The evening world., 1893-10-25
"rHe SON.

Immediately promised to be his wife.
That's % like a girl. II It not-that IL to
say. q stage giri7 Never by any chance
q she marry Q man she adores, until
the Last act. She Invariably chains her
self up to somebody else during the
progress Of the play, and drags herseR
about to slow music and tears.
Nell Arnitage was the heroine Of Da-
vid Beiasco's trivial four-act drama hat
wal essayed 1t the Empire Theatre last
night. Four large meaty acts were
reared upon improbability. and the weak
est Of motive. A sentence. o. perhaps wen
. word dfusxed from this drama would
cause It to collapse like . house Of cards.
One would think It had been written as
his head In his hand crying: II must
write . play. but what abodtT' You see
strings, wires, rsd Ink. t~ypewritten
notes. You understand the motive for
the evolution Of the play. but you an
grasp that Of the play itself.
A. the action mov tediously through
its four acts, delayed and Interrupted
by inoessant, disconnected comedy epi-
scdes. you see that It II . case OF much
ado about nothing. There are tears,
white faces. sroans and asony-an about
nothing at all. Here II the feeble
story: Paul ID an artist. He loves
Nell. A very naughty, man has seen
Nell and has told her that he. also. loved
dishonorably. Instead Of box
ing his earl a IL Mrs. Kendall. she Ia
distressed. and the death Of
every N OF her relatives could scarcely
agonixed her more. The naughty
buys Paul's picture. and. learning
Paul loves Nell. offers to send him
to Italy to study paintins-in reality.
to get him out of the way. Paul.
knowing nothing. rcjoices. Nell is
afraid to tell him the truth. for he has
to Kill himself II his ambi-
lions are thwarted. 30 she promises to
marry Brewster. in order that the liber-
tine shall have no reason to send Paul
away! Then there IL fins whippsd-up
agony. and ali ends we'll. A bad
an il-used wife, dressed in
bio ck, (of coUrse). . couple Of children,
. doting mother, and the usual fiippant
comedy couple are all introduced. To
stand them all. there must be some ex-
and there Ii none in THE Younger
ooh" Aus SAiy uoTOiH6 6unOyb inc
audience. and the struggle for situations
Ii as apparent a. the wires Of a marion
OF course, there are church bells, slow
music and q blue moonlight in the third
act Balasop would sooner deprive his
Of bread and butter than blue
She's got to have It. She
never ,speaks to her lover unless there
are chants in the air. Once It is wedding
music IN . church ACROSS the street.
Says she, "Astsn. A man and woman
are being welded" Next time 1t IL New
Years bells. Says she. Listen. I wish
you q happy now year." The misery 10
rudely pushed aside by the ir-
relevant comedy couple. whose presence
IN this play Ii not even explained. What
right they have to invade Mrs.. Kirk
lands nat nobody knows. They come
On. however. and 80 their little "turn."
and 30 out again, and nobody cares.
The wTungsd wife In this play looks like
NAAs Denver in "The Silver King"
and WEAR, the good Old black gown. now
70 popular Why doesn't some big dry
Foods house advertise - line Of black
aresses for -vroassd wives7" They
seem TO bs % much In demand Just now.
the hast act, after the death Of one
Of the chakrea. she appears again in the
black dress, and somebody says to her.
why DO. you iwear. blackf Who -
deadr" Al 1he ha1 aiready donned the
gsrb. It looked very much as
she had bought It on the specula-
ton Of somebody dying. There arc wo-
Vh0 A. that Mind ~ &htuu 7 ~