The evening world., 1894-05-29
LADY GLADYS"

| was with him as soon as the last cur
tain fell at the Madison Square Iheatre
last night II was meant to be one Oh
those vcrdic,s which juries deliver WITH
out leaving the box.
Well. Lady Gladys" was not as bad as
| that The outside weather was wretcheu'
but there was something tolerabie ABOUT
the play The principal trouble seemed 10
be that It needed elbow room. The meas
ure OF Lady Gladys" is melodramauc'
| and the comedy Ind domestic drama ui-
| mensions Of Mr.. Hoyts theatre kind OF
cramred It and crowded everybody. Inc
painful impression given by all the
PLAYERS was that they were acting under
| n small glass case and were afraid TO let
themselves loose lest they smash things
to smithereens. Even the star, MIS-
Minnie Seligman- Cutting, kept her emo
tions I'm a supremely suppressed condi-
| ,ion and remained a pent-up Utica OF
dramatic expression to the very END.
onlv once did she consent to haul on
and knock the daylfghts out OF situa-
,Io, and that was at the end OF the first
act-when the heroine. wrought up 10
r,,,,eous FRENZY by the hcartlessness
and cruelty of the parvenu old chap, VINO
ia turning her out Of her home, rises on
her tippy-toes and wrathfuiiy REMARKS
| "yov have had my fathers answer to
your insinuations and Insults, no" take
mine" whereupon she cracks the crus's
old guy across the face with her rioihs
| whip II seemed rather funny at ils'
| that she should be going out INTO 'ne
cold world in n riding costume out 'n's
incident explained the necessity tor 'ne
rig No explanation. however. was Vi
fered for later on sending sir H'oer'
Vance out into Rip-Van-Winkie-hke
storm with an old red slipper on MS
| foot and nothing 20 shelter his Martna
| washington hair from the biting plasts'
Nrs selIgman- Cutting appeared TO
| o,rry deem and dismal regret all
through the rest of the play for having
| ,ivep way to her feelings In that horse
wbipninp scene The play actually
| noaned for more Of her to slosh around
in after that; 1t gasped as II 1t were
laced too tight 1t pleaded to be given
loose leg so that It could cavort about
| Ike a healthy, high-spirited melodrama;
It fairly begged at several points 1or
moro hIstrionic excitation to the cubic
inch than It was getting and less nerV-
ous prostration. But Mrs. Seligman-
| Cuttings dramatic mensuration refused
to deal with larger dimenslonal proper
ties, so Lady Gladys" was served up
| to the audience, who tried to take II all
seriously. in crushed chunks OF emotion
that were difficult of definition and as
unappeasing as a gum-drop might be to
hungry hippopotamus.
Lady Gladys Hope. in the guise OF
Miss Gascoigne, who Is the travelling
companion of giddy young blonde
countess. wins, unsolicited, the love OF
the son of the man who took away the
Hopes home and sent My Lady's father
to his grave with broken heart. She
becomes his wife and receives for her
wedding portion the estate which the
| Hopes had lost. Returning to her former
home she turns her fatherin-law out of
doors, and tells the son to go, too. The
| latter gets brain fever, but lives to have
the vengeful Gladys find out that he had
done her father a great kindness In his
declining years, which causes her to call
everything square and take her hus-
band back to her arms. besides es-
tablishing a first-rate entente-cordiale lie
between herself and her Martha Wash
ington-haired father-in-law.
Mrs Seligman-Cuttings Lady Gladys
Is languid Ships-That- -Pass-in- the Night
sort of female, with a feud ranking
in her heart. She looks colly-wobbly
most of the time. but feebly laughs the
matter OFF when you tell her che needs
doctor She falls into lachrymose
streaks, and then again she communes
with herself in soft. low. confidential
way, while a bewildered Bloomin gda ID
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