The sun., 1897-11-15
POINTS TN THE PLAYING
or "THB CO0IxG DOYE" AND OF
"I BACHEBOR'S R0MANCE"

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Unntness OF naout Europenn Coniinentnl Dra-
mas nar American Audicnces-An Afternoon
ana Evening" Entertainment Tor tho R"mnn
Catholic Orphan ASSInm-Notes OF tho stage
The annual entertainment givon at tho Metro
politnn Opera House by volunteer actors IN
aid OF the Romon Catholic Orphan Asylum
will occur next Thursday afternoon and
evening. 1t has been taken up this time by
Charles Frohman and Frank w. Sanger, whose
efforts are being sustained heartily by other
managers, and consequence Of this nmity OF
effort is that an uncommonly attractive pro-
grammo is possible. Tho matinee bill contains
complete acts from Cumberland '6l" by the
Pitou company, The Idols Eye" by Frank
Daniels and his comedians, and " The Heart OF
the Klondiko" by the Keogh Davis or
ganization. These portions OF three DIVERSE
ly popular pieces will bo given with the
full scenery, exactly as done in the cur
rent performances at tho Fourteenth Street.
Broadway. and Star theatres. Several
selections from "19Oo" will be brought over
from tho Casino. The single volunteers for the
afternoon are Marie Tavary, Henry II. Dixcy,
and Mathildo Cottrelly. The arrangement for
the evening provides oncact play called
"Denger6eld o." with Annie Russell and s.
Miller Kent, and an act OF "Thc Magdalene,"
with Nance o'Neill ard the Murray Hill stock
company, while the contributors of what should
prove an ideal vaudeville show are Tony Pastor,
Charles Ross, Marie Lloyd. Billy Emerson, the
Griffith brothers, the Northern troupe, the De
Kock troupe, and the Cushman and Holcomb
duo. with Rose Coghlan in q dramatic rccita-
tion for an unusual feature All this means two
good. long shows for a worthy charity, and no
doubt the Metropolitan will be crowded.
Tho announcement that one of the recent
French plays is to be acted in New York this
winter Is notable enough, because Of the young
or French writer's tho American stage has
seen nothing yet, and, indeed our theatre
seems to have very little prospect Of becoming
acquainted with the writings Of the rising gen.
GRAFTON. When French play comes now to
be acted in the United States there are many
chances in favor of the fact that unless it be by
the e,7er Dumas 1t will probably turn out the
work Of either Pierre Decourcelle or Victoren
Sardou. No younger writer's ever find their
way to our theatre. In Paris both Decourcelle
and Sardou are looked upon as representing the
older idea Of stage literature so inflexibly that
compared to writers Of the present day, such as
Lavedan, Donnay, Becque, and De Curel, they
stand In the very smallest degree for what is
characteristic of the newer movement in French
literature. But the younger men do not bear
importation-to America,lat all events. Out Of
this group only Lavedan is known to this
country through very silly perversion of his
"Prince d'Aurec," acted as "An American
Duchess" at the Lyceun Theatre several years
ago II these writers do not bear transporta-
tion to the United States, they are scarcely more
successful in tho transfer to other lands. la
Douloureuse' has failed in Vienna and Berlin
although some Of the works of this school have
met with success in Germany, notably De
Curels "LInvitee" which never had success
anywhere else. Some Of these plays do not find
favor or prosperity in their own country. but
they are nevertheless tho school that domi-
mates the French stage to-day. Not only arc
these younger writer's typical Of what the drec-
tion Of stage literature is. but they are so unrea
sonably attached to their present point of view
that they persistently refuse to write plays Of
any other kind. The Parisians whether they
want to or not, have to see them. for the reason
that there are plays OF no other kind coming
from the young writer's; To some other ooun.
only Decourcelle and Sardon, who are not in
the least typical Of the French theatre to-day. go
out as the representatives Of tho French stage.
stage is represented by Biumenihal. Won
rssa Writer'S hsm
the influence Of Eleonora Duse and Sarah
Known to other her Countries. @ Without the scramble
Ct actresses top to play MddGdG he would probably
since ~ "Magda.' become any any better known. Hn
and when the United States vets anything new
above One Of the farces-written by some
winter an It Is not in the least St Likely that that any any
So the only drama that we viii see from that
present condition of its stage writing. From
sudermann down to Halbe, the German stage
the older writer's, but they are selected always
for use In other countries. Since Fulda's "A
Of e
Ehre" at the Standard Theatre several years
Really the only. typical works coming to us
nom foreign countries are the plays Of Pinero,
have come under the same influences which
have formed the modern schools in France and
Germany. But the Englishmen are loss radi-
of the same views that animate the Continen-
tai writer's strong upon them, although they have
them. But they continue to write dramas which
are In many cases predestined to be unpopu;;
return ret n now o. % to the R style Of "sweet Lavender"
and THE Magistrate" however he might try.
Certainly MsE AG5h Jonsf sSa E
public cared more for the earlier plays and 1t is
probable that the new author who can write
that was theirs: Here in this country foreign
plays grow daily less available. The older
men are not writing well as they were, and
the work Of the younger; dramatists could
never get a hearing because 1t is a foregone con-
clusion that their work would fail. We are
not even much interested as England is in
the style of the drama that is coming into
view, Probably we shall never be, and at all
events 1t will require some time That fact
ought to be encouraging to the American dra-
matist, who never before had the field SO en-
tirey to himself in his own country. Only the
Englishmen are his rivals.
Ever since o rose pink scene was one of the
episodes of q notable comic opera success sew
eral years ago, bathrooms" of that fantastic
description have appeared from time to time in
various shades OF color. There has been pale
green and light blue ones, and they have
all been modelled on the plan Of that colored
scene which was "A revelation some ten years
ago. Recently the colored bathrooms have
dropped out of favor. None OF them have ever
been as beautiful as the original. Tho latest
TO be seen is of Manager Conried's invention,
and 1t supplies the background for tho sec ond
act of THE Coong Dove" at the Irving Place
Theatre. This rather old. d.fashioned scene has