Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-24
NEW YORK PRooUcTIoNs.
Lawrence Hanley in "The Player" and
 LoIe Fuller In New Dances.


 NEW YORK, Aug 23-The theatrical sea- son has fairly opened. Many road attrac- lions have already started from New York, and they will be followed a: short inter vals by those which will begin to tempt fortune on Labor day.
 Lawrence Hanley. In BlncAe Marsden's adaptation and farce comedy dy.iat!on of 'Da- vid GarricA," ," which has been rechristeced "The Player" has been holding forth at the Star theater wi;h but indifferent success. Wherever Miss Ma-sdea has chan sed ''Da vid Garrick" it has been Cor the worse.
 MT Hanley iutrodGcad the second and third acts of Hamlet" condensed into one This of course served tc afford h.m the oP- portunity 70 appear iE the famous player scene, and to say that be dl9 II poorly but mildly expresses 1t He appears to not have the slightest conception of what Shak espeare intended tEe melancholy Dane to be Ills reading of the Mines would have been better suited to the character ot O:hel- To- for he fairly siZzled with rohustuousEess and posed Eero!cally upon the slightest pre- text Mir Harley was, l believe, at one time In Edwin Booths company While he will never have the oppCyt"uit to again observe the methods of the great master" he might sit through one of Walker White l sides performances Of Hamlet" and close ly study that ambitious and conscientious | young actor with great profit 10 himself. In all of The Player except the Ham | let" portion Mir Hanley was excellent, al | though by no means remarkable He is simply very good heroic actor, and it is | beyond my comprehension to understand Apon what the young man bases his hope | of permanent success is traEcdian, for he | is uuquestonably not of stellar calibcr. | His company. on the whole is very in competent, especially for the requirements | of tragedy There are. however, several | bright spots in the cast, the most Compe- tent of which Is Miss Victory Bateman, a | beautiful young woman with easy meth ods and particularly graceful delivery. | Loie Fuller, Alice shaw, Olga Brandon and Isabelle Urquhart are the principal | members of company of Amer riCans or ganized by Robert Grau in Europe for a short season in New York which has proved very successful from a pecuniary stand point. the Garden theater has been well filled at each performance On the opening night Olga Brandon's play "A Nisit,' by Charles Brandes, was practically hjssed of the stage The first act was exceedingly talky. In fact, il is the talkicst thing seen on the stage in this city within the mem ory of our oldest thcatcr Eocrs.
 l Paul Arthur forgot his lines and stum- bled and blundercd around to such m eX- tent that be made John Kcllard nervous, and he quickly followed Mir. Arthur's bad example. A little later the curtain was rung down, and Miss Brandon vowed she would return 10 England immediately. But she was greatly annoyed at the time and probably did not mran half of what she said. The little that she did in "A Visit was exceedingly well done and showed that she has not forgotten how Ia Use hcI wonderful midnight eyes aud soft, but l strong and effective, voice.