Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-01-22
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Grand Opera House.-"Captain Paul."
romantic play in four acts, by Edward E.
Rose and A. NJ. DeLis5er, made its first
appearance in Washington last night at
Albaugh's. The location of the incidents
is the coast of Brittany, and the time Is
the close Of the eighteenth century. Ihe
first two acts and the last one occur In
Chateau D'Audray, and the third takes
place on Capt. Paurs ship, the Ranger.
This third act Is the piece de resistance OF
the play. Mr.. A. s. Lippan is the Capt.
Paul, and his reputation as an actor Is
very good. Among the others in the cast
are Mr.. DeLsser, Mr.. Hamburg. Mr.. Fair
banks. Mr.. Patton Gibbs. Miss Willard and
Miss st. Pierre. The play is highly melo-
dramatic, without being at all dramatic,
and it appeals entirely to the galleries,
and they even laugh sometimes where they
should not. Whatever may be said in criti-
cism adversely, the fact remains that the
lovers, after great many trials and tribu-
latioEs, and the shooting of cannon and the
explosion of powder magazines, and the
butting together of great ships at sea, are
happily restored to each other. the ORR
vateersman becomes the Marquis d Audray
and everything is lovely.
The New National Theater-The an
ncuncement that William H. Crane intend
ed to produce 1.-The Merry Wives of Wind
sor' required no accompanying assurances
that the Work would be given with COM
pleteness thoroughly satisfying to the eye,
as far as stage setting and the interpreta-
ticn CT the principal role were concerned.
"A ShakeSpearean play requires, even to
the Iemotest element, acting of superior
quality. 1t is a coed deal to even read
Shakespeare properly, and to interpret one
of his comedies successfully the performer,
even though his position in the dramatis
perSonae be a comparatively humble one,
must be enough of q student to cor1pre-
hend the atmosphere Of the period which
he was tn1eavoring to repre- sent. This
was done with eminent success. of course.
Ill the case of Mr.. Crane Falstaff whose
picture of the fat and lecherous knight
lacked nothing in JUNCTION and artistic de-
tail. Mr.. Joseph Wheelock, jr., in the part
of Slender, revived many pleasant menlo-
ries of good work done here in the past.
He is capable, painstaking young actor
who In every Few effort sustains his record
OF efficiency. The ladies of the company
aereeably distinguished themselves Miss
Psget as Mistress Ford and Miss Collier
Mistress Page sustaining the comedy with
unfiagging spirit. The scenery brought out
with delightful vividness pictures OF the
scenes In the comedy, and the stage direc-
ton was smooth and satisfactory. This
production presents Mr.. Crane in the light
OF a scholar. and he SuStainS himself in
that role easily and completely; but schol-
arly achievements are not always most
appreciated by the public. The Merry
ing of Shakespeares comedies 1t is pure
ly farcical in it's character and was writ
ten distinctly for the period of it's original
production. The fun is not sufficiently
modern in its style to awaken thougiltIesS
hiiarity. ard to the really refined mind the
humor is occasionally too Eliza bethan in
It's flavor to be entirely palatab!e now.
None the less, the performance found
nearly commentator with a large audi
ence. and the artistic success Of Mr. Cranes
revival is unquestOned.
Academy of Music.-Peter Daley as the
bright particular star of farce comedy
organization appeared at the Academy of
Music last night, with the success which
has greeted him ever since his first venture
In that field. "A Country Sport is purely
effervescent There is not much TO il ex-
cepting Peter Daley with his ORIG nal
drolleries and the personal accomrl s'1-
ments of galaxy of bright entertainers
among them May Irwin, John G. Snarl1s,
Ada Lewis, Andrew Mack and Manic G. l.
roy. The story is unimportant, hut it is
sufficient to present Dailey's unique ard
unfailingly comical personality in its best
light. He is essentially q humorist and
in his hand matters which would be hone
1essiy trivial anywhere else become OK
crutiatingiy funny There is nothing lack
ing to make The Country Sport as
breezy and modern anything of ii;
kind, and the audience testified It's apDfc.
citation literally last night. A budget &C
brand-new songs is among the attractinr.s
which the performance has to Ter, ard
they were given with a sparkle and sDic,
that carried the audience into the rhythm
and sentiment every time AS a lofty in
tellectual exercise. THE Country Sport"
would be ciassed as a dismal. failure. bit
as creation CT spontaneous; fun, caicG-
lated to dispel the blues, it is unquestion-
ably at the top of the theatrical heap.
Frequent encOreS were demanded l. st
night. and the singing, dancing, pretty
costumes and funny songs wove together
mesh of scintilating hiiarity which Only
the hopelessly misanthropic could resist.
sented fer the last five years, Augustus
Thomas four-act comedy drama, The
Burglar was welcomed by large audi
ence last night The play is a strong and
interesting one. and OF the sort that Man
ager Buffers patrons always take Kindly
to. The company. as whole. is Il we'll
balanced one and gave a very acceptable
Interpretation of their parts. Eugene
Moore, the leading man, assumed the ttu-
lar role, and by his strong work contrib
uted considerably to the success Of the
play. Little Gertie Carlisle as ''Idjtha''
proved a more than promising child actress.
her acting being far above the average.
The remainder of the company in their
several parts supported the principal
characters in a panstaking manner and
helped to round out all enjoyable and
strong performance. The audience at tunes
became quite enthusiastic over the stro-g
points of the play and the applause vas
hearty ard frequent.
kernan's Lyceum Theater.-A packed
house greeted Whalen and MARTENS South
Before the war at herGanS Lycoum
Theater last night. The show is a strong
one and embraces the best of speciat:cs
and really excellent singing by individuals,
quartets and choruses. Many old favorites
are with the company, and embrace Char
ley Howard. Billy Williams. James Hall
and Ferry, the Frog-man. The new faces
strengthen the show considerably. The
camp meeting scene is extremely funny.
The colored people are at their best and
give realistic, although ludicrous, picture
of southern camp-meeting life before the
war. There are four Guartets, two male
and two female and their voices blend as
only those of genuine southern darkies are
supposed to harmonic. The well-know:,
cake walk closed the performance. From
the beginning to the end of the contest the
audience in a continuous roar. the en-
deavors of some to do artistic walking be
ing really more humorous than the funny
people endeavoring to do funny walking
At the conclusion of the contest mo y"
was awarded the cake, easily defeating the
other contestants. Again tonight.
Mr.. William Il. Curtis will give lantern
lecture at the chapel of the Church OF the
Covenant Friday evening on Spain and