The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-08
News Of The Green
Room and Foyer
Some of the More Important DOings
Of These, Our Actors.
ROSE COGHLAN'S LATEST PLAY
The Critics Agree That 1t Was Magnifi.
Gently Presented but That 1t Was In.
trinsically Not Much of play.
Other Dramatic Notes.

1t seems to be the pretty unanimous
verdict of the New York critics
mat Rose Coghlan's new play, ITO
Nemesis" produced in Gotham for the
ilrst time last Monday night, will not
do. The Commercial Advertiser says
OF II: The play is new, very new, and
most probably will never become stale
through wear. AS for its originality
the least said the better. Mrs. Pacheco
mas 1umbled up lot of foreign people
in manner that might be called outre.
She puts fine speeches in their mouths,
| every speech accentuated with a BoWery
fervor, and puts fine clothes on their
backs. The regality OF Miss Coghlan
Is well set off by the authors costum-
ing, and she provides her with lam
guage commensurate with the cos
tunes, snowy but substanceless. ITO
Nemesis has a plot that requires the
most assiduous attention and q fair
stretch of the Imagination to compIe-
hend. There are kangaroo leaps in it,
chaotic lapses and sudden bursts of
effulgence that bewilder. The heroine.
Mile. Walanoff marries a man who
wronged her, only to leave him imme-
diately, and then in some unaccounta-
bic way comes into the possession of a
fortune in Russia, where fortunes for
peasant girls are picked up by Mrs.
Pacheco with astonishing ease, regard
| less of paternity. Then she goes TO
| Paris and meets her husbands twin
brother whom she mistakes for the
man upon whom she has sworn re-
venge. The kangaroo begins to leap.
Never was there such q frisky kan
garoo. A duel is brought about, and
| just as the Nemesis is beginning to
chuckle and gloat over acquired re-
venge she learns that the wrong man
is to be killed-that the real man has
been dead a long time. A carriage Is
right there at the boudoir door, and
the kangaroo horses make one long
get-there-or-die leap, and, presto! there
| Is q climax, denouement for the gal
lery. On the Bowery or Eighth ave-
nue. TO Nemesis is sure to arouse the
plaudits of the house With the at
mosphere of the Star theater 1t Is
little incongruous. The author has
manufactured climaXes with sledge
hammer. She spread out roll of sin
in the first act, demonstrating with the
precision of a delineator upon
blackboard where crinkles might be eX-
pected to appear, and then she ham,
mered away with clangs and clangs
worthy of any blacksmith. Miss Cogh-
Ian is surrounded by very capable
company. They do the very best pos
sible with the material at hand and
present some really pretty scenes.
There are Mr.. Frederic de Belleville as
the Count Ogareff, the unfortunate twin
who escapes a colicward puncture
through the dexterous manipulation of
the playwright; Mr.. Henry Jewett Mr..
Cecil York, Mr.. Harry Courtaine and
other worthy actors, who, with COM
mendable exertion, aided the move
ments Of the kangaroo. Then there are
Effie Shannon, and Miss Maxine Eli
oft, an unusually handsome woman, in
roles fully as uncomfortable as that OF
Miss Coghlan. The women in "To
Nemesis" are beautiful, the men are
handsome, the stage setting is superb,
and the play is trash, Miss Coghlan's