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the MouIton Company at the Clunie
Opera-houSe will be presented next
week, commencing with Monday even
Ing. In the long list Of dramatfsts
whose plays have been seen during the
present century, none has been more
successful than the distinguished writer
Sidney Grundy, whose farcical comedy,
SNOWFALL" viii be played by the Moul-
ton Company. Sidney Grundy's plays
are known throughout England and
this country, and have been translated
into many foreign languages. The great
charm Of the plays produced by Grundy
ts that they are true to life; there is no
straining after effect, but the author
skillfully draws his characters with
Mfe-1ike and mastery hand. This author
reached the hight of fame when he wrote
his famous play Sowing the Wind,
which reaped fortune for him, and for
Charles Frohman, who produced it. But
1t was in comedy that Grundy won his
chief trfumphs. Two Of his most sue
cessful comedies are "a Bunch of Vio-
lets and SNOWFALL" the latter Of
which will be played next week by the
Moulton Company. Its comedy is pure
and unadulterated, its lines scintillate
with bright witticis1ns. its situations are
natural and easy and it's climaxes ex-
cruciatingly funny. "Snowba1P is un-.
doubtedly the best play which the Meul-
ton Company has in its repertoire, and
1t is needless to say this clever company.
of comedians will fully realize. the
authors ideas and interpret the play In
an artistic and finished manner. The.
plot, while a simple one, results in the
most. laughable complications which en-
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to visit a theater and witness a play
unknown to each other. Felix Feather
stone, played by Mr.. Moulton, tells his
wife that he is going to the club to play
whist, while Mrs. Featherstone, played
by Miss Rose Stuart, informs her hus-
band that she intends taking her ward,
Ethel Granger, to a classical concert.
Each thinks the other Outwitted, and
to their great surprise, see each other
at the theater. The husband firmly be-
lieVes that his wife does not see him and
she thinks the same. They plan to pun
fsh each other for the deception prac
ticed; the husband writes an anony-
nous letter to his wife arranging g.
rendevouz for midnight; the wife recog
nizing the handwriting slips the letter
into her maids work basket. The COM
plications which ensue tangle everyone
up and before things are Strengthened
out the audience is treated to the most
nlrth provoking fun. The merits Of
Mr.. Moulton as a comedian have been
so generally recognized in this city that
it Is a foregone conclusion that he Will
keep the fun rolling along in the char
acter Of Felix Featherstone the hus-
band. Of course, Moulton will present
a new budget of songs. The strong
character part of Uncle John will be
played by Charles Gibney, a clever and
versatile actor, whose work with the
Moulton Company has been most ef-
feetive. The bright young Juvenile,
Harry Stockbridge, has an excellent
part as Harry Prendergast, and in
''SnowbaII'' will present a delightful
love-making scene with Featherstone's s
ward, Ethel Granger, which viii be
played by Miss Fannie Yantis. This
clever-little lady has made fine impress
sion since her advent with the Moulton
Company. and the part she plays next
week in "SnowbalI' will show her to
best advantage. The character of Pene-
lope, the vigorous maid, who is always
threatening ''to tell everything" while
as a matter Of fact she knows nothing,
will be in the capable hands of Miss
Helen Harrington, whose character
work is of exceptional merit. Miss Rose
Stuart, whose fmpersonation Of Niobe
won for a her host of admirers, will be
seen in the part of Mrs. Felix Feather
stone which gives her every opportun-
ity to display unconsciously the gift of
true comedy which she possesses A
character part OF Saunders will be
played by William Sellery, who will sing
in his usual artistic manner some of the
latest ballads of the day. The comedy
of SNOWFALL will be preceded each
evening by a charming domestic sketch
in one act, entitled Drifting Apart, :"
written by Sir Charles Young, which
VIII be played by Miss Kate Dallas and
Lester Lonergan. Drifting Apart
tells q pretty little story of how hus-
band and wife are gradually becoming
estranged from each other. While to
the outside world Sir Godfrey Bloom
field and his wife, Lady Gwendoline,
are seemingly happy, yet in their home
life there gradually arises a barrier
which finally eliminates in an agree
rnent to separate. The scene OF the
sketch shows their residence at mid
night after a visit to the theater They
discuss the inlpossibility TO live as they
are and mutually agree to separate. Al
tne very IuDttSit I4dl lA4~s "a ~ - go ?
apart the sight of a pair of baby
1yoolen shoes. a memento Of their dead
child. the first and only fruit of their
love. helps to reunite them and the cur
tain falls upon a scene OF domestic
bliss and happiness in place Of mis-
understanding and trouble. Miss Kate
Dallas. as Lady Gwendohne, has an emo
tfonaI part which will give her every op-
portunity to display her exceptional
talents, while Mr.. Lornegan, as sir
Geoffrey, viii be seen in a role exactly
capable to his talent.
In the sT4ooker-On" for June, w. f.
Antborp has an article explaining why
he does not believe that color VIII ever
form the material for an art analogous
to music. 1t concludes with these
words: And without 'color-forn,' what
becomes of color-music, with its color
melodies and color r-harmonies' '-of
which some Of US have heard more than
a little of late. It vanishes into the
limbo beyond the moon. For formless
fine art is no fine art at all. Pretty and
even enchanting juxtaposirons or col
ors have been made time out or mind
and our eye can take legitimate de-
light in them But from this to hne
art is q longish step, and one whieh
leads across a. chasm that color alone
seems destined never to bridge
A New York writer says: 1T is quite
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