The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-12-15
PROVIDENCE OPERA HOUSE.


Mile. BerOt ..................Ett Eta Morris
Pompon .................E NJ. Holland
Girard .................. Fritz Williams
plDdulet s...-..'.......s ...'' hilS ''"P'
lSeaucasse ..............J ..JaiheS haaahey
Seaulois ................... jay wilson
Bouquet ............ ........ sam Reed
Jean .................. Frederick hayes
Francois ................ Tony Eddinser
Gendarme ........... Theodore Earl
MAKE Way for the Ladies'" Mr..
Charles Frohman's very newest oner-
ing in the farce line, hot off the griddie'
as it were, is play TO make you laugh
til the tears run.
1T opened three-nights and matinee
engagement at the Providence Opera
House last evening.
Its theme is a broad satire on wom-
ems rights as exemplified by the en-
trance of woman into the professions.
Somehow man has long ago consent
ed that woman should be a typewriter
or an assistant book keeper hut he is
still inclined To look aslIance at the
woman lawyer and 20 have suspicious
OF the woman doctor.
Make Way for the Ladies" makes
way for them with "A vengeance, the Ia
dies who want 70 be like men I'm respect
Ia their Independence quite as much as
N the choice of an occupation
The satire IL so broadly farcicial. how
ever. that the most strenuous womans
Fighter can find nothing 10 offend In IL
but only a laugh.
II is "A caricature without malice.
burlesque so extreme as TO admit OF no
quarrel with 1T. 1t is bright and clever
enough To atone for a good many sins
OF bad taste did il commit the sins,
which il doesn't.
A woman who is become lawyer
has brought up her three daughters To
be independent Of man. and 20 seek
careers instead of men. Two of the
daughters prove traCtablc. one seeks
art and the other medicine. The third
falls in love and marries the man Of her
choice without resistance. with tae
artist another man falls I'm love and
they are married. the man having
wealth. promising 10 obey his mother
in-law and being examined by the med
ical sister to see If he Is reasonably
durable" as the artist does not want
to be left a widow at an early age. The
doctor meantime Is herself struggling
against the suit of an admirer and ara
ing to justify her mothers hopes ot an
Independent career in the field of med
iCine.
y
wife has brought up her husband 10
live alone and attend To the details Of
housekeeping. In which latter pursuit
he finds congenial and womanly COM
panionship I'm the society of a laundry
nlaid-nf- -iAhNslc-ll- l-attEactlxeness and
poetic inclnatians.
Denied affection in his home. the hus-
band of the antist daughter begins
Irritation with a countess adventures.
he nf ma ~ llnhDnDinnGg
and of the struggle OF the TWO daugh-
| ters against the dictates OF their hearts
| results in tumbling down Of the whole
| fabric that the lawyer-mother has built
| up and a conclusion satisfactory 10 all
concerned through Remuneration of
| what is represented to be false and inn
| possible ideas of womans sphere
| The players that present this lively
| and unusual farce are among the best
| eNponents OF Mr. Frohman's large
| corps of comedians The program
| makes way for the ladies by presenting
| the cast OF Fades first on the program
| but that veteran actor. Mr.. T.. NJ. Hol-
| land. and that genius of light comedy.
/ Mr. Fritz Williams, with that other
! genius IN extraordinary parts. Miss
MAY Robson. really head the company
Mr. Holland is capital as the husband
| OF the woman lawyer whose abandon
ment To household duties leads him TO
take up with the pretty and poetic
aunirymaid.
Mr. Williams as the husband of the
artist madly in love and desperate at
the seemingly impossible attempt Ia
win the affection of his spouse away
from her career. is as always sponta-
neous, vigorous and inexpressibly fun
ny.
Mss Robson commands laugh
from every entrance To every exit. She
is delicious.
The balance of the ladies' of the cast
contribute their share to- the general
mirth and they are all worth looking
at because OF physical attractiveness.
Mr.. Eric Hope. who off the stage is
the Earl Of Yarmouth, has part
among the men second only To Mr..
Williams and Mr.. Holland. He gives "A
capital performance. He is an attrac-
tive young actor and has theindefinable
but necessary quality of magnetism. He
il tall. lean. pale of face and of easy
presence. He is extreme as 10 clothes
and restrained as 10 speech and panto-
mime
This comical and capitally presented
farce lis conspicuous for one thing more
That is the scene which sets two of the
four acts. 1t is a studio and Is remarkA
Bile for the painted pictures that adorn
the walls. In stage interiors where "A
room * iulnlSneu WIN pictures thee..
are commonly very sparse and usually
are either the obviously real thing with
out illusion or such poor counferfeits
as 10 defy illusion. But I'M the studio
scene I'm Make Way for the Ladies'
the walls are covered with painted
PICTURES and frames that make a won
derfully beautiful and .conyinc-
ing studio interior. There a,,.
plaus BILE tapesterics and wall
rugs ana artist bits OF one KIND
and another hung on the wallis bur the
best of all are the painted paintings.
Some OF them are shown in frames OF
various sort and some are without
frames, They are represented I'm oil
and water colors. There are finished
pieces and studies. They all seem very
real and from the auditorium each |
looks ~ be really a work o. art which |
might be cut out OF the i.Cnery and
placed advantageously In an art gal
lery. This scene Is "a triumph Of the
scenic artists work In a novel way.
BurdOck Blood Bitters gives man
a clear heat. an active brain. n strong.
vigorous body-malSes himfnt for the