The morning times., 1895-10-27
Gilbert Has Gwen an Amusing
Opera in His Exce||ency,'
MABEL LOVES BABY FACE
She Makes Her Finger Tips Look as
If They Had Been Dipped in Gore.
Nancy sykes Chat About Plays and
Players She Has Seen-"Heart of
Maryland Is Il Success

bert has given us as unique and amusing 3
story as ever was set to music, and DR..
osmond Cars score is good.
/ don't like his music as well as do Sir
Arthur Sullivan's, but / know people who
think highly OF it, and when there is any
doubt expressed as TO which of those com
posers has succeeded best, you may know
that DR.. Carr's melodies are not very bad.
George Edwarde's London Company is
composed of people who know how to sing,
dance and act. IneIe is not AN incoinpe-
tent person in the cast. Julius Steger has
"a fine barytone voice which is well cuti
waited, and his acting is far superior TO what
one usually sees In comic opera. He seems
TO have improved since lie appeared here
last with Marie Tempest, but fine parts
make fine actors and the Sweet Marie
always held the center of the stage, only
allowing julius to make himself immortal
by sharing in the famous Tempest kiss
William Philip, the tenor, has a sweet
voice, which he uses with excellent taste.
but 1 fear that Willie thinks he is a
'masher." The night / saw His Excel
lency" he smiled at the ladies' in the boxes
until not only they, but all in that part OF
the theater were laughing at him.
There is a time and place for every
thing, and Mr.. Philip would create bet
ter impression If he des.sted from ugline
WOlutu On lilt Sktet. tldiliti
In the part of "a young physician was
pleasing. He bears a strong resemblance
to our own 'tDickey' Mansfield.
John lie Hay, the comedian, has little
to do, but he does that little well, and is
the possessur of an excrucatingly funny
gurgliDg laugh which is infectious.
/ can't say care for Nancy Mcintosh,
prima donna. She has n pretty voice, but
her manner is amateurish, and she wears
a continuous property smile which makes
one tired after Il few hours.
Ellaiine TerrIsS Is rs iull of life n nd
ginger as n egg is full of meat. She has
also an attractive appeara nee. Alice Bar
nett as the giddy old woman is Big
with big B, you will observel.
Mabel Love. the dancer of the company,
has baby face, which is prettier and
more youthful in repose than when
wreathed in smiles. She da noes well. She
makes her hands up so white and her nails
and finger tips red that they look as
though they had just been dipped in gore.
BALLET OF CHORUS MEN.
One of the funniest hits seen on the
stage for a long time is the ballet of the
chorus men. l don't know from what
theater the premieres are imported, but
they cert tainly are equal to those in THE
Black Crook Although dressed as sol
diers. they are compelled by their governor,
who is a practical joker, TO dance from
40 till q" like ballet girls. and with per
fectly serious faces they pirouette, kick
and pose in the most approved manner
Ernest Snow, the Dancing Corporal"
never loses his military bearing through
all of his undignified performance, and
this probably accounts for It. He is
real captain in the Forty-seventh Regi-
ment, the Highlanders, and is enjoying a
years furlough by playing in opera
If a few more soldiers in place OF the
many stage-struck society lights" were
TO adopt the stage a profession the public
would be benefited thereby.
1t was hustle with yours truly to see
the new productions this week. Monday
night / saw Leonardo at the Garrick
Theater, and Tuesday nightL divided up
between David Belasco's Heart OF Mary
land" at the Herald Square, and Henry
Guy Cartoons Ambition with Nat
Goodwin, at the Fifth Avenue.
The book of Leonardo" is by Gilbert
Burgess. a London novelist, and has been
frightened up a bit by Madeline Lucette
Ryley, authoress OF christopher, Jr." The
music is by T. Pearsall Thorne, who wrote
1.-THE Maid of Plymouth" for the Bos-
tonians. The hero of the opera is Leonardo
de Vinci, young sculptor, who has been
so devoted to his art that even the new
woman" has failed TO charm him, until
one Beatrice, daughter Of the Duke of
Milan, appears on the scene, usurps the
place Of his statues. and turns his attention
to heart instead OF art
When Milan IS invaded the duke is im'
prisoned. To raise money for her fathers
ransom Beatrice poses as a model for
Leonardo. Finally the clouds part the
sun peeps through the riffs, and thanks to
the kind authors everything ends happily.
. TIE COMPANY Includes J. II. Riley, Nir-
ginIa Earle, Lucille Saunders, Margaret
Lemon and others
1.-The Heart of Maryland is sort of war
drama There are no battles fought on the
stage in the wings, nor in the distance, but
the scenes are laid in Boonesborough, Md,
at the time when the Confederate army
crossed the Potomac and invaded the
State. Maryland Calvert, the heroine,
comes from a family Of seceSsi"nistS. and
lives with her aunt on the family estate
I.loyd Calvert her brother, and a grad
uate of West Point has. unknown to his
family, espoused the Union cause and has
been detailed to act as a spy within the
Southern lines.
Just like q girl, Maryland falls in love
with Col Alan Kendrick of the United
States Cavalry, but on account of differ
ences of opinion they quarrel and separate.
Alan's father commanding the Confed-
crate forces takes up his quarters at the
Calvert homestead.
IN REALITY A TRAITOR.
The .vilyaiu' Col. Fulton Thorpe. is sup
posed by the Northern army to be Secret
Service man, but he is in reality a traitor,
IN conjunction with having personal
grudge against the hero.
Therefore when the latter is taken a
prisoner instead Of letting him be sent with
others to Baltimore for exchange. he con-
trives to have them ambushed near Charles
vile.
Maryland's brother whispers the secret
Into her ear and her love for Kcndrick
proves stronger than her love for her
cause and reveals the plot. Then Alan
disguises himself as a Confederate and
enters the Southern lines to meet his Mary
land Again he is arrested and by the
villains scheming Maryland's testimony
convicts him of being a spy.
He is ordered to be shot by his own father
but is again saved by the girl he loves, in
the most ingenious and dramatic situation
of the play. the theme of which is "Curfew
Shall Not Ring Tonight"
The heroine graspsth clapper of the huge
bell and by swinging with it, to and fro. in
mid air prevents 1t from tolling out her
lovers knell. Thus he escapes. returns to
the head of his regiment and the villain
kills himself rather than to face the disgrace
of exposure.
The cast stincludesFrank Mordaunt. Maurice
Barrymore. John E. Kellard, Odell Williams
Helen Tracy, Mrs. Leslie Carter, as the
heroine, Georgia Busby and others.
By the way the crows feet around Mrs
Carter's winkers refuse to be concealed by
makeup any longer. However, "The Heart
OF Maryland" is success.
Nat Goodwin has long wanted a new play
written specially for him to fit his talents
and he has reached his Ambition al last
Goodwin was seen as Senator Obadiah
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