The evening world., 1893-11-22
A QUAINT rs YOU LIKE IT,"
There Was Much to Admire in
the Women's Performance.
Beckett" May Have . Longer Run
Other Stage News.

A curious combination OF the worthy
and the grotesque was the feminine per-
Torrance Of "As You Like It," at
Palmer's Theatre, yesterday, as given by
known as the Professional woman's
League. The huge audience present wal
there to see the grotesque, for the worthy
is so awfully commonplace, don't you
know. 1t Is 30 tiresome. so usual, so
monotonous. so tame. while the gro
tesque-vive the grotesque!-it tickles,
and 1t sparkles, and 1t Is, oh! so pleas
ant. The League women knew this.
Smart ladies' are they. and keen is their
. an0G saseS the Gl 'n pub at.!"' P so they " FsNe
Shakespeare's pastoral play without the
aid of men. and held the field. with the
success that they. had anticipated. It
in Others. Some OF the ladies' In whis-
kers and boards and feminine voices re-
minded you irresistibly of the bearded
seemed to cast those freaks into the
shade, for they were more graceful and
pleasing than the attractions OF the
museum platforms. Then the actress
Ketchum-wore a wig that s~peakingly
suggested the late Lydia Plnkham, and
some of the gay young foresters were
exceedingly, amusing. The really seri-
Nine. Janauschek. who seemed to be
genuinely acting and out Of place amid
such. motley surroundings. Her splen.
iured the audience away from the friv-
olous contemplation Of bearded women
and hirsuted damsels. Miss Maude
Banks was a very feminine Orlando,
laughter. An excellent piece. OF acting
was contributed by Miss Marion Abbott
as the Wrestler. Miss Abbott's idea OF
she made hers tough and did very, well.
Mrs. Eberle was a praiseworthy Duke,
and Miss St. John a highly picturesque
and delicately feminine lie Beau. The
was admirable. Miss Davis has a mas
culine voice. and a musical one. She
V VSnsha IT as sI H@iens sang M yess pa Tns1Hsa
Rosalind Of Miss Mary Shaw was good,
for Miss Shaw is ar artist to the finger
tips, n a most pleasiIg and dainty Celia
ugly members of the League insisted up
on stnnd'ng in the front row and leav-
ing the pretty members at the back.
proceedings was most aggressive. The
ushers did themselves proud. You should
have seen Aunt" Louisa Eldridge and
tended that she knew exactly where each
seat was, but she didn't. She was there
because she was Aunt" Louisa, and
that was quite enough for anybody: Mrs.
ralk " Of The S queen s'% ~ sshe SSa'0 asd sole:
With Mrs. Fernando. She ru nHi and d
erimped her hair. and It fell in wavelets
through which her smiling chubby face
literally ploughed a way for itself. The
Genuine orchestra directed by Miss
anxious to disturb the proceedings, and
In or two. instances 1t succeeded.
Among those who were not there were
away?
They are diligently rehearsing Henry
II Hlii Il on at A6 no e Gheatre; All the same
run, for a fourth week. It is not a
lively play. but II gives Mr.. Irving and
Miss Terry opportunities to display their
Henry Bagge, Leonard Boyne's I'M
derstudy, was all ready, to go on at the
american Theatre Monday night to play
not on hand. Everybody wondered. but
there was no use wondering, so MI.
Bagg had dressed himself Inc was
boyne at the stage entrance. and rush
ing up to him asked him what was the
matter. THE matter?' exclaimed
seyen''. t1HTt e drew @why quit rs ni only ya nslf past past
looked at 1t. 1t had stopped. Then q
light began to dawn upon him. He had
been placidly sleeping at his rooms in
Of The Prodigal Daughter" In five
minutes. he had dressed himself n was
ready for the stage. Bagge lost his
Chance. The lot OF an understudy Is a
hard one.
Manager Miner has instructed n dra.
matte gentleman in London to keep his
cable to Mr.. Miner when he finds them
The American manager wants them for
the stock company with which he Is
going to ornament the Fifth Avenue
Theatre.
Not to be outdone by the Broadwa,
Theatre, which sheltered President C!leve'
Mayor Gilroy and Corporation Counse
Clark wandered in Saturday afternoon
with the ayyowed Intention Of seeing ter
evening ,Gov.-elect Mckinley sat in q
box, doubled up like a jackknife
over the whimsicalities of Walter Jones
c%!nnati, is his lifelong friend. "Wha'
makes that gentleman come so high
my DEAR asked the Daisy Queen O.
t tSfnk tail NV Glo oHsa rsn,is, ,T 7 tariff, J
N' ~ ' III thc NlIl ATG
the author of the Mckinley bill turned
purple with merriment.
Richard Mansheld's motion to dismis,
the complaint OF Vincent Sternroyd, whc
is suing, him. has been dismissed. TIL,
case will be tried and Sternroyd is jubi
liant. Now Mansfield viii have tn,
chance Of alleging hat he dismissed
Sternroyd because he is English. Thii
will be a difficult thing for the public Il
credit, as Mansfield Is 30 fond of engag
ing English actors. But 1t will ado
weight to his recent TRADE.
Miss Julia Marlowe has been telling
Philadelphia interviewer thai she hate
shopping and prefers reading plays. How
exceedingly unwomanly!
Fred Solomon and his wife have Ioine,
The Fencing Master Mr.
Solomon has wisely abandoned his sea
son as n star. Times are so very bad GU
of town.
WORLDLlkCS.