The record-union., 1892-09-17
Music AND TIE DRAMA.
Two New Plays That are Failures
in New York.
in Quarantine Their Plays Went
On just the same-J. X. Emmett is
Great FavorIte.

On just the Same-J. X. Emmett is
a Great FavorIte.
a. P. Dunlop. writing from New York
under date of September 10th, says:
1.-THE twin novelties Of the week are
II z. NJ at the Bijou, and MOnongahela,
or Homestead in 49, in Harlem and both
and failures. II p. NJ was written by g..
Is. Dillingham;, AN exceedingly clever met
ropolltan journalist, for Miss Jennie Yea
mans, but his plot, like most farce
! comedy plots, has been ripped open for
the introduction of old jokes, and per-
maps he would not have known he was
The author OF the play by looking at the
HfSt performance. Miss \ caman'S quaint
ness and oddly has become familiar on
the stage, and properly suited her talents
/ would undoubtedly raise her among the
! leading condolences, and this was what
! was intended, but the way to star-dom is
slippery, and although she danced
nImbly and sang pleasantly as a hoy
denish girl, J2 P. NJ will not serve as
a plank for her to reach the kingdom of
| paying star-dOm. The main idea of the
play IS pretended spiritUalist fright
/ ened into honesty by jolly conspirator.
Homestead in 1922 was constructed by
! Frank Norcross, an actor with money
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tells the episodes enacted at Homestead,
! but WanderS into chaos almost from the
start, and cannot be accepted as a plauS-
IDLE plea for the Homestead strikers. The
author has merely strung together
series of incidents, picked up ut hap
| hazard, from miSinfOrmed or preiudiced
! newspaper reports. and they DO not form
play that viii even draw topheavy
houses. one Of the amusing bits in
| this unique labor play is Hugh ODon-
nell, audaciously brought forward as a
hero by John e. Kellerd, who neither
looks, nor talks. nor acts like the little
! hair-Oiled labor aGitator but who fired
Oft quite as long speeches. The stage
management was excellent, the supers
! forming themselves into mObS with great
! agility; the scenery was also very good,
| but the dialogue eEecrable.
! 'Of plays produced last season and
again brought to the city this week, were
a plentiful supply. Fritz with j. X.
Emmett, has been amusing big audiences
at the Windsor. He is by long odds the
! best of our German dialect actors, and
his welcome in the metropolis is always
| pronounced.
jane had also an emphatic welcome
at the Standard, although Miss tombstone
| Bennett was still held IN quarantine on
/ Monday, and Miss Lottie collins, who
was TO do her famous 'Ta-ra-ra, was an I'M
/ willing captive on the NOrmannia, which
! she calls the Hamburg-Am erican Packet
Company's JAIL The play went, how
| ever, with a rush, all the same, Miss
/ Grace Sherwood playing the title role
/ quite as well as Miss Bennett-if not bet
| ter-and no one grumbled because of
| Miss Collins jEdiciOuS retention. In fact
! the theatrical people on board the quar-
antined steamers have offered up some
| pretty loud kicking during the week
! because they have not been permitted to
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| NJ. Palmer has grumbled about some of
! the regulations imposed by DR.. Jenkins
! for the welfare of the metropolis. It
seems to me that it would have been in
| better taste if they had maintained a pa
| cific rest, or ii they had to talll-as all
theatrical people must-that they would
have said something to at least make be-
! lieve that the interest of the whole coun-
! try was dearer to them than the personal
| inconvenience and danger which they no
| doubt encounter. Should the cholera be
introduced here the very first to feel the
| consequence would be the theatrical pro-
| feSsion. The theaters would be empty
and one case of the tell-deStroyer would
do more harm to the present season than
would ten Presidential campaigns, of
which so much is feared.
''At the Star Theater Roland Reed has
been seen for the first time in Gotham in
| Lend Me Your Wife, an adaptation
from the same French original as is
| jane 1t is one of the late Mr.. Bouci-
cault's adaptations, on which Sydney
Rosenfeld has been permitted to monkey
with to the extent of adding few flip
lines. 1t is full of briskness and laugh
ter, greatly due to Mr.. Reeds own exer-
tions, and it will serve him well for the
short run he will make with it at the
Star.
1.-the Black Crook at the Academy
| of Music, is said to be doing well, and if
continued for six months may shed
enough profit to repay the enormous out
lay for its production.
ga. Y. Pearson's The Police PATROL is
drawing heavily on the Bowery, and the
clever record of farce comedies.
| "A Trip to Chinatown continues to fill
| the Hoyt Madison Square Theater, al
though the merry skit is now in the elev-
enth month Of its prosperous run.
THE theatrical profession in New York
| has been greatly exercised during the
week about the six pugilists who have
| been mauling each other in New Orleans
aud as nearly all of them will jump from
| the ring to the middle of the stage after
| they have been patched up, it is to be
| hoped that none of the splendid speci-
men of physical manhood will be spoiled.
| If a slugger slugs a slugger, however,
none but sluggers care, to any great ex-
! tent"
STAGE NOTES.
Lord Tennyson will publish a new
play by Christmas.
Labor Day did not pan out great on
matinees in New York.
Charles Matthews of "By Proxyu has
bought cottage at Asbury Park.
| Nellie McHenry is still in California,
and her "A Night at the Circus' is
veritable gold mihe.
| The receipts of the isle of Champagne',
/ last Saturday at the Boston Globe Thea
| ter ran up to 1888 90.
The Manchester Umpire saws that John
| Z. Rogers is known in English newspa
per offices as ''the Holy Terror"
Anna Boyd, who has left the Howl
| Trip to Chinatown Company, has be-
come the star of the Dazzler Company.
Aunt" Louisa Eldridge celebrated her
til birthday last Sunday in a shower of
| flowers, kilograms and congratulatory
| letters.
Ralph Delmore limps along upper
! Broadway daily very much improved
and hopes to be ready for work inside
| month
"Sinbad" celebrated it's 5O0th per-
| Torrance at the New York Garden Thea
ter September 18th. 1t has been very
prosperous in New York.
Ned Taylor, he of the beautiful white
hair, who has piloted 'By Proxy" into
its great success, is in New York boom
! ing his really meritorious play.
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