The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-10
OF THE THEATRE.
THINGS REALLY WORTH READING
OF SOME OF OUR ACTORS.
Devices OF Exploitation by Lillian Russell ana
Anua Heid-Piayers Making speeches
''Mnrthnr by the Castle Square Company
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Lillian Russell's newest Indictment of public
interest Is q trap drawn by four spirited horses.
She handles the reins herself, her driving toilet
is fino, her groom Is in lively livery, and as this
e~quipago dashes through the Back Bay streets
OF Boston 1t gets moro attention than n circus
parade could command.
1t Is indeed a cold day when Anna Held gets
left out OF exploitation. Her private car was
showed in at Providence, and IL Is surmised
that shovels helped the wind heap up in the
night q drift from which she had to be dug
next day just in time for a matinee.
Drama and vaudeville are getting along
amicably together on some stages, and not al.
ways through the use Of short plays In associa-
tion with greater quantities of variety. A now
stock company at tho Park, Philadelphia, Is
giving East Lynne" this week. with Wilton
Lackaye, Mckee Rankin, Rose Eytinge, Nance
ONeil, and Courtney Barnes in the cast, and
with specialists doing turns between the acts.
Tho tragic drama of Carmen" as presented
in the West with "the emotional actress, Miss
Wallack," in the title role, contains an elabo-
rate dance in the style Of Carmencita, but with
distinct departures into serpentine and .ouchee-
couchee. by that same emotional actress.
1t turns out that Henry Guy Carleton did not
let himself down in writing a play for James ].
Corbett, but pulled the pugilist up. 'The Ad-
venturer.' as described in Western cities,
where Corbett is acting in II, is q polite comedy.
with no prize fighting and no rowdy element.
1t is said that Corbett aspires to become "a
quite legitimate actor.
The good humor Of New York and the resent
fulness of San Francisco arc in contrast. VII
liam II. Crane once talked facetiously into o
photograph, after having played an engage
ment in the Western city. and cracked careless
jokes about 1t. His remarks got into print.
and upon his next visit to the Pacific coast the
popular comedian had to explain before he was
forgiven. Helena Modjeska. after her last en-
yagement here, declared positively. and for pub
atricals, that neither our critics nor our audi.
ences, appreciated Shakespeare, and that she
s TS1 is at Het tSe' F RStSf A aSs ISe as an sFa ehe critics nHs n Snd
the audiences are as kindly as ever to the great
artist.
clyde Fitch and Bernard SHAY are in rivalry
in Chicago with dramas. which end in hang:
mans noosos. Mr., Fitch's is Nathan Hale
while Mr.. shaw's is, THE. Devils DISCIPLE
with Richard Mansfield. It 1. periodically
ton is far worthier as literature than the Eng
lishman's absurd achievement, which owes its
'u eSarIe se To skltSge iaSbed 70 ! Mi +. H aiImosE7s head
with a sword in a Boston performance of Tho
Prisoner of Zenda." and the play was short
shed before n greatly excited audience. But
the next mornings journals quieted the breath.
wound was the merest scratch.
nn EdsSf L. ba pIISySen apsIlsd is .l m s9SmI games OF a
Herne preached what he described as lay SER
mons in two Chicago churches, and devoted
tax theories. Frederick Warde iectured in the
same city on Shakespearean plays and acting,
and Otis Skinner did the same thing in Wash
was an attack on music halls and o defence of
the legitimate stage.
One of the wise things in tho manage
ment of the Castle Square Opera Company is to
make up casts from singers who have not
been associated with previous ventures here
WIN Ensnsn OPERA han5 y ".enpto
have failed. largely on account OF the foreign
c.rman contested IN than Int French was
"efhhah eoh'ee'oo III .neni ou' ieh'" ""s
letting the singers use their native tongues vas
,o,..t;,,., to,,onroa "a .ho, a.. -. mo-. loo.
sohe'iihes oho"e Il Inc luo esui. was ie's
to identify the various accents-an effort which
Oh some occasions furnished considerable diver
sion. The Castle Square management took its
singers from operetta. No call was made on
that old guard which used to encamp every
year as regularly as the spring came at the cor
ner Of Eighth avenue and Twenty-third street.
There are certain names-it would be rude to
mention them-that might have wrecked even
the well-conducted fortunes OF the enterprise at
the American. The good effect Of this plan is
bCO - AhuSh III IL . vi Az
ances as in the size of the audiences. Doubt
less some OF that OLD group coulo sing q great
d f6s st pe1sef th unah b n thew FSSvh Soul GeT not 5a no" com ON
tne stage tnere, U tney Wouiu not nahc con
descended 10 take a real interest," IN the per
t tnIs OF notb nn'e wi ae'e tbin W. don eon .t IN
tous care. anotner Wise tnlnB zone AT tne
american is 10 supply the prod4Gtloh WIN
adequato scenery ana cQSnumes Inc ahciaen'
ti teatures OF ,ne mHuH2.InEs are nou enaporaIe'
but they are generaty iresh ana always appro'
priatG; M u an mntGh rs me opera nnIS WEE Th
i.a liz 70 u sHuu Iuaith,o 70 u ~ fou ut ~
work III popular enougn 10 EeI Iamiiiar accept
ahce from the euuicnces; dney Know ne ..T y oet Ia
thah any otner opera, unless ~ 90 me 30
hemlan ulri; III Is NOT from seeing IL so much
as hehrl s itS h must fTr..amTan.HhI S oye .nc har hh nc I, y.
as ~ mas not oeeh frequently even mere OF late
years. Grace Golaen sings The Las hose OF
S gunner 20 y, f6n aed n hSI n Llzaie MSG,
Elcnoi - u chup9S uno cnihicss .,nhGp, Wniie
4. =. knight, imam y; stewart anu Sharles
:; bnrreto are w 10 Inc CaStG square average.
Inc represehtauoh mas spirit ana vlvhclty'
with enough vocal merit 10 make IL popular.
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