The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-11-27
Fun IN FOUR NEW PLAYS.
4 rtFTH PIECE LAST NTGHr was
DRAMATICALLY SERIOUS.

The Principal Actors App@,r,,- A.
Them Were Vviin.r. einetts, ynn.- =
Hosy, i.ouise Bs-set, a.s vliso. B.-r.,,
Laughter was plentiful at the Standard Tn.
atre, last evening, from snicker TO guffav. "Toc
Much johnson" was the provocative. Thelaueb.
ing matter was a farce called TOO Much John.
SON. an American version of plantation
Tomassin,' n vaudeville piece played in paris
several years ago. Alterations had been msds
in the original work, aside from the trans.
lation. In order to turn some of the
characters into New Workers., but the story
and its comic development remained unchanged
In any essential particular. As I'm Partisan
farces over and over again. this one had a liar
for Its principal parsonage, and, as many q time
before. he was a husband with an escapade. his
wife and mother-in-law being the principal
persons lied to. II would seem impossible "a
squeeze any more juice from that orange, but the
French playwrights are adept at getting fresh
flavor out of old fruit, and here IL another case
of just that thing being done with success. The
man whose falsehoods overwhelm him with
ludicrous troubles begins by telling his family
that he Is going TO Cuba TO sec a sugar planta-
ton that he has bought, while In fact he means
TO take an outing with another mans wife at q
summer watering place. His own wife
and mothor-in law insist upon accompany
ing him, and so he is compelled to really
make the ocean trip with them. On ship
board he encounters the vengeance-seeking
husband OF the woman with whom he has been
flirting and has TO disguise himself. The Incl
dents Of the voyage are variously singular. In
Cuba he pretends TO be the owner Of a planta-
ton belonging to somebody else, and there his
mendacity leads to a new and profuse lot Of
complications, very inEeniously invented and
arranged by the author.
nm Natt..
English, doing no damage TO the matter as he
found II, and touching It improvingly here and
there for presentation TO American audiences,
lie had made the Ananias over into a Wall
street man with imperturbable audacity as
his chief characteristic, and this role Mr..
Gillette himself assumed. His task In the act
ing was easy. because he had to merely remain
cool and calm while others were turbulent
around him. Having taken his own measure
with shrewd judgement, and shaped the
part TO At his own proportion,. be was
notably happy in tho performance. Meth
er he nor anybody else in the companv
lapsed for a moment from perfect seriousness in
all the absurdities OF the play, What was ire
earnest e Z }he psr;,onnsss On |, The stage; The
way OF deiivering IT. The farce was acted as
. .n1ukh ~ were the nsat tning 70 q tragedy'
cally better than the average OF tocose plays. A
polish was given to scenes that might have been
souewna sough. mertt mat was important
Of the mssrriment The second act was funnIer
man the nrst, and the third was still more Jolly.
ton, and Included Ralph Delmore, Maud Has
, , Hase Meek, ohariss .; BEL marie Green
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a farce OF the uproarious class, to be pro-
drcma,io law. snts,t.insd = corn.r;ai srdiouc.
vi"
iny. This niece was Amor,can from ,b. e-s,
word written nv its author IN the last word
tpoken nv its actorsL II was entitled "Rpsb
City, Gus Heeee was its maker and its suhiect
was the e.tablishment NJ n hoom town IN Otla-
homa Territory. In the arst place. the attempt
of Mr.. HeeRe was to turn out what he denom-
mated n " farcical comedy meaning n comedy
with an inclination 20 be A farce. and IN thar form
Il was tried In BROOKLYN last season. THE suy
then said that II was a scant entertainment. and
need to be filed up with vaudeville specialties,
making of It, in the current nomenclature OF
the stage, a " farce comedy" The process sug-
Eested was adopted. and so Rush City" as
given In Harlem. was an amusing con-
Riomerate of play and variety show.
Al that was worth while in plot
ri. real esta,e snecuia tor n,on1ed bis mmSb
r ppom ii ~ IL H. s9 anew wsr ana a s rbisagSd ,n me@s %hS ss MI
ing a divorce, a gambler in earnest quest of vic
Tins a nreacher in a refornatorv mood a Pos
IN . p[gIn a an h nnaoo mIo1.h nos,
n,h.r nep.actIy ssmiiiar ,vnes va, Ians; y ~
h, isnendsd unon 70 tigtis' he mri,j1ude
,Sban nrassnd IN cor,ic - ;nn
dn1en psneciaitiaa In snna All
Of lind Po saiisfy he tssts ~ he ~assembisga
aud in tbs scene n Witch a cvcIone rsisad hv
nrnfessnnaI rajn waTar dsstpnvaa 1ba -
i n0 ~ an sar ussd a a. , ~ new
~, ~ a pUsa,ton. on;bvrst NJ rea ~ in
mods rn msiodpama II NAV be predicied that
Rush civ" will do well "a a niece OF nopular
diversIoni ''''oi p'puiA'
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Of coursa Iouiz Reaudet ia m vcrv charming
DrN
young woman VINO smiles nicely, sings sweetly'
and dances nimbly. II she were not there would
NOT have ban . good -sizad apdience IN basr her
w
the flfth Avenue Theatre last Night ana her
pramme in those large letters which
Indicate theatrical eminence. Nor would
the audience have handed her flowers over the
and applauded her generously. Under
circumstance II NAV NOT be fair 10 won
der ~ Miss Reaudet smiles ALWAYS too emphati-