The morning call., 1894-04-22
Eroilman,s Successes.

Occasional Correspondence Of THE CALL.
NEW YORK, April 15.-The presence In this
city OF four very big successes, all under sim
gle management. and all running tremendously
almost abreast of each other and far ahead OF
all other attractions, Is good fortune that no
theatrical man has ever before experienced in
the metropolis or, erhaps, elsewhere. They
are big, important attractions, too. The lucky
man who is reaping harvest OF money and
prestige from the quartet OF successes Is Charles
Frohman. His fortunate possession OF so many
prontable properties Is not an accident. Mr
Frohman applies an excellent Judgment to the
selection of his PLAYS, and lie very seldom
makes mistake. His career at the Empire
minaling In the present great success, Sowing
the Wind" This, with "Liberty Hail." "Gud-
geons" and "The Councillors Wife" Will be in
the repertore OF the Charles Frohman Stock
Company when 1t visits The Pacific Slope. 1t
was In the lat er comedy that Odette Tyler, now
playing In "Tbe Girl | Lett Behind Me'' at the
Academy OF Music here ana who Is the young
lady whom Howard Gould, the young million
alre. has selected TO be his bride, did some of
her finest work.
"Sowing the Wind" has now been running
for nearly twenty weeks ar the Empire Tbeater,
and from the beginning, even through ;he last
weeks OF Lent, IL drew audiences that hllrd the
house which IL Is now erOwding TO the doors
nightly. Apart from its beauty as play, the
powerful dramatic situations that lt offers, and
tht charming pictorial u eament which Is given
10 1t, there Is just now much new public inter-
est In the ''sex against sex" question which
the dramatisi has made his theme. The Pol
lard b eckinrldge scandal at ashiDet0n has
shown how woman can be made 10 suffer by
an INSCRIPTIONS man, and ii brings forcibly 10
the front the double question which Rosamund,
Sydney Grundy's heroine, asks at one point in
the play, "Why should woman be ViItuous?
Is vice mans menOpOy?'
Mr. Grundy's clean aud admirable handling
Of this theme has made it possible for ali fash
l0nable New York TO visit the Empire aud
listen 10 the discussion, and much sympathy
has been manifest at every performxnc for the
pure and innocent girl who is the heroine and
whose heart is made TO bleed for the siu of
parent. There are hundreds OF wet eyes In the
mouse during the "sex against sex'' duel be-
tween RoSamund aud Mr.. BrabaZou, who after
ward turns out TO be her father. Even m in
the audience have been seen 10 cry, The At
tendance at the Empire Is larger than it ever
was, and II Mr.. FrOhmaD withdraws Sowing
the Nind' ID the middle of May. as be says be
must o produce "Gudgs0ns," he will be taking
II of 10 the very height OF its success. But then
he VIII open the Empire next season with IT,
John Drew and his new play The Butter.
FIJI S" Is Manager Frohman's second current
succ IS. Both have received the warmest
fashionable Endorsement at Palmers Theater,
where they have drawn crowded houses for
four months. The persistent continued demand
for "The Butterflies has made 1t impossible
for John Drew to repeat THE Masked Ball."
which will be In his repertoire VIII he visits
California, or TO do a new play which Mr..
Drew Is pr tty Maud Adams, whose dainty and
exquisite acting adds charm 10 the PERFORM
dbCc. All cACtHcul company SuppOIts
comedian, who Is very proud OF The triumph
which the American COMEDY In which he is
appearing has made.
"Charley's AUNT is the third Of Mr.. Froh-
mans metropolitan successes. For nine
months this funniest OF all farce comedies has
been presented at the Standard Iheater, and
TO say that the house has been crowd d at
every performance is TO put ii only very mildly;
Most OF the time The orchestra has been forced
from Its place by the audience. Mr.. Frohman's
profits out OF his play have amounted TO over
100000 Interest Ia the old lady from BraZti.
where the nuts come FROM" still continues at
men pressure, Tor the house Is full all the tiine
The New York company goes to Chicago April
80 for twelve weeks, and goes thence TO Cali
fornia,
Nothing like the success which "The Girl
Lett Behnd Me" Is making at the Academy
has ever been seen in the metropolis. Many
times II has had audiences of $500 TO 1000
persons, and in It's first month it played TO over
100000 people The original play has been
ampnneo ana made spectacular. Companies
OF soldiers appear in the military scenes, ana
the big rescue at the end of the third ACT, when
Post hennion Is menaeed with massacre OF
thousands OF beseging Indians now introduces
over twenty mounted cavalrymen who galOp
INTO the stockade with waving swords and Nil
the stage with something very like the reality
OF the Datteneld. This thrilling scene rOuses
such enthusiasm that there are eight or ten
curtain calls every night. This is the scene. by
the way, that scared Sydney Armstrong of the
stage OF The Academy. In its present magn-
ned ana Illustrated form 10 is tremendous
popular bit. IL may run for year or longer at
this house. THEATER-GoER.
Personal and Other Jottings.
Nine. Modjsska has protegee in the person
OF Miss Maude Durbin, who is spoken OF as
coming star.
Wash. Norton, who has earned the name OF
professional globe-trotter, was at the Ieatro
Colon, Qua emala, during March last, manag'