The Washington times., 1894-12-09
REVIEW OF THE WEEK.

without being at all invidious to the good
! qualities of the entertainment furnished
theater-goers last week by the companies at
the other theaters, it may be fairly said that
/ Miss Nethersole at Albaugh's and Della Fox
at the New National claimed a large share
/ of the public attention. These are stars, by
the way, that differ from each other largely,
both in the quantity and quality Of their
light.
Della Fox is a familiar light. Miss Neither
sole was seen here for the first time Monday
night. Miss Nethersole appeared, heraded
! by the eu!ogies OF the critics as a quiet emo
tional actress, and she fully verified what had
been read here OF her powers OF interpreta-
ton. Those who saw her unqualified success
in the nrst and second acts of Camille" 8"
could we'll anticipate their judgment of her
as Juliet, up TO the point in "Romeo and
Juliet, when the heroine takes her destiny
/ into her own hands.
The opinion was perhaps, universal that
! Miss Nethersoie ranks among the foremost in
/ terpreters OF the grand passion. There is no
/ doubt at all that her Camille was person.
I ally and dramatically correct, the only fault
/ that could be found with it being that she
/ somewhat unnecessarily prolonged the agony
/ ofthe death scene. There is room for a dif-
/ ference of opinion as to whether she rose to
the dramatic heights in the girl Juliet trans
! formed into the terribly real and sell-con-
tanned woman after the rough speech Of the
| Cofulet. This sense OF incompleteness in the
symmetry and full capabilities of Miss Meth
ersoles powers will not be removed until she
| is seen in character of the intensity Of Lady
Macbeth. Opheia would not do as a supreme
test. Miss Nethersoles support was very
| good and especially as to Mr. Barrymore and
| Mrs Phillips
nailo Ep oil h. -boIo
week. Indeed, her box Office receipts would
nearly reach the figures gained by old and
/ tried comic opera queens for the same period.
| Just why this IS so is not very clear for Della
can't sing little bit. She illustrates the
retrograde tendency OF modern comic opera
towards the French vaudeville.
Ii The Little Trooper" was q comic opera,
then Hoyt's farces are in the same category,
for there is as much lyric effort in one as the
other, leaving, of course, the chorus out of
the question.
Jefferson De Angels won golden opinions
for his work in the comedians end of the en-
tertainment. The chorus was pretty and ef-
iectlVe, and Miss Fox's initial appearance
here as star was decided success.
At the Academy Lew Dockstader and his
company Of minstrels secured good average
attendance There are minstrels and min
strels, and somehow they always manage to
keep beyond the domain of criticism. In the
| burlesque Of all things human and divine
there is no bringing the perpetrators of dra-
matte misdemeanors to the book. There has
been nothing, however original in this species
OF dramatic representation from the time Of
the cart and the goat-skins to the present
AT Buffers Bi3ou they played 1.-The Life
Guard, the merits of the individuals in the
cast having already been mentioned. There
IS in the play so rapid a succession of events
that on that score at least there is nothing to
| h@rT Ill
dramas which have flooded the stage for the
past ten or fifteen years 1t has as usual the
non-dramatic auxiliaries as its strong points,
such as fire scene and a light house scene,
etc.
At Albaugh's ISL Lootch first saw the pub
lilo last Week-a matinee performance. The
| promises OF the opera drew large crowd
VINO looked at it from the point of view of an
amateur venture. Love and all that it means
are to be found among the red men as every
where in the world. / regard ST Lootch,
the nero, as f1ne creation. 1t will inevi-
tabiy suggest to everyone the dignity and
pathos OF the red mans passing snow, and
the character was finely developed in the Ii
bretta, the music, and by the actor.
| AS to the score, the orchestration of the
| choruses and the development of the themes
are good, and several of the solos and con-
certed pieces are quite above amateur work.
Messrs. Garland and Grimes, its authors,
have been heartily congratulated in many
letters on the subject of their work.
There is always.a good house at Kernan's
Lyceum Theatre, but if there was any one
thing more than another that could maintain
a crowd there last week it was the suggestive
title OF the piece on the boards, "Hades Up
to Date. In Reilly & Woods play of that
name it was interesting to be informed as to
what progress has been made of late years in
the place which gives their play name.
VAL BIAZ RFER