The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-01-13
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
Katie Putnam as Little Maver-
lex and Little Nell.
SAC. THEArRlcAls NEXT WEEK
Sadie Martinez In s.rhe rassDort"-'A
New Boy" sson-Calhoun Opera
Company Coming.

Amusements the past week would have
been lifeiess. but for the appearance OF
Katie Putnam az the Seattle tneater for
two evenings and the Charles Riggs COM
pany at Cordray's for the closing night
OF the return engagement. Miss Putnam
came as bright and beautiful oasis in
the midst of a dreary waste. and her
Little Maverick and ..Oid Curiosity
Shop were entertainments OF a high
grade. Each play affords an opportunity
for rare tleiineatscns OF the mSrshfui and
the pathetic. the two antithetical elements
strangely and sympathetically blended IN
everyday life. ard Miss Putnam fully sns-
tanned her reputation as the possessor OF
superior dramatic accomplishments.
Whether as Little Maverick. the Mar
cfioness OF Little Nell, size was above
criticism. and by her cleverness and Per
sonal magnetism Immediately won her
way straight to the hearts Of the aRsi.-
ence. THE Old Curiosity Shop" repro
tillces the delicate lights and shades OF
Dickens immortal story. and strikes the
keynote OF sad and tender elegy: but st
ends abruptly with the good fortune Of
the Marchioness. which mars and almost
effaces the compassionate impression re-
ceived on witnessing the death Of gentle
and loving Little Nell. After the touch
OF melancholy and sorrow produced by
the latter scene. the thoughtful observer
feeis that he has been rudeiy interrupted
by the ill-tgmess levity that marks the
close OF the play.
The event In local circles for the pres
mt month win be the s. A. c. theatricals
al Cordray's January "a, IS and Is. MID
winter Nights Dream IS to be produced
by the best available talent in the city,
and the preparations that have been made
insure IN the hands OF the artists q pre-
seatation that viii eclipse anything here
tofore attempted by amateurs in tse
Northwest. New scenery. bright COS
tunes. catchy music. and thoroughly
trained principals and chorus are the eie-
nents that make up the athletes comic
opera, and there seems to be nothing
whatever remaining to bring the perform
arlce close to perfection.
At the Ssattle theater, January % and
Is. Sadie Martinez and Max Figman will
present 1.-THE Passport" a comedy said
TO be quite irresistible. They will be fol-
lowed by Frohm.4i's company in "The
New Boy January IS and o. and later
by the Calhoun Opera Company and Tom
Ricketts, Troubadours.
Sadie Martinez and Max Fisman.
At the Seattle theater. January % and
g. a new attraction will be presented in
a very pretty and popular coincidence
a clever comedian. q good company and
an amusing play. The star of the organ
ixation Is Sadie Martinot, a name familiar
to theater-goers She has been one of the
reigning favorites IN New York. not only
because of those personal attractions
which are so valuable an advertisement
there, blu, because she is an actress. She
learned how to act under strict stage
managers such as are hardly to be found
today. Anybody who went through dra-
matte work under Dion Boucicauit is ex.
ceedingly likely TO know how to 10 IL, if
she has talent. Miss Martinez established
the fact that she had talent a good many
years ago. She has had pleny of expert
ence since, and as she Is just in the best
years OF her life she should prove a
strong attraction. Max Fig1nan, who is a
sub-star with Miss Martnot, IS a come
dian who has made quite a success in the
East. The company has many names
which are we'll known, and Is altogether
a strong one.
The play is by two English authors. ana
Is called THE Passport" The Eastern
press has all along praised II as a bright,
clever aud entertaining work. Miss Mar
timot plays a young widow. who, not hav-
ing her passport, accepts the necessity of
passing of as the wife OF a man she
meets to get across the Russian frontier
The man is married and there arise
very funny complications from the pass
port business. The widows faculty for
forgetting everything gets her Inc great
deal of trouble.