The evening world., 1895-09-16
DRAMATIC NEWS AND NOTES.
Failure OF "The swordsman's
DRuEhtcr"-A Gag Defender.

tional chickering's OF 1895 threaten to be
memorable. The "Gaiety" girls have
started In to make things lively for Au-
gustin DAILY. as It was intimated In
these columns that they would do. as
soon as they reached thir native land.
and one authority declares that "the
| complaints are from so many quarters
and are so circumstantial that the Eng
lish public, which has so warmly well
coined MIR. DAILY and his company to our
shores, Will expect an answer to them. "
Among the complainants are Miss Mar
garet Frazer-Cissy Fitzgerald's under
study-Nina Martno. Miss Beaugarde
and twelve others. They claim that
when they arrived in America, strangers
in foreign land no representative OF
Mr.. DAILY received them: that they sat
on their trunks for two hours waiting
to hear from DAILY, and were then told
that there would he a rehearsal at the
theatre the following day. They allege
that they had to look after their own
trunks and seek their own apartments. {.
that although they were engaged to play
in towns for never less than a week,
they were marched off to seventeen one
night stands; that they met with the
greatest discourtesy everywhere; that
salary day was changed SO frequently
that sometimes they did not get their
money in time to pay their bills; that
the rules in the theatre and on board
ship were quite insulting in their sever
ity; that they were threatened with the
most arbitrary fines: that the girls had
TO sleep two in a berth, and that they
were told not to strike" because IL
they did so they would have to shift
for themselves. So. you see. things are
very dreadful. In Mr. Days defense. 1t
must be said that the stringent rules
were probably exceedingly necessary.
as, from all accounts. the members OF
the No. "Gaiety Girr' company were
of an excessively frisky turn of mind
1t isn't exactly pleasant for a New
York dramatic critic to be doomed about
the country as having gushed over
bad play which he has never seen. That
there are INSCRIPTIONS managers who
stick at nothing" seems to be evil
dent. A company has been out In the
West playing a something entitled "A
Fattel Calf" Nobody has heard OF Its
ever having been acted in New YORK.
OF this piece the critic Of an Omaha
paper says: "A Fatted calf which
furnished a seven days repast at the
Creighton. Is far from meriting the
laudatory ,epigrams ascribed TO Alan
Dale, Of the New nGIy nHrk ss MoTla' as ~ pras Is
sented to Omaha 1t Is not even well
served. TO critlcise seriously piece
and performance of this kind would be
to break a butterfly on the wheel, were
for the much -yuluted rOlnIntn-
da ton of the eminent critic Aforesaid,
which. being felicitiously phrased and
presumably rightly bestowed. had the
representat!ons. II there is a
bright lne In it, earnest and more or
less patient research has not availed to
unearth It,
Lawyer A. II. Hummel IL not painful
ly bashful nor Is he particularly anxious
that conccalment should prey on his
the efforts of the managers OF The
Merry World" to boom their show at his
expense. or course. nobody really be-
lieved that Mr.; Ilummei would consent
little lawyer, patron and friend of
everybody and everything theatri--
war paint or tinsel acsessEres'
The Canary -Ledercr idea was rather
cruel Mr.. Hummel doesn't mind any
sort OF newspaper comment but ne
his appearance in burlesque would
cause. Besides. he has been "imitated'
so frequently on the stage that nus APP
pearance in .propria persona would dis
pei future illusions.
We shall probably not get the latest
Adelphi melodrama, rhe Swornsman ;
Clement Scott, as it has failed. Melo-
drama is unhaprily still in vogue. one
of the scenes of this latest shows the
launching OF a lifeboat. The village
priest and his humble flock have offered
up a fcrvent prayer, and the craft is
launched amid the bowling of the
W Spon the angrE gaEsc,Se ssS Thns nis
| there is duel between the hero and the
| villain that goes well. but cannot save
| the play
The warm weather of the last week week
brought misery to the york ma"astF'nI bS, IN
| other cities. In the metropolis several
managers who threw open their houses
in such Illogical haste have already re.
| been phenomenal" by any means. The
productions that have really been fortu,
nate are The Prisoner OF Zenda." a!
the Lyceum; The Sporting Duchess
at the Academy. and The Chieftain,
at Abhey's.
Francis Wilson can take heart. The
practice of ''gassing, OF which ne Is s.
fond. but from which he conscientiously
n detender-one only, This gentleman
says: so long as authors are too lazy
or too incompetent to write comic dla'
gagging VIII be acceptable. according te
whether he has or has not genuine
sense OF humor. The late Fred Leslie
possessed that sense, and in consequence
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