The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-07
PLAYS ON SUNDAY NIGHT.
ylUDETILLE DBBUTS BIZ MRS. RAM
KIN AND MISS URQUHART.

,heatres, returned TO public service last night In
a vaudeville show. Like many another Of the
recont recruits from "the legitimate" to the
"continuous,' she did not do q turn" of song
or dance, but played o part in what, to fol-
low the phrase Of tho actors still further,
IA called straight farce 1t was at the Four
teonth Street Theatre, and as ono of the
volunteers in an entertainment for tho benefit
NJ Harry Feltsr Watson, q recently blinded
writer, that Miss Urquhart made hor vaudeville
dkbut, The twenty-minute play that she used
was a new one, entitled "In Durance Vile,"
II presented q confusion arising from q
voman's belief that twin brothers were only
one man. She was acquainted with one of them.
a portrait painter and favored sutton for her
hand, but she did not know Of the existence Of
the other. asoapoGraoo and prodigal in the hands
of tho sheriff. That scheme Of ~farcical fun being
understood by the reader. 1t II easy for him
70 guess that tho twins came and went
IN confusing ways, that the bad fellows mis-
behaviour got the good fellow in Disgrace with
his sweetheart, and that whom tho misunder-
standing had lasted long enough the counter
parts were placed face to face, with an explana-
ton that set all the wrongs right 1t was neither
q delightfully."- bright piece nor d~olefully dull.
but was one Of those middlinE things that may
win or lose according a. they are performed we'll
orbadly. It happened In this case that the acting.
like the play, was not decisively the ono thing nor
the othen The circumstance were unfnvorsblo.
The Law against Sunday dramatic performances
L. not stringently enforced in this city, but those
who break Il do 20 evasively and shyly. They
avoid the raising and lowering Of . curtain.
mako no shifts Of scenery, and use no accessories
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Mr.. Mckee Rankin chose O Sunday evening
for her vaudeville debut and appeared at o
benefit last night at Weber & Ftelds's music
hall. Kenneth Lee, who has provided the
vehicle BY which other stage celebrities have
made this popular transit, wrote for Mrs. Ran
kn made to Order" and II served well, II the
friendly bumor of the nrst audience to hear 1t
may DO relied on. There are three percentages
in the little play. and the one woman 10 q
wealthy widow, who, having lost her fortune
through speculation. reports fashions and social
dotngs for q newspaper. In order to have some
companion to protect her In the pursuit Of her
work, abe has Q dummy "mado to order"
and u takes tho form of Q tall, gaunt
man with whtskers. Unluoktly, the dummy
runs down one evening while she II ct . recep-
ton. An old admirer mistakes this for intoxi-
cation, and In his Jealousy goes 10 her apart
nsnt 10 discover who his rival may be. There
b meets the dummy, who. In view Of any sim
Mar accident, has been wound up for ten days.
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Julie Opp. the American girl who has been
during this season Q successful member of
George Aexanders 81. James Company in Lon
don. has been engaged by Daniel Frohmant to act
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Pinero's comedy. "The Princess and the Butter
fy." Miss Opp on several occasions appeared in
the role during the sickness of Julia Nelson.
who created It This latest Pinero comedy, which
ID said TO DO q genuine London success, will
probably open the season at the Lyceum. Mis-
Opp was under engagement to Daniel Froh
man before she went to London, but hi
released her. She has played so far but
two roles regularly. One was Hymer
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IN Individual part in tho Pinero play. But she
has successfully supplantod Miss Nelson Al
Rosalind as well as tho Princes. Marie Shot
well, who left the Lyceum because she wanted
greater opportunities. will not become o star al
abe threatened. but act with Fanny Davenport
Hope Ross. who is known here as an actress o
f~arcecomedy, has gone to London TO take odett'
Tyler's place in Secret Service" II is said tina
0dette Tyler and her husband will buy O play II
verse talents. They will then act In 1t mex
winter.
Francis Wilson will not open the season at tn
WORK next season. but conh4s himself to Hal
an opsrsttt y french origin ready for tho stag
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companies viii give IN Town" a musical fare
ssrri SSEi last yfGrs Pio but, the The performance wa
temporarily abandoned because 1t was not pos
able to get the best OF the London actors IN UT
70 give the piece next September win como from
London.
Robert Taber, who will not act with JUL
Marlowe next winter, will be the star of o re
mantle melodrama.
.Denman Thompson Is going back to "The d.
Homestead" next season, after futile efforts +
bnd any successor as popular as that play, Me-
Burgess, who lost a fortune made out OF 18th
County Fair In the effort to mako successful
piece which he thought might be q ~substitut
t9r that drama, is now appearing as .Abfon!
Prue in England. After some provincial travel
e.has finally gotten into London:
teason and act in "The Wandering Minstrel.
y Clay Clement, which is to DO produced b
Klaw & Erlanger. But It is probable that he
not 70 be. as he was In "The Broken Melody"
fascinating, hero, so, irresistible that a Russia
countess followed him through three acts In
futile attempt to win him.
Eisiede Wolfe 10 to have q play written for he
~ Marcel Provost. whose dramatized. nQye
les Demi.Vierges." went the rounds In Ne
York, but was hover produced. she will NJ