The times., 1899-06-04

his voice when OPPORTUNITY presents, but
has redeemed it in several really we'll
done quiet bits. They shift him from
pillar to post and he does all kinds OF
work pretty weif, The one thing that
makes me laugh Is when his lines make
him say he was the stroke oar in some
college crew. He might be coxswain ali
right. but man of his build would have
to be multiplied to cast shadow. His
lurid red hosiery in The Dancing Girl
made a hit with every woman in town.
They were fearfully and wonderfully
made. I've been thinking he must have
purchased them after he celebrated the
Queens birthday, in a moment of terrible
remorse, you know.
The flaming swords of Seraphim were
necessary to keep Adam from returning to
Paradise and such drastic measures might
well be required TO compel young Matthew
TO act. To me he is a hopeless proposition,
although note with pleasure his persever
ance and a few well-done bits where his
hands did not rest on his hips or his arms
assume an akimbo form. Godfrey Stein
is to be pitied. His wigs always look as
if they had served as the centrifugal point
OF an animated whirlwind and his whis
kers never fit the first night OF the week.
After that they get familiar with their ter
rible surroundings and are contented
though miserable. Mr.. Amory is a new
one and his best feature in feminine eyes
is his calves, which are near enough to-
gether to hear each bleat. They always
remind me of Her Heavenly Shins," or
some other present-day classic. Splay-
footed and bandy-legged men have no bus
mess on the modern stage or IL they have.
they had better transact it and get of be-
fore they ring up. The feet of both Amory
and Stein are poems in calfskin I've al
ways wondered at the age of ingenues
Dear little innocents they never would
live in this temperature if they were real.
Miss Welles looks old enough to know bet
ter of stage, but when her nose is nice and
white and her cheeks bright and red. she
don't look sixteen. In my own private
opinion, shared alike by all my friends.
this little woman has won more friends
than any member OF the company. Of
course she has been well cast, but she has
been clever enough to sustain herself. Her
dress bills must be large for she is taste
ful always. OF course l don't know about
theatrical compensation, but 1 think a
woman ought to get five times as much as
man in similar work. They have to dress
so much more.
Now, we have narrowed the list down
to very few. l am sorry little Corinne
Parker has had no chance for once we
thought her very ambitious and promis-
ing. That funny little fellow Mr. CASTOR,
is SO good that If he is not on for a minute
or SO the play is nil to me. He wears sun
set hair so gracefully that believed it was
his own till l saw him in the lobby one
day. Red haired actors are not common,
or rather not plentiful. for they are really
very common. Miss Bates l don't feel that
l know. and the only possible objection 1
can have Is that she lacks that self-sam
repose.
She is always doing something and is
never at rest. In my limited experience
l find that even women like Drusilla Ives
are lazy and Hstless at times. l love Miss
Bates. and when the results are obtained
it takes more than a chatty woman to
cavil regarding the means to that end
She locks so honest and good -natured, and
is SO kind to those with whom she works,
| believe every one of them are as pleased
as she over her success Mr.. Cook gets
pretty powerful in that third act for one of
his apparent age and weakness in the pre-
vious scenes n Miss Levick is not pleasing
to me-just why l don't know. Maybe, like
Mrs. Bates. she has learned wrongly and
can't unlearn. But / am thoroughly dis
gusted with thatts tspidery Mr.. Hollis. He
never should be expected to marry an ad-
venturess. as he did in that bad new melo-
drama. Women like her wouldn't marry
a fellow like that. even in Colorado. where
the cry is anything for man" Alice
Johnson is so sweet, but should stick to
comic opera. l 9ote on her singing. but
think she is like Nella Bergen. Few people
do all things well. AS a whole. however,
best have seen here. and they will do we'll
when next they return. At least, that is
the sincere wish of
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