New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-13
THE DRAMA-MUSIC
,,rp,s THEATRE THE NEW WOMAN

.,rp,c THEATRE" TH r NEW WOMAN"
r,. interrupted season of Palmers Theatre was
,,,ed last night. The pa? presented was the
49, woman." by sydney Grundy 1t proved 10 b.
W. y, .or.stinc and clever treatment of subject
~ < i,st now attracting vast deal o. atten-
"h' :, ,,s not the pay. however. which chiefly
''" 49,, attention % the audience and delighted
oe and cars The occasion was most note
nv as aiioriing the opportunity for The reap
nce on the stage of Miss Annie Russell. IT
ore than FIVE years since her severe sickness
Hs,,ed her to leave 1t. Through two three at
c ' ~ those years the friends who knew her only
y, ~. theatre had no hope of ever seeing her again
,,ss russell has had some means OF knowing in
70, anectiOnate remembrance she has been held
" ,,ess friends and she learned II al again last
;A, ANY star who has appeared In a Newly
.n.,re in the last half dozen years might be proud
- sr,h continued applause greeted her first
o,,rance After that every movement that she
Id was watched and every word that she spoke
cas- listened for with eagerness to note whether
nor acting was the same that it used to be.
II was the The old. quiet. sell possession
$40 Old winning sweetness. the old gracious hap
;,ss. In. Old silvery voice We're all there. Ii was
'n,rouriate tina; Miss Russell should make her re-
,,ance with the same company-what there Is left
.r-in which she last acted. But. though she
-, presented star hut only member of
-, socA company. she filled the stage when she
.ssor i; with the brightness Of sunny presence
n. she had not been popular before she would have
h,ame - las. night. Ii Is pleasant and 1t Is fair
- .av So much of Miss Russells return.
sydney Gruniy is play-maker first and dis
osser on social problems afterwarG. This is the
sgh, order 20 be preserved when social problems
20 T., b. discussed the stage at all. Whether
The New Woman" will have any effect on the
,rsa, subject which forms it's title Il IA Yet open
"a question Caesar had his Rrutus. Charles his
rromwel' the aesthetic fever had its Du Maurer
" is ipl 10
End her pu Maurier her Gilbert in Mr.. Grundy.
,s has no; in him the ahsOluteness Of command 20
srapple a great question and 10 settle Il. but his
Mort is on The right side. When woman ceases
70 be a woman the play teaches. she ceases to he
ANYTHING and she ceases to have any power at all
lie Yields 10 the temptation to treat the giorihed
New Woman pretty largely as a joke. Doubtless
that is the easiest way. The Play has something
a, the eIigram that has been noted TO abound in
certain stage productions Of the last OF two
hut Nh Grundv's epigram IS more homes. Three
romer who are most unqUesilonably new resent
sighting remark made by Lady Wargrave. do
Vol, denv' cries one Of them. that Woman has
arrived AID that man has departed" Il don't won
der al IT," she answers The audience does moi
wonder at ii either. vhen il looks Al The New
Woman.
But the caricatures bit too broad They
have A decided tendency 10 defeat their own pur
,oss They seem 10 be speaking and acting always.
nor as women on thei side OF the question woui1
sr.sk and act but person Oh the DINER side
might fancy that women on their side would speak
and act Mr.. (irundy has ma .e his best success
not in showing the folly. the aifectaton. the sham.
the holowness OF these seli-styied new women. but
in showing again the grace. the loveliness the
truth the nobility the sweetness. the Wholesome
pess and perfect suic.ency of the old-tme reai
woman With Miss Russell TO help him. he could
not easily fail in that. This is the part OF tn
picture which never tires and which VIII last IN
spite Of theories and disputes and startling htera-
The who is most prominent in the play Is
one Gerald Cdzenove. He may be supposed 10 repre-
sent the ghOst of the man who departed when
Woman arrived He is the sort OF man VINO Is
admitted and allowed 10 exist by the New Woman
He has taken a prize for poem a. oxford. because
there were eleven poems worse than his. IL may pc
slrmsed that is the usual reason for the assign
men OF the prize. At the beginning of the play ne
has become far regenerated that he has fallen
In love-really. honestly in love. But he mas not
We, got past large. limp necltties and green carna-
lions These are typical no doubt, OF the fac; that
ne still 60 suffer relapse and TO suffer the worst
results Of the worship of the New Woman. A.
length however he his senses. rms
pari was played by Wilton Lackaye. who looked as
he nigh, have helped ~ win d boatrace al OK
ford M prize for poem.
z NJ Holland one OF the most charming
versons in the play. representing as ne dli Sood'
fascinating, bad man, of the Kind 10 be extln-
rushed by the New Woman. Mrs. -. 7. Bowers
apssN the honor Of the worldly Of the
present type to the credit of herself and Of the
vOfNly woman Miss Virginia Harmed. VINO has
aot before appeared with this company, played the
ressonage who brings the most OF the GiScreit
the New Woman. and added to her already eN-
celent reputation actress