The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-06
A PERENNIAL FAYORITE.
Annie W ard Tiffany in "Lady Barney
al the Academy.

Annie W ard Tiffany in Lady Blarney'
at the Academy.
That ever-blooming favorite, Annie
Ward Tiffany, appeared again at the
Academy of Music last night, where she
opened a weeks engagement with Lady
Barney" Every succeeding season that
sees this bright actress starting out on
another successful tour-and no one cares
to count 20 many there have been-bu1
adds d few more reasons why she should
be called the best actress i'll Irish comedy.
without making her any less breezy and
buoyapt than she was, no matter how
many moons 60. In Lady Blarney"
she has a part made for her. The char
acter of Nancy O'Neil. a g~oodhearted.
s~ofGheaded ould maid from Olrelond, who
has brought up two foster SOM and kept
her good looks remarkably well consider
ing. she has plenty of room for the dis
play of that quiet humor, that sudden al
formation of merriment and pathos, which
she knows SO we'll how to produce.
Tho play is well constructed, although
the action practically closes with the
third act, leaving the last a period for eX-
plantations and repenting, SO as to have
everybody in at the last tableau. One of
the before mentioned foster sons, Jack
Caughtrey, is everything that is just
right and not too right for comfort.
Men on the stage named Jack are always
nice. His brother, Gerald. is not SO de-
sirsble. He wrongs a young woman
named Lydia Chaslner, defalcates with
the funds of his ~fiancee, Ethel Clifford, and
puts the whole on his brother, Including
the forging of a check. really done by his
father. Jack has gone away
for a year. but. of course, he comes back
unexpectedly, makes a mess of all Ger
AIDS schemes, marries Ethel and Is for
Eel 40 Nannu n3NafI xaha he
been an angle of the family, assisted by
one Colonel Creighton, a gay old boy.
This old boy proves his gayety by steal
ing off to the French ball in the fancy
dress OF Cupid-that is, he tries to steal,
but Nancy catches him enroute. With
such diversions and the byplay of a very,
very young married couple there are no
gaps in the play.
Ii this were an account of O football
game, something would have to be ssId
about the excellent team york. Indeed,
this statement, translated into the proper
theatrical English, must be mad con-
corning the admirable way in which all
the players. even the star herself, held
their own Importance secondary TO the
as Colonel Creighton, had The
nearest place to the star, and
was not obscured thereby. Walter
Tessler. as JACK, filled a manly, honest,
role in an honest, manly way. Herbert
Pattee was Gerald. the finally repent
ant villain. Daniel Kelly as Captain
Cnasmer aud the convict father, alias
Droogan, and Carl Scranton as Charley
Dorrion, a West Point Cadet. proved well
above the average.
The dainty little ingenue. Rose Tiffany,
is certainly a peculiar creation. She is
really n charmiugly pretty actress who Is
not in love with her own beauty. Besides
she is natural and that is so much.
Gertrude johnson. as Lydia Chasmer GER
tainiy has one of the most ungra,eful
roles In the language. However, she
played it we'll. and mad the compensation
of the finest wardrobe that ever came 10
a Jersey City stage. Kibbie a ybronz
haired Juvenile was presented by Mildred
Lawrence.
Lady Blarney will be given during the
week with the usual Wednesday aud
Saturday matinees. Next week Prim-
rose and West will give the nautical
~pantomimic comedy, Eight Bells"