The Washington times., 1894-03-24
AS THE CROWDS CONE OUT.

Under the shadow of Plymouth Rock the
| elder Of the Plymouth colony, in the soberes'
| OF garbs and with the mournfullest, sternes,
woman and dances. 1t is a sober kind oi
dance, such as dissolute Puritan
would choose, but the power of his love
makes his feet twinkle quickly betwixt the
bars of the slow music as he clasps her hand.
Twenty Puritan maideLs, with little white
caps and demure faces, follow his reckless ex-
ample. The conception is really humorous
enough for the entire theme of comic
opera. In addition there is in ''The Maid OF
Plymouth" an Indian, who speaks Hawaiian
lines and cheats shilling out of the elder with
a pack OF well-used cards. and calls cigar
a twoier. begging pardon for taking liberties
with history. These two characters are
clever. Also the romance of Miles Standish
and John Alden and Priscilla. to the accepted
version of which the authors have added sew
eral friils. is the best kind OF a subject But
the words and the songs do not seem equal
to the possibilities for fun and music. and one
doubts If with any less strong company than
the Bostonians the new opera could be made
the success that it unquestionably is. Barna-
bees Elder is wonderfully iaughab!e. Miss
Waltzinger, as the witchnZ. worldly woman,
makes Barnabee's fall almost within
the line of the possible. Miss
Davis has one beautiful love song. And dear
little Miss Reid as Priscilla, with her face an
ideal for Longfelow's fetching Puritan
maidens. with the Lest OF the songs, and with
her sweet voice makes the whole evening
delight. The others of the company. as much
as possible, with material not SO good.
The very latest advices state that Mr..
George Leslie is maintaining his title Of king
of the dudes nobly and that he has received
practically unanimous acknowledgment as
the rightful owner Of the title. Yesterday
afternoon Mr.. Leslie adorned himself with
poem in seven stanzas. a four-button cuta-
way OF dark brown material with very long and
wide skirts. small knotted olive iour-in-hand
q blue-striped shirt, u lovely pearl-gray pair
Of trousers, undressed kid gloves of the color
of elephants breath. a bell-crowned silk hat
and bouttoniere of lilies OF the valley. II
sartorial art can go further Mr.. Leslie is
probably the only man who can show it to
US.
Despite all kinds of denials the story keeps
recurring among New York's theater people
that Mr.. Howard Gould is going to marry
Miss Tyler this summer. Miss Tyler is a
widow but with only six stage years against
her. If you wish to guess at her age She is
with Frohman, and has always been a sue
cess in her profession, and she seems to be an
awfully nice young woman. Why should so
many objections be made?
Two Goulds falling to the lot of stage peo-
pie. both Frohman's. For there IS now no
question about the proposed union between
Young Woodward and Miss Gould. although
1t may be further of than the other They
say that he is studying law vigorously and
preparing for course at Yale as an earnest
Of his intensity OF purpose.
s'Mr Wilkinson's Widows" is coming to the
Academy for the week of April month with
Charles FrohmaD's comedians in a revival
that people will be quite willing to see. Really
this merry comedy is the merriest OF the Froh-
man successes.
Will Mr.. Hoyt ever write anything again so
well liked and so deserving of our liking as
"A Texas Steer?" Certainly since that Wash
ington play came out he has done many that
were less so. OF course We like the play here
more than any one else can for its strong
local flavor. but everywhere it has been gilt
tering success. Next week it comes again TO
the National with virtually the same east as
formerly. Tim Murphy of course being the
Texan.