The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-07

unravelling did not commence until the curtain
was almost loosened for lis final fall.
The story had q man, whose father had be-
oueathed him q fortune on condition that q
maiden sister approved his second marriage,
Just married TO an actress. Her he brought
home. planning to have her win her
way to the sisters affections. But that
scheme failed. and learning that lie had three
daughters was SO displeasing news for the bride
as to make more trouble for the groom. Side is.
sues OF woe to him grew out OF his daughters
%suitors, and from an action for damages by his
wifc's former manager over her broken contract.
Some OF these were not strikingly unlike the
Incidents OF other cross-purpose farces, but in
the hands OF VI. A. Kennedy. W. J. Ferguson,
Max .FcGnian. Bercnicc Wheeler and Albert
Bruning they were continuously amusing.
Then there were new devices OF Comicality that
alone were enough TO insure the farce pros.
pelrityi
He had been bitten BY a dos. and as he VAS in
the way was persuaded into fear OF rabies.
Whiskey, to which he was entirely unaccus-
toned, was recommended as an a~ntidote. Tipsi.
that he was attacked by the dreaded malady.
SO be staggered and barked. wildly assuring all
ing mad. The other new bid for laughter
was based on two approaching duels be
fight the other two. was sent into his
dining room to practice shooting at a target.
ana a servant was brloed TO ring a bell for every
shot fred. The firing was done out OF sight.
and in view were the two other d~uellists, at nrst
concentrating themselves that their oppo.
nent was a poor ,narksm1n' and approach.
that the bell recorded. At the third
suS' and nae the se'fbe eIi's t eones we iS5sU delay nd
long enough for the listeners spirits to
. sess; . sg' ut FeP0t that, ann and f theis fs%e G fsa sss
John Stapleton was the author OF the play. and
was babe 10 come forward and be looked at.
Wnlr no did and yvhls yNna n1Nrh for IA bot
nights audience, tired with laughing, to have
demanded.
Great violence was committed at the Third
Avenue Theatre yesterday with "a Hot Old
Time" q new farce. The characters banged
each other and tumbled themselves, and re-
sorted to all sorts Of force to compel the audi.
ence TO laugh. The audience did laugh, too. as
only an east side audience can when 1t is
thoroughly tickled. II the actors had waited
each time the laughter made a din until it
ceased before they went on. tho performance
would have lasted six hours instead OF three.
But such delay had been guarded against by
tho simple expedient OF hiring actors with
voices so strong that they could be heard above
any hubouo that a thousand persons with or
and Emma Ray. the leaders in the cast, have
Tor years been among the most vociferous
specialists on the variety stage. Mr.. Ray is
true, nnd deserved to be chosen for that reason
as a funny thing to put into a farce, but II can
tous6noss Of iar! tnS' bad BB eoeMne taken x iui inso I ae
count. When the merriment OF the audience
rose I0s a. H. nun in ne did nSt for a. an instant stop speak
and not a word he uttered was lost. The o her
performers were similarly gifted with spec h
,hrieked and shouted until they began to be
hoarse., and then. just as 1t seemed that there
the trumpeting Bernard Dyllyn reinforced
Them IN u role that began IN the nick OF time
and unin erruptcd acting feasible. no matter
how much or heartily the audience laughed.
The farce of "A hot Old Time" was a good
Edgar Seldcn. had learned how TO amuse such
audiences as assemble in the Third Avenue,
SKIN and originality. The hot old time which
MS play represented was rude, but not "a whit
indecent in word or action. 1t was full OF
song and dance speCialties, but nearly all the
matter was OF the authors own d~,yising. and
~ demonstrated a jovial value. Tho base OF
The iuns supply was ar Irish servant, who was
deflly doubled in imitation by an unwe!c0me
VISITOR, and between them they kept q family
In u high state Of activity throughout the piece.
Yesterdays new border melodrama at the
Peoples was named Tho Indian" and was in
large degree a arrangement of tried material,
though put together with sufficient skill to
please Bowcry audiences. New treatment OF
the American Indian in his transference TO the
stage was not afforded. nor was the real artI.
Gle employed In any way. Two disdainful
chiefs were picturesquely countcrfeitcd, and n
half dozen Of their followers were closer copios
than were an equal number OF supernumeraries
who posed as regular soldiers, One of the
chiefs was played by b. 5. ,lipman, tho plays
most conspicuous actor, and his other role. ior
no had two, found him rs an educated Indian.
an officer IN the army, and a brother OF The chief
a change from one character 10 the other was
necessitat.d in each of tho plays four nrts snd
!here was no confusion from these shifts,
though a meeting OF he TWO brothers impended
f fsc, Cds by %0 the 4}al fn Of The tie sy]SidSnes Of lt-st;
means logical. In tho story. loves and hatrojI
saw their beginning a. the home OF an army OH,
Ger ~ Manhihgtoni "; T., and were then trans
dian reservation. There the Indians ver,, m
tho verge OF outbreak, though al, who we're
danger came from a Washington Importation.
q white. '
On his schcmer fell the brunt of the ri, ava
seriousness, A. the Ogallalas were chieny "3u %
cerned In impressive r~ecitals OF their wT,ni.s
Put though, lacking in some Of the inmtarnstt1y;
comic passages a-plenty. A comic CoTn"rai
with II companion. did a speciality that held he
stage q half hour, fun from bashfui lovcmakins
MAS aounoant. and q negro servant contributed
MS share OF comicality. Some of this Iight mat.
Yer was Wisely put around. rather than beside,
dighihed chicf was for the first iime " ~ me nc
stowly into view with folded arms and hcaa nm
ths nsgro was cutting his most comic capers.
~ nanked by fun, but the watchers in The cal.
cry were not trusted with long irnings II If
6%reakinmsS e out 'f i9 war; MeT %hS several Ft ttMos near to
Cheyenncs, who arc to participate IN nmaNpp
ATHssek's play at this house. viewed hThe Indian"
ages were in view, but they smiled M "f Ia SAY
RroS antics, and laughed heartily when n NynnI-
Y fblh1nsI1sh pnshei his revolver against tho
1L 1s ! tombstone with having arranged Ills