The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-28
THE ACADEMY CROWDED.
ssBlue Jeans" a success-"rhe Pulse
of New York" at the Opera
House.

There were no vacant seats in the New
Academy of Music. last night. Blue
Jeansn was there, and 'Blue leans
means standing room only.' There were
SO many that the first edition OF program
mes gave out. thereby reducing late COM
ers to the gallery bills, and relieving them
from reading the same old jokes that
lave been there since 1888.
Although Blue Jeans centers around q
buzz-saw, its interest by no means begins
or stops there. 1t is the old story OF
Eggleston's Roxy" and probably OF a
dozen more tales; a country candidate
falling under the spell of rustic beauty,
losing his office by rousinE the Jealousy
of her lover, and afterwards marrying
her to find ten minutes later that sne a
a husband living. Leaving her, with the
marriage unpublished, he falls in love
over again with June, adopted from the
poorhouse. Naturally. Sue Endaly. q
tigerish, oriental creature, wishes to es-
tablish her wifely claims. and published
her story the day before his second cleo
ton. Perry Bascom, the candidate. who
has married june. leaves in search OF
proofs, searches three years without sue
cess, aud returns to find Sues former hus-
band alive. -.
But the buzz-saws Oh, that comes in
in with the third act. Sues lover, Ben
Boone, lays Perry, unconscious. on the
carrier, and just as his body Is being
pushed against the whirllng saw, June
breaks in and pull him off, 1t Is apt TO
give the audience heart-disease.
Yet it is the best piecs OF realism" on
the stage today.
The company had no poor actors or
actresses. From star Co "supe," no part
was sighted. William Courtleigh had
Robert billiards. old part, Perry bas-
conn., and a more inspiring young actor
! never walked. He makes the most salts
| factory stage husband on record. George
D. Chaplin was Colonel Henry Clay
Risener, the unhappy political agent"
who has TO boom a hotheaded young can
didate. Andrew Robson's Ben o
| was married by its naturalness. 1t is un-
| doubtedly true that q man OF such un-
tanned strength, in such an unrestralned
rage, would speak with q thick utterance,
| INT the audience can'J hear what he says.
Otherwise his work was excellent. wal
| lace D. Shaw, as old Jacob Tutew1ler,
Charles Udell. as his erratic son, w. II.
| Crandall, as Ike Hankius, and Joseph
| Graham, as Seth Igoe, maintained the e1-
cellence of tine company.
Laura Burt was June, the character
| that she has made her own. 1t is good
to hear her, and to notice the brave
patience that she maintains through a
life hat is not any too easy. In contrast
to the snaky, brilliant Sue, she stands
not as a milk and water angel, but as a
woman with a temper Of her W and the
| faults of her kind, but u true hearted,
noble one. Jennie Goldwaite as Sue was
| enough to keep one interested. Flaming
out in gIaring silks ana Sat1ns, she was
| the soul OF some savage wild thing whose
very love was dangerous. The other
members OF the cast were Marian Strick-
| land, Mrs. Charles Edmonds as an old
farmers wife; Daisy Temple, as q bright
soubrette, and a tiny baby girl, Little
| Mabel, as Bascom's child. not forgetting
| a real live bull to be roasted in a bar
becue, several real live pigeons. aDd a
brass band. with an ~acropat1c drum
| major. Molloy. The Columbia Quartette
sang several glees. The scenery, laid in
| the Blue J cams district of Indiana, was
| pre- tty thro ughout. Altogether. the play
| was an unQ ualiied success.
"Blue Jea ns'' will stay during the
vveeK. with us ual matinees.