The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-01-06

play was put in type. In 1897. and a small edi.
ton Of numbered. copies was printed. Two Of
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what Is a copyright worth T.
Estelle Clayton's newest stage guisc is that
Of a vivihcd statue Of Venus visiting and WOO
ing a barber whose name is Leapdor and whose
accent Is %cockncy. At one point in the farce she
reclines in his chair in tho attitude men take
when being shaved and tells him how he may
explain her presence to IN expected visitor.
Tell him." says Miss Clayton, THAT I am
Leander. beloved Of Aphrodite." This twisting
Of the line is notnoted at the Pleasure Palace.
1t brought not a solitary laugh yesterday. But
IL continuous-show audiences are not strong In
mythology they are up in ~farcical antics, and
this piece has their Endorsement. In 1t. besides
the barber and the quickened statue, there are
q dotective, a tipsy and suffering customer,
statue. all three characters played by one
man. Penus ia modcstly drapcd. and little fun
is made from the persistency of her wooing.
Her highest bids for laughter are made while
the tipsy customer Is undcr the BARRIERS hands.
She will not leave the room. but Is sufficiently
moved by Lednder's cntreaties to sock dis
guise. SO she knocks from its perch n wooden
head that displays, an artistic wig. rests her
elbow on. that porch. raises her right hand In
the drunken man is lathcred. Moved by fatigue
to shift her pose her motions are viewed by the
customer from n mirror, and the whole gamut
Of business" possible when one man has
another lathered and half shaved is gone
through, even to several complete snuffings or
the customer In a towel. Miss Clayton has in
George Walton an exceedingly industrious and
long-sufforing assistant. He puts to use
q full stock of expedients for express
Ing comical. distress. AT a.. glance from
VenMs he takes to trembling. and at a sweeping
gesture Of her arm he falls backward to the
floor. Twice he throws himself into a chair side.
ways. laying his head upon the chair back and
drawing his feet off the floor. an attitude that
grief comic. His devices, too. for making the
proscenium arch q partner OF his efforts arc
many. During half of the first. third OF tho
sketch he clings to the arch as IL 1t were n. pro-
lection, and when he has done with trembling
over 1t goes to the opposite side of the stage
and holds out for n time at extreme stage left.
Even the burglar bangs him about, and alto
gethcr his visits to tho floor arc so many that he
Is q very dusty LedRder when the sketch is fin
ished. A song for Miss Clayton and n dance for
the barber are easily placed in this NEUROLOGICAL
study. which closes with a curse of Jove ond q
deal Of lightning and thunder.