The Washington times., 1895-01-22
AS THE CROWDS COME OUT.

Captain Paul. was the romantic play pre-
sented to full house last night at the Grand
Opera House. A better name for It is, per-
haps, marine melodrama.
After the first act the play moves briskly.
There is duel, an abduction and, other in
cidents, which are done fairly well. Indeed,
there is nothing in the whole performance
that is. the lines they have to speak-which
requires anything of heroic mold to compass.
The third act is something that everybody
should see. There is ship on the stage and
a sea fight, with cannon booming and all the
incidents OF duel at sea. after which the
stars and stripes float victoriously.
Mr.. A. S. Lipman is Capt Paul" The
heroine is Irene Vernon. Miss Pauline Will
low. Mr.. Robert Patton Gibbs, as a Spanish
gypsy, is the best actor in the cast.
There was standing room only at the
Academy OF Music last night, and very little
of that. This was nearly all on account of
Peter F. Daley and May Irwin, who are a
whole play in themselves, with enough re-
serve material for one or two roaring COM
edies. People laughed till their sides ached.
The cast is full of bright people who know
theirs business and don't keep it a secret.
There are John G. Sparks. Andrew Mack,
Mamie Gilroy, Ollie Evans Cissy Buckley,
Ada Lewis, and others quite too numerous to
mention.
The play is "a Country Sport, but it is not
the play that counts. 1t is the odd way they
say and do things. and they are continually
doing them. They sing songs you never
heard before and so improve old jokes that
you accept them as brand new.
No one is disappointed who goes to see Mr..
William H. Crane in anything, and every
body will be charmed who sees him in Sir
John Falstaff at the National Theater this
week. "The Merry Wives of Windsor" was
las. night presented with capable actor and
actress in the familiar roles, and given a
faultless stage production. Dame Qulckley
was played by Kate Denim Wilson. Dr.. Gains
by Percy Brooke, sweet Anne Page by Miss
Anne O'Neill, Master Ford by Orrin Johnson,
der by Joseph Wheeloek, ir. Mr.. Cranes
Falstaff is the result OF critical study and
artistic reproduction OF character that will
live as long as the English drama.
The happiest phase of s'South Before the
War" was viyidly depicted last night at
Kernan's to a packed house and amid tu-
multuous enthusiasm. The performance be-
gins with realistic cotton picking scene on
the Mississippi, and the audience is given an
exhibition OF darkeyism such as has never
been witnessed here before The camp-meet-
ing On Frog island and the cake walk are
features. In the former Jerry, 1.-THE frog, y
performs feats that are not eGualed by the
real brachtrachian, and in the cake walk the
whole strength of the company is brought
out in pedestrian competition, amusing and
ludicrous at the Same time.
''The Burglar was presented last night al
the Bijou Theater, and received a gratifying
welcome. 1t is a four-act comedy drama
interesting and absorbing throughout, Tho
scenic effects are pretty, and the company q
I 7 ti,s
burglar was excellent, and so was Mrs
Anna Boyle Moore. Little Gertie Carlisle
captiyated the audience with her exception.
ally fine performance.