The evening world., 1893-10-31
THE SILVER SHELL

Sihlllgm is very firing. The novelist
ana the dramntist have attack d II 20
rIriously. fascinated by the 'opportin-
itirg" II always g"rms to hold forth,
that what is l"rt woHrics. 1t is the
theme of tho four.act melodrana with
out mechanical Effects called '"The Sill
yer Smell" which was acted last might
at the star Theatre, by Mir. and Mrs.
E"ndul. II was hard work to follow IN"
rily from its start to It's deuouement,
for the author MIR II. j. W Dam, Il
very brilliant writer. dragged you
through n goa Of unproiiiabl" talNallNe-
n.4s. sickIy with inccsslnt asHassina-
tin. mbid conspiracy and Il general pre-
pondorancr Of vitchs. skis and kons.
NIhiliatlc misery generally seems
strained, unnatural and unduly theatri-
cal. 1t il not tn" sort of misery mat
rIlIs forth human sympathy. in TINS
country at any rate. The autocrauc
car 10 tn little nineteenth century
guIl,ry boy mus, lie s~hrickingly funny.
Nr Dam himself allows the c&cCrablr
"r,mcdy'' characters II" ha" Introduced
'o gently "ruy' the Nihilisti" idea, the
Russian llnSlagc and tn" essence OF
his own pla,. That tn" audience did not
DO this If owing to one or two clever
situations ana th" satisfactory work of
NIr. and Mrs. K"ndal. Katherine Vail
ls he heroine OF 9TH" silver Shell
She IL a pleasant, aitaDic, mature sort
OF = body. who loOks as though she
would h" far NOR" Comfortabl" crochet
ing anti-ma"aSears than Coquctting with
Nihilism. The car murdered her
Ioppcr, and shr saw the murder. which
.,,- -, eb, y,bhir,lv doscrihes 10 the
,,ant,. I,sn,, 90 ncr iovcr she ia filed
,i,h =, ,hirs. for royo,,o and che ioins
,ta ~,hi,t,,r s,, 10 rr;od 70 tho son or
PRINCE 1InrntoY and her husband is
ala, ,se,a.fr,t,1 lnovinp her a little
,,r In , voice, emit Of clothes The
- rr,ag. nae hocn . socro, one K,ra-
,arr hoiia,,ns ,bot biI hov has been mur.
da,od no this woman win whom he was
uyi,g o,d yoos RI tho Nihiliet meeting
Fl. Inris Ivonitch tn 600 tho eIren
IIo be.ra tho nlot C,r assassination OF
tho Cz,r hrt hiring the meeting the
,o,l noris onrcars and Enratoff is in
an urIv n~osition He seizes n silver
sro,, fulI or dynamite and holds II
obova his bo,d raadv IN throw at the
cr,nirotors whom tho noIiro enter and
-, nur,,,r r,Is In mo laet oct the
coro-,, discovers TINT Katb, rIne Vail
~. bIs sons Lawful wife and that
,ho u,,,o ,o,,et sr,t &c bis ,randchi,d
a.. ,ttars . sort or "Ns.cbiIdr" and. in
.,,,d of ,on,irc E,tberire in Siberia in
no. rioo brown ILL dress he qIves her
In r,,rri,. n IN - kind Enplishmon with
ra.nao,ahIo no,rd who 10 warning IN
n,.rrv her such 10 "The silver Shell"
a. 49, 80, ,, GOO, CO ,borougbly ot
,ome With ass, ssinat;on that vo, are
,,o,ircd "a he,ieva that +, must have
loor ;rvented exclusively for melo-
d,,mo Van Inn. humanity to cal, Mrs
E,n,,I N,droski and Nr Kendall Will
uevitch-thie cannot he deemed familiar
and van o,o gl,d tia, :, is all over
TN ro hl,ndabed amonp the actors Won
s,w an tho atsge T., was nice Of Mr.
nam tn avoid showing ne gore. .oThe
ctI,,ar sill hou,ever could no G,tsa
~, ,nos, rttipglv for tho chean circuits
Tbore oro sn,ces warming IN he filed
+, vim acceesorios and cor,oods NJ
sc,nary
,s tho caner,, Mr. KernaI wa. dis
,irc,,,, ,ood ana hI, m,k.-un was n
u.a,L of ,r. TIe ,Iwovs manages 70
go l,oi,,r o,,.o, hut a.. 10 reo,Iv q