The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-30
PLAYERS NEWLY ON VIEW.


1NSANN - AAeN1a aNAAAAAN
Ace Rehsn In "The Taniug Of the shrew,"
and Lotue coilins In Songs ana Dances.
Three women and q man came upon our stage
last night with brand new efforts to entertain us.
These players were as different from one an
other as Alexandra viardi. Lottic Collins, An
drew Mack, and May Buckley. The liveliest
was Miss Collins, because she danced demon
stratively along with her songs. There was an
appreciable amount Of dramatic art in what she
did at the Garden Theatre during the separate
half hour that had been allotted to her in the
bill, and for that reason she was ratable
at q higher grade than most Of the
character balladists. sho began in the
white costume of a girl who had been
to Paris, and learned things there that had not
been taught in her English school. Next, in q
pink toilet, she was q young wife who had been
TO o supper with q man not her husband and
had caught him at tho same kind of q
spree with q woman not his wife. Third
ly. she was q widow, all in mournful
black, except that her petticoats were as red az
the devil that lurked under her demure man.
ner. Miss Collins kicked out and up to point
her meanings piquantly, and she was wickedly
suggestive all the while; but It was all so neatly
graphic. so free of RIGHTEOUSNESS in word or &C
tion, that 1t could hardly have given offence to
anybody.
May Buckley, who had recommended herself
strongly to New York audiences as the slave
girl in The First Born and who enacted that
part again in the Chinese drama at the Garden.
figured also in the performance of Indian Sum-
nier." This play In one act was an English
version by Benjamin F. Roeder of the French
piece. IL Etc de st. Martin" the original work
of Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy. In 1t
Miss Buckley was the bride of q young fellow
whose old uncle had disapproved the match
before seeing her, and who, upon encountering
her without knowing who she was, liked
her 90 much that he wanted to marry her him
self. This subject had been treated seriously by
the authors with o view to pathetic sentiment
in the case of the aged wooer. and 1t was per-
b tSaelie ~ an adG her sr% asr se't eom xsrs mlsf IN thy by c @iSs
Mr.. 0sbSuEne, Mr.. Tolsnd. and Miss Meek.
She had a hearty welcome 81 DAYS however.
pers nation OF Shnkespeare's lovely termagant
old ones were present In a state OF excellent
BY many as the best in the extensive range OF
this accomplished actresses repertory. Tho repe-
hans III iii health Hia's was sAq plainly sRI,Ho Visible M in her her
face and figure, and at times her strength
seemed barely sufficient to carry her through
triumphsd oyer The difieqltiss George Clarke
Iramio. while Jefferson Winter and Wilfred
Clarke were other recruits to the DAILY COM
pany.
Alexandra yiarda, o Polish actress, who 10
baid TO have played in several foreign cities. ap-
peared last night for the first time at the Fifth
Avenue Theatre. There was talk in the Hobbies
10 the effect that she had been seen before
in New York, and at q playhouse SO remote
from general attention as one of the Yiddish
theatres downtown. But that was not verified,
and she came before metropolitan attention for
tho hrst time when she acted tho heroine
Of Richard Vosst gloomy drama " Alexandra"
Tho boxes Of the Fifth Avenue were decorated
with the colors Of Austria, Germany and Rus
ala But there were some faces over the ban
ners which plainly belonged to persons not con-
aected with the local representatives Of those
foreign powers. The disposition of the audi
ence was friendly. and at the close Of the
second act An exceptionally lavish floral offer
ing" was handed over the footliRhts. There
was, moreover, occasional applause Of an I'M
trained applause which made mistakes With
gather oxasporatinR- regularity and expended
Itself on some very subordinate figures In the
Mime. viarda did not make 1t clear that the
frontiefo OF her own country are too narrow
With a Polish accent, and last night varied rarely
itanp was unfsvorable to her success. fhe actors
associated with her delivered. their speeches in
ukltb II OSu " uOpClOooly luCOukTuOub
and inartistic. In her acting there were oeca.
pional evidences of q dramatic temperament. But
1ase. there was never the slightest evidence.
AND how can an actress. without the possession
Sac them; p Sf entitled as that to S OF New tho Y o%ssep'! Sm Of
burg In Vienna. Can that be possiblei She was
thore was no single evidence behind the unfa.
gorablo situations of her first appearance to
Indicate that she could have won eminence any
where, at least In any place where tho actors
art was, Judged by the usual standards.
overwReimed a great actress sspe It is a Sentimen.
tai story of German life which might have come
touch ed M Pase a p pr a I at Of realism Gsfnf IN the Tst pr 1s aGs
fation OF a woman who determined to avenGe
herself on the man who has ruined and desert;
cd her makes him fall in love with her q second
time, 1t is a play Of unmitigated dreariness.
and the very words Of the English translation
Tho piece was we'll enough acted In most par
~ticulars. Max Apple used to be seen here In tho
played in English with German information. and
was compelled. in the scenes with Nine. Viarda,
German after having said them in English.
The .prompter, as well. aided the actress often,
and In spite OF SO much assistance. she was fire.
puently uncertain. Under the circumstances
Mr., Apple. who used to be Herr Eisfeld at tho
irving Place Theatre, did about as we'll as could
DO expected. Jennie Reifarth was another
credit.
1t was az an actor, rather than as . vo-
balist. that Andrew Mack was most suo-
eessful at the Fourteenth Street last night.
Yet there were recalls for each of his
numerous songs. quito as many as q
Aero with a tenor voice could reasonably
expect. SO altogether 1t was q noisy evening.
Tho play. IAN Irish Gentleman" was by Ram
cay Morris, and in three acts. 1t had few of the
conventional features OF Irish melodramas. 1t
provided several pretty love passages for its
hero and heroine and 1t supplied tho hero with
witty and sharp retorts galore. What more
any Irish play should do for o hero who
san sing was not apparent last night. 1t
mattered very little that 30 old an acquaint.
tnoe as the foreclosure of a mortgage was to
mako the morrow disastrous. or that the
hero had gotten himself into . most astonishing
p~redioament at the time tho play began. He
Was . hero. with q tenor voice. which posses.
Eon--to his audience-gave to him quite the
prestige that, in Mr.. Borin's opinion, a wooden
lsg gave To a literary man. But comparison with
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