-raisers that have become fashion
able now a days. more Or less sentim entail,
staid. quiet, melancholy even TO the verge Of
solemnity. The cast embraced four per-
sons, as follows:
or George osriy MI Drew Drew
Philip Granam Frank r. Mills
Rose Dairyinple ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Miss Mia Sykes
The piece is from the pen of Mr.. Sydney
Grundy, rather notorious for turning out
these mono-act pictures, and simply in
wolves the character of Lady Carlyon In all
affair OF the heart with Philip Graham. a
bachelor. He wishes to marry Rose Dali
rympie, a relative of Lady Carlyou and a
and demands that Graham shall be loft
with the old love" (whom it Is supposed he
does not know "before he is on with the
new" He wants a letter from the old love
which Graham is placed. Carlyon gets the
letter. however. and burns the document In
the presence of both parties, leaving the im-
preston that he knows all about it. and
that the act is one of domestic her oiSm.
In other words, that he solves the social
difficulty BY the lamp-chimney instead of
by the pistol, as Deacon lately did in Cannes
and Hetherington In Yokohama. The piece
Is Quirt unnaturally quiet. but it gives MIR.
Drew opportunity for some good acting as
Carlyon, and Mrs. Drew the same occasion
as his wife. 1t gives Miss Dalrymple as
Rose and Mr.. Frank r. Mills as Phillip no
chance at all. III IL does, they did not dis
cover it.
THAT Girl. FROM MEXICo"
Followed the curtain-raiser. As everybody
knows ii is an adaptation of Charles Mathews
famous comedy who Killed Cock Robin ?"
Mr.. Drew, as Jack Randolph, carries the
flavor OF the ol0-tlme comedian all through
the business, commencing with the patter-
speech concerning Diabella Smythe. "the
girl from Mexico" who prides herself on
her Caslilian blood (Mrs. Sydney Drew, of
whom he is in search. 1t is clever, with the
cleverness of its original author, and the In
cidentals, particularly manifestations OF the
cyclonic temrerament of Mrs. Drew as
DiabelIa. help the rush IF the piece very
much. Lady Carlyon and Diabella are COM
plete oDposites and serve TO show the yer-
satility of Mrs. Drew Drew himself is not
marked as a comedian, and Mrs Drew car
res the palm. The supporting company is
not strong. bnt the part of Mr.. Richard
Bird by Dir. William Norris was played In
an easy. careful way that gave satisf action.
MIR. Nick Long as Mr. Smythe was also a
good card. Long Is always good in eccentric
characters.