The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-28
VIEWS OF STAGE AFFAIRS.
,,rrUoHT sCTRANO DB BEBGERlO"
H1LTREATED YlR10USLE.

-. Mara American I0AuO-E 0A - DEAUlA
yho NAV BE Boyootted By the French
authors, Society for Pooling with Ro-
.,.nd,s Work-A Boston Attack on IL.
The Dramatic Authcrs' Society Of France.
-, resolved 10 boycott AuRustin DAILY. Tor
~, mutilation OF ''Cyrano dc Bereerao." will
10 N punish Jack Gilmour IN the same way
~, means to be consistent Gilmour IL a Bos-
- offender. The Rostand play IL being per-
,o,med by him and other members OF q out
- stock company. The English translation
&c made BY Howard NJ. Tioknor. and he as
,orts that II was q complete and careful trans
=, ~ the piece. Admiring friends Of his who
h,va read It say that It IL also graceful In do
,,op and scholarly altoEether. But IL was
,nrrsd over to Gilmour. who wnn to enact the
hlr.nosed and biE-hearted hero. Now. Gil
mour ia enough OF an actor to possess q head
tor eopspicuousness in the very centre OF the
.t.1e no matter how much IL may crowd
otbers, He came to New York TO study the
Msns0eld performance. Then he returned TO
po.ton and took the Ticknor COPY In hand.
Ma offence against Rostand IL like Days, yet
di6erent Both eliminated and distorted the
matter. but DAILY did II to enlarge the heroine.
rbile Gllmour's purpose was to magnify the
hsro, In the former case little Is left Of Co.,
rano 10 enact. while In the latter Rordne IL boz
Titled. Gllmour cut down Christian and Rd-
o,sno. too, omitted q lot Of minor characters.
tslescoped the first 70 acts into one.and
raised hob generally, though always sparinE
SSs1S attempted to make, q one-part play for
. Mlss lob Tor himself. AZ Boston Is to have
t sRSstres, and later the Mansdeid representa-:
md some expense witness all that Rostand
put into the piece and considerably more.
Tim Cronin is making Pleasure Palace audi
enoes laugh at q new specially the nature Of
which. however. seems likely to make trouble
for arrangers OF programmes, for It bur
lesuues some OF the most distinct types Of
Continuous entertainers. The all-day show
manager himself gets . slap. for Mr.. Cronin's
nst copying is poked at the boys who place
the announcement cards. As the manage
permits this. perhaps the self-important per-
formers do not take offence at the caricAtures
that follow. The first card the specialist
brings out bears the name OF Anna Yield"
Then he disappears for Q moment and returns
dressed In the manner OF q French vocalist
Emphasis. vivaoity. and skirt fippinG are ex-
agEerated. BE next returns as the card boy.
announcing Dan Unno." His response Is o
lively ditty In cockney dialect. The next card
In the rack bears an u-npronounceable name.
and brings q take-off OF q facial imitator. Mr..
dsrs are held high. and his pose:is one of over
done mpressiveness. This chap says that he
g the first Of his kind. and that all others are
imitators. The Emperor OF China and Band
master Sousa are his subjects. The band
leaders, whiskers are pink and unkempt, and
liz T at short rts in fsrVa 81 TO 5n give H,a a eo RtIsss; sdfnZ
stroke toward the wings. whereupon an
unseen bass drummer responds with yieor-
while illustrations are shown ON q screen be-
hind them are another target for this bur-
lesquer. His screen Is Of the regulation sort.
lures are comical misfts. Last, with q change
Of scenery. comes the legitimate player who
speclalist donS a military uniform and. en-
tiers as il pursued.sIn plain sight is the dunn
my figure OF q woman seated. as though read
ing. After walking about the stage several
times. peering here and there fearfully., the
Mary. he says. Then. sttridinGE to the figure.
he strikes 1t over the head with a baseball bat.
The head is wooden; and the blow gives, out
exciaims. Hoofbeats. followed by. pounding
upon the door. rise to a stirring climax. and.
be is not there. and that they may not come in.
he knocks the top panel out of the door with
an axe. and a newsboy enters to sell an evening
paper.
The question of copyright as applied to titles
OF plays, lately discussed In THE Sun. reached
n decision by Judge Truax in the Supreme
Court yesterday. An Injunction was sought
against Frank Perley to stop him from using
'The Fortune Teller" for Herbert and Smiths
comic opera because an earlier copyrighted
piece bore the same name. Abraham II.
Hummel maintained for the defendant that,
as the two plays bore no other resemblance.
the prior title could not be held exclusively
undhF the rnumafanna I1H0A Hnr1rav a
fused to enjoin.
Katherine Grey writes to contradict a con-
tradiction. Charles CoRhlan denied that Miss
Grey had retired from his company because
his route lay chiefly through one-niRht towns.
Miss Grev now denies the truth OF Mr.. CoRh-
hns denial. He said she was Ill. She says
che is not.
Gerhart Hauptmann does not mean to lose,
q Edmond Rostand did with "Cyrano de Ber-
Herae." the American control of his latest
drama, "Hentschel. the Liveryman." He will
publish 1t under the international copyright
law simultaneously here n in Germany.
Alfred E. Aarons, manager Of Roster 4 Bial's
music hall, writes to gainsay the assertion that
negrolsm is on the wane In vaudeville. THE
craze for negro songs and Dances" he says,
has not even reached its zenith. I realize
mat there is a decided demand for negro acts.
IfNhS 40 tuOy pEONc dcC6pIhDl0 10 audi
s t shall endeayor to supply them. In
mus age no man can afford to attack race, creed
OF religion. Some ask MANAGERS to stamp the
negro out OF the profession. / do not wish to
pose az a champion OF the eolored race. but |
40 believe in giving the negro q chance to
Earn an honest living II he can do SO by enter
line older Dumas seems to be the most pop
uiar dramatist in England just now. Two
versions OF The Three Guardsmen" are to be
sGted simultaneously. and now one of his old
pieces called lie Tulipe Noir" is to be done as
Convenience" and 'The Silver Key" are re :.
Henry v" will be the next OF Shake
APbates plays acted by George Alexander.
remarkably faithful imitation Is given by one
y me new vaudeville pair OF Caron and Her
DeIt. now at the Pleasure Palace. The firm
nsme VIII be recalled as that ora chalk faced
sIoTh and a tumbler whose face was not
uhaae up. Both were fine acrobata, aud the
T." was an exceptionally comic pantomim-
ny mt, Lhat was Caron, and he died several
tmGn.hs ago. His shafe of the specially was
..aken by Herbert. whose former part was as
SEned to a new man. The clown OF the
palr now does the most difficult somer-
sS Sat.s put In other respects the act ls I'M
fShISIEee q, As white paint covers his face and
feStfnreosu outlines lips, n%ostrlls and eyebrows. his
S sS'u mfs are totally, disguised. and he would
NJ mistaken for Caron. In poses. gestures
anu antics during fifteen minutes OF violent
eeoInesIse, 100. the counterfeit OF his former