Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-12-08

least as this city is concerned he fs again tho rage People affect to see in his To Much Johnson an American adaptation of French trifie entitled ..Plantafiof Thomassin." all of tho various merits oi all of Gillette's previous work. That the farce is a merc piece of froth. that it's com facilities and complications would be in sufficient to deceive an intelligent child in real life. makes no difference. The pieos has caught on" at the Standard thcater wherc 1t Is playing to very large business The adapter has the principal male part and of course does it as he has done every thing he has attempted since The Pro lessor" But GiIlctte's stoical methods iu farco and the utter absence of light and shade contrasts appeal to the risihilities of some persons. and they go to sen him never could laugh at the mans inability to be funny except by one method; bnt, after alI, nothing succeeds like suucess. and he seems to bo riding on the high tide oncc more GillCttc's greatest piece ol work Is, of course, Held by the En~my.' which Is the finest war play WIG have cveI had He has never written anyrhins thaa approached tt in genuine merit. but Mir Charlcs FEOhman is said to have a play from his Den which he consitirrs snperIui in every way to Held by the EnCmy.''
 Wilson Barrrtt's latest play, '.Tlss Mnnxman." adapted from Hall Cainc'- powerful novel Of tho sanlc name. appcaE> to have sc0rcd n nit Ht the American the arer- Naturally much of the aSHnusp5Bcre of the Isle Uf Man with which the bOuk is redClcnt Is los; in the drama but this. as every enc who has attempted it well knows, Is unavoidable IL Is impossible ! to condensc 45O pages into the space Cf SO | without sacrificing something. The To counting of the numerous Manx suPcrsti- tions and legends, the surmises of the characters as to what is hapPsning some where else, descriptions of meteorological conditions and the detailing of the con l flictIng emotions of the hero on his lonely l midnight walks and vigils may Dc and arc erccedingly interesting In Mir Gaines book. but they would bS worse than te- dious in the play and would besides stretch it cut tO an intcrEnInAhle length In a stage production almost everything must be sacrificed to action. md this in grcat measure Is what Mir. Barrett has done, and was, in fact. obliged tO do. Much of the ''atmospherc'' Is ncucssarily supplied by the scenery, costumes and Oth- | CT nocsSsorics, and in The Manxman" theSc all play prominent and crcditshle parts
 Whether The Manxman" will bo a box office success cannot. of oOurSe, be furCtOld- SO far 1t has been. but the un- conventional thUGEh only possible dcnOue- mcnt will sclrccly please those pcrsuns | who like tn have everybody sl0bhcr over the hCr0 aI ulsc end Of the last art- MT l BlTrstt l. CCrrH3uly entitled SO crCiiE for his c,.nsCiCnt5utrss,sa-s in this respect as ! we'll as fer his excellent imprrsonation O.
 Peter Quilliam. tho noble and long suffer ing hCrp
 saW Carmrncita dance a few nights M@aa N s-Aa and after watching one turn through, start cd toward tl.r. Joor- Something prompted
 mc tu take last look aT the s1a-e- An
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