The morning times., 1895-10-19
THE WEEK IN REVIEW.

THE WEEK In REVIEW.
The most notable feature last week at
the theaters, at least on the hither side of
the footlights, was the universal large pa
tronage of the plays. 1t is seldom that
there has been such a uniform excellence OF
theatrical pabulum offered to the puDlc,
and hence the epidemic character OF what
one might call the fever "du foyer As
the multiplication of railroads makes peo-
pie travel, the tender of such rare menu
as that of last week made us all dramatic
epicures.
Otherwise. expressed poetically, but IN
keeping with the conditions, the pocket
nerve has been in unison with the Tyre
string and the blast of the bugle.
People last week talked about half
dozen or more things which were hung up
for admiration in re Shakespearean mir
ror Easily first was Ada Rehan, at La
fayette Square Opera House, but not IN
yidiously first. The habitues or theaters
of two continents have done more or less
homage to the great actress ,and the critics
have done more or less fine writing about
her ideals of playwrights fdeais III mas
possibly never occurred TO them that the
silver statue of the divine lady which was
modelled for the Chicago exposition, Is leit-
handed. -
This does not mean that Miss Rehan is
ever guilty of what the French call "gau-
cherie'' and we call left-haDdedness, but
the fact remains that surprising thins
occurred in the fight between herself ana
Sir Andrew A guecheek, in 1T welfth Night.
When she was handed the sword she De
liberately took it in her left hand. OF
course she saws she lis no fighter, but
people are expected TO know their right
hands from their left. 1t was awkward. so
the other fellow placed the sword in her
right hand.
Again. in 1.-THE Railroad -of Love"
when Miss Rehan applauds sentiment
of the hero she claps hands by pounding
her LEFT hand into her right, prettily enough
but not exactly en- regle. IL would he
horrible thought that the statue OF the
classically nodded goddess is left-hand-
cd, but il undoubtedly is, as the orleiDal
is SO in one solitary sense.
No doubt great many people made a
mental comparison between Miss Rehan's
Rosalind and that of our old friend, Juiia
MarIowe The scene in the forest be-
tween Rosalind and Orlando affords tire
best opportunity for comparison, and III
should be admitted that Miss Marlowe is
more coDserya tive. and hence more cor
rect in her expression of that exquisite
scene. Miss Rehan makes Rosalind in this
scene a somewhat more modern ad cap
tandum creation than does Miss Marlowe.
The by-play in this passage is always
humorous, OF course, to Miss Marlowe,
but she never produces the impression
that it is not all terribly and passionately
serious. Miss Rehan's Interpretation
smacks of the method OF the flirt.-
Another contingent have possibly not yet
ceased TO talk about the great Improvement
in 1872" at Aliens Grand Opera House.
Marie Dressler is certainly several lengths
ahead of any impersonator of the Daisy
Queen of Spain yet put on in this play.
1t was perhaps good thing in economy for
the company that somebody else's clothes
fitted her so nicely that she didn't have
TO get a new Spanish wardrobe. Miss
Dressler is burlesque without ahsurdity,
and everybody appeared to likesher better
than her male predecessor. This daisy
queen was fortunately cast in the heroic
mould which appears TO be a requisite
for the part, but no one knows why that
should be SO.
This play went this time, and will go
again very largely on account OF two
American foundation stones, one of them
being Christopher Columbus and the other
draw poker. 1t was astonishing to note
how many women laughed iDstantaneously
at the gags that were gotten off based ON
the slang of the great national game.
Those were tell-tale smiles and laughs
Talking about Cissey Fitzgerald at the
New National reminds us to ask as dra-
maticaily as We can, Where are we at
in the license OF the dance? Cissey Fitz-
gerald dances more like what Swinburne
described as drunken Monad chorus"
than anything that has yet dawned on this
horizon. She is very much like a woman
who has been caught up in a cyclone and
enjoys the whirl and havoc that the hurri-
cane Is playing with her passementerie
The people who watched the Kaleidoscope
view of the rackless Cissey appeared to
enjoy it as much, men and women, as the
central figure of the cyclone.
Cissey Fitzgerald's dancing suggests
question which the daisy queen of Spain
might ask on entering the game, What
is the limit" This is all immaterial, how
ever, as long as people wink the right
eye when Cissey twinks the left.
At the pretty little Bijou Theater Flor
ence Bindiey, as of yore, gave hundred
per cent. for the admission fee. All she
did and all her good company did was set
In gorgeous framework of scenery, which
added immensely to the realization of the
action She is as bright and chic as she
was when she was eighteen, some years
ago. Manager Easton captured her early
IN the season, and she proved 10 be a good
card--in fact, q trump
The trip TO "Old Kaintuck" and the
land OF blue grass and pellucid corn
WHISKY was made nightly at the Academy
OF Music in which respect Manager Rjpiey
can be credited with two mighty good
things last week. The play is ali right
and the Kentucky colonel is played lust
as he was writ, but somebody ought to
write him over again. 1t is very question.
able IL any kentuckian would say tha the
old colonel of this play is a Southern
colonel of any but the most grotesuue
description. but it is evidenced that il
was the grotesque colonel that was in
tended to be portrayed.
At Kernan's Lyceum we sat among the
"elite" OF the vaudevilles; just as It ap-
peared on the programme. The run of
the vaudeville quality on this stage has
been phenomenal at Kernans. Manager
Herman knows that people occasionally,
in fact, very often prefer to see our
own types than the mythical people of
the Forest of Arden, and hence his pro-
gramme up and down to date He is
Hamlet to the extent that he believes that
Some must laugh, while some must weep;
So runs the world away.
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