The Portland daily press., 1892-03-05
Muse AND DRAMA.
Money Mad.
resented

Money Mad.
There might be reason to suppose that
Steele Mackaye would cast the plot of
''Money Mad'' in the same mold as that
of his greatest success, "Hazel Kirke,"
but this is not SO. The closest scrutiny
detects little if any resemblance between
the two productions. The success of
''Hazel Kirke'' depended mainly upon
the deep and touching pathos so cleverl
intermingled with pure and refined COM
edy. money Mad' bases its claims to
success upon powerful and thrilling stu
ations and upon realistic and mechanical
effects. The pathethic side may be more
thrilling and more exciting, but it has
not the same impressive and lasting eff
feet as that of 'Hazel Kirke.' Perhaps
the only resemblance between the two
plays is in the love scene between Jack
Adams and Gurtha Graham. The inno-
cent coquetry of the latter is closely akin
to that of Dolly button. 1t may be said
of the play, that the situations are thrill
ing, and the interest of last nights au-
dience was maintained from the rise to
the fall of the curtain.
The company had the misfortune last
night to have their scenery fail to arrive,
owing to the storm which kept the Long
Island Sound steamers in port but they
hope to receive it today. Consequently
a great deal of realism had to be omitted.
The various parts were well taken, Mr..
Duffield assuming that of Gerthon Gra-
ham. Miss Phosa McAllister was Katie
O'Neil, Mr.. Frederick Roberts assumed
the character of John Merry, Miss Os-
valid that of Grace, and the other parts
were well taken. The play will be re-
peated at the matinee today and tonight.
Cynthia's Lovers.
Barnard's beautiful play of ''Cynthias
Lover will be seen at Portland Theatre,
Monday and Tuesday evenings. The
piece will be beautifully staged, whole
car load of scenery being used in it's Do
duction. The haunted house is very eff
fective.
Wilkinson's Widows.
Another of Charles Frohman's distin-
guished New York comedy success will
have it's first performance at the Portland
Theatre on next Wednesday evening. 1t
is William Gillette's latest comedy farce,
"Mr. Wilkinsan's Widows" which has
just closed a more than ordinarily sue
cessful and profitable run in New York.
The play is in three acts and is confess
eddy constructed and developed upon the
basis of the French lie Ecu Toupinel,"
by Mons Alexander Bison. the distin-
gtlished author, who is now engaged in
writing an English comedy for Mr.. Chas.
Frohman. There was no difference of
opinion among the Metropolitan critics
as to the brightness of Gillette's latest
comedy. The action is rapid, never lags,
and in the hands of the clever company
who present it, is said to create an inces-
SAINT uproar Of laughter from the opening
till the final scene.
A Parlor Match.
Next Wednesday "a Parlor Match
will be given in the -Stockbridge Popular
Course at City Hall, and and on Thurs
day, as an extra. The Boston Globe
says:
Evans and Hoyt, in their respective
roles of I. McCorker and Old Hoss, kept
the audience in continual roar from the
time they first appeared until the curtain
dropped on the last act Mr.. Hoeys new
topical song, "a Job Lot" was the hit
of the piece. and so well did it take that
he was called upon to repeat it until his
supply of extra verses ran out, and to sat
isfy the demand for more he sang that
old favorite, They're After Me-" aided
by the boys in the gallery, who sang the
chorus for him. The three English Lev
ey sisters, who have created SO much
favorable comment wherever they have
appeared, were received with much APP
plause in the second act, as three bashful
maidens. They are three very handsome,
tall and shapely young women.
Country Fair.
Charles B. jefferson, Klow and Erlan-
ger promise superior production ofs'The
County Fair at Portland Theatre, the
last three nights of next week and Satur-
day matinee. Morey Bates is said to be
simply immense as Aunt Abigail Prue.
One writer speaking of the play said: i
''The race stirred my blood. 1t was
the most realistic horse race I ever saw
upon the stage. If exuberant Tim, the
tanner, upon fleet-footed Cold Molasses
had not come in first, I believe would |
have gotten up and given both boy and
carried away by the bustling, spirited re-
alism of this particular scene, which is
so cleyerly contrived and managed as to
actually cheat one'S senses. That mort |