The sun., 1893-06-14

Charles wyndham and his company yisit this
6e bnSSs ssop WSaS e
nhap nnhvasE M succstsfp ,nn at the Criterion. and
he goes 'fo'PHG to Famsrs ss ness ss
ifssn,uary. IAN, His visit, to london will be after
TSsR sim. LSad'R Snd RqssS FsSd E RfI'd de-
hy r }Yy ana T. which
success At the NJ Ray%aFfes 4fesn'fS Sas WSSse SsSS
al summer. Abandoning his usual professional
saTpsdsSS to g GeTmany n Paris met vet9rien
In new, drama along the lines of Dipio..
whirh he SE{,tnE for the Vaudeville
age tho prSdSetlSn OF the pay ensnssd
AIexandre Bisson 70 give. m e biz. next three
sys or,T The Fare ch,%SmPISpo Malsrs sD
jossBh Hoand R y viii fpSIsSt pIay the 3,
tSsT se s$sn fsnsS sae WIZ is%s
described already. and pretty extensively MS a
| farce oi the uproarous Kind ishall produce
ard" Wv
There are two theatres in New York Just now
which offer as their chief attraction realism OF
| n Kind that reminds US OF the real pump and
splendid tubs" in Nicholas Nickleby." In
The Prodgal Daughter" at tho American
Theatre. the principal scene represents a race
track. on which half dozen horses are intro
duced. Itis q fine bi. OF realism. and superior
to anything OF the sort that has been seen
here before. To be sure. the horses do not
move with as much rapidity as those do in
Neil BURGESS County Fair" but then We
running loose and not tied TO a treadmlll. The
details details OF IN this race scene are admirably well
the water Jump and throws lis lis rider over lis
head into the ditch: there are the people who
have to .te driven away BY the policeman:
there is the welcher. who is attacked by an In.
his Clothes are are sdrppina @ % with mud @ % and water @
and then there are the horses. ridden In fine
fSe I'LL by osksss who hn0w nov h, their
Il Is were it not for the events which lead up
to IL, and which are such as to interest and OK
the boxes There is the crafty secund1rel
favor,s and thors is. IS the scens In u when this
one, Welding to tho promptings Of his con
temrter's face: and there ia the other man who
has 10 conscientious scrnples Of any sort and
the stage is darkened. and the. scene whirled
ground rsyeal!ng the Interior OF the sta ble with
heard. Tho rascal and his still more rascally
employer are at work on tho iron bars of the
honest h stablemara man and and his his Vi virtuous smpioyer yer
| quietly change the horses from one stall to an
Sh the ss tas ns oaFs sst al his
nal tho 'doctored" beans. OF course, when
the race Is rum in the act that follows it Is tho
ting who wins, and it is needless to say that no
is ridden ey character who has already won
remark that the villain who hires the stable
man to poison the fayorite is so well played that
| he is called out every night and roundly Kissed
| as tribute to his powers.
Another play in which realism has a large
| part may be seen at the Fourteenth Street
t. I, t,%ar toJ ,;.vht lyy
Walter Sanford's company OF players. 1t Is
called " The Flag OF Truce" and it is from
tho pen OF William Haworth. who has also
! written The Ensign" The realism con-
| sidered important enough to warrant its
pictorial reproduction on the posters, occurs
in the fourth act, where q stone quarry is rep
rife and mot entirely ur familiar noise is
heard on the stage. and moment later the
fully represented on a back drop and learns
that the noise was made BY giant steam
during whie h time ga a gang Of Iaborsrs II axe an
nmsss T as end nws nSS
the aborers sI stop vosR as p prompty % as they
were members OF the street sweeping brigade.
ras a hsfs is on er e more In
s@ psae Ths SSss s,sssd 's5t a this IF It Show Us s Hne
their lives ithout paying for it. In tho audi
on on Monday tn nght s TeTs seen large g Sa num-
are kept awake at night and harassed during
the day ~ the noise OF steau drills, which are
town. town They " come down to Fourteenth street.
in search OF change and recreation: and are
teenth Street Theatre, where they have an op-
portunity OF seeing real steam drill hard at
undoubtedly men whose hands are horny from
handling Harlem rocks. and whose ears have |
the steam drills by which they work When
their days toll is over they seek mental re-
hapse ras @
@ ELL ii aas Shf That H do Hy with s
on the unexpected return from the war Of two
ThH bS to hays a b
vent his wife from forming an alliance with
tRs sad + the in d hS
work willie they are on the stage. lit did it
would be impossible to hear them talk. II is
only introduced to give touch OF naturalness
or realism AS the managers call 1t nova
daysuto the quarry scene: But there is an
play. The returned soldier attacks the villain.
rock. The villain rushes to the wndlass. but
before he can lower the boulder his intended
brother. and the great mass falls to, the stage
VIII WI a. noise dhSfs here Is another
u cea nsH wste whcs
the actor who drinks of 1t declares to be y" bet
ter than whiskey."
Clement Scott, the el.known dramatic critic
OF the London Telegraph. was In this city few
days ago on his way home from the Columbian
Exhibition. He had seen the Empires drama.
"The Girl Left Behind Me-" both here and as
performed in Chicago. There Is wonderful
realism In that third act" he said to Sun re-
porter where the siege of tho cavalry outpost
and the final rescue are enacted. The hero has
started. in tho previous act. on o forlorn hone |
OF rescue. The frcnZied Indians are about to
massacre the men and women, whose garrison
the dance to the horrors OF impending
death. or worse; The war, songs Or
the savages are heard outside. At the
last critical moment. the succOring regiment
arrives. the i'm mperil!ed ones are saved. and the
excited audience cor:pels rise OF the curtain
again and again ms tho tableau OF climax.
Now wonder bow many, witnesses Of that
scene realize that only three persons are in
sight on the stage when the curtain falls
There Ia realism for you. The effects OF real
lam aa we commonly understand II. wrought