The evening world., 1895-05-10
DRAMAT1oNEws ANDN0TEs
"Ths wilkins" . Mass Of Meaaiag-
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"Ths wilkins" . Mass Of Meaning.
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ject 20 Being Laughed At.
Miss Esteile Clayton did her cleverest
work when she managed to get the
Actors Fund interested In her comic
opera. 1.-The Viking''--as already told in
these columns. The opera itself as
produced yesterday at Palmer's Theatre
simply emphasized Miss Clayton's dipio-
macy. for It showed how . clever. and
. good-looking woman could stage one
Of the worst the most puerils and the
most utterly tedious. meaningless ef-
forts that New York has ever seen.
THE Viking" 10 without q redeeming
feature. 1t does not contain one comic
line. one humorous situation or one en-
tertaining character. Its music. which
Is said to be the work Of +. J. Darling
and Max Maretzik. contains one or two
family agreeable numbers. but take 1t
al In all. and 1t Is the sort Of stun that
.rS,S I'd, out BY ,hs b snd ,o de
q The 0' v iRssa' as e0 ,oiS in the pro
sramme. 10 quite good one. but u is
not carried out In the libretto. 1t deals
with King lgaliko and his brave sons;
tsous maidens disguised as boys. Ac-
cording to the programme, II was q
sagA which no :kald had sung until
snr. f took IN s ,ss ons
more .s %s ior U.s. s and II Miss clay,oS
be q skald-pray let her reform Will
beauty. II must be terrible thing to
be a skald and write sagas. There Is q
little clot OF sagarie which shows the
simplicity yet proesy OF Miss Claytons
sayle. Librettists, note 1t!
But etiquette. etiquette.
Etiquette. etiquette.
Court etiquette must be observed.
That Is surely something new to the
lyric world, Etiquette could not be more
slangiiy be called a "cinch" of It, The
other lyrics are are in the same pleasing d1.
weak sort Of thing. and It is proba bly,
due to this fact that Miss Clayton turns
her harp 80 persistently upon one word.
! should not nnd It dificult.
DO dihcun
So diaacuit
! shouldn't hnd II difncult
To be engaged to four.
II another bright example. There are
The opera had an appropriately weak
Interpretation. There is no use men
tioninK any member Of the, cast. The
poor folks meant WELL and II, wasn't
their fault. One cant make a silk purse
out Of eow's ear. As for the scenery,
It was quite good enough: The only OBJ
lection found was that the setting sun
the ,ss act had Large P,mpe On bs
being the merry Spring time. when PIN
pies are ripe, setting suns can't be ex-
pected to be free from them.
The flower girls" "a few Of them
selves most obnoxious on the plea OF
Corners comet ef ferocously "e and the incomeTs
&C., Ss p oni %a!Gsn 81
to q gentleman. who looked weary. y
have one already, he said; somewhat SON What
triumph on her face. She thought she
had cornered him. Instantly he pulled
Ct the ss's ssffn n0Gss aS"
was red with indlgnation for she had
accused him Of lying-in the sweet name
Of charity Two, men sat through the
performance-and outsiders can't know
what that meant-simply because they
tie rsnfs. Of "thos: saisswomen"-a
they called them
Miss Emma Steiner. who claims that
bsrs OF 1.-THE Viking" was at Palmer'
Theatre: calm; bIt mentally pssr run, ,S:
programme" she said. land she hasn'
sven had the decency to ask me into
her box; Well. In saying nothing, but St
walked over. she makes. the mistake Of
her life" And Miss Steiner hummed
loudly--much to the amusement OF the
sb OF the Sow arr ;a o1 the
With It.
That the , members Of an
Christine blessings speciality In THE
Twentieth Century Girl" at the Bitou
IL Vanoni's song, George in which
player. The musician objected to thi,
on tho opening night, and declared tina.
Miss Blessing dtd II again he T2 ,nI
w. sn q her ee to Be- made ansnns
stock of, but to do his musical duty a.
well as he could. On Tuesday night th'
management told Miss Blessing 70 make
He also raised vehement objections
and on w ednesday night 1t was founo
necessary to put Stage Manager Stand
ish in the orchestra. r'ade up as must
| clan. This story Is an essay on tn,
lack OF gallantry among musicians.
John Savin, the clever young maj
who was the short Of IT, in '1+92," ha
resigned his position In that burlesqries
Hoyt to play Eugene Canfield's part o
Bingo Jones In "a Temperance Town.
| Jefferson de Angels, who has lef
Della Fox's company to open with Lii
Ian Russell In 1.-THE Tzigane." at Alb
bey's Theatre Wednesday night, talk
OF trying his fate In London mex
Spring. He Is an ambitious young per
son. Is Jeff. He wants to get the right
iish metropolis. II he could take Mis-
Della Fox with 1t he might do very well
indeed.
The latest is that Sarah Bernhard
wants "Trilby." This isn't a joke, 1t
a solid fact. Exactly what long. Thu
Sarah could do with 1t has not bee
suggested, but she could make YER
good Svengali. The role of Trilby woul
be a triie tame for her, although sh
might be able to cut a dash in the deaf
scene. Imagine "A Partisan Laird and
boulevard Taffy!