The morning call., 1894-11-06
AT THE THEATERS.
Downing Is a Pronounced
Success.
"CIancarty" Neatly Acted by the
kendals-"Cad, the Tomboy."
1.-The NeweIIs" at the Grand.

kendaIS-"Cad, the lOmDoy.
"The NeweIIs" at the Grand.
LADY Clancarty or Welded aud WoOed,"
Tom TayIor,s historical play illustrating the
Jacobite episode in England whers William
the Third was King, with The eX-Monarch
James The Second Matching plots at ST. Ger
mains in Paris. was presented last night by
the Kendaps at BaIdwin's Thelter 10 a mode
rate attendance As an important election Is
pending the pauclty of attendance was owing,
no doubt, 10 this fact. The play is an intensely
Interesting one, aud 10 The manner in
which it was acted il due the highest
nrajse Mr.. Kendall DOnOugh Mccarthy,
Lord Clancarty a strong partisan OF James ii,
was admirable in his bearing. In The second
act where IN tile Earl Of POrtland'S cabinet in
KensingtOn Palace. he meets his wife and con-
sututes himself a pleader for the supposed alb
sent husband-the wife being ignorant of his
identity as her lord-the acting was full OF pic
tufeSque phases. Later, when the SaIurnine
William, the Dutch King" comes upon the
scene-the King whose life was spent in guard
I ing against JacObre plots and weeping for his
! beloved dead and gone Mary-there was
also many delicate strokes OF acting
on MIR. kendaPs parT. He maintain ed
| sOupcOn of bTOgue in his speech, neat
that III its utterance there was the tone OF an
aIistocratlc Irish gentleman; OF. as William al
luded TO him, not showing VINO lie was, "The
| Irish SOn-in-law OF the Earl of Sunderland"
Mrs. Kendall as Lady ClancarIy, between
whose wedding and second woong by Clan
| carty there was a lapse OF many years. mace
| noble figure of wife faithful TO a memory. A
very wel.hlled character. Also was that of
Lord Spencer. son of the Earl Of Sunderland,
by Ii. Cooper Ciffe The rest of the cast was
fully up 10 the business assigned to its re-
speotive members. Lady Clancarty" will be
| repeated this evening.
! Robert Downing must be accepted as sue
cess In Saumers Gladiator" His noble ply
| steal proportions, his musical voice, with its
suave strength. his intelligent eadlng OF the lines
and hts graceful bearing, combine to prove him
an actor OF merit The best scene Is the
| fourth-the amphitheater scene where the
! Gladiators were "bulchered 10 make Roman
| holiday" BE has been instructed by the En-
| press Faustina 10 Kill, in the sight OF
the assembled thousands, the Christian girl
! Neodamia OIss EUgena BlaiD and when be
discovers by a ccatrix on her meek that she is
| a long-lost daughter he makes a display of
| faiherly feeling that, under the circumstances.
! causes murmur OF sympathy throughout the
| audience. His passionate but vain appeals 10
! ihe multitude in the arena, brutalized by the
almost constant sight of blood. 10
spare his child. were marvels of the
elUquence of despair. Miss Eugenia
Blair, by her genTleness and maideniy
modesty, but at The same time, the strength of
principle impaired by her Christian teaching,
/ gave In A degree tie idea of a VIrgtpia-ss the
/ conditions of Ne0damia aud The daughter Of
/ Nlrgnius have certain parallelism. She is a
|
| have become stronger and better than when
| she was last seen in this CITY. Mrs. T. NJ
! Bates made a good Faustlna, and Mr.. Edwin
Hayes won encomums as Flavlus. Mr.. w llllam
Frederick as Origen in the catacombs scene OF
| the first act was not happy 10 his reading, and
at The outset Downing seemed TO suffer in his
| own speech by the contact.
! The wrestling scene In The arena between the
| company's strong man. JOHN Mccormick, and
| amusing. Mccormick is as large a man as
| Downing. He looks gigantic. and when Mehling
tackled him and could find no ''hoidinE
| ground'' he incontineDtly gave up the task aud
! walked of the Stage. Mehling IN his struggles
! looked like a tomtit on a round of beef. Nc
! Leod. the champion of the Olympics. will tackle
| Mccormick this evening. We pity Mac.
1t is a novelty in theatricals to have play
| wherein the chief characters are represented
| by real twins instead of the usual stage sub
stitute. Such a play, however, was presented
| at MOrosco's last night under the name of "The
Opet ator," and the very strong resemblance
| almost ldentity-of the stars, In features. voice
| and manner, formed a strong part of the per
Torrance. MI willard Newell in particular is
! an excellent actor and carried The chief role
| company Leslie Morosco. Mr.. Swan. and Mr..
| Gleason furnished the comedy OF the perform
| ance and did it very WE'LL The formers per-
| Torrance of HE did t so politely was eS-
pecially well received by the audience.
Lucille la Verne was tender and sympa-
| ihetic heroine. as she always is Miss Leslie
| Lysle and Helen Henry sustained the ingenue
roles with chic and the whole of the cast was a
very acceptable one. The play is thrilling and
| we'll constructed, and its scenic and mechan-
| cal effects were new and were done smoothly.
There have been few plays at this house that
have had larger audience upon their opening
| night than The Operator" and that play is of
| such merit thai 1t should do a splendid BUSH
ness here.
| While "Cad the Tomboy" is not new to this
city, the performance gwen at Stockwelps last
| night presented many new features and was a
| very attrac i've and clever rendition of the play.
| The cast was good one, too evenly balanced
to afford much chance for discrimination or
| superior merit Miss Florence ThrOpp was a
| bright, breezy Cad, full OF life and vivacity,
| and fully uD 10 the require ments of an exact
ing part. Leonard Grover Jr. introduced into
| his part several limitations of many celebrated
| actors, which were given with such effect as 10
make the house fairly 'rIse" at him. The
| whole play was well put on and well acted, and
! should have GOD audiences. The next play
| announced Is the old fayorite, 'Our Boarding
| house."
/. In order that It's patrons NAV be kept advised
| OF the progress OF tile elections this house has.
| with cOmmendable enterprise, arranged i
| special wire that Will enable returns TO be an
hounced from the stage during the evening.
Jupiter at the Tivoli last night opened its
| second week to very good house. II Is now
! Id capital shape and should have very sue
cessful run.
The Orpheum made an entire change in Its
o4iI last night, going from minstrelsy back 10 a
very clever variety performance. Owing 10 an
unexpected delay the big -Four" will not be
able 10 appear until tonight, but lot of new
races and new acts added TO ola favOrites like
Josephine Sa0rl. made an extremely able and
attractive performance that was greeted with
approval by the large audience present. A new
cDahgc Oh programme Is announced for next
week.
| IL Is over fifteen years now since Blind Tom
achieved such great success at Platrs Hall
in this city. The larger experience has i'm
| proved the wonderful powers he exhibited
then, and the successes he then achieved should
| be more than equaed at a series of perform-
an ces he Is TO give in this city, Eetropolttan
Hall has been secured for THURSDAY Friday
and Saturday evenings, and Saturday matinee
of this week, and varied and attractive nro-
| gramme is promised. Tickets are on sale ar
Sherman g. Clay's.
MISS Helen kelehers dramatic and dialect
recital is fixed for Thursday evening next
| Calvary Church, tickets 80 cents
The Elks' annual carnival will take place AT
| the Mechanics Pavilion on Saturday evening
| November ~. Elegant and costly prizes will
| be distributed.
A particularly good programme has been pre-
pared for the ScDeel popular concert to be