The record-union., 1896-09-22

that name, and into which pours streets
whose population is composed Of every
nationalities on earth. Here is greater
confusion of tongues than there was at
babylon. All classes or characters of
people jostle each other by day and by
night. The poverty stricken, the rich,
and criminal rub elbows on the Bowery.
Appalling poverty and garish gaity are
everywhere contrasted. This is said to
be the most thickly settled area of
ground In the world. 1t is a remarkably
street, is the Bowery, and to the student
of human nature a deep study. All it's
brighter as we'll as more serious sides
are shown in con the Bowery," yet
all coarseness has been, we are assured,
carefully eliminated Managers Thomas
Fl. Davis and William T. Keogh promise
for the play the most elaborate scenic
production.
It is not the part Of a manager to
quarrel with his audience, else Manager
Todd would have been justified in going
into more than one section of the OPP
e1a-house last night with a club to
teach some people, and unfortunately a
large number, when the time comes to
laugh and when to refrain 1t is not
creditable to general intelligence that
any considerable number of people
should find in the beautiful ceremonial
of the Greek Church anything to laugh
at, or that the venerable Greek Patri-
arch al the altar in a marriage cere
mony should be considered an object to
be guyed and ridiculed; likewise that a
tragic scene is not usually provocative
Of mirth, nor the rescue of a woman
from an infuriated mob the occasion for
loud outlaws. by Order of the Gar
was produced by the stock company in
a manner to reflect much credit upon
the painstaking and skill of the ladies
| and gentlemen of the company, and the
| good judgment and long experience of
! the accomplished stage manager, Mr..
| Gleason. Justice also gives commenda-
| ton to the young scenic artist, Mr.. Cor
| bett, for the beautiful interior palace
scene, than which a handsomer effect
| has but rarely been seen here; and to
Mr.. Parker, the electrician and stage
| machinist, for the nice judgment and
discrimination with which his part of
| the work was put before the public.
| Mr.. Hardie, the property man, furnish
ed the Russian scenes with a closeness
| to the models that entities him to credit.
| So much depends for the success of
1
drama upon the unseen actors that it is
| fitting to bring them to public atten-
/ ton, on notable occasion at least. The
melodrama and beautiful love story
was played in almost a faultless man
ner with about the least of error.
/ The story is that of a poor young
singer who is mistaken by three officers
of the Cars bodyguard for woman
/ they are not called upon to respect The
girl and her father appeal to the Czar
| to do her justice and avenge the out
rage. The Emperor exiles the three
officers to Siberia, but compels the
wealthiest to marry the girl, to whom
he gives the estates of the offenders.
| Out of this situation grows love story
and tale of womans wit and devotion
that is sensational enough to satisfy
| the most exacting, and that is not
marred by any impossibilities, and
probably has had it's parallels in that
romantic autocracy where the Czar is