The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-21
THEATRICAL ADJUSTMENTS.
TIE ROUND OF PLEASURE WHICH
OUR STAGE PRoVIDES.

Company In ..The Ironmnster" ~ what
several OF tho New Recruits to Eande-
willie Arc DoinE-Notes Among the Actors.
Tho two new native plays which are c%onspicu-
Gus In thiswcck's theatricals are commanding full
attention, They are Cumberland 81" present
cd in the most modern manner Of liberal outlay
and artistic taste by Augustus Pitou at the
Fourteenth Street, and An American Citi-
gen." in which \. c. Goodwin has been outfit
ted with q congcnial role by Madeleine Lucctte
Rylcy at tho Knickcrbocker We shall have the
first performance in this country OF La Pou-
pee" at the Lyric tonight, Mr.. Willard has
revived The Middlcman' at Wallack's, and
he will turn to delightful comedy tonight with
'"Thc Professors Love Story" Tho Grand
Opera House has that big melodrama of tho turf,
The Sporting Duchess" with q far stronger
cast than Is usually given to plays for q third
annual tour. Tho Academy OF Music gives a
scenically elaborated version of THE Old
Homestead with Dcnman Thompson in his
familiar aspects; of the New England farmer.
The Harlem Opera House presents "Courted
Into Court" with n stalwartly amusing actress,
Mario Drcssler. in tho principal character.
The Murray Hill is dovoting its stock company
to THE 1ronmastcr." The plays at the other
week stands are Tho Burglar" at the, Peoples.
and THE Cherry Pickers' at the Columbus.
The bills that remain unchanged are THE Lit
y! Hal. Min a king with Mn Mis- Is, A WiIssn at At The he EB% Toas.
way, "A Bachelors Romance" with Mr.. Rus.
ssli at the Garden, The Devils D%lsciPIe' with
Of Lyons with Mr.. Sothern Mt the Lyceum,
mime. Sans Sans Gene in German at the Irving
sion" at the Manhattan, "a Stranger in New
York at the Garrick. The Proper Caper' at
!A. %Sat. n a1n 3 PsiF tn in j %issss't sf The Ct Hlj ,sS S sfSs
GUS Gin, at "Daly's, and SThc French Maid at
the Herald Square.
In his vaudeville employment at Kcith's.
Felix Morris appears to be striving at u shift
in the standards OF the continuous shows. His
medium is The Old Musician" u dangerously
serious affair for a variety show, and in il this
actor gives full vent to his fondness for elabor-
ate forlornness. STOPPED, trembling and al
most fearful at his first entrance, he Is COM
pletely woebegone, and the later climax Of his
suffering is marked by but the slightest rise OF
emotion. Then there are forty-ive minutes of
1t, instead of the twenty or twenty-five that
are usual, which really makes the next jovial
stunt a long way off. Two stories OF mce
life" are included, it will be remembered; a
short one for the Countess, and a longer one,
as bctitting his greater years, for the palsied
composer. And this, by continuous show
standards. is near to an overstock of past
troubles. So 1t comes that when the old man
Erosw excited over his wine and omelet, what
Is very puLncllC Is Caught NJ Dy Iue auulenCt as
farcical, and is laughed over; and when he hides
away, some of the breakfast for his hungry
light as would be the frantic carving of a papier
mache fowl. 1t is all because variety show fol.
lowers must laugh once or twice every three
quarters of an hour. and when they break out
n the wrong places there is another Judgment
than their, own at fault; Others at keith's are
Patrice, Ida Klein. Phyllis Allen and some
arabs who tumble frantically.
Under the stage name Of sylvia Isle a. Proc.
L. 5. \. e she is tai. band at,I and 'o Of fne
rgure andmakes her first essay upon the stage
paired With Charles Leonard d Fletcher in a
wooinG. 1t affords the man q chance to pose
as a naval Lieutenant and as a cowboy, and to
Texan, who killed forty men in forty minutes,
at her. All this is not more Wild than her
exuberance in dialogue and gesture, which
already had in singing. Ethel Chase Spraguc,
Z j.. R~atclife, Grant and Norton and a most
singular negro comedian are also in the Proctor
list.
At Pastors J. K. Emmett is playing a twen:
ty.minute farce that calls for two dark
changes" and.that does not afford him u chance
to sing. Lawrence and Harrington, Curtis and
Gordon and the Cohans are Others here.
SGiT df and ME- MI RSmSsiiqs, 3, at At Roster {
with Cfo DE Merode as a participator;. yesta
Tiiley And the PantZers for Weber & Fields's,
WhCref Tho Glad Hand Is current; Troja,
Gar9A and Herbert and the Picchianis at the
Pleasure Palace; which has also a musial ex;
tpr the Olympia are the Poios, Charles I. AID
r rich and Florrie West, grand opera tablcaux
y constituting the programmes longest inning.
The sentimental heroine of Georges Ohne,'s
b, D THE Ironmaster." has been presented
in New York by women Of widely different tai
ents and methods. The first of the Claires
was Rose Coghlan. whose rather heavy emo
tons suited the English atmosphere TO which
Robert Buchanan had transferred the French
story. Maudc Granger was another Of the
early ones in the part. Mrs. Kendall relied
enough on her popularity here to act in the
piece long after she was suited tosuch youthful
charactc But her art turned a risky cxper.
iment int success, although Jane Hading, with
her beauty and the rare charm OF her own per.
sonality was the most plausible Claire that New
York ever saw. Nance O'Neill is resurrecting
this emotional heroine for us now, and it was
not to be expected that she would overlook the
aristocratic wife who combined pride and com.
mon sense in about the neutrality-suspicious. atthcy
s miv6P. o.Jjs sieaa. Oy and d% oiher ladies' Rfss" o. the earlier Gsi
drama. But the unreasonable passions OF a
heroine never stood in the way Of a strong play.
Miss o'Neiii has been accomplishing n task
this season that would seem almost impossible.
AL the varied and lengthy roles she has acted
at the Murray Hin Theatre are said to be new
Camille, Leah, and Claire. In all OF them she
has been apparently letter perfect, and the
strain OF this task has not prevented the more
than promising portrayals which she has given.
There is, indeed, no young woman on the stage
to-day from whom more may b. expected. Iei
emotional powers, revealed as they have been
by several conventional but standard roles, are
uncommonly sincere and effective. Her die.
ton in the modern plays is admirable. her
perception, OF the Significance of scenes uner
ring, and her execution OF them easy and In
most cases finished. She is completely at heI
ease In treating the most dramatic scenes. and
her sense OF comedy when she must not play
comedy only-is genuine and delicate. When
she does not abandon herself excessively to the
stress of the scene, she carries herself with
grace and dignity. The scene between her and
Der6iayafteT the, marriage showd Miss O'Neila at
her best on Tuesday night. There her manner to
ward the man to whom she was married although
he was UNDESIRABLE to hcr, was dignified and in a
waytcompassionRte with pity for his situation un
tl:hc threatened her. Then the pride and haughr
tiness Of her naturc,shown in the revulsion of heI
feelings was finely artistic and telling. Their
there were none of the abrupt, crude transi
tions in her acting which sometimes threaten tC
mur her work npFnAurntly Fran tho npnu