The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-22

BY some horseplay, and 81 tlmes the AFFAIR was
The wieldefs Of this material were continuously
active. M A. Kennedy was in his usual Ruiso.
tbouEh not . mI,SchSyIng husband and only :
Beach and Edwin Holland were the brothers and
plays Incidents occurred on the ssmo day and
TOOK place In the same room. As a preface TO
and the CSernb'a a nUdi. Anna i HsIa's s 81 i n.
Guiding the Animated Music Sheet" was the
concluding item.
Columbia University students played . bur
lcsque at the Carnegie Lyceum last night.
They do that every winter. and in o
manner TO lift the performance in merit
and interest rather above, the average Of
amateur achievement. This piece this year
was called Elm Vanity Fair" The book was
by Arthur Augustus Powers. and the excel
lent music by Donald MacGregor. Tho piece
antics and dances. A distinctly fashions.
bile, audience, witnessed the performance,
i thing T done wal val. a sP ssstss Sar SS at. i; c5 TaS G sss
so%psn but 81 sffifHfi iREi a. &C. Tir and t ITstis sonr By sn a
BY George Lang and q. II. Machen In q
t SSy TO - get s,rS SSse.rsd applause; A third
by. Mr.. Mschen, who did It with surprising
agiiity and grace: Others In the cast with
Pegrnm, Kiraify. wenman, Mitchell, Buchhoiz,
and II. b. Machon.
Fresh recruits TO vaudeville wcro conspicu.
Gus yesterday afternoon when they made their
debuts in three Of the theatres where "continu-
GUS" entertainments are given. Cora Tanner
made the plunge from ''the legitimate at the
Pleasure Palace, and her principal comrade In
the feat was Louis F. Massen. They made
use Of Sir Charles Young's familiar short play,
"Drifted Apart" and played its hero and hero
inc excellently. Miss Tanner possesses an ad-
vantage Of authoritative personal beauty with
which to m the attention of q miscel-
laneous audience. and she is q clever artist DO.
sides. SO she found no difficulty in enforcing the
sentiment Of tho piece upon. an assemblage
accustomed to more violent forms of stage d.
version. She was we'll helped by Mr.. Massen
for The hEss time 81 PSstorSs; She had . new
II. Conan. It began with a Woman rssadiDgs a
letter in which she was informed that a large
fortune was ieit to her on condition that she
want to do that. because 1t forbade her going
upon the stage. So she turned to a dummy fig
hcarsing parts. mauied and stabbed It vicious.
ly, talking violently the while, and threw
a. " Similar G1si y0m mnsncf eha tho she man Toq pes.r .TsSt 10, On
her in the will II he came a-wooinR. A man
who had seen the climax of her violence she
~ ~ tAo A'tSN hAtoA ulitA tiNk JIG az
tSat had Sp gone e' befo %s.' sSSe! !Se as a at Sim as ton sn0i ia
escaped being thrown out bodily, and presented
trying to deliver; no thought. to a crazy per.
son. The second letter announced that the
man named in the will had renounced:all.claim
to the beauest, 80 marriage, was not necessary
Charles n. Seay as an assistant, and both were
pleasing beginners.
Two Of the black.lettered items In the bill at
Keith's yesterday were new. Both were farccs,
the first one falling to Isabelle Urquhart and
two companions. who were the ~playlet's au.
thors. The second brought forward Milton and
Dolly Mobiles. A baby carriage was conspicu-
GUS in the outfit disclosed in the first, and be.
fore long it developed that the occupant Of the
carriage was not a live child. but a dummy in
long clothes. When handled by the two mon
1t had the same treatment that. freight movers
give to potato sacks, andseven when tho woman
held it the fact could not:be forgotten that the
infant was counterfeit. This seemed like q de-
fcct for a time; but later was shown to be q
wholly excusable device, for then it was seen
that TO stick to realism four white infants and
infants were not more abundant than improb-
but laughs were more plentiful than
e @epe two an Momsn 1h lof t hee s 10 nSm naef bas sf es.
either man to tell one white baby from another.
ohA tlo nv hio v thS SoAAl " = MA
and atpp place ' him in nth the ,f baby Ss@ ca iq Sssp ffss,s the he
mother found a live bundle at a time when she
believed her child was lost, so picked doggie
and handled him without discovering that
he was n puppy who was much opposed to such
The sketch for the Mobiles was highly anus
ing till the end. where Its moral went decidedly
wearing home another chaps coat, its pockets
loaded with all sorts Of evidence to d~ispltase q
of chamDaQne hotties. cards letfarR and
tho like. With these in array the wife aban-
dOned the room to the husband and on discover
misbehavior. In the end the two were
reconciled. but Il was after more pen:tence on
Mobiles acknowledges that the source of his
sketch. which he calls why Walker Re
is an old-time farce.
A new play of Carmen" announced as hav.
Ing been derived by Michael Morton directly
from the original French novel. was IN the pro-
yramme at Proctor's for the first time yesterday
1t had been written to let Minnie
5eligman enact the Spanish vixen and wanton
briefly but wildly in a vaudeville theatre. 1t
lid not fail to achieve that object. Mr.. Nor
ton had evidently striven to cordense as much
Is possible Of the story into less than half an
ss o'1rm and t to GIVE in,sI nearly all the Sb m1 Sing, to Miss Miss
was outside the bull ring in which her befooled
md devoted lover, fought. She had just
otuDuOu Z iiNuiy anu hCI uIICb
was shown. as well as her escape. She mar
with fluent assiduity the earlier episodes
of the tale that we have had In opera and melo- |
drama; This way of giving them TO the audi;
snce did not mako a deep impression. General
WAS not riveted on the stage, and there
some disposition TO receive the accounts
ter of tho coquette by her cxasperated dupe
the assemblage gave close heed to the action
and was thrilled by It. The piece had six speak
ing characters and twice as many: silent fg-
ures; but entire dominance was given to the
whom, as played by Albert Grau. the people
and the acting barely SO, always ex-
that which was done by Miss Selig-
man. She made Carmen handsome. pictur. |
esque, vigorous. and c~arnally passionate, not
different in manner from the ono
Calve presents in the opera, and bearing
the comparison without damage to Miss selig.
mans professional reputation. To measure 1t
by another recently familiar standard. 1t may
be said that it was at once less mental, and less
bestial than the woman portrayed by Miss
Nethersole. There was nothing In 1t SO subtle
as some of the Nethersole moods. and nothing
30 gross as the Nethersole kisses.