The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-01-15
CONCERNS OF THE STAGE.
.oyE TIVE ONE" NEW HERE IN
yuE ORIGINAL GERMAN.

:, A, o,,hV, Herren Blumenthal. Ksdelburg,
Won schonthan should cease to write,
"",,a the theatres In Germany necessarily be
$3.50 three nights out OF every severn These
s".,d,smstists provide an analogous propor-
.o, AZ the plays that oome to this country from
n..n.nv and interested observers who study the
o.,r,n Courier or the Neue Frets Presse will DO
IN. m discover that these dramatists are rep
r...n,ed with the same degree Of Extravaganza
!. ,h.Ir oyn country. They have ~sent-singly and
a. elaboration "a number of amusing farces to
mi. country. SO the unaidcd effort of DR.. Oscar
ulumenthal performed last night at the Irving
plsce Theatre may deserve some cordiality In
v,,v Of what the author has done In the past.
NAT zone Times One" Is . lamentably feeble
.sort Judged on its own merits. DIR. Blumen-
thai las tried to squeeze tho orange once too
,nen. 1t 10 dry, and 1t refuses to respond to the
.reouent applications for fresh Juice.
So his comedy with three acts. to present It's
situation. bored the audience in spite Of It's
clever Interpretation By Mr.. Conried's actors.
Like all bad plays, It threw into prominence the
Sorst qualities OF the company. Herr Link, for
instance, never before seemed more Of an ex-
irAneou. bufIoon than he did last niRht. But
the actors capable of intsrest'ng work rose
above the situation. Fraulein Bragg. as q young
wife. and Hubert Reusch, as her husband. were
artistic and entertaining. In spite OF DIR. Blumen-
!lsl; B ~ ,b sse n,s could nlsr no, m alone Tsii Sv the
sud the indulgent German audience refused to
kugh. such a result requires grave compulsion.
an artist aud her efforts to marry on s~atisfac-
torily her two daughters. The Interruptions to
her scheme Keep, the Play moving through three
crawling along and not stopping suddenly. as
1t might have at any minute. II lasted as long
~ the programme promised. So did 1he au-
diencs which was more surprising In its way
William schmitt. or Stafford. as he was
known OH the stage. appeared here last at the
Fourteenth Street In n melodrama called THE
Pace That Kills." and for many seasons pre-
cedlng his death In ST. Louis on Monday ho
had acted In plays OF this description. But at
the outset OF mis- career q very different style
ot drama was his ambition. lie was one OF
the few men who fell victims to that infatua-
ton for the stage which was rampant in Ken.
lucky 10. several years after Mary Anderson
made her unpre:edentedly successful debut as
an actress. Plenty of women were sacrificed to
the mania. but the men were few. MIR.
schmitt was born In Louisville thirty-seven
year, ago, and his father was n German high
ly respected In business. He had unbounded
faith IL. his sons talents. and. being wealthy,
gave 10 him every aid To success that prepara-
non and intr oduction could supply. Young
Mr.. SChmitt WAS not fitted physically for the
heroic rol - which IL was his ambition to play.
lie stuffed and practised in the East and In
m.. - NJ, n saasG appe .runve. 10
WAS intl listed tho first steus toward tho devei,
osinsht, OF the aspirahts ~ that region. MIR.
Stafford acted In his own home at Macauley's
I ..stre IN 1878 for tho first time. Then he
l.~yed R"me' 10 the Julist Of Helen Tracey.
go" one o, TIE stages best old women" He
y "r continued eHorts during the .ollow Inc
.'ar~ To gain "A place on the stage as an actor
~ NhHke>DeaTean parts. but he was qualified
b. oJ errntstness and intelligence ana not by
1T taieut or physical beauty. One of his ap-
uaht.s here was made NJ the Windsor.
a Arta Boyle; not Anna Boyd. her
'"i,"r' tran she ever xnined. These two young
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