The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1895-11-02
THE THEATRES

rather decent farce. lts cnltl virtue
was that the characters were funnier
than the situations. Situations are gen.
orally forced and they are all old. but
people like Ada Alexander and Mrs.
Boucicault and Hoey and Louis de
LANCE are in themselves interesting and
funny. The play was nothing, absolute
iy froth. but IL gave the people an oppor-
tunity TO be funny That's all the good
farce is anyway, an excuse for clever
people to be clever I was rather sur
prised To find Mrs. Boucicault in the
company She used TO play i'm very
much nobbier ones. and she cannot be
much more than thirty. She Is still
beautiful in a peculiar lengthy sort of
way. The lines i'm her figure are long.
her face Is long and oval. her eyes are
long and ianguid and her lashes are
long and dark. She is just as graceful
as she was when she made such an aw
full fool OF Boucicault when he was six
~ and more Everybody knows the
story. Boucicault married Madge Rob-
inson when he was a young man. When
he was old enough to know better and
had a family Of grown up sons and
daughters he conceived frantic infatu-
alton for Louise Thorndyke and her
made a fool OF the old man. and got
clear away with all his sense of honor.
To marry her he declared that his con-
nection with Madge Robinson had new
er been legitimate and placed all his
children under the bar sinister. It's
downright tough on a man when the
little fat god smites him i'm his old age.
He makes such an everlasting fool of
himself. It's more dignified TO meet
ones doom early and get over IL.
THE Black Crook" played two nights
to fair business. IL was not at all a
bad performance. in fact il was so
much better than that disreputable
herd that was here last year that IL
was really a pleasure to see. Ii was
pretty TO look at. and not unpleasant
to hear. The dancing was fairly well
done.
OF Walker Whiteside who is soon to
appear I'm this city, Nym Crinkle says:
SO l have welcomed everybody who
laid hold of Hamlet. Young Salvini.
that Lombardy poplar. with a graft of
the American live oak i'm him: Willard.
thc T<DsllSh WHO
never acted a lie and lastly Mr.. White
side. who comes back here somewhat
demurely after on rebuff, very much
like the schoolboy, who having been
knocked down by the ruffian of the
school. insists upon getting on his feet
again and staying.
Il have expressed my opinion of young
Salvini-not presumptuously or finally
4 70, ha haG
perian stream took more heed of the
stones tenamelled stones. l grant youD
that broke his current than Of the flow
ers on the bank
But dear me. nobody ever took HAM
let with a header. II has to be waded
into slowly. Can any of you recall
Booth in the part at the Winter Gar
den? How clearly undecided it was,
To say that that was new which wa
vered between Kemble and Kean with
out being either would be untrue. al
though IL was said with excellent unc-
ton. Booth grew into Hamlet by pound
ing at IL and the public at the same
time. 1t became i'm time the popular
ballad of the nation because he sang il
with most mellifiuous decorum.
Young Whiteside. just out of the
egg. is everywhere compared with the
bird that was soaring on matured pin
ions. Nothing can be so mean as a
''One thing that was perfectly plain
he didn't try to initiate Edwin Booth.
His apparent effort was to play Hamlet
his own way, and that. 1 take il. is the
way We want Hamlet played by any
body If Hamlet is to spring up freshly
from perennial roots and not lie dead
in herbarium as a dried precedent.
There are no auroral blazes or war
rockets or coronation marches in his
Hamlet. AS Mr.. Alfred Ayres will tell
you, lightning does not strike on our
stage nowadays. because we have elocu-
conductors that distribute the
current without danger
But there is this i'm Mr.. Whiteside's
marvellous sensibility, an