The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-03-08
INDIVIDUAL PERFORMERS.
-,r AMERICAN DEBUT OF CHIRG-
aJy the WHITE ErED hAFFIR.

cSt.ouin. England's music hall celebrity. was
s.,ious figure MS he stepped before his first
.-.,icon audience last night at Roster Il Bials.
aH".mc in playing a shriekinR bagpipes, his
-. concealed in n long white satin coat,
"a hs blnckcncd face topped by q st6
70 s0tin hat that was two feet high. This
=. ,inned down over his right eye, concealinE
W.. Trademarks, which later was disclosed as q
m.u,ord shaped white patch about his eye. His
O".niDe words were a declaration that he was
az nioper. but that as a white-eyed cocknoy
,.,,.,ion he would try to win Uncle Sam. He
-, sure Of himself as though he had earned
A,Ih.rol opplause that had already been be-
uVI.a rnop him. A song called The Girl
,.0,,.irs' was his first vocal Offering, and 1t
!. M more interesting in words or rendition
A.. the tlrst.ofthreo OF our own sec
'.a,o,o bnlladists. Tho voice wal high
sn,h.d and fairly sweet, but distinctly
~, Later he proved himself what
:" .t.r called a double voiced" vocalist,
.Srinc To A well.sustained falsetto that was
80 hslnful to him than the other. In these
.s,l notes he rendered a pathetic ditty about q
MIA how. accompanying himself on tho violon-
s.no sill later he sung to his fiddle as though
w., Instrument was his sweetheart, playing
.,or 4, and changing from one register to the
ether.
A., on. he removed his long coat, and was
s,..,os,d in feshings that woro black In front
.,.v Int white from the waist down In back.
IN this rig he added a short skirt and
Jacket OF contrasting ~tartans, and then
.p,urted A diversion that no observer could
son,ider less singular than his get-up. Seated,
:" STiipped a tin tray between his knees. and
Sr,sped two entertainments clay pipes by their
Ions stems. Rattling their bowls upon the
,Ss bovls copy some Of the movements of
seloedancer's feet. and, having his way In
ths matter, followed this with a Scotch dance,
tSonsht this item WAS the equal OF his others,
Snt IL was nursery diversion. IL 1t could
fairly be called diversion in any sense. Two
sSmpnortations. II lave eight children said
h: -four girls. two boys. and two othore."
Then to prove cycling to be an ancient sport. hc
M that ever since the world began o maid
would sigh before she married, and cling there
Mar. The answer 10 this Is cycling" and he
repeated 1t 30 that 1t might not escape any one;
fSS noise at the end OF his inning, blended
handbags and shouts Of approval and derision.
Garrett P. Serviss took possession ofssthe
stage at the Lyceum Theatre yesterday for tho
mornings in Lent. Mr.. Serviss is . lecturer.
OF more consequence to his present enterprise
IA the fact that he is also an entertainer. TIT
behavior of his audience indicated that he
would take the place from which John L. Stod-
drd has retired as q fashionable Lenten in
s~tructor. The subject about which he talked
and showed pictures was Spain. A succession
Of enlarged photographs Of places and people
was shown while Mr.. Serviss spoke ~explann-
tnrially. The range of information extended
,kstchily through the conquest Of the country
BY the Moors and their expulsion by the Span
IL, ln,rr o. fha hItll Hob Inn nfrnRittao nf tho
present day, but with most Of the attention paid
10 the architectural marvels Of mosques,
churches and palaces. The lecturer was fluent,
scholarly, unassuming and eloquent, Indeed,
NJ. Seryiss possesses the same agreeable talent
which made Mr.. Stoddard q ~favorite.
Beatrice Herford gave monologues at the
Waldorf Astoria yesterday morning. A clever
" humorous mimic is Miss HEREFORD. Her ma
taal consists OF sketches which she has writ
Ten and in ,1swSahissihh she assume sc distinctly, Though sSa,
scters who hold conversations with imaginary
persons. A Yankee gossiper and a summer
hotellOunger were happy efforts in the pro-
were Marshall Darrach, who read and eluci-
dated Twelfth Night" at the Waldorf-Astoria,
historical lecture at Wallack's. The Passion
Play, as shown in moving photographs, seemed
10 take a timely hold upon the audiences at the
Eden Music.
Louise Thorndyke B%oucicault and Max Fig
man made their first vaudeville appearance
At Proctor's Theatre yesterday afternoon.
They used for their purpose Mrs. Hilary Re-
grets, an English comedy, previously acted in
this country by John Drew and Maude Adams
nacharity matinee. Its two characters are an
Irish physician and a modish widow. Tho
mans attentions change from professional to
sentimental, but they require encouragement
BY the woman before they eliminate in an
aVowal Of love. The piece is entirely conven-
tional, but very neat, and more subtle than the
matter commonly offered in the continuous"
entertainments. Mrs. Boucicault and Mr.. Fig
man are adopts in light comedy, and they did
not lower or broaden their methods. They re.
manned entirely legitimate. So some of their
points were too fine for the gallery portions of
inc audience, but were not lost on the parQuet.
Two OF our actors shone out last night for the
nlst time as stars, though neither disclosed q
new play, Walter Jones made his effort at the
NE earlier Casino reviews. He had a friendly
aha demonstrative audience. to which his
RsirSrnance must have been familiar, as he
s99 Of the piece in town. lie was as funny as
Deiore, and not because he awaited himself of a
sars privilege TO make himself somewhat dis
pr0portlonately conspicuous, but because he Is
MMays a dToll and ingenious comedian Of the in
a!ydqally eccentric type. Jeanette Bageard
.na Lee Harrison were Mr.. Jones's chief assis-
Elta Proctor Otis was the other well.regard-
~ payer to divulgo herself as a star. and she,
W Gu IL IN q role not new to her. She ap-
Reaied at the Grand Opera House as the un-
RRitOtSaaate Nancy Skies in the stage version Of
IckeGs,s oliver Twist" When 1t is said
,nat yigor is a dominant merit in Miss Otis's
S1 ot no aspersion is cast upon her artistic
norlh. Quite TO the contrary. She is an ex.
pSSqnfht OF entirely sound dramatic art. But her
,n . are suitable to very definite charac-
SeStLalioh. She enacted Nancy with a potency
Mnnieh the Grand's audience didn't and proba-
Wy couldn't resist. The episode of the murder
W. RED with realism. Hardly ever had Nancy
Nc = dragged, mauled, choked, and bumped
fbaao Sisadtully, or made to shed more blood.
~ blH SkeS was Charles Barron, whose
sc S"e OF voice and arm was welded in un old.
An actress in.yaudeville with two new plays
successive weeks is in contrast with the I'M
uHAnglhg sketches OF some variety folk, so Lii
- nuiHhart stands out from the other con.
a'ouors at keith's, Last Monday she played
sUae'act piece there for the first time, and yes
qua she tried another. "A Passing Fancy"
uiahl stewart. Its characters were two
""o" and an army Lieutenant. The man
: engaged to marry another woman, but had
~eOme ehanorcd OF the widow and was de-
a., .'HV 70 propose marriage to her. She at
was disposed to enjoy teasing him, but it
a showh that she was beginning to love him.
Of Sas JGgriurcR a letter from m intimate friend
and e.i'H"od told Of disappointed affections
lstroa nT"kcn engagement, the sweetheart
Ialyb, ~ VINO" To offend her sutton, that he
J-SHt Se restored To the other ,Uonan liz